MARYLAND MANUAL 57
COPPIN STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Miles E. Connor, Ph.D., President
2500 West North Avenue, Baltimore 16 Telephone: Lafayette 3-1111,
3-.1112
The State Teachers College of Baltimore (Coppin) was established
in 1900 by the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City and
operated by that body until the State assumed control in 1950. The
school provides a four-year curriculum for the training of Negro
elementary school teachers and grants the degree of Bachelor of
Science in Education. The enrollment of the school for the 1952-53
term was 204.
Appropriations 1953 1954
General Fund $122,855 $141,405
Special Fund 15,000 15,000
Total $137,855 $156,505
Staff: 13.
FROSTBURG STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Lillian C. Compton, M.A., President
Frostburg Telephone: Frostburg 296
The State Teachers College at Frostburg was established in 1902
as a normal school to prepare elementary teachers for Western
Maryland schools; it became a full four-year college in 1934. The
College offers a standard four-year teachers college course leading to
the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education as well as a two-year
junior college course. In addition, the College offers, in cooperation
with Memorial Hospital in Cumberland, a program in nurses' training.
Students enrolling in the teacher preparation program pay no tuition
if they promise to teach two years in the public schools of Mary-
land following their graduation. The approximate enrollment for
1952-53 was 478.
Appropriations 1953 1954
General Fund $343,106 $345,180
Special Fund 47,806 49,140
Total $390,912 $394,320
Staff: 32.
SALISBURY STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
J. D. Blackwell, Ph.D., President
Salisbury Telephone: Salisbury 7191
The State Teachers College at Salisbury was established in 1925 as
a normal school to prepare elementary teachers. Until 1931 it offered
a two-year professional course for the training of teachers. In that
year the course was lengthened to three years, and in 1934 it was
extended to four years. In addition to the four-year curriculum lead-
ing to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education, the College also
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