BETA CHI DELTA SORORITY - PIERCE COLLEGE 1962

  Beta Chi Delta Sorority – L.A. Pierce College – 1962

Photo donated to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley by Gayle Montes 2011.  (click on image to enlarge) This photograph 2691

Front row:

Sharon Brodie, Anita Fernandez, and Judy Liberman

Middle row:

Faye Taylor, Gayle Dillon, Judy Bennett, Pam Dick, Renn Morrison,

Judy Stumpf and Nancy Crouch.

Top row”

Sherry Dennis, Barbara Van Winkle, Pat Early, Lynda Dodds,

Wendy Wolfe and Cheryl Bergen.

Beta Chi Delta - Presents 1962

left to right
Cheryl Bergen, Donna McCrummen, Anita Fernandez, Maureen Streeter, Nancy Crouch, Jan Cheney, Renn Morrison, Marily Breault, Judy Stumpf, Sandy Smiley, Sandy Aston, Olga Caviedes, Gayle Dillon, Sherry Smith, Pam Dick and Sharon Humbard.  (click on image to enlarge) This photo is number 2690.

KAPPA BETA PHI GIRLS AT FRATERNITY PARTY 1965

2010  THE YEAR OF VALLEY ADVENTURES

One of the party themes loved by college students in the 1960s and 70s was "Return to High School Night". Sometimes gender reversal costumes were worn just to make things more zany.

 This Pierce College boy wears his Van Nuys High School "Letterman's Sweater, as he dances with a member of the Kappa Beta Phi sorority in 1965.  (refer to photo 2087) Know who these unidentified students are? Contact your Museum or indicate who they are in the "Comments" section in this posting.

 With guys from the Chi Chi Chi fraternity at Pierce College costumed as cheer leaders, and the young woman dressed as a yell king. These undergraduates wore sweaters and sweatshirts from their days at Grover Cleveland High School in the San Fernando Valley. (refer to photo 2083)

 

Sisters in the Kappa Beta Phi sorority take time to look at a fraternity photograph album in 1965.
(refer to photo 2081) Help us identify these women - left to right.

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MARDI GRAS AT PIERCE COLLEGE 1967

2010  THE YEAR OF VALLEY ADVENTURES

You can tell a lot about what sorts of artifacts and photographs are arriving to your Museum, by the photographs posted on this blog. Since each in-coming picture gets an identification number and is scanned for our records, blog viewers often get a peek at what is being recorded. The following photographs taken from a photo album kept by pledges of the Phi Delta Psi Fraternity in the Spring of 1967, allows us to visit Mardi Gras on the Pierce College Campus, 43 years ago.

 Beta Chi Delta sorority girl at the Phi Delta Phi booth - Photo gift to the Archives of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Jerry Berns 2009.(refer to photo 2075)

 Phi Delta Psi Fraternity member Bob Moore welcomes Mardi Gras visitors to his organization's booth.
(photo number 2071)

 Student projects, such as the Pierce College Mardi Gras were strongly supported by the school's many fraternities, sororities and special interest clubs in 1967.  (photo number 2070)

 Pierce students gather to make wagers on their Mardi Gras turtle races. (photo 2068)

 

Student floats prepare to parade across the Pierce College campus. (photo 2074)

PIERCE COLLEGE ALUMNA SHARED THIS 1965 PHOTO TODAY.

BETA CHI DELTA

Beta Chi Delta Sorority - LA Pierce College 1965  digital photo donated to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley by Felice (Gary) Catena - December 2010  (refer to photo 2011 - click on image to enlarge)

Felice (Gary) Catena scanned and shared this image of Beta Chi Delta Sorority at Pierce College at its 1965 “presents” at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.   

Velma Akopian was the president of the organization at the time. 

Felice wrote: “Some of the others whose names I remember:

First row from left:  1.  Patti Sena; 2.  ?; 3.  Eileen Marsden; 4.  Michelle ….; 5.  Felice (Gary) Catena; 6.  ?; 7, 8. 9 ?

2^nd row:  1, 2, 3?; 4.  Kandhi Franklin; 5.  Velma Akopian; 6,7 ?;  Irene Soto; 8,9 ?

3^rd row:  1. ?; 2.  Carol Golden; 3, 4?; 5.  Karen Tandy; 6,7,8,9,10,11?

4^th Row:  1 ?; 2.  Gloria….; 3. ?;  4. Tanya Brun; 5,6,7,8,9,10 ?; 11.  Sandy…..(I seem to remember that Sandy was the former President of the Chapter.

We were pretty cute, eh?"