Pepperdine University - Promenade Yearbook (Malibu, CA)

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This Fine Am facility would complete the Ahmanson Fine Am Complex for the study and presentation of music, theater and applied am. The fully equipped Communication Building would provide a home for studies in journalism, broadcasting, public relations and related disciplines. Phase II of the School of Law would add two classrooms, a trial courtroom. 15 faculty offices, a student recreation area and 15,000 square feet to the library. Wave oj Excellence 11

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To GROW Besides being a $100 million fundraising campaign for the different facets of the university, the Wave of Excellence is also a public relations campaign for Peppcrdine. “The more Pepperdine University becomes a prestigious institution of learning, the more your diploma as a graduate is worth, Richard Ellison, assistant vice president of University Affairs, said. Students who are now enrolled in the undergraduate program will benefit from Pepperdine's increase in prominence upon their graduation. As far as long-term goals, the university plans to use funds from the six-year campaign to enlarge facilities and benefits. Fifty million dollars of the goal is planned for enhancements such as faculty salary increases, which hopefully will increase the caliber of professors. This half of the funds will also be used for loans, scholarships and the libraries of Seaver College, the graduate schools and the law school. The remaining $50 million will be used for building construction. Included in the list for the Malibu campus is a Communication Building, a Fine Arts Building and a second phase of the Law School. Construction on the Charles B. Thorton Administrative Center began this year. The campaign brings together the university as an entity, Ellison said. It acts as a unifying force for all campuses of Pepperdine University, working toward excellence in education. The campaign was announced at the annual Pepperdine Associates Dinner in May, 1984. At that event a special film, in which students, faculty and alumni talked about the campaign’s goals, was shown. The height of the campaign, to stretch from 1984-90, will be In 1987 at the university's 50th anniversary. It will be a gala birthday celebration in which everyone can participate. Ellison said. Efforts to include alumni in the celebration are of utmost importance, according to Ellison. There are an estimated 28,000 alumni of Pepperdine University, and the goal is to increase alumni donors and gifts to the university through the Alumni Relations Office and its director, Doug Plank. At the end, it all seems to come back to the students at Seaver. The students and graduates arc spokesmen of the university, Ellison said. “They act as our salesmen to the community and our ambassadors to the public.” So, besides increasing funds and benefits, the Wave of Excellence campaign hopes most of all to increase the name and prestige of Pepperdine University. “We are still not with the ‘big boys’ yet or on the same level as USC, Ellison said, but this campaign should knock us into the ballpark.” —Karen Brown The Charles B. Thornton Administrative Center will satisfy one of the most compelling needs for the physical management of Pepperdine. It will be the first building completed in the Wave of Excellence campaign. 10 Wave of Excellence

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firm irt Clockwise from top left. With students and camera crews looking on. Mark Harmon of St. Elsewhere” competes in Battle of the Set-work Stun.” Hags from competing nations fly over the Intramural field for the Olympics. Yugoslavia receives the gold medal for water polo at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool, while the U.S. proudly accepts the silver. Facing page. A 16-foot Olympic pole directs spectators to the Water polo competition. SGA member Bruce Kahl helps better Pepperdine’s image in the community by painting the Malibu Pier. 12 Outside Perspectives