University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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development The 31st governor of California, Goodwin J. Knight, has witnessed new improvements on all eight caynpiises since taking office. Jesse Steinhart, Gits Olson, Gerald Hagar, Thomas Cunningham, Howard Naffziger, Arthur McFadden, Edwin Pauley, Edward Carter, Robert Underhill, Robert G. Sproul, Edtvard Dickson, Dorothy Chandler, Chester Nimitz, Earl Fenston, Harold Poivers, Victor Hansen, Cornelius Haggerty, Donald McLaughlin, and alumni representative Edwin Harbach make up the Board of Regents. A significant event for the Regents this year icas the dedication of the Riverside Campus. t ' Hai

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growth Framed against Westwood ' s rolling hills, the maj estic edifices of II.C.L.A. stand today, not only symbolic of the progress on one great campus, but symbolic of the growth and development on every campus of the University of California. Celebrat- ing the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Southern Branch of the Univer- sity, and the 25th anniversary of its re- location at Weslwood, U.C.L.A. students were able to boast of at least four major buildings under construction during the past year. As the Music and Life Science Buildings neared completion in the Spring semester, construction was begun on the new Clarence A. Dykstra Residence Hall. which will provide housing for over 800 students. Only partially completed, the fabulous new Medical Center will someday tower 12 stories into the heavens. Vp at Blount Hamilton, future astronomers gazed into those heavens through the recently installed 120-inch telescope reflector, sec- ond largest in the world. At Scripps Institution of Oceanography located at La Jolla. students were given an opportunity to study examples of life beneath the sea in a new marine aquarium. Santa Barbara students were able to fathom the rolling waters of the blue Pacific from their new campus by the sea at Goleta. Farther up [he coast at San Francisco, completion of the Jane MofTitt Memorial Hospital af- forded great new facilities for medical study and research. Food seemed to be a chief concern of students on the Berkeley campus as a Home Economics Building and Cafeteria rose to take their places among other buildings like the nationally fam- ous Berkeley library. The L ' niversity ' s agriculture center at Davis stressed stu- dent housing facilities and decided that fraternities and sororities would be per- mitted to build on campus. The dedica- tion of the College of Letters and Science at Riverside, with five initial buildings on its campus, was the keynote to the L ' niversity ' s policy of continuous progress. 23

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( improvement Our concern is always for the students. Any student who is serious about getting a good education will receive it here at U.C.L.A., is the firm conviction of the Chancellor, Dr. Raymond B. Allen. This statement is very typical of the continu- ous interest that Dr. Allen displays in the individual student and his needs as well as in the U.C.L.A. campus and the University as a whole. In 1953 he became the first chancellor of U.C.L.A. In the short period of one year he saw the real- ization of his pet project, a project of future importance for many students, when he secured the finance for a new dormi- tory. It is his belief that when the dorm is finally completed it will add to the spirit of University life. He has found that the students here at U.C.L.A. have more opportunities and show a greater in- terest in their extra-curricular activi- ties than elsewhere, and that when they work together, bound by common interests, they build a foundation of loyalty to the University and make for greater unity in every phase of campus life. Dr. Allen ' s past record speaks for itself. From the University of Minnesota, he received his B.A., M.A. and M.D. degrees. Awarded the Mayo Foundation Fellowship in 1930, he received his Ph.D. from Minnesota ' s Mayo Division in 1943. He served as President of the LTniversity of Washington prior to coming to LT.C.L.A. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and a fellow of the American College of Physicians. The Chan- cellor said. I consider myself to be about the luckiest man alive because I am a part of a growing, living University. 25