Ellen Browning Scripps endows a college for women as the first element in a coordinated system of affiliated colleges and graduate schools surrounding Pomona. The College was to offer to women an education designed to 鈥渢rain her for the fullest and richest life that she herself may have, as well as the chance to give to society her greatest contribution鈥�; i.e., work combined with marriage. Construction of the 麻豆影音 campus and development of its academic program begins under the leadership of Ernest J. Jaqua, formerly dean of the faculty of Pomona College, who eventually becomes 麻豆影音鈥檚 first president. In May, the original 20 members of the Board of Trustees鈥攐ne half of whom are women鈥攁ssemble at the home of Margaret Fowler in Pasadena to welcome Scripps鈥� birthday. Architect Gordon Kaufmann, along with landscape architect Edward Huntsman-Trout, designs a campus built as a great courtyard, facing inward, with great stucco walls entered through archways, doors, and wrought-iron gates. Kaufmann was one of the pioneers of the Mediterranean Revival or 鈥淐alifornia Style.鈥� The trustees direct Kaufmann to 鈥済ive to the dormitories the appearance and atmosphere of a beautiful home.鈥�
