COMMENCEMENT 1986 : UCLA School of Law

The 34th graduating class of the the UCLA School of Law celebrated its graduation ceremonies Sunday at in the Los Angeles Tennis Center at UCLA.

Degrees: 281 diplomas awarded, including 271 juris doctorate and 10 master of laws degrees.

Speakers: California Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird warned the law school graduates against working purely for the sake of winning legal battles or making a lot of money. “I have a feeling that may in part come from having faced cancer that the future tends to take care of itself and you shouldn’t worry so much about it. You should concentrate on what you are doing now and if you do it well things that you want will happen in the future. I think that no matter how much material success you may achieve, you pave the way to disappointment if you set up your five- or ten-year goals and say to yourself ‘by then I want to be there.’ ” Also addressing the graduates were Dean Susan Westerberg Prager and 1986 Professor of the Year, William Warren.

Other Graduations:

Whittier College: Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, most noted for his book “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” spoke Sunday at the college’s 83rd commencement in the Harris Amphitheatre. About 325 degrees were conferred and honorary doctorate degrees were awarded to Gaines and businessman and art collector, Robert F. Rockwell.

University of La Verne: KCBS-TV Channel 2 co-anchor Jess Marlow was the featured speaker at the university’s 94th commencement. The ceremonies were held at Sunday at Arnett Field.

Mount St. Mary’s College: The 60th anniversary of the college was the theme of Sunday’s commencement held outside Chapel Terrace on the Chalon campus. Addressing the 365 graduates were Sister Magdalen Coughlin, College President and Sister Cecilia Louise Moore, Chairman of the Board of Trustees.