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• Class of 1984

  Julie Mammano

  I was an art major.  The art dept. was located on the McNally campus, as it still is today.  I grew up in La Mirada, so I was a student in the local schools.  I actually attended McNally Intermediate School as a 7th and 8th grader.  Soon after I graduated jr. high, Biola acquired the property when the school was closed down, due to dropping attendance.  (My class was the last gasp of the baby boom.) So when I came to Biola, several of my college level art classes were in the very same classrooms where I disscected frogs in 7th grade biology.  I also remember being 12 years old, looking through the chain link fence during recess, across the street to the little chapel that looked to me like a tiny old fashioned church, wondering how they fit all those college students in there. I also liked how the chapel looked so peaceful, compared to the zoo-like environment that was McNally Junior High.  It was the best thing that Biola bought the McNally property.