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

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Editors Roger Karraker lleftl and Brent Carruth lrightl interview Gov. Edmund G. Brown at the California Newspaper Publishers Association in Coronado. College President William J. McNelis congratulates Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty at the conclusion ofthe Mayor's Quadwrangler speech on The Big Town. Dr. Arnold Fletcher lleftl speaks with Athenaeum guest Carey McWilliams after the latter's stormy evening in the Little Theater. Among other Democratic politicians to make them- selves heard was Gov. Edmund G. Brown, who spoke to a Saturday meting of the League of Women Voters in the Little Theater and talked with students of the college on several occasions. At the California Newspaper Publishers Association in Coronado, the Governor held a press conference for college newspapermen, where editors Brent Carruth, Roger Karraker and Dennis Burns interviewed him. A frequent and highly vocal Democratic critic of the Governor, Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty, spoke to a large crowd as part of the first-semester Quadwrangler series. The mayor continued his running war with the City Council and called for Valley citizens to support his drive to get city charter revisions put on the ballot. Although not an actual politician, Carey McWilliams, editor of the political magazine, The Nation, was the success of the season, if controversy is the criterion for success. Known for his admittedly liberal views, Mc- Williams was picketed outside the Little Theater, and inside he faced an audience that was at times openly hostile to the Athenaeum speaker, who ironically urged dissent in American society.

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Nineteen sixty-four, a year of national elections, brought incumbent and hopeful olhce-seekers both on and near the Valley College campus. From the President of the United States on down, college students found themselves in frequent and close contact with public ofiicials who visited the campus and the area that it serves. President Lyndon johnson made a short trip with his wife to the Southland to receive an honorary degree from UCLA and ended up spending three days for diplomatic talks. In a major foreign policy address the President promised to treat allies with kindness and enemies with firmness. Surrounded by a corps of photographers, Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson lat right in the white hatl enters the athletic field accompanied by Senora Adolpho Lopez Mateos lcenteri and Mrs. Franklin Murphy lleftl, wife of the UCLA chancellor. Making his maior 'Foreign policy address at UCLA, President Johnson calls for iust actions regarding all nations, At the conclusion of his address, the President is awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the university. 1'-girly.

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Arizona's genial candidate Sen. Barry Goldwater arrives at a San Bernardino campaign reception. Using hands to explain his philosophy, Goldwater emphasizes his stand ata Dodger Stadium press conference A preceding a rally. Not to be standing in the lurch, Republican vote- getters also made their philosophy known to the col- lege students. As part of a program by the Young Republicans Club on campus, actor and now political commentator Ronald Reagan entertained an 11 a.m. audience in the Men's Gym early in the first semester. Reagan described the nation's slipping prestige and called for the election of his good friend, a United States senator, to the Presidency. Reagarfs good friend turned out to be conservative spokesman Barry Goldwater, who addressed a mam- moth rally in Dodger Stadium and returned to the state for Newspaper Week ceremonies in San Bernar- dino. Goldwater's primary opponent for the Republican nomination, New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller., also turned up in Los Angeles for a speech and campaign reception. The highlight of the reception came when a pert young girl walked up to the smiling Governor and introduced herself as Joanne Goldwater, daughter of another popular Presidential candidate.