The Emeritimes Publication of The Emeriti Association California State University, Los Angeles Volume XVIII, Number 3 Spring 1997 CSU-ERFA Initiates PROVOST HARTMAN TO SPEAK Issues Conferences The CSU Emeritus and Retired Faculty Asso- AT MAY 16 SPRING MEETING ciation (CSU-ERFA) has initiated a new series of The annual Spring Luncheon and Meeting of the Emeriti Asso- conferences devoted to issues facing its constitu- ciation will be held on Friday, May 16 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. ency. The primary purpose of these conferences is in the University Club, with Cal State L.A.' s well-known Provost to gather responses from representatives of cam- and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Margaret J. Hartman, as pus-affiliate organizations, so that ERFA Execu- guest speaker. tive Council members can reasonably claim to Also a professor of biology, Hartman received her B.A. in bio- speak for all retired faculty in comments and po- logical sciences from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and M.A. and Ph.D. sitions on pending legislation and other state policy in entomology from Oregon State University. She came to this cam- matters. In addition, these conferences will serve pus in 1970 as an assistant professor of zoology (the departments of to alert the ERFA leadership regarding issues that Zoology and Botany combined to form the Department of Biology in significant portions of the general membership 1972) and was promoted to full professor in 1980. seek to have addressed. No actions are to be taken Hartman served as department chair for three years until 1981 at these meetings; proposed actions will be when she was named assistant vice president for Academic Affairs. agendized for the Executive Council. In addition, she was acting dean of Graduate Studies and Research The first issues conference was held in Los in 1985-86. In September 1986 she became associate vice president for Academic Affairs, a position Angeles on Saturday, January 11. Attending she held until 1994 when she assumed her current post. from Cal State L.A. were Mary Gormly, John Hartman has written extensively and presented many papers at professional meetings. Needless Houk, Robert Kully, Leonard Mathy, and Frieda to say, she has served on numerous school and university committees. In her off-campus life, she Stahl. The following issues were presented for is an ornithologist and a great lover of cats. discussion and response: At this spring meeting, the election of officers for 1997-98 will take place and introductions of • Possible modification of the present retire- newly-appointed emeriti will be made. ment plan from defined benefit (DB) to de- fined contribution (DC), as proposed in AB3252 (Kaloogian). ERFA is already on Emeriti Association Nomination Committee Report record as opposed; PERS is reviewing the 1997-78 NOMINATIONS FOR OFFICES AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE legislation, which has had several amend- ments. Wilma Krebs (Sacramento), Legis- Placed in Nomination lative Committee chair for ERFA, presented President Frieda Stahl See CSU-ERFA, Page 3 Vice President, Administration Leon Schwartz Treasurer Laird Allison Secretary Marie-Antoinette Zrimc ANNUAL, CSLA Academic Senate Representative Frieda Stahl Note: Nominations from the floor for these offices will be possible at the Annual Spring Meeting, May 16. When the nominations close, a vote will be taken. Continuing Officers and Executive Committee METING Vice President, Programs Mary Gormly Immediate Past President Kenneth Phillips FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1997 Corresponding Secretary Eloise King 11:30 A.M. TO 2:00 P.M. Membership Secretary C. Lamar Mayer UNIVERSITY CLUB Chair, Fiscal Affairs Committee Warren Reeves Chair, Emeritimes Editorial Board Mildred Massey COST: $11 PER PERSON Chair, Fellowship Fund Carol Smallenburg Send check made payable to Emeriti Asso- CSU Academic Senate Representative Donald Moore ciation to Mary Gormly, 1024 Royal Oaks CSU-ERFA Representative John Houk Drive, Apt. 820, Monrovia, CA 91016- Emeriti Historian/Archivist Donald Dewey 5404 no later than May 12. Database Coordinator Victor Payse For more information, call Mary at 818- Emeritimes Consultant William Lloyd 358-7325. Executive Committee Members-at-Large Louis Eggers, Jackie Lou Hoyt, Joan Johnson, Leonard Mathy The Emeritimes PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FRIEDA A. STAHL, President and For the last of three columns in the 1996-97 academic year, let Academic Senate Representative me direct attention to 1997-98. Next year we will observe two KENNETH PHILLIPS, anniversaries: the University will celebrate its 50th and our Emeriti Immediate Past President Association will celebrate its 20th. Emeritus faculty members will LEON SCHWARTZ, have the opportunity to participate in several of the campuswide Vice President, Administration events as well as in some activities organized by and for ourselves. MARY GORMLY, Vice President, Programs "Ourselves"—who are we? We are the faculty who built the LAIRD ALLISON, Treasurer University over the last half-century. By our dedicated delibera- and CSLA RPEA Representative tions and actions we established the structures, curriculum, aca- MARIE- ANTOINETTE ZRIMC, Secretary demic governance, library, laboratories, performance spaces... We ELOISE KING, Corresponding Secretary developed the students, who were transformed into alumni. Some C. LAMAR MAYER, Membership Secretary of us served in administrative assignments when it was a given that we remained faculty in DONALD 0. DEWEY, Historian/Archivist that service. WARREN E. REEVES, Fiscal Affairs Chair This issue of The Emeritimes carries the first round of reminiscences by founding faculty, CAROL SMALLENBURG, colleagues whose tenure dates back to the early years. The response to our call for such Fellowship Fund Chair remembrances was voluminous; the call is still on, and we expect to fill several issues with DONALD A. MOORE, CSU Academic these submissions. Indeed, we will have to edit them to keep within affordable page counts, Senate Representative but don't let our production constraints stay your pens (or word processors). JOHN L. HOUK, CSU—ERFA Representative As the year-long program plans begin to fall into place, we can predict that there will be Winona Brooks, Louis Eggers, a number of occasions for emeriti to gather. It should be auld lang syne all year long. We will Joan Johnson, Leonard G. Mathy, communicate regularly, between issues when necessary. Victor Payse, Leon Schwartz, In another space we announce the spring luncheon and annual meeting, set for May 16. Members-at-Large, Executive Committee In addition to the food, guest speaker, and agenda, we hope to be able to report the first specific details about next year's events. Please join us at the luncheon, and if you haven't The Emeritimes yet joined the Emeriti Association, do so now. You're what we're about. ELLEN R. STEIN, Editor DENNIS KIMURA, Graphic Designer WILLIAM E. LLOYD, Emeritimes Consultant MILDRED MASSEY (Chair), MARY GORMLY, CAROL SMALLENBURG, Editorial Board Address mail to Ellen Stein, Editor, Emeritimes Research and Sponsored Programs Pape Lecture to be Held May 16 California State University, Los Angeles The Fourteenth Annual Leon Pape Memorial ter recalled by emeritus faculty members than 5151 State University Drive Lecture will be held on Friday, May 9 at 2:00 by present colleagues. He received the Outstand- Los Angeles, CA 90032-8253 Phone: (213) 343-3798 p.m. in Physical Sciences 158. The lecturer