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When Nobel laureate and former Bruin basketball guard Ralph Bunche ’27 and his wife, Ruth,
bumped into UCLA basketball player Lew Alcindor ’69 (Kareem Abdul-Jabar)
outside the Bunche Hall dedication ceremonies on May 23, 1969,
longtime campus photographer Thelner Hoover ’27 caught the moment for posterity.
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