Finding Aid for the Pioneer Alumni Association. Records. 1966-1969.
Processed by UCLA University Archives staff, 1986 Dec 09; finding aid revised by Katharine A. Lawrie, 2013 Feb; machine-readable
finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Title: Pioneer Alumni Association. Records.
Date (inclusive): 1966-1969.
Record Series number: 42
Creator:
Pioneer Alumni Association.
Extent:
3 boxes (1.25 linear feet)
Abstract: Record Series 42 contains photographs, student newspapers, and correspondence related to the pursuit of memorabilia from students
of UCLA's Vermont campus.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. University Archives.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
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[Identification of item], Pioneer Alumni Association. Records. (Record Series Number 42). UCLA Library Special Collections,
University Archives, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
The Pioneer Alumni Association was created in 1959 by Alexander (Jake) Hamilton and several other UCLA alumni from the 1930s.
Membership is granted only to those persons who had attended the university when it was know as the Southern Branch and located
on Vermont Avenue. The purpose of the associated was to create a forum in which students from the 1930s could share memories
of their university experiences. Hamilton was president of the association until 1968 when he was succeeded by Charles Walter.
Record Series 42 contains correspondence primarily to Alexander (Jake) Hamilton as a part of a project to acquire materials
and memorabilia from UCLA graduates who had attended the Vermont Campus. Notable correspondents are William Ackerman, Elizabeth
(Hough) Doughty, Theresa Long, and Gjertrud (Hjorth)Smith. The collection also includes various photographs, as well as issues
of UCLA student newspapers from 1923 to 1929: California Grizzley, Cub Californian, and Hell's Bells. It also contains Hamilton's
correspondence to James Mink, UCLA University Archivist from 1952 to 1983. In 1959, Hamilton was the founder of the Pioneer
Alumni Association whose members were UCLA Alumni from the 1930s and served as its president until 1968.
Detailed container list available in hard copy at the UCLA University Archives.
This is an inactive Record Series; no additional University records are expected to be added.
Container List
Box 1
Box 2
Box 3
Memorabilia from the University of California Southern Branch. 1922-1929; 1931-1932.
Extent:
12 folders