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

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Sleeping serenely under a mantle of snow is the dormant volcano, Popocatapetl. while three men and a horse (or is it a donkey?) look on. apparently unaware of its beauty. Seen from the highway to Mexico City from the town of Puebla. Ye Olde Grads of Ucla banded together this year from August 9th to August 25th to trek south of the border to carefree Mexico. The alumni enjoyed everything about the trip — the siestas, the scenery and even the tamales and enchiladas. All gen- erally agreed that It was wonderful! Apparently forgetting to signal for a left turn, these seafarers find themselves in a ticklish situation in the Floating Gardens at Xochimilco. The beautiful Cathedral of Taxco as viewed from a quaintly picturesque street. Could those interested spectators be three of our sun-tanned alumni? A sunny day in Mexico bears no evils for the natives, as these senors with sombreros prove while standing in the native market place in Toluca. Two alumnae, Marie Jauregui and Frances Aertker, very adequately chaperoned by Jose , enjoy a ride in a speedy cabriole in the beautiful city of Guada- lajara.

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o » : ° o ' ° Known to everyone for his pleasantly perfect personality is Mr. John lackson. Secretary of the U.C.L.A. Alumni Association. Johnny, a Phi Delta Theta of the Class of ' 27, also ably handles the Editorship of the U.C.L.A. Magazine, with assistants Mimi Koumrian and Mollie Gaston — Managing and Associate Editors, respectively. Once just a southern office branch of the Berkeley- Alumni Association, U.C.L.A. ' s own alumni Associa- tion records its official birth date as March, 1934. Now- one of the largest groups of its kind, it boasts a cor- respondingly large program. Beginning with the establishment of the campus Bureau of Occupations, the indefatigable Alums went on to inaugurate a general Alumni Banquet which has since become an annual Academic Homecoming; and the mimeo- graphed News Bulletin they experimentally inserted into The California Monthly in 1926 has gro-wn into The U.C.L.A. Magazine. Such a forward march has increased the business of the Association which now claims the sponsorship of both Fall and Spring Home- comings, and the endowment of yearly scholarships supported by the organization dues.

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At the drawing held at the Alumni Banquet, Regent George 1. Cochran held the lucky number which won him a Pigskin personally autographed by all the members ol our mighty football team. Regent Cochran joyously beams at his very good fortune, as he is presented the iootball by our own fair haired boy, Captain Ted Forbes. By acting his usual, bewitching self, Doodles Weaver made the spectators ' sides ache. His costumes were enough to steal the show, but combined with his personality, they were all the more effective. Lovely Hope Manning, charming chanteuse, supplied some songs which left the jammed auditorium shouting for more. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Reagan, lane Wyman to you, disprove the old adage that After two weeks of marriage, the honeymoon ' s over, and proceeded to have a marvel- ous time at the Banquet. The Women ' s Gym, where the festiv- ity was held, was decorated like the proverbial Christmas tree, and served its purpose perfectly. limmy Durante. Joe E. Brown and Jimmy Lash, Secretary to Presi- dent Sproul. find everything to their liking as they discuss the show. The backstage atmosphere has no doubt caused them to feel at home. By the way, in case you ' re wondering, the gentleman with the extended profile is Mr. James Durante, esquire.