SAN FERNANDO VALLEY STATE COLLEGE

CHERISHING OUR VALLEY                      2013

Well, guess what! I am one of those people who remembers when CSUN was San Fernando Valley State College, in fact I attended there as a junior transfer. I hated the place. Compared to LA Valley College, that was warm and caring, SFVSC was for me cold and indifferent. Later, after I earned my Masters degree, I took three graduate history classes at CSUN, and they were terrific! Later I would do much of my doctorate research of the literature at the Oviatt Library, easily one of the great and most accessible libraries in Southern California. 

Here's a vintage postcard gift to The Museum from Gary Fredburg. Someone told me that the building in this image was destroyed by the great Northridge earthquake?

Caption reads: "One of the beautiful new modern buildings on the campus of San Fernando Valley State College in Northridge, California."

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SAN FERNANDO VALLEY STATE COLLEGE 1973

CHERISHING OUR VALLEY IN 2012

When Chris sent this vintage postcard to her friend Pat in Victoria, British Columbia in 1973, she complained of experiencing two days of Victoria rain in the San Fernando Valley on her January visit. Someone should have told her that Canadian geese come to the Valley in January too.

Greetings from The San Fernando Valley - January 1973 - vintage postcard - gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Gary Fredburg 2012.  (click on image to enlarge it)

"San Fernando Valley State College - One of the most beautiful and most modern campuses in the the magnificent California College System."

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY STATE COLLEGE 1971

DISCOVERING OUR VALLEY   2011

 Postcard of San Fernando Valley State College  (now CSUN) made in 1970 - Gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Gary Fredburg 2011.  (click on image to enlarge)

"One of the west's finest and fastest growing colleges in the beautiful San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles."

Students on the campus of San Fernando Valley State College 1972. (refer to photograph 2999) These young people had likely been friends at Los Angeles Pierce College in Woodland Hills before coming to Northridge. (click on image to enlarge)

1963 STUDENTS AT SAN FERNANDO VALLEY STATE COLLEGE

2010  THE YEAR OF VALLEY ADVENTURES

San Fernando Valley State College was very different from modern California State University Northridge. Foremost, it was affording by teenagers and young adults from middle and working class families. Today, the cost of just text books and supplies for one semester exceed the yearly fees paid by Valley residents in the 1960s.
Here transfer students from LA Pierce College gather on the lawn of the new State College in 1963. The photograph is from an album once kept by the Chi Chi Chi fraternity at Pierce.

If you can identify any of these students at San Fernando Valley State, c. 1963, please refer to photograph number 1921. (click on image to enlarge)

PHI SIGMA TAU FRATERNITY SAN FERNANDO VALLEY STATE COLLEGE - 1965

        2010  THE YEAR OF VALLEY ADVENTURES

 

Shortly after San Fernando Valley State College was established, so too was a local fraternity called Phi Sigma Tau. This traditional college beer mug belonged to a pledge of the fraternity calling himself "Hammer." 
The fraternity established in 1961 was to become the "Zeta Chapter" of Phi Delta Theta fraternity in 1969. That national fraternity has been on the CSUN campus for 40 years.  
"Hammer" has yet to be identified. The mug was a gift to the Archives of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Gary Fredburg -2010 (click on the image to enlarge.)

HOMECOMING AT PRE-CSUN SAN FERNANDO VALLEY STATE COLLEGE c. 1969

2010 The Year of Valley Adventures
Homecoming Parade SF Valley State College c.1969 (photo for non-commercial use by permission of CSUN University Archive)
"Judge Julian Beck and Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Prator drive by the reviewing stand in the homecoming parade. Judge Julian Beck co-authored the state resolution that led to the founding of San Fernando Valley State College. Dr. Prator served as the college’s first president."

One of many photographs and newspaper clippings brought to the kickoff ceremonies for the Northridge100 celebration year at Northridge Park.

RICHARD HILTON REPRESENTS MUSEUM ON NORTHRIDGE 100 COMMITTEE

2009 The Year of Valley History

San Fernando Valley State College - historic postcard - Gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley by Gary Fredburg - 2009

This coming year the community we now call Northridge will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Richard Hilton, Director of Museum Tour Programs will represent The Museum on the centennial's history committee. Your Museum is dedicated to preservation, protection and exhibition of history in all the communities of the greater San Fernando Valley.

San Fernando Valley College was opened in 1958. In 1972, the institution's name was changed to California State University Northridge.



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