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The first meeting of the Northern Deans of Instruction occurred in February, 1958, at the Sonoma Mission Inn. Twelve men and one woman met with the Chief of the Junior College Bureau, a unit within the State Department of Education. Their discussions covered: Though this was an auspicious start, the Northern deans did not meet again until the mid 1960’s. In 1964, John Kelly (Diablo Valley) invited several Bay area deans to his college to meet for a day for shoptalk. These types of meetings occurred over the next several years. The size of the groups gradually expanded as the Bay Area deans become the Northern California deans. In the spring of 1967, Brook Tauser (Santa Rosa) invited the larger group to Sonoma County. The selected site was the Hexagon House in Guerneville on the Russian River for an October meeting, the first of a continuous series. Northern sites also included the Four Seasons Lodge and Rainbow Inn in the Sierras until the early 1970’s. The Boulder Creek site was utilized until 1986. In the South, the deans of instruction began meeting in the spring of 1967 in response to an invitation by Arthur Cohen of the UCLA Junior College Leadership Program. The first six meetings were held each spring at the UCLA Lake Arrowhead facility. Both Northern and Southern deans continued to meet separately once, then twice a year, throughout the 1970’s. The usual format was a single day meeting on a campus in the fall and a two-day meeting off-campus in the spring. An important step towards the creation of a statewide organization occurred in the early 1970’s with the creation of the “Committee of Ten.” This committee, five from each section of the state, began to meet three or four times a year with representatives of the newly-formed Community College Chancellor’s Office. Though membership of the original Committee of Ten is not known, early leaders and members of the Committee of Ten at different times included:

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