Pictorial History of
The New York Institute for Special Education

Serving Students with Special Needs for over 167 years

NYISE HISTORICAL FILES OF INTEREST

Gordon Chipman Dewey (1923-2002)
President of the Board NYISE

• Saga Of Our Century: The First 100 Years

• Merle E. Frampton(1903 - 1998) Director of the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind 1935-1971
  History of Reading Codes for the Blind
• A Turning point in the history of the school (1896).


• Grover Cleveland Teacher at NYI
Clement Clark Moore (1779-1863) - Writer of "T'was the Night before Christmas"
• Fanny Crosby, famous student/teacher poetess
• Harvey Fuller, student 1856-1860
• Alice A. Holmes: student and poet. Read her account of NYI life in 1838
• William Bell Wait, pioneering leader 1863-1916

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