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RIED BRIDGES, a Los Angeles attorney who earned his J.D. from the USC Law School in 1954, has given the school $1.8 million.
The unrestricted gift, established in the form of a charitable remainder trust, allows the school’s dean discretion in directing the funds toward the institution’s “highest priorities.”
Bridges said he hopes the gift will be used to enhance law students’ understanding and cultivation of the “highest standards of professionalism.”
“We are gratified by the gift,” said Scott H. Bice, dean of the Law School. “I know how deeply Ried feels about the need for superior professional standards in the practice of law. We share his concern and have recently established a first-year course to emphasize the central importance of lawyers’ commitment to obligations of professionalism. “Ried’s gift will certainly provide great support for education in this area.”
A FOUNDING PARTNER of the firm now known as Bonne, Bridges, Mueller, O’Keefe & Nichols, Bridges has cited the key role that USC has played in his life.
“The professional success I have enjoyed is directly attributable to the education I received at USC – particularly while I was at the Law School,” he said.
USC has also figured prominently in the lives of his family: he met his wife, Lou, while attending the university, and their son, Ried, earned his B.A. in history in 1984.
The son of a Hearst newspaper engineer, Bridges was reared in Los Angeles, graduating from Hamilton High School. After serving three years in the merchant marine, he enrolled at USC, earning his bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1951.
James Gamble Provides Historic Preservation Endowment Fund
Edward R. Bosley (left) was installed as the first James N. Gamble Director of the Gamble House at an event that also announced the establishment of the James N. Gamble His-toric Preservation Endowment Fund and recognized and honored James Gamble. Shown with Bosley are (from left) Edward Fox, Jr., co-chair of the School of Architecture’s Board of Councilors; philanthropist James N. Gamble, whose grandparents built the residence; USC President Steven B. Sample; and Robert H. Timme, the Della and Harry MacDonald Dean of the School of Architecture. The Gamble House, designed by Charles and Henry Greene in 1908, was given to USC and the city of Pasadena in 1966 by the Gamble family and is operated by the School of Architecture.
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