Robert Loveland; Headed L.A. Integration Panel
Robert Loveland, an orthopedic surgeon who headed the Citizens Advisory Committee on Student Integration after the courts ordered the integration of the Los Angeles school system in the 1970s, has died at his retirement home in Prescott, Ariz.
Dr. Loveland, who most recently was chief of staff at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Prescott, served in a similar capacity at Burbank Community Hospital and Hollywood West Hospital and was on the staffs of Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital and the UC Irvine Medical Center.
He was 75 when he died Tuesday of heart failure.
Loveland had a lifelong interest in children and education and for many years was team physician at all athletic contests involving Fairfax and Hollywood high schools. For 30 years he was medical adviser to the California Interscholastic Federation for athletics, which established an award in his name to honor contributions to the health and safety of student athletes.
Besides the 75-member integration group, Loveland served on the school district’s Goals Review Committee and was co-chairman of the Adopt-a-School Program and the 1972 Decentralization Task Force Steering Committee.
Survivors include his wife, Betty, four daughters, five grandchildren and a sister.
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