LA Councilman Koretz Opposes Sale of Japanese Garden

LA City Councilman Paul Koretz, whose district includes UCLA and the surrounding area, has written a letter to Chancellor Block opposing the sale of the Japanese Garden.

The letter is reproduced below.

By way of further historical background, the photo at the right appears in the new history book on UCLA, "UCLA: The First Century," in a section entitled "Artful Transformation" dealing with Chancellor Franklin Murphy's interest in campus beautification during his regime.  The caption to the photo reads in part:

Murphy had long wanted to acquire a Japanese garden in neighboring Bel-Air, and in 1965, it was donated to UCLA by Regent Edward Carter and his wife, Hannah.

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UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times article on the proposed sale (see an earlier blog post) has been picked up by a newspaper in Bellingham, Washington.  See
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/01/25/2365595/uclas-plan-to-sell-japanese-garden.html

See also http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2012/01/25/can-hannah-carters-garden-be-saved/

and
http://rafu.com/news/2012/01/uclas-sale-of-carter-japanese-garden-protested/