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

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Members of the Board of Regents were, standing left to right, VICTOR HANSEN, GUS OLSON, CORNELIUS HAGGERTY, DR. HOWARD NAFFZIGER, GERA1D HAGAR, WARREN CROWEll ond JOHN SYMES. Those seated were, left to right, DON- ALD McLAUGHLIN, JESSE STEINHART, EDWARD CARTER, Admiral CHESTER NIMITZ, Dr. ROBERT SPROUL, Chairman ED- WARD DICKSON, EDWARD HELLER, FRED JORDAN, EDWIN PAULEY, EARL FENSTON, WILLIAM MERCHANT and BRODIE AHLPORT. The Board of Regents met for the first time last foil in their new quarters in the new Administration building. Though first and foremost a Col nterested in the growth ond pr n his support of Uclan outonoi n its medical building, whose School was assurance of the re( I, Governor EARL WARREN was deeply i of UCLA. This interest was evidenced vhich began to function last fall, and scaffolding was fast rising. The Med ion of this great humanitarian dream.

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Twenty-two years of faithful service as president of his alma mater were completed this spring by ROBERT GORDON SPROUl. Dr. Sproul was a student of engineering at the Berkeley branch of the University and was graduated with a B.S. degree from there. Before assuming the gargantuan tjsk of supervising the activities of the eight campuses . . . Berkeley, Davis, La Jolla, los Angeles, Mount Hamilton, Riverside, San Francisco and Santa Barbara, he worked in various university capacities as cashier, assistant comptroller, secretary of the Regents, and vice president. tap at the mark Superlative is a word which describes, in part, the University of California, for it is larger than any other college or university in America both in its enrollment and in its faculty- administrative staff. The golden state ' s University also ranks scholastically with the fore- most educational institutions. The University of California is unique because its facilities are spread over the entire state on eight different campuses. Steady growth has been evi- denced since 1853 when the Contra Costa Academy, the tiny beginning, was opened by the Rev. Henry Durant. The College of California, as the Academy was later called, contributed its lands in Berkeley and Oakland, and the federal government contributed public lands as did the state. In March of 1868 a legislative act creating the University was signed and the first Charter Day was celebrated. The first addition to the baby university was the Medical Center in San Francisco, which was opened in 1853. The Mount Hamilton Observatory was added in 1888, Davis in 1909, Scripps Institute in 1912, the Riverside campus in 1913, UCLA in 1919 and Santa Barbara in 1944. Further progress saw UCLA beginning to catch up to its Berkeley brother, more buildings, more students, more land . . . and the progress continued . . .

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Expansion and building took place at DAVIS where the major work of the University ' s large agricultural program was carried out in the instruction of farming and other related subjects. Students made use of the new modern laboratories and class rooms and lived in recently completed dorms. eight campuses SANTA BARBARA is been opened in 1944. Liberal this coastal campus which had ing the 1952-53 school year. N miles north of Santa Barbara, the family circle, having are heavily stressed at enrollment of 1,547 dur- quarters at Golita, seven j to be ready next fall. BERKELEY ' S famous campanile towered over the rest of the campus which is the eldest child in the university family. With the largest enrollment of the eight campuses, since 1853 Cal has grown from a mere baby to a proud, dignified institution which now proudly boasts two Nobel scientists. Education stood as the unifying purpose which bound together the eight campuses of the world ' s largest university ... the University of Cali- fornia. Though separated by many miles, the eight campuses remained close in thought, tra- dition and practice; a nd students were indeed proud to claim the Blue and Gold as Alma Mater. I