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The results of the seventy-five years of the Institution's labors are best observed in its graduates. During this period 3000 children have been under instruction, and the great majority of them have become intelligent, industrious and self-supporting citizens of the commonwealth, amply justifying the expenditure which the State has made on their account. A number of them have graduated from the National Deaf Mute College at Washington, and have taken high rank, both for scholarship and uprightness of character. Many of the graduates have become teachers of the deaf, and have lent their best efforts to the furtherance of the noble work to which they themselves are so deeply indebted. There has scarcely been a time in the Institution's history when there have not been several graduates on its staff of teachers. Among those who devoted long and useful lives to the service of the Institution may be named James C. Murtagh, Joseph O. Pyatt and Thomas Jefferson Trist.

Aside from these, and from those who have found honorable and useful fields of activity in the varied industries of our great State, the Institution can point with pride to graduates who have taken a high position in the artistic and technical pursuits, to ministers of the gospel, teachers, clerks, merchants, etc., etc. Among its graduates may be named Albert Newsam, admitted to have been the most skilful lithographer of heads of his day; and John Carlin, a portrait and landscape painter of great merit. To have raised such a great number of human beings from a condition of utter mental darkness and helplessness into useful and intelligent citizens is much; but to have enabled them to rise to positions of honorable distinction among their more fortunate fellow-beings is worthy of the highest praise and deepest admiration.

Below is given a list of the officers, instructors and staff on March 1, 1893:

President, EMLEN HUTCHINSON .

Vice-Presidents, F. MORTIMER LEWIS, GEORGE GILPIN, REV. JOSEPH A. SEISS, D. D., A. R. MONTGOMERY.

Secretary, JOHN F. LEWIS.

Treasurer, ROWLAND EVANS.

Directors. -- Term expires in October, 1893. -- F. Mortimer Lewis, Morton P. Henry, Samuel A. Crozer, Del. Co.; Caleb J. Mime, George Gilpin, Robert R. Corson, Francis I. Gowen, Charles E. Dana, T. DeWitt Cuyler.

Term expires in October, 1894. -- T. Hewson Bache, M. D.; John T. Morris, Rev. Joseph A. Seiss, D. D.; Rev. W. N. McVickar, D. D.; Henry D. Welsh, Orlando Crease, Nathaniel B. Crenshaw, Samuel Y. Heebner, Samuel F. Houston.

Term expires in October, 1895. -- Emlen Hutchinson, A. R. Montgomery, Del. Co.; Henry LaBarre Jayne, Edward Bettle, Jr.; Stuart Wood, Eckley B. Coxe, Luzerne Co.; David Pepper, Rev. J. Andrews Harris, D. D.; Joseph H. Burroughs.

Ladies' Cosnmittee. -- Mrs. Frederic Collins, Chairman; Mrs. Henry C. Lea, Treasurer; Mrs Edward R. Wood, Secretary; Miss Eleanor C. Patter-son, Mrs. James Lesley, Miss Lydia T. Morris, Mrs. John H. Brinton, Miss Annie Bradford, Mrs. H. H. Houston, Mrs. E. W. Clarke, Mrs. J. B. Wattson, Miss Caroline Tyler Brown, Miss Mary E. Weld.

Physician -- RUSSELL H. JOHNSON, M. D.

Consulting Physicians and Surgeons. -- J. M. Da Costa, M. D., D. Murray Cheston, M. D., William Hunt, M.D., Thomas G. Morton, M. D., H. R. Wharton, M. D.

Ophthalmic Surgeons -- William Thomson, M.D., Gao. C. Harlan, M. D. Charles S. Turnbull, M. D.

Aural Surgeons. -- Charles H. Burnett, M.D., B. Alexander Randall, M.D.

Laryngologists. -- Harrison Allen, M. D., Arthur Ames Bliss, M. D.

Dentist. -- William Diehl, D. D. S.

Principal, A. L. E. CR0UTER, M.A.

ADVANCED DEPARTMENT.

Teachers -- Thomas Burnside, John P. Walker, M.A., George L. Weed, M.A., S. O. Davidson, B.A., Mrs. Annie B. Wall, Mary E. Smith, Fannie Wood, Mary L. Divine.

PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.

Chief Instructor. -- F. W. BOOTH, B. S.

Teachers -- Mrs. Sophia Trist, Julia A. Foley, Kate E. Barry, Kate S. Landis, Elizabeth R. Taylor, Mrs. F. W. Booth, Estelle V. Sutton, Louisa Young, Eva I. Gustin, Jerome T. Elwell, B.A.

ORAL DEPARTMENT.

Chief Instructor. -- FLORENCE C. MCDOWELL.

Teachers -- Susan E. Bliss, Emma Florence West, Mary B. Shaw, Mattie H. Bedford, Maud I. Griffeth, Emma Ross Thompson, Emma L. Plymptun, Constance S. Newton, Florence B. Dwier, Ella S. Dawson, Fannie Lucas, Anna Jameson, Olive E. D. Hart, Mrs. E. G. Ilurd, Edwin 0. Hurd, M. A., Jacob D. Kirkhuff, M. A.

Teacher of Drawing. -- Sophy W. Paddock.

A. H. Bodenhorn, Steward. J. H. Webster, Clerk.

ADVANCED DEPARTMENT.

Matron -- Sarah R. Briggs. Supervisor of Boys -- Robert M. Ziegler. Super-visor of Girls -- Eva A. Olver. Nurse -- Katie Koon.

PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.

Matron -- Anna M. Nathans. Supervisor of Boys -- E. A. Gruver. Assistant Supervisor of Boys -- Emma Weltmer. Supervisor of Girls -- Mary Loughridge. Nurse -- Susie Miller.

ORAL DEPARTMENT.

Matron -- Electa M. Peters. Supervisor of Boys -- Charles E. Fister. Super-visor of Girls -- Carrie M. Hess. Nurse -- Lizzie Teufel.

Chief Engineer -- William S. Blair. First Assistant -- George Green. Second Assistant -- L. C. McLary.