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Porterville College's Anniversaries The Bakersfield College Archives Newsletter Fall 2017 Volume 16, Issue 2 In This Issue Porterville College’s Anniversaries .......................................... 2 Acquisitions ............................................................................ 9 Building Dedications: Simonsen Performing Arts Center ........ 3 People We Will Miss .............................................................. 10 Andre Eddington..................................................................... 4 From Our Readers, Part 2 ...................................................... 10 Jastro Park, Dr Jack ................................................................. 5 Kudos To Our Readers ........................................................... 11 Impressive Accomplishments ............................................... 6-7 Retiree Directory Announcement .......................................... 11 From Our Readers ................................................................... 8 Can You ID This Photo? ......................................................... 12 Happy Anniversaries, Porterville! We salute Porterville College, our Lindsey voted to join the Visalia Junior and each campus, in the words of Lee sister college, as she celebrates the 90th College District. As a result, Porterville Clearman, would “have a considerable anniversary of her founding and the 50th College was left with only Strathmore and degree of freedom to meet local anniversary as a member of the Kern Delano districts for service area recruits, community needs and maintain their Community College District. losing a substantial number of students. present traditions and identity.” The Each of the three colleges in the Meanwhile the California Legislature annexation was effective July 1, 1967, KCCD had a different origin. Bakersfield instituted a program whereby all territory and in the next decade attendance at College started as an extension of the high in California should be in a junior college Porterville College nearly tripled from school and after 43 years moved to a fully district and junior college districts 826 in 1966 to 2,166 in 1976. built separate campus. Cerro Coso started themselves should combine into multi- Dr. Orlin H. Shires, Porterville College as an outreach of BC, then evolved into college districts. As a result, in 1962 president from 1955 to 1978 and was the Desert Division, and finally became a high school districts in Delano, Mojave, succeeded by Paul Alcantra who served 15 full-fledged college in the KCCD. Like BC, Wasco, Tehachapi, and Muroc requested years. Rosa Carlson, who was president Porterville College grew for forty years first annexation into the Kern Joint Junior of PC for the past 12 years, has just on a high school campus and then on a College District. Their joining expanded the retired, and Bill Henry is the current interim separate campus before she asked KCCD KCCD service area from Kern County into president. In the announcement of his to take her in as a KCCD college. Inyo, San Bernardino, and Tulare counties. appointment in Valley Voice, August 7, The description of Porterville’s joining Since Bakersfield College was then 2017, Henry stated, “It’s kind of odd. It can KCCD is found in Lee Clearman’s book: in a separate district, the Porterville board be confusing. We’ve worked really hard Porterville College: The First Fifty Years, in 1963 approached Kern Joint Union [over the years] at finding our spot. I think 1927-1977 from which much of the High School and College District about a that the community now understands that information below is taken. possible merger. In response the Tulare we’re Porterville …we’re in Tulare County Founded in 1927, Porterville College County Board of Education suggested a … yet we operate as part of a district served primarily graduates of high schools district joining the College of the Sequoias with three campuses …as a district we in Lindsey, Strathmore, and Porterville, all and Porterville College. That joint district are much stronger with three campuses.” in Tulare County. In 1940 the Porterville never materialized. Covering 24,000 square miles spread board declined an invitation from the A 1965 proposal to unify Porterville over four counties, KCCD is the largest Visalia Union High School District board and Strathmore High School failed, at community college in the nation, according to a meeting to discuss forming a Tulare which time Porterville Junior College to Henry. county-wide junior college district. At moved to become a separate district from The future will reveal how many more that time Visalia was about to construct the high school and to pursue a merger years this 50 year relationship will endure. a college campus separate from the with Kern Community College District. The Bakersfield Californian on May 12, high school, and Porterville College was Although support was split in 2017 carried a headline: “Some Porterville planning a building adjacent to their high both districts, the December 1966 residents call for college to secede school. In 1950 Visalia Junior College vote approved the annexation. It was from Kern Community College District.” (now College of the Sequoias) expanded agreed that students living in this larger For now, we at Bakersfield College to its separate campus and district which district could attend either college, a congratulate Porterville College on its 50th made it possible to annex the Lindsey representative of Porterville would serve anniversary as a sister college in the Kern High School District into its service area. on the seven-member board of trustees, Community College District. A 2 Archives Newsletter BUILDING DEDICATIONS: Simonsen Performing Arts Center majoring in music, and had his first In 1968 he became the first Chancellor teaching experience at East Bakersfield of the Kern Community College District High School just before WWII [1938]. where he served for ten years, retiring in During the war, Ed was a Marine Corps 1978, and eventually moving to Cambria. pilot assigned to operations in the south Ed Simonsen was a statewide and Pacific. When he returned from his national leader in the community college military duty, Grace Bird recruited him to movement. He served as President of help in the administration of Bakersfield the American Association of Community Junior College, and he had a number of and Junior Colleges for one term, and administrative assignments there, including he also was President of the California Dean of Men, and Athletic Director. Junior College Association for one term. When Ralph Prator became Ed prized his training in music, and long President of Bakersfield College in 1950, into his retirement played the oboe in Si became Vice President and in 1958 various community music organizations. was promoted to President. He served He greatly valued his time at Bakersfield in this position for ten years, which were College, and was known widely in the thought of by many as the “golden years” community as an effective and revered of Bakersfield College. leader. He liked it when people referred to Dr. Simonsen was noted for him as “Mr. Bakersfield College.” recruiting a first-class faculty for the college, for being trusted by the faculty [In 2013 it was announced that the Speech, and staff, and for keeping everyone Arts, Music complex would be remodeled “loose in the harness.” The employees and upgraded to emerge as the Edward Dr. Edward and the students at the college during Simonsen Performing Arts Center. April Si’s tenure trusted him, and he was 25, 2015 was the grand opening of the worthy of their trust. They also liked him, Simonsen Performing Arts Center with “A Simonsen as he took the trouble to try to remember Noteworthy Event,” which included the everyone’s name, and even though he Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra playing As written April 2008 by Dr. John Collins, was the boss, most everyone thought of a composition by Bakersfield College President Emeritus him as a friend. With all of that going for professor John Gerhold in the Outdoor Ed Simonsen grew up in Oakland, him, he was able to exert his leadership Theater.] A California, attended College of Pacific talents without ruffling too many feathers. Norm Harris plugging his ears, Ed Simonsen on oboe, Harland Boyd on trumpet, and Guy Jaggard directing the faculty band in 1950. Can you identify any others? Archives Newsletter 3 In July, 2015 the Archives received an email asking for information about Andre Eddington, Renegade alum and former sports assistant. The author of the inquiry was Dr. Simon J. Carmel, Physicist, International Deaf Magician, Writer and Researcher, Mentalist, Mathemagician, and Deaf Folklorist out of West Palm Beach, Florida. He is the author of two books about deaf magicians worldwide. For his second book, he tried without success to reach Andre. He was then writing his third book, in which he planned to include Andre. He had learned about Andre from an article he received in 2007. That article was a reprint of a story, which first appeared in the Renegade Rip issue, March 8, 2007. Ten years later , Andre still comes around campus occasionally. Here is Andre’s story as written by Dr. Carmel in 2016, which we print here (in a condensed version) with Dr. Carmel’s permission. Andre Eddington By Simon Carmel Amazing magician Andre Eddington was the age of nine. He said he had a total of children, football team meetings at born deaf, probably due to his mother’s illness 110 awards but due to constant moving Bakersfield
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