Shanghai, Apr. 24. Word has come of the death of Miss Clara E, Merrill at her home in America on February 19. Miss Merrill came to Kiukiang in 1896 and was principal of Rulson High School for girls for thirty years from 1808-1028, when Miss Grace Wu was appointed to succeed her. Since 1920 Mfiss Merrill has been retired in America Jand she had just passed her seventieth birthday.
Rulson was the first high school for girls in Kiangsi province and in the "sixty-five years of ils history there have been only three principals Miss Gertrude Howe, Miss Merrill and now Miss Wu.
The school will long fect the Influence of Miss Merrill's fine personality upon her students, for they fare the leaders of today.
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