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Clarence Kingsley— “The New York Years”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Walter H. Drost
Walter H. Drost*
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Valparaiso University
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When Clarence D. Kingsley collapsed and died on the stairs of Cincinnati's old Central Union Station, the last day of the year 1926, little note was paid him as an educator. He had been chairman of the N.E.A. Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education (henceforth the C.R.S.E.) and in that position the driving force behind the most significant educational document of the age, “The Cardinal Principles Report.” But this seemed all but forgotten. His hometown newspaper, The Syracuse Herald, identified him as a “school engineer” and the local Cincinnati paper called him a “consulting engineer” in the obituary columns.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , Fall 1966 , pp. 18 - 34
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Copyright © 1966 by New York University 

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1. Herald (Syracuse), January 2, 1927; also from a photostat of a clipping from a Cincinnati newspaper of January 1, 1927, made available by Mr. Ernest P. Seelman of New York City.Google Scholar

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9. Henry J. Swanker, Director of Alumni Relations, Union College, to Walter H. Drost, December 16, 1965. According to Mr. Swanker this is the date printed in the student publication Concordiensis for March 1883. Mrs. Kingsley gave this same date to the James White Company in reply to a questionnaire of biographical data following Clarence Kingsley's death. Her reply is dated February 14, 1927. The Syracuse City Directory, however, shows a continuity of listing for some years after, but with Edwin and Emma living at separate addresses. Mr. Swanker indicated Edwin received a A.B. degree from Union College in 1869 and subsequently organized the Union College Alumni Association of Central New York.Google Scholar

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31. Kingsley, Clarence D., op. cit. , pp. 35–39. The map was prepared in the living room of the Seelman home at 410 Fourth Street, Brooklyn. The Seelman residence was just four doors from the Manual Training High School and neighbor to the home where Clarence Kingsley found his boarding place. Miss Seelman was a member of the High School Teachers Association and, like Kingsley, a member of the Association's Board of Representatives. Their marriage vows were said in this same room some years later with Dr. Henry Neuman, Leader of the Brooklyn Ethical Culture Society and author of the C.R.S.E. report on Moral Education, officiating. (Florence Seelman to Walter H. Drost, April 16 and May 22, 1962. Also, Henry Neuman to Walter H. Drost, March 1, 1962.) Google Scholar

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