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FOREWARD

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REGULAR COLLEGE LEVEL PROGRAM

NATIONAL DEFENSE TRAINING PROGRAM

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COMPARATIV3 SUMMARY OF REGISTRATION .
PLACEMENT

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DEGREE CURRICULA
TEACHER TRAINING

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PROJECTS AND PROJECT FUND .

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SCHOLARSHIPS , LOAN FUNDS , AND GIFTS .

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THOROUGHBRED BREEDING PROJECT

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STUDENT LABOR

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BUILDING PROGRAM, COMPLETED .
CONCLUSION

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FOREWARD

This eighth annual report of the California Polytechnic school to the
State Board of Education continues a policy established in 1933 when the
institution was made a direct administrative branch of the State Department of
Education .

The current report, although more condensed than in some previous

years when formative steps required explanation to the board, is a complete and
comprehensive summar~r of the school's activities and accomplishments during
the past year .
A world crisis such as the pres ent one brings into question all of our
institutions .

It calls for a re- examination of existing farm, industrial and

educational programs .

Despite the present world-wide condition of uncertainity,

the Calif ornia Polytechnic school is in a unique and enviable position as an
educational insitution .

~'Jh r:m many other higher educational institutions are

frantically trying to adjust their curricula to continue their place in a world
which has at least temporarily outgrown the purely academic program, the
California Polytechnic school is fortunately providing the very type of training
so valuable to the total war effort - and is doing it on a large scale without
having to alter in any way the educational philosophy which has been the unswerving aim of this institution for the t hirty-nine years of its service to
California.
Because this institution was already equipped with the facilities and the
educational pattern capable of turning out skilled agricultural and industrial
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producers it was one of the first in the natfon to be granted a r esident project
in conneition with the national de f ense training program.

In addition to this

specialized defense training which some 1300 students rGceived at this institution
in the last year, the California. Polytechnic school is constantly turning out men
trained in the technical aspects of agriculture and industry - two fields indisputably essential to our national safety .

Many of these graduates have already

become key men in our war industries and in our vast "Food for Victory"program.
In the following report, considerable explanation has been given to various
aspects of the defense trainin~ pro gram operating in the school, and for that
reason certain other activities, which have been given considerable attention in
previous reports have been described in more brief form .

This does not mean that

there has been any slackening in the regular educational program, but rather
that a great deal of additional effort is being made to make the defense training
program successful .

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ANNUAL REPORT TO THE STATE BOARD OF ~DUCATION
ON THE

PROGRESS OF Tifil CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC
3CHOOL

REGULAR

COLLEGE

LEVEL

P R OG R AM

The various curricula of the California Polytechnic school are set up
within the two main divisions of agriculture and industry.

The educational

program of the school is dedicated to train peo ple in practical sciences and
techniques .

This educational objective is similar to that of the typical

"agricultural and mechanics college" of other states, with one major variation .
That variation concerns .the research program.
this institution ' s development .

No such field is contemplated in

Neither i.s there any plan to extend the work in

pure sciences, with the aim of graduating research specialists ,

California

Polytechnic will limit itself to training agricultural and industrial artisans,
well grounded in social and na Lural sciences .
Students entering the regular college courses may enroll in the two-year
curriculum leading to a vocational certificate, the three-year curriculum leading
to a technical certificate , or the four- year curriculum leading to the Bachelor of
Science degree.

All of these curricula prepare young men to enter technical

occupations which are essential to the present war program and will continue to be
essential in the peace to follow ,

NATIONAL

DE F E N S E

T R AI N I NG

PROGRAM

At the outset of this present emergency, which has finally resulted in
world-wide conflict, when this nation found itself unprepared to speed up necessary

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industrial production because of insufficient numbers of skilled workmen
available , there was only one solution for the bottleneck .

That was to ask

for the assistance of educational instib.tions already equipped to give the type
of training necessary to turn out skilled workmen .

That is essentially why this

school was one of the first in the nation chosen to help prepare workers for
employment in national defense industries .

The program is di.vided into three

phases - the National Youth Administration resident program, the adult National
Defense training program, and the pilot training of the Civil Aeronautics
Administratinn .
ENROLLMENT AND PLACEMENT
During the period January 1, 1941 to December 31, 1941, 1265 defense
students received training at the California Polytechnic school .
California Polytechnic is considered by national educational officials
to be one of' the lea.ding institutions of its kind in the United States in
training specific defense employees .

Effectiveness of such training is shown in

the following list of firms employing grad1ates of the regular and special courses
during the last two years, and in which t !ie employee is directly using the
technical and vocational skills recej~ed at California Polytechnic :
INDUS TRLLS VITAL TO DEFENSE

Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Douglas Aircraft Corporation
Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Consolidated Aircraft Co.
Northrup Aircraft Corporation
North American Aircraft Co .
Mare Island Navy Yard
Pan-American Air1<1rays
California Shipbuilding Corp .
Todd Shipbuilding Co .
Columbia Steel Co ,
Pacific Gas and Electric Co .

Western Electric Co .
Sadramento Air Depot
Hancock Flying School, Santa Maria
North Island Air Depot, San Diego
Pearl Harbor Naval Base
Moore Shipyards, Oakland
American Dredging Co .
L. E. Dixon Construction Co .
Commerical Iron rvorks , Los Angeles
U. S . Maritime Service, Hueneme
Southern Pacific Railroad

ALLIED INDUS TRIES

Avenal Welding Works (petroleum)
Oliver Johnson Co., San Jose
A. B. Dick Mfg. Co., Chicago
Royce Construction Co., Chicago
Youdel Equipment Co., Chicago
Ford Motor Co., Richmond
Cochise Rock Drill Co., Maywood

De Long Bros., Los Angeles
LeTourneau iffg. Co., Stockton
Angelus Can Co., Vernon
Fisher Body Works, Pontiac, Mich.
L.&.F. Machine Works, Huntington Park
Byron Jackson Co., Los Angeles

RESIDENT NYA PROGRAM
History:
In October of 1940 the first of the resident center buildings, constructed
by the National Youth Administration on a campus plot leased from the school,
was

completed and almost immediately 116 boys selected from thousands of

applicants in the state enrolled in special defense training courses.

In April

of 1941, a new unit doubling the housing facilities of the resident center was
completed, bringing the capacity enrollment to 240 students.

The resident unit

now comprises two dormitories of four sections each, a large dining hall, a
recreation hall and an infirmary ward.

Adjoining each dormitory section (which

has double bunks and individual cabinets for twenty-six persons) are the locker
room, showers, wash rooms, and laundry facilities,
Shop Facilities!
To supplement the school's previous ly existing shop facilities, the
National Youth Administration financed the purchase of a completely prefabricated
machine shop of glass and steel .

The prefabricated building with the machinery

necessary to equip the shop was shipped by rail from Ohio and set up on land
leased from the school at the close of the last school year.

