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To this result, by his indefatigable labors,
1 After laboring at the above mentioned place [ Kutztown] a little more than three years, the number of students has been increased from five to ninety .- From extract from a letter written by H. R. Nicks to Hon. Thos. H. Burrowes, copied in a note book by Mr. Nicks, (about 1863).
1K. S. N. S. Catalog, 1866-1867, p. 20.
2The catalog for 1866-67 says that "the cost of the buildings and grounds is about $50,000." This however includes the expenditure for Maxa- tawny Seminary.
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Professor Nicks contributed very material- ly. The people of the community, notably the Hottensteins, the Biebers, Dr. Charles A. Gerasch, Solomon Christ, and David Schaeffer, by liberal contributions, made the undertaking a success. For the Normal were subscribed $18,300, which with the $6,500 given for the seminary previously, made a total of $14,800.1
The first board of trustees was com- posed of the following gentlemen: Henry Bushong, Egidius Butz, Daniel Dietrich,2 Rev. J. S. Ermentrout, David Fister, John H. Fogel, Jonas Hoch, Edward Hottenstein, M. D., J. Glancy Jones, Rev. B. E. Kram- lich, Diller Luther, M. D., Jonas Miller, Ullrich1 Miller, Rev. H. R. Nicks, H. H. Schwartz, Esq., David Shafer,1 Adam Stein, Lesher Trexler, M. D., and J. D. Wanner, Esq. Lewis K. Hottenstein was president of the board of trustees ; David H. Hotten- stein its secretary. Lesher Trexler, M. D., was president of the board of stockholders and Jonas Hoch secretary. Charles Ger- asch, M. D., was treasurer of the new school.
At a meeting of the board of trustees held August 4, 1866, formal application was made to the Hon. Charles R. Coburn, State Superintendent of Common Schools, for recognition of the school as the State Normal School for the Third District, com- prising the counties of Berks, Lehigh, and Schuylkill. On Thursday, September 13, 1866, W. Worthington, George Landon, S. Elliot, Thaddeus Banks, J. S. Ermentrout, (as Superintendent of Berks County), Jesse Newlin, ( Superintendent of Schuylkill), and E. J. Young, ( Superintendent of Le- high), inspectors appointed by the State Superintendent, inspected the school and recommended its recognition, and on Sep- tember 15th, two days later, Superintendent Coburn issued a proclamation recognizing the school by the name of the Keystone State Normal School, the corporate title borne by it to the present.
The "Officers of Instruction" as given by the first catalog were: "Rev. J. S. Ermentrout, A. M., Principal, and Profes- sor of Mental and Moral Science, and of Theory and Practice of Teaching; Rev. H. R. Nicks, A. M., Associate Principal, and Professor of Mathematics and Physics ; Al- bert N. Raub, A. M., Professor of English Language and Literature, and of Vocal Music ; Rev. Samuel Transeau, A. M., Pro- fessor of Ancient Languages and History ;
Edward T. Burgan, M. E., Superintendent of the Model School, and Professor of Pen- manship and Book Keeping; Rev. G. F. Spieker, Professor of German Language and Literature ; Lesher Trexler, M. D., Lec- turer on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hy- giene ; Miss Julia E. Bullard, M. L., Teach- er of Instrumental Music, French, Painting, and Drawing; Miss Mary Morrison, Teach- er of Reading and Geography ;
(not filled), "Teacher of Elocution; Peter S. Umbenhauer, Pupil Assistant." The first catalog, 1866-68, contains the names of 318 pupils, 263 of them male, 55 female.
The Rev. John S. Ermentrout served as principal until 1871 when he was succeeded by the Rev. A. R. Horne,1 A. M. After an absence from the school for three years, Professor Ermentrout returned in 1874 and served as Professor of Mental Science and English Literature (or "Belles Letters" as it was called at first) until 1881. In 1877 Dr. A. R. Horne was succeeded in the prin- cipalship by the Rev. Nathan C. Schaeffer, A. M., who, after winning unusual distinc- tion and receiving honorary degrees from eminent institutions of learning, severed his connection with the school to become State Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1893. The Rev. George B. Hancher, Ph. D., became principal in 1893 and served tiil 1899; since that time to the present the Rev. A. C. Rothermel, A. M., Pd. D., Litt. D., has been the efficient head of the institution.
