Robert Fitzpatrick, former president of the California Institute of the Arts and later Disneyland Paris, also led the acclaimed 1984 Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles.
Robert Fitzpatrick, the former president of the California Institute of the Arts who spearheaded the acclaimed 1984 Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles, has died. He was 84. Fitzpatrick died Sept. 30, CalArts said. No cause of death was given.
” He helped to bring financial stability to the institution — raising $58 million during his time as president — in part by overhauling the board of trustees. Among other changes he brought: He instructed the faculty to start giving students grades. “For 13 years I had one of the most interesting jobs on the face of the Earth,” Fitzpatrick said in 1990 while looking back at his tenure at the school, which also saw the establishment of CalArts’ character animation and jazz programs.
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