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ANNUAL REPORT TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
ON THE
PROGRESS OF THE CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA •
JANUARY, 1939

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INDEX
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Section

II.

THE VOORHIS UNIT~•--------------------------------•-•-•

3

III~

THE VVRASSE LOAlf FUND-----------------~----------------~

4

VI.

BUILDING PROGRAM----~------------------~~------------~-

10

VII.

PROJECT OPERATION•--•-•---------~---•------------------

12

VIII.

STATUS OF PROJECT FUND--•-------•-••••AI••-•--•.;,. ______.,.,.

20
21

IX.

x.

STUDENT PLACEMENT--•----------•--•---------•••-•••-•---

25

XI.

SERVICE TO AGRICULTURE-------------•••--•-~---•--•--•

30

XII.

COLLEGE VETERINARIAN••-•-------------~---••-----~---~--

32

XIII.

THE COUNSELING SYSTEM--~---•--------••••••·-----•---~--

32

XIV.

PROPOSED BUILDING PROGRAM--•----------------~-----"--

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XV.

CURRICULA RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER

INSTITUTIONS-----•---~----------------------------•--•~
XVI.

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ANNUAL ~PORT TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION ON THE PROGRESS OF THE CALIFORNIA
POLYTECHNics'CHOOL • .§!!i ~ OBISPO, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY, 1939
FOREWORD:

This is the fifth annual report of this type.

For the convenience of

comparison, the same general index headings are being maintained in this report,
~s were used in the four previous annual summaries.

It is difficult to picture the

progress of an institution except in statistical terms, unless one follows the
physical improvements and notes the continually finer type of undergraduate and
graduate.

It is hoped that this report will bring to the members of the State

'

Board of Education, and others to whom it is made available, a piotu~e of those
~angible factors possible of measurement.

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HISTORY
The detailed history of the California Polytechnic School has been made
available to members of the Board in previous reports, and in their official
visit to the campus.

thus, only a few significant dates and changes will be

mentioned.
First, it is well to recall that the California Polytechnic School was
.established in 1901•-at the turn of the century, and years prior to the
general acceptance of popular technicul and vocational training.
Second, it is important to remember that the nation made rapid strides
in the level of popular education between 1903, when classes were started at
the San Luis Obispo institution, and 1933.

The California Polytechnic School

was in advance of its time in 1903, and behind its time in 1933 because the
level of employment demand had advanced from high school to college.
California Polytechnic School could well have been advanced from high
school to college level immediately after the war period, or about when the
introduction of more and more machinery began40 raise the age level for
employment from 15 or 16 years to 20 and 21 years.
In 1933 this fact was recognized, and since that time the California
Polytechnic School has become a technical college, on the same level of
instruction as the conventional agricultural and mechanics arts colleges

- 2 in operation over the nation as a whole.

The name "California Polytechnic

School" is somewhat misleading, creating the impression of a state polytechnic
high school of elementary nature; a more fitting name might be Californin
State College of Agriculture and Industry, or some other tenninology indicating
that this is a technical college.
The steady growth of · enrollment is indicative of the popular aoceptunce of
technical training on a college level.

The continued employment of Polytechnic

graduates in 1938 in the face of industrial and agricultural recession, is proof
that this popularity is not misdirected.
This growth has been effected during tho period of constant raising of
standards in instruction and entrance requirements.

Higher standards have been

constantly necessary because of employment demands as well as the limited.
facilities of the institution, making it necessary to reserve its type of
education to those most capable of benefitting by it.

At present, about 97

per cent of the entering freshmen are high school graduates, and all except
the vocational curricula are closed to those with less than high school grudua- ·
tion •

.An increasing number of enrollees are junior college or regular college

transfers who seek tho type of instruction leading directly to technical
employment.
Significant steps since 1933 have been acceptance of the worlc at California
Polytechnic for college transfer by all major colleges, and the delegation by the
State Board of Education in 1937, of the administration of the school to the
State Bureau of Agricultural Education, a unit of the State Department of
Education.
Probable development of California Polytechnic in the next few years vvill
be in the direction of adding new occupational fields.

One such course -- in

Petroleum Industries -- was added at the beginning of this year.

The type of

training given in a technical college is most effective in small departments of
40 to 80 students in a major field.

The department head may come to personally

,..

,

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know a.11 of his students, counsel with them_. o.nd recommend those most qualified
for employment.

The number graduat ing each year may reasonably be employed

without apprenticeship in the field for which they hnve been trained.

Due to

incrensed number of students, it is necessary to counsel with those who wish
to enroll in the "p·o pula.r" departments of meat animal husbandry, air condition•
ing, and aeronautics, to detGrmine whether their aptitudes nnd abilities may
not lie in other directions.

In aeronautics it wns necessary to close all

enrollment two weeks before school opened in September, 1938~
II. THE VOORHIS UNIT
Of principal significance in the report of tho California Polytechnic School
for the curtent fiscal year, was the addition of the Voorhis Unit at Son Dimas.
The Voorhis School was estnblished about 1928 by
philanthropist, as a private eleemosynary institution.

c.

B, Voorhis, o. Pasadena
He operated it until

1938 as a school and home for boys who did not have other opportunities for an
inspiring home life or an education.

Then he decided to give up the tremenduous

task, and ultimately selected C~lifornia Polytechnic as the ihstitution which
would most completely oarry on, on a college level, the opportunity for practical
education and good influence, that he had established for boys of younger nge.
Mr. Voorhis turned over us un outright gift the $1,500,000 institution,
including four dormitories, complete classroom and laboratory facilities,
I

30 acres of citrus and other orchard, nnd nll oth~r accomodationst to be operated
perpetually as a unit of California Polytechnic,

•

Within a week after the gift

was accepted by the State Department of Education in September, all of the
agricultural inspeotion work, and citrus and deciduous fruit majors, had been
transferred to the San Dimas branch fron So.n Luis Obispo.

The college year

opened with an enrollment of about 80 young men, w.l.th five faculty members.
Maximum scope of the So.n Dimas branoh without considernble c-0nstruction, is fror.i

125 to 150 men.
ture work,

At present, it is plnnned to utilize it only tor the horticui•

The gift cameo.ta. most opportune tine, for this field o.t San Luis Obispo
was expanding rapidly without proper clinate, soil, water or luboratory set-up

•

in the way of trees, groves or vines.

The gift is to be perpetuated in retaining

the nar.ie as the Voorhis Unit of California Polytechnic.
IlI.

