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Four New Members Named To Board of Visitors for UCLA's School of the Arts and Architecture

Carolyn Campbell (ccampbel@arts.ucla.edu) (310) 825-6540
For Immediate Use Friday, June 12, 1998.

Four new members have joined the Board of Visitors of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. The new members are Richard Colburn (Beverly Hills), Jon Kaswick, M.D. (Los Angeles), Albert Peskin (Beverly Hills), and Wayne Ratkovich (Los Angeles). Harold M. Williams, President and CEO Emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is board chair.

The Board of Visitors acts as liaison with the community, provides an understanding of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture's teaching, research and public service mission, and assists in procuring the financial resources needed to maintain the excellence of the school's programs. The board serves as a vital link between the professional architecture and arts worlds, the university, and the community.

Colburn, chairman of U.S. Rentals Inc., is co-founder of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and has served on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a longtime benefactor of the Colburn School of Performing Arts here in Los Angeles.

Kaswick, a surgeon in Los Angeles, is president of the board of directors of the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation. The foundation recently committed $1 million over three years to the Department of Music to support the Gluck Fellows Music Performance Program and Opera UCLA.

Peskin is president of Palm Leasing. In memory of his wife, he endowed the Ruth Peskin Distinguished Artist Fund, which helps bring distinguished artists, performers, cultural leaders and arts scholars to UCLA for the benefit of students and the community.

Ratkovich is founder and president of The Ratkovich Company, which engages in new development and building renovation. Completed projects include the Oviatt Building and the Wiltern Theatre. They are now managing the renovation of the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. A member of the UCLA Foundation, he is an emeritus trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a past board member of the Greater Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.

The School of the Arts and Architecture offers a liberal arts education with an arts emphasis through its six academic departments: Architecture and Urban Design, Art, Design, Ethnomusicology, Music and World Arts and Cultures. The academic departments are dedicated to training exceptionally creative artists, performers, architects, and scholars who are enriched by a world view of arts and cultures, and who are prepared to serve as cultural leaders of the 21st century.

Also within the School are the public arts programs that complement and enhance the departments and provide exciting cultural resources for students, faculty and the Los Angeles community. They are the UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and the UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center.





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