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GREETINGS FROM THE
GOLD SHIELD PRESIDENTWelcome to the Gold Shield web site which provides not only an electronic archive of our 70 years of support to UCLA, but presents easily accessible and up-to-date information about our organization. Explore our Scholarship page and view the long list of scholars who have been given more than a million dollars since the first Gold Shield Scholarships were awarded in 1939.
In these pages you will see evidence of growth and change in Gold Shield as it reflects the history of our times, our university, and our community. Gold Shield has assisted in preserving the university and Southern California history through our support of the Oral History Program. We invite you to look at the extensive list of interviews funded by Gold Shield on our Oral History Pages. Gold Shield has always honored and recognized exceptional contributions to UCLA. At our annual Champagne Reception, an event that thanks our donors and introduces our student scholars and Faculty Prize recipient, we honor outstanding individuals in the UCLA family. Click here for a list of Champagne Reception honorees.
The Gold Shield Faculty Prize, an Award for Academic Excellence, was created in 1986 in celebration of our 50th anniversary to recognize and reward UCLA Faculty members who have demonstrated extraordinary accomplishment in teaching and in research or creative activity and who have made significant contributions to undergraduate education.
We are currently involved in a new major undertaking, The UCLA History Project, in collaboration with the UCLA Alumni Association. The goal is to gather and archive all of the history of UCLA and ultimately publish that history. It has been 37 years since Gold Shield, with authors Andrew Hamilton '35 and Johnny Jackson '27, published UCLA on the Move, a history of the first 50 years. Much has happened at this great university since 1969, so we are excited to be working toward the publication of a new and complete UCLA history to be published in 2008.
Our members span generations and areas of service to our university, communities, and professions. Many of our members have been honored by the UCLA Alumni Association with Awards for Excellence. Gold Shield has raised funds using hard work and creativity. In past years the spring benefit party raised the bulk of our funds which were wisely invested. However, the realities of the high cost of fund-raising have caused the discontinuation of the benefit. For a history of these imaginative events, click Benefits. We now seek contributions through our annual outreach, Drive for Dollars, a brochure mailing that requests donations and introduces the current year's scholars and our Tribute Envelopes. For information on how to donate to Gold Shield click How to Contribute.
Throughout these pages you will learn about a dedicated group of exceptional women, proud Bruins all, committed to serving the needs of UCLA.
Karolynne Jong Gee '56
President 2006-2008
