Dear List: This clipping does not have a newspaper heading. MISS MARY SNELL CALLED BY DEATH Founder of Snell's Seminary for Girls Dies After Long Life as Educator ____________ Was Well Known in Social and Educational Circles of Pacific Coast _____________ BERKELEY, May 14.--Miss Mary E. SNELL, founder of Snell's seminary for girls, died this morning after a long illness at the school, 2721 Channing Way. Miss Snell has been ill for the last year and her death was not unexpected, although she still continued her work in the Latin and Greek class rooms. She has been on the coast for 40 years, and her standing in academic circles was high. Miss Snell was born in New York nearly 60 years ago. Her family moved to Iowa, and she received a degree from Iowa college in 1868. Coming to this state in 1870 she became a member of the faculty of a school for girls at San Bernardino and was later affiliated as a teacher of classics in a Benicia seminary. She became principal of the school in 1874. Four years later the Benicia school was reorganized by Miss Snell and her sister, Mrs. Edna SNELL-POULSON, established at 568 Twelfth Street, Oakland. After two years spent abroad with her sister Miss Snell again reorganized the school, and the seminary was removed to it present location in Channing Way. A few weeks ago when a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary scholarship society was organized at her alma mater, Iowa college, Miss Snell was admitted to membership. Among the members of the family who survive are her sister, Miss Sarah SNELL and Mrs. Edna SNELL POULSON of Berkeley; Dr. Margaret C. SNELL of the state agricultural college at Corvallis, Ore., and a brother, Richard SNELL, a student of the University of California. The funeral will be held from Snell's seminary Saturday afternoon, the day which had been set for the Snell's college alumni luncheon, which has been postponed. On account of the death of their principal member of the class of 1908 of Snell's seminary will give no senior play this year, but the commencement exercises will be held on May 22. __________________ GRADUATES--1908 COMMENCEMENT SNELL SEMINARY FRIDAY, MAY TWENTY-SECOND Nineteen Hundred and Eight Eight O'clock P. M. Berkeley, California Lucy FUNG NYI CHENG Louise DEXTER CLEVELAND Kathryn Irene FLEMING Anna Marietta JESSUP Charlotte Francis KETT Frances Marie LIVENGOOD Irene Marie MOCKER Ellen Francis ORD Anna Rebecca WOODBRIDGE ____________________ My Grandmother Edith MOTE-SMITH, graduated May 21, 1909. Is Snell Seminary still in existence? I have another clipping about Mary Snell, In Memoriam. Will post in couple of days. Jean Hehn Colorado