Photograph of Ambrose Randall, principal of the San Jose State Normal School from 1896-1899. Ambrose Randall was born and educated in Maine, where he attended Maine Wesleyan College. He taught in Stockton and Santa Cruz before he became a member of the San José State Normal School faculty in 1884. In addition to teaching physics and geometry, Randall saw the successful development of the new four-year teacher preparation course; improvements to the zoology, botany, physiology and chemistry laboratories; and the construction of nine tennis courts, three handball courts and an open-air gymnasium for basketball and other sports. 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.
Normal School Presidents, Faculty & Staff School principals School superintendents Teachers Education, Higher San Jose State Normal School Randall, Ambrose
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