About Kenneth Waterbury and the Waterbury Chair
Kenneth B. Waterbury received his master's and doctoral degrees in education from Penn State in 1933 and 1939, respectively. He taught at Mount Union High School in the 1930s and then joined the faculty of Wesley College and then Susquehanna University.
In 1952 he began his twenty-two-year career with the Pennsylvania Department of Education, specializing in school district consolidation.
In 1988 he gave Penn State's College of Education a $1 million chair endowment, the first faculty chair to be endowed in the College of Education. He gave this money with the intent to allow Penn State to recruit a nationally recognized educator who could apply his or her scholarship to the practical realities of teaching in modern schools, especially secondary education.
The endowed chair was to serve two purposes: to increase Penn State's national visibility as a center for secondary teacher education and to help improve the student teaching experience.
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