Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- This collection contains records created by a variety of LMU departments and outside sources to prepare the campus for the 1984 Summer Olympics.
- Extent:
- 3.5 Linear Feet 7 document boxes
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection documents the activities of the various departments across LMU that worked together to prepare the campus for the 1984 Summer Olympic. It includes documents related to budgets, legal, community relations, public relations, security, facilities, housing, and campus functions (parking, deliveries, staff schedules). It also includes materials from the Los Angeles Olympic Committee, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, LMU campus committees, the Unviersity Venue Consortium, and the venue development plan.
- Biographical / historical:
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Loyola Marymount University (LMU), located in Los Angeles, California, was founded as Loyola College of Los Angeles in 1911 by members of the Society of Jesus after the closure of St. Vincent’s College, a school for boys created by Vincentian Fathers in 1865. Loyola College grew quickly and a new campus was selected in 1917. In 1920, Loyola College began offering graduate level education by founding a separate law school. Official establishment of a graduate division would not occur until June 1950 even though the law school continued to thrive and after a Teacher Education Program at Loyola College had been created in 1948. Continued growth of the college prompted a second move for Loyola College in 1929 to the current campus in Westchester. Incorporated as Loyola College in 1918, the school achieved official university status in 1930. While Loyola University was experiencing a high growth rate in the early 20th century, so was the education program offered by the Religious of Sacred Heart of Mary for young women that had begun in 1923. In 1933, Marymount Junior College was opened in Westwood, Los Angeles. The college continued to grow; in 1948 the Junior College became a four-year university and granted its first baccalaureate degrees in 1948. In 1960, Marymount College moved to a campus on the Palos Verdes Peninsula to accommodate its growing student body. In 1968, Marymount College moved one last time to share the Loyola University campus. Although the two schools shared a physical space, Marymount College and Loyola University were still two separate schools and remained so for five more years. Loyola Marymount University was officially named in 1973 after Loyola University and Marymount College merged.
Loyola Marymount University's Gersten Pavillion served as a site for weightlifting during the 1984 Summer Olympics. Gersten Pavillion was built in 1981.
- Custodial history:
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All materials were transferred to the Univeristy Archives from various departments of Loyola Marymount University.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open to research under the terms of use of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University.
- Terms of access:
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Materials in the Department of Archives and Special Collections may be subject to copyright. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, Loyola Marymount University does not claim ownership of the copyright of any materials in its collections. The user or publisher must secure permission to publish from the copyright owner. Loyola Marymount University does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or of publication rights held by the original author or artists or his/her heirs, assigns, or executors.
- Location of this collection:
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1 LMU DriveLos Angeles, CA 90045-2659, US
- Contact:
- (310) 338-5710