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From its most humble beginning, through its 21 years of progress, to a present status as one of the leading colleges of the denomination. La Sierra has maintained among both students and faculty an inward zeal for serv- ice, augmented by a seemingly unlim- ited capacity for growth— both physi- cally and spiritually. • We present in the pages of this first section. La Sierra from a material viewpoint. As it was, as it is in 1944, and a hint of what it is to be. This is the progress of your La Sierra College— Through the Years. n iifn%e au
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The School With a Future had an unpretentious beginning. This was the La Sierra Academy campus at it oppeared in 1923. I HIS is La Sierra as if has grown and expanded — Through the Years. Evolving from a dissolution of old San Fernando Academy, founded by faith and determi- nation in a setting of hills, dust, and— of all things— fields of watermelon! That was LA SIERRA ACADEMY in 1922. With merely the rudiments of educational equipment, but a generous quantity of trail-blazing faith. First Principal J. I. Robison, inaugurated the initial school year on October 3 of that year. It really took the spirit of pioneers for those first 84 students to clamber up and down uncertain ladders to rooms constantly being invaded by the drifting and blowing sand, and tolerotingly to endure incon- veniences of inconceivably exasperating proportions. The La Sierra spirit that has since become traditional was there, too, even in those early days. Witness the first of the campaigns for which L.S.C. has become re- nowned as it was launched six weeks after the opening of school. Faculty and student body raised the entire amount necessary for the construction of the present Administration Building and it was erected the following summer. The second year was also notable in that, among other things, it marked the publication of the first school annual, EL SERRANO, sponsored by the senior class. After a few gasping attempts at publication, it expired into temporary oblivion for lack of the life blood of most yearbooks — financial backing. As La Sierra grew, so did its scholastic standing, its en- rollment, and its equipment. The debut as a full-fledged junior college was the big event of 1927 after two years with L. C. Palmer as principal. Second biggest event was the birth of the first honest-to-goodness college-edited news- 12 ■ fe '
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