will ing Professor Award in 1969 in recognition of Fax: (213) 343-6430 be F. Sherwood Rowland, Donald Bren Research his innovative teaching, biomedical research, Email: [email protected] Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cali- and development of interdepartmental programs fornia, Irvine, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in biophysics, radiological health physics, and for Chemistry in 1995 for his discoveries on ozone electron microscopy, which in that decade at- depletion in the atmosphere. The title of his ad- tracted enthusiastic students. New Emeriti Named dress is "Two Atmospheric Problems: Ozone He later joined the research faculty at the Five recently retired faculty members have Depletion and Global Warming." August Krogh Institute of the University of been awarded emeritus status: Rowland has received many other awards Copenhagen, but never lost touch with friends PHOEBE K. DEA as well as fellowships, visiting appointments, and colleagues at Cal State L.A. Indeed the Papes (Chemistry and Biochemistry, 1976-1996) and honorary doctorates from institutions in hosted many visitors, whose European trips were countries around the globe. He is a member of booked to include Copenhagen for just such SARAH P. FARNHAM the National Academy of Sciences, American reunions. His untimely death in 1984, due to the (Nursing, 1971-1996) Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American complications of diabetes, prompted the estab- PAMELA D. JABLONSKY Philosophical Society, and serves as foreign lishment of this lecture series in his memory, (Technology, 1978-1996) secretary of the National Academy of Sciences. encompassing many of his eclectic interests. OLGA A. TERMINI He served as president of the American Asso- Over the years, the lecturers have included (Music, 1972-1996) ciation for the Advancement of Science in Nobelists in physics, chemistry, and medicine, (AAAS) 1992, and in 1993 chaired the AAAS and other distinguished scientists in areas such ALICE V. WATKINS Board of Directors. His public service includes as cosmology and nuclear disarmament. (Associate Dean, School of Education and membership on several U.S. panels dealing with The Department of Physics and Astronomy Special Education, 1969-1995) the atmospheric environment, including ozone will host a reception for Rowland immediately We welcome them as fellow emeriti and depletion and acid rain. following the lecture, at the University Club. The encourage them to play an active role in the Leon Pape, who was a member of the Phys- entire lecture audience is invited. Emeriti Association. ics Department from 1961 to 1971, is now bet-

2 Professional PERS Holds Long-term Care and Personal Pre-enrollment Seminars Sidney Albert (Philosophy) was inter- Retired faculty members who have not as yet enrolled in the PERS plan for long-term care viewed by radio station KPFK (90.7 FM) as may wish to attend one of the following informational seminars scheduled for the Los part of a California Artists Radio Theatre broad- Angeles area. The Emeritimes press-run and mailout times may restrict the choices from cast of two short plays by George Bernard Shaw, the following calendar, but should not reach readers too late for the entire series. The Music Cure and The Inca of Perusalem, on Sunday, April 27. He discussed the two plays 4/21, 4/22, 4/24 Burbank Airport Hilton 1:30 or 4:30 p.m. and Shaw during the 15-minute interview. He 2500 Hollywood Way, Burbank has just ended an advisory role for the Los 4/25 Junipero Serra Building 10:00 a.m., 12:00 noon Angeles Repertory Company production of 107 S. Broadway, Los Angeles or 2:00 p.m. Shaw's Back to Methuselah which was per- formed in Culver City in March. 4/28 Radisson Plaza Hotel 1:30 or 4:30 p.m. George A. Gustafson (Accounting) was re- 1400 Parkview Ave., Manhattan Bch cently honored by the American Accounting As- 4/29 Ronald Reagan Building 10:00 a.m., 12:00 noon sociation inks special 1996 fall issue of Accounting 300 S. Spring St., Los Angeles or 2:00 p.m. Education News. The Executive Committee of the Association awarded a life membership in 4/30, 5/1 Pasadena Convention Center 1:30 or 4:30 p.m. recognition of his long-term membership in and 300 E. Green St., Pasadena support of the Association. Gustafson joined the Association in 1946 when he was an accounting instructor at Louisiana State University. Charles J. Inacker (Office Systems and Phi Kappa Phi Installation Set for May 4 Business Education) was recently awarded the John Robert Gregg Award in Business Educa- Emeritus faculty members are invited to chapter treasurer, Ralph Spanswick, Depart- tion at the Annual National Business Educa- join with many active colleagues to honor the ment of Accounting, immediately at 213-343- tion Association Conference held in New York outstanding students being inducted into Phi 2867. The cost of the banquet is $22; there is a City. The award, established in 1953, recog- Kappa Phi this year. Several distinguished choice of entree, chicken or vegetarian. nizes and rewards outstanding contributions faculty members will also be inducted. The There are many emeritus faculty members to the advancement of business education and installation banquet will be held on Sunday, who are members of Phi Kappa Phi, and sev- consists of a plaque, a citation of the recipient's May 4 at the Quiet Cannon Restaurant, 901 N. eral are continuing to serve on the chapter's contributions and accomplishments, and a cash Via San Clemente, Montebello. The program executive board. But participation in the an- gift of $1,500. Supported by Glencoe/ will begin with a no-host reception at 5:00 p.m., nual banquet is not limited to members; it af- McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, it is the followed by the installation ceremony at 6:00 fords an opportunity for congenial reunions. highest and most prestigious award in the field p.m., dinner at 6:45 p.m., and the keynote ad- of business education. dress. The keynote speaker will be Donald Milton W. Meyer (History) presented a Paulson, professor of chemistry and recipient talk, "America and China: The Early Years, of the systemwide Outstanding Professor Spring Quarter 1784-1900," sponsored by the San Marino Award. The title of his talk is "From Teaching Faculty Colloquia Set Historical Society, at the Webb Theater in San to Learning: A 27-Year Odyssey." Marino High School on January 16. Those planning to attend should call the The remaining faculty colloquia for the spring quarter are as follows: CSU-ERFA (Continued from Page I ) April 29 Daniel Crecelius (History), "The Problem of Religious Endowments a detailed analysis of pros and cons, in which • ERFA's interest in establishing an educa- in Islamic Countries" the arguments against far outweighed those tional endowment program for gifts and in favor. The contrast between DB and DC bequests. A tax-exempt trust fund would May 20 Erika Wilson (Economics & Statis- plans is the fact that the investment risk shifts serve as the repository for such donations. tics, History), "Changing Values in from the employer to the employee. That An information paper and a survey ques- Reunified Germany Today" feature is seen as the motivation for the bill. tionnaire were prepared by the ERFA Long- • The prognosis for retiree health benefits, for Range Planning Committee. Colloquia are held on Tuesdays from 3:30- which PERS-Care and PERS-Choice are no Conference participants were organized in 5:00 p.m. in the University Club. They are co- longer in the basis group that determines the five groups, each including a discussion leader sponsored by the Office of the Provost, state's contribution. A detailed analysis of and a reporter. No group had more than one rep- Graduate Studies and Research, University the problems and possible offsetting adjust- resentative from any campus. The resulting com- Club, L.A. Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, and ments was distributed to the conferees. The ments were summarized in group reports read to University Auxiliary Services. Faculty and trend in these self-funded options is rising the entire conference. Those summaries will be their guests are welcome. For further informa- average age, which leads to rising premi- used for a general report to be sent to all mem- tion, please call 213-343-3820. ums along with the decreasing employer bers. The date, location, and agenda for the next contribution. Additional discussion was issues conference will be announced when set. devoted to questions of quality and accessi- bility in competing HMOs. 3 In Memoriam SPECIAL SECTION:

