Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, co-founder of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and executive director of the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony Society. Co-founder of UCLA’s educational outreach program Design for Sharing and staff member at the UCLA Center for Performing Arts.
Dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Founder of the Lewitzky Dance Company. Founding dean of the dance program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
Senior officer in the United States Army involved in military intelligence. Founder of the Washington Institute of Technology, a research group specializing in radio aids to aerial navigation.
Member of the Socialist Party and active in the Populist movement. Reporter for the Los Angeles Record, editor of EPIC News, and a commissioner on the Los Angeles Board of Public Works.
Musicologist, composer, and folklorist. Research professor at the UCLA Institute of Ethnomusicology and founding member of the American Society for Comparative Musicology.
Architect; California State Polytechnic University, Pomona professor of architecture; and director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
General booking manager of the Lincoln Motion Picture Company and lifelong collector of materials on African Americans in motion pictures. Founder of the Pacific Coast News Bureau.