Los Angeles City College

Los Angeles City College

c.1922 picture, campus of UCLA
Type	Community College
President	Reneé D. Martinez
Students	20,598[1]
Location	855 N. Vermont Avenue East Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Info	[phone]
Nickname	Cubs
Website	lacitycollege.edu

Los Angeles City College, known as LACC, is a public community college in East Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. A part of the Los Angeles Community College District, it is located on Vermont Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard. LACC offers university transferable courses.

The college also offers a program known as The Theater Academy, a block program for students pursuing acting, technical side of theater, or costume design.

LACC occupies the former campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

History

One of nine separate college campuses of the Los Angeles Community College District, the LACC campus was originally a farm outside of Los Angeles, owned by Dennis Sullivan. When the Pacific Electric Interurban Railroad connected downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood in 1909, the area began to develop rapidly. In 1914, the LA Board of Education moved the teacher's Normal School to the site. The Italian Romanesque campus became what is now the University of California, Los Angeles in 1919. In need of more space, UCLA moved to its present location in 1929 and the LA Board of Education bought the site for $700,000. On September 9, 1929, Los Angeles Junior College opened its doors for the first time with over 1,300 students and 54 teachers. It later changed its name to Los Angeles City College.

Notable alumni

Rene Michelle Aranda [2] - Producer and casting director for TV network Cinelatino,[3] partner at Hollywood TV Cops and national award winning actress (Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival,[4]). Bob Arbogast, radio personality and voice actor Alan Arkin, actor Emmett Ashford, baseball umpire Billy Barty, actor, founder Little People of America Barbara Billingsley, actress Don Bishop, former Pro Bowl player Dallas Cowboys Tommy Bond, former child actor Kurt Boone, author/poet Ron Botchan, football coach Charles Bukowski, poet and author Richard Girnt Butler, engineer and founder of the Aryan Nations Charles L. Campbell, Academy Award-winning sound editor Ralph Carter, actor James Coburn, actor George Cotliar, VP of Los Angeles Times, 1996–97 Pamela Courson, Jim Morrison's girlfriend Milt Davis, former NFL player Eric Dolphy, jazz musician Angela Dorian, actress and model Mike Douglass, former NFL player Clint Eastwood, actor, producer and director Ron Ellis, Academy Award-winning Mike Evans, actor Morgan Freeman, actor Vince Evans, former NFL player Jean Fenn, Metropolitan Opera star Bob Florence, composer, band leader, educator Don Friedman, jazz pianist Larry Friend, former NBA player[5] Murray Fromson, CBS/PBS newsman Frank Gehry, architect Cristian Gheorghiu, Contemporary artist/painter [6] Jerry Goldsmith, composer Albert L. Gordon (1915–2009), gay rights attorney[7] Don Grady, actor on TV's My Three Sons[8] Deidre Hall, actress Mark Hamill, actor Earl Hammond, actor Michael S. Harper, poet David Liebe Hart, outsider musician, street performer, artist, actor, puppeteer Allen Hoskins, actor Albert Hughes of the Hughes Brothers, director Lawrence Johnston, physicist Jackie Joseph, actress Ron Karenga, founder of Kwanzaa Celia Kaye, actress Margaret Kerry, actress

Lawrence Klein, Nobel Prize–winning economist Shin Koyamada, actor, producer, martial artist, philanthropist John Lees, artist and art professor Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, hall of fame music producers Woodley Lewis, former NFL player Bryan Malessa, author Rod Martin, former All-Pro player Oakland Raiders Whitman Mayo, actor Charles Mingus, jazz musician James Mitchell, former actor-dancer Karen Moncrieff, director Dickie Moore, child actor Wayne Morris, actor, WWII ace Shelley Morrison, actress John James Nazarian, TV commentator, private investigator Louis R. Nowell (1915–2000), Los Angeles City Council member, 1963–77 Hugh O'Brian actor Odetta, folk singer Bernard C. Parks, politician and former Los Angeles police chief Donna Reed, Oscar-winning actress Dianne Reeves, jazz musician Judith Reisman, conservative writer Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek Robin Russell, drummer Jack Sheldon, musician Robert A. Sirico, priest, founder of the Acton Institute Leonard Slatkin, conductor Alexis Smith, actress Arthur K. Snyder, Los Angeles City Council member, 1967–85 Mila del Sol, multi-awarded Philippine actress, entrepreneur, civic-leader, philanthropist Herbert R. Temple, Jr., Lieutenant General, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, 1986-1990 (A.A., 1954)[9] Hisako Terasaki, artist Roy Thinnes, actor Harry Thompson, American football player Irene Tsu, actress [10] Robert Vaughn, actor Diane E. Watson, member of Congress Jesse Waugh, visual artist Stuart Whitman, actor Cindy Williams, actress and producer Esther Williams, actress, swim star John Williams, composer Jo Anne Worley, comic actress La Monte Young, composer Tony Young, actor Michele Zukovsky, principle and solo clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic

See also

• California Community Colleges System
• Community, an NBC comedy series which shoots on the LACC campus^[11]

References

1. http://datamart.cccco.edu/Students/Enrollment_Status.aspx
2. "Rene Michelle Aranda". IMDb.
3. "Producer/Casting Director: Cherry Red Kiss". Cinelatino.
4. "National Awards". John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
5. "Friend, Larry". jewsinsports.org. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
6. Gheorghiu, Cristian (July 5, 2012). "KCET interview". www.kcet.org. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
7. Woo, Elaine. "Albert L. Gordon dies at 94; attorney fought for gay rights", Los Angeles Times, September 6, 2009. Accessed September 9, 2009.
8. Kaufman, Dave (1968). TV 69: Who's Who, What's What in the New TV Season (mass market paperback). New York: Signet. p. 130.
9. Department of the Army, Army Executive Biographies, 1985, page 435
10. "Actress Irene Tsu, an LACC Alum, Talks to LACC Cinema Students About her Film Career", Los Angeles City College News, December 1, 2006
11. "Community Comes to LACC", Hijo de E-Ho website

External links

• Official website
• LACC Filipino Club (Samahang Pilipino)

Coordinates: 34°05′13″N 118°17′34″W / 34.087026°N 118.292901°W