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Gilbert Geis, professor of sociology, named 1970-71 CSC Trustees' Outstanding Professor.

South Tower and South Hall were completed and opened.

Joseph Casanova, Jr., professor of chemistry, named 1969-70 Trustees Outstanding Professor.

Alumni Association donated the Alumni Carillon to campus.

Kennedy Memorial Library completed with the addition of the North Wing and was dedicated in 1969.

North Hall renamed King Hall in memory of Dr.

Nation’s first Chicano Studies department established at Cal State LA.

First child care center in the California State College system opened on the Cal State LA campus.Her outspoken support for better treatment of women players was instrumental in increasing the popularity of women’s tennis. King went on to win the Wimbledon title 20 times and the U.S. In 1967 she had been the first woman player since 1939 to win the triple crown of singles, doubles and mixed doubles in the British and American championships. '61-'64) won third consecutive Wimbledon championship to become the world’s top-ranked women’s amateur in tennis. California State College at Los Angeles converted to quarter system.Hudson Roysher, professor of art, named 1965-66 Trustees Outstanding Professor.The College Times named best newspaper by California Intercollegiate Press.Solomon Diamond, professor of psychology, selected as one of the first two systemwide awardees to be named 1963-64 Outstanding Professor by the California State College Board of Trustees.Kennedy Memorial Library naming ceremony. An edifice plaque was unveiled during the John F.State College was officially renamed California State College at Los Angeles (CSCLA) and becomes part of the California State College (CSC) system formed in 1960. The California State College (now California State University) Board of Trustees named the library after the late President John F.Distinguished Visiting Professor of English: Dorothy Parker, writer, member of the Algonquin Round Table.

Distinguished Visiting Professor of English: Christopher Isherwood, noted author (his Berlin Stories was the basis for the Broadway musical and film, Cabaret).State telecourse, '20th Century American Novel,' offered over KCOP Channel 13. State time capsule sealed in corner of Administration building (now Student Affairs). McDonald is named second president and becomes first full-time president. State College became Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts & Sciences, with 2,187 students Howard S. First student newspaper, The College Times, published.Jack Bradley becomes first student government president.Victor Peterson, president of LACC, becomes acting president of the new college. Los Angeles State College was founded by an Act of the California legislature and opens for classes on the campus of L.A.

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