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

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Joseph Nordmann has text, will teach Teaching is in itself a contribution to so- ciety, but teachers who write do so because they have something additional to give. Joseph B. Nordmann of Valley's chemistry department has given many written pages. Among his material is the textbook in use in the college. Credited to Nordmann is Qualitative Testing and Inorganic Chemistry published by Wiley of New York, a textbook used in about 75 colleges and universities. Among the schools so recognizing Nordmann's work are Columbia, Colgate, the University of Massachusetts, the University of Alaska and the University of Hawaii. Monterey Tech in Monterey, Mexico, uses a translation of Nord- mann's book too. A lab manual, Experiments in General Chemistry? was written by Nordmann with co-author E. S. Kuljian. While operating Pacific Chemical Con- sultants, a chemistry lab in Los Angeles, Nordmann and his associates had the dis- tinction of receiving the only contract for water analysis awarded to a commercial laboratory by the State of California Water Resources. Out of this lab grew some of the work put into Nordmann's books. Said Nordmann, Some of the practical applications can be brought into the classroom. And students like that. This work gives the subject some intrinsic interest. It's down-to-earth. Writing a text, says Nordmann, is one of the best subject reviews you could con- ceive of. Nordmann, an artist as well as an author. has done all of the illustrations that accom- pany his text. Like many Valley instructors, quite, seri- ous, scholarly Nordmann crowds many crea- tive interests into his day. Nordmann, like Dr. Heyman, Miss Bergquist, Spingarn and Porges, proves that on Valley's campus there's more to the teacher than meets the eye, for here a teacher's life is a many-sided thing. And some sides of some teachers are only glimpsed between the covers of the books they write. Among the material published by Joseph Nordmann of VaIIey's chemistry department is text Qualitative Testing and Inorganic Chemistry used in universities as far as Alaska and Hawaii.

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HIGHLIGHTS ON SIDELINES continued Dr. Max Heyman- Beats the out of 11189 An interest in research and study on the part of Valley teachers has resulted in books on a variety of subjects. Prudent Soldier, A Biography of Major General E.R.S. Canby, was Written by Dr. Max L. Heyman Jr. Always interested in military history, in the Civil War, and in the problems of reconstruction, Dr. Heyman dis- covered, in the course of the study that led to his doctorate, that no work of importance had been done on Canby. The gathering of material on Maj. Gen. Canby, first general officer of the U. S. Army to be killed by the Indians, covered a six year period. Why is that? weekly quiz. Dr. Heyman Will be the first to tell that it was hard work, but he will quickly add, dark eyes twinkling behind his glasses, that it's enjoyable to create a person from the bones out, to build the body, to put flesh on it. It's really a fascinating experience, he says. I concur with Carlisle to a degree that history is the biography of the World's great men. But, of course, men are shaped by cer- tain circumstancesf' About Canby, he says, I don't say he was one of the greats, but he made a contribution. And We all have to make our contribution in one Way or another to society, to our coun- try's development? Dr. Heymcm exclclms when no one receives 100 per cent on his

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Resurgence of Valley's spirit Valley's school spirit gains new momentum under yell king G ary Patterson Is school spirit thousands of voices screaming and cheering the team on to victory, yelling just as hard in defeat? Is school spirit a constant campus atti- tude or feeling of general agreement or friendliness? Or maybe school spirit is a student's individual thing, a personal sense of duty or obligation to make his school better than the next. Scholars and students alike have ana- lyzed these dozen letters and as yet, have not found one substantial answer. But one thing they all can agree upon is this: Of the three above definitions, only the first can be said to be an over-all campus project. True, any of the above could, would and will unify a school, but of them all, only the first can let all voices ring together in perfect unison to achieve this goal. Under the direction of Mrs. Ruby Zuver, the Monarchettes, Valley Col- lege's all girls' drill team, has helped make the school spirit something a little special. Although We are separate groups, We are still fighting for the same cause. We have tried, and I think to quite a degree of success, to Work together and yet alone, to help unify our school and make our spirit tops. These Words of yell king Gary Patter- son reflect the feeling of the three spirit groups of Valley College. The Monarchettes, the song and yell leaders have done an amazing job of promoting interest in campus sports. l've got to admit that it Was a little difficult to keep going during the foot- ball season when Valley lost all eight of its games. But considering our record, the turnout was quite satisfying and the general attitude was not that of winning -but of tryingj' Patterson added. Head song leader Pam Hoffman puts it this Way: Valley College is a school Where com- ing out on top, although of course im- portant, isn't the number one thing. The spirit here is to try and try Well. A spirit of hard, but clean, competition is the ruler of the roost, and l'm proud to be a part of this Way of conductf' Active, enthusiastic Gary Patterson, Valley's yell king, is one of the chief reasons for the resurgence of school spirit at Valley.