Local News in Brief : Big Gift for USC Library
The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation has given $9 million for the construction of a new computer- and video-intensive teaching library at USC, school President James H. Zumberge announced. With that grant, nearly half of the $24.7 million needed for the library has been raised, he said.
Construction is expected to begin this fall on the facility at the school, which will house 200,000 volumes and hundreds of individual computer and audio-visual work stations. Leavey Foundation Chairman J. Thomas McCarthy, a very active USC alumnus and a son-in-law of the late Leaveys, said the gift was made because “the university has 30,000 students who are all part of the computer generation.”
For the record:
12:00 a.m. April 15, 1988 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Friday April 15, 1988 Home Edition Part 1 Page 2 Column 5 Metro Desk 1 inches; 30 words Type of Material: Correction
An article in last Saturday’s editions on a $9-million donation to a USC library project from the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation mistakenly described both of the Leaveys as deceased. Dorothy Leavey is living.
Thomas E. Leavey was one of the founders of the Farmers Insurance Group.
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