Spotlight:

The Fullerton Way

Cal State Fullerton's first President William B. Langsdorf on his first day at work, March 2, 1959, at the leased offices of Fullerton Union High School. Photos are from "The Fullerton Way."

Before it became Cal State Fullerton, the site once was Native American land, and then citrus ranches.

The founding faculty, from left, standing: Seth Fessenden, E.C. Newscom, Miles McCarthy and Lawrence B. de Graaf. Seated, from left: Lester Beals, Earnest Toy Jr., Barbara Hartsig and William Alamshah.

This running admissions report on a blackboard reflects the technology and informal labeling of students in the fall of 1959.

The elephant race of 1962 evolved from a student's prankish idea into the largest campus event at the time.

The first issue of the student newspaper, "The Titan Times," was published on Jan. 4, 1960.

Students of color were not seen at Cal State Fullerton until the end of the 1960s.

Counseling was offered to students who were being drafted for the war in Vietnam.

Student protests, by the end of the 1960s, were common on campus. In 1966, these students marched under the banner of SWINE (Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything).

Then Gov. Ronald Reagan spoke at a convocation in 1970.

In this 1977 photo are, from left: Arthur A. Hansen, Gary L. Shumway and Shirley Stephenson, directors of the Oral History Program, which was established in 1968.

Keypunch machines were used to keep campus statistical records in the 1970s.

A student crew shoots video for the campus TV station in the early 1980s.

The Dalai Lama, right, visited Cal State Fullerton in 2000.

Pictured here during Cal State Fullerton's 40th anniversary commencement are, from left: astronaut Tracy Caldwell, CSUF alumna; former CSUF presidents L. Donald Shields and Jewel Plummer Cobb; Martha McCarthy; President Milton A. Gordon and the son of the university's first president William B. Langsdorf.