The building which

is 140 by 40 feet has a 40 by 40 foot wing at one side which is now housing the
radio production shop.

Under construction now, and due to be completed very

soon, is a 50 x 150 foot wood frame-stucco building also financed by Federal
funds on leased land adjacent to the prefabricated shop.

This shop will be

equipped as the aircraft sheet metal shop, enabling the machine shop to take

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over the bulk of the prefabricated shop which is now being used for both.
Training Program:
This program is designed to give youths between the ages of 17 and 25
training and work experience in machine shop, aircraft sheet metal and subassembly, commerical sheet metal, welding and radior

The period of training

was originally si:x months but the need for stepping up the tempo of the program
brought about an intensification - now the shops operate 24 hours per day and
students are placed at the end of three months.

Each assignee spends four hours

a day in a class-shop and also a four-hour shift on project work, most of which
is in a production shop of the trade the

youth intends to enter.

struction is given by teachers hired and supervised by the school.
project activity is administered by the NYA.

The inThe work-

Production work includes fabri-

cation on a production-line basis of items to be used by other government
agencies.
ADULT NATIONAL DEFENSE TRAINING

This program, started in August of last year, provides training in
machine shop , welding and aircraft sheet metal for men out of school, WPA
workers and men recommended by the California State Department of Employment.
The Federal government pays the nece osary operating expenses and the school
supplies the instruction, facilities and equipment .

The classes operate at

night on a si:x-hour basis, using the same facilities as are used on other shifts
by the NYA students.

During the past year, January 1 , 1941 to December 31, 1941,

199 men have been placed in defense industries after completing the prescribed
course.

CIVIL AERONAUTICS ADMINISTRATION
The California Polytechnic School entered into the Civil Pilot Training
Program in the fall of 1939.

Since that time 118 students have graduated from

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this program at this school~

These students each received 35 hours of flight

training and 72 hours of ground school work.
The flight training is given by licensed instructors at the Gan Luis
Obispo county airport in conjunction with the ground school work given by the
aeronautics department of this school.

Cost of this training is paid by the

Federal government ·.
Number of graduates:

Primar.y

Fall Session, 1939~40

20

Summer Session, 1940

41

Fall Session, 19h0-41

17

Spring Sessjon, 1941

22

SummGr Session, 1941
TOTAL NUMBER OF GRADUATES
Enrolled at the present time

Secondary

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Information regarding gradL.ates:
Entered Army Ai~ Corps
32
Entered Naval Air Corps
14
1
Entered Royal Air Fore~
1
Entered Canadian Royal Air Force
8
Applications Pending .for Army Air Corps
2
Applications Pending for Naval Air Corps
Applications Pending for Canadian Royal
1
Air Force
Civilian Pilot Training Program Instructor 1
Operating Airlines
3
14
Airplane Mechanics
Other branches of the Service
4
14
Other Lines of Work
18.
Still in School
Unknown
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C OM P AR AT IVE

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UMMARY

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REGISTRATION

Regular Enrollment
County
Alameda
Amador
Butte
Calaveras
Colusa
Contra Costa
Fresno
Glenn
Humboldt
Imperial
Inyo
Kern
Kings
Lake
Lassen
Los Angeles
Madera
Marin
Mariposa
MendocinA
Merced
Modoc
Monterey
Napa
Orange
Placer
Riverside
Sacramento
San Benito
San Bernardino
San Diego
San Francisco
San Joaquin
San Luis Obispo
San Mateo
Santa Barbara
Santa Clara
Santa Cruz
Shasta
Sierra
Siskiyou
Solano
Sonoma
Stanislaus
Sutter
Tehama
Trinity

January l, 1941

December 31, 1941

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1
5
17
23
7
13
12
2
18
13
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197
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27
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11
3
19
15
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8
16
4
8
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39
5
24
7
3
34
20
17
16
81
7
37
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12
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County

January 1 2 191+1

Tuolumne
Tulare
Ventura
Yolo
Yuba
Other States and Countries
Total Full-Time Men Students

December 31, 1941

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Loss or Gain

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715

120
80

1015
250
25

Part-Time Students
NYA Defense Students
Adult Defense Students
Cadet-Teachers

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TOTAL FULL-TIME AND ?.ART TIME
MEN STUDENTS .
1086

2005

TOTAL ENROLLMENT INCREASE
A study of the preceding enrollment chart shows an increase in Grand
Total Full-Time and Part-Time Students of 919 students over last year.

The total

enrollment for this year is 2005 students as compared to 1086 for last year.
However, this increase is due entirely to part-time enrollment which increased
from 220 last year to 1280 t 1iis year.

Of this last figure, 1265 are defense

students and 25 are cadet-teachers trained at California Polytechnic.

FULL-TIME ENROLLi~NT DECREASE
The full-time student enrollm8nt shows a decrease of 151, or 17! per cent,
which is su1•prisingly low considering all the factors contributing to general
decreased enrollment in all institutions of higher learning.

Since the school

is not co-educational, the number of men called into the armed services or defense industries is naturally a larger percentage of the total enrollment than
it would be otherwise.
Much of the decrease in ae ronautical, electrial and air conditioning
departments was due to the J,resent availability of high salaried jobs for even
semi-technically trained men in those industries.

The present shortage of skilled

farm workers in certain areas has caused farm families to call home their boys

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to fill in gaps made by the drafting or enlistment of older brothers.
The special skills which many Polytechnic students have acquired have made
many of them eligible for commissions in the army, navy, and air corps and has
caused considerable numbers to enlist rather than ·wait to be called.
Reasons given by those who dropped out of school are as follows:
Defense Industries
(Including other private non-agricultural employment) . . 36%
1.v!iljt ary Service
(All brenches) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 28%
R~-3 turn to Farm
(Family farm, own farm or farm employment)
Transfer to other institutions
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SUMMARY OF DISTRIBUTION

In checking the enrollment table for full-time students it will be noted
that students are attending California Polytechnic from 50 of California's 58
counties, making the institution truly statewide in scope .

Indicative of the

spread of enrollment is the fact that two counties not previously listed - Sierra
and Shasta are represented by : me and ·two boys, respectively.
No particular significance can be attached to the losses or gains by
counties over the last year.

Fewer students are in attendance this year from

30 counties, more from 14 counties and the same from 10 counties.
The largest decrease was from Los A1eeles County, which lost 32 students.
In that county so much defense activity makes good p~ying jobs easy to find.
The out-of-state and foreign countries' enrollment dropped off 25 students, due
undoubtedly to war conditions.
The distribution of the total full-t ime enrolj_ment figure as far as the
divisions of agriculture and indust ry are concerned is as follows:
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Ag r iculture

. 496

Industry . . .

. 219

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P L A C E ME N T
AVAILABILITY OF JOBS
Every r ecomJ11ended student completing a curricula is almost sure to be
placed irrms diately at good wages .

Special students and those regular students,

who because of f .Lna:11.cial difficulties , leave school before graduation, find
almost i mne diate employment .

