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."