Briefly in education

The capital campaign to build the Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast

College received a financial boost Oct. 30 when it received a gift from

the estate of a former art student.

The campaign received $150,000, bringing to nearly $1.2 million the

amount the college has raised to fund the $2-million project.

“This is a wonderful gift that pushes our Arts Pavilion campaign into

the homestretch,” said Bill Wood, the campaign’s co-chairman. “This donor

had an extraordinary Orange Coast College experience. After her

retirement years ago, she regularly took arts classes on OCC’s campus.

She loved the program here.”

Funded entirely by private donations, the 8,500-square-foot pavilion’s

construction will start in mid-2002 next to the new 78,000-square-foot

Arts Center that will open for classes in January.

The pavilion will include an art gallery, a young artists gallery and

a cafe. The donor’s estate also provided for $20,000 to establish an

endowed arts scholarship in memory of the donor, who wishes to remain

anonymous.