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(1980)  A major figure in the history of the UCLA College and the department of linguistics, Professor Victoria Fromkin is appointed UCLA’s vice chancellor for graduate programs, the first woman to achieve the rank of vice chancellor in the UC system. Fromkin also broke barriers at the national level as the first woman to serve as president of the Association of Graduate Schools in the American Association of Universities. One of the department’s first Ph.D. recipients, she was a faculty member from 1965 until her death in 2000, and department chair from 1973–77. She also created a language for the 1970s TV show “Land of the Lost.”