THE WRASSE LOAN FUND

During the sune yenr ns the V)orhis Unit gift carae the first substo.ntio.1
cash endo-wment to a.id worthy students.
Leopold Edward Wrasse, elderly Sa.n Joaquin Va.lley rancher und capita.list,
gave the school $25,000 to be invested in securities, with the proceeds to
become available to worthy students ns loans to o.ssist then in completing their
education.
Students coning from Fresno County will receive first opportunity to borr~w
from ·t .he Wra.sse Fl-'nd, but there is no fixed geographical limitation beyond this
point.

Students will be required to show need, and to show ability to work and

save money.
Following receipt of the Wro.sse endowr:1cnt, tho president of Ca.liforni o.
Polytechnic wn.s advised that another philanthropist hus provided for a cash
end0Wt1ent of $50,000 in his will.

Since tho ~oney will not becone a.va.ilo.ble

until his denth, nnd until the prob~te of the estnte, his legacy is not being
publicized ut the present tine.

- 5JV.

THE BUDGET
The budget items for the current fiscal year are shown below with
comparisons in the major brackets between this and the previous year:
89th Fiscal Year

Salaries & Wages
Mat. & Supplies
Service & Expense
Prop. & Equipment

.Amounts

Percentages

$117,653.38
23.,613.00
13.,155.00
12,810.00

70

$167,231.38

90th Fiscal Year
Amounts

Percentages

8

$145,566.25
28,970.00
13,720.00
9,965.00

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100

$198,221.25

100

14
8

73
15

7

The above increase of $27,912.87 in salaries and wages comes from a
combination of conditions.
•

Prin:ary cause was setting up five new positions made

necessary by the tremenduous increase in teaching work, resulting from an
increase of about 25 per cent in enrollment., and the opening of the Voorhis
Unit,

The new positions were:
Three Instructors in Agriculture
One Instructor in Industrial Subjects
One Instructor in Related Subjects
In addition, instructors and civil service employees received a raise

to the next range of their salary schedules.
Although increases in the budget as explained above do not entirely
represent actual current increases in exponditures for educational purposes,
using the total figures we find the following:
Per pupil cost 89th fiscal year (January 20, 1938)
($167,231.38 divided by 480 students)•••••••••••••••••••••

$327.00

Per pupil cost 90th fiscal year (January 1, 1939)
($198,221.25 divided by 675 students)•••••••-•••••••••••••

$293.66

From this it is evident that the per pupil cost for all purposes is being
materially reduced, and that the additional expense necessitated by the increased
enrollment is considerably less in proportion than the increased teaching load.

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f
Using the enrollment as of January

3, 1939, as a basis; and determining the

"equivalent full-time registration" by allowing one unit of registration for
each

15 units of instruction for which students are registered, as done by the

state colleges, w~ find tho following:
Pupil cost per equivalent full~time registration,
90th fiscal year ($198,221.25 divided by 815)•••••••••••••

$243,21

In considering costs, whether figured on a basis of actual numbor of
different students enrolled, or on the basis of equivalent full-time registration by counting one unit for each

15 for which the men are registered, it

must be remembered that tho very nature of courses in the state technical and
vocational college are based on a high degree of individual instruction.
All instruction must be personal and intensive, and the same men rcsponsib+e
for class instruction are likewise responsible for
requires almost an equal amount of time.

the project operation, whicn,

Faculty hours are limited only by the

work to be done, and in the livestock and poultry divisions, it is not unusual
for the instructor to work from six or seven in the morning until ten or eleven
o'clock at night in the combination of class work, demonstration, project
supervision and finally,

.manag0rial responsibility for college-owned

foundation herds and flocks.
Thus it is evident that the comparable figure of $293.00 per full-time
equivalent registration is extremely low compared even with many academic
colleges where mass education is possible, and where lecturers have opportunity
to address classes of several hundred in such general fields us English,
economics, political science, history and mathematics.

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V.

ENROLLllENT
Student enrollment is not always u guuge of the educationul efficiency
of an institution.

Popularity ns revealed in number of undergraduates registered

may be due to favorable economic conditions, a winning football team, or un
easy method of -making up college entrance requirements.
The growth in enrollment at California Polytechnic School which has been
steady and even spectacular since the reorganization of the institution in

1933, apparently cannot be attributed to any of these causes except possibly
favorable economic conditions; especially not to its

"make-up" work, for the

level of instruction and requirements for enrollment have been consistently

•

raised in order to offer crowded facilities to those most likely to profit by
them; and no college prepo.ro.tory "make-up" work is offered.
During the last calendar year, the rate of growth o.nd the actual number
of new students, was the greutest in the four-yeo.r period.

The increase has

been 195 students over the previous yeo.r.
Further study of the enrollment by counties shows tho.t Californiu
Polytechnic serves students from 46 of the state• s 58 countic·s -- u spread
equaled only by the University of Co.lifornin.

Thirty-six counties sent more

students to C~lifornia Polytechnic during the current year, while four sent
Eln

equal number.

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COMPARATIVE SUMMARY OF REGISTRATION, CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL, $AN LUIS OBISPO
County
Alameda
Amador
Butte
Colusa
Contra Costa
El Dorado
Fresno
Glenn
Humboldt
Imperial
Inyo
Kern
Kings
Le.ke

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Lassen
Los Angeles
Madera
Marin
'Mendocino
Merced
Modoc
Monterey
Napa
Nevada
Orange
Placer
Riverside
Sacramento
San Benito
San Bernardino
San Diego
San Francisco
San Joaquin
San Luis Obispo
San Mo.teo
. Santa Barbaro.
Santa Clara
Santa Cruz
Siskiyou
Shasta
Solano
Sonoma
Stanislaus
Sutter
Tehama
Tuolumne
Tulare
Ventura
Yolo
Yuba
Other States and Countries

January 29! 1938

12
0
2

January 3 2 1939

Loss or Gain

12
l

•+

~

+

7
4

3

1

0

27
4

29

9

7

8

-

+
+
+

7

8

4
4

9

=+

l

1

•

l

0

83

157

2·

2

4
2

3

13

7

5
3
3

17

+

..

