W.S. Kellogg, Civic Leader in La Jolla, Dead at 88

William Scripps Kellogg, a prominent longtime La Jolla resident who probably was best known for building the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club to its current stature, died Monday. He was 88.

It was after the death of his father, publisher Frederick William Kellogg, in 1940 that William Kellogg took over management of the family’s Kellogg Estate in La Jolla, which included the exclusive beach and tennis club, said William C. Kellogg, one of the elder Kellogg’s two surviving sons.

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 well-known Marine Room restaurant.

“My father was probably best known from bringing the Sea Lodge Hotel to its current stature,” said his son, William, who lives in Altadena.

Born Jan. 29, 1897, in Cleveland, Kellogg moved to the Pasadena area with his family in 1915 and three years later began work at the family-owned Pasadena Evening Post. He graduated from Pasadena High School and Stanford University.

He became publisher of the Pasadena paper in 1928 before joining the Glendale News-Press as publisher four years later.

A civic leader in La Jolla and San Diego, 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.

Besides William, Kellogg is survived by his wife, Alice Crowe; a son, Ogden, of Gold Hill, Ore.; a daughter, Jean Schuyler, of Santa Barbara; a sister, Dorothy Lopatiak, of La Jolla; 12 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.

Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at St. James-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla.