Eloise is a licensed educational psychologist and ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister. She received the Williams Fellowship to Harvard University in 1981, the Aurelia Reinhardt Roll of Honored Women in 1981, the Pi Lambda Theta Honors for Graduate Women in Education from Stanford in 1963, Pi Gamma Mu Honors in Social Studies at TCU in 1953, and Alpha Chi Scholastic Honor Society at TCU in 1952.Her public service includes vice president of the American Association of University Women; Board, San Juan Canyon Preservation Trust; Board, Friends of the Belmont Library; Board, San Mateo Unitarian Universalist Church; precinct captain, political party volunteer for presidential campaigns; Trustee, Alice and William Hinckley Charitable Trust; Board, San Francisco First Unitarian Church; delegate, Unitarian Conference on Social Concerns; and chairwoman, Ministerial Search Committee.Eloise and Remey had two children, David and Beth Johnson. The marriage ended in divorce in 1987.Now that she is retired Eloise is a fanatical supporter of Women’s Basketball at Stanford, where she takes some classes and participates in other activities such as book discussion groups, bridge, concerts, theater, garden, travel, and she is active in politics.
Eloise O. Mayo, Class of 1949
April 08, 2003
Santa Paula High School
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By B. J. Harding, President, SPUHS Alumni Association
Biography #201 (Have you submitted yours?)Louis Allen Mayo, a Navy chaplain, was transferred from Durham, North Carolina to Port Hueneme in 1943. He brought his family, and the closest housing they could find at the time was in Carpinteria. When housing was available, they moved to Santa Paula.Wanting to remain in California at the close of the war, they decided to stay and Louis built a home for his family in the Oaks. He had his first postwar pastorate at the First Christian Church in Santa Paula. His wife, Amy Overton Mayo, had a job teaching grade school in the elementary schools of Santa Paula, and Eloise (’49) and her brother Louis (’46) enrolled in SPUHS.At SPUHS Eloise was a member of GAA and Tri-Y, serving as chaplain. She was a member of CHA and CSF all four years, and also worked with those publishing the Cardinal and El Solano. Eloise feels she got a great education at SPUHS and made lifelong friends. Some of her special friends were Shirley Crusey, Shirley Davidson, Jeannie Nelson, Nancy Ringle, Doris Watson, John Gessford, Jack Judy, Edward Henderson and Jack Teeters.Following graduation, Eloise went to Texas Christian in Fort Worth, Texas and got her B.A. degree. She worked as a program director for the YMCA in Whittier and in San Francisco, and married a teacher, Remey Johnson.Eloise taught for a few years and earned a graduate degree at Stanford to become a school psychologist. She held this position for 25 years with the San Francisco Schools. She received a Williams Fellow at Harvard University Divinity School, from which she earned a Master’s degree in 1983. The same year she was ordained at the First and Second Church in Boston, Massachusetts.In addition to studying at Harvard, Stanford and TCU, Eloise has studied at the University of Michigan and the Coro Foundation, Public Affairs Training for Women. She had an internship at the office of Senator Alan Cranston in San Francisco.
