RANDALL SPAULDING, Ph. B.

Supt. Schools, Montclair, N. J.

Born February 3, 1845, in Townsend, Mass.; graduate of Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., 1866, and Yale University, 1870; served as Principal of the public schools in Rockville, Conn., 1870 - 1873. spent the year 1873-4 at the universities of Gottingen and Heidelberg; served as Superintendent of schools in Montclair, N.J. from 1874 to the present time. During this time the enrollment has increased from about 300 to 3300.

Montclair has always been quick to adopt new methods of evident value. Music, drawing and physical training have been staple subjects in the curriculum. The Montclair schools were the first in the country to introduce manual training as regular class work. This work in its diversified forms, such as cooking, sewing, advanced clay modeling, machine work, etc., is carried father in some particulars in the elementary grades than is the case in most schools. The high school, about sixty per cent of those graduates have in the past thirty years sought a college education, has won an enviable reputation.

Author of "First Lessons in Amateur Photography." Occasionally delivers addresses before educational bodies. Has held the Presidency of the New Jersey State Teachers' Association, New Jersey Council of Education, New York Schoolmasters' Association, New York Schoolmasters' Club, Congregational Club of New York.

Source: "Brewer's Directory of School Superintendents and Normal Principals", In cities with a population above two thousand Revised to February, 1907 Published by the Orville Brewer Publishing Co. The Auditorium, Chicago.

Submitted by Deborah Crowell