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Trustees to honor Mrs. Harry RobinsoPetite Mrs. Harry W. Robinson of Ueverly Hills will be honored Tuesday at a reception and dinner party in the Demons!ration Gardens at Los Angeles State and County Arboretum, Arcadia, with the Arboretum Foundation trustees as hosts.Mrs. Robinson, who celebrates her 98th birthday this month, Is well-known here and the aunt of three former Pasadenans, the late William, Edward and Henry Valentine, She is being feted in recognition of her generous gift of the gardens surrounding her home to Los Angeles county for use as a public arboretum and Manic garden. An endownnient fund of one million dollars will maintain the property, to be known as the Virtnnin Hfihiu«nnBy MARJORIE KRIKCson says, are all progency of the first ones she planted. These tropicals have thrived to the extent that seven men work full time to take care of the lush gardens and grounds,Odell McConnell, the attorney who worked out details of the gift with the Foundation ' and the County, will be Mrs. Robinson’s escort fur the 6:30 p.m. reception and ?:30 p.m. dinner party in the Arboretum gardens in Arcadia. Super- i visors Ernest Debs and Peter Schabamm. wiLh their wives, will be among the evening's guests.#rMrs. Ronald Reagan, tn company with her close friends Mmcs. Alfred BloommgdafeCanada that will be; 1050-lsh suppe benefiting Children through its VcrdugoThe fact that the i an actual 46 r.p.in. r n pink label m something to do wi that Mrs. Roger ; working with Mr: Sproul, chairman. H — half of the Lohrm loam — has agreed fund-raiser.
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Pasadena, California, US
Thu, Sep 05, 1974
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