Loyola University of Los Angeles - Lair Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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The next period of growth gave Loyola the real roots on which to build further progress. In 1953 the Sacred Heart Chapel was added to the campus. Its calm tower points out to all both the location and the ultimate purpose of Loyola University. Next on campus appeared Pereira Hall, an Engineering building named after Brother john Pereira, SJ., who was responsible for landscaping the Loyola campus in its pioneering days. The completion of Pereira Hall ended another period of growth and completed the preliminary design envisioned by the farseeing Jesuits, Pereiwz H all

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Cbarler Von Der Abe Libm1'y Shortly thereafter, Father Charles S. Casassa, SJ., the current President of the University, initiated another plan to cope with a generation that will increase enrollment, that Will require greater facilities, an increased faculty, and technological progress. To meet this challenge to higher education, Project 70 was created. This vast master plan calls for new dormitories, library, Student Center, Science Building, Administration Building, and Communication Arts Center to be completed by 1970. In 1929, the original library was assigned to the main floor of a classroom building, St. Robert's Hall. But as the school grew, so did its heart. By 1957 the growth of the University had caused such an increase in attendance that a new library was needed. Wih the- backing of the Von's Foundation, the Charles Von Der Ahe Library was completed in 1959. 1 All ,