Year: 2012

The UCLA campus is so lovable that couples come to it to have engagement photos taken, as per above. But sometimes, even at UCLA, all does not go well in affairs of the heart: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXUphyeOjko&w=320&h=195] On the other hand, boy (Houdini) did get girl (the hard way) in 1919 in Santa Monica: PS: Faithful readers of this blog will know that things can work out at UCLA, too, as we demonstrated last fall:http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/10/modest-proposal-at-ucla.html

Inside Higher Ed this morning pointed me to a news item from last Friday: Teofilo Ruiz, a professor of history and of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA – whose unusual faculty webpage photo appears at left – was awarded a National Humanities Medal according to a White House announcement.  The actual awarding of the medal will take place today. Excerpt from the official profile released by the White House:  Ruiz has also earned accolades for his teaching, including being named U.S. professor of the year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1995 and receiving UCLA’s Distinguished…

Not all demonstrations on the UCLA campus during the Vietnam War opposed the war.  Above in 1966, LA Mayor Sam Yorty speaks to group supporting the war.

Before the Fowler Museum moved to the UCLA campus, it stood on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills as this 1978 photo shows.

Photo from LA Public Library collection.  Photograph caption dated January 9, 1958 reads, “Marion Davies presents check for $1,500,000 to build a new Marion Davies Children’s Wing at UCLA Medical Center to Edwin W. Pauley, chairman of the board of regents. Watching are Vern O. Knudsen, UCLA vice chancellor, and Dr. Stafford L. Warren (right), dean of the UCLA Medical School. An architect’s sketch of the medical center is in the background.” In 1998, the hospital was renamed the Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA in recognition of the gift made to the hospital by Mattel, Inc.