Carole Magnuson

Carole Magnuson, vice president of the Westwood Hills Property Owners Association and former director of community relations for UCLA, went to a couple of White's early meetings and came to a similar conclusion about the process.

"To organize something from scratch isn't easily done.You just don't wave a wand.People were casting around to try to identify what the Neighborhood Council would do that wasn't already being done by another organization," she says."It's a highly organized community.... It's difficult to identify areas that aren't covered."