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Published on Monday, July 21, 2008
By Justino Águila
WOODLAND HILLS - Esther Cohen might not work at a big movie studio, but she has helped make Pierce College the back lot for major television shows, feature films and commercials.
"When Jon Voight came into the office and I was gone, I was so mad," Cohen said. "I did see Kathy Bates on another occasion though."
Now, after 39 years of service, Cohen is retiring Friday. She started as a clerk-typist, then became an intermediate clerk-stenographer and now holds an administrative secretary job that includes coordinating film shoots on campus.
"I'm really going to miss her," said Walter Roshetski, a location manager for the television show "Criminal Minds," which has been shot at the college.
"Esther is a fixture, an icon. She's the matriarch of Pierce College and, like a general, she gets everybody in line quickly."
Cohen first arrived at Pierce College in 1969. Typewriters were the big thing back then, she said. Shorthand was a must for secretaries, too
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