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MyUcla in the 1920s
« on: June 02, 2010, 11:58:56 AM »
MyUCLA - University of California in LA
1910s

1919   California Gov. William D. Stephens signs Assembly Bill 626, establishing the Southern Branch of the University of California. The Vermont Avenue campus opens on Sept. 15, offering two-year undergraduate programs to 260 Junior College students and 1,078 students in the Teachers Training program, under the direction of Ernest Carroll Moore.
1920s

1923   Southern Branch confers its first degrees, awarding the Bachelor of Education to 28 students.
1924   Third and fourth years are added to Letters and Science curriculum.
1925   
• First Bachelor of Arts degrees in the College of Letters and Science are awarded to 100 women and 24 men.
• UC Regents choose a 384-acre parcel of the Wolfskill Rancho in Westwood as new site for the Southern Branch campus - declining site proposals from Burbank, Pasadena, Fullerton and Palos Verdes.
• The UCLA band begins as a 50-piece ROTC unit under the direction of W.G. Powell.
1926   
• The 75-ton Founders’ Rock marks site where Westwood campus is dedicated.
• Student newspaper is renamed California Daily Bruin after debuting as Cub Californian and then Daily Grizzly.
1927   
• Construction of Westwood campus begins with a bridge over the arroyo.
• Regents adopt the name University of California at Los Angeles.

1929   
• Royce, Haines and Kinsey halls and Powell Library are completed.
• Classes begin Sept. 23 with 5,500 students enrolled at Westwood.

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