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Student rooms in USC’s early days were perhaps not so different to those today.
PICTURE PERFECT Keep up with the USC buzz through these Instagram accounts: @uscpres President Nikias shares behind-thescenes pictures and stories from life as a university president. @trojanoutreach Catch up with USC’s studentathletes who proudly give back to the community through the USC Athletics Community Outreach Program.
Welcome to the Neighborhood Décor trends for college rooms like the ones above come and go, but one part of the college experience remains timeless: move-in week. This year, it was even more special for Trojans. USC Village’s opening ceremony brought together thousands of USC’s students, friends and neighbors to celebrate with fireworks, the Trojan Marching Band and the unveiling of the Hecuba statue. The excitement spread quickly on social media as people shared selfies shot at USC Village and posted their enthusiasm for the first Trader Joe’s and Target in the neighborhood. The buzz made #USCVillage one of the top trending Twitter topics in L.A. that day. To see highlights of the festivities, go to bit.ly/USCVillageOpening.
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M E M O R A BL E M O N O LO GUE Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel stepped away from his usual lighthearted fare on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in May to offer a tearful thanks for the lifesaving work of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Keck Medicine of USC surgeon Vaughn Starnes, Distinguished Professor and H. Russell Smith Foundation Chair for Stem Cell and Cardiovascular Thoracic Research. The emotional video garnered more than 11 million views and received widespread national coverage on ABC News, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and more. Watch the video at bit.ly/KimmelCHLA.
First to Serve
In our Spring 2017 issue, we highlighted USC’s proud legacy with the U.S. military (“A Century of Service,” pg. 42). An alumna who holds the honor of being the university’s first woman to be commissioned in the armed forces sent in a letter with memories and newspaper clippings from her ROTC days. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) after graduation (and eventually becoming a first lieutenant), the pioneering Trojan served in Quantico, Virginia; Parris Island, South Carolina; and Camp Pendleton, California. “There was no provision for women in ROTC back then; I was recruited on campus by the USMC. All the particulars were coordinated between the downtown L.A. USMC recruiting station and the USC ROTC. A couple of weeks after I signed on the dotted line, my mother received a phone call from the recruiting station. The young sergeant asked if my signing was of my own free will. He went on to say they had a rash of fraternity guys signing up their girlfriends. My mother laughed and asked, ‘How soon can she leave?’ Before graduation on that June day in 1968, the commissioning ceremony was held at the ROTC building and I was one of the four Marines leading the ROTC procession into graduation.” Gay Dunn Butts ’68
HISTORIC PHOTO COURTESY OF USC UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES; BUTTS PHOTO COURTESY OF GAY DUNN BUTTS
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