Natalie Phelps Dwight; Honored for Work With the Elderly

Natalie Phelps Dwight, 90, named Arcadia senior citizen of the year for her work with the elderly. The descendant of the pioneering Phelps banking family, Mrs. Dwight in 1928 was among the earliest women graduates of UC’s Boalt Hall School of Law. Choosing marriage and motherhood over the practice of law, she became active in volunteer work. She served as president of the San Marino Guild of Huntington Memorial Hospital and assisted hospital staff in the maternity and pediatrics sections. From 1975 until 1990, she supervised an American Assn. of Retired Persons program to help low- and moderate-income senior citizens prepare tax forms. That work prompted Arcadia to select her as its senior citizen of the year in 1983. On Wednesday in Pasadena.