THE HOUSING OF TIIE SCHOOL
The growth of the school has been steady and substantial. For more than twenty- five years past, building operations have been almost continuous. The earlier struc- tures were soon outgrown and larger edi-
1 After the retirement of Professor Ermentrout, Prof Nicks was elected principal of the Normal School. He was then serving as President of Palatinate College and declined to accept the position thus tendered to him as head of the school which he had founded.
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY Dated Kutztown via Topton, July ist, 1871. Received at Myerstown, Pa.
To Professor Nicks, Principal Palatinate College.
The Trustees of Keystone State Normal School have today unanimously elected you Principal thereof.
PETER W. FISHER. 9.15 A. M.
This telegram has just been received at the office in the
Myerstown Post Office.
1 The Catalog sums it up as $24,600, evidently a typographical error.
2 So spelled in the first two catalogs.
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fices, one by one, have taken their place until now, with the exception of a single three-storied brick building, known as "The Steward's Building," overshadowed by mas- sive piles around it, not one of the first erections remains. In 1880 the "Ladies' Building" or Girls' Dormitory was put up; in 1887 the "Chapel Building" was erected ; in 1891 the extensive northeast wing or "Boys' Dormitory" followed; in 1893 the old "Main Building" was demolished to give place to the great six-story "Center Building," costing $75,0001; in 1896 the necessities of the school produced a fine kitchen and laundry with a superb equip- ment ; in 1898 a powerful electric light plant
designed, and erected at a cost of $50,000, was opened for use ; while the early months of 1909 witnessed the completion of a fine two-story brick hospital or infirmary, for the isolation and treatment of pupils who may fall ill while at school, a provsion for which it is hoped there may be little and infre- quent need. Beside this there is a great boiler house, which has been enlarged from time to time in order to furnish steam heat to recitation rooms and dormitories and power to run the machinery of the hydraul- ic passenger elevator ; the equipment of the laundry and the electric dynamos ; operating the pumping engine at the artesian well and water tower, the electric projecting lanterns
THE LIBRARY
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made coal-oil illumination an incident of history ; in 1900 the foundations were laid for a new "Model School Building" with an annex containing physical, chemical, and biological laboratories, and an ample audi- torium (the two costing $100,000) ; in 1908 a splendidly equipped gymnasium, ornately
1The money for this Center Building was pro vided largely by the State, through an appropria- tion secured by the kindly activity and potent influence of Hon. C. W. Kutz, of Lyons Station, a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, whose interest in the movement was aroused by Dr. N. C. Schaeffer.
of class rooms and auditoriums, and the apparatus of the laboratories and laundry.
THE NEW LIBRARY
There has just been completed a magnifi- cent library building. It stands on the north campus, directly across the Easton Road from the Main or Center Building of the Normal, some sixty feet from the high - wav. It was erected at a cost of one hund- red and ten thousand dollars ($110,000). Its frontage is 82 feet and the depth, to the rear of the annex containing the book
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stacks, 88 feet. It is fifty feet in height to the top of the dome. It is of fire-proof construction throughout, with reinforced concrete floors and stairways of steel with marble treads. There are no stoves in the building, which is heated by the vacuum system operated by a heating plant in the basement, cut off from the rest of the build- ing by self-operating fire doors.
