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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated October 26, 1961 reads, "Dr. Gerald Strang, center, chairman of the music department at Valley State College, Northridge, accepts $334 raised at benefit concert from Mrs. Dean L. Grigsby, president of Gama Chi Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, National Women's Professional Music Fraternity. The sum contributed by the fraternity inaugurates the music department's general scholarship fund. At right, Professor Andor Toth holds Stradivarius violin presented to the department last year."
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