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

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The University of California at Los Angeles as it looks from the air. Pictured here are the Chemistry and Physics buildings, Royce Hall, the University Library, Kerckhoff Hall, Education and Life Science building and the Women ' s and Men ' s Physical Education buildings.

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Though one of the youngest educational institu- tions in our nation, the University of California at Los Angeles boasts an infancy of rich tradition and inspiring progress. This year of nineteen hundred and forty-four comnnemorates the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the school and its rapid growth and expan- sion has surpassed even the dreams of Doctor Ernest Moore, the first president, who wrote in the 1920 Southern Cannpus . . . we shall look with amazement upon the development of the University for it is greater, far greater than the imagination of any of us can foresee. Beginning as the Los Angeles Normal School, the College enlarged with amazing rapidity; in fact, to such an extent that the necessity for a larger campus arose. So it was, that the Vermont branch of the University of California was born, to accommodate those seeking other forms of higher learning. Out- standing professors were imported from every part of the country to comprise the faculty and for ten years U.C.L.A. lived up to its highest expectations. hieavier enrollment entailed the erection of a more extensive campus; hence, the Westwood chap- ter. Adopting a Lombardian type of architecture for the various buildings, the landscape effected an atmosphere of romanticism and reverence. With a famous teaching staff to guide and instruct its many students, this California of the Southland has achieved its goal; namely, a strong academic sched- ule balanced by an active extra curricular program. True enough, the advancement of U.C.L.A. has been swift but its future destinies are certain to hold still greater accomplishments. 1 Pf Photographically portraying the history and de- velopment of the Southern branch of the Uni- versity of California are these likenesses of Millspaugh Hall on the Vermont campus, the State Normal School in downtown Los Angeles and Wolfskin Rancho. Each of these represent the progressive steps which eventually lead to the University we know today. n.t t -« . • . — i . - -- -r II

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On May 31, 1929, automobiles, trucks, and mov- ing vans brought everything from furniture to textbooks to the university ' s new home. Mules, too, contributed their efforts toward the build- ing of the new Wesbwood campus. Pictured to the left are the many students who attended the clearing of Spaulding Athletic Field. 1(1 Appropriate to Southern California ' s Spanish type of architecture was the Italian Romanesque style followed by the builders whose task it was to construct the new University of California at Los Angeles. Today stands a university which inpires one to mingle among the learned. The majestic tow- ers of Kerckhoff, Royce, the Library, the broad expanses overlooking Westwood Hills to the west, the blue Pacific to the south, and the San Bernardino Mountains to the north, all contribute to its beauty. Yet more important than its background is the prospect of its future. Dr. Robert Sproul, president of the University, has promised the addition of a new College of Engineering, featuring prominently in its curriculum the field of aeronautical sciences. We shall look forward to even greater growth to be recorded in the future of our university. ■ - J