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II. . perpetually as a unit of California Polytechnic. know all of his students, counsel with them, and recommend those most qualified for employment. The number graduating each year may reasonably be employed without apprenticeship in the field for which they have been trained. Due to increased number of students, it is necessary to counsel with those who wish to enroll in the “popular” departments of meat animal husbandry, air condition- ing, and aeronautics, to determine whether their aptitudes and abilities may In aeronautics it was necessary to close all not lie in other directions. enrollment two Weeks before school opened in September, 1958‘ THE VOORHIS UNIT Of principal significance in the report of the California Polytechnic School for the current fiscal year, was the addition of the Vborhis Unit at San Dimas. The Vborhis School was establiShed about 1928 by C. B. Voorhis, a Pasadena philanthropist, as a private eleemosynary institution. 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 California Polytechnic as the institution which wwuld most completely carry on, on a college level, the opportunity for practical education and good influence, that he had established for boys of younger ago. Mr. Voorhis turned over as an outright gift the $1,500,000 institution, including four dormitories, complete classroom and laboratory facilities, 30 acres of citrus and other orchard, and all other accomodations, to be operated Within a week after the gift was accepted by the State Department of Education in September, all of the agricultural inspection work, and citrus and deciduous fruit majors, had been transferred to the San Dimas branch from San Luis Obispo. The college year opened with an enrollment of about 80 young men, with five faculty members. Maximum scope of the San Dimas branch without considerable construction, is free 125 to 150 men. At present," it 1: planned to mum it only for the horticul- ture work.