Ellen Browning Scripps
"One of the most remarkable Scripps women never attended Scripps College. She founded it."
The Scripps community on campus & beyond honors Scripps College founder Ellen Browning Scripps, & observes her birthday October 18.
* "Ellen Browning Scripps, 1836-1936"
* "Memoir of Miss Ellen Browning Scripps," Personal Reminiscences by Mary Bennett Ritter
* "Education: in California" (re founding of Scripps College) from Time Magazine February 22, 1926
* "How Ellen Browning Scripps Brought Ancient Egypt to San Diego," by Bruce Kamerling
* Guide to the Ellen Browning Scripps Collection (includes biography), Online Archive California
"The paramount obligation of a college is to develop in its students the ability to think clearly and independently, and the ability to live confidently, courageously, and hopefully."