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FOREWORD
~his report deals with the proGress of the California Polytechnic
School* durin.:; the calendar ye2.r, Januar:r 1, 19M to December 31, 1946.
Eowever !J for the benefit of those
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read the report w 10 nay not be
entirely fa~iliar with the history and educational philosophy of this
state college, certain sections have beon included which do not deal
exclusively with activities of the 1946 calendar year.
It is hoped
th2.t the inclusion of a limited anount of bac~(ground material relative
to tho college's unique educational philoso,hy and teaching techniques
will riiake for a better understa.nding of activities which occurred during 19L6 .
Thj_s was the first year since 1943 t1at the l:ie.jor portion o.f
the college's activities was not devoted to military training.
But
even tr..ough 11 of t:-ie 12 months i::1cluded in the report were given over
exclusively to peace- tir.1e pursuits,
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until ?ebruary of 1946
Because of a sreatly increase d 0:-~,... _lr::s~-:t, ·:.:.:_-:....c>.. !:ear_/ doubled
11orT1al pre-vrnr em·ollnent figure ~'J ., a:1c: because of !:ousin:; and ex-
pa:nsion pro_ ;~·~--1s :related to prov.:.dir.g ec:ucational op::_Jor~L-:~_··:
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-"- A bill i.s now bE:.f'ore the 57th sessfo~"l oi' the ca2_ :::.__·.~-.:,~ia Le 6 islature
to change the n2..~-:1e frm:i California Polytecimic Sc: -:-c::.. :,o C2.2.L ornia
State Polytechnic College.
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Project Operation
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Scholarships and Loan Funds
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Animal Husbandry
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Crops and Fruit Production
Dairy Production and Hanufacturing
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Poultry Production
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FOREWORD
This report deals with the pro8ress of the California Polytechnic
School* during the calendar year, January 1, 1946 to December 31, 1946.
However, for the benefit of those who read the report who may not be
entirely familiar with the history and educational philosophy of this
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state college, certain sections have been included which do not deal
exclusivel:r with activities of the 1946 calendar year.
It is hoped
that the inclusion of a limited amount of background material relative
to the college's unique educational philosophy and teaching techniques
will make for a better understanding of activities which occurred during 1946.
This was the first year since 1943 that the major portion of
the college's activities was not devoted to military training.
But
even though 11 of the 12 months included in the report were given over
exclusively to peace-time pursuits, it wasn't until February of 1946
that the naval aviation training progra~ was concluded.
Because of a greatly increased enrollment, which nearly doubled
nonnal pre-war enrollment figures, and because of housing and expansion programs related to providing educational opportunities for
veterans, the calendar year of 1946 was an important epoch in the
educational progress of this state technical college of agriculture
and industry.
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A bill is now before the 57th session of the California Legislature
to change the na~e from California Polytechnic School to California
State Polytechnic College.
ANNUAL
REPORT TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION .
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ON ·THE
PROGRESS OF THE CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC
SCHOOL
CONCLUSION
OF
WAR-TIME
PROGRAMS
NAVAL AVIATION TRAINING
The first month of the cal~ndar year of 1946 brought to a successful close the naval aviation training activities of the college
which had begun . thr.ee years before.
Dur1ng the period from January
6, 1943 to November, 1944, more than 3600 naval aviation cadets were
trained at the California Polytechnic Naval Flight Preparatory
School.
A few months prior to the nation-wide discontinuance of this
phase of naval avi~tion training, which was conducted in 17 colleges
in the United States, the Navy selected the college as one of eight
schools to continue a new naval aviation training progra-rn.
This new
program began in July, 194h, and until November of that year, both
procrams ran concurrently.
This latter program, called a Naval Aca-
demic Refresher Unit, continued through February, 1946, with a total ·
of 1100 trainees receiving instruction.
At the time the Naval Academic Refresher program was discontinued
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the Navy requested the school to continue with another nav:r training
program, but the urgent need by returning ex-servicemen for housing
accommodations ~ade it necessary for the college to decline the
invitation .
