Founders Day Issue
ounders Hall Dedication Today
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Vol. XLI
72 Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1949 No. 19
ALL GARBED OUT in modem and period costumes are the eight campus women chosen to represent the old and the new in today's dedication of Founders hall. Left to right they are Dora Jackson, Alpha Delta Pi; Jeanette Melbourne, Delta Gamma; Marian Mc-[Masters, Delta Gamma; Carmen Perez, Harris Plaza; Lois Ownbey, EVK; Sally Trax, Alpha Gamma Delta; Ann Kelly, EVK; and Phyllis Ford, Pi Beta Phi.
apid Growth Marks I F.ul1 HoLf,e
f, a■ _ ■■	Assured for
C Since Founding
SHOWN ABOVE is the architect's drawing of the new Founders hall which will be the site of cornerstone-laying ceremonies today. The new classroom structure will be completed early next year. When completed, it will house the classes and offices of the
College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
Since the founding of the university and the College of Readily widened, with new schools or colleges being added nost yearly.
wiping to place the-cornerstone of Founders Hall today, will |The list below shows this rapid* jwth, indicating the year each
100I and college was organizea:
|School ol Medicinc...............1885
fhool of Religion (Maclay
College cf Theology)............1887
ihool of Music.........................1894
School of Dentistry______________...1897
chool of Speech__________________1898
:hooI of Law.................._...1901
summer School ......................19U5j
:hool of Education_______________1918!
chool of Social Welfare______1929
:hool of Commerce and Business Administration ....1920, School of Pharmacy................1922
Graduate School ....................1923
University College ..........-......1924
Los Angeles University of International affairs
(affiliated) ...........-......-.....1924
School of Architecture..............1925
School of Engineering .........1927
School of Journalism ............1928
School of Citizenship and
Public Administration ........1929
School of Philosophy .............1929
School of Merchandising _______1929
School of Library Science ..1936 Allan Hancock Foundation for
Scientific Research ..........1939
Institute of the Arts ............1946
idest SC Aiumna o See Ceremony
C’s oldest living alumna will be abeth von KleinSmid bracelets, hand for the Founders Day cere- j awarded annually to the outstand-3ny at 11 this morning.	.	.
j ing Trojane Alumna.
|Mrs. Bertha Lindley Coffin, who I _ . . . ..	. . .
is graduated with a bachelor o!	yesterday on what she
lilosophy degree in 1887. will be , had done since she was graduated
MRS. BERTHA LINDLEY COFFIN is shown above (right) receiving the Elisabeth von KleinSmid bracelet award as the outstanding alumna for 1948. Presenting the award is Diane Griffen. former women's editor of the Daily Trojan and student chairman of the women's annual football
luncheon.
guest of the university today |ong with Judge Jesse W. Curtis, !’s oldest alumnus.
I Mrs. Coffin was on hand at last par’s Women’s Homecoming lun-on and was presented the Elis-
with the class of ’87, as Miss Bertha Lindley, she said, “Oh, I’ve just been living.”
Asked also if sne had made any notable achievements, Mrs. Coffin replied. “Yes, just one. I have lived a good life and enjoyed it.”
Tonight s Bill
More than 1900 music lovers are expected tonight for tne al!-Chopin program to be presented by Vlad-mir Horowitz in Bovard auditorium.
The last 20 of the extra tickets for onstage seating were sold yesterday afternoon, bringing the seating capacity of Bovard auditorium to its limit and beyond.
Horowitz’s concert will close today’s Founders day activities honoring Oct. 5, 1880, when the keys to the university were presented to the Rev. Marion McKinley Bovard, the university’s first president.
Horowitz, who has played as many as 100 concerts in one season, will now perform only six months of the year, spending the other six months in study. He says he will not play a composition before* he has studied everything the composer has written.
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Chopin's death, tonight’s concert is the third in a series that Horowitz is presenting to schools in Southern California.
Tonight’s concert will include Ballade No. 4. Op. 52 F minor; Ballade No. 3. Op. 47 A-flat major; Two Mazurkas, E minor Op. 41 C-sharp minor Op. 30; SOnata No. 2, B-flat minor; Grave. Dopio movi-mento; Scherzo. Piu lento; Funeral march; Finale Presto.
Ballade No. 2, Op. 38 F major; Ballade No. 1. Op. 23 G minor; Nocturne, Op. 15 F-sharp major; Impromptu, A-flat major, Op. 29; Polonaise A-flat major. Op. 53.
All-U Shindig On Tap Friday
Free food, frolic and info aro set for the all-U picnic, Friday, 3:30 at the Exposition park bandstand.
Information includes the revelation of the king and queen of “Hel • lo and Smile” week which will b3 announced at the shindig. The kin'.; and queen will each receive $10 merchandise orders.
