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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
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[Rancho San Jose de Buenos ,lyres offered a landscape well adapted to the architecture of Lombardy.] N THE spring of 1923 a group of citizens of the State of California, headed by Edward Dickson, jour- neyed to the Wolfskill Ranch, ten miles west of Los Angeles, and standing knee deep in way- ' ng fields of wild grain, broken in the foreground by oaks, and framed in the distance by the high Sierras, resolved to obtain if possible a new campus for the University of California at Los Angeles among these hills. On September 2, 1927, Director Moore turned the first shovel full of earth that broke ground for the creation of the new site for the institution. Q1 When Westwo was chosen after much careful de- liberation from among the many sites offered, it was evident that Fate had kept this vast tract unoccupied for nearly fifty years, in spite of the attempted encroachment of progress, for Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres offered a perfect set- ting upon which to create. in great unimpeded glory the physical design of the University. Per- haps it was merely coincidental that such land- scape was typically characteristic of the prov- inces of Lombardy and of Northern Italy. As the site of the University at Westwood is truly representative of the ideals and aspirations for which the people of California have struggled, so are the buildings on this site representative, but of an even greater heritage, for the ideals of centuries, rather than of decades, have deter- mined the form and design of these structures. While the architects, David C. Allison, design- er of Royce Hall, the designer of the Library, George W. Kelham, the decorator, Julian E. Garnsey, and the many others identified with the conception and construction of the buildings have realized the importance of delving into the past for spiritual inspiration, they have at the same time created something genuinely new, not merely presented a reincarnation of a past age. Such has resulted in a symbol of the true spirit of the university, a recognition of the worth and beauty of things of the past, and a realization of the value of the living present. An enduring edifice is being created which will ever recall to the student the progress of his precursors in the field of education, and his obligation to scholars of the past. yearbook tell the story of UCLA ' s origin. 7
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