Long Beach State At 75

Author : Barbara Kingsley-Wilson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162585126X
Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Long Beach State written by Barbara Kingsley-Wilson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long Beach State grew up right along with the sprawling Southern California suburbs. Born in 1949, it swelled to accommodate the post-world war enthusiasm for education and land. The rapid expansion brought its share of growing pains. Students took classes in a cramped converted apartment with no books and playing ring-around-the-rosie for physical education. Money was scarce, and faculty at times feuded with the administration. But the new college's "let's put on a show" spirit produced a scrappiness that endures today. Read about the personalities that grew the college from Fred Bixby's bean fields into one of the largest universities in California.

Author : Barbara Kingsley
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Download or read book Long Beach State at 75 written by Barbara Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first students registered for college at a strawberry stand by the side of the road. Early classes were held in the dining rooms of under-construction apartments. Such was the humble beginning of a little college in Long Beach that 75 years later boasts a large student body and one of the highest application rates in the country. Long Beach State began in 1949 with the registration of 169 students, most of them at a strawberry stand on Pacific Coast Highway. Students in those early days were returning WWII veterans, housewives, and people who longed to go to college but couldn't manage to attend USC or UCLA. Seventy-five years later, California State University, Long Beach is now home to close to 40,000 students and regularly tops national surveys for its promotion of social mobility. Long Beach State at 75 is a distinctive photo history that chronicles the college's founding, its explosive expansion, and its growing pains and adventures along the way. Each decade is richly sprinkled with photos and text spotlighting that decade's own unique ambience and cultural significance. We hear from students who followed the football team in the 1950s, marched on campus in the 1960s, watched Jefferson Airplane on Hard Fact Hill in the 1970s, and those who sweated through games at the Gold Mine and endured COVID lockdowns. Vignettes on students who went on to fame, such as Steve Martin, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band co-founder John McEuen, the Carpenters, and Steven Spielberg (who returned to graduate in 2002) are interspersed with interviews with students from varied backgrounds and those who played important roles in making the college what it is today. A grad student's risqué art project that led to massive demonstrations, the scramble to build the Walter Pyramid, the uphill fight to establish women's sports on campus, and battles over faculty governance, sacred land, and women's studies all form part of Long Beach State's fascinating story. Vintage photos and a modern, fresh look with a nostalgic nod to sleek sixties design make this coffee table book destined to find a coveted place in many settings. Whether you're an alum, a "49er," a "Shark," or a student of California history, Long Beach State at 75 is a book for everyone. Barbara Kingsley-Wilson is a full-time lecturer and media advisor at Cal State Long Beach. Before coming to CSULB in 2004, she was a journalist for 20 years, covering courts, crime, education, and sports for newspapers in the Midwest and Upstate New York, Southern California, and with USA Today. She spent the summer of 1995 in Amman, Jordan, interviewing women and government officials as part of a grant to study women and sports. She has won awards from the Associated Press, Orange County and Los Angeles press clubs, and contributed stories to the Orange County Register's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of a fertility scandal. Her book Long Beach State: A Brief History, was published in 2015. In addition to teaching, she is a freelance writer and certified yoga instructor who enjoys biking and nerding out on local history. She lives in Long Beach with her family.

Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
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Total Pages : 608 pages
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Author : Mike Guardabascio
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625854617
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book Basketball in Long Beach written by Mike Guardabascio and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long Beach has produced some of California's best teams and players, from the NCAA success of Long Beach State to the CIF dominance of Long Beach Poly. Starting with the early hoop dreams of the 1900s, lace up your kicks, step in the gym and prepare for an unforgettable lesson in California basketball history. Explore the city's most celebrated athletes and teams, including local pioneers of women's basketball, who found an early home on the city's hardcourts. Complete with exclusive photos and interviews, authors Mike Guardabascio and Chris Trevino give a play-by-play of the sport's illustrious past in the city of Long Beach.

Author : National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Total Pages : 446 pages
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Author : United States. Dept. of Justice
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Total Pages : 640 pages
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Author : Nicholas L. Syrett
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888702
Total Pages : 431 pages
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Download or read book The Company He Keeps written by Nicholas L. Syrett and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, Nicholas Syrett reveals how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history. Based on extensive research at twelve different schools and analyzing at least twenty national fraternities, The Company He Keeps explores many factors--such as class, religiosity, race, sexuality, athleticism, intelligence, and recklessness--that have contributed to particular versions of fraternal masculinity at different times. Syrett demonstrates the ways that fraternity brothers' masculinity has had consequences for other students on campus as well, emphasizing the exclusion of different groups of classmates and the sexual exploitation of female college students.

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Total Pages : 490 pages
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