A New Life
It's official. Our son is now ensconced in life at UCLA and we are back home beginning our new life as empty nesters. Here's how it all unfolded... We arrived Thursday afternoon where Christopher was excited to give us the tour of the campus. This was the first time my Mom had ever been to UCLA. The first group of move-ins took place on Thursday. We were scheduled to move into Dykstra, the oldest and most storied dorm on campus, the next day at noon. Royce Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Designed by the Los Angeles firm of Allison & Allison (James Edward Allison, 1870-1955, and his brother David Clark Allison, 1881-1962) in the Italian Romanesque Revival style and completed in 1929, it is one of the four original buildings on UCLA's Westwood campus and has come to be the defining image of the university. Named after Josiah Royce , a California-born philosopher who received his b...