Westridge Centennial Founder's Day

Founder’s D ay p i c n i c at w e s t r i d g e s c h o o l

324 madeline drive, pasadena

3 t o 6 p. m .

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S u n d ay

october 6, 2013

music!

food!

Celebrate Centennial and the founding of Westridge School!

featuring barbecue fare by the Westridge Dads’ Club & ice cream from Mother Moo Creamery in Sierra Madre games for all ages, a bounce house, and an obstacle course live music from the Citrus College jazz combo featuring fun tunes from bygone eras and Night Shift, a 20-piece band rocking sounds and vocals from the 60s to now

Fun!

pose with your friends and family at the photo station

photos!

• one Centennial picnic blanket provided per family • RSVP by October 1 to events@westridge.org or 626.799.1053, ext. 273.

Mary Lowther Ranney

was a woman of her time and a woman of her geography. Born in 1871 in Chicago, just weeks before the Great Chicago Fire, she witnessed the phenomenal rebuilding of that city. She attended boarding school where she determined to become a teacher. To bolster her teaching credentials, she took courses at the recently established University of Chicago.

Mary Ranney also witnessed and supported the Suffragist Movement and understood the connection between education and women’s struggle for equal rights.

After moving to Pasadena in 1904, she worked for the Greene & Greene architects as a draftsman and was awarded design assignments of her own. She quickly earned a reputation as a woman of artistic talent and intellect and was chosen to be the founding headmistress of Westridge School for Girls. By the time of her death in 1939, Westridge had earned a national reputation as a top tier school.

No doubt the particulars of Mary Ranney’s family, the era of her birth and the circumstances of that time and place conspired to produce the remarkable woman who founded Westridge School. Along her path of growth, struggle and choice, there were, most certainly, the twists and turns of accident, coincidence, and chance that are part of every human life.

— written by Fran Norris Scoble Retired Head of Westridge School Chair, Westridge Centennial Steering Committee Mary Lowther Ranney portrait by Alice Ludovici, 1937

A Legacy of Leadership Heads of Westridge School • 1913 — 2013 Mary Lowther Ranney 1913 — 1937

Anne Parker 1938 — 1941 Louise Holabird Wood 1941 — 1944 Gladys Peterson 1945 — 1959 Elizabeth Edmundson Herrick 1959 — 1973 Katherine B. Trower 1973 — 1977 Nancy H. Owen 1977 — 1986 Elsa M. Bowman 1986 — 1990 Fran Norris Scoble 1990 — 2008

Rosemary C. Evans ’71 2008 — 2009 Elizabeth J. McGregor 2009 — present

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Founder’s Day at W e s t r i d g e S c h o o l

324 Madeline Drive • Pasadena, CA 91105 www.westridge.org/centennial