The Milne School, frequently referred to as Milne High School, was the campus laboratory school for what is now known as the

University at Albany The State University of New York at Albany, commonly referred to as the University at Albany, UAlbany or SUNY Albany, is a public research university with campuses in Albany, Rensselaer, and Guilderland, New York. Founded in 1844, it is one ...

, State University of New York, located in

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. Its mission was to provide a location for prospective teachers to do their practice teaching. It may have been among the first practice-teaching schools in the United States, having opened in 1845. The Milne School was named for Dr. William J. Milne, a former president of the State Normal College, one of the earlier names for the University at Albany. By 1929, when The Milne School moved to a newly constructed building at 135 Western Avenue, it consisted of a junior and senior high school and served grades 7 through 12. Theodore Fossieck was the principal of the school from 1947 to 1972. In the 1960s, the school's admissions policies were challenged as being overly favorable to the relatives of Milne students and thus effectively excluding minorities and new residents; the state human rights commission agreed with the challenge. By the 1970s, SUNY was suffering budget shortfalls and also deemphasizing the teaching mission of the Albany branch. Fossieck decided to retire in 1972. Milne had five different principals during its last five years, and closed in 1977.Carlo Wolff
"Milne Reunion Revives Special School's Spirit"
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'', September 22, 1984. In the 1977 ''Bricks and Ivy'' yearbook, Charles Bowler referred to the Milne School as having "a high-powered faculty teaching beautiful student teachers, experimenting with methodology, still keeping their covenant by turning out educated students." The building is now called "Milne Hall" and currently houses the University at Albany

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; the Department of Political Science; the Department of Public Administration and Policy; and the Center for Policy Studies.

Notable alumni

* David Standish Ball, Episcopal bishop of Albany (1984-1998) *

Paul G. Bulger Dr. Paul Grutzner Bulger (July 25, 1913 - February 8, 2000) was the third president of Buffalo State College (State University of New York, College at Buffalo), serving from July 1, 1959 until January 1, 1967. Known as "a gentleman and a scholar", ...

, president of

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(1959-1967) *

Peggy Bulger Margaret Anne "Peggy" Bulger is a folklorist and served as the director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress from 1999 to 2011, when she moved to Florida to continue work on personal projects. Education A native of Albany, N ...

, folklorist * Winifred Goldring, paleontologist * Robert S. Langer, biomedical engineering professor at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

Milne School Hall of Fame

(accessed 2015-04-03). *

Tara VanDerveer Tara Ann VanDerveer (born June 26, 1953) is an American basketball coach who has been the head women's basketball coach at Stanford University since 1985. Designated the Setsuko Ishiyama Director of Women's Basketball, VanDerveer led the Stanf ...

, basketball coach (left Milne after ninth grade)"Stanford's VanDerveer, selected for Basketball Hall of Fame, grew up in Schenectady"
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'', April 5, 2011.

References

External links

History of The Milne School

The Milne School Alumni website

The Milne School Digital Collections
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