+

+
+

•+

3

+

7

9

1

0

19
2

30
0

--

5

16

2

6

3

1
10
30

5

4

1
21

33

3
6

4
14

52

70
1

0

28

14
5
1

3
9
15
15

24

16
9

5

1

6
18
22

1

}

4

9

1

16
6
8

1
16

-480

3

18

12
9
2

3-!i_
675

+

+

+
+

•

+

-4,

+

.,.
.,.
+

-

+
+

+

--.,.
+
+
+

+
+
+
+
+

.,.

- 9 The nbove tnble represents the tota.l number of different students
registered.

It is interesting to note the result when registrntion is

compiled on the basis used by the State colleges for determining equivalent
full-time enrollment.
The figure used by the sta.te colleg0s is to count one full-time student
for ea.ch

15 units of registration. On this ba.sis, we find the California

Polytechnic School enrollment would be 815 students.

The study on this bnsis

shows thnt the average unit loa.d of students in the agricultural curricula. is

17½ and those in the industrial .division 19 units.

.

Aotuul
Enrollment
Agriculture
Industry

282

Total

675

393

Avora.ge
Units

The ta.ble follows:
Equivalent on
15-Unit Ba.sis

17½

22....

Difference in the average nuober of units between the agricultural and
the industrial curricula is found in two conditions.

First, agriculture

students spend considerable laboratory time in the conduct of their own
projects.

Only one unit of credit is given for this la.boratory time, since

the projects are in the ma.in those of colTII!lercia.l type which return the student
an actual profit; therefore, only credit is given for that time involved in
the actual laboratory exercisGs of record-keeping, and project seminar.
Industrial unit registration average is kept at a high level through
requirements in the aeronautics division, where students must fulfill pupilhour requirements of the United States Department of Cor.nnerce for license
,.

examinations, a.swell as cover a great anount of ground in technical courses
and lnboratory prnotioc.

On the basis of agricultural student project work,

the agricultura.l students put in an equal number of hours, some longer hours,
but receive less forr.ial credit.

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BUILDING PROGRAM
There has been considerable expansion in the building program during the

last year.

The five fann units have been completed and aro in use nt the

present time.

They are:

The hog unit. with n centr~l farrowing house nnd u nu.~ber of colony
houses, where students may carry on their project work under the nost favorable
con di ti ons.
The student beef project feeding barn replacing the Old County Fair Livestock Buildings, which have been in use a nunber of years nnd were not at all
suitable for this purpose.

This new beef unit is a great help to the students

who are carrying on pr:.>ject work in that line.
Three dairy units now being utilized to the fullest extent--the feed barn
for the dairy cattle, the cnlf barn, nnd the new bull barn to replace an old
building put up a nunber of years ago.

The old bull barn hns been renovated

and is being used at the present tine as a veterinary hospital unit.

It has

several isolation wards so that sick animals nny not only receive proper
treatment, but be isolated fron the rest of the herd as well.
Two new classroon units of 14,400 feet of floor space have also been
completed during the past year.

These units ta.lee the place of Anderson Hall

and the "Annex", which were condemned for olassroon use during the past year.
The new units house the music, science, landscaping, air conditioning, biological sciences, and the da.iry depnrtments, as well as affording ample space for a
new library und four nodern classroons.

They provide facilities which have been

needed on the c0npus for some time.
Another structure which has been needed for sone tine is the new storage
building which has just been conpleted.

It is being utilized as a receiving

depot, carpenter and general repair shop, as well as for the storage of
miscellaneous equipnent and naterial for institutional purposes.
Bleachers were built on the football field, and the field has been equipped
with lights so it is possible to play games at night.

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At the present time six dormitory oottages are under construction.
When completed in February, they will permit the housing of 72 additional
students on the campus.

The housing problem has been increasingly serious,

because it was necessary· for 200 students to stay off the campus in private
homes.

'·

A number of thern a~e not able to find aocomodations suitable for their

particular purpose, and an estimated 50 prospective freshmen did not enr oll i~
the fall of 1938 because of lack of housing facilities.

When these new build~

ings are completed, it will help materially in reducing the emergendy.
The natatorium which was nearly completed at the time of the last
annual report has been put into use.

It fills a long-felt need on the part

of the students in creating more activities on the campus as a part of their
social life.
In addition to the above, a number of additions and betterments activities
have .been carried on during the past year.

All of the new buildings are being

landscaped at the present time to conform with the landscaping plan as found
on the rest of the campus.

A number of trees and shrubs have been planted

and several new lawns are being put in•..
A new pump has been installed for the campus water supply so that it is
possible to pump a greater supply to the tank in order to take care of the
increased demand for water both in the buildings and for lawns.

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VII.

PROJECl OPERATION
Operations of the various student individual and group projects is one of
the most important single functions of the California Polytechnic School, since
this work is the basis of all instruction.

Self-owned projects are combined

with mana.gerial projects to give students a combination of manipulative skills
and scientific background unequalled in any other publio institution in the
country.
Projects are classified as follows:
Livestock:
a.

Student-owned projects in market livestock.

b.

Stud:ant-oVl!led projects in dairy cattle.

c.

Student-operated projects in dairy cattle.

Poultry:
a.

Student~owned laying projeots

(off the campus).

b.

Student-operated project of school l~ying flock.

c.

Student-owned brooding projects on campus.

d,

Student-operated turkey fattening project.

a.

Student-operated crops projects on campus.

a.

Student-operated project of all school-owned and leased

Crops:

Fruit:

orchards and vineyards.
Industrial:
a.

Student-owned projects in aeronautics repair.

b.

student-operated projects in aeronautics repair.

c.

Student-operated projects in electrical installation.

d.

Student-operated projects in power plant operation.

e.

Student-operated projects in air-oonditioning installation.

• 13 The following represents some of the statistics in project operations
AGRICULTURAL PROJECTS
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Market Livestock•

Report on market livestock owned, fed out, and sold by 121 students in

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Meat Animals Department in 1938:
Beef cattle

145

Sheep

84

Swine

439

Market value of animals sold

$22 1 987.00

Student proj0ct expenses

$18,615.00

Profit to project owners

$3,372.00

Fifty-eight boys fed out beef cattle, fifty-one had swine projects, and
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Feed prices were lower in 1938 than in 1937 .

twelve had sheep projects.

Livestock prices were higher in comparison to feed prices than in 1937, altho~gh
feeder cattle and hog prices were higher in 1938.

Projects in meat animals

returned a reasonable run.cunt of profit.
Meat animals students exhibited at various livestock shows, winning n
total of $1951.00 in premium money, as shown by the following table:
Year

Show

_Gr. Cha.mp.