Judges for the “King and Queen of Smiles” will be Bernard L Hyink, dean of students; Katie Connelly, Panhellenic adviser; Rae Haas, Mortar Board president: Joyce Elman, chairman of Hello week; and Frank Ashley, DT editor.
Contestants of the Barbershop -Beautyshop Quartet contest will be judged by a nationally known quartet. Recent winners of a national tonsorial-emporium quartet contest in Boston will sing two songs preceding, the local groups to show how barbershop harmony should sound.
AMS-AWS joint committees wiil furnish free hot dogs, cokes, popcorn, doughnuts, coffee, apples, ■“and other tidbits,” said Picnic Chairman Bob Lukas.
“If there is time after eating,” said Lukas, “we'll have a few games or some square dancing before the rally in Bovard.”
The picnic was to be held or* University avenue but the switch was made due to the better facilities and seating accommodation*, of the park. The bandstand is on the west side of the California State Exhibit building.
President Fagg to Officiate At Founders Day Program
Founders Day Convocation Oct. 5, 1949 10:00 a.m.
President Fred D. Fagg Jr. Officiating Program
Prelude and Processional	Ralph Travis—Organ
The National Anthem	Audience and Choir
(Audience will please remain standing until the Invocation has been pronounced)
Invocation	The Reverend Clinton A. Neyman
University Chaplain Our Debt to the Founders Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid Choir	Holy Radiant Light—Gretcheninoff
Hallelujah: Amen—Handel (Dr. Charles Hirt, director)
The Challenge of Today	Dr. Bernard L. Hyink
Dean of Students Alma Mater	Audience and Choir
Benediction	The Reverend Clinton A. Neyman
Recessional	Ralph Travis—Organ
(The audience is asked to remain seated until the academic party has left the auditorium.)
Try Again, Girls, AWS Tea Today
Honest, girls, the DT didn't purposely mislead you about thc AWS orientation tea which, reportedly, was to be held yester
But those of you who went to Counselor of Women Helen Hall Moreland's home, 632 West 35th street^ and found the doors closed may make the trip again today with the full assurance that everything will be ready for day.
Campus clothes are in order, and refreshments of punch and cookies will be served. All new
Squires
... will meet this morning in front of Bovard to usher for the Founders Day assembly. Wear ties and sweaters. This is a regular meeting and required.	- •
Coliseum
. . . workers pick up work cards for the Ohio State game today This will be the only day the cards will be issued.
women students are invited to attend and get acquainted with their classmates and campus
Building Marks SC Growth
This is our 69th year. With this thought, students, faculty, and alumni groups pause today to celebrate Founders day. Sixty-nine years of scholastic achievement serve as the milestones between laying of the first comertsone Sept 4, 1880, and the present group ol colleges. Fame of the university, through its scholars, has spreaa across the country.
The original building was a lonely object, “standing in the midst of a vast stretch of uncultivated plain covered with a rank growth of wild mustard.” Some 50 students were greeted by the 10 professors on opening day; but the building was unfinished, and the professors, as now, had to compete with clanging hammers and whining saws. OLD COLLEGE FIRST The cornerstone for the main building, the now-defunct Old College. was laid in 1884, out the lack of funds delayed completion until 1887. Later, under the administration of President George F. Bovard, the wings were added. Seven hundred volumes were donated to the library, and the students organized a literary society.
During the boom period of the 1880s, the university entered a pro gram of expansion, planned to make it a cultural center about which a group of academies would be planted. Chaffey College of Agriculture at Ontario, Maclay College of Theology in San Fernando, Tulare seminary, and a college of fine arts at San Diego were established
When the boom collapsed, the University of Southern California extended from the San Joaquin valley to the southern boundary of the state. The subsequent depression forced the university to forego its expansion program and centralize.
CAMPUS EXPANDS *
In 1907 a frame structure foi chemistry and pharmacy was erected on the site of the present Science hall. Under President George Finley Bovard, the present Administration building was completed. The north wing was named Hoose hall as a memorial to Dr. James Herman Hoose. and the south wing Stow all hall in honor of the organizer of the School of Education.
Under the presidency of Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid. a remarkable period of building was carried on. The first unit of Science hall was begun in 1924 and completed in 1928. The School of Law building was completed and occupied in 1926, and the Architecture building, now the Cinema building, was raised as a temporary structure. The women’s residence hall and Aeneas hall also were raised in that year.
Agitation on the part of students led to the construction of the Student Union in the spring of 1923 The project was financed entirely through surplus receipts from athletic contests. Bridge hall was mad** possible through the generosity of Dr. Norman Bridge.
EXPANSION STOPS
The Seeley Wintersmith Mudd hall of philosophy was finished in 1929 to house the newly-organized School of Philosophy. In November of that year the Physical Education building was begun.
