Inez Kaartinen

Inez Kaartinen was a 1926 Biola graduate who left her estate to Biola, enabling the school to buy the McNally Junior High and ultimately convert it the the McNally Campus in 1991.

In 1986, the La Mirada School Board offered the property to the University at a low price. Weeks before the first payment was due, Biola did not have the money and it appeared the deal was off. When Kaartinen, a retired schoolteacher, died that year, Biola inherited exactly the amount needed to make the first payment on the McNally campus. <ref>Biola Web site http://100.biola.edu/index.cfm?pageid=74 </ref>