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...director of studies, Alice Nash was continually exploring new possibilities for her limited boys & girls: music, dramatics, dancing and a variety of handicrafts as well as slow-motion versions of the three Rs. Vineland became known as one of the foremost schools for mental deficients...
When 20-year-old Alice Morrison unpacked her Saratoga trunk in her tiny room at the Vineland (N.J.) Training School in 1900, she had a sinking sensation. The silent, halting students she had just seen were far different from the kind she had been taught to cope with at the New Hampton (N.H.) Literary and Biblical Institution...
...when Alice Morrison came to Vineland, it was one of three pioneer institutions for the mentally deficient,* had been going just twelve years. The rest of the U.S. knew precious little about retarded children (i.e., those with an intelligence fixed below the twelve-year level) or what could be done for them. Horrified and grief-stricken parents hid the unhappy children in back rooms or sent them to be cared for in inadequately equipped asylums...
...Historian William Hovgaard-"was driven far to the southwest, and finally made land on the coast of America, probably near Cape Cod. Leif sent out two Scotch runners to explore the country, and these men brought back grapes and some wheat-like grasses." Leif called his new country Vineland. Next year he sailed west again from Greenland, passed "Helluland" (probably Baffin Land), "Markland" (probably Nova Scotia), and came again to Vineland where he collected a great cargo of grapes and timber which he took to Greenland...
Thomas L. Shipman, Marblehead, lecturer on Industrial Hygiene; Charles F. Wilinsky, Boston, Baltimore '04, lecturer on Public Health Administration; Richard F. Clippinger, Vineland, New Jersey, instructor and tutor in Mathematics; Arnold D. Hestenes, Madison, Wisconsin '36, instructor and tutor in Mathematics...