Amelia Short Sonneland; Philanthropist Supported Arts, USC
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Amelia Short Sonneland, 91, philanthropist who contributed to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Opera and USC. Mrs. Sonneland was a graduate of George Washington University and held a law degree from LaSalle University. She and her late husband, psychiatrist Sidney Gaylord Sonneland, also endowed a science chair at the University of Oslo, Norway. Mrs. Sonneland was founder and president of the Physicians’ Aid Guild. On Sept. 28 in Hollywood.
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