Graduation at Chapman College, Orange, 1936

Description: Amongst a crowd an older gentleman shakes the hand of an older woman clutching a piece of paper, both dressed in caps and gowns.
The college commencement ceremony is taking place on the 12th at 3pm in the Grayson Memorial Auditorium on the North Vermont avenue campus with the ivy cut by President Cecil F. Cheverton and a speech will be delivered by Dr. Theodore Gerald Soares professor of Christian ethics at California Institute of Technology.
Article related to photograph appears as, "Chapman Pupils Graduate Today," Los Angeles Times, 12 June 1936: A24.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 5975 - Chapman College 6/13/36 [stamped:] Jul 8 - 1936

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Mortarboards (Caps)
Graduation ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Academic costumes--California--Orange
Rites & ceremonies--California--Orange
Shaking hands--California--Orange
Names: Chapman University
Location: Orange (Calif.)
Longitude: 33.793025
Latitude: -117.851840
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_14388
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