CLARK, PACHECO

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 09:43:01 :

Independent Journal
Thursday, March 12, 1959
Page 4

1st Principal Of Coleman School Dies

Augustina M. Clark, the first principal of San Rafael’s Coleman School, died early today at a local hospital after being hospitalized several days. She was 85.

Miss Clark was a native of Marin County. Upon her retirement four years ago, she moved from Oakland where she taught in the public schools and at St. Francis de Sales Parochial School for many years. Her home since then had been with her two nieces, Misses Loreta and Irene Pacheco, at 161 Bayview drive, San Rafael.

Miss Clark, who had taught at the now-demolished B Street School, was made principal of Coleman School when it opened about 1910. The school building at Grand avenue and Linden lane is now used as a county office building.

Coleman School was the fifth in the San Rafael school system. At that time, the high school was on E street where the E Street School now stands; there was an old grammar school on Fourth street now no longer standing, Short School which is still used, and the B Street School now replaced by the San Rafael Bank of America.

Miss Clark remained at Coleman School until about 1913. The remainder of her 65-year teaching career was spent in Oakland.

A Requiem High Mass will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Raphael’s Church in San Rafael. The cortege will form at 9:45 a.m. at Keaton’s Mortuary, San Rafael. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Recitation of the rosary will be at 8 o’clock tomorrow evening at Keaton’s Mortuary.