GIFTS During the year of 1940, many valuable gifts were made for the benefit 'of students at the California Polytechnic. Donations to Scholarships and to the Thoroughbred Horse Program.will be discussed under these headings. In addition to these valuable grants, Joseph Quinn, Fresno, gave the college an exceptionally well-bred Hereford bull calf, immediately after bidding $310 for the animal at public auction; and Howard Vaughn, Dixon, gave the institution a purebred Suffolk ewe. A life-size statue of an athlete was given to the college by Andrew Bjurman, noted sculptor and father of a Polytechnic alumnus. NATIONAL BgPENSE PROGRAM No institution in California has been more quickly utilized for the training of national defense workers, than California Polytechnic School. This has been possible because the technical and vocational training in the institution, particularly in the mechanic arts, most nearly meets the immediate needs of the defense industries. The program is divided into three phases - the pilot training of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, the National Youth Administration resident program1 and the adult National Defense Training Program. Civil Aeronautics Adn?nistration. The California Polytechnic School entered into a Civil Pilot Training Program in 1940 in which twenty students finished their flight training during the Spring quarter. These students were given thirty-five hours of flight training and seventybtwo hours of ground school work under the supervision of the California Polytechnic School. The flight training was given by Hoover Brothers and Thompson at the San Luis Obispo County airport and the ground school was given by the Aeronautics department of this school. The cost of this training was paid by the Federal government.