UCLA History: Ali
Boxer Muhammad Ali speaks to crowd at UCLA in 1971.
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Faculty Giving to UCLA: More Generous than John D.
Faculty giving to UCLA is reported in UCLA Today of 8/16/11 and we are clearly more generous than John D. Rockefeller, at least as pictured above: …With a push from a faculty-giving campaign that launched in December 2010, faculty giving increased 51 percent from $5.81 million in FY 2010 to $8.77 million in FY 2011. The number of faculty donors also increased 17 percent from 1,312 to a total of 1,529. … Full story at http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/gift-totals-rise-for-year-as-donors-213561.aspx Thanks for Bette Billet for this reference.
Translated: Recreation Price Increase
The notice in italics below appeared in UCLA Today Aug. 15 (excerpt) and seems to be announcing a price increase for recreation services. Alternatively, for free you can wait to play in the snow on campus as in January 1932. UCLA Recreation has revamped its membership structure with new pricing options and simplified its offerings into three campus zones. Faculty and staff can now select memberships to access one, two or all three of the new zones, explained Bill Aberbuch, the marketing services manager for Recreation. The Central Zone includes the John Wooden Center, the Student Activities Center (except for…
Wilshire-Gayley Hotel Plan Reported to be Moving Right Along
As previous posts on this blog have noted, a local developer bought and cleared the old Hollywood video store site at the corner of Wilshire and Gayley with plans to open a new Westwood hotel. LAObserved reported yesterday that the Wilshire-Gayley plan is moving along, with an architect hired to deal with the odd triangular shape of the site. (There is a further link in the LAObserved article to a more detailed piece on the proposed hotel.) You can find the article at http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2011/08/westwood_village_hotel_wo.php Readers of this blog will also know that UCLA has been proposing to build a 280-room…
UCLA History: Murphy
The photo at the top is of Franklin Murphy, chancellor of UCLA in the 1960s until his resignation in 1968 to become chair of Times-Mirror. At the bottom is Murphy, former President Eisenhower, and UC president Clark Kerr. The two photos are reproduced from Margaret Leslie Davis, The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles (UC Press, 2007). The opening chapters of the book tell of Murphy’s recruitment from the U of Kansas – which he headed – by the downtown business movers and shakers of LA to be chancellor of UCLA. At the time, there…
UCLA History: From Above
Aerial photo of new Westwood UCLA campus in 1929. The bridge over the (long-ago filled in) ravine is plainly visible on the right of the buildings.
UCLA History: Bunche
Ralph Bunche (after whom Bunche Hall is named) at far left in this photo taken at UCLA’s old Vermont Avenue campus in 1927. You can easily find more on Bunche on the Internet.
UCLA History: Postcard
Early postcard of UCLA, probably from 1930s.
Lawful Money
Milken Foundation gives $10M to UCLA law school Daily News, 08/09/2011 LOS ANGELES – Lowell Milken gave UCLA’s law school $10 million, putting it ahead of schedule in raising $100 million over five years, it was announced today. The fundraising drive was started in 2008 to benefit student scholarships, attract and retain faculty and to support centers and institutes that inform law and public policy. The gift from Milken, the biggest in the law school’s history, will be used to start the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy… Full article at http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_18645516 Down it comes:
UCLA History: Fox Westwood
The Fox Westwood theater near UCLA in the 1930s.