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100-year-old Camarillo resident, longtime CLU employee to be honored
Beyer hired by founders in 1957; she still works as volunteer
Beyer was hired in 1957 as an administrative assistant to Orville Dahl, president of the California Lutheran Educational Foundation Board of Governors. The foundation had been formed for the purpose of "promoting the development of a Lutheran liberal arts college somewhere in the Los Angeles area." A month after Beyer started her job, rancher Richard Pederson, son of a Norwegian pioneer family, donated 130 acres for the new college to be built in Conejo Valley. Beyer was a member of the school's original staff. The university was founded in 1959 and opened its doors to a few hundred students in 1961. Since then Beyer has worked as administrative assistant to the president's office, the faculty office, the grants and scholarship department and the business office. She still works as a volunteer at the school. She officially retired in 1997, and she received an honorary degree from the university that same year. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., Beyer came to California in the 1920s and studied at Los Angeles Business School in 1927. She worked for Pathfinder Petroleum Company for 27 years before joining the team of CLU founders. |
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