ANN M. RICHARDSON (Professor of Psychology, 1959-1980) Ann M. Richardson passed away on February 18 as a result of em- physema. She did her undergradu- ate work at the University of Cal State L.A. Southern California, receiving both A.B. and B.S. degrees in 1950, and completed an M.A. degree at BEGINNING WITH THIS ISSUE, THE EMERITIMES WILL BE FEATURING THE Pepperdine University in 1951. She RECOLLECTIONS OF THE FOUNDING FACULTY—THOSE WHO JOINED CAL became a certified psychologist in STATE L.A. IN THE 19405 AND 19505—IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE California in 1950. Upon receiving a fellowship, she attended Bryn UNIVERSITY'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION. THE RESPONSE TO Mawr College to do her doctoral OUR REQUEST FOR REMINISCENCES OF THIS GROUP HAS BEEN GREAT, work and received her Ph.D. in ex- perimental and social psychology FULL OF MEMORIES OF SHARED EXPERIENCES THAT TOOK PLACE DUR- in 1957. She did postdoctoral work ING THE YEARS ON VERMONT AVENUE AND AT THE NEW RAMONA in neurophysiology at UCLA Medi- CAMPUS. WE PLAN TO PRINT THEM ALL IN TWO OR THREE INSTALL- cal School. Richardson came to Los Ange- MENTS; WE ARE SELECTING THEM TO INCLUDE A VARIETY OF ACADEMIC les State College in September 1959 AREAS FOR EACH ISSUE. as an assistant professor. Her re- search interests were primarily di- rected toward examining the IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE FOUNDING FACULTY AND HAVE NOT AS YET neurological correlates of behavior. SENT IN YOUR RECOLLECTIONS, PLEASE DO SO—THERE IS STILL PLENTY From 1969 to 1973, she directed the Brain Behavior Reptile Laboratory OF TIME! in the Psychology Department and served as department coordinator of graduate programs and chair of the Graduate Programs Committee. THELMA W. GRAVES "Feeling that our goals had been achieved, I During her stewardship as gradu- Home Economics, 1951-1993 asked to be relieved of the chairmanship. We ate coordinator, 23 students re- "In 1951, Howard McDonald attended a meet- were fortunate to secure Bertha Gregory, who ceived master's degrees and many ing at Humboldt State College where my hus- had been state supervisor of home economics, more profited from her instruction band, Albert Graves, and I were on the faculty. for the position and who soon became a cher- in research methodology. She pub- He offered each of us a position at Los Angeles ished friend. I was then able to concentrate en- lished numerous articles with stu- State College. My responsibility was to orga- tirely on teaching. My classes were attended by dents who later went on to Ph.D. nize a home economics department in connec- many nonmajors who chose them as electives. programs. In 1973, department tion with Los Angeles City College whose They, as well as our own majors, were a joy to chair Richard Cannicott com- campus we shared. The first semester we of- teach, and made every day a happy and reward- mended Richardson for her fered only two courses which I taught in addi- ing one. It was also my privilege to serve as "...painstaking efforts to maintain tion to planning future curriculum, ordering president of Faculty Women and Faculty Wives. high standards and scholarship yet scores of library books, and selecting faculty. My final large undertaking was to plan the spare provide recognition and humane My division head, Bill Daywalt, was very sup- allotment for our department on our new cam- treatment of students." portive. Later, our department was placed in pus. Each professor drew detailed plans for her Homer Fetty' s respective courses. The child care laboratory division, where and clothing laboratories were my responsibil- it also received ity. All plans were completed and approved full support. when Bertha Gregory arrived. JOHN TOWNLEY Our department "It has been 33 years since my retirement, (Professor of Education, 1967-1992) grew so rapidly but there has not been a day that I have not John Townley, professor of edu- that shortly recalled my 12 happy years at Los Angeles State. cation, died in February of cancer. thereafter we My husband and I were married for 64 years A full obituary will appear in the were able to before he died in 1992. We had moved to a next Emeritimes issue. add enough lovely retirement home surrounded by seven faculty and acres of trees and flowers, and where I have courses to served on many committees. Now at age 93, I achieve state have really retired, and enjoy our daughter, son- accreditation. in-law, and many good friends."

4 The Founding Faculty Reminisce

WARREN E. REEVES side of Vermont Avenue across from the north "In 1955 or 1956 the division office moved to Physical Education and Recreation, 1950-1982 end of the LACC campus. We held faculty a bungalow on Berendo Street, just north of the "We only had a few faculty members in the meetings in a booth located in a 'greasy spoon' LACC campus. I shared an office with Sax Elliot division so each of us had to teach a few courses restaurant a few doors down from our Safeway in a former bedroom with attached toilet. In the in which we had little background. Exercise site. We shared all facilities (lockerrooms, train- autumn of 1957, the division finally located on physiology was my specialty. I was L.A. State's ing room, and sports areas such as the gymna- the Ramona campus with our faculty offices on first baseball coach in Spring 1950. Opposing sium, tennis courts, and swimming pool) with the second story of the Fine Arts building. I re- teams would scoff at us because the players the LACC coaches and athletes. Because of this, member teaching golf on a patch of grass just performed in gray sweatsuits, baseball caps, and there was great animosity and hostility on the north of the building. The present gymnasium baseball shoes but no regular uniforms. I also part of the LACC coaches who naturally felt was completed in 1958 so we began the fall se- was faculty sponsor of Phi Epsilon Kappa, the that they were being imposed upon by us as mester in the new facility. We were established national professional physical education frater- intruders. at last in our very own permanent home!" nity, and served as business manager of athletics from 1951-54." The LACC campus: "The first division office was a `gang' office housed in an old brick building close to the campus incinerator. Needless to say, it was a noisy and dirty environment with refuse from the entire campus being unloaded and burned nearby. The next di- vision office and 'class- room' building, in 1952 or thereabouts, was an old Safeway store on the east School offices on Berendo Street.

