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

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GI-Iqlc on GD Goaach, GHunt, By Wm. L. Crawford Illustrated by Robert Lachman The humorous manner in which Coach Al Hunt expresses himself must stem from the twinkle found deep in what must be the very eyes of age. When Coach Hunt, associate professor of physical educa- tion, speaks of his years at Valley, he's speaking from 22 years of experience. Coach Hunt has been at Valley since 1951. He came here as an assistant football coach and went on to become head coach in 1952, a position which he retained for 10 years. That was back in the days when people from nearby ranches would watch our football practice as they sauntered by on horse- back. Coach Hunt has seen many changes in his 22 years at Valley. He has seen the entire San Fernando Valley grow from open ranch land and orchards to a bustling metropolis, packed with apartment build- ings. When the coach moved to the Valley years ago, one of his pastimes was hiking in the nearby mountains. Now he says the nearby mountains are covered with apartment buildings and you have to drive for an hour just to find a decent mountain to hike on. And even then you have to climb right to the top to get above the smog. l feel I completely underestimated the growth of this Valley. lt's re- markable how it has grown just since the early '50's. When I first came here I used to hunt rabbits in the Tujunga Wash before it was filled with concrete. The Coach also feels he underestimated the growth of enrollment at Valley. I never expected to see over 10,000 students here in what seemed, back then, to be strictly a rural area. Coach Hunt has not always looked with favor on the growth of Valley College. The area surrounding the Valley College property grew so fast and walled us in so abruptly that we were bound to suffer for it. Ethel Avenue is a good example of that. From his Coach Hunt is as nimble onthe court as he is in his conversation He loves playing tennis and teachrng rt office the coach has a good view of a large portion of Ethel Avenue. We shouldn't have that traffic running through our campus. l've seen a few bad accidents and a few near misses on that street. When speaking of near misses, Coach Hunt never fails to mention Valley's prospects on the construc- tion of a swimming pool facility. To him, it seems that the only thing that holds back the construction is an unusually conservative Board of Trustees. There were three swimming pools on the property when we bought it, but the district decided it would be better to destroy them and build one big pool. lt's been 22 years and still no pool. Another reason the Coach feels that the pool construction has been neglected is, once again, the size of the community surrounding Valley College. ln many other communities, with colleges to support, the needs of the colleges are under much closer scrutiny and most all their problems com- mand immediate attention. in our community it isn't that the people aren't concerned - they are. It's just that we've grown to such a huge population that many of our campus problems get sidelined in the overall picture of things. Al Hunt became tennis coach at Valley and has remained so for nine years. He played tennis during his college days at Occidental. ln those days playing tennis was not very lucrative, reflected Coach Hunt. The coach's approach to teaching reflects his own personality. I just try to make sports interesting and keep it exciting for everyone concerned. The coach's enduring sense of humor emerged again when he spoke of his approaching retirement. I've been instructing the succeeding tennis coach in major areas of difficulty around here, mainly - which freeways to take to get to our various tennis matches. The coach plans to retire next year and he plans to travel to El Salvador, a small Central American country, where he will live on a coffee farm which is in his family name. Coach Hunt takes an interest in his individual students, such as Slonna Safian, whom he instructs in the correct racket grip.

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ln motion with the times, Prof. Barlow keeps his classes alert physically as wall as mentally. 'Young eople Keep You Young' By Elaine Nevelow Illustrated by Steve Fischer Bob Barlow has definite ideas about the teacher's role. He lives by the axiom the key to the students' approbation and a successful career is not to dress or act like students, but just to be sincere and be yourself. Bob Barlow, assistant professor of geography, believes that if the teacher has the right attitude he can make even the dullest subject exciting. And he tries to keep his geography classes exciting, first, by looking upon teaching as more than a job, and, second, by relating the subject to the students and their needs. He stresses that the teacher must keep renovating the subject every semester so that neither he nor the curriculum becomes stagnant. Prof. Barlow's interest in geography started when he was in the Army. Primarily, becoming a geography teacher afforded me the opportunity to travel and the chance to meet people, so I just naturally gravitated toward it, he says. Originally, Prof. Barlow was a philosophy major, at UCLA, but changed his major several times. ln 1960, he received a B.A. in geography, and in 1964 he was awarded his M.A. in the same field. After his graduation, Prof. Barlow became a lumber salesman, unhappily, because this job did not let him use the knowledge he had acquired in college. With an M.A. in geography, the major categories one can work in are pretty much limited to writing books or to teaching. Because Prof. Barlow has always enjoyed working with people , 1 ..f 1 l, If 'on . '.o'si,T'l,,-1 A k' U W L . .i ,.. . 1 gl T xo Q N '-..'.g-'i 3.13'1.i' Liu'-is 15 if x--..-'Iii' 'X ll.. ,ggi- -ir: get 'PMN' 'J-4, 'f I-'?b?'.l With golf as a favorite pastime, Prof. Barlow makes ready to putt and prove himself to be an ace-in-the-hole outside, as well as inside the classroom.