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

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The Big Three of maintenance on campus, Walt Toborg, Paul Marfin and Ted Takane. As head of The department, much of Toborg's time is involved in paperwork and recordkeeping. if 7? -W1 ' 'HW 491' M, .f 6, 7 f J? ,, R. , W, . ,, f' ,N - ive. 2, 'mi is -I , 1 I E S i Qan- if fl fl' the

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Who makes Valley tick? VaIley's boiler plant, which generates the heating and hot wafer facilities for the college, is checked by one of ValIey's custodians. What? Valley has no maintenance men of its own? Actually the cus- todians, gardeners and high pres- sure engineers are classified as op- erations men. Maintenance men such as carpenters, plumbers and painters are based off campus in Van Nuys. There are two main divisions of operations men. The custodians, headed by Walter Toborg, building superintendent, form the major part of the operations staff. Harvey Mey- nard is the principal gardener. These men compose the rest of the staff. Forty-two custodians perform scores of tasks including cleaning of buildings, shipping, receiving sup- plies and distributing materials around the campus. These men work continuously on three different shifts. Probably the busiest shift is the graveyard shift from 10:50 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. Twenty-six of the cus- todians perform their duties while the school is vacant. Fifteen more custodians complete the array of men who maintain most of the tech- nical aspects at Valley.

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Helping direct students to correct offices and buildings is just one of the many tasks Y performed by Mrs. Julia Pope at the information counter. There are 52 hard-working clerks and secretaries I filling two shifts to keep up with the 13,000 students enrolled at Valley. These people include all of the secretaries and clerical workers in the Administration Building as well as the library, health oflice and other parts of the school. There are about 16 daytime workers who handle Admission duties, four in the tabulating room, six working in the Evening Division and approximately six keeping the affairs of the library. The entire staff encompasses clerks, clerk-typists, clerk-stenographers, stenographers, secretaries and others. One of the leading clerks is Mrs. Julia Pope, the information clerk in the Administration Building. An- swering questions such as, Where do you register? or, Where do I see a counselor? over and over, all day long, requires extraordinary patience. Mrs. Pope surely must be blessed with the gift as she is constantly being riddled with questions. The women behind the men Answering questions, however, is only one of the many tasks which Mrs. Pope performs. The college's lost and found is located in the information office, and Mrs. Pope keeps track of this. When the switch- board operator is not working, she is also relegated to that additional task. Mrs. Pope is only one of the many clerks who are really behind-the-scene workers. Without the entire staff of classified help, the college would not be able to function. A quartet of secretaries handles much of Valley's registration and counseling problems in the Administration Building. From left are Mrs. Leah Pflueger, Mrs. Barbara Tiffany, Mrs. Viola Dillon, student Michael Goldring and Mrs. Dorothy Cappella with Dean of Admissions Dr. John Reiter.