Champ.

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

4

9

8

4

4

1

9

7
5

~

1938
1938
1938
1938

Interstate
state Fair
L.A. County Fair
Great Western

-

1

5
6

2

3

5

1
1

3

12

9

6

3

1

2

8

31

28

20

10

10

High point of the year was winning the Grand Chum.pion carload of Fat Steers
at the 1938 Great Western Livestock Show in competition with livestock breeders
over the state.
Fair.

Also, grand champion pen of lambs wus won at the L.A. County

The students exhibited in the open classes in competition with adult

breeders in all shows except the Interstate Junior Show where they showed in
the advanced division against Junior College and high school grnduntes in
continuation classes.

They showed both cha.:m.pion Angus and champion Shorthorn

steers nt the Great Western Show last falle

- 14 • Dairy Cattle The entire dairy unit is leased from the state and operated as a student

•
project.
•

Students are assigned individu~l animals o.nd are given the responsi•

bility of feeding, milking and otherwise oaring for them on a share basis •
All the other work about the dairy unit is also nlmost entirely done by
students either for instruction or pay.
Students actually own thirty-seven e.nimals of good dairy breeding that
they keep on the school fann on a share basis with the dairy department.

The

school furnishes equipment and quarters in which to keep these animnls and
sells feed to the students for this stock.

•

The school receives o. sho.re of the

r.e turns to cover costs of maintaining these project animals •
Average number of purebred, registered animals in school
100
project herd
Average number in student-owned projects
37
$200.00
Monthly net return to students on dairy projeots
Average monthly student dairy project payroll
$400.00
Average butterfat production per cow for entire herd
393 lbs.
Average connnercial butterfat production per oow for entire
state
250 lbs.
The average butterfat production of 393 lbs. for all th~ dairy cows on
the school farm was the highest in the county.

One cow owned by the .school

produced 711 pounds of butterfat~ while being fed and cared for by students.
Guernsey cows in the school herd now hold every state record in the Herd
Improvement division for that breed.
During the past three or four years the school dairy unit has paid all
operating costs and has shown~ small profit while serving a very valuable
educational purpose.
Several of the dairy students who have purchased and raised stock of
their ovm. are

n(Jlt

ma.king plans to use these aninals for foundations for herds

that they will establish after completing their school work.

- 15 - Poultry•

•
Laying projects

20

Brooding projects (Leghorn)

15

Brooding projects (neat birds)

4

Brooding projects (turkeys)

2

Average number of laying hens
Turkeys raised and sold
Tho.nksgiving and Christmas
Turkoy breeders on hand

1960

235
25

Breeding cockerels sold to Future
Farmers and poultryrien

170

Hatching eggs and chicks sold to
Future Farners

$1800.00

Student incomes from project earnings

$1150.00

Hatching eggs sold during the year

52,000

Eleven hens made trapnest egg records of over 290 eggs during the year.
• High hen for the year vro.s 326 eggs.
of more than 1000 eggs.

were hatched and brooded.

Three hens have a cumulative egg record

Twenty-tvvo hundred individually pedigreed chicks
More than 5000 chicks brooded during the yenr.

Seven hundred eighty pedigreed pullets are in the trapnests •

•

- 16 •
- Fruits Projects~
At the beginning of the school year, the Agricultural Inspection Departnent
was moved to the Voorhis Unit at San Dimas, ~nd with it went the Fruit and Crops
Departnent.

As a result, the 10 acres that were leased by the project fund in

1937 were not operated after Septenber, 1938•
At the present tine, the following units on the SDn Luis Obispo canpus are
being oared for and maintained by the students:

1~ acres deciduous fruits
l

2

acre

grapes, planted in cooperation with the
viticulture department of u. c.
acres of young citrus

The courses now given in fruit are practical units for those desiring
to get a rounded furn training.
~t San ·Dinas, the following facilities are available for supervised
practice and student labor:

25 ncres of citrus, principnlly oranges

5

acres of uvocados

3 acres of deciduous fruits, including wnlnuts

l½

acres of grnp~s
- Crops Projects -

Since the crop work wn.s ooved to the Voorhis Unit at San Din.as, projects
started during the summer were conpleted by the students and no further projects
were undertaken.

These conpleted projects were:

1 acre· sweet corn

1 ncre

string beans

1 acre

miscellaneous vegetables

- 17 • Landscape Projects Number of students participating in projects
Average nonthly enrnings per student

30

$10.00

Number of ornanental trees planted on cenpus

600

Number of ornar.iental shrubs planted on canpus

1500

NUT!lber of ornanental trees and shrubs propagated in school nursery

3000

Nunber of flo.ts of ornn.nental annuals grown n.nd plmited on om:1pus

900

3½

Number of acres of turf seeded
0rnanental pot plants for glass house and lath house display

1200

In addition to this nursery practice work, 1500 seedling trees were
budded and grafted.
Maj or projects in landscape m rk were the dro.wing of plans for the
new class room buildings, the new cottage domitories, the hog unit, the beef
uni t, the dairy unit and the plru1ning and plantfa1g of 11any sr10.ll areas on the
campus.

Plans were lo.id out o.nd the Vlbrk consumo.ted on new lavr.ns, plantings

and curbs on 400 feet of the no.in roo.d between the dorDitories, thus ending n.
project of several yea.rs duration on landsco.ping the roadway fron the south
entrance of the school to the nain lruildings.

INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS
-Aeronautics Projects-Projects for aeronautics students cansist of rebuilding airplanes, either
changing over obsolete nodels to nodorn types, or repairi~ wrecked ships.
Often the latter job involves alnost conplete construction, building entire
fuselages, fabricating and oovering wings, nounting engines, overhauling engines,
etc.

Following are sone of tho statistics:
Nunber of planes conpleted nfter no.jar overhaul•••••••

1

Nunber in shop, during year, partly conpleted..........

8

Vnlue of work done on conpleted ships•·•••••••••••••••• $350
Nunber of planes to be conpletcd this school yoar••••••

2

Cormercial engines overhauled••••••••••••••••••••••••••

3

--Air Conditioning Projects-This is a conparatively new departnent at California Polytechnic, and
project work included that done by stud0nts for their ovm hones or for re-sale,
and cunpus installations.
other.

Every student workod on one type of project or the

Tho following statistics give , the picture:
Nunber of conplote refrigcrutinc units rebuilt•~•••••••

6

Plans for hone o..ir conditioning drnwn••••••••••••••••••

1

Modernizing heating systen in canpus buildinGs,
(value $400,00)...