The only problem is to assist the students to

obtain th 8 ~_pe of work for which they are trained rat her than permit them to
take t h0 first jobs that are offered them.
With all branches of the military service s~eking graduates cf recognized
collegi,:,.t e iristitutions fo j_" officer material, many of the graduates have enlisted
for the: du:.'ation ,without wa~ting f or s el ective se rvice call and without reference
to their particular t echnical mE-,j or .

Other graduates have entered the ·armed

forc es with spccia.l ratings in which their spe cialized skills in such lines as
agricultural mechanics, aeronautics, electrical indus tries, animal husbandry,
etc . is enabling them to serve more efficiently and advance more rapidly .
Still other students, realizing th e nee d for trained men in essential
industrial and agricultural fields, have taken positions offered to them through
the medium of the college's placement service.
PLACEMENT METHOD
The placement function is a primary r esponsibility of th e deans of

the

agricultural and industrial divisions, th e former being assisted also by one of
the members of the Bureau of Agricultural Education staff, who acts as co-ordinator for agricultural work.

These indivi duals, in contacting prospective

employers, also perform another valuabl e f unction .
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They bring back to the

instructional staff, the latest employer requirements in skills and courses
necessary in the continually changing industrial or agricultural world.

By this

means, the placement heads know that the students who go out will most nearly
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meet the actual employment needs, and not merely conform to a the~retical goal
of graduation requiren~nts.
PLACEMENT RECORD
The placement record for the graduating class of May 1941, follows:
Industrial:
Air Conditioning
Mervyn Chamberlain

Drafting and Sales, Spitler and Short, Fresno.

G. W. Gebhardt

Returned to school for additional training.

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Jack C, Held
Bert Rinaldi

Army.
Golden State Company, Fresno.

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Aeronautics
Larry Bridges

Returned to school for additional training.

Edgar Eimon.

H0.ncock School of Aeronautics, Santa Maria.

Theron Ferguson.

Naval Air Corps.

Jack Johansen.

Airplane mechanic, Pan American Airways,
San Francisco~

William Johns.

Airplare mechanic) Pan American Air1.,vays,
San F'rancisco .

Fred McAdams

Hancock School of Aeronauti cs, Santa Maria .

August Milich

Hancock School of Aeronautics, Santa Maria.

Roy Moungovan

Airplane mechanic, Pan American Airways,
San Francisco.

William Nolan

Army Air Corps.

Herbert Stoddard.

Jensen Flying Seyvi~e, Sacramento

Richard Watkin
Harold Winn .

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Hancock School of Aeronautics, Santa Maria.
Hancock School of Aeronautics, Santa Maria .
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Electrical
Donald Carranza

• St erns' Wired Music Company, San Luis Obispo.

Vernon Claeys •

. Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Martinez •

Russell Friend .

. Sterns' Wired .Music Company, San Luis Obispo.

Paul Goya.

. Returned to school for additional training.

Theodore Hollinger

. Returned to school for additional training.

John Seaton.

. Returned to school for additional training •

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Emil Sirl

. Steam Plant , Pacific Gas and Electric Company,
Oakland .

Gordon Southard.

. Steam Plant, Pacific Gas and Electric Company,
Oakland .

Ralph Southard

• Telephone Company, Sacramento .

Newell Terrill

• Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Paso Robles

Charles Thorne

. Southern Pacific Company

Agricultural,
Meat Animal Production
Leon Austin

• Refrigeration Company, Los Angeles .

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John Blake
Dan Childs
Richard Dowdakin.

. Ranching, Simi .

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• Farming, ~eaverville .

Charles Fick .

• Army,

William Gallagher

. Returned to school for additional training .

Tony Gomez

• Army .

Howard Hubbard

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• Traction Farms, Tranquility.

1.\Tillie Koolmees .

, Farming, Norwalk.

John D, Lopez

. Farming, Shafter.

John Taylor.

• Army .

David Tompkins

Ranching, Casmalia.
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Bob Vvalker

• Farming, Hemet.

Carl Miller

• National Defense Employment.

Bruce Ponton.

• Ar.my .

Gilmore Ross .

• Army.

Charles Crane.

. Returned to school for additional training.

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Donal.ct Simpson

• Farming, Orland.

Dairy Indus tries
Robert Bell

. Arm.,v Air Corps.

Charles Trigg

. Cow Tester, San Luis Obispo County.

Stanley Weir.

. Goodyear Rubber Co. Farm, Arizona.

Rod E. Tiernan, Jr . .

. Unknown

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Poultry Production
William Kobayashi . .

. Ar.my.

Giichi Omori .

. Army.

Agricultural Mechanics
William Bradley

• Machine Operator , Vultee ~ircraft Corp~

Tf'Tayne Lowe .

. Army Air Corps .

Crops Production
Oscar Huffman.

. Inspector, Agriculture Commissioner's Office,
Merced County .

Don Hughett.

• Father's ranch, Bakersfield .

Henry Warren

. Field Inspector , Agricultural Conservation
Association, San Luis Obispo County,

Ornamental Horticulture
Own nursery, La. 1,!esa.

Howard Johnson

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James l1le lvin .

. Army Air Corps.

Tahae Sugita.

, Army Medical Corps.

Kei Mikuriya.
John Garrity.

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. Nursery V\Jork.
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Mickey O'Donnell

Howard and Smith Nursery.

Jiro Kai

Returned to school for additional training .

Ferris Floyd

Howard and Smith Nursery

Villford De Berard

Army

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Agriculture Inspection
Kenneth Carter

Coast Guard

Eugene Foust.

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Inspector, Madera county

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Mills Orchard Co. (enlisting) .

Fruit Production
Tolbert Hayes, Jr .
Don Adams

Army.
DEGREE

CURRICULA

In the list of graduates in the preceeding section on Placement, it will
be noticed that some are listed as "Returned to school."

These students have

completed eithe r the two year vocational or three year technical training
course and have elected to return to the California Polytechnic school to complete requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree which the school has been
authorized to grant by the State Board of ~~ducation in 1940.
The first freshmen students were acc ept ed in this new degree curricula in
the fall of 1940, while advanced students who have had preliminary work may be
graduated with the first authorized class to receive the baccalaureate degree
on May 29, 1942.

At the beginning of the fall quarter 1941, 26 students made

application for the Bachelor of Science degree to be granted upon completion
of all requirements and presented at the May commencement excercises.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE
Bachelor of Science degrees are offered in the following curricula:
Meat Animal Production, Crops Production, Ornamental Horticulture, Poultry
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Production, Dairy Production, Dairy 11{anu.facturing , Agricultural Inspection ,
Aeronautical Industri es , Air Conditionin~ Industries , Electrial Industries ,
Me chanical Indus tr.ies and J~rc:hitcctural Drafting .
UP- SIDE DO 'vN EDUC!~TIONAL PLAN
The California Polytechnic educational plan is ~-::haracterized by the
grouping of t echnical and "job- getting" training courses in the first two years .
In the third and fourth year the student takes , in addition to cours es in his
major, thos e eours es conside red as "ba.ckground . 11

It is found that the student

has more int er es t in the study of natural and social sciences, and even
cultural arts, when he first has acquired a thorough foundation of practical
knowledge and skills r elating to his major int erest .
Under the Polytechnic system, at whatever point a student leaves school,
as many are bound to do because of finances , marriage , needed at home , offered
a job or other caus e , he has a maximwrt knowledge of skills which will enable
him to earn a substantial living .

