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A new multiple-stake center near the Oakland California Temple site was dedicated Sept. 25, 1960, by President David O. McKay, according to the Oct. 1, 1960, Church News.
Called the East Bay Center, the edifice became home to the Oakland-Berkeley, Walnut Creek and Hayward stakes.
The article reported: "The new center is located on 'Temple Hill,' a property in Oakland overlooking the San Francisco Bay purchased by the Church 20 years ago as a temple site. Four acres of land, reserved for the eventual construction of the temple, have been leveled and occupy a strategic spot overlooking the bay. A temple on the spot will be seen for a long distance up and down the bay and will be in full view of ships entering the famed Golden Gate."
President McKay dedicated the Oakland California Temple in November 1964.
According to the Church News, in his address during the East Bay Center dedication, President McKay said: "I commend you, brethren and sisters, young and old, and everybody who has contributed, members and non-members, to this great center. You deserve a great deal of credit. And what the people are doing through the Church is simply marvelous. …
"It is just marvelous when people will lose themselves for the good of others. That is what you have done. It is a practical demonstration of pure unselfishness — a manifestation of your belief in the paradoxical saying of the Savior, 'He that findeth his life shall lose it, but he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it' (Matthew 10:39)."
