University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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women ' s gymnasium under the auspices of difiFerent groups, and always well attended. Each year trips are made to Mount Lowe, the Ostrich Farm, and other points of interest. The Mount Lowe trip is particularly popular and a large group go to the summit each year. The Cub Californian is replaced by a slightly larger sheet, entitled The Summer Session Californian, which is prepared twice eacli week by the jour- nalism and editing classes. In addition to the current news, it publishes extracts and summaries of particularly interesting lectures and general infor- mation of interest to summer students. By advertising and a subscription price of twenty-five cents it is made self-supporting. The Summer Session for 1922 will commence on July 1, and close on August 12. The first summer session of Southern Branch, held in 1918, had an enrollment of 630; 834 attended in 1919, and in 1920 the number had jumped to 1427. Last summer witnessed another big increase when nearly 1800 registered. What the attendance will be this year is problematical, but it would not be surprising if the summer students should outnumber the regular students. A number of new courses are to be offered leading to advanced degrees, and there will also be an increased number of classes giving credit towards the regular Junior Certificate. O University Extension University of California Extension Division has for its purpose the assisting of men and women who are not in attendance at the University, but who desire to carry on study under the University direction. It is a means of extending to the people of California, so far as is practicable, the usefulness of the state ' s greatest educational institution. Of those whom it serves, over seventy-five per cent are teachers who wish to improve their professional status. The remainder are graduates of schools and universities who desire to continue their studies, students not in residence at the University who wish to make up deficiencies before entering the regular session, and a large group of business men and women who wish further study unth-r proper direction. Since the begiiuiing of the Southland Extension in 1917 an increase of 400% has been made in efficiency and work accomplished. At the present time there are 7,634 student enrolhnents in 281 organized classes. The number of registered students is 3.572. which shows that on the average each student is taking more than two intensive courses. If this student body should be transferred to the campus it would mean the education of 400 stu- dents each carrying sixteen iniits of work for one semester. Forty-six instructors and fifty-five hvlnrers and musicians are employed, nineteen of whom are recruited frnni the facultv of the Southern Branch. : .a: ifc .4 Twenty-seven

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:f€ ii?SM p -::. ' I— rjf-riiR ' Zn!3£ lf-l. - s J i: :??: ' - ' nczDCZDi;: m q-fe 54:0 §0 31 r l U-..vg .- ' l Vi SUMMER SESSION UNIVECSITY EXTENSA ? ?Ss r£i 5e:z}(z:zz]CZDczrjczrz!c: nDcrzDcrz)cr3€: S The Summer Session Southern Branch does not close its doors and relapse into a torpor after June graduation. Instead, it spends a busy fortnight in preparation, and then welcomes a totally new group of students, almost as numerous as its regular student body. These summer sessioners are, for the most part, an exceptionally am- bitious group of students who elect to spend six weeks of the summer in study. Some aim to accumulate additional units towards diplomas or degrees; others to absorb special knowledge that will better fit them for work during the rest of the year. School teachers of both sexes, predominate, but there are always a large number of undergraduate students, professional workers, business men, and the year-round class of Federal trainees. Some attend merely as auditors, taking no examinations, and receiving no credit; but the great majority seek to get the most possible from their courses and obtain recognition for the maximum amount of work permitted — six units. Dr. Baldwin M. Woods, professor of aerodynamics at Berkeley, is the Dean of the Summer Session, and is supported by an exceptionally able summer session faculty, which invariably includes a number of nationally famous instructors who come to Southern California for the summer. Many students attend the summer session chiefly to hear the lectures given by these notables. The summer sessioners are a happy and enthusiastic group and develop a surprising a mount of university spirit and solidarity during their six weeks ' existence as a student body. A big assembly, addressed by some prominent speaker, is held once a week, arranged for a different hour every week so as not to repeatedly conflict with any one set of classes. At these gatherings California songs are sung and a brand of California spirit generated which would do credit to the regular student body. Several informal dances are held during the session, taking place in the QP Cm •,r i Twenty -six

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Lucius I. Shaffner enlisted June 9, 1917 (his eighteenth birthday), in the 322nd Field Signal Battalion as a private, later attaining the rank of ser- geant. He was shellshocked in July, 1918, hut after being in the hospital for a time returned to duty and fouglit in five major engagements. While with the Army of Occupation at Coblenz, Germany, he was further weakened l)y influenza and returned as a hospital patient to the United States. His death while a student at Southern Branch was tlie result of the injuries received while in uniform. The University mourns the loss of one of her true heroes. Tuu nty-eight