Mary Perry Smith

Mary Perry Smith
Smith in 1983
BornMay 29, 1926
DiedAugust 10, 2015(2015-08-10) (aged 89)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBall State University
Purdue University
OccupationMathematics educator
Known forCo-founded the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
SpouseNorvel L. Smith

Mary Perry Smith (May 29, 1926 – August 10, 2015) was an American mathematics educator who cofounded the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement program and the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.[1]

Early life and education

Perry Smith was born on May 29, 1926, and was originally from Evansville, Indiana, one of six children of a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; her maternal grandfather, Henry Allen Perry had been a chaplain and mathematics teacher at the Tuskegee Institute, where her parents met. As a child she moved frequently, to Kokomo, Logansport, Anderson, Crawfordsville, and Frankfort, all in Indiana. She earned a bachelor's degree from Ball State University in mathematics and science in three years, as one of a small number of African-American students there, and continued at Purdue University for a master's degree in counseling and guidance (with minors in biochemistry and statistics), finishing in 1948.[2]

Later life and career

Unable to find a job because of the discrimination in teacher hiring in Indiana, she followed her older brother to the newly opened Texas State University for Negroes in Houston, where she taught mathematics for three years.[2]

After marrying Norvel L. Smith (later to become the president of Merritt College and the first African American head of a college in California) and moving with her husband to Oakland, California,[3] she joined a doctoral program in educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, but moved to part-time study and then stopped out to become a teacher, first in a junior high school in San Francisco from 1953 until 1961,[2] and then at Oakland Technical High School, where she taught geometry for 17 years.[2][4]

Service

In 1969, Perry Smith cofounded the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) program for under-privileged pre-college students in California.[2][3] In 1974, she cofounded the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in Oakland, California, initially as part of the Oakland Museum’s Cultural and Ethnics Affairs Guild and, in 1978, as a separate organization;[3][5] she also served as its president.[6] She left her teaching position to work for the MESA program in 1977,[3] as statewide program director,[2] and also served on the board of the Oakland Museum of California.[3] She died in 2015.[3][5]

Legacy

Her papers are kept in the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley.[3][7]

References

  1. ^ "Mary Perry Smith". Inside Bay Area News. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Wilmot, Nadine (2004), An Interview with Mary Perry Smith, Co-Founder of MESA (2002) (PDF), Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Smith (Mary Perry) papers, Online Archive of California, retrieved 2020-03-21
  4. ^ "Mary Perry Smith, Teacher 1961-1977", Oakland Tech Centennial, Oakland Technical High School, April 14, 2015
  5. ^ a b Mary Perry Smith, Co-Founder of the BFHFI, Passes, Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University, August 14, 2015
  6. ^ "Coast To Coast Salute to Black Filmmakers", Ebony, Johnson Publishing Company, p. 91, October 1986
  7. ^ Bryer, Marjorie (January 2, 2019), Power Couples in the Archives, Pt. 2: Mary Perry Smith and Norvel L. Smith, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

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