September 25, 2012 – Long Beach City College (LBCC) administrators, faculty, staff, students and alumni celebrated the institution’s 85th birthday on September 12 with a party at the original college campus location, Wilson High School. Wilson opened in 1925, with LBCC (then known as Long Beach Junior College) opening on campus two years later. Due to structural damage from the 1933 earthquake, college classes were held temporarily at Recreation Park. The Montana Land Company gifted the land on Clark Avenue to the college in 1935, and LBCC made the parcel its permanent residence. Pictured, from left, are: Everett Demler (white hair), president of the 1945 LBCC Associated Student Body (ASB); Felton Williams, president of the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) Board; Jeff Kellogg, Long Beach Community College District (LBCCD) boardmember; Roberto Uranga, president of the LBCCD Board; LBCC Superintendent/President Eloy Ortiz Oakley; LBUSD Superintendent Chris Steinhauser; LBCCD boardmembers Tom Clark and Doug Otto; LBCC’s Fall ASB President Rosny Hang; and members of the LBCC cheer squad. (Photograph by the Business Journal’s Thomas McConville)