MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS June 20, 1986 Page 8 - Tape 1
Banker Realtors told us of a new $150- million planned City called La Mirada on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County. They suggested that we look over the site where that new City would be located. So Russ Allder, our Business Manager, and I went out with them to the orange, lemon, olive groves, and wheat fields which constituted the land on which this $150-million City was to be built. We looked at several sites in the area. Finally, they took us to the place that they had previously thought we would be interested. It was then Luitweiler Avenue (now known as La Mirada Boulevard) overlooking two small lakes. Those lakes were in the area now roughly covered by the football field, the music building and surrounding gymnasium area. When we looked out over that site, which was originally set apart for a regional park, we said the land above those two beautiful little lakes was exactly the spot we wanted. And so we settled quickly upon those 75 acres.
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