Company Donates Computers to Schools

The Las Virgenes Technical Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the area’s unified school district, has received 20 IBM computer systems for use in school district classrooms.

Countrywide Home Loans, a Calabasas-based independent mortgage lender, donated 486-model computers to the foundation in an effort to increase the use of technology in local schools, said Stan Kurland, the company’s president and chief operating officer.

“We wanted to support the community and we believe that the schools need greater use of technology,” Kurland said. “We’ve upgraded our own operations and we feel that the school district can find good use for our older computers.”

Donald Zimring, assistant superintendent of the Las Virgenes Unified School District, said the computers will be distributed among the area’s high schools and middle schools, including Calabasas High School, Agoura High School, Lindero Canyon Middle School in Agoura Hills, and Indian Hills High School and A. E. Wright Middle School, both in Calabasas.