{"id":388,"date":"2008-09-12T16:58:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T23:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.csun.edu\/CSUNStories\/?p=3"},"modified":"2017-03-30T16:46:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:46:14","slug":"james-cleary-san-fernando-valley-state-college-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/csun-stories\/2008\/09\/12\/james-cleary-san-fernando-valley-state-college-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Kogen and Beth Wolfson, founding Library faculty family"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Anne) <\/strong>I arrived — we <\/em>arrived in San Fernando Valley \u2013 in Northridge, actually — in 1956. And I have to add that my heart was not in it. … I had not seen the campus until we moved up here, and it was a shock. Well, first of all, there was no campus. It was nothing. There were no buildings. There were Quonset huts . . .. Those were the buildings. And that was the start of the state college, which at the time, in 1956, was a \u2013 may I say, \u201cstepchild\u201d? — certainly, a subordinate unit of Los Angeles State College in Los Angeles. We didn\u2019t have a name — we didn\u2019t have \u201cNorthridge\u201d in our name. And it was really kind of disheartening. We moved out here at the end of August, and it was hotter by far than today, and it wasn\u2019t at all built up. I mean, one can say, \u201cWell, there were orange trees and walnut trees, and horses. . .\u201c and make it sound beautiful, but it wasn\u2019t \u2013 at least, in my eyes. However, I have to say, going from then to 52 years later, that there is some very special feeling watching something grow up from that stage of nothingness \u2013 from very little more than conception \u2013 to the very mature institution, successful institution that the college is today.<\/p>\n

But I have certain personal memories of the valley, one of which — I laugh, every rainy winter. . .. I spent a lot of time dragging my husband to and from his office, which was in the library. He was the first \u2013 I don\u2019t know if he was the only, but he was the first — Assistant Librarian of what is now this incredible building. And we had to go down Zelzah Avenue from the house we were living in in Granada Hills. It was totally unpaved \u2013 I mean, it was not just an unpaved, but a completely dirt<\/em> road. And when you drove from Granada Hills to the campus, it was — When I think about it, it was like a pioneer with a covered wagon, and two and two-thirds children. So, I mean, it was really quite something. But you know — it was ok. As I look back on it, it was more ok than it was at the time.<\/p>\n

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(Beth) <\/strong>There\u2019s something I think is really moving to me that I\u2019d like to briefly talk about. <\/span>In the late 80s I took some studio art classes here. <\/span>I took some sculpture classes in what was then called the sculpture annex. <\/span>And that year \u2013 I think it was \u201988 \u2013 there was a fire. <\/span>Just that building burned down. <\/span>It\u2019s where we did welding. <\/span>I don\u2019t know exactly what the cause of the fire was. <\/span>There are some other studio buildings in the same place right now. <\/span>And it was really devastating to everybody, and it really brought into relief what a special community we had there. <\/span>It was just a really special place. <\/span>People loved to go and work and see what other people were doing, and I\u2019d only been in one other little studio community like that, where people had that kind of feeling. <\/span>And it was a great loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Anne) I arrived — we arrived in San Fernando Valley \u2013 in Northridge, actually — in 1956. And I have to add that my heart was not in it. … I had not seen the campus until we moved up here, and it was a shock. Well, first of all, there was no campus. It … <\/p>\n

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