Despite the fact that the naval aviation training activities of
the college during the three year period were conducted on an "allout" basis, all regular activities of the college were maintained with
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no cessation of educational service.
The faculty was retained with
little change, with most faculty members instructing both civilian and
naval students .
FOOD PRODUCTION WAR TRAINING
Another wa:r-tirne activity of California Polytechnic which was
concluded during the calendar year of 1946 was that of the Food Production War Training program.
This program closed officially on
June 30, 1946 after three years of service in training given to more
than 123,000 California fanners and members of farm families .
California Polytechnic served as state headquarters and the president
of the college was state director of this program .
The program was
financed by the federal govermnent to provide training in methods of
food production for farm workers, preservation and conservation of
food for farm fanilies, and related mechanical skills .
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REGULAR
PROGRAM
ENROLLMENT
Because of lack of facilities, dormitories, classrooms, laboratories, etc., it was necessary to limit the Fall quarter (1946) enrollment to 1809 students.
ment .
This was more than double normal enroll-
Regular facilities of the college were not designed to care
for more than 900 students, and even present emergency provisions for
classrooms, laboratories, and housing are already over-taxed.
Of this
figure of 1809 students, 238 enrolled at the Voorhis branch, near San
Dir.las, and 1571 enrolled at the home campus, San Luis Obispo.
The number of regularly enrolled students at San Luis Obispo were
divided fairly evenly between the agricultural division, with 792, and
the industrial division with 779.
Following is a breakdown of the San
Luis Obispo enrollment by departments, by classes, by counties, etc.
as of November 1, 191~6:
Enrollment By Departments
Agricultural Division
General Agriculture
Industrial Division
. . . . 131*
Agricultural Engineering
General Engineering
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Architecture .
Agricultural Inspection
26
. . . . . . . 154
Air Conditioning . . . . . 186
General Crops
55
Electrical Engineering • . 160
25
Electronics
36
Mechanical Engineering
Animal Husbandry. , . . . . 304
Truck Crops
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Dairy Production.
Dairy Manufacturing
Fruit Production . . .
34
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Ornamental Horticulture
Poultry
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Aeronautics
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84
83
779
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The majors of General Agriculture
and General Engineering were added
this year to take care of the
overflow from specific departments
where lack of facilities limited enrollment. At the end of the year,
these students will be given a priority over new students in changing
over to the major of their preference.
ENROLLMENT BY CLASSES AND CURRICULUM LEVEL (NOVEMBER, 1946)
AGRICULTURAL
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
VOCATIONAL
TECHNICAL
bEGREE
SPECIAL
95
58
348
43
75
57
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8
8
0
0
9
104
74
4
81
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Total Agriculture 792
INDUSTRIAL
VOCATIONAL
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
48
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TECHNICAL
DEGREE
56
513
87
12
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0
0
0
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SPECIAL
2
0
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33
2
24
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Total Industrial 779
Grand Total
1571
Source of Financial Aid to Students*
G. I. Bill of Rights (Public Law 346) . . • 1130
Vocational Rehabilitation (Public Law 16) . . 135
State Veterans Welfare Act. . . . . . . . .
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Earning way or private source . . . . . . . 300
1571
* Note:
Due to the fact that the majority of the students enrolled in
1946 were receiving government financial aid in some form or
another, and were generally eligible because of length of
military service to at least four year's training, there was
more enrollment in the degree curriculum than is normal. If
these men were paying their own expenses, it is probable that
many of them would have enrolled in the shorter vocational or
technical course. In normal years the total enrollment is
divided fairly evenly between the three levels of instruction.
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C OMPARAT IVE
4,
Jan .
