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In 1970, as a result of Ronald Reagan’s visit to CSUF, the Office of Judicial Affairs and Special Projects was formed under the direction of then Dean of Students, Dr. Ernest Becker. In a clerical position in the Dean of Students Office, I transcribed notes from the hearings that were conducted as a result of Bruce Church and his fellow classmate’s disruption of campus events. I often wonder what Bruce Church is doing today.
As a student and employee at Cal State Fullerton from 1969 to 1975, I had the opportunity to work in various departments including the Audio-Visual Center, which was then in the basement of the Library building, the Dean of Students Office, which was in the Science building, the Office of Judicial Affairs and Special Projects, the Women’s Center and the Alumni Association.
The Alumni Association began under the direction of the Dean of Students Office. At one point, the Alumni Association was led by the Director of Housing. It was a “one-man show” and I was the part-time clerical support at the time. In 1970 I ordered and began mailing out the first 500 charter membership cards in CSUF’s Alumni Association. A charter membership was $50. A student assistant and I hand-stuffed and sorted thousands of mailers to alumni in hopes of building membership and support.
In 1970 I was a student in the speech department, which was housed in the same building as theatre arts. At any given time you’d see serious groups of students walking from the speech clinic after working with speech pathology and audiology clients, and at the same time, drama students dressed as Shakespearian actors would be dancing and frolicking around the building. While there were a number of theatre arts students who became well-known later on, I always wonder how many speech pathology and audiology students went on to impact children and adults in schools, hospitals and homes throughout the nation and the world.
I had the pleasure of attending CSUF over a period of three decades. I first enrolled in the late ‘60s, earned my B.A. in the early ‘70s, an M.A. in the late ‘70s, and an M.S. in school administration in the early ‘80s.
Indeed I have many fond memories of being a CSUF student, but there is one in particular that has special meaning. One late afternoon in 1980, as I was getting to leave the parking lot after my last class, I heard a voice saying, “Well, I’m glad to see you made it to class and didn’t play hooky.” I looked up, and there was my son, Fred, who had just arrived to attend his evening class. It was at that moment that I realized fully that my son and I were attending CSUF at the same time!
