How local schools got their names
Paul Clinton researched the background of some interesting characters for whom South Bay and Harbor Area schools are named. Here's one:
Alice McLellan Birney Elementary School, Redondo Beach: Birney was a founder of the first nationwide Parent Teacher Association. Birney joined with Phoebe Apperson Hearst to form the National Congress of Mothers in Washington, D.C., in 1897. She contributed articles about child-rearing to The Delineator magazine. She died in 1907.
Here's the link to the rest. Four years ago, Larry Altman did some detective work to find out the stories behind 10 other school names.