Natur21.ly , if ho is able to complete the four

year course and get his Bachelor of Sci i• nce degree his opportunities for success
will be greatly incr,::asod .

Sut the "up-s ide down" educational pattern definitely

improves the immediat e ear ning capacity of those students who complete their
formal education aft8r one or two years of college .
This plan makes it possible to run the two-y0ar and three-year curricula
which do not l ead to a degree, closely parallel with the four-year program,
and enabl es students who graduate with a vocational or tvchnical certificate
to return to school and , ,,Jithout too much shifting of cours8s, complet e the
final year or two l eading to a degreeTEAC. 4EH

TRAINING

The Agricultural Teacher Trainin~ program has been using facilities of
the California Polytechni c School for th e training of prospective vocational
agricultural teachers, and of teachers in service , since 1931.

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For the past

five years thG Cadet training program has begun each August under a four to six
weeks preliminary training program .
Of th e 23 students who began their preliminary training in August, 1940,
all had be en placed in high school agriculture teaching work by August 15 , 1941.
Of these 23 students, 19 were graduates of the Unive rsity of California College
of Agriculture at Davis, one from Colorado State college and thre e from Utah
State college .

The three Utah St ate graduates had three years at Cal Poly .

The 1%.1 -42 training period began August 1, 1941, with 25 graduates of
r ecognized agricult ural colleges taking the intensive preliminary training
program of one month duration .

Special classes taught by California Polytechnic

faculty member s and State Bureau of Agricultural Education staff members were
designed to give th e cadet techniques in teaching and additional skills in
Agricultural Me cha nics, Ho 6 , Beef, Sheep , Dairy, Poultry and Fruit production .
The obj ect of th0 preliminary program is to ona.ble the cadet (and the teacher
trainer) to discover the cade t' s weakness es in his past training and to do
something to corr ect thos e weaknesses .
At the e nd of the month, half of the total number of cadets with the
gr eatest experi ence were sent out a.s cadet teachers into high school agricultur e
departments, located in v\Jhat are called

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0n8 group of four

schools surrounds Stockton, and the othe r group is near San Luis Obispo .

The

other half of the group r 5mained at Califo rnia Polytechnic to continue with
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more advanced work of th e same type that was offered in the August preliminary
cours e ;

At the middle of the high s chool year , about February 1 , those

apprentic es who had actually been doing work as cadet teachers in the high
s chools returnGd to California Polytechnic for their advanced training and
thos e students who had remain~d at the Polytechnic took their plac es in
agricultural departments o. . the high schools ,

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NEW

CURRICUL/'.

AN D

COURSES

Two new curricula have been added to the offerings of the college during
the past year .

Both curricula came out of a, reoreanization of existing courses

rather than by the addition of new cou~ses .
1\.RCHITECTUR •\L DRAFTING
A new course group in Building Estimating, Quantity Sur~ey and Architectur-

al Drafting,

started in the fall quarter of 1940, was r eorganized into an

Architectural Drafting curricula, offering a vocational certificate for completion of two years and a. technical certificate for completion of the three
year course ,

No degree course in this curricula ha.s been arranged, as the

objective of this course is to trElin the student to obtain employment as a
draftsman in the building industry and its allied industries rather than as an
architect .

Hnwever, it is expected that the graduate will be qualified t o

enter an architect ' s office as a junior draftsman .
MECHANICAL INDUSTRIES

Th0 other new curriculwn is Mechanical IndustriGs .

It too came from a

reorganization of existing courses with such additional work as could be
provided without additions at this tiMe to the teaching staff .

The purpose of

the Mechanical Industries course is to train students to enter employment in
the design, maintenance and operation of mechanical systems .

It is the objective

of the two-year and three-year courses to train men primarily for the field of
operation and maintenanc B,

The four- year cours e leadinr to the degree of

Bachelor of Scienc e is planned to gi VG s itffi cient training so that the student
completing it will be abl e to plrm and d.caft h0ating, piping, air conditioning,
refrigeration, plumbing and el e ctric1l systems as used in public buildings ,
factories, or warehcus es.

It further offers a good background to enter the

oil industry and many oth0;r mechanical fi elds,.

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NE'W COURSES LIS TE'.D

To round out curricula offerings , several new cours es were add8d , in
addition to those nec essary under the Architectural Drafting and Mechanical
Industries curricula .

Among the.:ie new courses are :

Live Stock Seminar ,

Hatchery Pr ac tice , Secondary Phase, Civilian Pilot Training, Introduction of
Vocational f1gricultural Bduc at ion, Horse Husbandry (Thoroughbred Breeding) ,
Plant Breeding, Journalism Prac tice and Agricultural Refrigeration .
The new cour se in Agricultural Refrigeration has r oceived press notic es
all over the United States because its principles are so important to the
millions of small farmers i n t his country .
been r ece ived from such wid<.;-s pr .,o.d po ints

Requests r egarding th e course have
Kanekee, Illinois in the north;

as

Baton Rouge in th e south; Newark, New J ersey in the eas t, and the 'Hawaiian
Islands in the west .

The purpose of this course is to train all agricultural

students so that they will be able to construct t h.8 necessary equipment to
provide on their home farms the means of quick-freezing and holding perishable
foods in large quantities for their us e at later periods .

It also trains

students in th e el ements of cold s torage locker management, an industry which
is rapidly coming to the for e .
At the Voorhis branch of Cal Poly, new cours es were added in Bee
Inspection, Citrus Marketing, Tree Surgery, Farm Surveying, Crop Pest Control,
and Weights and Measures.

The ::.!eights and Measures cours e , added to the

Agricultural Inspection curricula, is the first course of its kind to be offered
in the United Stat es and prepares agricultura l inspection students to become
county sealers of weights and rneasures .

P R OJ E CT 3

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PROJECT SYSTEM
California Polyt echnic school has be come known throughout the nation as
a college based upon

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doing 11 practices of commGrcial scope.

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The f eatur e of the

training method involves virtually all of tho facilities of the entire
institution, including buildings ., cquipm:mt and land .
Each student is 8Yp0cted to dngage in some project of commercial caliber .
Agriculture students raise and market meat animals, such as swine, sheep and
beef cattle .

They conduct dairy and poultry enterprises , either with their own

foundation stock, or by contracting for some of the school's project animals or
birds-.

They raise various plant crops and ornamentals .