For the next nine years a period of depression ensued and the build-ing program once again was curtailed, except for the construction
of Town and Gown in 1935.
But in 1938 the university began a new era of expansion with the groundbreaking for three new buildings: Harris hall and Fisher gallery, Hancock hall, and the Engineering building.
BIGGEST PROGRAM YET
During the last war. building on the campus was temporarily halted again. But when the thousands of veterans began pouring in for education under the GI Bill of Rights facilities had to be rapidly expanded to handle the tremendous load. Nineteen ex-Army barracks were moved to the campus, and the Annex building was hastily erected.
Now we are in the midst of SC’? largest single expansion program Five buildings—Founders hall, the Elisabeth von KleinSmid Memorial hall and International house, the cafeteria, the NROTC building, and a gallery to house the Quinn jade collection are now being constructed. More, such as the YWCA building, are yet in the planning stage.
We have come a long way in e.9 years, and we are just beginning tc
redlM tha dreuni ot our foun&rs.
SC's 70 Years To Be Recalled
An all-university convocation in Bovard auditorium at 10 this morning with President Fred D. Fagg Jr. presiding will initiate SC’s Founders Day celebration and the dedication of the new $1 million LAS building, Founders hall. Students having classes between the hours of 10 and 12
will be excused so they may at-*-tend; and 9 a.m. classes will be
dismissed at 9:30.
At the convocation. Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid will deliver an address to the student body on “Our Debt to the Founders." Following Chancellor von Klein-Smid’s address, Dr. Bernard L I Hyink, dean of students, will speak on •‘The Challenge of Today.”
The SC bana wui ieaa the student body from the Founders Day assembly to the speakers’ platform in front of Founders hall, where faculty and administrative Officers, dressed in cap and gown, will conduct the cornerstone-laying ceremonies.
GIRLS GARBED
Eight women, four of whom will be dressed in the fashion of 1880 students while four will be garbed in the latest 1950 coed style, will represent the 70 year span of SC’s history.
Driving up in a horse-drawn buggy, will be the “students of yesterday,” Ann Kelly, Sally Trax, Phyllis Ford, and Lois Ownbey.
“Students of today,” Jeannette, Melbourne, Dora Jackson, Marion McMasters, and Carmen Perez, will arrive in a 1950 convertible.
The young women will split into two groups, each group containing
two representatives of 1880 and 1950. One group will move to tha site of the new cornerstone, while the other will proceed to the seal of the old cornerstone.
TO BE INTRODUCED Dr. Frank Baxter, as master ol ceremonies, will make the opening remarks of the dedication and introduce Dr. von KleinSmid, Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, educational vice-president, Robert D. Fisher, financial vice-president, John E. Fields, director of the department of development, Gwynn Wilson, president of the general alumni association, and ASSO President Robert Padgett.
Following the introduction Dr. Tracy E. Strevey, dean of LAS, will talk on “The Significance of Founders Hall.”
After Dean Strevey’s address, Dr. Baxter will introduce Judge J. W. Curtis, alumnus from the class of 1887, Mrs. Bertha (Lindley) Coffin, oldest living woman graduate of SC, and Wilson, all of whom will lay the old cornerstone. Dr. Baxter will also list the contents of the stone taken from Old College.
CORNERSTONES LAID Then Dean Strevey, Padgett, and George Woolery, president of the LAS student body, will lay the new (Continued on Page 4)
Oldest Alum to Aid In Stone Laying
Judge Jesse W. Curtis, SC’s oldest living alumnus, who is expected to take part in the Founders day celebration by helping to place the cornerstone of Founders Hall today, will find things vastly different from when he graduated in 1887.
When Judge Curtis received his diploma, campus social events consisted chiefly of bull ses-Jf--
sions held at literary society meet-
JUDGE JESSE CURTIS SC's Oldest Alumnus
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had been organized, social life on campus was very limited. The curriculum from which Judge Curtis and the nine other members of the class of ’87 selected their courses was limited also.
The main courses offered were Latin, Greek, philosophy, and higher mathematics. None of the popular present - day professional courses was available.
There was no lack of school spirit, however. J.ne 10 mem tiers of the graduating class chipped in $10 each to have a petrified log from the Arizona petrified forest transported to the campus as a gift to their alma mater.
The log remains on campus today, marked by a tablet on which is inscribed “This section of petrified tree from the Arizona forest was presented to their alma mater by members of the class of 1887 under the direction of Prof. John Dickinson of the department
Since no fraternities or sororities of zoology.”
HERE IS HOW the new Founders hall looked earlier this week as the workmen were busy pouring tons of concrete for the new million dollar classroom structure. New cornerstones will be placed in the building at 11 this morning following convocation in Bovard auditorium.