[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 17435]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                TRIBUTE TO SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY COLLEGE

 Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I rise today to recognize San 
Bernardino Valley College. This academic year, the campus celebrates 
its 80th anniversary.
  San Bernardino Valley College was founded in 1926, when 140 students 
met at San Bernardino or Colton High Schools for classes. Later that 
year, construction began in the city of San Bernardino on a campus that 
would come to educate 700,000 students and play a central role in the 
growth of Inland southern California.
  San Bernardino Valley College has educated generations of the 
region's future leaders and workforce. Over the years, San Bernardino 
Valley College has anticipated and planned for the changes that took 
place in California and our Nation. During World War II, the campus 
played an instrumental role in assisting with the war effort. In the 
years following the war, a number of celebrities visited the campus, 
and in 1947 the campus hosted the Bob Hope show that featured Desi 
Arnaz, his orchestra, and others. In 1950, the campus played a central 
role in the race for U.S. Senate, hosting senatorial candidates Richard 
Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas.
  San Bernardino Valley College also has worked to meet the ever-
changing needs of a diverse population. The civil rights era brought 
forth increased cultural awareness, and the campus responded by hosting 
diversity programs. Today the campus has an enrollment of over 12,000 
students, three quarters of which are non-White students. The campus is 
recognized as a Hispanic Serving Institution by the Hispanic 
Association of Colleges and Universities, HACU, and continues to 
receive title V funding for its pursuit of ethnic diversity.
  In the past 80 years, technology has also impacted education. Faculty 
and staff have worked to help San Bernardino Valley College grow and 
adapt to this ever-growing need. College classes and degree programs 
are now offered not only on campus but at alternative community sites 
and on television and the Internet. The campus has also responded to 
today's need for quality science education and important student 
services.
  San Bernardino Valley College has produced influential leaders in 
California and abroad, with prestigious alumni emerging each year. Dr. 
Charles Young attended Valley College before and after serving in the 
Korean war and went on to become the youngest chancellor of a 
University of California campus at age 36, taking charge of UCLA from 
1968 until 1997, completing the longest tenure of any University of 
California chancellor. Judith Valles, former mayor of the city of San 
Bernardino, attended Valley College and served as both faculty and 
staff on campus. Graduating in 1966, Dr. Yolanda Moses went on to serve 
as the president of the City College of New York and was named the 74th 
president of the American Anthropological Association. And graduating 
as a business administration major in 1959, Jack Brown went on to 
become the president and CEO of Stater Bros. Markets, one of the 
Nation's largest supermarket chains.
  Today San Bernardino Valley College can look back on a proud history 
of growth and change in the San Bernardino Valley and California. I 
applaud the service and dedication of the faculty, staff, and students 
of San Bernardino Valley College as they celebrate 80 years of 
improving lives and education to the people of the Inland Empire and 
southern California.

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