News briefs
By Daily Bruin Staff
Oct. 19, 2004 9:00 p.m.
Millions spent on expansion of John Wayne’s
birthplace
DES MOINES, Iowa “”mdash; John Wayne’s modest birthplace
could be getting bigger.
Plans are in the works for a $2 million to $3 million expansion
of the complex that includes the tiny Victorian house in Winterset
where Wayne was born as Marion Morrison on May 26, 1907.
“We’re bursting at the seams down there,” said
David Trask, chairman of the John Wayne Birthplace Society.
“We’ve been working with the Wayne family in terms
of providing more display materials into a more bona fide
museum,” Trask said Tuesday.
Getty director resigns
Deborah Gribbon, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, has
resigned after four years because of apparent differences with the
trust that funds it.
Gribbon, the latest to join an exodus of top officials from the
world-renowned museum, announced Monday that she would leave at the
end of the month.
“It has become increasingly clear that we differ on a
number of critical issues,” Gribbon wrote in a letter to
Barry Munitz, president and chief executive of the J. Paul Getty
Trust. The letter was obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
Gribbon and Munitz declined to specify the issues to the Times,
but Munitz said there has been serious discussion about how much
the trust spends on the museum and on other programs.
Compiled from Bruin wire services.
