Hayutin family endows scholarships for students
By Lori Craig
The USC Gould School of Law recently received a gift of approximately $2 million from the estate of David and Lee Hayutin to provide scholarships to students, with preference for those who served honorably in the United States Navy.
The Hayutin family also left about $2 million to the USC Price School of Public Policy to provide scholarships for Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) students at USC.
David Hayutin was a double graduate of USC. He served as a naval reserve officer while an undergraduate student before earning his degree in physics from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences in 1952. After serving as a commissioned officer in the Navy, he earned his law degree at USC Gould in 1958.
“David was a proud USC graduate and Navy veteran, and was extremely involved in our Institute for Corporate Counsel, the annual Mentor Lunch and Scholarship Lunch,” said Dean Robert K. Rasmussen. “Because of the Hayutin family’s generosity, The David and Lee Hayutin Law School Scholarship Fund will further that commitment and benefit future USC Gould students who have had the profound experience of serving in the Navy. Scholarships such as these improve our ability to provide a world-class legal education to some of the most deserving students.”
David Hayutin, who died in March 2013 at the age of 82, was a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittmean. His practice included commercial law, intellectual property, technology and science, and international law. He focused on domestic and international technology, character and merchandising licensing; domestic and international distribution of products; corporate organization, acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations and dissolutions; and sales and acquisitions of computer, communications and other equipment and systems.
Hayutin was the author of “Distributing Foreign Products in the United States,” published by Matthew-Bender & Co. in 1988, with revisions in 1993 and 2000. He was a member of the American and California bar associations and their International Law Sections, the Maritime Law Association of the U.S., and several committees of the Section on Business Law of the International Bar Association. He was a former member of a number of boards of directors, including Suntory International and Asahi Bank of California, and served on USC Dornsife’s Humanities Committee.
David and Lee married in 1951. She died in October 2013 at the age of 80.
The Hayutin gift advances the Campaign for the University of Southern California, a multiyear effort that seeks to raise $6 billion or more in private philanthropy to advance USC’s academic priorities and expand its positive impact on the community and world. Three years after its launch, the campaign has raised more than $3.5 billion.
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