US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Text from newspaper caption: The problem of Christmas gifts is being solved easily by Compton Junior College students these days. They are giving a book of verse entitled, "Songs of a School-master." And why not? The author is Oliver Scott Thompson, president of the Junior College, who recently celebrated twenty years of service in Compton schools. In this photo President Thompson is receiving the congratulations of Maxine Murray, president of the Associated Women Students, and Fred Miller, president of the student body, on the publication of his book and his long record as a teacher. The two gentlemen shake hands across the front of Miss Murray. Photograph appears with the headline, "Choice of Yule Gifts Easy at Compton," Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec 1935: A5. Handwritten on negative: L. to R. Oliver Scott Thompson. Maxine Murray. Fred Miller Text from negative sleeve: 4211 - Left to right, Oliver Scott Thompson, Maxine Murray + Fred Miller of Compton J. C. Thompson's 20 year as President of Compton school system 12-4-35 [stamped:] Dec 26 1935
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13253 ark:/21198/zz002hndpz
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Shaking hands--California--Compton Gavels Gifts College presidents--California--Compton Murray, Maxine, b. 1916 Miller, Fred, b. 1915 Thompson, Oliver Scott, 1877-1962
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