Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.latimes.misc From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Caltech Gift to Fund Work in Space Sciences Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 07:26:22 EST Message-ID: HEADLINE: Caltech Gift to Fund Work in Space Sciences Publication Date: Sunday November 22, 1992 BYLINE: Caltech has received a gift of $100,000 from the Lewis A. Kingsley Foundation of Garden Grove to establish the Merle Kingsley Endowed Fund for Astrophysics and Space Science. The fund will provide discretionary support to faculty and students involved in the teaching, research, and study of issues at the forefront of astrophysics and space science. The fund is named for Merle Kingsley Elkus, who with her late husband, Lewis Kingsley, established the foundation in 1963. The primary funding area of the foundation is higher and secondary education in the form of scholarships to organizations in the Los Angeles area. This article is copyright 1992 The Los Angeles Times Home Edition. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM