Description
This collection comprises papers, documents and photographs, from Wolfsheimer-Stutz's birth in 1938 to her death in 2014.
Box 1 contains photos and scrapbooks from schools that she attended, correspondence, class notes, newspaper clippings, her
writings, awards and family genealogy. Box 2 contains souvenirs, playbills and memorabilia from her high school and college
days and her time in New York City, plus the book that she wrote.
Background
Abbe Salomon was born in Chicago to Irving and Cecile Salomon in 1938. After World War II, she moved with her family to Rancho
Lilac (Lilac Ranch) in Valley Center, California where she attended schools in Escondido. She completed her secondary education
at Miss Hewitt’s Classes in New York City and then attended Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. She met her future husband,
Louis Wolfsheimer on the East Coast and they moved to San Diego, where he became an attorney. The couple had two children
and later divorced. Wolfsheimer Stutz attended California Western School of Law, became a law professor and was very active
in community affairs. She served on many civic boards and was active in performing arts production and the Jewish community.
She was elected to the San Diego City Council where she served from 1985-1993. An active environmentalist, she was instrumental
in establishing the San Dieguito River Park in 1989. She served as an Assistant City Attorney and in 1997 married Deputy District
Attorney, David Stutz. Wolfsheimer Stutz was a world traveler and author. She died in 2014.
Restrictions
The copyright interests in some of these materials have been transferred to or belong to San Diego State University. The nature
of historical archival and manuscript collections means that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine.
Copyright resides with the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. Requests for permission to publish
must be submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. When granted,
permission is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are
made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the
materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
Availability
This collection is open for research.