5 Program advisement in the main gym: "In "A new department head was hired in 1954, the 1960s registration took place in the main but he resigned in 1955. I became acting head gym with each department controlling its en- and was joined on the faculty by Bill Plumtree, rollment by holding the enrollment cards for Harold Storch, and Bill Eggers. The department each class. Registering students had to go to was housed in one office in the LACC engi- each department's table in the gym to obtain a neering wing. We had no furniture for our fall card to enroll in a specific class. At the end of advising, so we rigged up trestles with plywood each day of registration, a department would board tops for desks and wooden crates for know the exact number of students in each class. chairs. The program prospered: we doubled And John Salmond, the registrar, would know enrollment every semester and together we de- the total college enrollment at the close of reg- veloped the curriculum. We hired part-time istration." faculty from industry because we needed people Curriculum innovations—the Work-Study in a hurry. Registration was always chaotic. Program: Homer Fetty was the first adminis- Eventually, the `acting' was removed and I hired trator of this special program. It enabled stu- the nucleus of what became our permanent fac- dents to earn college credit for so many hours a ulty. week of on-the-job training and experience "The two Bills, Harold, and I laid the foun- which was a natural extension of their major. dation not only of the curriculum but of design- Athletics: "The first football team was ing the building we were to get on the Ramona "The majors offered were still limited, as formed in Fall 1951 with Leonard `Bud' Adams campus jointly with the Industrial Arts Depart- was our student body. Many of our students as its coach. Its first victory was the defeat of ment under Cliff Dobson. We were part of a were young married couples working full or LaVerne College that year—the team's only polyglot division which included Nursing, Po- part time, some with children of preschool age. victory that year. I was the second golf coach, lice Science, and Home Economics besides Often one would babysit a child in the car while from 1953-63. In 1957 the men's team defeated Engineering and Industrial Arts. Despite our the spouse attended classes, then trade places USC in a dual golf match at Annandale Country differences, we were a close-knit group under while the other went to class. Some even brought Club—a first for any LASC sports team." the amazing leadership of Homer Fetty. One their children to class. In one evening voice and interesting item was that Evelyn Malkin, head diction class in which students were assigned of Nursing, married my father-in-law. That's small speeches informative in nature, a seven- LESLIE CROMWELL how close-knit we were. year-old announced that he had a speech to share Engineering, 1953-1980 "We prospered, got accredited, and became also. The offer was accepted and he gave a very Taught electrical and other engineering courses. a proud part of the new university that emerged. detailed expertise on 'The Breeding of Ham- Served as department head 1955-64 and 1968- Until I retired as dean in 1980, Cal State L.A. sters.' 73 and as Dean of Engineering from 1973 to was my life. I look back on those years with "Facilities for teaching correction of voice 1980. Also served on Faculty Council and pride and humility. How many people are given and speech disorders were limited but we man- helped form the student societies, Sigma Epsi- the opportunity to help influence the lives of so aged quite well with one audiometer, a tape re- lon and Tau Beta Pi. Wrote the original engi- many young people? When I meet with fellow corder, and a little later, The Language Master, neering curriculum and founded the Department emeriti and reminisce, we all consider ourselves which provided a set of cards for lists of words of Interdisciplinary Engineering. Won the Out- lucky to have been able to play our part in bring- specializing in certain sounds for students to standing Professor Award in 1967. ing a loosely-defined program in a bunch of practice by themselves as preciously guided by "In 1952 as a faculty member at UCLA, I temporary buildings into a great institution of the instructor. One incident told by an office was sent by Dean Boelter to speak to Chet higher learning." secretary was that of a Chinese student inquir- Milham and Howard MacDonald at L.A. State ing for 'an appointment with the Language with regard to Master because his English instructor told him starting an en- MARY W. HUBER he was having trouble with his vowels.' Evi- gineering pro- Speech, 1952-1971 dently it was his impression that the Language gram. They "Members of the Speech staff were actually part Master was a person, not an instrument. had a technol- of the Language Arts Division. Those who "I can remember when the developing Eco- ogy program taught speech or speech pathology classes con- nomics Department wished to survey the need staffed by sisted of a small group: Robert Douglass, Lou for business majors among local businesses. LACC faculty Guardemal, James Stansell, and me. Others Quite a few of us were elected to go out into the and headed by came soon after. Douglass and I specialized in community and interview presidents or manag- George speech disorders, but since the program was ers of commercial operations about their need Duncan. I was limited at that time we also taught voice and for college graduates from a proposed depart- hired in Sep- diction classes. At the time we were on the ment of Business and Economics. They were tember 1953 as LACC campus, although most of us carried on also asked if they could provide student train- the first full- our duties in what were referred to as barracks ing experience in their offices. time faculty member in the Department of En- or Quonset huts. Our offices were usually in "I enjoyed our students and still am in touch gineering. Apart from teaching, I was assigned two-story flats off campus that were formerly with quite a few of them." to write an engineering curriculum. Bill Leary, private homes. I can remember hearing a secre- from the English Department, and I wrote a tary inform a student that he could find Dr. proposal to the State Department of Education Shroyer in the 'front upstairs bedroom.' and a B.S. in engineering was approved.

6 L. BUD ADAMS "Until the 1960s, we only offered upper di- activities, student recruitment, and all problems Physical Education and Athletics, 1951-1983 vision courses so our athletes had to be upper- associated with sharing a campus with Los Taught theory, methods, and activities classes. classmen, spending two years at junior college Angeles City College." Served for two years as president of Cal State before joining our teams. Ralph Anderson, John L.A. chapter of CSEA during a time when CSEA Adams, and Joe Womack were three of the sev- represented both faculty and staff. eral players who played on national pro teams LEON SCHWARTZ "I started the football program in 1951 and after playing at L.A. State. We were proud that Foreign Language, 1959-1987 was the first football coach. In 1952 spring during the 1950s and early '60s L.A. State pro- Taught Spanish and French, as well as methods football practice was not allowed, so I was duced and placed more football coaches in of teaching foreign languages. assigned the position of baseball coach. I had Southern California schools than any other col- "Until Wulf Griessbach and I came to the the football program for 12 years, nine of lege or university in the area. college in Fall 1959, there were only two full- which were spent on the LACC campus. "I took over the men's and women's colle- time faculty members in the Foreign Language LACC also had a football team so we had to giate bowling teams in 1965. Both were very Department: Florence Bonhard, the department practice from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m., after which strong and ranked among the top teams in the head, and Harold Lionetti. They both taught country for 20 years. The women's team was Spanish