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

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GEORGE I. COCHRAN H. L. CARNAHAN MRS. M. S. SARTORI VIERLING KERSEY JOHN R. HAYNES ROBERT A. CONDEE ' ON university of California At Angeles HE YOUTH, the the present faith and the future promise of the of California at Los is the nascent fulfillment of an ideal that was conceived in the minds of a few men in the declining seventies, who saw in the rush of material progress a need for cultural growth. In the early part of 1881, provision was made, by act of the state legislature, for the creation of a normal school at Los Angeles. This action was followed immediately by the acquisition of five acres of land in the heart of the city, a gift of 200 loyal citizens, and instruction began in August of 1882, with a total enrollment of sixty-one students and three faculty members. In 1911 the growth of the school necessitated further legislative action, and a new campus of twenty-five acres was selected on North Avenue. Two years later, in honor of Dr. Jesse F. Millspaugh, who had presided over the school since 1904, the cornerstone of Millspaugh Hall was laid, and in 1914 the new quarters were ready for occupancy. As a result of the faithful efforts of Dr. Millspaugh and Dr. E. C. Moore, the property of Normal School was transferred to the state on July 24, 1919, and became the University of California, Southern Branch, and later the University of California at Los Angeles. On September 21, 1927, Director Ernest Carroll Moore broke ground on the site of a rancho for the new campus of the and in 1929 the University moved bodily to Westwood. Regents of the University of California which supervise the University at Los Angeles are Mrs. Margaret Rishel Sartori, Vierling Kersey, H. L. Carnahan, George I. Cochran, E dward Augustus Dickson, John Haynes, and Robert A. Condee. These pages from the 1929 Southern Campus 6