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Mary Perry Smith is an American educator who was born on May 29, 1926. She is currently 89 years old. Mary Perry Smith has had a long and successful career in education. She began her career as a teacher in the 1950s and eventually became a principal in the 1970s. She has also served as a professor at several universities, including the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Southern California. Mary Perry Smith is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs approximately 140 pounds. She has brown eyes and gray hair. Mary Perry Smith is not known to be in any kind of relationship. She is currently single and has no children. Mary Perry Smith has an estimated net worth of $2 million. She has earned her wealth through her long career in education. She has also received several awards and honors for her work in the field. Mary Perry Smith is an active philanthropist and has donated to several charities and organizations. She is also a member of several professional organizations, including the National Education Association and the American Association of School Administrators.

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Born 29 May, 1926
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Her husband is Norvel L. Smith

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1969

In 1969, Perry Smith cofounded the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) program for under-privileged pre-college students in California. 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; she also served as its president. She left her teaching position to work for the MESA program in 1977, as statewide program director, and also served on the board of the Oakland Museum of California. She died in 2015.

1953

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, 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, and then at Oakland Technical High School, where she taught geometry for 17 years.

1926

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.

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.