The students in the

industrial division have projects of similar commercial scope , such as rebuilding airplanes, constructing and operating air conditioning .rr1achinery, running
the college power plant and keeping tho many electrical devices in good conditio}l
The ability of students to markot many thousands of dollars worth of
agricultura.l and industrial products annually is due to the availability of a
project revolving loan fund, which under careful management by department heads,
has grown fro1n a few thousand dollars , to it s present size of more than $50,000 .
The status of the r (Jvolving Jund

c.,...,

of November 30, 1941, is as follows:

PROJECT FUND
Balance Sheet as of Novembe r 30, 1941
.Assets
Current
Cash in bank
On hand

$6 822 . 30

Accounts Re ceivable
Less Reserve for Doubtful Accts .
Inventories :

15 . 00

$ 6 837 . 30

14 362 . 61
245,8~

14 116 . 76

Live Stock
27 048 . 38
Feed
10 095 , 34
Industrial D0pt . Supp . 2 721.46

39 865 .18 $60 819,24

Fixed and Deferred Assets

695 . 68
1 041.48

Equipment
Prepaid Accounts

62 556e40

Total Assets
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Liabilities
Current
Not es Payabl e
Accounts Payable
Accrued Ac counts
Stato : Livestock Expense

$8 300 . 00
305 . 83
1105 . 40
698 . 65

Accumulated Income , Novemuer 30 , 1941

$ 9 512 . 58
$53 043 . 82

PROJECT SUMMARIES - SAN LUIS OBLSPO

Meat Animal Prnducticm
Beef :
cattle .

sixty differont boys operated 23 projects compris c3 d of 130 head of

The approximate value of their proj~cts was $14, 000 .

Swine :
f ee der pigs .

sixty-two different boys operated 40 projects comprised of 567
Th·-.3 apnroximc1te value of their projects

vms

$11 , 340.

( Ten boys

also operat ed t en sow and litter projects . )
Sheep:

thirty-five boys op0rated about seven proj ects of 50 or 60 fat

lambs to a pen .

.The approximat l; value of their projects was $3,500 .

In addition to raising lives tock under comm3rcial conditions to sell on
the market , many of th e studt.:nt s al s o p·ain valuable information regarding livestock from experiences i n showing thui r s tudent- owned project animals in openclasses at several of t h~) large r 1.i.vesto ck shows in th e state .

Last year the

student-exhibited liv~s tock had outstancing success , indicating their feeding
methods were equal to tho se of the finest bree ders in the west .
Dairy Industries
During the past school year , 19 dairy students own~d 70 animals in their
dairy project work .

During the past calendar or t8sting year , the average

numb er of 44 cows i n milk, produced 12,470 pounds butterfat or an average of

338 pounds pe r cow.

This product was sold for approximately $8,100 .

In addition , da.iry students operated the school dairy herd which produced
17,197 pounds of butterfat wo rth over $11 , 000 .
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Considerable surplus stock was

also raised and rl,tained to hui.ld up th ,; herd or sold.
year, the school dairy

ma d,)

tt

inventoried at the same va] ne

During the last fiscal

n,~'. t r0turn of over $4,000 with animals be~fng
;u

nr,;vious years .

Ornamental Horticulture
This was the first year in which the project system as operated in other
departments ·was put into effect in this department.

In previous years the

students of this department were paid for campus maint~nance work and the
propagation of shrubs, flowers and trees only.

With the maintenance work

continued on the same basis, project activities were begun with 22 boys operating

16 projects in bedding plants, pot plants a.nd lining-out stock.

The boys

bought their own seeds or made their o rm cuttings and the school furnished the
equipment and the use of the land .

At the time of sale the boys will get 60

per cent of the gross profit and the project fund will receive 40 per cent on
the pot and bedding plants and on the lining-out stock the student will receive
70

per cent and th e project fund 3U pur cent .

Up to the present time no actual

sal0s have resulted s inc l:; th ~ proj ects operate on a one and two year basis, but
it is estimated that each boy

•✓-.Jil 1

avf.:J r &ge about $10 per month for his project

earnings.
In maintenance vmrk the students put in one and three-fourths acres of
lawn along tho highway leading into the school.
2000 background shrubs and trees.

In this same area they planted

They also compl8ted the landscaping and

planting of trees around the air conditioning building.
Poultry Production

The poultry plant of the school is recognized as being unique in its
method of teaching poultry husbandry by the project method, wherebr students
on a coop3rative basis are responsible for the entire care and operation of this
commercial poultry plant of more than 5000 birds.

Each student selects a pen

or unit or some phas e of the opara.tion and carries it as his project .
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The

plant had at the beginning of the school year in September, 2900 laying birds
including White Leghorn, Barred Rocks; Rhode Island Reds, and Dark Cornish.
During the past year th o project flocks have produced 547,000 eggs which the
students have marketed.

Most of these have been sold direct to tho consumer

through the poultry sales house giving the students actual marketing experience .
They also have produced and sold 46,000 baby chicks and hatching eggs; more
than 25,000 of these chicks went to 70 high school voca.tional agricultural
students in more than 45 high schools in California:

Total proj ect sales last

year were $15,482 .
Some of the student-owned pens were entered in the 1940.i...41 California
Egg Laying Test held in Modesto, California~

As far as is known these are the

only student-owned pens entered in any offlcial laying contest in the United
States.

In competition with some of the largest commercial poultry producers

in the country, one pen of 26 student-owned white legho~n pullets placed
fourth in the championship class, second in production of large eggs , and third
in market value of eggs .

From th e same pen of student-owned birds, one White

Leghorn placed third high out of 650 1..mtries, laying 320 eggs with a market
value of $6 .75 ~ For the first month of the 1941-42 California Egg Laying test
another student-owned pen of pullets placed second in the Championship class
with 630 eggs for the 26 birds during the month.
Other poultry project activities:

23 laying projects completed.
21 leghorn brooding projects completed.
6 meat bird projects completed.
8 turk8y brooding projects completed.
610 turkeys raised and dressed for market.
2400 individually pedigreed chicks hatched and reared.
785 pedigreed pullets trap-nested,
7600 chicks hatched and brooded .
4200 birds dressed and sold for market,

$1 ,527 ,56 Student project income on project operation,
$3,225.87 - Student labor income on odd jobs and summer work
earned from plant operation.

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PROJECT SUM.MARIES - VOORHIS UNIT

I.

At tho Voo r his branch, the project work is carried on in o. somewhat
different manner than at San Luis Obispo .

Du0 to the nature of the enterprises

in the plant field , the work is concu ntrated into group projects - that is , the
fruit production atudents handle tho entire grove of citrus as a unite

The

cultivation, irrigat ion and survey work is done entirely by the st 1.1dent group,
plus a ma jor portion of the harvesting and pest control .

The same pr ocGdure

is follow ed to some Gxtent by students majoring in ornamGntal horticulture and
inspection work , in relation to various areas on the school property .
Fruit Production
Students of this depa rtmcmt oper A. t e the school ' s 28 acres of bearing
citrus and five acr0s of avocados as a group project, as mentioned above .

In

addition , this is the s econd year of operation by students of this department
of a l eased citrus grove .
five a cres of navel

Th~ grove , consisting of fiv e acres of lemons and

or anges , was somewhat run down when taken over .

But by

careful management, the general health of tho grov0 has been improved materially~
This is evidenced by th o f act that th e grove has mo r e than paid expenses during
the first year of operation under the proj~ct fund .
One student in th e department started an individual project .

He has 1500

avocado s ee ds set out, with the production goal of 500 first grade trees, to be
used as new plantings on his home r anch.
Truck Crops Production
The s tudents of this department have bGen operating a six acre tract of
l and ad joining the s chool property, in addit i on to the four acr0s of school
land available for crops .

The leasert l and has been planted to vege tables , for

instructional use primarily, although a conside r c~ble amount

of produce has

been consumed by the school cafe t eria and loc c1 l retail markets.
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Ornamental Horticu.ltura
Students of this dep(rtm0nt are raising some 800 Primula plants in the
greenhouse .

-A part of th.,se will be sold through commercial nursery establish-

ments and the rest set out on the school grounds .

These latter will add to

the color about the campus and will, in addition, yield
be valuable .

r:

seed crop which will

Another such project is the raising of over 1000 Cine rieria plants

for a similar purpose .

There are three students who have had projoc~s in the

propagating of ornamentals which they have disposed of either through commercial
houseaor through landscaping projects which they have cari-led on with private
individuals.

This coming ye. ar, in addition to the group projects, there are

four students starting flower seed, Tuberous Begonia and Gloxenia growing
projects, all of which have a ready market under present conditions .

S T UDE NT

L A B OR

POLICY
The two phras es,

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l ee.rn by doing" and

11

earn while you learn", which

have been used consider Bbly in describing the unique educational plan of the
California Polytechnic school, refer t o the opportunities open to students to
gain practical experience in the field of their major work and at the same time
earn money to assist them in me0ting 2xp:mses.

In addition to the opportunities

in project activities which have i=reviously been mentioned, the California
Polytechnic school has established a policy of using a maximum number of
students to ope rate the entire campus and farm of 1440 acres .

The average

earning is several times as great as the typical collcgG where the adults are
employed full-time to do a large part of the kind of work done by students at
Calif ornia Polyt0chnic School .

At California Polytechnic the school employs

no adult gardeners or janitors, no dining hall help except cooks, and only two
farm foremen who instruct stude:-1ts in rraintenance, repair and farm operation
work .
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This combination of work e::perience plus opportunity to assist in defraying
expenses, has permitted hundreds of youths each year who could not otherwise get
a technical college education, to train themselves for useful employment .

A

recapitulation of a typical month of student work under State, Project Fund,
Cafeteria-Dormitory Fund and Federal NYA follows:
ANALYSIS
October, 1941
(from payrolls)

Classification

No. of
Employees

Payroll

Totals

STATE
Administ~ation - San Luis Obispo
Offices

$ 39.45

4

Instruction - San Luis Obispo
Agriculture
Industry
Related Subjects
Library
Printing and Mimeographing

3
6
5
1
1

Maintenance and Operation - San Luis Obispo
Buildings
23
Grounds
9
2
Automobiles
2
Heat, Light & Power
Farm - San Luis Obispo
General
Meat Animals
Dairy
Poultry
Orchard
Field Crops
Agricultural Mechanics

40

7
l
3
3
5

..l

10.20
30.00

47.40
34.80
~

398.40
301.50

120 .oo
151,15

971.05

368.55
217.50
5.40
74,40
33.,40
10.15

15.60

725 .oo

116

1,89),,80

Administration - Voorhis Unit
Offices

1

3.00

Instruction - Voorhis Unit
Agriculture
Library

1

Total - San Luis Obispo

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63.30
8.85

72.15

No. of
Employees

Classification

Maintenance and Operation - Voorhis Unit
Buildings
5
Grounds
26
Automobiles
1
Repairs
5
Farm - Voorhis Unit
General

30

Payroll

Totals

$ 58.80
247.80
29.85
28.50
150.JO

Total - Voorhis Unit

150.30
22._0..J±Q

Total - San Luis Obispo & Voorhis State 194

2,482.20

PROJECT FUND - San Luis Obispo
Dairy
Meat Animals
Poultry
Voorhis

25
17
21

...2

Total Project Fund

467.30
181.65
374.90
25.35

72

1,049.20
12049.20

CAFETERIA-DORMITORY FUND
San Luis Obispo
Cafeteria
Dormitory

68
25

Total Cafeteria-Dormitory Fund
San Luis Obispo
Voorhis Unit
Cafeteria
Dormitory
Total Cafeteria-Dormitory Fund
Voorhis Unit
Total Cafeteria-Dormitory Fund
San Luis Obispo & Voorhis
FEDERitL NYA
Grand Total Students ' Payroll

1,219.05
252.50

93

1,471.55
1,471.55

12

174.95

8

93.00

267.95

20

267.95

113

1,739.50

60

946.40
7,956.80

SUMMARY
A comparison of the figures shown here vdth the report for October, 1940,
will indicate an increase in student labor of more than $1,300 , while the

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annual payroll including summer labor, giv0s a grand total of about $70,000
earned by students as part-time employment .
Under the heading, Proje ct Fund, exp\.. nditur0s for student labor in the
dairy, poultry, meat animals and other departments do not include additional
labor income from self-owned projects .

Last year more than $8,000 was paid

out to students for labor from self-owned projects and docs not show in the
above analysis .

Thus the grand total of student earnings on the t wo campuses

i s app roximat ely $78,000.
SCHOLARSHIPS,

F UN DS A N D

LO AN

GIFT S

SCHOLARSHIPS
Thirty-nine students were in attendance at th e California Polyt echnic
school during the ~ast year as a result of being assisted financially by
scholarships provided by various agencies .
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Twenty-eight of the scholarships were donat ed by s~ars, Roebuck and
company .

In addition to continuing the awarding of 25 freshmen scholarships

of $100 each to outstanding applic~nt s

chosun by the college on the basis of

need, s cholas tic ability , and educ ational objectives, Sears, Roebuck added
three more scholarships i n 1941 .

Two of those are regional scholarships of

$100 each awarded as part of a livestock improvement progrMl in areas of San

Jose and Fresno .

The third new s cholarship is a $200 award to the sophomore

who was the outs'landing r ecipient of the previous year 1 s Sears, Roebuck freshman
award.
South San Francisco Union Stockyards Companr, Consolidated Chemical
Industries, Inc . , and Safeway Stores Scholarships
I

Scholarships of $100 Gach were aw arded by South San Francisco Union
Stockyards Company, Consolidated Chemical Indus tries, Inc . , and Safeway Stores
to outstanding Future Fa~mers for excellence in production of market live stock
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r-

as demonstrated at the Future Farmers of America Marketing Day held at Stockton
in 1941 .

