'"" "" "'"~" ~-" -""~' .,.......~~- " " -- . .. ....... --- ---i .....-- ---- ~_~~..,~,.,......~~~--;--- --- ,,..~~.----"'""' -- ~~'-~"'' .......,...-..... .- .~ ~~~~~__~~~~~~.....,......,..,......~, .......... ....................... """""""""""""""""~~"" VOLUME LXXI FULLERTON, CALIFORNIA, MAY 21,1993 NUMBER TWENTY-EVEN FLAMES FROM Eighty Years THE TORCH Programs at FC Vocational and 20,000 By Ron Kitchell Editor in Chief Were Before Their Time W elcome to another edi- Students Later tion of the Weekly Torch. It is true that we have not distributed a copy First Orange County Junior College Establishes of this particular publication New Standards inAcademics since 1954, but it is time we came back. Perhaps you are more By Rizza Yap High School the year after, familiar with the current pub- Staff Editor making it the fifth community. lication of Fullerton Jollege, college in the state and the the Hornet. You might'also be In 1913, the New York first public institution of high- wondering where it is and Armory Show introduced mod- er education in all of Orange why there is no current news ern art to the American public. County. being reported to you. During the same year the Eighty years of progress After all, the Hornet has United States blockaded have ticked by since the col- won many awards for its cov- Mexico in support of revolu- lege was first established and erage of school events. tionaries. FJC has gone from sharing For instance, in 1989, the And in a major reform of one of the FUHS buildings newspaper received The Gold U.S. banking and finance, the with high school students to Crown Award, the highest Federal Reserve System was occupying the Lemon and award given to a student pub- finally authorized. Chapman block. lication by the Columbia But to 28 young adults from Through the course of those Scholastic Press Association. a sleepy town called Fullerton, eight decades, the physical Julie Davey, who is return- nothing could possibly be as constitution of the college ing next semester as the exciting as what was happen- wasn't the only part of FJC adviser for Hornet after taking ing to them. that underwent a great deal of a semester sabbatical, said Because on April 25, 1913, change. winning this honor was her GREASE MONKEYS - Students in the 1920s work on the engine of an old Fullerton Junior College was Not long after the school greatest moment since arriv- brought to existence. And hav- was established, the hard- Since the beginning of Fullerton Junior College's existence in ing at FC in 1987. automobile. ing been the first student body working faculty members Davey said: "The highlight 1913, the school has been a training ground for vocational studies. Just as cars that made up the school, they headed by the college's first (of her time here) was taking have changed since then (though they still tend to break down), so has FJC became a part of history. president, William T. Boyce, 10 students to New York City (now FC). It now features a modern technological auto department. Did stu- By a vote of the District bestowed the school with a and receiving the Gold Crown, Board of Trustees in 1912, strong academic reputation. the teens also have parking problems? one of six awards given to col- dents in FJC was organized into a newspapers annually. lege department of Fullerton Union (Continued on page 3) Not junior colleges - all uni- versities and colleges in the U.S. "Seeing those students' Teacher at FC Takes a faces when 'Fullerton College Library Named After College's Hornet Newspaper' was announced was definately a Look Back in Time peak experience." Before all of that, though, First Leader, Progresses From was the Weekly Torch, started Malkson has Loved Campus for 32 Years back in 1923 as a supplement By Mike Besack Malkson has seen many to the Weekly Pleides, the The Weekly Torch changes occur at FC over her 32 Its Start Inthe Women's Gym Fullerton High School paper. years, and she appreciates ev- Fullerton College President There isn't much Beatrice erything that has happened to By Al Rodriguez made its fourth move. This received master's degree from Philip Borst's father, Richard, Malkson hasn't seen in her 32 this school during her tenure. The Weekly Torch time into temporary quarters. Harvard University. started the paper, which back years at Fullerton College. She loves teaching and her In 1968 the library made its Boyce knew from the begin- smaller than an 8- then was She's been a faculty member students. In the last eighty years, final move, back into the ning that he wanted to get and-a-half inch by 11 inch "FC has always wanted the in the junior college her whole time here -all in the since its beginning in a corner