William S. Kellogg, 88; Developer of Beach, Tennis Club
William Scripps Kellogg, a longtime La Jolla resident who probably was best known for developing the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, died last Monday at his La Jolla home. He was 88.
After the death of his father, publisher Frederick William Kellogg in 1940, William Kellogg took over management of the family’s Kellogg Estate in La Jolla, which included the exclusive beach and tennis club.
From 1940 to 1974, Kellogg directed the operations of the exclusive seaside resort with its private beach, Sea Lodge Hotel, the Playa del Oro Apartments, the F. W. Kellogg Building, 20 championship tennis courts and the Marine Room restaurant.
Newspaper Career
Kellogg, a grandnephew of philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, was born in Cleveland and moved to the Pasadena area with his family in 1915. Three years later he began work at the family-owned Pasadena Evening Post.
A Stanford University graduate, he became publisher of the Pasadena paper in 1928 before joining the Glendale News-Press as publisher four years later.
Kellogg was president of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation from 1945 to 1958 and a director of Scripps Memorial Hospital from 1963 to 1969. He was a former director of the La Jolla Town Council and past president of the La Jolla Kiwanis Club.
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