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Saturday, February 11, 2012

UCLA History: Children's Hospital

Photo from LA Public Library collection.  Photograph caption dated January 9, 1958 reads, "Marion Davies presents check for $1,500,000 to build a new Marion Davies Children's Wing at UCLA Medical Center to Edwin W. Pauley, chairman of the board of regents. Watching are Vern O. Knudsen, UCLA vice chancellor, and Dr. Stafford L. Warren (right), dean of the UCLA Medical School. An architect's sketch of the medical center is in the background." In 1998, the hospital was renamed the Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA in recognition of the gift made to the hospital by Mattel, Inc. 

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