LETTER OF THE WEEK

It was a pleasure to receive in a letter from my sister, Jean Beek, a

clipping from your paper with an article on the opening of Orange Coast

Community College and find that it included a picture of me when I was a

student there in 1949-50 (“Campus crunch,” Nov. 25). No doubt that it is

me in the picture, for the polka-dot lined jacket I made in a class

taught by Pat Moore is on the back of the chair I was sitting in.

As a counselor at San Diego Miramar College, I occasionally will mention

that the buildings that house the counseling office and many classrooms

at Miramar are very similar to the buildings at Orange Coast College when

I was a student there many years ago.

I enjoyed the opportunity to think back on those days when we felt like

pioneers because we were at the beginning of a new institution, the

enrollment was only 500 students and one of the bragging points was the

large number of faculty with doctorates.

RUTH EBERLING GRAY

San Diego