Background
Fitzgerald, Nugent Edmund was born on April 18, 1891 in Gerald, Missouri, United States. Son of William P. and Lizzie Emily (Henneke) Fitzgerald.
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Nugent Edmund Fitzgerald
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Bachelor in Pedagogy, State Teachers College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 1912; Bachelor of Science in Education, U. Missouri, 1915; Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, 1917; Master of Science in Rural Education, Cornell Univercity, 1926; student, Columbia University, summer 1930; student, Ohio State University, summers 1931-1938.
Career
Teacher rural school, 1909-1910; teacher history and English, High School, Potosi also principal, High School, Potosi instructor agriculture, State Teacher's College, Springfield, Missouri, summers 1915, 17; instructor agriculture for teachers, University Texas, 1915-1918; associate professor agricultural education, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1918-1919; professor, head department agricultural education, U. Tennessee, 1919-1943; dean College Education, U. Tennessee, 1943-1961; retired, U. Tennessee.
Achievements
Membership
Member Tennessee advisory commission on Conservation. Chairman of Commission on aims and objectives Tennessee State Ednl. Commission, 1933-1935.
Second lieutenant Field Artillery, United States Army, World War I. Member Society Advancement Education, National Education Association, American Vocational Association, American Association School Adminstrs., Masons, Acacia, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Delta Kappa, Alpha Tau Alpha.
Connections
Married Julia Richardson, October 10, 1918.
