Loyola awards medals

The archivist at Loyola High recently recovered this academic medal awarded to Cub Vincent M. Downey '29 in 1926.

Although the high school does collect antique coins and metals, this award medal and a companion medal for the following year will be held in Dr. Downey's file in the archives Alumni Records.  

An archaeological find?

The Loyola High School archives began to gather under the hand of history teacher Rev. J. Philip Conneally, SJ in the early 1970's.  Phil, raised locally was a Cub, Class of 1931 and from a prominent family.  The Phil Conneally Collection consists of about 20 linear feet of photography; correspondence; Loyoliana and teaching files of history subjects including these teaching aids.



According to LMU archaeology professor Bill Fulco ('56), these reproductions of clay tablets and the hieroglyphic writings were probably used for Conneally's World History class.

another "over-the-transom" transfer

At Loyola High a transfer of found historical records to the archives revealed a trove of old books...Jesuit house archivist Brother Robert McDermott was not only a science teacher and moderator of the student newspaper but also a trained bookbinder.

Treasures in the Loyola high archives

Dean Lower from Loyola Law School once asked if I ever found Regent Joe Donovan's "acceptance test".  Still looking for it but we are keeping Donovan's old desk.  

A President removed.

The archivist uncovered evidence of 1937 student unrest from old alumni files in the High School Archives of Loyola  

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A Loyola patron's old Angeleno home

While organizing the historical records of Loyola High in preparation for their upcoming sesquicentennial history book we discover that patron Charles Pinney lived nearly one hundred in this same Angeleno Heights home.      

Grandfather Charles H. Pinney purchased the home from the original developers in 1888 and the cache of documents include correspondence concerning the purchase and a tract map of the original neighborhood.  

In 1896 Charles started up Pinney & Boyle, a steel products manufactor in downtown Los Angeles until he retired to manage his investment portfolio and travel.   Living for over 106 years, after 1888 Pinney never moved from his boyhood home.   

By 1978 the Carroll Avenue home was designated as a landmark in the first City of Los Angeles Historical Overlay Zone. (HOZ).

The archivist visited the home in November 2012 and discovered an episode of "Mad Men" underway at the site.