1

Canpus refrigeration service to present instnllntions,
(value $100~00)
Carlpus heating and ventilating units installed,
(value $400+00) ••.

3

Revo.nping refrigerating systen, (value $200.00)........

1

- 19 --Electric Industries Projects-•

Principal project work for students in the elcotricnl industries work
consists of nuking repairs and installation to the extensive electrical
equipnent on the can.pus, a.nd operation of the college power plant.

Much

comnercin.l work 'Which oould be obtained is not handled becnuse of ethics.
The following are sone project statistics:
Ca.npus repair and extension jobs done••••••••••••••

52

Estin.nted value of services,.•••••••••••••••••••••••

$700

Kilowo.tt hours of power generated in 1938 by
student-operated conpus plant..-• •• ••.,.•.•, • • • • • • _-299 ,870
(A 11% increase over last year)
•
Cost of power fron ca.opus plo.nt per kw. hour•••••••

l¾,'

Approxinate cost of power if purch~sod,
per kw. h~ur••••••••

2/

Estinated

1937 saving to college fron plant
operation•••••••••••$2,240.00

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~II. STATUS OF PROJECT FUND
The ability of Califon1ia Polytechnic students to conduct group and
self-owned projects for educational purposes, is dependent uport a unique,
project revolving fund which now has a net value of approximateiy $31,000.00.
This fund was originally established by a straight loan made from the banl~ and
signed by certain faculty members.

Profits from projeot fund operation and

interest on project loans have long since repaid the original bank loan and
have built up a fund sufficient for the financing of student projects on a
revolving busis.
Boys are enabled to borrow money from this fund for the purchase of
feeder or foundation livestock or poultry, or the fihancing of crops or other
agricultural or industrial enterprises.
fun~ is repaid with interest.

When the product is marketed, the

In addition, from the gross profit of the

student., one-third is :r0turned to the project fund as insurance o.gainst decreasing inventories., lassos in student project operation and other causes
likely to cause a decrease in the fund.
In the years of operation, this revolving loan fund hQs constantly
increased in value .

In some years, this tQkes extremely careful management,

due to high livestock feed prices.

However, group buying of feed through the

project fund enables students to put market livestock in condition at
reasonable oosts.

The attached sheet shows the status of the project fund

as of October ~30-, 1938 (last complete available report).

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Project Fund
Ba.la.nee Sheet as of October 31, 1938
Assets
Curront
Cash:

In Bank
On Hand

$1895.96
15.00

Accounts Receivable
Less Reserve for Doubtful Accts.
Inventories:

Live Stock

9200.35
214.62
16091.30

8318.85

Feed

Industrial Dept. Supp.

607.87

2501a.02

Fixed and Deferred Assets
,

293.88

Equipment
Prepaid Accounts

50.16

Total Assets

$36258.75
Lio.bi li tics

Current
Accounts Payable
Notes Payable
Accrued Accounts
State: Livestock Expense

3173.53

1000.00
658.51

524.ao

Accumulated Income, Nov0II1ber 30, 19})
IX.

5356.84
$ 30901.91

STUDENT LABOR

Under American mass education practiced today~ competition for student
jobs is very intense and thousands of deserving students are unable to begin
or continue college oducation because of lack of even a. few dollars a month,.
The objective at California Polytechnic is to spread employment to as many
'

different individuals as possible, and to give work to those most seriously in
need of it.

It is probable that there is no other public college in the United

States where the proportion of student labor to adult labor in co.mpus jobs is so
high.

For the care of the entire 85-ncre campus, with its

66 buildings, and the

1400-acro farm, there are employed only three maintenance men, two farmhnnds,
one full-time herdsman who is also an instructor in animal husbandry, and

- 22 four graduate assistants.

All of the janitor and dining hull work, except .

cooking, all the milking and feeding, cnre of the livestock, operation of the
power plunt, maintenance of the grounds, is done by students.
The following statement of a typical month (October) shows that
were employed in sane capacity.

374

boys

There is some duplication in this figure,

caused by boys being employed from two different funds nt the same time.

This

is illustrated by tho next succeeding table showing some interesting statistics
of agricultural students.
Analysis of student Labor
October, 1938
(fron Payrolls)

*
Cln.ssif'icn.tion

*

*

of
Employees

Pa.yroll

Ad.mini stra.tion (Office)

4

$ 88.20

Agriculture
Instruction - Industry
Related Subjects

9
5

N'o.

STATE

M &

0

Farm

Janitors
Ground Keepers
Auto Service
Crops
Dairy
Meat Animals
General
Poultry
Ag. Mechanics
Total State

11

30

37
2
1

6
6

50
3

8

$ 88.20

61.50

71.25
165.00

297.75

264.15

425.05

102.so

792.00

20.55
19.65
160.00
496.05
65.10
33.6o

794•92
$ 1972.90

172

PROJECT FUND
Dairy
Meat Animals
Poultry
Horticulture

21
6

-±2-

Total Project Fund

_g_

10

436.53
5a.50
173.35
35.25
$ 703.63

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Classification

No. of
Employees

Po.yroll

62

$ 906.16

26
6
1

158.35

Totals

CAFETERIA-DORMITORY FUND

Cafoteria
Dorm.i tories
Power House
Miscellaneous

261.52

9.60

Totnl Cnfeteria-Donnitory
FEDERAL N.

Y6

A.

Total Students' Wages

374

The following tnble shows that during the sl.UI'lner months, boys hn.ve
opportunity for considerably lnrger earnings thnn during the school year.
The avernge student salary paid of $18.84· in the ~gricultural department will
be considerably reduced for the s~dont body as a vm.ole, since the industrinl
students do not have an opportunity to earn as much ns the agricultural
students.

SUMMARY OF STUDENT LABOR • AGRICULTURAL DI VIS ION - CALIFCRNIA POLYTECHNIC

·July

October

September

August

No~ember }
r

i

Number on State Payroll

26

45

79

92

45

j

..

f

,i

16

17

52

49

45

I

Number on N.Y.A. Payroll

0

0

0

21

28

i

Total Number on Payrolls

61

43

162

152

Number on Project Payroll
1

97
- -·

..

Counted twice

4

5

10

15

15
.,

.

Separate individuals on
Payrolls
Graduate Assistants

56

39

82

152

137

4

4

3

Li

4

'
.':

Average salary of
Graduate Assistants
Amount of State Payroll

.

