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Lively Scrap Over Miss Herey

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
August
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

It Arose in a Women's Club in Denver

AN ANN ARBOR GIRL

She is a Candidate for State Superintendent of Colorado Schools

Miss Emma M. Herey, a graduate of the Ann Arbor high school, and whose home is in this city, but who has lived in Denver, Colo., for a number of years, is a candidate for state superintendent of schools of Colorado. The following interesting dispatch from Denver relates to her candidacy. 

It says:

"The Women's Democratic club of Denver held a meeting a few nights ago and there was the liveliest kind of a scrap. The club indorsed Miss Emma M. Herey as candidate for state superintendent of schools, but her opponents withdrew in a huff because they claimed that the meeting was packed and that Miss Herey did not deserve the indorsement. They asserted that she had declared that she was a graduate of Michigan university and Mrs. Cecilia Peterson, the leader of the opposition, had taken the trouble to inquire of President Angell whether the declaration was true. He wrote a letter saying that Miss Herey was never at student at the university, but when Mrs. Peterson tried to read the letter to the meeting, all the women talked at once, and when the storm quieted down it was announced that the resolution of indorsement had been passed. This raised another tempest and the club is now in two sections. The bolters propose to organize a Democratic club of their own."

Miss Emma M. Herey, who was one of the most prominent and promising young women of Ann Arbor, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Herey, of Church street. She was one of the brightest students in the Ann Arbor High School, from which institution she was graduated in 1893, receiving two diplomas.

After graduating she taught several terms here and in 1895 she secured a lucrative position in the schools of Denver. She is now serving her second term as county superintendent of schools there, and is well liked and very popular with her party. Beside fulfilling the duties of superintendent of schools, Miss Herey edits and publishes The School Bulletin, a most commendable paper. She is also a magazine writer of note, being a paid writer for several well known publications.