COUPLE GIVE $4 MILLION TO PREP SCHOOL.Byline: - Joseph Giordono CALABASAS - Viewpoint School  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , an exclusive college preparatory pre·par·a·to·ry adj. 1. Serving to make ready or prepare; introductory. See Synonyms at preliminary. 2. Relating to or engaged in study or training that serves as preparation for advanced education: academy, has received a $4 million gift from a Westlake Village couple, school officials announced Thursday. Dirk and Tina Gates, who have two children attending the school, made the donation of $2 million to a capital fund and $2 million to the school's endowment A transfer, generally as a gift, of money or property to an institution for a particular purpose. The bestowal of money as a permanent fund, the income of which is to be used for the benefit of a charity, college, or other institution. , headmaster Bob Dworkoski said. Dirk Gates, a graduate of California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , was the chief executive officer and co-founder of Xircom Inc., a Newbury Park firm that manufactures portable modems. The company was recently purchased by Intel Inc. ``(The Gateses) have been supportive of Viewpoint in many ways for many years,'' Dworkoski said. ``This additional commitment is a statement about them as people and about how much they value the school.'' Viewpoint, founded in 1961, has an enrollment of just over 1,000 students in kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through 12th grade. |
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