Ella M. Estabrook was know to many life-long residents of the area for her service to the community. That in tribute to the long and devoted years of service and accomplishments of Ella and in appreciation of her courageous and persistent efforts to give to Cleveland the highest possible standards in the field of public recreation to be found anywhere in America. Her civic mindedness manifested itself at once in her work to aid and improve schools and recreational facilities by her activity in the Cleveland Mothers Club, the forerunner of the present Parent Teachers Association. While serving as President of the Cleveland Mothers Club, she was instrumental in bringing the first Young Men’s Christian Association and Young Women’s Christian Association interests to the community. Her participation in the League of Women Voters did not include as many of the residents of the community as she would have liked, and she worked long hours to promote and found the Women’s Civic League of Brooklyn. While serving as the first President of the Women’s Civic League, she established a League “Home” with club room and dining facilities both in South Brooklyn and at Chippewa Lake. At the time, nearly every civic improvement accomplished in this area stems back in part to her work. In July25, 1919 she sent an appeal to the Brooklyn Business Chamber and the Brooklyn-Parma-Royalton Civic Association to enlist their help in obtaining for this area a “community house” in which recreation could be had for persons of both sexes, and all races and creeds. “That in tribute to the long and devoted years of service and accomplishments of Ella M. Estabrook and in appreciation of her courageous and persistent efforts to give to Cleveland the highest possible standards in the field of public recreation to be found anywhere in America, it is hereby determined that the official designation of the new recreation center on Fulton Road and Shadyside Avenue, be and the same shell henceforth by known as the “Ella M. Estabrook Memorial Community Center”.