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

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Alumnus Mike Seeger has not only gone on to bigger and better things since his days at Valley, but has been bringing them back to the Van Nuys campus. A sociology major in the days of the college's infancy, Seeger is today the registrar at Granada Hills High School, and during the evening comes back to Valley College, this time to teach. The University of California at Los Angeles became Seeger,s home after he left Valley in 1961, and three years after entering UCLA, Seeger joined the Los An- geles City Schools as a teacher. Since then Seeger has done graduate work at USC, UCLA and San Fernando Valley State. Seeger holds a Master of Arts degree from Valley State. Alumnus Musry arrives at the office that he and two others have founded in Los Angeles. Mike Seeger completes the 12-year cycle of student to teacher ot Valley College as he instructs his night school class.

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, ls l ' s N , n ' J 5 216. Attorney-at-Low Ed Masry sits behind his desk planning The outline for his next legal encounter. In its years since its inception, Valley College has had literally thousands of alumni go into professional fields. The quality of these graduates, as typified here, ranks with the graduates from larger, better known univer- sities. The list of Valley's outstanding alumni is of such magnitude that only a representative few can be in- cluded in Crown magazine. Now a highly successful Los Angeles attorney, Ed Masry has come quite a ways from the athletic field and Executive Council chambers of Valley College, where he graduated a dozen years ago. While at Valley, Masry served as president of the Associated Men Students, Lettermen's Club and finally A.S. president. As a side1ight Masry also found time to be chosen the outstanding athlete of 1952. After a three-year hitch in the Army, Masry returned to Valley for another semester's instruction before going to the University of California at Santa Barbara and Loyola Law School. Masry is now the senior partner of the law firm, Masry, Hartley and David in downtown Los AngeleS

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Ron Wfagenbach, former Valley College student, re- cently formed a partnership with Tim Viole, also a Valley alumnus, in the construction business. The pair, reunited for the first time since they scan! ned the Valley gridiron in 1951, have formed their business of building custom homes, apartments and of- fices in the Southern California area. Wagenbach, a journalism major here, went to San jose State, where he received his B.A. degree in journal- ism in 1954. After graduating from San jose State, Wagenbach entered the Army as an athletic director. Three years later he received his discharge and went into the business world. Advertising and public relations were his fields until recently when he left Ford Motor Company's public relations office for his new-found career. The year 1960 found English major Karen R055 in Valley College's graduating class. Miss Ross, interested in children, has the distinction of leading a Brownie troup while attending Valley. She held various student body oflices during her tenure here. In the spring of 1960 Miss Ross transferred to the University of California at Berkeley, where her major was elementary education. She was graduated from Berkeley in the spring of 1963 and is presently work- ing toward her teaching credentials at UCLA. Alumnus Ron Wagenbach heads for his office, where a full day dx.. AV Rapt attention is given to Karen Ross as she pours forth information for these eager young minds to absorb. awaits him as head of his own construction company. QW Ka 9 3 1 Q et . umja. ,Q .Q .iz Gi