LMU SCHOOL OF FILM AND TELEVISION RECEIVES GIFT FROM COSGROVE FAMILY
Endowment to Fund Distinguished Visiting Artist and Scholarship Programs Committed to Diversity

LOS ANGELES, September 28, 2005 – Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television (SFTV) has received a major leadership gift that will establish The Cosgrove Family Distinguished Visiting Artist Endowment and Endowed Scholarship Fund.

The announcement was made jointly by Robert B. Lawton, S.J., president of LMU, Teri Schwartz, dean of the LMU School of Film and Television and John Cosgrove, six-time Emmy Award-nominated television producer, chairman of the LMU’s School of Film and Television Arts Council and member of LMU’s Board of Trustees. As an acknowledgement of the gift, the Cosgrove Family Garden was dedicated on the LMU campus earlier this month.

"The Cosgrove Family Endowment is a celebration of the power of diversity and the ideals of the School of Film and Television at LMU," said Lawton. "These endowments will serve as a rich reminder of how diversity can be realized through the gracious and generous actions of one family’s commitment to these ideals."

The Cosgrove Family Distinguished Visiting Artist Endowment will support the work of a renowned screenwriter whose work reflects a deep sensitivity to an increasingly diverse and multi-cultural world. The inaugural distinguished visiting artist will be selected at the conclusion of an international search and will be in place beginning Fall 2006.

The Cosgrove Family Endowed Scholarship will recognize outstanding students who show exceptional and unique promise for continued creative and academic excellence and achievement in SFTV’s five main disciplines: film, television, animation, recording arts and screenwriting.

"Through the Cosgrove Family Endowment, full and partial ride scholarships are now fully funded to provide an exceptional education in our disciplines to the most outstanding and promising creative students from all walks of life who are also the most underserved candidates," Schwartz said. "The School of Film and Television will be able to develop and nurture remarkable young talent – the storytellers of the future – who may not have had the chance to realize their dreams if not for the Cosgrove’s heart and vision."