Mark Cooley:  

CLASS OF 1963
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Monroe High SchoolClass of 1963
Sepulveda, CA
Wasco, CA
Granada hills, CA
Granada hills, CA
Sherman oaks, CA

Mark's Story

After graduation from Monroe I went to "Valley State" (CSUN). I got my B.A. there in '68. I also played basketball there (go Matadors!), and ended up marrying Diana Salzmann, the head songleader. Diana and I have had a happy, 54-year marriage; raised two kids, now 52 (daughter Andrea) and 47 (son Mark). Andrea is a high school teacher in Azusa, and Mark is now living in Madison, Indiana.. We have one granddaughter, Andrea's daughter Elysha, now 31, is currently a field geologist with Arcadis in Irvine. I earned a Master's Degree in Education from SFVSC (CSUN) in '71, and another Master's from the University of LaVerne in School Management in '82. I had a 36 year career in education, starting as a ...Expand for more
Spanish teacher and basketball coach in a private high school in the San Fernando Valley. My first public school position was in Wasco, CA (near Bakersfield). I worked in the Hacienda La Puente school district (L.A. County, San Gabriel Valley) from '78 to '92, then transferred to the Azusa Unified School District (also San Gabriel Valley). I retired from my position as a director in the Azusa district office in 2005. I am now living in the Channel Islands Harbor area of Oxnard, CA, in a harbor community called "Seabridge". Although there is a down side to being 77, life is better than ever in many ways. I spend a lot of time biking, gardening and reading, without the daily grind of going to work.
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Mark Cooley's High School Basketball Photo
The Young Cooley Family, 1977
Mark Inducted into CSUN Hall of Fame, 1985
The Cooley/Lewis Family, 1972
Prospero rose with shasta daisies.
Scabiosa columbaria with a couple of other flowers trying to steal the show.
Seaside daisy (erigeron glaucus).
"Sunpatiens" impatiens in a pot, with Princess Alexandra of Kent rose snuggling up to it.
Diana and Mark in front of Mark and Randy's condo complex in Louisville.
Super Dorothy rose.
Unidentified species of tillandsia ("air plant") glued to a vertical piece of driftwood that is anchored in a pot full of gravel.
Teasing Georgia rose.
Verbena lilacina in a pot.
Young Lycidas rose on a metal obelisk.
Closeup of Young Lycidas rose.
Here is the extent of my math today: 6/15/2021 - 6/15/1968 = 53 years.  Here is a photo of the big day in '68.  From left to right are my dad Mark Cooley, Sr., my mom Martha Cooley, me, my wife Diana Salzmann Cooley, Diana'
Basketball Coach Jerry Ball, Frank Nordyke and Valley State Football Coach Sam Winningham pose with actress Irene Ryan from the Beverly Hillbillies.  I have no idea what the circumstances of this photo were.  Maybe Frank ca
Mark posing with a life-size wax figure of Shaquille O'Neal.
Shaquille O'Neal posing with a life-size figure of Robert Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived.  Shaq is 7'1" and Wadlow was 8'11".
Diana and Mark, 1967.
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