Los Angeles Valley College - Crown Yearbook (Valley Glen, CA)

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b M rj Q K is N .',. - -5-1 fe- Si u.. Typical of Valley's instructors is Dr. Aura-Lee Ageton, who is always happy to be of help to students. Ralph Caldwel1's basketballers used the new Men's Gym for the first time this year, and loyal rooters en- joyed watching the players in their striking new suits in the well-lighted gym. Athletes at Valley held a second official dedication preceding the first basketball game. They felt that the guest speaker at the original dedica- tion in the spring didn't have his heart in it. Speaker at the original affair was Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins, who abolished football when he was president at the Uni- versity of Chicago.

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VALLEYKS' NEW LIFE continued Up, up and over Along with last year's permanent classroom buildings, four of them, an administration building and a library, the new 1962 buildings begin to give Valley a feeling of finally becoming a college. Camping out days on the Valley campus are "fading away." Promise of more in the future keeps spirits high for those who still crowd into the bungalow area at the corner of Burbank Boulevard and Ethel Avenue. In one more year, Fall '63, the journalism and photography depart- ments will move into a permanent facility. Other departments looking forward to Fall '63 as V-Day are art, mathematics, earth science, home economics and business. Probably one of the most sensa- tional and practical additions will be the planetarium. But all will not be complete until another bond issue is passed. If bonds are passed this J une, then Valley will be assured of a complete permanent college campus. Greater and greater numbers of students enroll at Valley. More than 12,000 registered during the fall semester - 5,000 day and 7,000 eve- ning students. The spring enrollment set a new record again. For 12 years in a row the spring roster went up. There are 410 teachers, 160 day and 250 evening. Guarding against bigness to the detriment of the individual student stands the college president, William J. McNelis. Valley must never lose sight of the importance of the individual, he says. "We are growing very rapidly, but I can assure you that members of the staff will at all times be interested in their students as individualsf'