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Article: MILNE ALUMNI CLAMOR TO ATTEND REUNION.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 31, 1991
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Byline: Tim Beidel Staff writer
For more than 100 years, teachers in training at the former Albany State Teachers College did not contemplate innovation in a sterile lecture hall, they lived it in a thriving laboratory known as the Milne School.
Founded as an elementary school in 1845, Milne evolved into a secondary school by the turn of the century. From the mid-1900s through its closing in 1977, Milne accepted 36 boys and 36 girls each year, willing guinea pigs for the state's future high school teachers and teaching methods.
In the years since the doors on the downtown Albany campus shut, Milne's name has been kept alive by the achievements ...