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

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During a slight shower, the ribbon cutting ceremonies performed by lleft to rightl Valley College President Robert Horton, Board of Trustee Member Marion La Follette, Board of Trustees President Kenneth Wyatt and District Chancellor Dr. Leslie Koltai. By Vanessa Finan Illustrated by Wes Preston A new door was opened this fall admitting female students, as well as those of the other gender, into the first new building on the Valley College campus since the completion of the Campus Center in 1971. The new Women's Gym was not necessarily a Christmas surprise when it opened its doors on january 8 to welcome students with complete and effective facilities to enhance the women's physical education program. Monarchs were allowed a long look into Santa's bag and were able to watch the 18-month construc- tion of the gym, which is located near the Men's Gym, bordering Ethel Avenue. Upon their first introduction to the gym, students generally commented, lt's purple! The main gym room is the only one in the district and possibly the only one in the state to have purple walls. However, women's Physical Education Depart- ment chairman Roberta Mulkey said the gym is really blue. It's the mercury vapor lighting that makes it purple, she explained. We really didn't know until they turned the lights on that it would be purple. No one on the Women's P.E. faculty opposed the blue color that was chosen for the benefit of athletes who participated in the gym's regularly scheduled sports of badminton and volleyball. We went upstairs into the Campus Center build- ing because there's a blue classroom up there, explained Miss Mulkey, and we hit a badminton birdie around to see if we could see it against the color blue we chose. The players that I have talked to from other ,ir e 'eQ 'if- 5 i 1' . 'J 4. v A 'J Wh--. . 595. Women's P.E. Department Chairman Miss Roberta Mulkey lcenterl meets with Women's P.E. faculty in the gym's spacious conference IOOII1. Delighting in the privacy of having her own otlice, Rosemary Breckell, assistant professor of physical education, finds the contrast between this and the one-room office that used to accommodate all 10 P.E. teachers in the old gym. 23 fe 91

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l - i i Valley student Michelle Vickers, takes advantage of the new gymnastics equipment in the new Women's Gym. Students utilize their personal gymnastics equipmentg in the past, they had to share the men's equipment. ..-..ff- fs: ish: 92 , iQ 4 - '..t22i:0 ' ' n- 2-5 tr MW'-1, .4 Wall-length mirrors make learning all the easier, as student Roberta Taylor proves through excelling in dance. schools have liked it very much, said the depart- ment chairman, explaining that birdies and volley- balls were easy to spot against the contrasting blue- purple walls. In addition to the soon-to-be-infamous purple gym, the facility provides a dance studio room, an exercise and body building room, a spacious locker room with 1,895 lockers and 33 showers with two individual dressing cubicles bordering each shower. An equipment room is located on one side of the lobby, with seven offices for the teachers on the other side, Inside the office complex is a conference room, a first aid room, and a one-time cot room that has recently been transformed into a student lounge which is regularly visited by department majors and extra-curricular sports team members. Among the most noted improvements of the new gym are its seven offices which replace one office which previously housed all 10 P.E. teachers. When commenting on the benefits of the multiple offices, Miss Mulkey said, We're able to get our work done here where previously we couldn't. There were so many in the office before, and concentra- tion was rather difficult. Much of our work was done at home then, whereas now we can do it here.