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Andrew
J. 'Bud' Enos |
Andrew Jacob "Bud" Enos
was born on Dec. 29, 1884 near Normalville, Fayette
County, PA, the son of
Perry and
Joanna (Minerd) Enos.
Andrew "Bud" Enos
He was a longtime educator, served as Assistant Superintendent of Fayette County Schools, and held influential positions with the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) and National Education Association (NEA).
He never married.
Bud received part of his higher education at the Normalville Normal Institute, which was in operation between 1901 and 1904. During that time he lived on the family farm with his parents.
He
then attended California State Normal School, now California University of
Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1909 with his cousin Edward
Campbell Miner and also his second cousin, Roy
Sheppard Minerd.
Bud with Normalville students
Bud taught in the following schools: Saltlick Township (1904-1905), Breakneck (1905-1906) and Normalville (1909-1915). He once was photographed with his students at the Normalville School.
In 1927, Bud served on the executive council of the PSEA and was president of its Graded School Department. Also that year, Bud attended the PSEA convention in Lancaster, PA, was pictured in the December edition of the Pennsylvania School Journal, and was a Pennsylvania state delegate to the NEA Convention. A copy of the entire School Journal is in the Minerd.com Archives.
He served as principal at Dawson (1920-1921) and New Salem (1925-1930, 1932), and taught mathematics at Brownsville Borough Junior High School in the 1940s.
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Mill Street in snowy New Salem in the early 1900s |
From 1930 to 1932, Bud served as
Assistant Superintendent of Fayette County Schools.
Article authored by Bud
In 1946 and 1747, he was secretary of the reunion association of the Normalville Normal Institute, held at Wildwood Park. He penned an article about the "Inside Story of Normalville Normal Institute Reunion." He also headed the "necrology committee" which counted 14 members of their class who had died. He wrote:
...the men, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, radicals, conservatives, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, attempted to solve all the problems of the day and each fellow had his own opinion as to how the problems of the Nation should be solved. But when the dinner gong sounded and they all got around the table, there was a decided change, and all agreed. They forgot their political and religious differences. Peace usually reigns where the food supply is sufficient.
Fun-loving
and sociable, he and his cousin Ed Miner would join friends in hayrides to visit
friends and enjoy "innocent amusements."
Later in life he liked to visit his cousin Agnes
(Miner) Miller at Normalville.
Normalville Cemetery
After retirement, Budd lived at 422 Coolspring Street in Uniontown.
He died at age 90 in September 1974, and is buried at Normalville Cemetery.
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