Mabel Craft Deering

[3] While at Oakland High School, she participated in the Aegis Publishing Company, where she was elected to "take charge of the ladies' department."

[4] Craft graduated from the University of California, Berkeley,[2] on June 29, 1892,[3] when she gave an address on "The Economic Position of Women.

was the announcement that the first section received by Mr. Garber for the senior year in military science would be extended back over the entire college course.

I inquired of all the members of the classes of '90 and '91 that I could find if this had ever been done before, and one and all, officers and privates, assured me that they had received no mark for any military work except that done in the senior year.Craft made an unsuccessful appeal to the Board of Regents.

She said she had been informed that the university's acting president, Martin Kellogg, told the board that the award "was not given on account of the military, but because the young man was a more distinguished scholar.

Miss Craft has I think the feeling that the faculty is prejudiced against her because she is a woman and that they prefer to give the highest honors to a man irrespective of her standing.

"[22] Town Talks, a San Francisco publication, said of her in 1899: There are many who have classed Miss Craft as first of local descriptive writers.

[23]In 1902, The Anaconda Standard of Montana said that Craft had "made a hit when put in charge of the story about the return of the California volunteers from the Philippines, with eight reporters and three artists working under her instructions.

[28] In April of that year she sought signatures at the Oakland Hall of Records on an initiative petition favoring granting California women the right to vote.

[29] Along with her husband, Frank P. Deering (see below), by 1903 she had been made a life member of the National American Women Suffrage Association.

[30] In 1910 Craft was added to the list of contributing editors for the women's rights publication Woman's Journal, "to take the place made vacant by the death of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.

[37] Four years later, his widow moved to a new house and, as one of her social entertainments, she invited a dozen "of the most attractive and eligible bachelors in San Francisco" to be in the receiving line.

[38] Mabel Craft Deering died at the age of 80 on July 8, 1953, in her home at 2709 Larkin Street, San Francisco.