Come Together

Community engagement starts at home. The living room of old Sanborn Hall­—not to be confused with the residence hall that today is homebase for all first-year students—was a meeting hotspot in Pitzer’s earliest years. It was a place where regular town hall meetings like this one on Nov. 1, 1965, gave faculty and students a chance to meet face-to-face and discuss the College’s future together. Though that old hall was demolished in 2008, the spirit of community engagement that filled its living room lives on today in Pitzer’s many programs connecting students and faculty with outside organizations. This photo can be found in Arthur Dubinsky: The Life and Times of Pitzer College, a collection of photos featured in a past exhibition and book published by Pitzer College Art Galleries.