Alumnus Jerome "Bruzzy" Westheimer's donation benefts several UNT programs

Jerome "Bruzzy" Westheimer ('65), a 2016 UNT Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, has gifted $1.9 million to support Mean Green golf, music, visual arts and educational initiatives.

His gifts will fund a new golf practice facility being built at the Meridoe Country Club in Carrollton to advance UNT's nationally recognized golf programs. They also will support The Valerie Dean West­heimer ('70) Memorial Fellowship for Visual Arts and Design in memory of his sister; commission a sculpture from the studio of the late Jesús Moroles ('78) for the Union sculpture garden; and fund a UNT Kuehne Speaker Series Lifetime Membership.

His nephew, Christian O'Donnell ('86), committed $250,000 to support The Valerie Dean Westheimer Graduate Fellowship in Music and The Valerie Dean West­heimer Scholarship in Music.

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