Don & Julie Fedde both grew up locally. Julie attended La Canada schools and then John Muir High School and Pasadena City College. Don graduated from rival high school PHS, also attended PCC and then USC. In 1937, Don’s parents’ Arnold and Ellen Fedde started Fedde Furniture on the same block that it stands today….
In 1897, Frank Church, editor of The New York Sun, responded to eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon, who wrote to the newspaper to ask “is there a Santa Claus?” More than a century later it remains the most reprinted editorial ever to run in any newspaper in the United States. “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus….
This field of interest endowment supports youth in the Pasadena area.
Fran Scoble served on the board of Pasadena Community Foundation for many years. She spent over 40 years in education as a teacher and senior administrator, including her time as Head of Westridge School in Pasadena from 1990-2008. Fran also served on the board of of the Scripps College, Planned Parenthood Pasadena & San Gabriel…
In 2005, 13-year-old Bobby Samuels saw his Bar Mitzvah as an opportunity to do something good for the community, particularly for underserved students participating in afterschool programs in the Pasadena Unified School District. Mitzvah is a Hebrew word that roughly translates to “commandment”; people commonly interpret it to mean “a good deed.” With the support…