Dinosaur Ball unveiled green sauropod, welcomed hundreds
DR. LORI BETTISON-VARGA and journalist Patt Morrison at the Dinosaur Ball. Photos courtesy of Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County
This year’s Dinosaur Ball will go down in history — many millions of years of history.
More than $900,000 was raised at the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHM) biennial event to support its online resources and education programs.
The virtual event on May 15, with the theme “Opening New Doors,” welcomed 330 attendees.
NHM President and Director Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga thanked museum supporters, who, she said, “were a huge part of why we have been able to be ‘open’ even when we weren’t and why we could show up in important ways for our county and its people this past year.
“Because we serve the second largest school district in the country and the largest in the state, we also play a critical role in educating diverse new generations of scientists who will ask questions from different perspectives that are bound to lead to new solutions,” Bettison-Varga continued.
The 2021 Dinosaur Ball honored Jared M. Diamond, a Pulitzer prize-winning author and professor of geography at UCLA. Bettison-Varga introduced a live conversation between Diamond and journalist Patt Morrison.
GNATALIE, a recently excavated sauropod and soon to be the first green dinosaur mounted in the world, will be installed in the new Judith Perlstein Welcome Center in NHMLAC Commons, slated to open in summer 2023.
The evening also debuted the new interactive exhibition of Gnatalie, a recently excavated green sauropod. Gnatalie, soon-to-be-the-first green dinosaur mounted in the world, will be installed in the new Judith Perlstein Welcome Center in NHMLAC Commons, slated to open in summer 2023.
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