West Chester University -- 125 Years

[Normal School Movement]

Normal School Movement

A framed broadside announcing a public meeting to be held on August 23, 1869 for those people who were interested in establishing a normal school in West Chester to provide teachers for the First Normal School District (Chester, Montgomery, Delaware, and Bucks Counties)

The meeting was called by Board of Trustees of the West Chester Academy. During the meeting a resolution, proposed by Dr. William Darlington, was passed. This resolution endorsed the idea of establishing a normal school in West Chester and created a Committee of Fifteen to work with the Board of Trustees of the West Chester Academy to establish a normal school.

  1. Overall view of the exhibit cases
  2. Movement to establish a Normal School in West Chester - 1869
  3. West Chester Academy
  4. Normal School Committee - 1869
  5. Old Main and Dr. Philips
  6. Old Main (enlarged)
  7. Dr. George Morris Philips (enlarged)
  8. Gymnastics Demonstration and the Old Gym
  9. Dining room in Old Main and souvenir plates
  10. Dining room (enlarged)
  11. Cochran Microscope
  12. Recitation Hall - interior
  13. View of cases
  14. Men's Basketball Team - 1900
  15. Women's Basketball Team - 1904
  16. Old Library - 1904
  17. Senior Class Trip to Washington, D.C. - 1911
  18. Old Wayne Hall - 1911
  19. Old Wayne Hall (enlarged)
  20. Coed gymnastics demonstration - circa 1918
  21. View of cases
  22. Junior Class Play - Class of 1920
  23. Junior Class Play (enlarged)
  24. Senior sleigh ride - 1921
  25. Philips Memorial Building - construction - circa 1926
  26. Aryan Literary Society Orchestra - 1920's
  27. Women's Basketball Team - 1923
  28. Aerial view of campus - 1936
  29. Aerial view (enlarged)
  30. Old Main and Quad - 1936
  31. Eleanor Roosevelt's visit to the campus - 1938
  32. Women's Recreational Association - circa 1940
  33. Campus - 1950's
  34. Surveying for new library - 1962
  35. Surveying (enlarged)
  36. Student life - 1962/1964
  37. Christmas - 1965
  38. Old Main - demolition - 1971
  39. Education Center, Japan - 1989
  40. Activities on campus - 1990's
  41. Dr. Perrin - 1991
  42. Dr. Madeleine Wing Adler - 1992

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These pages last updated on 6 March 1998