miscellaneous

If you enter Rolfe Hall from the south entrance, you come across what appears to be a model of the Old Globe Theater.  There is no label indicating who made it or why it is there. Across from the model is an electrical panel of some type with a light indicating there is “trouble.”  It blinks on… …and off and beeps each time like a truck backing up.  No one seems to be troubled by the trouble.  Finally, the one non-mystery is the identity of Rolfe which is explained on a plaque near the model: As you can see, there…

Martin Luther King at UCLA, April 27, 1965 Last Martin Luther King Day, I posted a personal remembrance of the March on Washington at http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2013/01/missing-king.html. There was a Facebook audio link to New York City radio commentator Jean Shepherd’s report on the March, broadcast a day after the event, in that posting.  Here, for the 50th anniversary today of the March, is the same broadcast in three segments (total duration around 40 minutes) in easier-to-access YouTube links: Part 1: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeeDIbqkU0A?feature=player_detailpage] Part 2: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX6x0pbjNio?feature=player_detailpage] Part 3: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1irKDIzXgGw?feature=player_detailpage]

The women’s dorm for the old Vermont Avenue campus of UCLA before the move to Westwood.

During the summer doldrums, we continue to provide scans of pictures from UCLA’s history as shown in the book, “California of the Southland,” published by the alumni in 1937.  You can pick what you like as interesting from the 1936 picture above.  There is the presence of Gov. Frank Merriam who had been Lieutenant Governor and then became governor on the death of the sitting governor.  Merriam was elected in his own right, defeating author Upton Sinclair in 1934 in the great EPIC campaign.  If you don’t know about that, you should.  So start by Googling it. Another item of…

If you are getting the sense from recent posts of historical photos from UCLA that not much happens in current events in mid-August, you are correct.  So – given the dearth of exciting events – here is another photo showing the bookstore in Kerckhoff in the mid-1930s.

Here’s another photo from “California of the Southland,” the book published by UCLA alumni in 1937.  The student affairs building at the time was Kerckhoff Hall, long before the larger Ackerman Union was built.  Above is the student cafeteria in Kerckhoff.