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

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Introduction As individuals, we often have to stop our mad rush of activities and take stock of our lives reassessing where we are, where we ' re coming from, and where we ' re going. As a university, we also make reassessments, and it seems necessary and fitting that we d o so in this Bicentennial year when, as Americans, we look back on our country ' s history. Much is being said about these last two hundred years as a nation, but few of us, as students, know anything about UCLA other than what we see in the few years that we spend here. With this in mind, the staff of Southern Campus ' 76 has produced a yearbook that attempts to take stock of UCLA ' s life, assessing where we are, where we ' re coming from, and where we ' re going. We ' ll go back as early as 1900 when UCLA was known as the State Normal School, and later as the Southern Branch — an offspring of the University of California, Berkeley. We ' ll travel up through the years, from the 30s to the 60s, seeing growth, changes, and personalities; and we ' ll look at the way we are today, hopefully with a better perspective and appreciation for the years that we will have spent here. Finally, for those leaving us this year to go and take their places out in the world, we ' ll offer some practical suggestions on how to start. We hope that this yearbook will be meaningful for you and that it will reflect the essence of your years here at UCLA. Long after you will have gone from campus, the halls and classrooms will still echo with the sounds of students, but for you, these pages of Southern Campus will be your most vivid record of one of your own years — 1976. 3