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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 5, 1954 reads, "Pretty Queen Sally Brown, front, who will reign at Pierce Agriculture College's open house Friday and Saturday and the school's first annual rodeo, scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. She is surrounded above by other beauties who will welcome visitors. They are, left to right, Ginger Taylor, Margaret Chirstensen, Konnie DeWitt, Shirley Knapp, Mary Lou Haddad and Sue Schnaidt. Jack Mather, radio's Cisco Kid, will announce the rodeo."
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