INSIDE LA JOLLA
THURSDAY · APRIL 16, 2009 LA JOLLA VILLAGE NEWS
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Barbara Dawson, 92; educator, historian, tennis champion Barbara Dawson, longtime resident of La Jolla, passed away peacefully on April 6 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. She was a native of London, England and immigrated to La Jolla in 1920 with her parents. She graduated from La Jolla High School in 1934, and then attended San Diego State College where she earned a bachelor’s degree in 1938. After graduation she received a fellowship to Claremont Graduate College. She earned a master’s degree in school administration from San Diego State College in 1954. She was a teacher in the San Diego Unified School District for a few years before ultimately becoming a school principal at Carver, Central, Cleveland and Jackson elementary schools. Active in the community after her retirement, she was one of the founders and the first president of the La Jolla Historical Society. For 19 years she also served as a member of the Education Committee of the San Diego Zoological Society and helped raise funds for the Wild Animal Park. She volunteered for the Old Globe Theatre, served as a member of The Bishop’s School Board of Visitors and was on the Bishop School’s Headmaster’s Advisory Council from 1985 to 1987. In 1992, Barbara was selected as one of the San Diego Woman Club’s Women of Achievement in the area of sports. Lastly, she and Patricia Daly-Lipe co-authored a book, “La Jolla, A Celebration of
de Beck will also attend a town meeting Monday, April 27 at Bird Rock Elementary School, 5371 La Jolla Hermosa Ave., at 5:30 p.m. “I strongly encourage you to attend this local opportunity and let board members know our opposition to a part-time principal,” FOBPE president Dawna Deatrick said in a statement. Parents, administrators and students held a rally at a recent school board meeting in opposition to several cuts. Board trustees voted then to end busing to magnet schools and to consolidate one principal for every two schools that have fewer than 400 students.
Barbara Dawson (above, right) with La Jollans Georgeanna Lipe and Cliff Robertson. Dawson was the first president of the La Jolla Historical Society.
Its Past,” which was published in 2002 after being serialized in the Village News. Her number-one passion in life was playing tennis, which she did on an almost daily basis at the homes of her many friends and as a member of a tennis league until she was 87. In the late 1940s and early ’50s, Barbara was the San Diego City and County Women’s Singles Champion. Then in 1951 she and Maureen Connolly teamed up and won the San Diego City and County women’s doubles championship. Barbara has been ranked nationally as a senior singles and doubles tennis player. When she was not playing tennis, she loved golf, traveling around the world, playing bridge, knitting, sewing and photography. She is survived by her three children, Diane Dawson, Douglas Dawson and Joanne Dawson; her sister, Phyllis Reinen; four grandchildren and ten great grandchil-
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Interfaith service will honor Ellen B. Scripps The Massachusetts National Memorial Committee is holding an interfaith service at St. James
dren. A small family service is planned. A celebration of life will be held Tuesday, April 28 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the La Jolla Historical Society’s Wisteria Cottage, 780 Prospect St. In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to the La Jolla Historical Society, 7846 Eads Ave., La Jolla, CA 92037; to St. Paul’s Retirement Homes Foundations, 328 Maple St., San Diego, CA 92103; or to San Diego Hospice, 4311 Third Ave., San Diego, CA 92103. I
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aesthetics and neighborhood character; geology and soils; hydrology and water quality; recreational resources; transportation and circulation; and human health, public safety and hazardous materials. “The evaluation of environmental issue areas in this EIR concludes that the proposed pro-
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by-the-Sea at 743 Prospect St. to honor the memory of Miss Ellen Browning Scripps on Patriot’s Day, Monday, April 20 at 11 a.m. The Massachusetts Committee will be reading a formal Memorial Declaration to raise national awareness of the significant contributions that Scripps made to the local community and American society as a whole through her philanthropic work. A bagpiper brigade will welcome local citizens attending. Speakers will include John Bolthouse, executive director of the La Jolla Historical Society; Dr. Ramona Trevino, CEO and principal of the prestigious Austin Charter School; and Capt. Ed Sullivan, Massachusetts Field Representative, National World War II Memorial Committee. Sixteen La Jolla women will recite a list of Scripps’ major accomplishments in the local community. La Jolla residents are welcome to attend. Seating is on a firstcome, first-served basis. For more information, call (619) 723-1144. I
ject would result in significant but mitigable direct and indirect impacts to biological resources and historic resources, [such as archeology],” staff from the City of San Diego’s office of the Environmental Planner reported in the DEIR. They did not identify significant unmitigated impacts. For more information about the Children’s Pool, visit w w w. c h i l d r e n s p o o l . o r g , www.aprl.org or www.friends ofthechildrenspool.com. I