Normal School Board Meeting

New York, 1895

The board of local managers of the Jamaica Normal school held a meeting on Friday to hear the report of Commissioners Reid and Hendrickson, who went to Albany to see the state superintendent of public instruction relative to plans for the school building. The superintendent informed them that he had no favorite architect, and advised that as soon as the appropriation was made that the board select an architect and proceed at once to prepare plans for the building. He examined the plan that had been approved by the board. It was the first time he had seen it. He said that his position on the question had been misunderstood. He was not opposed to the erection of the school at Jamaica. He believed that it should be the policy of the state to limit the attendance at a normal school to 400 scholars.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 10, 1895, p. 8.