Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Bl M Q9 9 Q That wasn't the first time we'd ,ri chosen a new campus. Some of us XX JE .. -- ., . XA could look back to the day when Occidental first began in Boyle Heights. Remember when the first semester opened in 1888? Forty students enrolled in our one un- graceful building, and only Eve faculty members. Kept us busy, though, with Latin and Greek, the fine arts, rhetoric, and religion. . l9l2-IOHNSON AND FOWLER RISE FROM THE BARREN HILLSIDE Those were meagre years for Occi- dental. Students couldn't meet wif: qv, ' A EF , ' lg-,-1.9 V' 1 ' tuition Payments, and when the furniture had to be sold to meet S obligations the outlook was black. The faculty members stayed in as spite of vanishing salaries. And in f 1893 we had our first graduation. Remember? Only two graduates. W' In 1895 there were four. Alphonzo Bell was a member of that class. BEFORE LONG THE BOOK-STACKS ARE MOVED FROM IOHNSON WHEN MR. MC LAIN DIGS THE FIRST SHOVELFUL FOR THE FUTURE HALLS TO THE NEW LIBRARY ERDMAN HALL-1926-A THIRD DORMITORY BECOMES A REALITY -5? Cg4Q4cQ':7x-

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C? tllilllilf I W ,,.,-f-'r- A HANDSOME :ounce-now.: Hamm- , gg , ' ' MAIN DOOR ONE STEPS mm A cnimkug and EHTBISING THE asain THE rm: we Movzo 'ro sr vmcnrrs cou.:c: Asour K .M OUT OF A GRAIN FIELD HALL OF LETTERS. HIGHLAND PARK 1906 I9'I710UR FIRST BUILDINGS L00 H Q a EAGLE Rock VALLEY M IN 'I' E WILDERNESS OF Remember that picnic thirty years ago? . . . the day we came over to see the new campus? Had our noon meal on the grass under an oak tree, played baseball on the hillside. We could see Eagle Rock Valley sloping away in the distance. Yes, it was a good site for a new college. We all hated to leave Highland Park. We'd seen Occidental go through a lot of changes there. But I guess a college outgrows its surroundings just as a person out- grows a suit of clothes. Los Angeles had straggled out into Highland Park. The col- lege was hemmed in by streets and buildings. Trains rumbled down the tracks behind the campus. Yes, it was time to move. The college needed room to grow. r 1 F

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I' X l mmm and ,V 1-r w MANY HONORS AFTER HIS NAME. MARY CUNNINGHAM, TOO-SHE SHOWED US DR. WARD WAS THE GRAND OLD MAN OF THEM ALL. BEAUTY IN A TREE ON THE HILLTOP ALWAYS TOOK AN INTEREST IN WHAT WE DID AND DR. COOK WAS A GREAT LIBRARIAN-HAD A GOOD , I, A .4 5 . .,-' AND WHO CAN FORGET DR. VESTERLY? HE KEPT 3251-HI2ElLI1GHl2TfEgLggII PROFESSOR, CHAIRMAN MITTEE AND A F TO ALL OF US. RIEND I-Ie's president of the Board of Trustees now. Had a big day that time-baseball game, Class Day exercises and the Alumni Dinner-nine alumni altogether. Things were beginning to look better. But we hadn't counted on the fire. It happened on our Monday holiday. In those days we didnit travel on the Sabbath. A few of us formed a bucket brigade. But the blaze had spread and the building burned to the ground. We couldn't even save the laboratory appar- 12