Ruth Harvey; Active in Arts, Education
Ruth L. Harvey, who worked with children and the arts in Los Angeles, helping found the Music Center and the County Museum of Art, died Sunday in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of cancer. She was 74.
As Los Angeles County president of the Parent Teacher Assn. in the early 1950s, she helped launch a program in which Mexican-American mothers were enrolled in programs to ease their transition into Anglo culture.
A founder of the T.E.A.C.H. Foundation, which raises scholarship funds for disabled children, she also was a member of the national executive board of the Anti-Defamation League and the Board of Governors of Otis Art Institute, and most recently supported the Israel Cancer Research Fund.
She was married to Lawrence A. Harvey, son of the founder of Harvey Aluminum, who died in 1987.
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