Photograph of Edwin Reagan Snyder, president of the San Jose State Teachers College from 1923-1925. Photograph appears in the 1925 La Torre yearbook. Born in Pennsylvania in 1872, Edwin Reagan Snyder grew up on his father’s farm before attending Colorado State Normal School at Greeley. He worked as principal at a few schools in Colorado before moving to California in 1900. Snyder received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and continued there as a special lecturer and with graduate studies. He held several positions in Fresno and Santa Barbara schools before accepting the presidency at San José State Teachers College. Snyder was an educational visionary who saw beyond the college’s immediate needs and challenged the state’s accepted educational concepts. He died unexpectedly in January 1925. http://www.sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/history/presidents/ Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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