12018-07-10T04:50:41-07:00Audrey Maier0f8f4f35e42fcdb6d08eabfaff98566fef8bbb7f308631Fernanda Cruz was a first and second grade teacher who first taught at Bryn Mawr School and then went to Mission School. She inspired many students with her teaching.plain2018-07-10T04:50:41-07:00Loma Linda Area Parks and Historical Society Digital ArchiveundatedRick CruzPhotographAudrey Maier0f8f4f35e42fcdb6d08eabfaff98566fef8bbb7f
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1media/2017.004.001.jpg2018-07-10T05:49:40-07:00Desegregating Bryn Mawr School4plain2018-08-06T02:23:27-07:00After thirty years of segregation at the Bryn Mawr School, three women worked to integrate or combine the Bryn Mawr and Mission Schools. The first woman was Rafaela Rey. She was a PTA parent and a member of many community organizations. Rey had attended Bryn Mawr School and did not want her daughter to have an unequal education like she did. The second woman was Fernanda Cruz, a teacher at Bryn Mawr School. The third woman was Ruth Davis who was persuaded by Rey to join the school board and change the segregation policy. Together these women worked to reverse segregation. In 1942 the Bryn Mawr School was closed.
5. How does our current Bryn Mawr School community benefit from the brave civic engagement of these three women?
1media/2017.004.002.jpgmedia/2017.004.002.jpg2018-07-10T05:36:12-07:00Student Profile – Fernanda Cruz3plain2018-07-10T05:39:52-07:00Fernanda Cruz and her family immigrated from Mexico to California in 1918. Her family settled in Azusa, California where she attended school. At her school in Azuza, she was taught in the Mexican schoolroom apart from the Anglo children who were instructed on the other side of the building. In third grade, Cruz recalls grasping English, which allowed her to transform from a confused child to an engaged student. Cruz ultimately became the valedictorian in her eighth year allowing her access to a high school education, which was extremely rare at the time. Because of her love of learning, she went on to become a teacher and became the last teacher to instruct students at the Bryn Mawr School.