and some French, the only languages second in the nation one year, finishing second offered by the department. When I came, I was in the National Tournament in Oklahoma. In charged with proposing a complete B.A. pro- 1989, Tim Baker was first team All-American. gram in French, while Harold proposed an M.A. Donna Adamek was a top pro bowler in the in Spanish to be added to the already operative Women's Pro Bowling League. bachelor of arts program in that language. Wulf, "In later years, I enjoyed handling student at the same time, introduced language classes teaching assignments and supervising recreation in German and Russian. majors on their work-study jobs. Swimming "Back in 1959 the audiolingual approach to classes, especially intermediate swimming, life- foreign language teaching was the order of the saving, and water safety instructor classes were day and we had a language laboratory installed my primary area and my favorite assignments. to enable our students to practice hearing and "I loved the school, the faculty, and the stu- speaking the language outside of class using dents!! We had a great department with out- audio tapes. The catch was that there were as standing faculty. If it weren't for the 70-age yet no audio materials provided by the publish- rule, I probably would still be there." ers of our language textbooks. And so, with the help of our lab technician, I volunteered to record ESTHER PENCHEF tapes in both French and Spanish for, like Flo- Sociology and Dean of Women, 1948-1973 rence and Harold, I taught both in those early "At the time of my appointment, the state col- days. In order to create tapes with male and lege system would not appoint women to ad- female voices, I enlisted my wife Jeanne to tape its team took the field. When we moved to ministrative positions. Therefore, as the first French dialogues with me and our department our own campus, we didn't have a field so we Dean of Women I was an acting dean while my secretary, Mildred Pulido, to tape exercises in were bused to Brookside Park near the Rose male colleague was a full Dean of Men. The Spanish with me. One of these exercises con- Bowl. Our own stadium and field was fin- faculty of 12 professors and administrators who tained the Mexican place name Tlaquepaque ished in 1961, the first time we had a full two began the Los Angeles State College of Ap- (Tla-keh-pah-keh), but whenever she had to hours for practice. plied Arts and Sciences was responsible for all pronounce it, Mildred would panic and the sound duties including the academic program, student of it would come out more like Tla-keh-ca-ca. We would both crack up and agree to try again another time. I believe that I suggested that we change the name, but Mildred would have none of that and she finally got it right. "In order to place our college on the map as an institution seriously committed to a quality foreign language curriculum, our small depart- ment offered two very popular foreign language field days for local high school students. The first was organized by Harold Lionetti in 1958- 59 and drew about 1,200 contestants from around 80 high schools. I took on the challenge in 1959-60 and, because of the success of the first field day, we were able to draw 1,500 con- testants and a surprisingly large number of stu- dent observers, which generated valuable publicity in the local press. "Thanks to events such as this and to the recognition nationally, after the Russians had launched their Sputnik, of the importance of

7 foreign language study in our more and more on MacDonald's desk. I had not the slightest interdependent world community, our depart- inkling what my students were up to; I guess ment grew from just two languages and two they thought it a reasonable request, not know- full-time faculty in Spring 1959 and four lan- ing MacDonald's fanatic position on smoking. guages and four full-time faculty in Fall 1959 to "While I read the petition, which he finally a department of 10 languages with 27 full-time handed me, he harangued me with statistics and 12 part-time faculty at our 'high water mark' about the dangers of smoking—how they had in Spring 1972." caused fires, how schools had burned. I was made to believe L.A. State might have burned to the ground if the petition had been granted. I still have it, for anybody to see and read. Across AKE SANDLER Seal adopted for Los Angeles State College of Applied Government/Political Science, 1949-1980 Arts and Sciences, September 1949. it in red ink the president had written 'ABSO- "In the summer of 1949, when I started as a LUTELY NOT!' and signed it. You might say part-time instructor in the nonexistent depart- Howard S. MacDonald. For some reason we I learned my lesson the hard way, but we re- ment of political science, I was allotted 'office got along just fine—even though I thought he mained friends till the day he left. space' in a drawer of a desk that belonged to the might fire me before I got my tenure. I think his "Before we got tenure, many of us walked man who recruited me, Raymond Rydell, chair 'henchman' and vice president, Chet Milham, on thin ice. Any foolish act might jeopardize of the new department of history and, much gave him the idea I was too 'radical' because I our chances. Knowing this, I still went ahead later, the ex- started our first AAUP on the Vermont campus. and organized our first AAUP chapter on cam- ecutive vice I countered by inviting MacDonald to address pus, with myself as president. That same year, chancellor of our first AAUP meeting on the subject of aca- 1950, AAUP sponsored the first U.N. Day on the whole uni- demic freedom. The theme of MacDonald's campus, unaware that this foolhardy deed was versity system speech was that academic freedom should be anathema to the new vice president, Chet of some 22 in- exercised with 'great care.' It was one of the Milham. AAUP was bad; the U.N. was worse. stitutions. We president's more brilliant observations. To celebrate the U.N. was tantamount to a sub- were then lo- "My most dramatic 'encounter' with versive act. Only radicals (related to Commu- cated on the MacDonald was one day on the new campus on nists) could do such a thing. Vermont cam- Eastern Avenue when I was heading for the li- "But we went ahead and had a notable liberal pus in a tempo- brary and he charged me like a bull, red-faced pastor as our U.N. Day speaker. Quite a few stu- rary building and angry, waving a paper in my face. At first I dents gathered for this perfectly legal event, but which re- didn't comprehend why he was so angry and Milham went around like a bull looking for a red mained our what the paper was he was practically throwing flag. The day went off without any incidents, but permanent housing until we moved to the present in my face. It was a petition my graduate stu- Milham was biding his time to strike—legally. campus in 1956. It was a modest beginning, but dents had signed, asking for permission to smoke That moment came when one of our faculty it was an exciting time, and I always look back in my seminar. MacDonald must have thought members, who had written a letter to The People's on it with nostalgia. it was my idea. The petition had been handed to World (a radical paper), was told he was no longer "There are so many humorous and comical Mort Renshaw, dean of students, who had put it wanted. As head of our AAUP it fell on me to or purely dumb things that happened between 1949 and 1980—both at the Vermont and Ramona campuses—that I hardly know where to begin. Our first (and temporary) president, P. Victor Petersen, hired me in 1949, and I'll never forget that 'interview.' It consisted, primarily, of Petersen demonstrating (for me alone!) his skill in performing Danish folk dance. Natu- rally, I expressed my appreciation (if not my admiration) for his unexpected talent. He hired me on the spot for being a 'good Scandinavian.' (I don't think I needed any other qualification; the same may be have been true of Don Mortensen, whom he hired the same year.) "But my most vivid memories are of President

President Howard MacDonald The first home of Los Angeles State College: the Los Angeles City College campus.

