Santa Clara County CA Archives Obituaries.....Brydon, Robert W. August 3, 2000
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Campbell Reporter, September 6, 2000
Longtime Campbell resident and West Valley Junior College District board member
Robert W. Brydon died Aug. 3. He was 82.

Brydon was instrumental in creating West Valley and Mission junior colleges. In
1951, he was asked by the supervisor of schools of Santa Clara County to head
the Citizens Advisory Committee. With the committee, Brydon designed and
campaigned for the junior college campuses. In 1963, he became the vice chairman
of the founding board of trustees for the West Valley Junior College District.

The board hired West Valley's first president, Wallace Hall, and located the
district's first college in Saratoga. Because of his involvement in the Citizens
Advisory Committee, Brydon knew all there was to know about the building of West
Valley and of the plans for Mission College--and why the buildings were built as
they were.

"He touched the lives of thousands of people with his visions," said his wife,
Joy Brydon. "He always weighed things with the students in mind."

Brydon was also a director of Sunsweet Growers Inc., president of the board of
trustees for Moreland Elementary School District--the oldest school district in
the county, and a member of the Santa Clara County Committee on School District
Organization. He studied business at San Jose State College.

In 1953, Brydon founded a 48-bed hospital in Campbell and served as the director
for the first year. Although the hospital no longer exists, the hospital served
many patients, including Brydon, who had a heart attack shortly after the
hospital was founded.

Brydon was born on Jan. 13, 1918, in Campbell and lived there until moving to
Port Townsend, Wash., with his wife in 1991. In Campbell, Bob and Joy Brydon
lived on an old ranch on West Latimer Ave. Brydon watched the valley change from
the "Valley of the Heart's Delight"--filled with fruit orchards--to the Silicon
Valley of today.

Brydon is survived by his wife, Joy; his sons Steven and John from his first
marriage; and Joy's children, Janus Elaine Carey and Richard Musante. Between
them, Joy and Bob have 10 grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Sept. 8, at the Campus Center at
West Valley College.

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