The first graduating class, the Class of 1966, had 14 students. The Commencement Dinner took place on June 25, 1966 in what is now the Libraries Gateway Study Center. Bernard R. Gelbaum (left), Professor of Mathematics, addressed the class. Graduating students were (left to right) Rita Anne Gregg, Jerene Clair Cline, Peter Leland Jacklin, Charles Dion McGregor, Michael Merrick Gollong, Vincent Jerrems Healy, Jr., Carole Carney Rathfon, Bland Ewing, Gail Lana White, Linda Ann Howey, and Roland Schinzinger. Not pictured were graduates Michael Max Asher, Mary Dorothea Polk and Mark Alvin Cross.
The Class of 1966 graduated on June 25, 1966.
Early Campus Photograph Albums. AS-056. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.