Marvelous night for superheroes of L. A. business.When Spider-Man and a spaceman make the scene, you know you're at a high-flying soiree. Sure enough, there was plenty of whiz-bang last week at the California Science Center The California Science Center (sometimes spelled California ScienCenter) is a state agency and museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Billed as the West Coast's largest hands-on science center, the California ScienCenter is a public-private partnership between the State s eighth annual Discovery Ball. Spider-Man creator Stan Lee and former astronaut Buzz Aldrin were the stars of the black-tie gala, which drew a virtual who's who of the Los Angeles business community and opened the museum's "Marvel Super Heroes Marvel Super Heroes is a term generally referring to superheroes owned and published by Marvel Comics (see list of Marvel Comics characters). It is also the name of several specific products and publications:
Aldrin donated a moon rock collected during the Apollo 11 mission to the center. Officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), had presented it to him a day earlier. Avi Arad, chairman and chief executive of Marvel Studios, robbed elbows with the chairman of the center's board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. , former California governor George Deukmejian. Tony Buzzelli, regional manager partner at Deloitte, and Paula Madison, president and general manager of KNBC Channel 4), chaired the event with help from Bill Barrett, of Fiduciary Trust International of California, and philanthropist Margo Leonetti O'Connell. Partygoers included Jeff Johnson, publisher of the L.A. Times, Bill Chadwick, president of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum For board track racing circuit, see . Present use The Coliseum is now primarily the home of the USC Trojan football team. During the recent stretch of its success in football, most of USC's regular home games, especially the alternating games with rivals UCLA and Notre Commission, Dennis Tito, founder of Wilshire Associates, and Andrew Barth, president of Capital Guardian Trust Co. |
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