Joyce Stallfort Davis leaves $440,011 for scholarships at Blair International Baccalaureate School. Officials don’t remember her but learn she worked at the school in the 1960s.
The mystery began in July when an attorney called Blair International Baccalaureate School and told it to be on the lookout for a large check. Two weeks ago, officials at the Pasadena magnet school opened a letter that contained a bequest of $440,011 from a woman named Joyce Stallfort Davis, who died last year at age 81.
Officials were thrilled, but there was one problem: No one knew who Davis was.
“I’ve worked at Blair for 34 years and had never heard of her,” said Dianne Moore, secretary of student services and counseling at Blair.