Author: LizzieBlatt

Shop with Amazon Smile for Ebell Friends!

AmazonSmile is the same Amazon that Prime members know. Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to Ebell Friends.  Here’s How: AmazonSmile is available for all Amazon Prime Accounts. Login to your Amazon Prime Account Basic Steps to Select Ebell Friends as your designated AmazonSmile Charity: From the main Amazon Prime Screen: On… Read more »

How Rest Cottage Association’s Grants Benefit Grantees and their Clients

In 2020, 11 organizations received $10,000 each to support their critically important work. In the October EMagazine we told you about five of our grantees and this month we look at the remaining grantees. Rest Cottage Association (RCA) gives over $100,000 in grant money annually to local non-profits serving women and their children.  Social Services, RCA’s partner,… Read more »

Would You Like to Sponsor a Vintage Ebell Club Film?

One of the projects we are undertaking during the club building closure is the digitization of our collection of old 16mm footage from our Archives. These reels date to the 1950s through 1970s, and previews indicate that they show many fascinating club activities. A first reel was digitized for Los Angeles Home Movie Day. It… Read more »

We Did It!!!!

WE DID IT!!!!! Match Completed and Going for Another Round of $5,000 –  Continue making your gift go Twice As Far! Thank you to our wonderful donors who gave us $5,000 – meeting our challenge in record time.  Your incredible support provides the Ebell Emergency Fund with an additional $10,000 during these difficult times.  Our… Read more »

Meet our 2020-2021 Class of Ebell Scholars

One year ago at this time, we were celebrating the centennial of the Ebell Scholarship program.  Now a new school year is underway and with nearly all college and university programs still operating remotely, we are unable to welcome our new class of scholars to our historic campus as we traditionally do.  The pandemic shutdown… Read more »

Book Chamber November Choice: The Inimitable Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse

Join us Tuesday,  November 17, (3rd Tuesday) to discuss together . . . no, that’s not true  . . to LAUGH together at feckless, insipid, and obtuse Bertie Wooster; and his butler, the stolid, laconic, and ingenious Jeeves; with appearances by Bertie’s school buddy, young Bingo (AKA  “old blighter”, “poor fish” “dear old fathead” and “old crumpet”). … Read more »

Books for Holiday Giving

 Why not buy your friends and family books by this year's Zoom author-speakers whom we've hosted?  Here’s a selection. By Bobbie Cheri Gobert. Don’t You Dairy: 50 Dairy-Free & Delicious Recipes. Use Code EBELL for $5 off at https://dontyoudairy.me/purchase/dont-you-dairy-cookbook By Todd S. Purdum. Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution. Available through Chevalier’s Bookstore on Larchmont.... Read more »

Ebell Magical History Tour: Stories from the Vault

With the Archives office closed these past months, I have reached out to members and staff for stories, past and present, in what I was going to title Fun Facts. Random as they are, I soon realized not all are really factual, as you’ll read, and one is not exactly fun. I do think they… Read more »

Welcome to EMagazine!

Lizzie Blatt

Welcome to our new blog, EMagazine! “What’s this?” you say.  “Where’s my trusty and beloved Ebell Magazine?  And why haven’t they delivered it through my mail box, like always, the way I like it?” Do you know it cost $64,000 per year to produce and distribute our Ebell Magazine?  Due to the COVID pandemic, the… Read more »

Team Ebell Walk for Ovarian Cancer

On Tuesday, October 6, six Ebell members walked 5 kilometres to raise funds for member Paulinda Schimmel‘s foundation, the Ovarian Cancer Circle/Inspired by Robin Babbini.  Paulinda’s daughter, Robin, passed away from the disease aged 20.  For more information on the Ovarian Cancer Circle contact paulinda@theovariancancercircle.org.