M. R. Koehler Wright — Silver City educator and pioneer
She took over a lax, undisciplined school and established order and cleanliness [2]. For 17 years she directed the Silver City school [1].
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- Silver City Enterprise — 1888-1890 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1889-12-27 (1889)opened its doors, and it sent Out one graduate that first year — Isabell L. Eckles, who was to become State Superintend- ent of Public Instruction in New Mexico. For 17 years M. R. Koehler directed the Silv…
- Discipline was lax, and the curriculum… (1889)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 o…