Lark Ellen Home Scenes

8. School in 1918 - Boy's Class

But in her day, Ellen Beach Yaw's beauty not only caught the eye of Los Angeles Times Publisher Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, her four-octave soprano voice got his ear. Together Otis and Yaw raised funds for the general's Newspaper Boys Home, an orphanage for paperboys in Sawtelle, now West Los Angeles. Later, he would change the orphanage's name in her honor, calling it the Lark Ellen Boys Home.