Articles

American Originals

Pat Ganahl ’69, M.A. ’73 hunts down, builds, restores and writes about hot rods. He drove in on classic wheels when he arrived on campus in 1965, and he’s been devoted to roadsters ever since.

Hearing Voices

In 1978, Oxford University published Albert Raboteau’s “Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution’ in the Antebellum South.” It soon became a classic in the field of African American religious history. In 2002, Raboteau wrote “A Sorrowful Joy,” a brief but deeply moving account of his spiritual journey and life crises. We asked Raboteau to write about what led a young, fatherless African American boy to become one of the nation’s foremost scholars of African American religion.

Values Added

What distinguishes an LMU education from others and makes it unique? It’s all in the LMU experience. Here’s an example: holding in your hand a tile once owned by Pontius Pilate.

Upon This Rock

David S. DeVito knows money. He knows management. He knows civic and community values and virtues. And he very well knows Loyola Marymount University. All of this makes DeVito an ideal person to provide an update and analysis concerning an extremely important — and all too often overlooked or misunderstood — aspect of the university’s long-term financial health, the university’s endowment.

Boot Camp for Scientists

As a Loyola engineering graduate and a longtime member of LMU’s Board of Regents, Tom Hynes ’59 has attended his fair share of commencement exercises, but next year will be the graduation of the first cohort of the ACCESS program that Hynes and his wife, Marlene, support financially.

Steven Hilton

A member of the LMU Board of Trustees from 1993–98, Steven Hilton has been the president, then CEO and now chairman of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation since 1998.