8 investigate the decision by the administration. I rounded by Quonset huts for the L.A. State Berendo Street. We were offering night classes was referred to the vice president. classes, including the library. The rooms were but, because of the space shortage, we gave our "With a straight face he told me that the pro- hot in summer and cold in winter, with low public administration evening classes in the fessor had not been fired, just not rehired. He ceilings, no acoustical treatment, and no air con- Woodbury College building on Wilshire. When seemed to relish this subtle distinction. Since ditioning. Our offices were about one block west we moved to the temporary buildings at the no one had tenure, we had no case against the of the campus in an apartment house. present site, it was a relief to be off Vermont, administration. After that episode I realized and "Even with our questionable facilities, the but paucity of space and the simultaneous con- acted on the admonition of a wiser member of students in the '50s were outstanding in schol- struction made it interesting, to say the least. our faculty: 'Keep your nose clean!' I always arship and motivation. Many were Korean War Summers were particularly difficult because of had a hanky at the ready after that; maybe it vets. A number of the students became well- the flat roofs of the temporaries and the lack of saved my academic neck. known professional people, such as supervi- any air conditioning, but at least we saw progress "The thing that is most enduring from my 31 sors in education, professors, and L.A. in the construction of our eventual academic years at Cal State L.A. is the joy of helping to Philharmonic members. One of our graduates homes. build a new institution. One had a sense of cre- was Lennie Niehaus, who writes the music for "I was particularly active in local profes- ating something new and important. New ideas Clint Eastwood movies and recently wrote the sional organizations. I also visited cities and and proposals were welcome and didn't require music for the made-for-tv movie, Titanic. An- counties to interest local officials in our public any red tape that, later, would keep them from other was Irving Bush, trumpet soloist and later administration program. This was particularly being acted on immediately. If I took my idea or personnel manager of the L.A. Philharmonic. useful when we became active in the Peace program or project to the administration (some- Others were Robert Delwarte and James Ostrem, Corps training programs as I was able to ar- times the president himself), all I had to do was professors of music at Cal State Northridge. range programs and interests of local public and `write it up' and the president or the appropriate "The LACC faculty was outstanding and administrative officials and programs which fa- dean would sign his name and you were off to most of the students transferred to our college cilitated the training of Peace Corps students. the races. Sometimes an oral understanding was after two years. We at L.A. State had only upper "In the early days on the LACC campus, I all that was needed. division students. In some cases we shared fa- particularly remember the interest and atten- "That was how we started the Babcock- cilities with LACC such as the band and or- dance of faculty members at athletic events. Reynolds Collection for our new library in 1952- chestra rehearsal room. We had two graduations Sax Elliot in basketball and Bud Adams in foot- 53—a million dollar-worth collection of mostly during the year. I directed the brass choir for ball come readily to mind." Oriental literature. It became our library's first summer graduation in the auditorium, and the special collection, and it may be the contribu- band for June graduation on the campus, once tion to our university of which I am most proud. at the Hollywood Bowl, and once at the Greek JOHN A. DAHL For a long time it was listed in our catalog as a Theatre. Education, 1955-1983 prominent feature of our University offerings, "L.A. State had great difficulty in being ac- "I joined the faculty of L.A. State College in and it attracted nationwide attention. credited because the library and labs were inad- September 1955 as a member of the Division of "Because of a policy decision (without my equate, and also because too many faculty were Education, Secondary Education Department, knowledge or concurrence), the collection was from one part of the country. Those early days with the rank of assistant professor. At the time dissolved and dispersed throughout the library were surely an interesting and challenging ex- of my original visit, April 1955, interviews were and lost its identity and, therefore, its impor- perience!" held in the administration building on the Ver- tance. The argument was that it cost too much mont campus with President Howard to maintain. It was felt the librarians could be MacDonald and Dean (de facto Vice President) put to more cost-effective use; that we lost some- ARTHUR J. MISNER Albert Graves, and in the temporary division thing of greater value was not considered. Government/Political Science, 1955-1983 offices in a house off campus with Division Economy became, more and more, the decisive Taught political science and public administra- Chairman Del Oviatt and Department Head factor, which is still true, at the expense and tion. Primarily responsible for the creation of Rudy Sando. I asked where the new, permanent sacrifice of education." the public administration program and master campus was to be located and received direc- of science degree in public administration. As- tions to the selected area in East Los Angeles at sisted in establishing the fire science program the edge of Alhambra. VERNON LELDIG in Industrial Studies. Music, 1950-1982 Along with Tom Black and Jesse Allen, "In the 1950s the objectives of the Los Angeles worked to remove the state colleges from the State College were to serve the needs of busi- jurisdiction of the State Board of Education. ness, industry, and education. In September With sponsorship from CSEA and the Faculty 1950 four new faculty members joined the L.A. Association, he traveled to Assembly Commit- State Music Department: Hugh Mullins, theory; tee on Education hearings. "Although others Maurine Timmerman, music education; Francis have since taken the credit, we and others from Baxter, choral music; and me, instrumental the individual state colleges were the pioneers music education. The department had three other in securing detachment from the Department of members. I taught my classes in a Quonset but Education which led to the present system and on the corner of Vermont and Normal where the establishment of faculty senates." the H car turned around to go south on Ver- "At the time I joined the faculty, we were on mont—noisy! The LACC campus was sur- the LACC campus and our department and di- vision offices were in an apartment building on

9 "After much hunting for Gravois Avenue, I like Les Nelson, Howard Wilkening, John "When the first permanent buildings were finally located it and the Gravois Avenue El- Norby, and George Francis, trying to move into completed things eased up some and, in 1959, ementary School, the only large structure in the the modern world of academe. We made it but the entire college was consolidated on the new area. In scouting about in the area I learned that it seemed to take forever at that time. campus, though some faculty still divided time the undeveloped hill behind the elementary "In the fall of 1956 we began the move to the with the San Fernando Valley campus which school was the location for the new campus of Ramona campus which was still very raw and was just becoming independent. Building con- Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and under construction, and started what would be tinued on campus and parking didn't improve Sciences but found nothing on it but a couple of the routine for the next few years, dividing time very much, but we were spared the commute abandoned buildings and some grazing goats. between the Vermont and Ramona campuses. between two offices and our students were all On the whole, it was promising and certainly Like many, my department held classes on both in one place, crowded though it was at times. offered the opportunity to be part of a dynamic, campuses and maintained offices on both sites, "During these early years the faculty was growing institution, so with considerable en- so we became intimate with every route from reasonably small and able to know one another. thusiasm I left my higher-paying position as a Vermont Avenue to Gravois Avenue, finding The Faculty Wives was active in organizing curriculum coordinator and guidance consult- the best traffic patterns. The San Bernardino all-faculty activities: there was a bridge group, ant in Tulare freeway—then the Ramona freeway—ended at folk dancing group, costume parties, and so on, County to join Garvey Avenue, so the traffic throughout the which involved both faculty men and women as the enterprise. area of travel was often clogged. The Ramona much as possible. In later years this closeness "Upon re- offices for the Division of Education were in as a faculty of the whole was lost as instead we porting for work temporary building A and were almost luxuri- became school or department oriented. It is a on September 1, ous compared to the Vermont conditions, or so time we have since regretted losing. I found that Del we thought. Classes were held in the temporary "I also recall the faculty-student activities Oviatt was now classroom buildings, seems like E, F, G, H, and we had such as all-college picnics where stu- the lead person in more. The action center for students was in the dents and faculty played wicked softball the Valley little bookstore and the 'Scenic Shed,' an open games—I know because I still have a bent fin- branch of the col- slab covered by a roof but with no walls, con- ger from the time I played first base, misjudged lege, later to be- taining tables with benches. The sources of food a throw, and took it on the end of my finger come San and drink were the vending machines or what instead of the glove. We got the out though. Fernando St ate you brought in your 'brown bag' lunch. Meet- Another memory is the faculty-alumni basket- College, and ings were held there when there were too many ball game we played one year prior to a regular Rudy Sando was to fit into a classroom or if no room was avail- college game. Players for the faculty represented now chairman of able. Of course it grew to be a central point for many departments and I was playing center at the Division of Education. There was an acting all campus activity from early morning until the start of the second half. In those days we head of the Secondary Education Department. after 10 p.m. when the last classes ended. still used the center jump, but one moment was Our offices were located in an ancient rooming "Parking then, as always, was a problem— made memorable by the alumni center, Billy house on Heliotrope Avenue, just a block off not enough spaces and, in the early months, cut Batty. All of three feet high, he got the tip by the campus, and consisted of desks and chairs, up by heavy equipment, so muddy during the standing on my foot just as I started to jump some four or so to a room depending on its size. rainy season that maintenance kept a heavy duty and, when I ended up on the floor, tipped the My teaching assignment was student teacher truck there to pull people out of the muck when ball to his teammates who scored. The rest of us supervision, an introductory class in secondary they were stuck. There was a regular college- were so busy laughing we couldn't contest it. school curriculum, and an introductory class in operated commuter bus running between the "On the personal side, I remained head of guidance and counseling. My program contin- two campuses on a fairly good schedule, as I the Secondary Education Department until 1963 ued to be the same for the second semester but, recall. If my memory serves, one of the regular when the reorganization of the college enabled in January 1956, I was appointed head of the drivers became a member of Campus Security me to invoke a rule that had just been placed in Secondary Education Department, effective in a few years later and rose to the position of chief faculty policy. It stated that a department chair- September, with a promotion to the associate before it was organized as a sworn force. man "nee" head was to be elected for a term of professor rank. "When construction began for the perma- three years and could be reelected once for a "In those early days faculty consultation was nent buildings, we first lived with the hazards second three-year term. Since it was my sev- minimal, to say the least, but the activity that of the dust and tremendous noise generated by enth year, I requested that a new chairman be was to result in the formal establishment of the the huge land movers that cut down the hill and named and I went back to the classroom. I re- Faculty Council in 1958 had been under way dropped it into the ravine on the east side of the turned then to the Guidance Department and for some time. From 1956 to 1958, I sat on the campus where the athletic fields would be full-time teaching but was also actively serving President's Advisory Counsel, by virtue of the placed. This took place during the spring, sum- on the Academic Senate as chairman of the Stu- administrative position, and with others of the mer, and fall—all of the warm times, and none dent Grievance Committee and member and faculty met the president to recommend policy of the buildings was air-conditioned. The choice chairman of the Fiscal Affairs Committee, as or at least get the chance to voice objections to for the teaching faculty was whether to leave well as on the Athletic Board. the policies proposed by the administration. This the windows open and smother in noise or close "I never had much luck staying in the class- started an involvement in faculty affairs that the windows and just smother! It didn't help to room during the earlier years, serving at vari- continued through my service at the college. I teach night classes either because all of the earth ous times as interim dean of the School of vividly recall sitting in the president's confer- movers had big bright lights! But we survived; Education, assistant to the acting vice president ence room, too many of us crammed in, with it was easier for me because I had just one class of Academic Affairs, and vice president for such 'young turks' as Len Mathy, Ed Wandt, on the Ramona campus and one on the Vermont Business Affairs. I finally went back to the class- Bud Wise, and Jim Stansell, and 'old heads' campus. The rest of the time was administrative time.

