California State University Long Beach - Prospector Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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Future Library Building PECTOR ) D Y • LONG BEACH STATE COLLEGE • LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA • Barbara Harris, Graduates • Nancy Hayes. Activities • Gus Kroll. Organizations • Ron Howarth, Athletics editor • Will Walker, business manager • Dick Petrie, cover design • Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wilfred P James

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Nineteen hundred fifty-three PRO! PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUD Editor-in-chief: Jerry Wilbur • Section Editors: Russell Lass, A Staff: Wendell Fay. photographer • Joan Carter, copy • Lucille NX CONTENTS I ii l r ori ii : t i i ii A d in i ii i x I r a t i o n Graduates School Life A c t i v i t i e s O r g a n i z a t i o n s Athletics page I page 10 page 24 page 38 page 30 page 76 page 100

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that was In September, 1949, Los Angeles-Orange County State College (now Long Beach State) opened its doors to 160 upper-division students. Classes were held in a hastily converted apartment building, adjoining garages were turned into laboratories and a laundry room served as a canteen. Education apartment-style” proved to be tremendously popular ... or should we admit that the demand was for education—any style? By the fall of 1950. the enrollment had skyrocketed to 1100 and the apartment began to bulge at the seams. Something just had to be done. Came the solution: temporary quarters on the permanent campus site. I 4