La Sierra College - Meteor Yearbook (Arlington, CA)

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Above: Erwin E. Cossentzne left La Sierra College in 1942 for Union Collete. Above right: A room in the men 's dorm in the very early days of LSC. Styles then in both dress and decor contrast greatly from today's. Right: The war years were years of change for the world and LSC was no exception. As the state required Physical Education classes for the women, the school was faced with a problem of dress. Seen here was their decision - bloomers in the PE Held.

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,..T,...,q,... f?z.i:..'.i 'IGI be extrtzvtigant in cost or ap- rafzce. extrente in length, or senti- trnsm' orgtornuil in design. Slaeks niay be worn only when riding horseback or on .iesigiuited outings. The nearing QI, men 's shirts is not in keeping li ith the grace and refinement uhicli should t'lZt1f't1t'lc'I'I.It' a Christian young woman and should be excluded from her wardrobe. .llodesty requires hose to be in- coiispilioits and long enough to permit no exposure ofthe body. Heels should be low and broad enough to support the weight. This ex- cludes anything higher than Cuban heels. High heeled slippers or party sandals may not be worn on any occasion. The use ofsuch cosmetics as rouge, lipstick, mascara, eyebrow pencil, brightly colored pomade or fngernail polishes, cheapen the wearer, ana' young women are asked to dispense with them. Bathing suits should be as conser- vative as may be obtainable. The neckline must always be modest and inconspicuous. L'nder DRESS FDR MEN, it merely specifies that: Young men are expected to dress in a neat, orderly, and conservative manner. avoidingfreakish styles orfads. GOOD FORM DEMANDS that neckties, suit coats, or sweater coats, be worn to meals, in classes, in the library, and at all public exercises. COM- PLIANCE WITH THIS STANDARD IS EXPECTED, with such expecta- tions as may be announced to the stu- dent body. The next school year opened with a new cafeteria. one which students still frequent in its greatly remodeled and enlarged version. Sixteen years after moving into La Sierra Hall, the gluten gourmets moved out, finally leaving those with morning classes in peace. That December, the Japanese bomb- ed Pearl Harbor. As the American war machine mobilized, it sought places to set up training camps. To someone in the Army, the La Sierra College farm seemed a godsend - lots of open space relatively close to both Los Angeles and San Diego. The Navy also began to ponder the military value of our school, but they thought the buildings would make an ideal hospital complex. Negotiations in Washington may have saved young recruits from camping among the cow-pies and the campus from convalescing sailors, but rumors to the contrary were in vogue that Christmas vacation. ln fvlay of 1942, Cossentine left for L'nion College and Lowell R. Rasmussen was elected his successor. On the last day of May, the school con- ferred its first bachelor's degrees -fif- teen students received their Bachelor of '1 l t,. ri ,E , rf ' 4. hrss. l Gigi Science degrees for completing the pre- medical program. What could one expect to pay for school back then? Well, the school bulletin warned that room, board, and tuition would lighten one's wallet by 5409.15 FOR THE WHOLE YEAR! Of course, student labor was cheap - pay started at twenty-five cents an hour with the best workers sometimes mak- ing fifty cents per hour. That meant that depending on your salary, you could pay off your school bill in somewhere between eight and sixteen hundred hours. Compare that with this year's school costs and labor rates. It would take over two-thousand hours of work to balance the books - that's working forty hours a week every week of the year while you're going to school full time! During the war years, the school sponsored the La Sierra Medical Cadet Corps, a paramilitary group which trained Adventists for noncombatant military service. At this time, campus socialities had a problem to grapple with which nearly eclipsed those posed by the student handbook - the numerical inequality of the sexes, in- duced by the local draft boards. The state produced another problem, seen by the faculty as far more serious than the disproportionate boyfgirl ratio. Sacramento wanted girls to take PE classes. What would they wear? Ob- viously they couldn't wear dresses, and long pants were equally out of the ques- tion. Some of the radical faculty members suggested shorts, but Vic- torian morality prevailed and the first girls' PE class did their calisthenics in bloomers. Some members of the faculty faced more serious problems. Even though he had done three years of graduate work in the University of California system, L. R. Rasmussen was against faculty members studying for their doctorates at worldly universities. Since no Adventist institutions were accredited to grant Ph.D's, those faculty members desiring a more complete education were in a bind. Nevertheless, in 1945, Keld Reynolds, Wilfred Airey, and Cecil Haousler became the first faculty members to receive doctorates. In- terestingly enough, all three degrees were in history. That year fifty-seven students

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ex I 1? fra,-,A f i About the pictures: 1946 marked physical changes at LSC. The new PE building was erected around the old swimming hole. Also the present ad- ministration building went up, housing the Fulton Memorial Library. The musical influence was apparent at LSC beginning in these years also. Various groups emerged including the Trombone Trio seen here. graduated, fifteen of them receiving the school's first Bachelor of Arts degrees. The next school year, the enrollment climbed slightly, to nearly 550 students. In 1946, the school received its full ac- creditation as a four year college from the Northwestern Association of Secon- dary and Higher Schools. That fall, thanks to returning veterans and GI bill, the enrollment skyrocketed to 902, a gain of sixty-five percent. It was also in 1946 that Godfrey T. Anderson stepped into Rasmussen's shoes. Despite an initially slow start, the Anderson Era accelerated to a period of unprecedented development. When he left to become president of the College of Medical Evangelists lNow LLU School of Medicinej, his experiences at La Sierra had more than adequately prepared him for the job. Physical growth marked these post- war years. In 1946 a new PE building was constructed around the old swim- ming pool. The present administration building also went up that year, housing not only the school management, but the Fulton Memorial Library as well. Moving the books from the old library in La Sierra Hall led to a spirit ofco- operation between students and faculty as they carted countless volumes be- tween buildings. After a long conflict over how large it should be, progressive elements of the building committee managed to con- vince the rest that at sometime in the future the La Sierra College Church would need to seat more than the originally proposed 800, even more than the attempted compromise at a capacity of 1,200. So, in 1947 the College Church was completed with a seating capacity of 2,000 - over double the college enrollment. In harmony with this era of growth the music department added Professor Alfred Walters to the faculty roster. The warm, rich tines of his violin quick- ly endeared him to southern California audiences. In 1948, students fir-it sang Dick Guy's original rendition of our