University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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I Gf.orgf. Finlev Bovard Because he aiiUd a small, growing university through the dangerous period of the war, and because he was the moving spirit behind the rapid expansion ivhich carried that university to the heights during the year inimediatdy foUoiving the war, George Finley Bovard, President Emeritus of the University of Southern California, rightfully deserves a place of honor in the history of Troy. His was a task as difficult as that which faced Marion Mc- Kiiilcy Bovard in his efforts to build a university from the tiny institution trhich occupied a small tract of land on Wesley Avenue in 1R90: and the completion of that task made Southern California ready to step into its place as the great university of the Southicest. [24]

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Faculty Administration

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R. B. voK KleinSmid - XyO Rufiis Bernlianl von KhinSinul. pitsiiUnt of llic I ' nivtrsily (if Southern Calif orniti, mint yo the lion ' s share of credit for the re iiarl-ahle groivth of the university iluriny the past deeaile of our history. An administrator par exeellenec. an educator tcho values eoininunity cultural progress as irell as traditional standards of edu- cation. President von KleinSmid has made the University of Southern California an integral pari of the life of Los Angeles and of Southern California. Today the university, celehratini its fiftieth annivcr- sar , remembers the names and the deeds of those ivho built the nails of Troy, and Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, ivatehing the great Semi-(Jentcnnial Jubilee, may justly be proud of his share in the development of this great institution of learning. ■25}