Ira Pauly

[1] He then earned his undergraduate degree with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1954, where he belonged to the fraternity Tau Epsilon Phi (TEP).

[2][3] He won the Bruins' 1952 most improved player trophy[2] and 1953 Spirit and Scholarship Award[2] and was named a First Team Academic All-American in 1953. in 1953.

[2] That season, UCLA won the Pacific Coast Conference and played in the Rose Bowl,[4] during which he started both ways, as center and linebacker.

[5] In the 1960s, while on the faculty at University of Oregon Medical School, Pauly began writing and speaking about the treatment of transsexualism.

Pauly left Oregon for an appointment as professor and chairman at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Nevada School of Medicine in Reno, Nev.