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Sing! is a 2001 American short documentary film about the Los Angeles Children's Chorus, directed by Freida Lee Mock. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short . [ 2 ]
From 1906 to 1910, Dr. Sarah Vasen, the first Jewish female doctor in Los Angeles, acted as superintendent. [18] In 1910, the hospital relocated and expanded to Stephenson Avenue (now Whittier Boulevard), where it had 50 beds and a backhouse containing a 10-cot tubercular ward. [ 17 ]
Freida Lee Mock is an American filmmaker, director, screenwriter and producer. She is a co-founder of the American Film Foundation with Terry Sanders . Her documentary, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994) [ 1 ] won an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1995.
The Shanti Project is a non-profit human services agency based in San Francisco and founded in 1974 by Dr. Charles Garfield in Berkeley, CA. [1] Its goals are to provide peer support and guidance to people affected by HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening conditions.
A partnership was formed with the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in 1966 to train medical students with the goal of meeting the needs of the underserved in South Los Angeles. The school continued its growth in the 1970s, becoming affiliated with VA facilities as well as Olive View–UCLA Medical Center.
Frieda’s Inc. is a privately owned company, based in Los Alamitos, California, which markets and distributes specialty produce. [1] It was founded in 1962 by Frieda Rapoport Caplan. [2] It was the first wholesale produce company in the United States to be founded, owned, and operated by a woman. [3] Caplan died on January 18, 2020, at the age ...
Marilyn Ziering is a retired American business executive and philanthropist in Los Angeles, California. She served as Senior Vice President of the Diagnostic Products Corporation for three decades. A trustee of the Los Angeles Opera, she has endowed programs at Syracuse University, Shalem College and the American Jewish University.
In addition to San Francisco, centers under the Coro umbrella exist in Los Angeles (1957), St. Louis (1972), Kansas City (1975), New York (1980), and Pittsburgh (1999). In 2005, Coro partnered with the Cleveland Foundation to establish a new Executive Fellows program in Cleveland.