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

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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

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journalism adviser Edward A. Irwin has more than one deadline filling his busy work week. The thinnish instructor not only supervises the week- ly workings of the Valley Star and Crown, but he lends his spare time during the week and weekends to im- proving teaching standards throughout the country. During the past eight years, he has held the vice presidential post of the American Federation of Teachers on the national level and guided the local AFT as its president for more than six years. So when he is not teaching, Irwin often travels to New York and other parts of the United States to sit in on committees. Emerging from the conference rooms after long hours of debate, the staunch supporter of education hopes to have gained benefits for the teachers he represents as well as the students. On numerous occasions he has spoken before the Board of Education and on radio and television urging the improvement of teacher welfare, personnel practices and educational policy. Not only does the dedicated teacher spend many of his free days working for the AFT, but he is often called upon as an after dinner speaker. So it's a full time job holding down these positions of teacher and union leader. t l. Journalism instructor Edward A. Irwin, national vice president of the American Federation of Teachers, talks with State Superintendent of Public Instruction Max Rafferty and L. A. Board of Education president Georgiana Hardy at an AFT conference. The world is a stage on which every man must play a part. This cliche applies to the life of'Patrick Riley more than once, for as an actor he portrays numerous charac- ters on the stage plus the role of a Valley College theater arts in- structor. Riley's experience in the entertain- ment field adds to his capability as an acting teacher. ' He has directed or acted in more than 150 plays and acted for 37 weeks in a radio series, Tell me a Story. Riley toured as company manager for the Children's Theater, an adult professional company playing to children, from 1953-56. He staged the opera, Martha, and appeared in the movie, Riot in Cell Block 11. More recently he has appeared on many television shows-Tombstone Territory, Zane Grey T h e a t e r, Stoney Burke, Follow the Sun and Death Valley Days, numbering just a few. Riley, still keeping active in the field, came to Valley in September 1961. He began teaching the tech- niques of stage make-up, stagecraft and the history of the American theater. Riley now adds stage acting classes and the directing of two productions a year to his schedule Patrick Riley, cn professional actor, comes out from behind the lights to instruct his acting class at Valley.