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1. 1. Terence Tao appointed to UCLA’s James and Carol Collins Chair... 1/11/2007

   www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/11/2007   Last Visited: 1/12/2007

   Jim and Carol Collins gave the College a $1 million gift to endow this chair.
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   Patricia O'Brien, executive dean of the College, announced Tao's selection and praised Jim and Carol Collins for their dedication and generosity.
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   "Jim and Carol Collins are visionary donors who understand the value of flexibility in retaining and recruiting world-class faculty; this approach to endowing a chair reflects insightful leadership and is critical to the College's success in retaining the world's most outstanding scholars," O'Brien said.
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   Jim and Carol Collins have been actively involved in UCLA for more than 50 years as students, volunteers and philanthropists.
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   They met as students, when Jim was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and Carol was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
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   Carol Collins' involvement with UCLA began even earlier. She attended UCLA's Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School and spent all of her elementary school years there. Three of the Collins' four children also attended the school, as did a granddaughter.
   
   Jim and Carol Collins made their first gift to UCLA in 1963.
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   Carol Collins has served as a board member for both Women & Philanthropy at UCLA and the Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School (UES). In 1998, her $1.2 million gift to UES set an individual giving record for the school, leading to the creation of the Carol L. Collins UES Director's Chair.
   
   Jim and Carol Collins also maintain many non-UCLA community affiliations, including the Los Angeles Metropolitan YMCA, the Venice Boys and Girls Club, and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where they established the James and Carol Collins Center for Hospitality Management.