Julia S. Meyer

JULIA STREET MEYER was born on August 8, 1914 in the Philippine Islands. Her father, Thomas Atkins Street, a prominent constitutional lawyer, was appointed by President William Howard Taft in 1910 to codify the laws of the Philippine Islands under the American Administration.

At the completion of the assignment, President Woodrow Wilson appointed him to be a member of the Philippine Supreme Court, an office he held until he retired in 1936 and returned to his home State of Alabama.
She is a graduate of Stanford University and holds the advanced degrees of Master of Science and Ph.D. from Columbia University. For her work on antibiotics and pneumococcus vaccine, she was elected to Sigma Xi, the international honorary society for research scientists, and to the New York Academy of Science.

She married Dr. Vincent Meyer of Los Altos, California where they lived and where he practiced medicine after his years of service as a medical officer during World War II. They bought Thousand Springs Ranch in Fall River Valley and moved there when he retired. After his death, she moved to Redding where she has been active in the American Association of University Women and the California Federation of Republican Women.

She is the sponsor of the Vincent and Julia Meyer Scholarship Fund at Shasta College and has made other substantial contributions to the community in the field of higher education for Shasta County youth. She has contributed generously to the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit.

She is the mother of Fred (and Ann) Meyer of Redding, grandmother of Thomas Meyer and Gordon Meyer of Redding; mother of Dr. Vincent Meyer of Spokane, Washington, grandmother of John Vincent Meyer (deceased); and mother of Lura Meyer Cenzano of Winters, California, grandmother of Federico Cenzano of Madrid, Spain, and great-grandmother of Olivia Lura Cenzano of Madrid, Spain. August 8, 1914 – September 13, 2014