Microsoft CEO and Wife Give $15 Million to Children s Hospital philanthropy.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from philanthropy.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By City News Service
May 5, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - UCLA Library has received a $2 million gift from the estate of Irla “Lee Zimmerman Oetzel, who earned three degrees from the university, including a doctorate in psychology in 1953, and was instrumental in the creation of a widely used language skills assessment tool for children.
UCLA officials said the unrestricted gift will help the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library build, maintain, preserve and promote its collection of nearly 700,000 print volumes and thousands of electronic resources, including journals, databases and other materials.
“Lee s bequest reflects her professional background and appreciation for her time spent conducting extensive research in the biomedical library, both as a student and in recent years with intermittent reference requests, said Virginia Steel, UCLA s Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian.
LOS ANGELES
The University of California, Los Angeles biomedical library received a $2 million donation from the estate of Irla “Lee” Zimmerman Oetzel, who earned three degrees from UCLA, including a doctorate in psychology in 1953, the school said.
UCLA said in a statement Tuesday that the gift will help the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library “build, maintain, preserve and promote its collection of nearly 700,000 print volumes and thousands of electronic resources, including journals, databases and other materials.”
Oetzel, who died last year at age 96, was instrumental in the creation of of the Preschool Language Scale, a widely used language skills assessment tool for children in schools and healthcare settings.
LOS ANGELES (AP) The University of California, Los Angeles biomedical library received a $2 million donation from the estate of Irla “Lee” Zimmerman Oetzel, who earned three degrees from UCLA, including a doctorate in psychology in 1953, the school said.
By City News Service
May 5, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - UCLA Library has received a $2 million gift from the estate of Irla “Lee Zimmerman Oetzel, who earned three degrees from the university, including a doctorate in psychology in 1953, and was instrumental in the creation of a widely used language skills assessment tool for children.
UCLA officials said the unrestricted gift will help the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library build, maintain, preserve and promote its collection of nearly 700,000 print volumes and thousands of electronic resources, including journals, databases and other materials.
“Lee s bequest reflects her professional background and appreciation for her time spent conducting extensive research in the biomedical library, both as a student and in recent years with intermittent reference requests, said Virginia Steel, UCLA s Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian.