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$2 MILLION DENTAL GRANT
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Vol. XVI		LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1964	No. 57
$7.5 MILLION FROM FOUNDATION
NEW FORD CHALLENGE
Money Earmarked For Dental Clinic
A S2.003.500 grant to assist USC in constructing a three-story addition to its present School of Dentistry clinic teaching building at 925 W. 34th St. was announced yesterday by the U. S. Public Health Service.
President Norman Topping announced receipt of the grant under provisions of the Health Professions Educa-
tional Assistance Act of 1963.
USC must match the federal grant dollar for dollar, and dental alumni have already started a fund-raising drive headed by Dr. Arthur L. Hudson.
Thirty-six other dental alumni are members of the Committee for the Project for Excellence in Dentistry
EDITORIAL
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The Challenge
The University of Southern California's drive toward enterprise and excellence in education has been rewarded, and challenged, for the second time in two years by the Ford Foundation.
By virtue of a $7.5 million matching grant, the Ford Foundation provided both a reward for nearly two years of educational improvement and fund raising and issued a challenge for the next three years.
Rewarded was USC’s initiative in earning an original $6.5-million Ford grant one year, two months and 15 days ahead of the deadline. In meeting the initial Ford challenge, USC was credited with raising an “extraordinary sum of money.”
It was also noted that since USC received the first grant in 1961, the university had taken “extraordinary steps to mesh the elements of faculty, students, program and physical plant” into what wTas termed “a national center of outstanding scholarship, teaching and service to society.”
USC can be justly proud of its tremendous achievement in matching the first Ford challenge. But, if success is to be again achieved, it will require the combined efforts of all members of the university community.
This is the challenge. It is directed toward the faculty, toward the students and their parents, toward the alumni, toward the Trustees, toward the corporations and toward still other foundations.
It will be a tremendously challenging three years for USC. But the end certainly justifies the means in this case, because in accepting and meeting the challenge, USC will be fulfilling the real purpose of the grant — making a fine university into a great university.
Model UN Forms Now Available
Model United Nations of;major field of study,” Gross-the Far West (MUNFW) j berg said, delegation applications are The applications will be available today in 420 FH due Jan. 8. and the Student Activities USC will represent the Office, 324 SU, Larry Gross- United Kingdom. Because
,__, i . , .	ithis is a major country, the
berg, delegate chairman, an-	..	, ,
-J university must supply one
nounced yesterday.	representative for each com-
MUNFW, a direct Simula- mittee and council in which tion of actual U.N. proceed-1 England is represented, ings, will be held April 7-10 “We will be working very at Claremont College, Clare- closely with the Consul Gen-mont, Calif.	eral to determine the right
Over 110 universities from view towards British policy,” 13 states will participate in Grossberg said, the 15th annual meeting to The 10- to 15-member del-discuss the “truly unsolvable egation will include repre-problems of the U.N.,” Gross- sentatives to the General As-berg said.	sembly, Security Council and
“We will concentrate on Economic and Social Counproblems of both past and cil.
current significance,” he ex- USC (United Kingdom) plained.	will also be on the following
The delegates will be cho- committees: Political and Se-sen by their academic stand- curity, Special Political, Eco-ing, courses and interest. nomics and Finance, Commit -“They can be either grad- tee of 24, Committee of 21 nates or undergraduates, on and the Conference on Trade any grade level and in any, and Development.
which has raised $527,820 so far.
They are Drs. Frank H.
Abbott, John R. Abel. Robert L. Borland II, Raymond M.
Contino, Paul J. Davidson,
Floyd E. Dewhirst, Louis W.
Einzig, Mario Fusco, Dudley ,H. Glick, Edwin W. Halvor-son, Clarence D. H o n i g.
Adrian O. Hubbell, Ross C.
Huntley, J. Lorenz Jones, Leroy E. Knowles, Leonard Z.
Lyon, Lester V. Lyon, Dallas R. McCauley, Herman B.
Maltz, G. Donald Montgomery, Robert X. Morrell, Fred B. Olds, Rulon W. Openshaw,
Cassius E. Paul, F. Fern Petty, Charles L. Pincus, Mul-ford Smith, Douglas F. Snow,
Harvey M. Spears, Vernon R.
Swan, E. Boyd Thompson, B.
Michael Tylicki, S. James Vamvas, Robert W. Vickers,
John B. Wilson and C. Maynard Woodward.
Marks a Milestone “This grant and our Project for Excellence mark a milestone in the progress of the 67-year-old School of Dentistry,” said Dr. John I.
Ingle, who became dean this fall.
The new construction,
making the School of Dentis- in 1880 a Catholic, a Jewiways to earn a living than’of a fence around Bovard try a four-story building, will an(j a Protestant organized gathering arrows.	Field.
COMMON OCCURENCE — President Topping (r) and Board of Trustees President Frank King participate in recent
building dedication ceremonies. Construction is expected to boom at USC with the second Ford matching grant.
CATHOLIC, JEW, PROTESTANT
Three Men Organize Multi-Million Dollar Troy
replace the old triangular what js now a multi-million dental technic building at 635 donar corporation.
Exposition Blvd., at the
On Sept. 4, 1880, the cor-	.	.
„ .	i During the “Roaring Twen-
nerstone for the firet univer- ^,, D|. Rufus R von K|ejn
southeast corner of the cam-!, They	"ewt s>ty building now Widney -y became the universitys
er ot the cam from (he rubbl t history Hall was laid. At that time,|fifth ident Under him
‘	and called it the University of for $12 tuition, the scholars , nnnniatinn nf Tjcp soared
When classrooms and labo- Southern California.	received a liberal education , ^ . 15 000 and Phi
ratories for students in the	34 years later, it bland attended daily chapel ^^“ ganizeS
first two years of dentistry stretchi for the gtars at ajServices, for the universityj	PP
are moved into the new build-!neck breaking pace. it covers was under Methodist sponsor-' Lpon his resignation to as-
ship.
Four years later gradua-
ing at the opposite comer of m	contains 16 pr()tes.
the, campus, the old technicjsiona] or	schoois.
building will be torn down. It was built more than 60 years ago.
Class Increases
a University College and an!tion exercises were held for
extensive Graduate School. Now a thriving metropolis
s u m e responsibilities as
Chancellor of the university,
he was succeeded by Dr. Fred
Fagg Jr. in 1947. Founders
., . T , ~ , .Hall, the Health Center, med-Presidents Joseph P. Wid- ^ dpnta] buildingg. the
three graduates.
use will also increase the °S 2°L°?VT?y °nC6 had	Whi? guMe<!:Com,nons and several ' res-
u=>L, wifi also increase theja habitants.	USC through its next several a	Tr„„._
size of its freshman class in the dental school from 105 to 115 students when the new facilities are completed.
Stanton & Stockwell, archi-
USC’s first president, Marion Bovard, took the job as second choice. He was on
years and created the Law and Medical Schools, the Oratory College and the athletic
his way from Los Angeles to|department.
Arizona on a religious mis- One of the first three gradu-
idence halls marked Troy’s skyline.
Dr. Fagg was followed by Dr. Norman Topping who was the second alumnus to
band of marauding Apaches. Their attack forced him to
tects of Los Angeles, who de- gjon when he encountered a ates, George Finley Bovard, return to Troy as president signed the present dental	m	^
clinic building, built in 1952,
are at work on plans for the|t;Urn	When he arrived
three additional floors. |aj- gan Bernardino he was Construction is expected to convinced by Rev. John Tan-start about February, 1966. |sey that there were better
became president in 1903. Under his guidance the enrollment climbed to 900. He initiated an expansive building plan which included a $5,000 gymnasium and the installing
The seventh president, he conceived the Master Plan emphasizing “Enterprise and Excellence in Education.”
His influence and genius are obvious. Look around you
Topping Says USC Will Meet 1967 Deadline
For the second time in two years, the Ford Foundation has made a multi-million dollar conditional matching grant to USC to further its Master Plan goals of enterprise and excellence in education.
Under the terms of the new $7.5 million Ford challenge, USC can earn that amount in three years by raising $22.5 million in cash from other private sources.
President Norman Topping immediately accepted the challenge and promised the university will meet it.
“Having earned our first $6.5 million from the Ford Foundation last September — one year, two months and 15 days ahead of the deadline — we are confident we can succeed again,” Dr. Topping said. “Such success, however, will come only with the help of our Trustees, thousands of loyal alumni, students and their parents, corporations and still other foundations.
$30 Million Target
“Our new fund-raising target will be $30 million in the next three years.” Dr. Topping announced. “This sum will permit us to meet the new Ford challenge and accelerate the progress toward our broad goals in teaching, research and the construction of new facilities.”
With the support of “strong educational leadership and imagination,” USC demonstrated it could marshal the financial support necessary to meet its high goals, according to Henry T. Heald, president of the Ford Foundation.
Dr. Heald credited USC with raising an “extraordinary sum of money” in meeting the challenge of the first Ford Foundation grant.
lie added that “extraordinary steps were taken to mesh the elements of faculty, students, program and physical plant” into what was termed “a national center of outstanding scholarship, teaching and service to society.”
Second Grants
Second grants were also announced by the Ford Foundation to Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., and Brown University, Providence. R. I. Second grants were made earlier to John Hopkins University and Notre Dame.
USC, however, is the first and only university in the history of the Ford Foundation’s Special Program in Education to be given more money the second time around.
Nearly 40,000 individual contributions olv tained by more than 2,200 volunteers enabled USC to raise the $19.5 million in cash it needed to collect the first Ford Foundation $6.5 million grant.
Foundation Praises USCs Achievements
AH SPRINGTIME—L ines, lines and more lines greet eager spring semester registrants trying to get their packets early. The tables and lines were set up across
Hoover Boulevard and parallel to 34th Street. Mail registraton will last until Jan. 8. After the lines comes another treat for students — cards and more cards.
The Ford Foundation’s an-i nouncement of a new challenge grant to USC recognized that “the university has raised faculty salaries and introduced new methods of selection, promotion and compensation, including annual cash awards for outstanding teaching or research.
“Improved salaries and other considerations enabled USC to make a number of first- class appointments. Among them was the appointment, as chairman of the physics department, of Maurice Pryce, formerly head of the physics department of Bristol University and chief of the theoretical physics division at England’s atomic energy center,” the announcement indicated.	1
“USC’s curricula were reexamined and overlapping and marginal offerings were eliminated. For example, the number of courses in the university's College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences was reduced from 1,375 to 910 and in the Graduate School from 781 to 519,” the Ford Foundation said.
Begun in 1960, the Foundation's Special Program in Education seeks to advance the development of selected private universities and colleges as national and regional centers of higher educational excellence.
The program is “special” in that funds are for general support and may be used for any academic purpose the universities determine.
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