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Iliallmml .lllllilee Ulllllllllblllllbllllbllf P age ZS - ACIFIC, the West's oldest . college, celebrated its dia- I mond jubilee commencement with the graduation of the class of l932 on the evening of June 13. The event, which was the most elaborate in the history of the college, was held in Baxter Stadium and given nation-wide publicity through the me- dium of movietone newsreels and roto- gravure pictures in the leading news- papers of the country. + Dr. R. A. Millikan, world famous physicist and president of the California Institute of Technology, delivered the commence- ment address to the one hundred and twenty-eight graduates and he was easily heard by the vast audience throughout the entire stadium through amplification by the public address system. + Prominent business men of the Bay area sponsored the occasion and appointed a committee headed by Paul Shoup, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, to aid in arranging the activities. A representative group of alumni, ministers, local business men, and leaders from the educational institutions of the state, also backed the event. These sponsors added to the unusual academic parade into the stadium in opening the commencement exercises, led by the graduates in their black caps and gowns. The members of these sponsoring committees for the occasion were entertained by the college at a dinner on the campus at five o'clock on the afternoon of commencement day, together with some two hundred and fifty educational leaders of the state invited as guests at the commencement program. + The student committee, appointed by William Morris as president of the student body, which helped to arrange this seventy-fifth commencement, was composed of Mel Matheny as chairman, Wallace Hall, Rowena Hardin, Barbara Borden, Charles Segerstrom, Evelyn Sawyer, Ken- nard Chandler, Pauline Randolph, Margaret Hench, Caroline Diffenderfer, Robert Wriglit, Isabel Falch, joe Capurro, and William Morris. This group aided in promoting the project as one of national interest. + Present and past members of the A Cappella Choir assembled for the occasion and rendered some songs as part of the program. The entire band and orchestra of the college were massed as a feature of the program, also. The robed seniors marched to their places in the stadium at sundown and, as the sun set and darkness came on, the floodlights on top of the 90-foot masts of the stadium were lighted and flooded the audience. The program began at seven o'clock and Dr. Millil-:an's address was listened in to by hundreds of radio audiences throughout the country as well as a notable gathering of prominent persons in the public life of the state of California, present at the exercises. After the address, the graduates of 1932 were presented with their Dr. R. A, llillikan
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