Photographed at an unidentified Jonathan Club event in the early 1950s, University of California Regent Edward A. Dickson, second from left, and UCLA Chancellor Raymond Allen, third from left, stand with two unidentified men.
SFGATE carries an article about the exclusive Jonathan Club in downtown LA. (You can take the word "exclusive" to mean exclusion for much of its history.) And it has this tidbit:
...Another LA institution was born at the Jonathan Club in 1917 when Edward A. Dickson, who was on the Board of Regents of the University of California, met with the president of what was then the Los Angeles State Normal School, Ernest C. Moore, at the Jonathan Club. Over lunch there, Dickson pitched Moore an idea: To have his school become the Southern California arm of the University of California, which had campuses in Davis and Berkeley at the time. The public university would help to bring more people west of downtown LA, and would compete directly with the private University of Southern California...
Full story at https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/members-only-club-that-changed-southern-california-19475383.php.
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