Legacy
Scripps was nominated and inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame in 2007 hosted by Women's Museum of California, Commission on the Status of Women, University of California, San Diego Women's Center, and San Diego State University Women's Studies.
The following are institutions she helped to establish or fund:
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography est. 1903 formerly known as the Marine Biological Association
- La Jolla Women's Club
- The Children's Pool est. 1931
- Community Welfare Building
- Scripps Aquarium, La Jolla (now Birch Aquarium at Scripps)
- Scripps Public Park
- Torrey Pines State Park
- Scripps Memorial Hospital
- Scripps Metabolic Clinic
- Scripps College in Claremont, CA
- Bishop's School in La Jolla, CA (Land was donated by Virginia Scripps)
- Scripps Cottage at San Diego State University
- Founded the La Jolla Public Library
- Donations to
- Pomona College
- Knox College
- San Diego Zoo
- San Diego YMCA and YWCA
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)