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Commemoration of Camp Matthews Land Transfer to UC San Diego

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps transfer of Camp Matthews to UC San Diego, we will hold a special ceremony at 9 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 6, in Town Square. The campus community is invited to attend. Leaders from the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego will participate in the anniversary commemoration, as will the Marine Corps Band and Color Guard, and members of the UC San Diego Veterans Association and UC San Diego leadership.

The observance will take place near the monument to Camp Matthews, which is adjacent to the main campus flagpole, where a transition ceremony took place in 1964 to honor the land transfer. For nearly 50 years preceding UC San Diego’s founding, Camp Matthews served as a Marine rifle training camp for more than one million Marine recruits.

The commemoration is being hosted by the Marine Corps League San Diego Bulldog Detachment 835 and the UC San Diego Veterans Association. For more information, contact Billiekai Boughton at bboughton@ucsd.edu or (858) 822-5450.

Pradeep K. Khosla Chancellor