Counti
Alameda
Alpine
Amador
Butte
Calaveras
Colusa
Contra Costa
Del Norte
Eldorado
Fresno
Glenn
Hur:1boldt
Imperial
Inyo
Kern
Kings
Lake
Lassen
Los Angeles
Madera
Marin
Mariposa
Mendocino
Merced
Modoc
Mono
~{onterey
Napa
Nevada
Orange
Placer
Plumas
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
Tuolumne
0 F
SU!,! MARY
1940
23
Jan . 1,
1941
25
0
2
6
3
15
1946
19
1946
35
0
0
0
0
1
9
0
1
1
0
0
5
2
1
0
RE GI S TRAT I ON
Nov . 1,
Mar. 21,
17
7
2
13
0
0
0
0
0
0
24
6
23
7
13
12
0
20
1
65
6
12
3
7
7
4
2
17
6
2
18
13
0
3
0
185
1
197
5
6
0
1
1
5
8
3
15
16
4
4
0
0
0
0
3
2
8
29
6
18
1
2
163
397
1
2
3
3
0
1
2
0
0
0
o·
2
9
13
1
0
19
39
8
7
l
12
1
4
0
0
0
0
24
24
9
7
3
34
8
6
0
1
1
25
0
5
1
0
11
4
3
40
32
5
13
28
69
34
19
1
5
24
14
20
13
15
17
19
19
84
16
14
81
134
175
2
7
37
32
18
6
19
15
9
10
34
25
15
9
3
0
0
1
0
1
4
7
0
5
2
10
1
28
1
2
4
1
8
19
7
15
4
0
2
0
2
6
2
1
7
1
0
3
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43
9
19
24
0
22
2
3
0
County
Tulare
Ventura
Yolo
Yuba
Other States &
Foreign Countries
Other States
Foreign Countries
Jan. 4,
1940
Jan. 1,
Mar. 21,
Nov. 1,
1941
1946
1946
15
21
4
9
3
18
8
3
43
34
1
1
11
6
5
29
67
67
179
20
737
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2
1518
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Only 1518 of 1571 students registered at the San Luis Obispo campus
were included in this survey as some cards were not available at
the time the study was made. Had the balance been included in this
study, some additional counties would be represented.
V O O R H I S U N I T E N R O L L ME N T
BY
DEPARTMENTS
AND
COUNTIES
November 1, 1946
County
Los Angeles
San Diego
Or ange
Riverside
San Bernardino
Santa Barbara
Fresno
Sacramento
Ventura
Yolo
Kings
Kern
Sonoma
Napa
Santa Cruz
San Luis Obispo
Alameda
San Francisco
Imperial
Tehama
Tulare
Mendocino
Out of State
Out of Country
Ornamental
Horticulture
Fruit
P~oduction
Agricultural
Inspection
Total
30
34
44
4
108
19
20
7
8
9
6
5
4
1
1
1
6
1
1
9
2
1
2
1
1
1
4
6
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1
734
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6
5
7
2
2
15
14
4
3
1
5
16
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1
1
4
4
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1
2
2
1
1
3
3
1
2
2
2
1
1
1
3
2
9b
13
3
238
A study of the foregoing sunm1ary of registration by counties at
San Luis Obispo and San Dimas shows a percentage distribution of the
counties having the largest representation as follmvs:
California Polytechnic - San Luis Obispo
Los Aneeles . • . . 26.2%
Riverside •.
San Luis Obispo .• 11.05%
Santa Barbara • . • 2.1%
. . . 11.8%
Out-of-state
San Diego .
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Kern
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Tulare . . . .
Santa Clara • . . .
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. 1.8%
Santa Cruz
h.5%
Foreign . .
Fresno
Ventura . .
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...
. . . . 1.3%
Note: Remaining 33 counties
which are represented in the
enrollment study have less than
1% each of the total.
2.2%
California Polytechnic - San Dimas
. . . . 1+5 .ii~;
. . . . . . 8 .1.i;:;
Los Angeles
Kern
Orange •
Fresno
...
Ventura . . . . . .
Riverside • . . . .
San Diego
San Bernardino
Out-of-state
Santa Barbara
.
....
1.7%
....
1.3%
.....
1.3%
8.0%
Alameda •
6.7%
Out-of-country
6.3%
Sonoma
5.9%
San Luis Obispo
.5-5%
San Francisco
1.7%
Imperial
1.3%
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.8%
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.8%
.8%
.8%
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The following eight counties have one-half
of one percent: Sacramento, Yolo, Kings,
Napa, Santa Cruz, Tehama, Tulare.