Amount of Project Payroll
)

102.50

102,50

103.33

102.50

102.50

2367.00

1216.80

875.55

1379.10

636.50

819.10

800.60

69Li.83

660.40'

.oo

.oo

.oo

173.70

315.30

1676.1.5

2247.63

2227.00

:

1251. 30 :.

I

·Amount of N.Y.A. Payroll
Total for month
-

Highest salary paid
·. ( does not include G.A. )

3003.50 ..~

.

2035.90

t

·-

114.20

92.00

•-

'

'

Lowest salary paid
Average for month
(All salaries)

.90

.

53.63

81.40

89.00

79.60

1.20

.30

.30

.90

52.20

20.44

14.78

16.20

46,80

19.46

15.00

15,80

48.oo

15.40

14.20

14.70

.oo

8.27

11.26

·.

·-

Average of State Salaries

52.60
1r

Average of Project
Salaries

I:

39.80

.

.

-

;

Average N.Y.A.

.oo

.oo
-

Note:

Totals inclue student labor expenditures at the Voorhis Unit, as well as
at San Luis Obispo.
This summary includes the time of students working at the auto shop, but
does not include any record of any agricultural student who receives any
remuneration from the Cafeteria-Dormitory Funds.

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x.

STUDENT PLACEMENT
the purpose of all instruction at California Polytechnic is to t~ain for
gainful employment.

The responsibility of the college is not fulfilled until

every effort has been ma.de to place the student in the type of position for
which he has been trained.

In the case of agriculture students, many do not

want outside employment, preferring to go back to the home ra.noh, or to open
an a.gricul tural enterprise of their own.
The college allocates some of the time of two individuals to the placement
function, although neither is able to devote the time which could be used with
value to survey the placement field as well as actually get employer and
employee together.
For the la.st few years, it has been possib~e to place virtually every
recommended graduate in each major field, and in many occupation"s, the school
fall ~ -far short of supplying the demand.

PRESENT OCCUPATIONS OF 1938 AGRICULTURE GRADUATES
-- Agricultural Inspection -Charles J. Agbashia.n •••• qrape pro-rate, Fresno
Fred

c.

Gunnar

Alley.·. .. Border inspection, State of California

o.

Sondeno •••• Border inspection, State of California

Richard Spnrks •••• Inspection work in Snn Joaquin Valley
-- Dairy Production~L. Marion Fosberg •••• Now working as graduate -assistant at

c.

P.

s.

and

establishing a Holstein herd at Turlock.
Leona.rd

w.

Frame •••• Worked for Rocky Hill Farms, Exeter, for severnl

months; then wont home to help on the farm.
Hownrd T. Hudson •••• Working at home, King City.

Plans to take further

work for degree next year.
Elwood Russell •••• Taking degree work at Washington State College.

• 26 -- Meat Animals -Roger Barney••• ~Returned to California Polytechnic for additional work
in mea.t animal husbandry.
Hugh Dangers •••• Assista.nt herdsman on a beef cattle ranch in Peta.lumo.,
California..
Ma.rVin Danley •••• Raising sheep on his own farm ~t Willows.
Earl Foor. , •• Returned to California Polytechnic for gra.dua.to work in
meat animals.

w.

N. Helphenstine •••• Herdsma.n on n beef cnttle ra.nch in Smith, Nev.

Harold Laux •••• Ra.ising hogs on his own ra.nch in Colusa, Calif.
Marcel La.yous •••• Ra.ising hogs on his own ranch in King City, Calif.
Aldo Tognetti •••• Operating his own fa.rm in King City, raising sugar beets,
beef cattle, dairy cattle, and hogs.
Andrew Witmer •••• Working on ranch at Santa Barba.~a.
Seymour Vann •••• Ma.na.ging his father's grain and sheep ra.nch a.t Williams.
-- Landscape~...
Carl Tunison • ••• Expects to work for Ford Co. at Golden Gate Internntiona.l
Expo si ti on,
-- Poultry -Frisbie V. Brown, ••• In business for himself and with his father a.t
Simi, Calif., on poultry nnd fruit rnncha
Marvin E. Hnre •••• Employed at Howurds Poultry Ranch, Rio Linda, in
tra.pnesting and brooding.
Jrunes F. Harter •••• In business for himself on turkey rnnch a.t Fresno..
Clifford Lrunbert •••• sta.rted in 1:usiness in Sacramento with parents on
new poultry ranch.
Paul M. McDonald •••• In poultry and hatchery business as partner with
father at Gerber.
Riohard Macbeth ••• stnrted and bought turkey and fruit ranch at Homet, Calif.

- 27 PRESENT OCCUPATIONS OF 1938 INDUSTRIAL GRADUATES
-- Aeronautics -Melvin Burton •••• service and maintenance at Sky Harbor nirport, Pheonix,
Ariz.
Ben Cosner •••• mecho.nic, Santa Maria air.lines, Santa Maria.
Byron Ellis •••• mcchanic, experimental department, Lockheed Aircraft
corporation, Burbank.
Harold Lilley •••• mcchnnic, Pan-American Airways, Alameda.
Robert Livesey •••• mcchnnic, Lockheed Aircraft corporation, Burba.nk.
Chauncey McDonald •••• Shell Oil Co., King City.
George Milne •••• mechanic, Lockheed Aircraft corporation, Burbank.
Henry Null •••• mechanio, Lockheed Aircraft corporation, Burbank•
Ellis Parker •••• mechanic, Pan-American Airways, Alameda.
Maurice Rush •••• mechnnic, Lockheed Aircraft corporation, Burbank.
Glen Sackett ••• mechanic, Lockheed Aircraft corporation, Burbank.
Ben Shirey •••• parts department, Air Associates company, Glendale.
Tatsumi Suehiro •••• meoha.nic, Puul Muntz Air setvice, Burbank.
Melvin West •••• draftsman, engines department, Lockheed Aircraft corporation,
Burbank.
Melvin Willia.ms, ••• draftsman, engines department, Lockheed Aircraft
corporation, Burbank.
Hershel Abe •••• Back in school for further instruction.
Paul Spani •••• Returned to school for further instruction.
James Stanton•••• Returned to school for further instruction.

