Former Keck School Dean Gordon B. Goodhart, 89
Goodhart, a 1935 graduate of Occidental College and a 1943 graduate of the Stanford School of Medicine, was medical dean at USC from 1953 to 1956.
This time period was a coming-of-age for the medical school as it celebrated the 25th anniversary of its refounding, after reopening in 1928 following a 10-year hiatus.
During his tenure as dean, the school launched its Diamond Jubilee Campaign, which raised more than $1 million in 1955 for the construction of McKibben Hall and the Mudd Laboratory Building. By all accounts, Goodhart was a democratic administrator. He expanded the school’s executive committee to include representation from all departments and consistently putting major issues to a faculty vote.
He then returned to school for a residency in psychiatry and was in private practice in Los Angeles for 15 years. He also taught for a period at UCLA.
Goodhart was born July 12, 1913 in Riverside, and attended public schools in Long Beach. In 1941, Gordon Eugene Goodhart married Ruth Forrester.
He served in the Army Medical Corps during World War II. In 1974, the Goodharts retired to Santa Barbara.
He died April 10 in an assisted living facility in Santa Cruz, Calif., where he and his wife Ruth, who died in February, had resided. The couple had no children.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education mentioned USC’s $6 billion fundraising campaign. The story noted that USC had already raised $1 billion in a “quiet phase,” including the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College.
The Guardian (U.K.) highlighted two major gifts to USC in a list of the 10 biggest philanthropic benefactors in America. The list included the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College, and the $110 million gift from USC Trustee and USC Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and wife Julie to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
The New York Times featured the USC U.S.-China Institute documentary “Assignment: China — The Week that Changed the World.” The documentary, part of a series, examines media coverage of the 1972 Nixon trip that reshaped U.S.-China relations after a quarter century of isolation and hostility. “People look back now and take it for granted that the outcome was preordained,” said the institute’s Mike Chinoy, who produced the documentary. Voice of America also featured the story.
Los Angeles Times featured the Oscar Senti-meter, a tool developed by the USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times and IBM that analyzes thousands of tweets about the Academy Awards nominees. The story noted that Mexican actor Demian Bechir received an enormous boost on Twitter the day of the nominations, with a total of 6,893 tweets mentioning him, a 47-fold increase from the day before. The story noted the tool uses language-recognition technology developed in collaboration with USC Viterbi School’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab.
The Times of India (India) featured a three-day medical emergency training workshop organized in association with USC. At the workshop, held at GCS Medical College in India, 50 doctors and more than 100 paramedics learned how to improve emergency support systems. William Mallon of the Keck School of USC said that discussion topics included the use of portable ultrasonic devices to scan patients. “The ultrasound applications help physicians make accurate and timely decisions,” he noted. Daily News & Analysis (India) also featured the workshop.
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