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Like ourselves Mar Vista has changed in the 50 years since we were there.
I visited the campus in November, 2007 to pick up a list of the Seniors that had graduated in 1958 (11 were not in
our Yearbook).
The tree in front that was just a sapling in our
Yearbook
is now a large tree, over 40 feet high.
Inside the large front door there is a Reception counter. After indicating my appointment with Jorge Gutierez, I
was given a Visitor's Pass, Mar Vista is a closed campus.
Then through another door and onto the Campus!
I went a couple doors east (toward where the Library was) to the Registrar's office, there Jorge gave me the copy of the
list of Graduates.
Afterwards I walked around the Campus, taking pictures. I took some 50 or so pictures, here are just a few of them.
The Campus feels crowded, that is, there are no large areas where buildings are not, and where there isn't a building,
there is asphalt. One exception, the Senior Lawn, the area between buildings 1 & 2, is grass.
But with all the physical differences, of then and now, there was something else different. I felt a calmness that my
mind did not associate with the Campus. Then I recognized that was one of the few benefits of being a Senior - citizen that is.
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