TAGS:<\/strong> Calvin Noyes Kendall ;\u00a0Calvin N. Kendall ; Board of Trustees ; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; trustees ; educator ; New Jersey State Board of Education ; \u00a0Committee of Three ; National Education Association ; Baltimore, Maryland ; individual instruction ; home-schooling ; Ella Frances Lynch ;<\/p>\n Calvin Noyes Kendall’s tenure as a board member of Pine Mountain Settlement School was short. He died\u00a0of Bright’s disease in Trenton, New Jersey, on September\u00a01921 at the early age of 63. He had been battling the disease for three years and part of that struggle was while he served as a Pine Mountain trustee.<\/p>\n He had an outstanding career as an educator and was recognized as one of the leading educators in the U.S. He headed the New Jersey State Board of Education as the State Commissioner of Education. In 1920 he was selected to serve as the president of the Department of Superintendents of the National Educational Association. He was also nationally known as a member of the Committee of Three which had been appointed by the U.S. Commissioner of Education to report on the state of the Baltimore schools.<\/p>\n He authored many books and articles on the subject of education and was the recipient of numerous honorary degrees from institutions across the country.<\/p>\n Kendall was born in Augusta, New York, on February 9, 1858, the seventh child of Leonard J. Kendall and Sarah M. Noyes. He began his career as a rural school teacher after attending Whitestown (New York) Seminary and graduating from Hamilton College, (Clinton, New York) in 1882. He\u00a0received an A.M. (equivalent to the Master of Arts) degree\u00a0from Yale University in 1900.<\/p>\n His first teaching experience was with high schools and his first principal position was at Jackson (Michigan) High School.\u00a0He became the superintendent of schools for Jackson from 1886 to 1890 and held the same position for the Saginaw, Michigan, school district from 1890 to 1892.<\/span><\/p>\n During this time, Kendell met and married Alla L. Perkins in 1891. They had one son, David W. Kendall, who was born in 1910 and a student at Princeton University.<\/p>\n In 1895 he accepted a position as the superintendent of schools for New Haven, Connecticut, and continued in that position until 1900. He taught summer courses briefly at the universities of Chicago, Yale, Princeton, California, Columbia, Iowa, Indiana, and Wisconsin. He declined an opportunity to teach pedagogy at the University of California as an assistant professor and served on a variety of Connecticut State councils for education. He died while teaching at Princeton University.<\/span><\/p>\n Kendall was a pioneer in individual instruction and home schooling for public schools. Ella Frances Lynch<\/strong>, who wrote Educating the Child at Home: Personal Training at the Work Habit<\/em>, an early book on home schooling, notes the strong influence of Calvin Kendall on her work and on the home-schooling movement.<\/p>\n SEE:<\/strong><\/p>\n GUIDE TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Title<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Calvin Noyes Kendall<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Alt. Title<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Dr. Calvin Noyes Kendall ; Calvin N. Kendall ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Identifier<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \n
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