Arthur C. Boyden

In his History of Bridgewater Normal School, prepared shortly before his death in 1933, Dr. Arthur Clarke Boyden, the fourth principal of the Normal School and the first president of the Teachers College at Bridgewater, wrote that the school “has had a continuous policy from its inception. Each principal was the ‘heir on the spot’ of a well-understood policy; this unbroken line of succession led to an unusual continuity of development.”

When the normal schools became state teachers colleges he was named Bridgewater State Teachers College’s first president. He died in 1933 at the age of eighty-one having devoted his whole life to the college that he loved.