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Marymount College student Erminia Borlenghi meeting whales

 
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Title
Marymount College student Erminia Borlenghi meeting whales
Description
Caption on back: "A tradition for new students at Marymount College, Palos Verdes, California, is a visit to Marineland of the Pacific, located across the street from the campus, to 'meet' Bubbles the whale and all her watery friends and relations. Here, Erminia Borlenghi, a special student majoring in English from Milan, Italy, holds her hand out to measure Bubble's jump. Watching is Buttons, a four-year-old baby whale newcomer to Marineland."
Format Extent
1 photograph: black and white
Subject
Student activities; College students; Whales
Note
In 1923, the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary first established an all-girls school in Los Angeles. Marymount School moved to a new campus on Sunset Boulevard in Westwood and opened a two-year junior college in 1933. In 1948 the school became Marymount College of Los Angeles and first granted baccalaureate degrees. Marymount College was relocated to the Palos Verdes campus in 1960. Loyola University of Los Angeles and Marymount College partnered with St. Joseph College of Orange began affiliation in 1968, and officially merged into Loyola Marymount University in 1973.
Collection
Loyola Marymount University Archives, Prints 1B13/2
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