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and respect with which she was held, not only by her fraternal group, but by the community of her choice — and the larger community that was New Mexico. It was in January, 1945, that death came to this grand old pioneer — in the hospital she had visioned 63 years before. Mrs. Warren’s long-time friend, M. R. Koehler Wright, had earned a record as an educator before joining in association with Mrs. Warren. Born in Pontiac, New York, in 1861, she graduated from Normal school in Buffalo and taught at Princeton, Indiana, be- fore coming to New Mexico at the invitation of Hiram Hadley. Professor Hadley was conducting a private school which was to be the nucleus with her help of the A. and M. College at Las Cruces. The A. and M. College was created by the Legislature in 1889, and so her efforts, spread over two years, entered into the cornerstone of that institution. Her success in Las Cruces brought the offer of superintendent of the Silver City school. It was only a four-room school (a fifth room was added soon after), but with the exception of Raton, Silver City alone in the Territory had a public school of any importance. Discipline was lax, and the curriculum lacked direction, when M. R. Koehler took over. She soon remedied that. She established order in school life, she introduced the ideal of cleanliness in the building and on the