Helen Young

In 1972, Helen Young was the wife of chancellor Norvel Young. She remained involved with the Associated Women for Pepperdine, a fundraising organization she founded in 1958, which today is called Pepperdine Legacy Partners. The Youngs became grandparents at the end of 1971.¹

In his history of the churches of Christ, historian Richard Hughes calls Young "perhaps the most visible and influential woman among Churches of Christ in the second half of the twentieth century."²

The Youngs are one of the great Pepperdine dynasties, and Helen was the family matriarch. Helen's son-in-law Steven Lemley was provost of Pepperdine in the 1990s, and her daughter Sara Young Jackson is currently the chancellor.