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Bertram
Philo "Bert"
Seelye
-- husband of Mary "Mollie"
Murdock of Wheeling, West Virginia -- was a longtime educator and school
administrator in New York, primarily in the Bronx. He began teaching in 1890, said the New York Times, and
within the first year received his "first-grade certificate issued by the
New York State Superintendent of Public Instruction. His first known school was
in North Rose, Wayne County, NY. From
there, he moved to Brooklyn and was employed as a seventh grade teacher at
Adelphi Academy.
In 1909, Bert joined the faculty of Public School 3 in the Bronx, located at 368 East 157th Street and Courtland Avenue, and later was promoted to principal, a position from which he retired 24 years later, in 1933.
Burt wrote at least one book, Foundation and Practice of Arithmetic (1929) with co-authors Arthur T. Gorton of the New York City Public Schools and Leslie O. Lynch, mathematics teacher. He also helped influence other research and authorship, and is acknowledged by name in the 1931 book, Free Associations to Common Words, by Leonard B. Wheat, Ph.D., part of the Teachers College Series of Columbia University Contributions to Education. In 1934, when the book The Measurement of Bilingual Background was published, author Moses N.H. Hoffman named Burt in the acknowledgements, saying: "I am indebted to the following for their generous cooperation in making the pupils available for this study ... Mr. Burt Seelye, principal (retired) of P.S. 3, Bronx..." The book addressed the following key questions of great interest to educators at the time, especially in New York City: "Is bilingualism beneficial or injurious to the mental and social life of the individual? Or is it of very little consequence? Should bilingualism be encouraged or discouraged?" [ More ] >>>
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