[Magdalen] Tightrope?

[Charles Wohlers]

"Normal School" historically means one which trains teachers. My former 
employer, Bridgewater State Univ. (and once upon a time, Bridgewater Normal 
School) was the first such state-supported institution in the country, being 
founded in 1840.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Judy Fleener
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 9:58 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Tightrope?

The name of my university was originally Dekalb Normal School.


On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sorry, that first word was supposed to be "well."  My auto-correct always
> wants to stick an apostrophe in it.
>
> > On Nov 16, 2015, at 7:22 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > We'll, I love the name "Superior Normal"! Talk about an oxymoron...
> >
> >> On Nov 16, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> My Cousin Connie sent me a small, faded newspaper clipping yesterday.
> >> dated from 1922, and was titled "Superior Normal Girls Meet."  She
> found
> >> it cleaning out a closet.
> >>
> >> Superior Normal School = University of Wisconsin-Superior, and my
> >> mother was a freshman then with a major in mathematics and a minor
> >> in teaching gym classes.
> >>
> >> This meeting was sponsored by the local campus YWCA, and was billed
> >> as a "mixer" for the female students.
> >>
> >> There was a formal program to start the event, and the initial act  was
> >> described as "a thrilling piece for three ukuleles."
> >>
> >> Next, and more interesting to me, was that the crowd was  "held
> spellbound
> >> by Constance Northam (my mother) walking a tightrope."
> >>
> >> Walking a tightrope ? [!]
> >>
> >> Never did I or anyone in the family during her 98 years hear of  such
> >> an event (talent?).  I'll just file it under "family legends."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> David Strang --- who has felt sometimes that he was walking a
> tightrope,
> >> but never actually did so.
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan