As Cerritos College continues its 50th anniversary celebration a memory book has been complied of the college humbled beginning to its current technological advances of today.

The Cerritos memory book chronicles the struggles the school went through to have it built on what was known as Dairy Valley in the city of Cerritos, the expansion of what is now Falcon Square, to the renovation of the Dr. Wilford Michael Library.

Among those contributing to the memory book were Kristen Habbestad, coordinator of media relations and public affairs, and Bob Chester, faculty senate president.

Kelly Kwan and Margo Winners designed the book.

Megan Richardson, community relations coordinator of Cerritos College Student Affairs, said that there was a questionnaire sent to faculty members in which each person describe what the College has meant to them as well as its students.

However students were not so sure that the memory book was for everyone until it meant something sentimental to those who have been in a community college 50 years ago.

“I would probably buy the (memory) book just to get a history of the college,” Brenda Lopez, anthropology major, said, “because I don’t know much about how the school started.”

She added that the Cerritos College football players and cheerleaders are probably the people who will buy the book.

Laura Spikerman, photography major, had a different opinion about having to buy the book.

“If students will have to buy the book, I think that this book in particular when be better in the library.”

In addition, Spikerman believes that what the book goes into details about how Cerritos College was built and where it is now it would “make it hard to create a connection to those students who are attending today.”

Furthermore, there were 50 responses to the questionnaire by faculty members and those that characterized the college were put in the memory, Richardson said.

Currently the book is being sold for $15 through the Cerritos College Foundation and will soon be available for sell $10.