Pepperdine University - Promenade Yearbook (Malibu, CA)

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IFF FROM PEP it's thursday night! Unstructured weekends provide Seaver students freedom and diversity. While it contrasted somewhat from most university's prime-time rest and relaxation period, at Seaver College this slightly extended weekly intermission had already become a tradition of sorts. With the end of classes on Thursday afternoon, the weekend officially began for most students (whether they had classes on Friday or not) as they briefly cast their academic anxieties aside and prepared to enjoy a “no holds barred weekend. As freshman Kevin Wilson put it. Thursday nights were more like Friday nights, because everyone leaves on Friday. Yet. whether it was making the local gathering at the Hat (Pep jargon for Straw Hat Pizza), mingling at Trancas, or cruising Westwood, one could be sure that Pep s students were always where the action was. I think of Thursday night as the weekend, but I try to get home earlier than 1 would on Friday’s and Saturday's. stated sophomore Macs Stewart. As Thursday night fever became Friday morning exhaustion, students either slept in from their previous evening rendezvous or wearily ached through their schedule of classes before preparing to crash out for some more hours of sleep. As one student said. If I go out on Thursday night. I usually don’t go to classes on Friday. Friday afternoons at Seaver College almost instinctively seemed to generate a curious hush on campus which was evident by the absence of student's cars which had already left for the weekend, or were positioned along dorm rows waiting to depart. This obvious decline in campus population over the weekend has created a suitcase campus atmosphere at Seaver College, where students departed on weekends and arrived back in time to resume their Monday morning classes. In short, the commuter-style campus environment allowed students at Seaver College to pursue their own diverse interests. The weekends. sophomore Kelly Moore said, are boring, there's nothing to do. I usually end up in Westwood. While freshman Linda Reiff enjoyed the opportunity the weekends provided. I leave to visit friends. For students like Nicholas Iracleous, weekends provided a much needed escape. “1 leave because I need to go out. Coming from another country. I want to visit; I want to see California.” But for others, the Saturdays and Sundays which passed in much the same fashion around campus, also gave some students a chance to get some real work done and avoid the distractions usually associated with dorm life, which on weekends also seemed to undergo a subtle transformation as a cherished haven of solitude conducive to studying. OPENING 21

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I. Latigo Bay Villas residents down ll up. 2. Seaver students dance at Tran-cas Restaurant. 3. Halloween foursome prepare for evening: Dwayne Morlng, Tom Akin, Jeff Bliss and Gary Fakhoury. 4. Latigo residents celebrate a birthday. 5. Dorm residents take study break. 6. Swenson 's Ice Cream Parlor serves as student favorite. 7. Students dance at September mixer. 8. Seaver student takes advantage of a weekend away. 10. Joslyn Plaza at day's end.

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HERITAGE beach house becomes museum Facility returned to state of California It has been saved from the bulldozer, but the Rindge-Adamson Beach House and Estate will no longer be the home of the Pepperdine University chancellor and his wife. And with the change of the facility’s residents, the site instrumental in the planning of the university’s Malibu campus this year will become a museum under the auspices of the Malibu Historical Society. Now as part of California's system of State Beaches and Parks, this point of land connects Surfriders Beach and Malibu Lagoon. The move had been anticipated since almost 1970 by Dr. and Mrs. Norvel Young. They now become occupants of executive housing on campus. leaving behind many fond memories of their opportunity to live at the focal point of Malibu’s rich Spanish heritage. Young estimated that more than 6,000 donors, faculty and staff members have been guests of the estate. We feel privileged to have lived here. Young said. We are glad to see it (the house) preserved so we don’t mind leaving. For of its visitors the picturesque interior of the home sets an atmosphere of Moorish tradition. Colorful custom-designed tiles, hand-tools antique furniture, detailed patterns and the iron framework and an authentic grandfather clock create an image of magnificance. The 10-room beach residence, garden and environs.” Judge John Merrick said, represent one of the last remaining. authentic ties to Malibu’s cultural and historical heritage. Merrick serves as president of the historical society. The property, consisting of 13 acres located at the mouth of Malibu Creek was acquired in the early part of 1968. And the ties to the past go way back as it is a portion of the Malibu-Topanga-Sequit Rancho acquired by Frederick Hastings Rindge and May Knight Rin-dge in 1891. An archeological site in the Adamson Gardens establishes the area as a link to the ancient Chumash Indians, whose descendants were displaced by the white man. The Adamson Point was also an important landfall for Spanish exlorers and colonizers with Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo one of the first to sail into Malibu Cove. A beauty that Cabrillo found will be maintained, a chapter of the university’s history is being completed. The grounds, furnishings, murals and interior decorations will be left behind. However, it is unlikely the people who have seen the unusual quality found there will soon forget the experience.