10 room in the Counselor Education Department command' were not as easy to control as had tion, and psychology or sociology. School nurs- and never left again, though I did do a three- been their service-classroom counterparts. ing was taught by the head of school nurses, year term as department chair. I served a term "Sights and sounds from all over the world L.A. Department of Education. Since all the on the statewide Academic Senate and, just be- turned up in the classrooms of Southern Cali- arrangements had been made prior to my ar- fore retiring, was faculty athletic representa- fornia, thanks to the enterprise of those pioneer rival for that program to continue for spring tive and chair of the Athletics Board." student teachers. A young woman's flight from semester, I had a semester to institute a sound Soviet Russia via the Trans-Siberian railroad program for state certification. lent vividness to European history lessons. "By May 1957 I felt quite comfortable with CAROL J. SMALLENBURG Another woman's childhood years in Indone- the faculty and staff of City College as well as Secondary Education, 1950-1985 sia and migration to South America before set- State. I had moved out of the hearing booth and "California State University at Los Angeles was tling in Southern California brought into the shared office space with Doug Gourley, police never a 'typical' institution of higher learning. classroom international and intercultural mean- science. We shared a secretary, Lorraine Reese, In 1950 it didn't have a campus of its own; it ing. Diversity was a hallmark of those early who divided her skills between nursing, police was located on the grounds of Los Angeles City years at Los Angeles State College of Applied science, and engineering. The May faculty pic- College. Only a few years later, it had three: Arts and Sciences, and it continues to be a dis- nic provided my first faculty socialization. Les Vermont, Ramona, and Northridge. It had no tinction of today's California State University, Cromwell introduced me to his wife Irina and lower division students or classes; they, too, Los Angeles." her father Vladimir Malkin. Vladimir and I were were in LACC. The new college did have a married the following June1958. president, Dr. Howard MacDonald, and was or- "During my early months on the Vermont ganized under the jurisdiction of the Depart- EVELYN J. BARCLAY campus, I employed two full-time faculty for ment of Post-Secondary Education in the State Nursing, 1956-1969 September 1957. Not wanting to order equip- Department of Education. Even in name it was Was instrumental in the development of the De- ment and supplies until the new faculty could out of the ordinary—Los Angeles State Col- partment of Nursing. put in their requests, and being naive about lege of Applied Arts and Sciences. Exactly what "In 1956 as a result of my teaching school government budgets, I lost a bunch of money were the 'applied arts and sciences'? Were they nursing and public health at UCLA, I was invited for our new department. Fortunately, with different from 'arts and sciences'? to participate in a meeting of health officials, Homer Fetty' s fiscal expertise we managed until "Equipped with fresh G.I. Bill of Rights school and college administrators, and commu- the next budget application. He was my mentor access to college work, post-World War II vet- nity activists to discuss the need to meet state all along the way. And Bill Leary, whom I had erans were impatient to activate their programs. requirements for certification of school nurses. met at the meeting in 1956, became a helpful Often from or to a swing or graveyard shift in The discussion revealed the need for an academic friend. industry, they filed into class. Many wrestled nursing program in East Los Angeles. "Arrangements were made with hospitals, with multiple frustrations: returning to civilian "Bill Leary represented LACC. I represented clinics, public health agencies, and schools to life, managing finances, balancing family pres- the nursing program at UCLA, the only accred- provide clinical experience for our nursing stu- sures, and saving scant time for study. They ited academic nursing program in the county. dents. L.A. State faculty were on-location were a conglomerate of nationalities and cul- When President MacDonald asked me to meet teacher-supervisors. Nursing students attended tures. Men and women from various occupa- him, little did I realize that he would offer me tional backgrounds were eager in their struggle the opportunity to create a nursing department toward degrees, credentials, and futures. Among at L.A. State. At the time, I was assistant pro- the unforgettable was the G.I. who hung his fessor of nursing at UCLA; that position was a paratrooper boots on the bulletin board so his challenge, but President MacDonald' s proposal student teaching class would know how tough suggested a more exciting one. I requested some he could be. There was the student who had time to think about this proposal and to have a driven his family out of Beirut during a barrage conversation with Lulu Hasenplug, dean of the of shell fire covering the only road to escape. A School of Nursing at UCLA—my boss. She Japanese man served as a spy in numerous Asian agreed with me that there was a need for a nurs- locales so his military unit could reunite with ing program in the eastern part of Los Angeles the main force; his student teaching class and that she would approve my resignation. pleaded for anecdotes during Friday share- and- "The move from a temporary bungalow on tell time. One student teacher, an actor in minor the UCLA campus to the hearing testing booth roles, stunned her pupils by having memorized on the Vermont campus was the challenge of all their names by the close of the first day's January '57! I recall Les Cromwell stopped by lesson—instant accountability. The local swim- the open door (it had to be open when I was ming pool guard, not long on spelling at the there because it was a soundproof booth). In the blackboard, awarded extra-credit points to ob- course of our conversation, he asked me if I was servant pupils who spotted misspellings he had German—a likely observation with my name 'planted' there. An ex-bombardier was so shy of Fisher, blonde hair, and blue eyes. He said I classes on campus and practiced in the clinical his training teacher had to 'lose' her voice to resembled his wife, Irina. setting. I have always been very people-oriented ease him into speaking before the class. An- "My first priority was to set up a state certi- and mingled with our nursing students by teach- other student teacher confessed he had thought fication of school nurse program. After investi- ing school nursing and having open house for it clever to progress through school as a special gating the nursing courses at LACC, I learned faculty and students at my home on Sunday education pupil—until the Army classification that several courses were being taught under afternoons. test caught up with him. Many of the young the supervision of the basketball coach and were "At this time all of our students were gradu- people who had been instructors in the service actually taught by a registered nurse who was ates of three-year diploma programs offered by discovered that the wiggly pupils 'under their employed by the Hollywood-Presbyterian Hos- most of the hospitals in the country. It was very pital. These courses were school nursing, nutri-

