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This chapter will address the educational experiences, the teachers, and the role models that influenced Sarah Raymond while she was a student at the Illinois State Normal University (ISNU) from 1862 to 1866. It will also examine Sarah Raymond’s relationship with ISNU after she graduated and the impact and influence it had on her career. After completing her early schooling in a variety of settings and teaching in four different schools in Kendall County, Raymond moved about one hundred miles south to central Illinois to continue her study at the Normal University. From her humble beginnings in the small school, to the Lisbon Academy, to Oswego High School, to having her own classroom as a rural school teacher, Sarah Raymond was well prepared to begin her university studies. The content, pedagogy, and model school training she received at the ISNU would propel her to the top of her field and place her in the annals of scholarship and historical memory.
The women of this institution feel that they have much of which to be proud, much for which to be grateful, as they gather here today, the wards of the great prairie state, the beneficiaries of the famous and timely act of ’57 … The influence of this institution is not limited to the educational field as narrowly understood. The voice, pen and influence of our women are abroad in the land, in all the various associations and places of honor open to women.
—Sarah Raymond Fitzwilliam, Jubilee Anniversary Celebration of the Illinois State Normal University, June 1897
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Homer Hurst, Illinois State Normal University and the Public Normal School Movement (Nashville: George Peabody College for Teachers, 1948), 22.
Jacob Hasbrouck, History of McLean County (Topeka: Historical Publishing Company, 1924), 193.
Christine Ogren, The American State Normal School: An Instrument of Great Good (New York: Palgrave, 2005), 57.
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Burt Loomis, The Educational Influence of Richard Edwards (Nashville: George Peabody College for Teachers, 1932), 81–82.
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John Freed, Educating Illinois: Illinois Sate University, 1857–2007 (Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers, 2009), 101.
Charles Harper, Development of the Teachers College in the United States with Special Reference to the Illinois State Normal University (Bloomington: McKnight & McKnight, 1935), 68.
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John Cook and James McHugh, A History of the Illinois State Normal University (Normal, Illinois: Pantagraph Printing, 1882), 227–235.
Helen Marshall, Grandest of Enterprises (Normal, IL: Illinois State University, 1956), 207.
Illinois State Normal University, Semi-Centennial History of the Illinois State Normal University, 1857–1907 (Normal, IL: Illinois State University, 1907), 188–189.
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Nancy Hoffman, Woman’s “True” Profession: Voices from the History of Teaching (Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2003);
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Noraian, M.C. (2009). The Illinois State Normal University Years. In: Women’s Rights, Racial Integration, and Education from 1850–1920. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101449_3
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