The walls of the main building are of Mount Airy, N. C., granite-of the book stack annex, of white brick. The library is approached by a cement and brick check- ered pavement, leading from the sidewalk and extending the full width of the noble portico. In the center of this pavement is a circle in which will be erected shortly a large fountain, the gift of one of the classes. The portico, flanked by massive and majestic Grecian columns of granite bears on its en- tablature the word LIBRARY, above which is the monogram of the school. Through this portico one may pass into the simply but beautifully ornate arched corridor and thence to the superb rotunda, or central hall. The walls of this, as of the corridor are lined with polished marble. The floor is of tesselated marble, in the center of which is a monogram of the school, a wreathed keystone with the entwined letters S. N. S. On the wall facing the entrance is a beautiful circular clock with marble case, the gift of the class of 1914. The room, except for an encircling gallery. reaches to the base of the dome. This forms the ceiling which is of metal and rich stained glass. In the spandrels are beautiful allegorical paintings. In the sec- tional glass of the ceiling are the signs of the zodiac while the circular center lets mel- lowed light pass through a stained glass design representing Phoebus Apollo driving the chariot of the sun. From the rotunda on the first floor doors admit to a large reference room, a reading room, trustees' room, librarian's room, catalog room, retir- ing room, and to one floor of the book stack annex.
From this floor the grand twin stairways of metal and marble lead to the rotunda gallery and the second floor. On this floor are a study room, the art gallery, and three museum rooms. Access to the book stacks may also be had on this floor. The furni- ture of all these rooms is massive, of the latest design, and admirably adapted to library purposes.
The basement contains, besides the boiler room and the first floor of the book stack. toilet rooms, and two museum rooms. In the basement is installed an electrically op- erated vacuum cleaner by which the entire
building may be kept free from dust and dirt. The stack rooms are equipped with steel cases having adjustable shelving. The Hoors between the stories of the stack annex are of heavy clouded glass, providing all desirable illumination. The Hoors are con- nected by metal stairways.
The wood work throughout is of beau- tifully finished quartered oak. The walls and ceilings are appropriately decorated. The building is well lighted by day through ample windows over each of which, on the outside, is carved the name of some notable author, British or American. The name of Shakespeare is cut upon the granite lintel of the entrance doorway. For illmuina- tion by night electric fixtures of choice de- sign and rich quality have been installed throughout. High above all rises a grace- ful dome, surmounted by a finial in form of a crown, the whole covered with copper, reflecting the beams of the rising or declin- ing sun.
Ground was broken for the erection of the Library in March, 1913. Except for some minor touches in the way of decora- tion, the structure was completed in the fall of 1914.
In the corridor is a large bronze tablet giving the names of the building committee, officials of the Normal School, architects, builders, and the like. The architects were Ruhe and Lange, of Allentown. The erec- tors of the building were the Ochs Con- structing Company, of the same city. The frescoing and other decorations are the de- sign and work of the Chapman Decorating Company, of Philadelphia.
It is hoped that this crowning glory of the buildings on Normal Hill will be open for occupancy, under the direction of a trained librarian, at the beginning of the next term of school.
UNIQUE ARRANGEMENT OF BUILDINGS
The buildings are in some respects unique as being, with the exception of boiler house, electric plant, gymnasium, infirmary, stew- ard's house, and the new library, practically under one roof, being connected by covered bridges, supported on beams of steel. The dormitories and recitation halls are large and abundantly lighted. The equipment of the school in the way of scientific apparatus is select and complete and each year large expenditures are made for the physical, chemical, biological, and psychological lab- oratories, as well as for the other depart- ments of the institution, by which means the educational facilities afforded by the school are kept abreast of the demands of the times.
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LIBRARIES AND LITERARY SOCIETIES
There are three principal libraries, each containing several thousand volumes. One is the general reference library, the other two are the property of the two literary societies maintained by the students. These two societies are the Philomathean Literary Society, organized early in the year 1865. and the Keystone Literary Society, origin- ally named the Kalliomathean Society, which, in September of the same year, was organized by students dismissed, for the
hall for meets of the classes in general physical exercises, an elevated running gal- lery, bowling alleys, a commodious bathing and swimming pool, shower baths, lockers, offices, and all necessary apparatus. There are athletic grounds both north and south of the Normal School Buildings. On the north campus are the tennis courts, on the southeast campus are the baseball and ath- letic fields, on the southwest is the new hockey field for the girls, while set about the campus are swings, see-saws, and other apparatus for rest or play.
