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		Senator Marian Walsh Bellevue Hill Tower
		Senator Marian Walsh serves the Norfolk and Suffolk District. Senator Walsh protected Bellevue Hill from development by the cellular communication industry and succeeded in obtaining funding for the preservation and restoration of Bellevue Hill Tower. Senator Walsh, a longtime resident of West Roxbury, has demonstrated leadership in various issues such aslaw enforcement, the environment, mental health care, education, and business development. For this service she has received many honors, including Legislator of the Year, from groups such as the Environmental League of Massachusetts and the State Police Association. In her words, “I am strongly encouraged to see so many women taking leadership roles in our community and throughout the state.”
		Pamela Seigle Billings Field LaGrange and Centre Streets
		Pamela Seigle is a former classroom teacher, school psychologist, and staff developer. She helped develop the Open Circle Curriculum, a character-building program. Presently, Pamela is the founder and executive director of the Reach Out to Schools Social Competency Program and a community activist in Boston. She is president of the Community Playground Project, Inc.
		Ellen McGill Billings Field
		Ellen McGill, an artist and activist and West Roxbury resident, has worked on many community art projects. In 1996, Ellen organized local children to paint the Billings Field House mural, one of the centerpieces of a well-loved and well-used community space. Formerly an art teacher in the Boston Public Schools, Ellen continues to show her work at the West Roxbury Library and local galleries. In 1986, she began her business of wedding flowers, Flowers and Finery. In the 1990s, Ellen began teaching art to children in small classes in her studio and annually offers a full scholarship to a student at West Roxbury’s R. G. Shaw School.In 1999 she painted a mural with children at the Stonehedge Nursing Home. With other parents, Ellen organized the first major landscaping of a Boston Public schoolyard at the Lewenberg School in Mattapan. She is an active volunteer for the AIDS Action Committee and a literacy volunteer in the Boston Public Schools.
		Westerly Burial Grounds 2009 Centre Street
		The Westerly Burial Grounds were laid out in 1685. Many of West Roxbury’s early residents, including members of the Draper family, are buried here.
		Mary Draper (1719-1810) A member of the prominent Draper family, Mary helped run the family’s tavern near the present-day Dedham town line. During the Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Mary helped the soldiers of the Continental Army. She used her linens to make clothes for them, and she melted down her pewter to make bullets. Mary also fed all the soldiers who came to her home. In 1904, the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a memorial to her in the garden of the West Roxbury Library. Draper Pool and Park, 5279 Washington Street, are named after her.