<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/issues/alumnus-jerome-bruzzy-westheimers-donation-benefts-several-unt-programs.html" dsn="news"><item_date>11/24/2015 12:00:00 AM</item_date><category_header/><title>Alumnus Jerome 'Bruzzy' Westheimer's donation benefts several UNT programs</title><subheader/><description>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.</description><author/><photographer> </photographer><image> <img src="/sites/default/files/default_images/diving-eagle_356_0r_0_1_fade_1_0.png" width="900" height="676" alt=""/></image><taxonomy-story-type/><taxonomy-cultural-story-category/><taxonomy-news-sections/><taxonomy-college-department/><taxonomy-tags/><type>story</type><categories/><relationships/><main-content>
    
    
    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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