Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
This mid-1920s postcard view shows California Memorial Stadium, which held its first commencement ceremonies for UC Berkeley a century ago this week, in its early years.A century ago, on May 14, 1924, 2,155 students graduated from UC Berkeley in a ceremony held in California Memorial Stadium. It was the first use of the stadium for graduation, a service it has performed many times in subsequent decades, most recently this past Saturday.
Large amplifiers were on the platform, and “the amplification worked to perfection, from a microphone on the speakers’ table so that even visitors seated in the shade of the football scoreboards were able to hear.”At a post-graduation banquet of the California Alumni Association on the same day, prospects for student dormitories were discussed.
Sibley’s announcement proved to be prematurely optimistic. UC wouldn’t build a dormitory until 1929, when Bowles Hall was completed with private funds, and no UC women’s housing would be built until Stern Hall in the early 1940s. “All the macadam streets in the district of approximately 19 miles of streets bounded by Shattuck Avenue, Adeline Street, Allston Way, Piedmont Avenue, Dwight Way, Warring Street, Derby Street, Claremont Avenue and Woolsey Street already have been repaired … ,” the story continued.
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