Mrs. N. R. Craven

Mrs. N. R. Craven, the efficient Principal of the Mission Grammar School, is a native of the State of Ohio.  She received her early education in Iowa and Illinois, and began teaching when only fourteen years of age, when, being under age, she was required to have a special order from the School Board in order to get her salary.  She came to California in 1874, and began teaching in Oakland and Alameda, and several years later was elected a teacher in the public schools of San Francisco, then principal of the Powell Street school in 1879, and was then the youngest principal in the city.  In 1883 she was elected principal of the Mission Street grammar school, and since then, for the past eight years, has held this responsible position.  This school is one of the largest in the city, having on its roll from 900 to 1,000 pupils, and fourteen teachers.

     Mrs. Craven is actively interested in educational matters, and prepared the cards for the language work in the primary schools.  She is the author of a new grammar, the manuscript of which was unfortunately destroyed by fire when ready for the press, and though delayed, it will yet be published.  She is also the author of a play entitled "Government Claims," which will soon be produced in New York.  For many years she was a member of the Board of Examiners for Schools, and is now a writer and contributor to magazines and educational journals.

 

Transcribed 10-10-04  Marilyn R. Pankey.