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

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Highlights on sidelines A published author, a Creative composer Teacher, teacher, tell me true, when you're not teaching, what do you do? What do Valley teachers do when they're not teaching? Do they take pictures? Peek into micro- scopes? Raise flowers? Hunt fossils? Do they paint or perform? Or do they read? Or write? Variety in the writing field is the specialty of Irwin Porges, English instructor, the Mitch Miller of prose. No one answer is the whole answer at Valley College because here teachers might do any one or all of these things. Take writing, for example. Many teachers write. Songs, stories, articles, plays, papers, poetry, prose-even books, And those who write books are often better teachers because of it.

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Finished etchin I Q draws student Irv Zarof's clos inspection wit magnifie e h l'. Guide Dave Wachner draws field trippers' attention to locked up page, final step before printing. Something to learn with every Step Two students take time out to read Sunday's funnies three days early. 58

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HIGHLIGHTS ON SIDELINES continued Lawrence Spirigarn- a Solitary Walk and at piece of prose One such teacher is Irwin Porges. Versatile and creative. Porges is a musician, a com- poser and a published author as well. He is a man who knows the problems of the aspiring writer and as a teacher in Valley's English department, draws on his own experience to answer student questions fully and frankly. He is a man who takes time, time to be friendly, time to listen, time to help. Irwin Porges is also a man who makes time. Turning out articles and books after his day's work's done, Porges uses eve- nings, weekends and holidays to meet dead- lines established by a New York agent. His second book, S.O.S.-Great Sea Dis- asterst' will make its spring appearance in a paper back edition, published by Monarch of New York. True sea stories, dramatized and recreated, S.O.S.-Great Sea Disasters followed a 1961 publication by Chelton of New York, t'Many Brave Hearts. A hard cover edition, Many Brave Hearts is a standard work found in the library. Another teacher with books in the college library is Lawrence Spingarn. Easy going, likeable, Spingarn teaches in the English de- partment and is a published poet besides. When not at the college, he may be found enjoying a solitary walk in the country or canyon. Or, perhaps more to his enjoyment, he may be found in his den, writing. Spingarn first began writing poetry when a boy of 12, and in 1947 Roccoco Summer was published by Dutton in New York. In 1951 William Heinemann, Ltd., of London, published The Lost River: Poems. Letters from Exile: Poems was brought out in 1961 by Longman, Green and Co. Ltd.. London and New York. . I haven't written much poetry for a couple of years now, he says. This doesn't mean he hasn't been writing, for he has. Hav- ing completed a collection of short stories, there's more prose to come. W ' 4. -a 'X ' ,A 53, gi ai. 5,- X 2 E KXILRASAFS1. Ez A it aaa -1 41 X 'N ef, . N., . .55 2 .. x ip. ., ' 2 Lawrence Spingurn reminisces with Valley students on his invitation to England to read excerptS from his latest book