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

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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

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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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A journalism degree from Valley has proved to be the key to success for Dave Siddon, long time news- paperman in the Valley and now one of the most respected public relations men in Southern Cali- fornia. After numerous years at the Val- ley Times as business and sports editor, Siddon now operates in a public relations firm in Los Angeles, specializing in commercial corpora- tions. A burly ex-Marine Corps MP, Siddon has covered professional football for the Valley Times, where he twice a season came into contact with Don Shinnick, the venerable linebacker with the Baltimore Colts. Shinnick played linebacker and fullback for Al Hunt's squad before he went on to UCLA and then the Colts. Public relations expert Dave Siddon handles accounts for several industrial firms in the Southland. All-pro linebacker Don Shinnick makes final arrangements before his upcoming game between his Baltimore Colts and the Los Angeles Rams.