LA State University Continuing history

John F. Kennedy Memorial Library completed with the addition of the North Wing and was dedicated in 1969.

Gilbert Geis, professor of sociology, named 1970-71 CSC Trustees' Outstanding Professor.

Jane Sanford Lewis, home economics professor, named 1976-77 CSUC Trustees' Outstanding Professor.

Lloyd N. Ferguson, professor of chemistry, named 1980-81 CSUC Trustees' Outstanding Professor.

Cal State LA has won 398 baseball games since he became head coach in 1984.

Phoebe Dea, professor of chemistry, named 1990-91 CSU Trustees' Outstanding Professor.

Thomas Onak, chemistry professor, named 1993-94 CSU Trustees' Outstanding Professor.

CSU Board of Trustees designated 1996 as the "Year of the Alumni" and selected Cal State LA alumnus Larry Adamson '74 as the first "Alumnus of the Year."

Cal State LA’s Mini Baja vehicle (car #38) finished first place overall at the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International 1999 Mini Baja West competition, winning first place awards in the endurance and acceleration challenges as well.

BalletFest 2000, Southern California’s first summer ballet festival, is inaugurated on the Cal State LA campus.

Groundbreaking for the future Los Angeles Regional Crime Laboratory (formally named as the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center in 2006) serving the entire Los Angeles community.

Achieving 1,092 miles per gallon, Cal State LA’s student-built supermileage vehicle, Super Eagle, placed third at the 2009 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Supermileage® competition in Marshall, Michigan.

The Corporation Yard, which replaces the bungalows constructed 50 years ago, opened for occupancy on March 1, 2012.