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Hamilton, Sarah Elizabeth "Betty", Miss, 1921 - 1998

 Person

Biography

Born February 17, 1921, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Sarah Elizabeth "Betty" Hamilton was educated at the Baldwin School and the Bouve-Boston School of Physical Education. She began teaching at Baldwin, followed by the Ethel Walker School in Connecticut and the Katherine Bronson School in California. Miss Hamilton came to Nightingale around 1948 to teach physical education. She was head of the athletic department and later appointed by Headmistress Joan McMenamin as Assistant Head for Administration (non-curricular tasks). Miss Hamilton retired in 1986 to New Haven, Connecticut, where she died on August 21, 1998. Nightingale's Sarah E. Hamilton Student Center is named in her honor.

Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:

Photographs of retirement party for Audrey Goode '39 and Sarah Hamilton, 1986

 File — Box: 01026
Identifier: 001 004 000 19 0148
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: Faculty and Staff Records consist of records mainly pertaining to Nightingale employees (excepting administration) and their roles within the school. Included are newsletters by and/or for faculty members, biographical information and news clippings about faculty/staff, photographs and video recordings featuring faculty/staff, correspondence, lists of faculty and staff members, faculty handbooks, minutes from faculty meetings and summaries or notes from such meetings, and curriculum-related...
Dates: 1986

Photographs of Sarah Hamilton. Includes photos showing dogs, 1965 - 1989

 File — Box: 01098
Identifier: 001 004 000 19 0291
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: Faculty and Staff Records consist of records mainly pertaining to Nightingale employees (excepting administration) and their roles within the school. Included are newsletters by and/or for faculty members, biographical information and news clippings about faculty/staff, photographs and video recordings featuring faculty/staff, correspondence, lists of faculty and staff members, faculty handbooks, minutes from faculty meetings and summaries or notes from such meetings, and curriculum-related...
Dates: 1965 - 1989

Photographs of students at Pitt Hall, Chatham, NY. Includes photos showing Sarah Hamilton and Audrey Goode '39. Names on versos, 1948

 File — Box: 01063
Identifier: 001 002 000 13 0338
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: The Academics Record Group consists of records related to teaching and educating students at the Nightingale-Bamford School. Records relate to teaching of the arts, student work, commencement, Class VIII Moving Up and Class IV Daisy ceremonies, and library and archives records. Records related to the professional community (faculty, staff), such as curriculum records, employee manuals, faculty newsletters, lists and biographical information of professional community members, faculty meeting...
Dates: 1948

Report relating to the music department [for NYSAIS], 1975

 File — Box: 08001
Identifier: B08001_F11
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: Heads of School records consist of records created by or under the purview of the various heads of Nightingale-Bamford School from its founding to present, as well as photographs, clippings, and biographical records with the head of school as subject. Records include correspondence and announcements, memoranda, reports from the heads of school to the Board of Trustees, speeches given by heads of school, and related records created and received in the course of business as well as records...
Dates: 1975

RG04 Oral History Record Group

 Record Group
Identifier: RG04
Scope and Contents In 1984, based on a determination that Nightingale's archives were inadequate in revealing the school's history, Head of School Joan McMenamin and the Alumnae Association initiated an oral history project. Alumna Marea Adams '74 conducted interviews of former faculty and staff, heads of school, trustees, parents, and alumnae (some interviewees represent more than one of these roles). This project continued through 1986. Some oral histories pre-date the project; there are also several oral...
Dates: c. 1965 - 2001

Scrapbook, to Miss Goode and Miss Hamilton, presented by alumnae of the Nightingale-Bamford School. Contains photographs and letters, 1986 Apr 10

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001 004 000 24 0001
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: Faculty and Staff Records consist of records mainly pertaining to Nightingale employees (excepting administration) and their roles within the school. Included are newsletters by and/or for faculty members, biographical information and news clippings about faculty/staff, photographs and video recordings featuring faculty/staff, correspondence, lists of faculty and staff members, faculty handbooks, minutes from faculty meetings and summaries or notes from such meetings, and curriculum-related...
Dates: 1986 Apr 10

SG001 Oral History Recordings, Transcripts, and Notes, c. 1965 - 2001

 Sub-Group
Identifier: RG04_SG001
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: In 1984, based on a determination that Nightingale's archives were inadequate in revealing the school's history, Head of School Joan McMenamin and the Alumnae Association initiated an oral history project. Alumna Marea Adams '74 conducted interviews of former faculty and staff, heads of school, trustees, parents, and alumnae (some interviewees represent more than one of these roles). This project continued through 1986. Some oral histories pre-date the project; there are also several oral...
Dates: c. 1965 - 2001

Sound recording of interview with Betty [Sarah E.] Hamilton / by Marea Adams '74, 1985 Feb 7

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001 004 000 18 0010
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: In 1984, based on a determination that Nightingale's archives were inadequate in revealing the school's history, Head of School Joan McMenamin and the Alumnae Association initiated an oral history project. Alumna Marea Adams '74 conducted interviews of former faculty and staff, heads of school, trustees, parents, and alumnae (some interviewees represent more than one of these roles). This project continued through 1986. Some oral histories pre-date the project; there are also several oral...
Dates: 1985 Feb 7

Additional filters:

Type
Archival Object 79
Collection 1
 
Subject
faculty (educators) and staff 62
black-and-white photographs 47
The Nightingale-Bamford School--Alumnae 19
special events 13
color photographs 9