My father, Ralph Jester, met the Vanderlip family in the early 1920s while a student at Yale University, and while Narcissa Vanderlip was a student at Vassar College. Narcissa was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip. During these years, Jester visited Mr. and Mrs. Vanderlip at their home, Beechwood, in Scarborough, New York. Jester recalls a visit to Beechwood where he first saw architectural models that the planner, Jacques Greber, had made for Mr. Vanderlip.

We are now up to 1949. The Neighborhood Church was still meeting at Malaga Cove School, with services held in the auditorium and Sunday School classes in the classrooms. Post-war Palos Verdes was growing by leaps and bounds with returning servicemen starting families and building a lot of 2-3 bedroom 1200-1800 square foot houses generally in Palos Verdes Estates

A little more than fifty years ago, Ann Lynch’s friend found a fledgling scrub jay during a visit to Griffith Park. Knowing Lynch taught science at Margate Intermediate School, he thought she would have the knowledge and abilities to rehabilitate this delicate creature back to good health and return it to its natural environment.