INTERIOR OF GYMNASIUM-BASKET BALL, PRACTICE
purpose of starting a rival society, by the elder organization. Besides these collec . tions of books, which will be removed short- ly to the new library building on the north campus, departmental or working libraries, housed in the various recitation rooms, are maintained by several of the departments of the school. All of these collections are generously augmented from time to time.
ATHLETICS
The gymnasium, of which mention has been made, statelv in appearance and gen- erous in proportions, is admirably adapted to its purpose. It contains a large assembly
COURSE OF STUDY
The course of study is that prescribed by the State of Pennsylvania, but in some matters this school leads its compeers. At the instigation of Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer, who was principal at the time and had been a member of the Pennsylvania Industrial Commission, a manual training department, directed by Dr. W. W. Deatrick, was es. tablished, the first in Pennsylvania Normal Schools, in 1891. Instruction in this de- partment is given on pedagogic lines but. nevertheless, the course is eminently prac- tical, having obtained marked recognition in the reports of the United States Com-
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missioner of Education. Specimens of work done in accordance with this course, exhibited with other work of the school, won medals and diplomas at two great world's fairs. Among other exercises in this department may be mentioned construc- tion of apparatus, clay-modeling, and me- chanical drawing. The fine arts are not neglected ; drawing, crayoning, and paint- ing in water and oils and on china, are thor- oughly taught. The present capable in- structor in drawing, painting, and the cer- amic arts is Prof. Harry W. Sharadin, an
teaching of domestic science were fitted out and during the past year the girls of the senior class have received instruction in all phases of culinary art. Miss Lillian I. Bull, B. I., is the enthusiastic and extremely capable and successful instructor in this new branch of study.
ENVIRONMENT
The environment of the school is superbly excellent. On all sides the beautiful East Penn Valley stretches away to the moun-
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alumnus of the Normal and a student in the great galleries of this country and of Europe. The splendid mural painting, of mammoth proportions, occupying the wall recess back of the chapel platform and en- titled "Education," the gift of a recent class to their alma mater, is the product of his imaginative mind and facile brush.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
For some years past elementary sewing, with optional art needle work, has been taught to the girls. In the summer of 1914 elaborately equipped laboratories for the
tains or the rivers. Elevated 510 feet above sea level, on almost the apex of one of the mid-valley watersheds, its drainage is ample. Sweet country airs sweep its cam- pus. The water supply, from its own artesian well, is pure. Within the last few years landscape gardening has been begun, which, when extended to the entire cam- pus will make the setting of the buildings unexcelled in all the country for beauty and for healthsomeness.
THE FACULTY
But brains are better than bricks and the
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mainstay of a great school must ever be the excellence of its teaching force. In this particular the Keystone State Normal School has been especially fortunate; it has always had forceful instructors, and never
The school is crowded with pupils to the point of taxing the capacity of the present ample buildings. The last catalog contained the names of 710 pupils. The list of alumni of the institution now totals 3440 names,
KEYSTONE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN POST OFFICE
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more of them than now. The roster of teachers in the last catalog contains twenty- nine items ; and among these a considerable proportion is of names of college and uni- versity trained instructors. In this way the desired breadth and accuracy in instruction is secured.
among which are those of men and women prominent in every sphere of wholesome and serviceable human activity.
THE PRESENT MANAGEMENT The present roster of trustees, officials, and faculty of the school is as follows :
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
TRUSTEES REPRESENTING THE STATE 1913-1916
LEWIS B. BUTZ
JAMES SCHAEFFER
Kutztown, Pa. . Kutztown, Pa.
CHARLES W. MILLER
. Kutztown, Pa.
1914-1917
HON. GEORGE W. WAGNER
Reading, Pa.
ELI M. RAPP.
.Reading, Pa.
JOHN R. GONSER.
Kutztown, Pa.
1915-1918
ULRICH J. MILLER Kutztown, Pa.
WILLIAM F. STIMMEL Kutztown, Pa.
