Cal Lutheran new field dedication set for Oct. 29

The dedication of $8.9 million William Rolland Stadium and Gallery of Fine Art on the Cal Lutheran campus in Thousand Oaks is set for 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, prior to the Kingsmen's 1 p.m. football game against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.

The multi-purpose field (football, soccer, commencement ceremonies) that has a signature 70-foot clock tower has 2,000 seats but can expand and has been built to NCAA standards so that it can accomodate playoff games -- meaning, lights and a top-quality permanent artificial turf, along with home team locker rooms, coaches' offices, meeting rooms and a press box.

The previous CLU field on campus, Mount Clef Stadium, was used since 1963 as a football-only field, once a summer camp for the Dallas Cowboys that did not have lights.

Inside the 6,000-square-foot facility, the art gallery will initially house pieces of donor William Rolland's extensive and eclectic collection of bronze statuary, paintings and high-performance race cars. Rolland is a real estate developer and one of the founding residents of Westlake Village, making a donation for more than half of the total cost of the new field.

The stadium is located on the north side of Olsen Road between Campus Drive and Mountclef Boulevard on the Thousand Oaks campus, near the Sparky Anderson baseball field.