- 28 -- Air Conditioning -Harvey Bonham•••• mechnnic, Frigidaire company, San Bernardino.
Ftancis Cantrill, ••• r.ieohanic, Foss Hao.ting company, Pasadena..
Raymond Carpenter •••• police department, Santa Cruz.
Sidney Frantz •••• service work in San Diego.
George Jagln •••• mochanic, Swift a.nd company, San Francisco.
Jack Hnnsen •• o.mechanic, Air-Temp agency, Bakersfield.
John Lohrberg •••• Shell Oil company, Martinez.
James McGrath •••• mechanic, Merchants Ice nnd Cold Storage, San Francisco.
Evins Naman •••• Snles, York Dyer company, Fresno.
LeRoy Naman •••• engineering, York Dyer company, Fresno.
Marvin Nnmnn•••• sules, Cyclop representative, Fresno.
Willian Phelnn•••• mocha.nic, Bakersfield~
William Sales •••• nechanic, Foss Heating CO'l:l.pany, Pasadena.
Robert Slicton •••• nechnnio, Merchants Ice and Cold Storage, San Franoisco.
Grant Thorne •••• mechanic, sheet metal work in Berkeley.
Thomas Topho.r1 •••• engineer, York-Derbe, Riverside.
Reginald Brovm. •• ~.returned to school.
Jack 0 1 Brien •••• returned to school.

• 29 ••Electrical••
John Rutherford •••• lnboratory of P. G. & E., Eneryville.
Peter Giampaoli •••• meter departnent, P. G. & E., Redding.
Edward Lawrenoe •••• line department, So.n Joaquin Light & Power, Fresno.
Edwin Chiles •••• laboratory. Shell Developnent oonpo.ny, Emeryville,
Norman Heikes •••• laboratory, Slell Developnent company, Eneryville.
Thonas Tait •• ~.laboratory, Sh.ell Development company, F.heryville.
Raynond Williams •••• nechan~c, South West Welding and na:nufacturing
conpany, Alhanbra.
Donald Aldernan•••• returned to school for further instruotion.
Lawrence Barre •••• back in school for further instruction.
Ronald Dunont •••• returned to school for further instruction.
Milton Sondeno ••• • baok in school for further work.
Donald stansifcr •••• returned· to school for further instruction.

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i1.

SERVICE TO AGRICULTURE
The service of the California Polytechnic School to agriculture in
supplying high school projects with purebred foundation livestock, hatching
eggs and seed, has been discussed in detail in previous reports.

Mention

has also been made of the inportanoe of the teacher training progron at the
Polytechnic School,
During the last
nore tangible.

year, a nave was no.de to nake all service funotions even

This consi,sted of centralizing nll of the bureau functions at

Sun Luis Obispo, excBpt two regional supervisors renaining at Sacranento and
Los Angeles, and the teaeher trainer renaining at· Davis for undergraduate
instruction of teaching prospects at the University of ~lifornia.
The office of the bureau at California Polytechnic now includes, in
addition to the chief of the bureau who is also the president of the Polytechnic
School, an assistant state supervisor, two of the regiona} supervisors who
operate fron this central point, and subject natter specialists who assist in
preparation of teaching naterial and other functions.

All offices were

recently coordinated in a physical nanner in one building.
The service of California Polytechnic in teacher training is highly
inportant.

Most of the ugrioulturul college graduates who are accepted as

trainees need considerable farn and furn mechanics experience to tench the
necessary skills.

A part of the year is spent at California Polytechnic getting

these nanipulative skills.
Sone of the services provided for agricultural education include:
Publication of the California Future Farner nagazine for 9600 agriculture
students and cooperators, presentation of 90 educational radio pr~gra.ns,
cooperating in the training of 28 prospective high school vocational agriculture
teachers, preparation of teaching na.terials for the

175

high school vocational

agriculture departoents, and furnishing foundation and narket livestock and
poultry for these Future Farners of Anerica projects.

• 31 •
In the lattor connection, it is interesting to note that the following
were sold to high school boys over the state:

Five breeding beef cows,

20 fat lo.r1bs, 10 breeding ewes, 3 rfll!ls, 12 breeding sows, and six breeding
boars.

In poultry, $1800 worth of ho.tohing eggs nnd baby chicks were sold

to Future Farmers.
Typical of service to other state or federal agencies is the work done
by the agricultural inspection and fruit divisions.

The inspection students

have been conducting field studies in rodent control for the stnte Depnrtnent
of Ag~iculture.

Red scale count was also nade on citrus orchards in the

vicinity of the Voorhis Unit.
Typical of service to the public at large are the de~onstrations and
open-house days ut which livestock and poultrynen are invited to see nethods
mid records.

The Poly Royal show each spring bringhg 4000 to 5000 famers to

see the classes. is tho nost extensive; but during the year r.lll.ny farmers•
neetings are held on the canpus usL~g local stock, poultry or crops arens for
deoonstration purposes.

Ten breeding bonrs and gilts were sold to acblt

stooknen through the state, increasing general livestock quality o.nd perforning
a needed service.

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lII.

COLLEGE VETERINARIAN

During the fiscal year there were 276 service calls on tho co.npus to
care for stock belonging to the school or
•

to projects of students.

This

represents about 2500 individual services, such as caring for sick o.ninals,
testing for Bang's disease, and tuberculosis, and vaccinations for various
diseases.
Inspection of neat slaughtered for use in the college cafeteria wo.s
continued as of the previ ru s year.

Sixty-one anir.ials were inspected.

The

inspection service feature is re,.de to conply o.s closely as possible to the
requirenents of tho neat inspection service of the state departnent of
agriculture.

More adequate facilities for slaughtering and storing neat

are needed as the enrollnent increases.
An additional da~and for advice and infomation to the vocational
agricultural instructors in the various hi£1l schools has been net.

Various

livestock sanitary probl0ns ho.ve been presented to the cadet teachers here
in training.

Correspondence with high school instruct~rs has been

increasing.

XIII. THE COUNSELING SYSTEM
In the conventional school, counseling has the najor objective of directing youthful ninds into the proper occupational channels or levels of the
professions, vocations or general culture.

Students are gropine to deternine

the occupational field for which they are best fitted.
At California Polytechnic, since students are in.nediately specializing
•

as to occupation, the counseling system is devoted both to the level of instruction and to the field.

There are three najor curricular levels, the two-year

vocation&, the three-year technicnl and the three-year degree-transfer.

The

basis of all of those is teminal in nature, leadine to enploynent; the first
two directly to placer:ient, and the latter to another institution for a year or
nore of additional (often largely acadenic) natriculation.

