Loyola Marymount University
California
1911
Formerly “St. Vincent’s College” and “Los Angeles College”
The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) had assigned St. Vincent’s College a hood lined “white above gold”, which probably referred to a per chevron division of the two colors.
Loyola College of Los Angeles does not appear in lists from 1927 or 1948, so it is possible that the Bureau did not assign the college a new hood lining until the late 1940s or 1950s. But since Loyola began to offer graduate degrees in 1920, the Intercollegiate Bureau may have assigned the college a hood lining not long after that date. If this is correct, it is not known why Loyola was omitted from early IBAC lists in 1927 and 1948.
In Academic Heraldry in America (1962), Kevin Sheard described Loyola’s hood lining as gray with a crimson chevron, which was also how it was described for the first time in Intercollegiate Bureau lists from 1969 and 1972.
The school colors of St. Vincent’s College (founded in 1865) were gold and white. St Vincent’s merged with Los Angeles College in 1911. Los Angeles College briefly assumed the name “St. Vincent’s College” from 1915 until 1918, but then the school was renamed “Loyola College of Los Angeles”. At some point the gold and white of St. Vincent’s became crimson and gray, possibly when it merged with Los Angeles College in 1911.
Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): crimson/gray (1934-1935)