One company gave the award to a beef produce r , one to a lamb producer

and one to a swine pro~1cer .

Th~ type for which the particular scholarship

is given rotates from year to year .
California Cattlemen's Association, Poultrymen ' s Cooperative Association.
Challengo Creamery,_ and E . C. Loomis and Son Scholarships.
Other first-y oar scholarships of $100 each were offered also in 1941 by
the Californi a Cattlemen's .Association, The Poultrymen' s Cooper ative !~ssociation
of Southern California, Challenge Creamery; and a $50 scholarship offer~d by

E. C. Loomis and Son of Arroyo Grande went to a graduate of the vocational
high school agriculturd department of a San Luis Obispo county school .
Advanced Scholarships
Scholarships of $100 each were offe red by Philip R. Park, Inc . , and
Van Camp Laboratories to advanced students enrolled in Animal Husbandry, Dairy
Industries or Poultry Pro duction .
Carl Raymond Gray Scholars,1ips
Four additional scholRrships of $100 each are open to Polytechnic enrollees,
or to boys Gntering other C2.lifornia agricultural colleges .

In 1941 two of the

four recipients of th es e Carl Raymond Gray (Union Pacific Railroad) scholarships
el e cted to attend California Polytechnic .
LOAN FUNDS
There are four student loan funds to tempor2.rily assist worthy students .
Loans from these funds are made for v2.rying periods of time Rnd ar e pass ed upon
by a faculty cornrnitt0e.
The principal source of lo ans is the Leopold Edward :.1Jrasse loan fund.
f1pproximately $1,000 was available for loans during the year 1941- 42 .
The San Luis Obispo Rotary Club has es tablished a student loe..n fund as has
the Club composed of wives of Polytechnic faculty m8mbers.
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There is also an

AccommodE1tion Loan Fund set up by the P.ssocieted Students and the Women's
Faculty Club.
The Alumni hssociation is now sponsoring a drive to raise funds for a
loan fund to be known as the TVildor Mcmoritl Loan Fund.
fil.IT§.

During the calendar year 1941, many valuabl e gifts have been presented
to the California Polytechnic school.

Donations to the Scholarship and Loan

Funds were discuss0d directly above.
In addition to these valuable grants, Mr. Charles E, Perkins of the
Alisal Corporation, Solvang, gave the school a thoroughbred mare, Chic Flora,
in foal to the Derby winner, Flying Ebony,

Mr. A. W, Deveau of the Mand D

Ranch, Vista, presented the school with a thoroughbred mare, 1zy'o, in foal

to

Wax Wing .
Stallion services to the thoroughbred mare project were donated by the
following California Thoroughbred breeders.
Mr. Carl ton F. Burke, Green Field Farm, Camarillo - ➔~Soon Over

Mrs . Frank Carreaud, Trails End Ranch, Canoga Perk - War Glory
Mrs . V::i.nderbilt Phelps , Los Laurel as Rancho, Jonterey - 1~Cynic
Mr. Oharl i~S S , How3.rd , Ridgewood R.anch, TJillits - Son O'Battle
Mr . ChArles E. Cooper, Rancho San Luis Rey, Bonsall - Bon Homme
Mr . Walter T. Wells of Rancho Oro Primera , North Ridge Estates, Los
Angeles, furnished the school with a kodochrome film of the 1941 Poly Royal, a
"Country Fair on a College Campus."
Mr. J. B. Livingston of San Miguel presented the school with an excellent
Poland China boar, "Groves Sir Lawson."

Mr. Carlton F. 3urke of Green Field Farm, Camarillo, made ~ gift of a
regist ered Suffolk ram.
The Sears, Roebuck and Company bought and donated a magnificient young

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Jersey bull, Brampton Poly Sears.

The young bull was purchased from the world-

famous R.H. Bull and Son Jersey Farm, Brampton, Ontario, c~nada, and is considered individually to b<:3 the

finest (.Jersey ever brought into California.

His sire I s dam, Brampton B2.silua ... the world's ch,qmpion Jersey cow - holds three
r ecords over 1200 pounds of fat, Rnd one r ecord of 1313 pounds butterfat.
THOROUGHBRED

BRE E DI NG

P ROJ E CT

PROGRESS OF PROJECT
The clos e of the first full year of operation of the constructive breeding
program being conduct ed cooperatively by the California Breeders' AssociP.tion
and the California State Polytechnic School at San Luis Obispo, finds much
progress during the yeRr.
The off-spring from the project to date is two colts and a filly, to be
entered in the mid-summer sale conducted by the association.

The project has

given ru1imal husbandfY students an opportunity to work with thoroughbreds, study
feeding methods, watch the progress of the foals and become generally acquainted
with the skills and practices in thoroughbred horse production.
The que..rters, which were described in complete detail in the 1940 annual
report, h2-ve been completed and improved and additionAl green pasture provided.
RECORD OF MARES
The record of mares now on hRnd follows:
Vibrant, a ble.ck mare by 1rLight Brigade--Lady Mad Cap donRted to the
program by Chcrles E. Perkins, fo aled March 9, a brown colt by ~:-soon Over.
Returned to ~:-soon Over for service in 1941.

Service donated by Carlton F. Burke.

Fascicle, a bay mare by Gallant Fox-Cluster, donated by ·walter T. Wells,
foaled April 13, a brown filly by Ry Pass 2nd.

In foal to War Glory,

Service

donated by Mrs . Frank Carreaud.
Bon Eva., a chestnut mare by Bon Homme-Evalyn Harrigan, donated by Bing
Crosby, foaled April 22, a chestnut colt by Naishapur.

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Bred to ~tCynic,

Service

donn.ted by Mrs , Vanderbilt Phelps .
Shastc1. Red, a brown rn'··, rc by Bistouri-Red Lita V, donP.ted by Charles E .
Cooper..

Bred to -3~Craig Park .

Service dona.ted by Charles 11:. Cooper .

Myo, a bay mare by Ponce de Leon- Edm:: Stewart, don2ted by A. W. DeVeau
in th13 fall of 1941, in foal to Wax Wing .
Lone SL:1.r _Miss, a bay mare by Gnome-Donna Mamona, donded by V!alter H,
Hoffme.n, Jr . , f ori l ed May 1, a bay colt by High Step .
age from navel inf8ction.

Mare bred to Son 0 1 Battle,

Foal died at one wee k of
Service donated by

Charles S . Howard.
Chic Flora , a br1,y mr1.re by ~f-Chicle-Glen Flora, donated by Perkins, in the
f all of 1941, in fo 2.l to Flying Ebony .
The committee is now lining up the breeding program for the m?res in the
spring of 1942 ,
BOOKS DONATED

A good librRry of books and periodicals pertRining to thoroughbred
breeding is being established, through donatiom.1 of breeders, .: ! nd purchases•
One breeder hes paid up a California Polytechnic m0mbcrship in the Horse and
Mule Association, which brings all literature and services of this national
agency .