enlarged building. Since then involved sheet of paper. Humanities Department as a instructors to spend at least one of of the Fullerton High School the building has remained the movement and felt that the time to the Spanish teacher. She said she hour of their spare library, (a large Spanish-style same, while library operations JCs had great potential for "Ifwe're not loves it as much today as she did students." She said, room with pillars, arches and have changed considerably. growth. After being a profes- when she began her career in doing that, we're shirking our wrought iron chandeliers) the The catalog system was sor of Economics and Political The first issue, dated Jan. 1961. responsibilities." FC library has moved five changed from the Dewey to Science at Whittier College for 12, 1923, had four pages and "Students are now more times. the Library of Congress sys- (Continued was strikingly different from dependant on themselves," she The first move was in 1929 tem. Microforms, film, audio- on page 4) today's Hornet or even the said. to a space of its own in what cassettes, videocassettes, and paper you hold now. Malkson believes that stu- College's Past had been the high school girls' compact discs all became part "(My dad) came here as an dents have changedbecause now gymnasium, a barn-like room of the library's collection. English teacher," said the trend is for students to work where in the mornings the Then in 1979, to modernize INDEX President Borst. and go to school at the same As Seen Through librarian found bats hanging its cataloging procedures, the Of his father's literary time. from the ceiling! library joined the Online ARCHAEOLOGY ..7 experience, the president said: She said,"As a general trend, Presidents' Eyes During the Depression the Computer Library Center " e "He'd worked on literary mag- there were more full-time stu- Fullerton Union High School (OCLC), and the library staff azines. He wrote a couple of dents then, than now. These and Junior College District converted the information in BLOW TORCH.....2 novels and textbooks." days it is hard to go to work 40 Casey and Borst: Two Presidents bought property east of the the library's card catalog onto The elder Borst remained hours a week and still carry 16 high school on which three machine-readable tape. This units. Back then, home lives Tell Tales of Excitement and what is now known as adviser buildings were constructed for made it possible to develop CLASSIFIEDS......2 were different and students @ 0 for the Weekly Torch until Trouble at School campus. Given space FullCat, the online catalog, didn't have to work as much. a college 1926 when Otis LeRoss took on the second floor of one of which became operational in "The majority of the students SDISASTERS......... over the position. By Vivianne Wightman them, the library made its sec- April 1985 and was joined * . lived close by (the college). It Throughout the history of Managing Editor ond move in 1938. with an online circulation sys- " " made for more of a social activ- the Weekly Torch, many advis- This space was adequate tem in September 1987. ity," said Malkson who was once FLAMES FROM ers came and went but there As the oldest continually herself a member of one of FC's through World War II when were some constants. THE TORCH........1 sororities. operating community college the small college almost But who was William T. For one thing, many things in the state, Fullerton College She also enjoys the fact that became a women's school. Boyce? The man whom the were done then in a different has proven that the test of she sees more returning stu- Then, because of the post-war library was named for. ° LAST 20 YEARS time which would not even be dents now than she used to. She time can be endured. population boom, the District William T. Boyce was born thought of now. Jokes consist- likes seeing people come back to However, not without the began campus-wide construc- in rural North Carolina, 20 SOF FOOTBALL .... 8 ing of making fun of the black school after long absences, which guidance of its four presi- tion projects including a miles from Edenton, in 1885. lingo were run in the paper all was unheard of some time ago. dents-President William T. library facility modeled after His father had served in the of the way through the 1940s. Among some of the improve- Boyce, President H. Lynn the library reading rooms at civil war and didn't have much SLITTLE MAN As a matter of fact, jokes ments Malkson has seen on cam- Sheller, President John W. UCLA and USC. education. His mother a ON CAMPUS......2 and witticisms played an pus over the years was the addi- Casey and current president In 1957 the library made its housewife.