2025 is another year for the Delta campus’s more than 50 years of history. While it is a new year for Delta, several landmarks and displays at Delta remain on campus despite being outdated by decades. Though Delta seeks to modernize its campus, their Facilities team prioritizes projects of greater student benefit, delaying the removal of these posts.
Be sure to check out these “Relics of Delta” while they’re still here.
‘Resilience’
 | The pedestal for the now destroyed “Resilience” sculpture can be found outside the L.H. Horton Jr. Art Gallery. “Resilience” was a large, four-piece clay sculpture that was mounted on campus around February 1983. Designed by Ed Freedman, it was the class project of advanced ceramics students. The sculpture eventually broke down irreversibly before the 2000s according to Director of Marketing and Communications Alex Breitler, with the Horton Gallery developing a new cataloging system for Delta artwork sometime later. |
Preschool plaque
 | At the north side of the Shima building, a plaque for the former Delta Preschool can be found on a brick wall. The Delta Preschool used to service children at Shima 133 where the Puente Center is located — which also housed infant-sized toilets during the Delta Preschool’s time. After 1975, Delta temporarily offered daycare to children in the half-day Preschool and Toddler Program while the late Dean of CTE and Workforce Development, Dr. Hazel Hill, campaigned for a proper child development facility. The Delta Preschool was eventually replaced on Jan. 12, 1994, when the Child Development Center was opened, which was later renamed the Campus Hazel Hill Child Development Center Building after Hill’s death in 2015. |
Oldsmobile car show flyer
 | Displayed on a wall in the Holt Building is a flyer for “Delta College and Oldsmobile’s Car Show.” The flyer has remained on campus since the 1970s as an advertisement for one of the honors mechanics classes’ annual car shows, according to retired Delta instructor Chuck Bloch. The flyer reads that the show was set to take place in the Quad; however, the concrete that the Quad was built on was not designed for vehicular traffic and would have its sidewalks, landscaping and irrigation systems damaged by cars driving over it. |
Cunningham plaque
 | Located between Shima and the SCMA building, the Cunningham plaque can be found on a brick column. It was taken off campus when the 41-year old Cunningham Building, which previously stood in the Dolores Huerta Plaza’s location, was demolished in 2014. However, the Cunningham plaque would later be reinstalled on campus around 2020, six years after the construction of the replacement SCMA building. |
