A procession of academics and distinguished guests moves toward the outdoor amphitheater where the inauguration ceremony will be held for W. O. Mendenhall. Spectators watch from beside the building in the background.
W. G. Rich (known as Bill Rich in Whittier), prominent Whittier businessman and founder, in 1921, of the Howling Hundred, an organization that supported Whittier high school and college athletics, posing in mid howl. He wears a pin on his lapel that reads, "Whittier's Howling Hundred 100 Life Member."
Portrait photograph of Ruth Haroldson, faculty member of the Whittier College Music Department, violinist, and conductor of the Whittier College Community Orchestra.
The ruins of a wall at Pio Pico's El Ranchito stretch across the foreground. A wooden window frame is inset into the left side of the wall. Through the window opening, the west-facing side of El Ranchito stretches into the distance.
The camera pans up towards a large, latticed tower that rises at center. A single propeller blade caps the orchard heater. About halfway up the tower, a man climbs (J. E. Bowersmith?). Nearer to camera, orange trees just into frame from the lower left and lower right corners, naturally framing the orchard heater's tower.
The camera looks across the field at Whittier College during the football between the Poets and the Occidental Tigers. In the near distance, off-center to the left, an Oxy player runs with the ball towards the end zone at left. Ahead of him, a Whittier defender tries to stop him. The remaining on-field players watch the immediate play from a distance. Campus buildings rise in the background at left and fans fill the stands at right.
The camera looks across the field at Whittier College during the 1925 football game between Occidental College and Whittier College. Off-center to the left, the majority of the players are tangled up in a pile-up. Oxy Tiger center, Solly Mishkin, carries the ball in front and at the center of the pile-up. He drops to his knees as Whittier's defenders tackle him from behind. Crowds fill the stands in the background. Off-center to the right, a campus building rises behind the stands.
Photograph appears with the article, "Whittier College Aided. Former First Lady Attends First Board Meeting; Three Faculty Appointments Announced," Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 1935: A5.