In a message dated 10/9/1999 7:02:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, NJESSEX-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 06:06:36 EDT From: Rhlnj@aol.com To: NJESSEX-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.bee83b37.25306dac@aol.com> Subject: [NJESSEX] Normal School Newark Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Does anyone know anything about a Normal School in Newark 1920s-30s? It would have been in walking distance of St. Michael's Parish. They evidently had kindergarten or the equivalent of preschool. Thank you, Rita >> Rita, Newark Normal School was on Broadway, across from and down the block from St Michael's Church. Two of my aunts attended there and became teachers. Sometime before 1936, the school became Newark State Teachers' College. My brother and his wife-to-be went there. sometime after World War II, the school moved to Union, NJ and became Newark State College at Union, then Kean College, where three of my children got their degrees. Today it is Kean University. I assume you would have to contact Kean U for for records. I don't think it was ever an elementary school. But it's possible that was an arrangement to provide practice teaching facilities for the teacher interns. I will check with my cousin, class of about 1930. Joe Cummins