Mary Edwards Calhoun
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Mary Edwards Calhoun | |
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| Born | 1973 |
| Died | November 11, 1963 (age 90) |
| Family | Miss Alice Calhoun (sister) |
Mary Edwards Calhoun (1873 – November 1963) was the Calhoun School headmistress from 1916 to 1942.
Biography
Miss Calhoun was born to a Philadelphia Quaker family in 1873.
She graduated from Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn and Teachers College of Columbia University. She taught at Horace Mann School and Barnard College in New York and at Packer.[1] She also was the Women's page editor at the Herald Tribune.
In 1916, she succeeded Laura Jacobi as headmistress at the Jacobi School. Around 1924, the school name was changed to The Calhoun School at the request of parents. Retiring in 1942, Miss Calhoun became Chairman of the Board, pursued her interests in World Federation, supported the work of the Society of Friends, and left bequests to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the NAACP as well as to her sister and the educational institutions with which she had been associated. [2]
She wrote Readings from American Literature, a Textbook for Schools and Colleges.[3]
References
- ^ "Mary Edwards Calhoun, Ex-Head of School Here". The New York Times. November 12, 1963.
- ^ "School History". Calhoun School.
- ^ Calhoun, Mary Edwards; MacAlarney, Emma Leonora (1915). Readings from American Literature, a Textbook for Schools and Colleges.