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Photograph caption dated May 15, 1963 reads, "Edward A. Irwin, left, assistant professor of journalism at Valley College, picks up the phone in preparation for Thursday's Washington press conference as Lee Hutson, president of Beta Phi Gamma, national honorary journalism fraternity, listens. More than 200 journalists from Los Angeles and Valley high schools will attend the college's annual High School Journalism Day beginning at 3:30 p.m. Irwin has rigged up a press conference with Peter J. Muirhead, assistant U.S. commissioner of education, in Washington, who will answer the students' questions by phone as a loud speaker amplifies his voice. Subject of the press conference is 'Federal Aid To Education.'"
Los Angeles Valley College Phi Beta Gamma College student newspapers and periodicals College students Community college students Community colleges Journalism, College Journalism Journalists Press conferences Greek letter societies Women Men Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Group portraits
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