11 obvious that these programs were declining in "North (now King) Hall was the first perma- college. Interestingly, some of the original de- number as community colleges began to offer nent classroom building to be erected. A fac- partment heads unsuccessfully resisted the move associate degrees in nursing that were academi- ulty committee actively contributed to the to set terms for those posts and to select their cally acceptable to state colleges and universi- planning, which may explain why the result occupants democratically. ties. Our Department of Nursing began by seems to epitomize what might be expected from "When Franklyn Johnson first appeared on assisting these three-year diploma nurses to earn an edifice designed by a committee. The fac- campus, just prior to his appointment as presi- college credit based on challenge courses and ulty doubted that any other classroom building dent, he chose to visit the University Library, exams. Once that was under way, we were add- would be constructed, so they wanted it to be spending about an hour there. Faculty mem- ing basic college courses for freshman students capable of meeting every conceivable need. I bers quipped that he had spent more time in and had national accreditation for both programs have always contended that it had been put in the Library than all our previous presidents by 1963-64. place backward, for it has more entrances on combined. As president, Franklyn Johnson dis- "I was granted the Western Interstate Com- relatively inaccessible Circle Drive than from tressed many faculty members by renaming mission on Higher Education (WICHE) Out- the more approachable and preponderantly uti- the University Library after John F. Kennedy standing Professor Award in 1967-68. By the lized west side. The only convenient mode of almost immediately after Kennedy's assassi- time I retired in 1969, our faculty had grown, as passage from one floor to another is an escala- nation. What they objected to was the unilat- had programs. We were planning to promote a tor, so narrow as to be able to accommodate on eral action taken without any faculty master's degree in nursing. We were nationally each rung one faculty member or two intimate consultation. A more serious confrontation recognized as one of the premier nursing de- students. Moreover, normally the escalator can occurred earlier at the time of Johnson's inau- partments in the nation. An exciting challenge be expected to be out of order between one floor guration as campus president. A large-scale it was, but there always is a time to let the reins or another. The alternative staircases are at the meeting was held at which we expressed to fall into someone else's hands. extreme ends of the building, and therefore mini- him our desire to attend the inauguration, but "Many former students and faculty still com- mally used. that we were unwilling to pass through picket municate with me. To be up and about caring When con- lines to do so. My memory of the details of this for myself and still driving my car is a gift from struction was event are hazy, but I do remember being one of God. I have had a wonderful career. What do I completed, as those who addressed him, urging that he rec- do now? I garden, read a lot, play and teach an after- ognize the issue as a moral one. Others may bridge, make quilts, and hook traditional rugs. thought two have a clearer recollection of this episode. Yes, exercise gets in there some place. I help bulbous ap- "There were a number of important issues my neighbors who no longer drive and visit the pendages and challenges engaging faculty interest and shut-ins. And I talk to the young people and were added as effort in the early days. One was the systemwide listen to their hopes and dreams for the future." lecture halls. battle, ultimately successful, to remove the state The buildings colleges from serving under the jurisdiction of that fol- the State Board of Education. Another was for SIDNEY P. ALBERT lowed—re- recognition as universities rather than as col- Philosophy, 1956-1979 quired to be leges. Ironically, the current tag, "Cal State "The past year, 1996, marked an unnoted and designed by L.A.," deletes the university designation we uncelebrated anniversary: our university's state architects—bear a strong resemblance to sought for so long. completion of 40 years on its present campus. the contours of the Sybil Brand correctional fa- "In the pre-collective bargaining era there When I arrived at Los Angeles State College in cility, visible across the hills." were some strong faculty organizations, among 1956, I discovered that—like Gaul—it was di- "In joining the Philosophy Department, I be- them the systemwide Association of State Col- vided into three parts: the untransferred rem- came its third faculty member. The immediate lege [later University] Professors (ACSUP), and nant at Los Angeles City College, the new reason for the position opening, I soon learned, the local chapter of AAUP. (I had the honor of Ramona campus on the present site, and the was an accreditation report on the college. The being elected to a term as vice president of the about-to-be- launched San Fernando Valley report pointed to a need for additional faculty campus chapter of the former, and as president campus (now CSU Northridge) to which the personnel in two departments: Philosophy, with of the latter.) Our campus chapter of AAUP, faculty who so desired could migrate as its ini- merely two members, and Foreign Languages, under Burton Henry's presidency, initiated ac- tial cadre. (LACC faculty had sought to become with but one. Ere long it became necessary to tion in 1959 to establish a Southern California a four-year institution by appending an upper- designate a Philosophy Department chairman. Regional Conference of the Association, which level state college on its premises, only to learn James Wilson, the senior member, had no inter- eventually merged with its later Northern Cali- to their chagrin that their fledgling tenant—not est in assuming that post. Gabriel Zimmerman, fornia counterpart to become the current Cali- they—could attain that status.) my predecessor, proposed to me that he fill the fornia Conference. "Scenically, the Ramona site, which over- position for three years, after which I would "In the early years one knew virtually every looks—or, in its other sense, tries to—the inter- succeed him. I agreed to the arrangement. Dur- other member of the faculty, even in remote section of two freeways, had at the time no ing his tenure a bright, eccentric young man disciplines, contributing to a high degree of buildings, only prefab bungalows. That ac- was added to our staff. Zimmerman and I, along collegiality. There were annual retreats at which counted for no illustrated campus literature with a female physical education teacher, shared campus issues were energetically discussed and having been sent to me in advance of my ar- one large room in a prefab as our office. One debated. There was also a small but lively rival. It was the second time that I found myself day our junior member visited me and, pointing `Chowder and Marching Society,' whose mem- teaching in makeshift classrooms. All the while to Zimmerman's desk, confided that he wished bers (mostly from the humanities) met regu- much ground shifting was taking place. A hill that I sat there—meanitig that he wanted me to larly in different faculty homes. It proffered a at the north end of the grounds was flattened as be chairing the department. In due course that modest, informal forum at which a paper would earth movers noisily raced across the campus, did take place, after which he came into the be read, followed by discussion and a repast transporting its soil to the south end in order to office and, pointing at me, said, "Now you are provided by the host (and spouse)—food for produce a level playing field for athletics and the enemy." He eventually resigned from the the palate garnishing food for the brain." physical education. 12