HON. RICHARD H. KOCH. Pottsville, Pa.
TRUSTEES REPRESENTING THE STOCKHOLDERS
1913-1916
C. J. DILCHER
Allentown, Pa.
ALVIN E. RUPP . Allentown, Pa.
LIVINGSTON SELTZER Pottsville, Pa.
1914-1917
J. DANIEL SHARADIN Kutztown, Pa.
AARON B. STEIN Reading, Pa.
LEWIS A. STEIN Kutztown, Pa.
1915-1918
CHARLES D. HERMAN Kutztown, Pa.
CHARLES A. HOTTENSTEIN, M. D .. Kutztown, Pa.
W. KERPER STEVENS, EsQ. .Reading, Pa.
OFFICERS
ELI M. RAPP. President of Board of Trustees
CHARLES W. MILLER Secretary of Board of Trustees
JAMES SCHAEFFER President of Board of Stockholders
JOHN R. GONSER. Secretary of Board of Stockholders
PROF. J. J. HOTTENSTEIN Treasurer
CHARLES W. MILLER Steward
STANDING COMMITTEES
INSTRUCTION AND DISCIPLINE .- Charles W. Miller, Hon. Richard H. Koch, U. J. Miller, Hon. George W. Wagner, Prof. Livingston Seltzer, J. D. Sharadin, Prof. Alvin E. Rupp, Prof. Eli. M. Rapp, e.v-officio.
LIBRARY AND APPARATUS .- Prof. Alvin E. Rupp, Hon. Richard H. Koch, Prof. Livingston Seltzer, C. J. Dilcher, Hon. George W. Wagner.
FINANCE .- John R. Gonser, Aaron B. Stein, W. Kerper Stevens, Esq., Prof. Eli M. Rapp, Charles D. Herman, Charles A. Hottenstein, M. D.
ACCOUNTS .- Lewis A. Stein, W. Kerper Stevens, Esq., Charles D. Herman, J. D. Sharadin, William F. Stimmel.
HOUSEHOLD .- J. D. Sharadin, James Schaeffer, U. J. Miller, Lewis B. Butz, Charles A. Hottenstein, M. D.
GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS .- U. J. Miller, Lewis B. Butz, C. J. Dilcher, Charles D. Herman, John R. Gonser, Prof. Alvin E. Rupp.
INSURANCE .- Lewis A. Stein, William F. Stimmel, Aaron B. Stein. FUEL .- William F. Stimmel, James Schaeffer, Charles W. Miller.
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THE TRUSTEES
AARON B. STEIN
ELI M. RAPP
DR. C. A. HOTTENSTEIN
LEWIS A. STEIN
JAMES SCHAEFFER
JOHN R. GONSER
WILLIAM F. STIMMEL
CHARLES W. MILLER
ULRICH J. MILLER
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THE TRUSTEES
CHARLES D. HERMAN
LIVINGSTON SELTZER
ALVIN E. RUPP
C. J. DILCHIER
W. KERPER STEVENS ESQ.
HON. RICHARD H. KOCH
LEWIS B. BUTZ
HON. GEORGE W. WAGNER
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BOARD OF INSTRUCTION
OFFICERS
A. C. ROTHERMEL, A. M., PD. D., LITT. D. Principal
REV. CHARLES C. BOYER, A. M., PH. D. Vice-Principal and Librarian
C. L. GRUBER, A. M ... . Secretary
JNO. J. HOTTENSTEIN, M. E .. Bookkeeper
MISS CLARA A. MYERS, M. E. Preceptress
H. T. STEIN, A. M., LITT. D., PH. D., N. D.
Secretary to the Principal
MISS CLARA A. MYERS, M. E. Assistant Librarian
INSTRUCTORS
A. C. ROTHERMEL, A. M., PD. D., LITT. D. Philosophy of Education
REV. CHARLES C. BOYER, A. M., PH. D. Pedagogy
REV. W. W. DEATRICK, A. M., Sc. D. Psychology and Higher English
DAVID S. KECK, A. M. . English Grammar and History
G. C. BORDNER, A. M .. Higher Mathematics
REV. GEORGE SMITH KRESSLEY, A. M., Lrrr. D. Latin, Greek and German
C. L. GRUBER, M. E., A. M.
. Arithmetic and Civics
FRANK S. KREBS, M. E.
