Interior view of fire damage of California Hall. Some parts of the wooden foundation left from the fire are standing. California Hall was on UCLA's "Vermont" campus located at 855 N. Vermont Avenue. It was destroyed by fire on January 3, 1929. California Hall housed chemistry classes.
Colonel E. J. Moran was a professor of military science and tactics and commander of the ROTC unit at University of California, Los Angeles. He was the commander of the ROTC at UCLA from 1932-1934 at which point he retired from the army.