October 6, 2011

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Volume XV, Issue One

October 6, 2011

The Scripps Voice Inside...

A Milestone for Ellen Browning Scripps By Megan Petersen ‘15 Copy Editor

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One of the most influential women of the 19th and 20th centuries has a big birthday coming up. Ellen Browning Scripps, newspaper woman, philanthropist and founder of Scripps College, turns 175 on Oct. 18. “175 years young,” said Carolyn Robles, associate director of the office of communication and marketing. Robles said that Ellen’s birthday has been celebrated by alumnae for a while, but that the school wanted to do something special for this milestone. Wednesday Tea will honor Ellen on her birthday week. The Oct. 19 tea will include special Victorian treats and a raffle of T-shirts with the 1926 Time magazine cover featuring Ellen. Local alumnae have been invited to join current students for tea. For the month of October, the Scripps College homepage and alumnae relations page will be including a link to a page dedicated to Ellen. From this page, visitors can write posthumous birthday messages for the College’s founder. The Scripps community has also been invited to vote on their favorite Ellen quotation. The winning quotation will be featured on the T-shirts raffled off at Tea. Ellen was born in London on Oct. 18 1836. Her family came to the United States and settled in Rushville, Ill. in 1844. Ellen, who graduated from Knox College in 1859, was the only one among her many siblings to attend college. Ellen taught for several years after college, before leaving teaching to join her brother James, who was starting a newspaper in Detroit, Mich. James’s vi-

PHOTO COURTESY OF SCRIPPS COLLEGE

Ellen Browning Scripps would be turning 175 on October 18. This photo was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1926 when Scripps College was founded.

sion, said Judy Harvey Sahak ‘64, Swan Librarian of Denison Library, was to “spread news and learning to the working class.” Another brother, Edward Wyllis or E.W., founded a newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio. While Ellen edited and wrote for James’s newspaper, she was invested in both James’s and E.W.’s newspapers. Her investments in her brothers’ newspapers garnered Ellen the fortune which enabled her to leave her mark on numerous institutions. The list of institutions Ellen supported during her life is as diverse as it is extensive, including the San Diego Zoo, the National History Museum, Scripps Clinic and Metabolic continued on page 2

Waste Transfer Center in Pomona Prompts Protest By Nikki Broderick ‘14 Staff Writer

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On Sept. 28, citizens of Pomona gathered at City Hall in protest. The source of tension was a waste transfer center to be built on the 1300 block of East Ninth Street, a block which encompasses one of Pomona’s most impoverished areas. Waste transfer stations are where trash from surrounding areas gets taken from garbage trucks and loaded into different trucks before being driven out to landfills. The proposed Pomona Valley Waste Transfer Station would sit on a 10.5-acre lot in South Pomona. Although two residences are within a quarter-mile of the site, the area is zoned for industrialization. Residents of Pomona object to the new waste transfer station because they argue it will produce odor pollution from the trash, ozone-layer-destroying nitrogen

oxide and air pollution from the increased amount of trucks driving to and from the transfer station. The proposed waste transfer station would also be within a one mile radius of nine Pomona-area schools, the closest of which is Washington Elementary, a mere half mile from the proposed site. The Pomona Valley Waste Transfer Station would be built by Grand Central Recycling & Transfer Station, Inc., more commonly known as Valley Vista Services. The company, owned by Mayor of the City of Industry David Perez, has served the San Gabriel Valley for 50 years. Valley Vista Services boasts on its website that it is a family-owned business. There is also a Valley Vista waste transfer station in the City of Industry. “Committed to building power for sustainable social and economic change,” the organization One LA has played a large role in driving community activists and rallying residents to protest the

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proposed waste transfer station. According to Veronica McKelvey, a representative of One LA, the demonstrations against the proposed waste transfer station started around seven to eight months ago. McKelvey, a third grade teacher at Washington Elementary and a graduate of Pomona College, said, “Residents of Pomona deserve a clean, healthy environment,” adding that South Pomona residents shouldn’t be taken advantage of by the wealthy. At the Sept. 28 demonstration at City Hall, protesters of the transfer station held signs that read “Don’t Trash Pomona!” “People’s Health Trumps Corporate Wealth” and “Mis Vecinos No Son Basura!” There was a chant of “Don’t trash Pomona!” The rally began at 6:30 p.m. and was followed by a city council meeting of the Planning Commission of Pomona. continued on page 11


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