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For a history of the Head-Royce School and the Anna Head building, see
The Head-Royce School: A Centennial History 1887-1987 available
from The Head-Royce School, 4315 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland, CA 94602.
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- Anna
Head.
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May 6, 1857 in Brookline, Massachusetts.
1874.
Graduated from Oakland High School.
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- 1879.
Graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, with
a degree in education administration.
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- 1880-1886.
Traveled and studied in Boston and Europe.
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of her time was spent in Greece, which forever solidified
her love of the classics. When Anna Head returned from her
post-graduate odyssey, she had strong ideas about education.
Critical of the tedious and trivial routines that were prevalent
in many American grammar schools of her day, she sought to
borrow all that was best from the much admired English and
German educational systems and adapt it to the needs of her
students. Source knowledge of the classics, languages, and
the scientific method became the crux of her curriculum.
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- 1887.
Founded Miss Heads' Preparatory School for Girls at Channing and
Dana Streets in Berkeley.
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- 1892.
Channing Hall built at Channing and Bowditch in Berkeley.
1894.
School completed moved to new site.
1909.
Sold school to Mary E. Wilson, teacher at Miss Heads'.
1919.
Name changed to The Anna Head School.
Died
December 25, 1932.
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