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![Grice, Mary Van Meter](https://cdn1.historyit.com/iiif/2/5edfd98ccc4f69.54593064/65428dc980c977.99155819.png/full/360,/0/default.jpg?no_errors=1)
Mary Van Meter Grice was a candidate for the Twenty-fourth Ward School Committee. She ran a second time for the school committee in 1909 and was not successful. However, Grice was appointed to the school committee to fill a suddenly vacated seat.
Grice was a member of the Council for the National Educational Association, and president of the state Council of Mothers, and other educational organizations.