Superintendent of Model School
JAMES S. GRIM, A. M., PH. D.
Biology and Geology
JNO. J. HOTTENSTEIN, M. E.
Penmanship
MISS CLARA A. MYERS, M. E.
. Geography
MISS ALMA D. STIER, B. I., D. I.
Reading and Elocution
H. W. SHARADIN
Director of Art Department, and Painting
MISS ELLA E. KRAMLICH. Piano
H. T. STEIN, A. M., LITT. D., PH. D., N. D. . Commercial Science and School Law
MISS MABEL E. BROWN. Professional Nurse
MISS HELEN A. BEAM, M. E. . English
W. S. HALDEMAN, B. S. Chemistry
A. M. DIETRICH, B. S., M. S. . Physics
MISS A. IRENE KRAMER. Kindergarten
MISS JOAN EASLEY .Superintendent of Music Department
MISS LILLIAN I. BULL, B. I .. Physical Culture and Sewing
BERT M. BOHLER. Physical Culture
MISS LAURA M. SCHULTZ . Vocal Music and Voice Culture
B. W. BECK, PH. B. Latin and French
MISS MAY E. HAGENBACH Critic Teacher in Model School
MISS MARY E. BROOKS Training Teacher in Model School
GEORGE L. SWANK, A. B. Assistant in Latin and Greek
FREDERICK A. STERNER, B. PD. Assistant in Latin
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THE| CEMETERIES
FAIRVIEW CEMETERY
Fairview Cemetery received its name from a suggestion made in 1860 by the late Peter D. Wanner, Esq. to the late Rev. J. Sassaman Herman, then resident in the "Fairview Mansion," now the prop- erty of the Rev. Hiram F. Seneker, long the home of the late Col. Thomas D. Fister. According to Mr. Wanner, while he and Mr. Herman were discussing Mr. Wan- ner's future, the establishing of a school in Mr. Herman's home, and the opening of a cemetery on part of the latter's estate, they stood one evening by the roadside. Facing the west, they had a view of a most glorious sunset. There had been some inquiry as to the name to be given to school and cemetery. Looking over the landscape to the west, Mr. Wanner said : "How would Fairview do for a name?" The suggestion met a ready response, "Well, Peter, I guess we can do no better." The school was established as "Fairview Seminary," the cemetery was opened as "Fairview Cemetery," and the house once occupied by the school remains "Fairview Mansion" to the present day.
The consecratory services were held June 15 and 16, 1861. On the first day, Saturday, the Rev. Dr. Christian Rudolph Kessler, of Allentown, and the Rev. Gott- lieb F. I. Yeager, of Greenwich, preached. On Sunday, 16th, the Rev. Joseph S. Dubbs, of Lehigh, and the Rev. Mr. Phillips, of Easton, delivered discourses, and the Rev. J. S. Herman had charge of the consecra- tory services proper. The association framed for the management of this burial ground, was formally organized on April 12, 1862.
The first funeral was that of Isadore, son of William and Esther Weiser, aged seven years, one month, and three days.
Like Hope Cemetery, Fairview is inde= pendent of ecclesiastical control.
In 1906 an additional plot of land, con- taining ten acres, lying on the opposite side of the Easton Road, and some two hundred vards to the west of the limits of the ori- ginal cemetery, was purchased by the trus- tees. No interments have yet been made in the addition.
The present officers of the company are : J. Daniel Sharadin, president; Jeff. C. Hoch, secretary ; Wilson B. Kutz, treas- urer. Supervisors, Nicholas W. Kieffer, Nathan S. Schmehl, Oscar O. Sell. Direc- tors, Wm. Bieber, Henry Wagenhorst, Mi- chael Braucher, Reuben Weidenhammer,
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