Local News in Brief : Fullerton : UCI Plans Dedication of Gerontology Center
A $2.5-million building for research into the problems of aging will be dedicated at 2 p.m. Sunday at Cal State Fullerton.
The Ruby Gerontology Center is the first building on the university campus to be totally financed by private money. Continuing Learning Experience, a university organization of about 400 retired professional people, spearheaded both the planning and fund raising for the center.
Speakers at the dedication ceremony will include Dorothy Kirsten French, founder and chair of the John Douglas French Foundation for Alzheimer’s Disease, and Cyril Brickfield, executive director emeritus of the American Assn. of Retired Persons.
Cal State Fullerton President Jewel Plummer Cobb said the gerontology facility will be of vital importance to Orange County.
“Demographers estimate that as much as 20% of the county’s population will be over 65 years of age by the year 2020,” Cobb said.
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