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In 1916, she succeeded Laura Jacobi as [[Head teacher|headmistress]] at the Jacobi School.[{{Cite book|last=Trager|first=James|url=https://archive.org/details/westoffifthrisef0000trag/page/166/mode/2up?q=mary+edwards+calhoun|title=West of Fifth : The Rise and Fall and Rise of Manhattan's West Side|publisher=Atheneum|year=1987|isbn=0-689-11775-2|location=New York|pages=167|oclc=14068186|via=Newspapers.com}}] Around 1924, the school name was changed to [[Calhoun School|The Calhoun School]] at the request of parents. Retiring in 1942, Miss Calhoun became chairman of the board, pursued her interests in the [[World Federation of United Nations Associations|World Federation]], supported the work of the [[Quakers|Society of Friends]], and left bequests to [[Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King, Jr.]] and the [[NAACP]] as well as to her sister and the educational institutions with which she had been associated.["[https://www.calhoun.org/about/calhoun-glance/school-history School History]". ''Calhoun School''.] |
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In 1916, she succeeded Laura Jacobi as [[Head teacher|headmistress]] at the Jacobi School.[{{Cite book|last=Trager|first=James|url=https://archive.org/details/westoffifthrisef0000trag/page/166/mode/2up?q=mary+edwards+calhoun|title=West of Fifth : The Rise and Fall and Rise of Manhattan's West Side|publisher=Atheneum|year=1987|isbn=0-689-11775-2|location=New York|pages=167|oclc=14068186|via=Newspapers.com}}] Around 1924, the school name was changed to [[Calhoun School|The Calhoun School]] at the request of parents. Retiring in 1942, Miss Calhoun became chairman of the board, pursued her interests in the [[World Federation of United Nations Associations|World Federation]], supported the work of the [[Quakers|Society of Friends]], and left bequests to [[Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King, Jr.]] and the [[NAACP]] as well as to her sister and the educational institutions with which she had been associated.["[https://www.calhoun.org/about/calhoun-glance/school-history School History]". ''Calhoun School''.] |
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She wrote ''Readings from American Literature, a Textbook for Schools and Colleges'' (1915) which was given mixed reviews by ''[[American Journal of Education|The School Review]]''.[{{Cite journal|last=Jones|first=Howard Mumford|date=1915-05-01|title=Readings from American Literature. Mary Edwards Calhoun] , Emma Leonora MacLarney|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/436481|journal=The School Review|volume=23|issue=5|pages=354–355|doi=10.1086/436481|issn=0036-6773|url-access=subscription}} |
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She wrote ''Readings from American Literature, a Textbook for Schools and Colleges'' (1915) which was given mixed reviews by ''[[American Journal of Education|The School Review]]''.[{{Cite journal|last=Jones|first=Howard Mumford|date=1915-05-01|title=Readings from American Literature. Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacLarney|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/436481|journal=The School Review|volume=23|issue=5|pages=354–355|doi=10.1086/436481|issn=0036-6773|url-access=subscription}}] |
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Calhoun died on November 10, 1963, in her Westport home.[{{Cite news|date=1963-11-12|title=Mary Calhoun, 90, Educator, Succumbs|pages=29|work=The Bridgeport Post|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/54484157/the-bridgeport-post/|access-date=2020-06-30|via=Newspapers.com}}] |
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Calhoun died on November 10, 1963, in her Westport home.[{{Cite news|date=1963-11-12|title=Mary Calhoun, 90, Educator, Succumbs|pages=29|work=The Bridgeport Post|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/54484157/the-bridgeport-post/|access-date=2020-06-30|via=Newspapers.com}}] |
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