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Covel Commons
Covel Commons in Sunset Village is named for Susan G. Covel and
Mitchel D. Covel, M.D. Dr. Covel has been associated with UCLA since
enrolling as an undergraduate in 1934. While maintaining a private
practice in internal medicine and cardiology, he has held numerous
teaching and administrative appointments in the School of Medicine.
For more than two decades, he has led the Aesculapians (the medical
school’s premier support organization, which he founded and
chairs) toward raising more than $18 million. His wife has served
as a volunteer leader in the medical arena, cochairing the Aesculapians
Ball and heading the Medical Center Auxiliary.
Among their major gifts, the Covels have supported the College of
Letters and Science, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics,
the School of Medicine and the School of the Arts and Architecture.
In announcing the naming, Chancellor Albert Carnesale remarked,
"“Its location, close to where students live, study and
play, with UCLA’s full panorama always in view, epitomizes
the spirit of Mitch and Susie’s gift and the breadth of their
commitment to UCLA.”
DeNeve Residential Complex
UCLA’s newest residence halls (2002) are identified by their location on De Neve Drive. The street bears the name of Felipe de Neve,
founder of the City of Los Angeles. In spring 1781 De Neve, then the Spanish
governor of Alta and Baja California, identified a site for a new pueblo. On
September 4 he led a group of 11 men, 11 women and 22 children from the Mission
San Gabriel Arcangel (near present-day Whittier) to the new pueblo. Olvera Street
in present-day central Los Angeles is close to the original location of El Pueblo
de la Reina de Los Angeles (The Town of the Queen of the Angels).
The individual buildings within the cluster are
named for trees: Acacia, Birch, Cedar, Dogwood, Evergreen, Firgrove
(not coincidentally, A thru F).
Dykstra Hall
Clarence Addison Dykstra was chosen provost and vice president of
UCLA in 1944. The former University of Wisconsin president had taught
political science on both the Vermont Avenue and Westwood campuses,
from 1922-'30. Dykstra's crusade for student housing resulted in
the reversal of a Regental policy and brought about the first two
west-campus residence halls. (Clarence
Dykstra: Past Leaders Web site)
Hedrick Hall
Earle Raymond Hedrick, vice president and provost of UCLA from 1937
until his retirement in 1942, was a member the mathematics department
for 13 years. A tall, courtly man who spoke languages and read an
additional five, Hedrick had a delightful sense of humor, and jokingly
referred to his appointment as vice president and provost as "the
accident." He was the father of 10 children, four of whom attended
UCLA.
Hitch Residential Suites
Charles Johnston Hitch served as 13th president of the UC system,
from 1968-'75. He was an economist who had served as assistant secretary
of defense and comptroller of the Pentagon during the Kennedy administration.
Characterized as principled and unflappable, he headed the UC system
during a time of unrest when then-Gov. Ronald Reagan threatened
severe budget cuts and students protested the Vietnam War. Hitch
cast one of the few dissenting votes against firing Angela Davis
from her UCLA philosophy post for belonging to the Communist party.
Sproul Hall
Robert Gordon Sproul was president of the University of California.
After graduating from Berkeley with a civil engineering degree in
1913, he worked as an efficiency expert for the City of Oakland.
Sproul served as secretary of the Regents, moved up to vice president,
and, in 1929, was chosen president. When he took office in 1930,
at the age of 39, he was the youngest man ever to head the university.
Rieber Hall
Charles Henry Rieber, a professor of philosophy and the first dean
of the College of Letters and Science, served from 1921-'36. Rieber
was one of the chief crusaders for the third and fourth years of
instruction when the Southern Branch was still a two-year school.
He was the first to use — and keep on using — the initials
UCLA in spite of orders to the contrary from Berkeley.
Saxon Residential Suites
David Stephen Saxon was a professor of physics at UCLA, chairman
of the department, dean of physical sciences and executive vice
chancellor at UCLA before becoming provost of the UC system. Early
in his career he was one of 31 University of California professors
who lost his job when in 1950 he refused to sign loyalty oaths,
which required all employees to affirm they were not members of
the Communist Party. He was reinstated at UCLA in 1952 when the
California Supreme Court invalidated the oaths. Saxon was named
president of the University of California in 1975 and served until
1983. From 1983 through 1990 he was chair of the MIT Corporation
(the trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). After
leaving MIT, he returned to UCLA as an emeritus professor in physics.
Saxon died in December 2005.
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