C. MARIAN BARR, A. M.
Dean of Women
College of the Pacific, San Jose
Eminent among the distinguished educators who have contributed much
toward extending widely the fame of California in the educational
World, Miss C. Marian Barr, Dean of Women , College of the Pacific at
San Jose, enjoys enviable position and influence. She was born
near Monmouth, Ill., the daughter and only child of John Barr, who was
born near Glasgow, Scotland, and came to America when he was eighteen
years old. He located in Missouri and later removed to Illinois,
where he attended the University of Chicago, from which he was
graduated in excellent standing n 1878; after which he became a
minister of the Baptist Church for the preaching of the Gospel.
In 1880 he married Miss Addie Dutzschky; and seven years later they
removed to California. They settled at Pomona, and in 1900 the
Rev. Mr. Barr retired from active work.
Miss Marian Barr, after completing Pomona high school, selected the
University of California at Berkeley, to which city her parents also
removed, and where, in February, 1913, Mr. Barr sided, survived by this
daughter and his widow, who still resides at Berkeley. IN 1904,
Miss Barr as graduated from the university with the degree of A. B. ;
and two years later she was given by the same institution the degree of
A. M. In 1907 she became an instructor in Latin and German at
California College, Oakland, and in 1910, having able discharged her
first responsibility, she joined the staff of the College of the
Pacific as Dean of Women, and is also instructor in vocational
education.
As Dean of Women, having very much the interests of both the students
and the institution at heart, Miss Barr has become exceptionally busy,
and she has proven the right person for the direction of the new course
in vocational education, which deals with the vocational opportunities
of women and was instituted at the College of the Pacific in
1917. She resides at Helen Guth Hall, and has her offices in the
same hall on the beautiful campus of the college, where she has for
years been a leading and familiar figure, enviably popular with
the young women, on the average of superior capacity, attracted to this
growing institution. Miss Barr is a member of the American
Association of University Women, formerly the Association of
Collegiate Alumni, and in various ways is able to make her
influence for educational and moral uplift widely felt.
Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben, from Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara County,California, published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 939
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