Its New Teachers Demonstrating supreme confidence in its education program, California State University, Long Beach is the first university in the state to warranty its new teachers by offering them support if they are having difficulty during their first year of teaching. To maximize effectiveness, assistance is available only to teachers whose classrooms are within the university's service area. The mysteries of the Pacific Ocean and the creatures that swim in its waters need little salesmanship, as is evidenced by the fact that no other American aquarium has a larger membership base than the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific. Last month, membership in the Aquarium passed the 132,500 mark with 50,000 households represented. The Aquarium, which already has racked up 1.5 million visitors even before celebrating its first anniversary next June, has extended its hours of operation in anticipation of intensified crowds during its second year.
Plans are in the offing for expansion.
Already possessing the most ocean-view hotel rooms of any city in Southern California, Long Beach will be hungry for additional luxury hotel rooms downtown to accommodate the projected six million annual visitors to our shoreline. History Sea Launch Co., a multinational venture whose home port is Long Beach, etched its name into history last month when it successfully launched a commercial rocket into orbit from a floating platform in the equatorial Pacific. The demonstration launch was a critical step for the company, which hopes to capture a chunk of the growing business of boosting communications satellites. Major satellite manufacturers are located near Long Beach, where the Sea Launch Co. has built a payload processing facility on a 17-acre site in the Port of Long Beach. Sea Launch already is contracted to make 16 launches.