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MONROVIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT DEDICATES DISTRICT 
OFFICE LOBBY IN MEMORY OF MONROVIA ACTIVIST AND 
FORMER BOARD MEMBER 

SCHOOL DIRECTORY 

MUSD_DEDICATION1: Mimi Mency, Monrovia activist and former Board member, was honored by the 
Monrovia Unified Board of Education and her family during an event on June 29, which dedicated the 
District Office Lobby in her name. 


MONROVIA – Community activist and former Monrovia Unified Board Member Mimi Mency was 
honored during a dedication ceremony on June 29, when the Monrovia Unified Board of Education 
officially named the District Office Lobby in her memory. 
Mency, who was the first African-American to hold a seat on the Board of Education, died in 2011 at 
the age of 74. 
“We are honored to hold this ceremony, celebrating the life of Mimi Mency and the heroic efforts she 
made here in Monrovia and in our schools,” Board President Maritza Travanti said. “Naming the District 
Office Lobby in her name is a way to recognize the positive impact she had at Monrovia Unified 
and the role she played in ensuring all of our students had access to the tools and resources they needed 
to be successful.” 
The Board, alongside Superintendent Dr. Katherine Thorossian, administrators, and Mency’s family 
and friends, remembered Mency during the ceremony as a strong advocate of having love and respect 
for others. 
“Mimi Mency was a very significant person in the Monrovia community,” Board Member Rob Hammond 
said. “She was a force in our town for good and was always willing to step up to have important 
dialogue. As a community, we benefit today from those conversations 50 years ago. This dedication will 
enlighten future generations as they come in and ask the important question of who Mimi Mency was. 
We will get to tell the story all over again about a very important person in our community.” 
Joined by Travanti, Hammond and Thorossian, Sheri Parent – the daughter of Mimi Mency – thanked 
those in attendance while recounting her mother’s life, as well the positive impact Mency had on the 
Monrovia community in her role as a civil rights leader. 
“I have always lived my life in the same manner my mother did and that is by loving and respecting 
our neighbors” Parent said. “Thank you to the Board of Education and the District for honoring my 
mother, I am very proud.” 
Mency served on the Board of Education from 1972 to 1984, leading the Board as president twice during 
her term. During her time on the Board, Mency was instrumental in the desegregation of Monrovia 
schools and led the effort in establishing Monrovia High School’s Black Student Union, a club that is 
still running strong today. 


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