Other donations includ8d

R

s et of historical books on English horses ,

and six copies of the Horseman ' s Handbook on PrBctical Br0eding, by John F. Wall ,
A set of Wall ' s "Thoroughbred Blood Lines,'' was ;mother valuable edition donated .

Besides the educational value of t his program, it has given the thoroughbred industry in the stat\J some 2.s.sistance in r-ttt3,ining gr0ater recognition

AS

one of the legitimate animal industries of Celifornia,
RU IL DING

PRO GR A M1

COMPLETED

MAJOR CONSTRUCTION
The 1940 annual report on the progr0ss of the California Polytechnic
school indicated thc..t two buildings ware to be constructed in 1941.
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One

WRS

a

unit of barracks for the NYA, and the other was an ad.ministretion and classroom
building.
The first, built by th n Federal Government on l8nd leased from the · school,
provides housing space for an additional 120 NYA students, and dining space for
250 persons.

This unit follows the s amu modernistic style of architecture that

is used in all buildings comprising the NYA group, a nd was complet ed in M.2.y,
1941.
The second, the administration and classroom unit, built from funds
budgeted to the school, will be the dominant structure on the San Luis Obispo
campus.

T,\Tith its 52,000 square feet of floor space, ample room will be provided

to hous e the administrative offices of the school, the necessary service
departments, and clc1.s srooms f or a ma jor part of the l ecture classes .
orrHER UNITS COMPLETED

Other units completed during the ye ar wer e :
Temporary Dormitories and New Cafeteria
I)

Dormitori es ar e comprised of six 42-rnan structures and the cafeteria
is a 300-man structure.

These structures were built after it became obvious

to school officials that an 8mergency housing shortage existed in the city due
to the influx of army officers and

c amp

·,vorkers which would preclude the housing

of half th e r egular student body in privat e homes a,s had been the custom in the
past.

These units wer e loc ated 2n d cons tructed in such a wa.y as to make possible

their use l at er as war ehouses, ·when t he a.cute housing shortage became adjusted
and these buildings would no longer be needed as living quarters .
Green House Unit
A much needed gl ass house for the propagation of ornamentRl plants was

constructe d on the Voorhis campus of the California Polyt echnic school.
the first of sever al such units planned,

It is

Its steel frame and modern gas heating

plant mRke it an economic modern unit that should serve tqB insctitution for many
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years .

This building was constructed by contract.

The propagation house and

equipment room in connection with this green house unit were built by the NYA
organization .

The school furnished the materials and the NYA furnished the

labor for the building of both structures .
NYA Pre-Fabricated Building
In September, 1941, the NYA organiz~tion completed construction of a pref abric ated steel shop building on ground leased from the California Polytechnic
School.

This building consists of

2.nd a radio shop, 4ot x 40 1 •
for a great many yea.rs .

G

machine shop room approximately 40 1 x 120~,

This is a well constructed building and will last

It is being used jointly by the NYA in their production

program, and the school for instruction in the NAtional Defense Training Program.
NYA Sheet Metal Shop

It was

This building is a wood frame building with stucco exterior .

scheduled for completion by the first of Decer_nber, 1941, but the shortage of
mc1,terial and labor has held up completion of this shop building .

It will

probably be finish ed by the last of J anu ~ry, 1942, a nd will house the NYA sheet
metal production program and tho school N2tional Defons0 Training Program for
aircraft sheet metal workeru.

This building, like th0 one mentioned above, is

being construct ed on property l eased from the California Polytechnic school by
the Federal Government.

C ONC L US I ON
No one can foretell with any confidence whe.t will happen in the ne.:xt few
months or even in the next few weeks, or can outline the exact kind of a world
in which we will have to live during the years ahead.
with all wars, will eventually end.
not know.

Hhen, and under what circumstance$, we do

Of one thin,g we may be fairly certain .

with new problems of

c'.l

However, this war, as

ii[e

will then be presented

mngnitude and scope never before encountered,

We can be sure of one thing ubout our war program - we will bring about

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whatever industrial expansion is necessary to strengthen our army, nRvy and
air force.

Thes e make up our firs t line of defense.

And it is along this first

line of defense that many forme r California Polytechnic students are now 'serving,
and it will be along that first line of de.fens e that many more of our students
mPy be called to serve .
We a r e proud that the California Polytechnic school has been able to offer
the type of training needed by the defense industries, proud that we have been
abl e to tr2.in our share of tha.t vast army of skilled defense workers.

But

the r esults of our pres ent war effort depend not only upon what we do to
strengthen the first line of defense, but also upon the intensity with which
we can produce "Food for Victory."

In th e program of industrial expansion you

can get a new st eel plant in a few weeks, Pnd you Ce.n run sever al shifts a day
to produce what is needed.
(l

But it takes time to build c larger dairy herd, or

raise a new flock of chickens.

We must have an army of skilled farm workers

and they he.veto be trained too.
t

Those of us who are interes t ed in maintaining democratic institutions
must work now as never before to str~ngthen democracy and make it work more
effectively.

We must build it into

P.

stronger instrument for action; action

to strengthen both our first line of defense Pnd that equally imuortant second
line - the physic2l, ment al, spirituAl and economic well-being of all our people.
Our actions must serve

better the needs of all our p0ople , not a f ew, not of

just a ma jority, but of all.
Whn.t ever th e outcome of the WP.r, it is cert ain th qt world relationships
will be very different from the pest.

This will require future adjustments

within both agriculture and industry,

At th~ conclusion of the war, there will

be an even more acute need to make adjustment to peace-time requirements in such
a mc.nner as to cvoid the cre:::. tion of ne . social problems .
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The faculty at California Polytechnic school has accepted the challenge
for an

II

all-out II effort to train our quota of the .millions .of additional

industrial and agricultural defense workers needed for the year ahead.
will be no let-down on this vital program for defense training.

There

And neither

will there be a let down when we are called apon to serve in creating an orderly,
peaceful and prosperous world during the readjustment period.

...

momentous period in the history of America and the world.
the souls of men and it is a time to inspire them, too.

This is a

It is a time to try
The educators at

California Polytechnic have been inspired, I believe, and we are making a con~
certed effort to strengthen our nation - an effort which we hope may progress
on such a broad front, not only while we are endeavoring to win the war, but
during the inevitable readjustment period to follow, that we may find solutions

•

for the important social probl~ confronting agriculture, industry and our
whole national economy.
The California Polytechnic

school is now ~oing its part in the all-out

war effort, but you have the pledge of the administration, instructors and
students that we stand ready to exert whatever extra energy is needed to bring
final and complete victory to America's ~ause,
Sincerely yours,
{J.;, ~ " - - 'President, California
Polytechnic School
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