Homeschooled on her family’s farm until the eighth grade, Mabel Culter became a teacher and principal who established her own academy. Raised on the plains of Kansas and Colorado, she spent most of her life serving schools in suburban Southern California. Enthusiastic about riding horses and herding cattle, she expressed her love for the outdoors primarily by teaching botany. A diminutive dean of women, she astonished James Merlin ’38 when she smacked a baseball at a picnic in Griffith Park. 1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...