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Photograph was edited for publication purposes The Clarence W. Pierce School of Agriculture is a two-year community college in Woodland Hills, California. It opened in September 1947, with 70 students and 18 faculty members and is part of the Los Angeles Community College District. The school's initial focus was crop cultivation and animal husbandry, and still retains a large swatch of open fields for hands-on working farm training. In 1956 the school was renamed Los Angeles Pierce College. Photograph caption dated May 20, 1960 reads, "Dennis Gideon, center, aboard bucking horse, prepares to give nod of head that signals gate man to open gate for start of bouncing, jolting ride in Pierce College annual rodeo. Assisting at side of stall are, from bottom left, Tom Richards, Lucky Chappell, Al McElwain, Don Stevenson, Coach John Barlow and Phil Stahlhut, manning gate."
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