The three-year technioul curricula nost closely approxirntes the ideal
temihnl course as we sco it, because it c~ntains enough basic science for a
thorough foundation in technico.l o.nd vooationo.l a.cconpli d1nont, with a nininun
of extraneous natter.

The two-year vocational curricula. is la.eking principally

in the basic sciences, but is set up for those who wnnt only two years of work
of n vocational level beyond high school, or those incapable of profiting by
foundation science courses.

The three-year degree-transfer curricula, on the

other hand, embraces sciences beyond those necessary for the young nan going
directly into enploynent; but is set up for those vtno desire the honor of an
aoadenic de~ree plus a. naxinun of technical skills.
The purpose of the counseling systen is to keep in the three-year technical
curricula., all of those o.nd only those nost likely to profit by that level of
instr~ction.

Exceptional students who may have registered in the two-year

curricula but vfuo have sufficient nental abilities and financial backing are
encouraged to transfer to the three-year course.

Likewise, young nen who are

-

not succeeding in the technical curricula. but who have abilities equal to the

vocational work, are encouraged to re-register in the latter.
Occasionally a student in the three-year curricula develops aptitudes

which would nake hin successful in "WOrk denandin~ a coll0ge degree. such as
agricultural teaching, veterinary nedicine, or specialist in 8ne of the nnny
governnent and private o.gricultura.l services.

If this student has the

prepa.ratory school requirenents and nental capacity for work of degree type,

•

•

he is encouraged in this direction.

At the sane tine, boys who enroll in

degree-transfer work and who after a quarter denonstrate that they should
confine their work to the three-year technical, a.re so counseled.

In all of

this the ultinate welfare of the student as a useful nenber of society, is
kept uppemost in the counseling systen.

- 34 XIV.

PROPOSED BUILDING PROGRAM

Principal classroom an'd administration buildings at California Polyteohni~
were erected in 1902-03, 1907-08, and 1911.
"

covered with stucco.

They were all of frame . construction,

Subsequent administrations altered the interiors of thes~

buildings to fit changing class needs, removing partitions and supports without
regard to the substantiability of the remaining structure.

Termites have done

a thorough job on the supports of the four original buildings.
fit for modern college use, and all have been condemned.
replaced up to the present time.

None of them is

Two of them have beep

The other two will have to be used until

adequate facilities can be prepared.
Some portions or wings of new buildings would probably come where present
antiquated buildings are standing, so that it is necessary to eventually level
off the 1/tlole area before much pennanent construction in the new administration
quadrangle oa.n take place.
Major immediate needs nre for

al'l

assembly hall, more classroom buildings,

air conditioning building, aeronautics building, and administrative offices.
These would all be in the central campus unit or units.

Other buildings which

might be in the outlying acreage are asheep unit, slaughter house, horticulture
unit, beof breeding unit, farm mechanics shop, maternity barn for dniry unit,
two new laying houses and two breeding units for poultry, feed warehouse, and
a number of others of a similar nature.
XV.

CURRICULA RELATIONSHIP VlITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS

In general, it may be said that our curricular relationship with other
institutions has improved during the past year.
California Polytechnic School operated for so long, first as a high school,
•
and then for a time as a high school plus a junior ooll0ge branch, that the
other collegiate institutions were slow to appreciate the major ohnnge made
in this state institution from 1933 on.

... 35 Up to recently, the attitude on the part of the other institutions has
been to indicate a fear that boys without sufficient transcript value, either
scholastically or subjectively, wi 11 use California Polytechnic as a "back door"
to enter the degree-granting institution which they could noit have entered

•

directly.
Nothing is more removed from the truth.

Standards for the degree-transfer

curricula at Polytechnic are high0r than those of
transfer might be mo.de.

any

institution to which

Students must get no gro.de lower than "B" in a number

of basic courses, and no grades below "C" in any of the related subjects,
before transfer will be recommended.

In most institutions, students can and

do progr0ss quite so.tisfo.ctorily with a "C" average.

.

Not only is it more difficult (instead of loss) for a student to attempt
to use Polytechnic as a stepping-stone to an academic college, but he must have
had preparatory school grades and subjects which would hav0 ponnitted him to
enter that institution directly before enrolling at Polytechnic, or must make
them up at San Luis Obispo high school or junior college, or in some other
fashion, before transferring,

No make-up work of any kind is given nt
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California Polytechnic.
XVI.

FUTURE NEEDS .

California Polytechnic School has no immediate needs that cannot be
carried out under its present program for financial support and curricula
changes.

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As outlined earlier in this report, increasing enrollment makes

it necessary for this institution to curtail the number of students in certain
fields, and to carefully explore the occupational opportunities for now curricula.
In general, it may be .said that these new curricula. will in no way duplicate or overlap W)rk now being done in any public institution, but will attempt
to put on an organized basis considerable now being done as apprenticeship by
private firms, each one operating in its own particular direction.

The purpose of this move is obvious.

The young mn.n out of high sohool

going into an industrial firm as nn apprentice, or into agricultural employment
as a. cornnon lnborer~ may never rise above thnt point.
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laborer, he learns how but he never learns why.

As o.n apprentice or

The entire purpose of

instruction at Californin Polytechnic is to give him both vJhy and how, with
the addition of social life and culture inn college ntnosphere which most
young men -- especially those froM s:iall towns and fnrms -- bndly need.
Baok of each venture are a few highly-trained scientists and engineers,
doing the planning.

This field lies within the functions of the university ..

At the other extre~e nre the laborers, told each day wha.t to do nnd how to do
it.

Between the two are the foreoen a.nd superintendents.

It is the purpose

of this technical college to give the undergra.duates all of the technica.l
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knowledge and all of the r.nnipulati ve skills possible in the period of

matriculation.

They will enter omployment as skilled workers, but if their

training is functioning a.sit hshould, they will l:10.ke

in a few years the

second ranking executives, or in sone instances the top ro.nking ones.

This objective, n.nd the opportunity to oarry it out, a.re in evidence
at this state college.

Educators, enployers, a.nd parents daily gain an

inproved respect for, o.nd undorsta.ndi.nc·,. or. this e.olloao•
Its rn.njor future need, therefore, is to be "left a.lone" in toms of
exterior influence, to carry out the progran vmich it has started, and in
which it is making mea.surenblo progress.

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Respectfully subcltted,

~a.~
Julio.n A. McPhoe
President