Blanche Wilson Ellsworth (1902-1997) was a professor of English at San Francisco State from 1926 to 1966. President Archibald Anderson appointed her to the English Department in 1926, where she taught half of the English courses offered and earned $1,800.00 per year. At the time of her retirement, Ellsworth had served one of the longest tenures and shaped the visual identity of the campus for a period of forty years. Ellsworth produced booklets for all of the Colleges departments that document San Francisco State College during the Great Depression. She sponsored the Bay Leaf student newspaper during the early 1930's, including the first three issues of the Golden Gater ever to be awarded All-American rating by the National Scholastic Press Association. Her work expanded so much that she was allowed to offer a one-unit course on mimeographing so that students could learn as they assisted in this work. Ellsworth, with her mimeograph machine, became San Francisco State’s unofficial historian and public relations director.