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

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ji Photography is Earl Theisen's first interest, and his natural ability as a teacher has provided him with his second interest. Now senior photographer for Look Magazine, Theisen has had a lifetime of experience to draw from in teaching his evening division photography class at Valley. He re- gards his teaching as a laboratory, and as a learning experience not only for his students but for him- self. Emotions and feelings rather than facts keynote' the class discussions. Theisen's method of instruction places emphasis on the student's opinions of his own and his fellow student's work. Theisen uses ideas as a primary teaching aid. Instructing a class where art, psychology, philosophy and technique mesh, he has found a way to make photography an un- matched personal experience. Theisen awaits the verdict ot his Look Magazine editor, as they choose pictures for an article. Earl Theisen, lecturer, is shown here with TV star Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore on an assignment for Look.

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,,,,-r-'Q P 1 ' 11, Off-campus professionals People are the central issue in the work of Dr. jack- son Mayers, associate professor of sociology. His interest has led him to search for and advance the consciousness of the forces working to create a new world of mass society. Dr. Mayers feels that people who try to analyze their problems rationally are also irrational and that their emotional expression is of the utmost importance. My own orientation is to indicate the steady need for new functions for old, leisure orientation in place of work addiction, emotional expression as being as vital, if not more significant, than rational approaches, stated Dr. Mayers. We have to find a place for the individual in the large scale organization without sacrificing him to the new Leviathan. Such persons have to learn to participate in the great dialogue of consensus in a democracy and to find the means of producing the positive social changes that arise out of dissension, he continued. Richard A. Knox, associate professor of music, ap- proaches his work with the philosophy that success depends not on material gains but on the giving of one's self to enrich others. Knowing you have contributed to a successful stu- dent, says Prof. Knox, and the continuing friendships with former students are the greatest rewards in teach- ing. Choral music and the direction of choirs hold a special fascination for him. Prof. Knox leads several groups, both from Valley and from religious or- ganizations. The music he most prefers teaching is that of the Renaissance and the Twentieth Century. In Professor Knox's opinion, Valley's superior facilities and fine staff can look forward to producing numbers of outstanding- ly successful graduates in the field of music. A multitude of people the maternal product and eventual consumer of has work, flank sociology professor Dr