Los Angeles Junior College - Junior Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Foreword H When, in IQZQ, the College leaped, full-grown at birth, into the circle of California's famous schools, the feeling was not confined to the College alone that the circumstances which made the abandoned campus of the University of California at Los Angeles the home of the new institution were only temporary. Unfortunately for the high expectations of the College and its friends, the economic structure of the nation, subjected to external stress and the boring of enemies within, selected the fall of 1929 as the occasion for its collapse. In the period of privation and distress which coincided almost exactly with the complete history of the College, not even a soaring enrollment, which made the institution the largest of its kind, could justify in the minds of political administrators the cost of a new building program or even extensive repairs. It was with excitement that verged upon incredulity that the College learned that its dream of modernization and expan- sion, consigned to a future so remote as to seem unrealizable, was to be given concrete expression by agencies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. Prolonged discussion abruptly gave way to action, and to the accompaniment of music, orations, and newspaper headlines, ground was broken for first one building and then another. The close of the summer semester of 1937 was marked by the completion of two new units of the Greater Los Angeles junior College and the advanced construc- tion of two more, including a Student Union. An attempt has been made by the editors of the 1937 junior Campus to suggest within the pages of this volume the scope of the building program which is to provide Los Angeles junior College with a setting which at the same time will be one of the most handsome and most thoroughly equipped in America. cc 5:9

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Table of Contents BCOK ONE Administration Eooic Two Closses BCDOK THREE Organizations BOCDK EoUE Aotivities 4 Eoor FIVE Drama BGOK six Athletics BOOK SEVEN College lite

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Dedication B DIRECTOR ROSCO C. INGALLS, who as a leading high school principal was a member of the committee Which recom- mended the organization of the Los Angeles Junior College, Was summoned to the administration of the institution in the fall of '34, It was a period of radical change in political and social concepts, and the task of intelligently piloting the world's largest junior college through that period of uncertainty and stress was one which demanded the utmost in progressive thinking, a steady application to the chosen task, and the ability to placate conflicting elements. The College has reason to be thankful that Director Ingalls was selected as the man on whom these responsibilities could rest. Since Director Ingalls undertook his present duties, the College has found realization of its long-cherished dream of expansion. Still inchoate, the Greater Los Angeles junior College that is rising from within the very walls of the old, is in sufficiently concrete form to be pictured in these pages. It therefore seems Htting that this eighth edition of the junior Campus should be dedicated to the man who helps symbolize the College of the future-Rosco Chandler Ingalls.