Viola Minor Westergaard (1888-1919) was a Danish American woman from Alameda, California with a love of art. She studied at Mills Seminary and the University of California, Berkeley, where she met and fell in love with Dr. Waldemar C. Westergaard. She came to Claremont when she married “Westy”, who was a Professor of History at Pomona College, in August of 1917. While there, the couple participated in the College’s affairs and she was lovingly bestowed the title of “The Viking Goddess" by Dr. Phebe Spalding, professor of English and art history and first librarian of Pomona College. Sadly, Viola perished two short years later during the influenza epidemic of 1919. After her untimely death, her parents and husband donated many of her personal art treasures, along with her Ward’s “A Line a Day” Book, to the Library. Her father, Captain Robert Minor, established the Viola Minor Westergaard Foundation in her name to support the arts at Pomona College.