page_title: Towson University
section_title: Move to Towson
hierarchical_section_title: Towson University / History / Move to Towson
caption_attribution_description: English: Maryland State Normal School, Towson, Maryland. Identifier: departmentofpubl1916depa (find matches) Title: Department of Public Education State of Maryland. Forty-Ninth Annual Report Showing Condition of the Public Schools of Maryland for the Year Ending July 31st, 1915. Year: 1915 (1910s) Authors: Department of Public Education. State of Maryland. Subjects: Maryland. Public Schools Maryland -- Education. Publisher: Printed by King Bros., State Printers Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ys.) Study Courses—(Here we meet with the club once or twice a month giving definite instructions on a desired subject for four or five months.) Short Course—(Maryland Agricultural College, January 10-15.)As follow-up work, two womens clubs are taking short courses,meeting one a month. The movable schools have been requested forJanuary and March respectively. Three single lectures have beenrequested. The Womans Federated Clubs of Maryland are most anxious to co-operate with the Home Demonstration movement. At my suggestion,they are planning a movement to bring about a better communityspirit throughout the counties by encouraging the club of one countyto invite a Hub of ;i neighboring county to its monthly meeting. Theyare also encouraging the various county clubs to embody home demon-stration work in their programs. The women of the State take very kindly to the scientific side of thework. A (Jranti-e on the Eastern Shore has called for a course in Chemistry of Eousehold Reagents. Text Appearing After Image: Annual Report of the State Board of Education 117 .MARYLAND STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, TOWSON. Report of the Principal, Miss Sarah E. Richmond. November 1, 1915.Dr. M. Bates Stephens, Secretary State Board of Education,Annapolis, Md. Dear Sir:-—I herewith submit my report for the Maryland StateNormal School. During the scholastic year ending July 31, 1915, 331 students wereenrolled in the Normal School, and 54 in the Model School, the smallernumber in the latter school being due to its expected removal to an-other locality. In June, 79 students received diplomas. As far asknown all are now teaching. I am glad to report that the student body has shown the same earn-estness of purpose which has characterized it hitherto. The Principaland critic teachers of the Model School have commented upon thegreater zeal, the improvement in methods of teaching, the increasedself-reliance in handling classes and maintaining the discipline there-of, of each succeeding class sent into the training school f Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Towson University is a public university in Towson, Maryland. It is a part of the University System of Maryland. Founded in 1866 as Maryland's first training school for teachers, Towson University has evolved into a university with eight colleges and over 20,000 students. Towson is one of the largest public universities in Maryland and still produces the most teachers of any university in the state. Towson University is ranked as the 98th-best public university and 197th-best overall university nationally in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report rankings.
context_section_description: The demand for qualified teachers became overwhelming by the turn of the century. The Maryland Department of Education reported an annual need for 350 new teachers, but the Maryland State Normal School was graduating fewer than 100. The facilities in West Baltimore were now inadequate to meet state demands. Principal Sarah Richmond, one of the original eleven graduates, began a campaign to establish a campus where the school could function more appropriately. In 1910, the General Assembly formed a committee to oversee site selection, budget, and design plans for the new campus. John Charles Linthicum was appointed president of the committee, alongside State Superintendent M. Bates Stephens and Sarah Richmond. The committee surveyed locations at Roland Park, Lutherville-Timonium, Mount Washington, Pimlico, Glencoe, and many other areas. Eventually, the committee settled on an 80-acre (320,000 m²) site in Towson and the General Assembly financed the $600,000 move in 1912. Construction began in 1913 on the Administration Building, now known as Stephens Hall. In September 1915, the new campus, comprising Stephens Hall, Newell Hall, and the power plant, began classes.
caption: Newell Hall, 1916
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