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Sylvia McLaughlin (Sylvia Cranmer) was born on 24 December, 1916 in Denver, Colorado, US, is an American environmentalist. Discover Sylvia McLaughlin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 100 years old?

Popular As Sylvia Cranmer
Occupation Activist
Age 100 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 24 December 1916
Birthday 24 December
Birthplace Denver, Colorado, US
Date of death 2016
Died Place N/A
Nationality United States

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1916

Sylvia Cranmer McLaughlin (December 24, 1916 – January 19, 2016) was an American pioneer in environmentalism.

She, along with Kay Kerr and Esther Gulick, founded the Save San Francisco Bay Association, which eventually became Save the Bay.

Sylvia Cranmer was born in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of George E. Cranmer and Jean Louise Chappell Cranmer.

Her father was a city park commissioner, and her mother was a violinist.

Her maternal grandfather was Delos Allen Chappell, a Denver industrialist.

While in Denver, she developed a love for the wilderness and the outdoors.

1939

She attended the Ethel Walker School, then earned a bachelor's degree from Vassar College in French in 1939.

1948

Cranmer married mining executive Donald H. McLaughlin in 1948 and settled in Berkeley, California.

She had two children and raised her two stepchildren in the Berkeley Hills.

1952

McLaughlin was president of the East Bay Vassar Club from 1952 to 1956.

1961

She was referred to as an "impractical idealist," a "do-gooder" and a "posy-picker" but she was credited as a leader in environmentalism, as one of the founders of the San Francisco Bay Association in 1961.

1963

In 1963, she was a delegate to the White House Conference on Natural Beauty, and helped to organize California's state equivalent.

1977

She received the Benjamin Ide Wheeler Award as "Berkeley's most useful citizen" in 1977.

1984

Her husband died in 1984.

2004

In 2004, she won the Spirit of Vassar Award from her alma mater.

2006

"They were going to take the top off San Bruno Mountain and put it in the bay," she recalled in 2006.

"That was considered progress."

Save the Bay and other environmental organizations successfully fought the plans to fill in the San Francisco Bay, and led to the creation of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission.

She served on boards of directors for the National Audubon Society, People for Open Space, the Oakland Museum of California, and the San Francisco Exploratorium.

She chaired the advisory council of the University of California's Water Resources Center.

In 2006, she attended the opening of Eastshore State Park.

2007

In 2007, she became a tree sitter in the Berkeley oak grove controversy but was unsuccessful.

2012

Eastshore State Park was renamed McLaughlin Eastshore State Park in 2012, in recognition of her "tireless" environmental activism in the San Francisco Bay area.

She became the second woman so honored in California, after Julia Pfeiffer Burns.

2016

She remained active in the environmental movement until her death, on January 19, 2016.