California Polytechnic stands out in contrast to the other state
colleges in that its enrollment is wide-spread throughout the State,
with 50 of the 58 counties represented in the survey made from only
1.518 of the 1571 students enrolled on the San Luis Obispo campus.
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Some directory cards were not filled in properly at the time of the
survey, but had they been complete some additional counties would
have been represented.
A study of the home counties of matriculat-
ing freshmen at the University of California in Berkeley from 1935
to 1946 showed 61.6 percent came from the counties of Alameda, San
Francisco and Contra Costa.
At the University of California at Los
Angeles, 91.78 percent of the freshmen enrolled are from Los Angeles
County .
At Fresno State College, 93.9 percent of the total enroll-
ment for the Fall s.emester of 1938 came from the six counties of the
San Joaquin Valley.
If most of the other state colleges are drawing their enrollment from the immediate vicinity of the schools, how does California
Polytechnic account for this state-wide distribution?
The most im-
portant reason is the fact that this college is the only one of its
kind in the State offering vocational training on a college level.
This college, with its training program built upon the student operation of productive projects, is filling a need and rendering a service which no other institution, because of its facilities, location,
or educational concept, is able or willing to provide.
iraturally the
college's excellent placement record in agriculture and industry has
become known throughout the State and this fact in itself attracts
many students.
COURSES OF STUDY
VOCATIONAL OBJECTIVE
During the calendar year, 1946, the college offered instruction in eleven agricultural and seven industrial majors at the San
Luis Obispo canpus and three agricultural majors at the Voorhis
branch.
The majors of Electronics, Architecture, General Engineering,
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General Agriculture, and Truck Crops were added to the offerings during the year.
These new offerings were the result of considerable
study on the part of the faculty committee for post-war expansion,
and fit in well with the general pattern of vocational training on
a college level .
The addition of such new courses must fit a measured demand for
training in a particular field, and must also fall within the legal
limitations established by the State legislature in 1901 in the act
which founded the school .
Education Code, Chapter 3, Section 206.51 -- "The purpose
of the school is to furnish to young people of both sexes
mental and r.ianual training in the arts and sciences, including agriculture, mechanics, engineering, business
methods, doraestic economy, and such other branches as
will fit the students for the non-professional walks of
life . This article shall be liberally construed, to the
end that, the school may at all times contribute to the
industi-·ial welfare of the State . "
The purpose of the school is clearly defined in the above act,
and the final sentence gives basis for a broad interpretation.
This objective of vocational training for specific occupations has
remained unchanged since it was established 46 years ago .
The fact
that the college does not have women in attendance at the present
time is the result of a legislative act in 1929 which prohibited
them from attending.
Although this law was repealed in 1933, the
college can not accommodate women again until proper dormitory facilities are made available.
During the more than four decades of service to the State of
California the school has raised the level of instruction and has
expanded the number of occupations for which training has been provided, but the basic philosophy has not been modified in the slightest
degree.
The prirnary function of all instruction at California
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Polytechnic is to impart to the students those skills and sciences
necessary to successfully perform the vocational and technical
practices for which they will be employed.
Complementing the strict-
ly occupational training are those subjects which help the student
understand the world in which he lives, which assist him to express
himself, to live harmoniously with other people, and to assume responsibility and community leadership.
The transition of the level of instruction from that of a vocational high school to that of a four year degree granting college
was gradual.
The school began in 1901 as a state vocational high
school, and as such was considerably ahead of its time as far as the
educational philosophy of that day was concerned.
The idea of this
type of vocational training gradually spread to the district high
schools and ultin1ately became a part of the basic Federal and State
programs of vocational education, beginning in 1917.
Because the
school had been established to provide education on a state-wide
basis, and since no level of instruction was proposed in the legislative act which created the institution,it was found necessary ·and
desirable in 1927 to raise the level of instruction to that of a
junior college.
This was done mainly because the concept of vocation-
al training on a high school level had spread to the district high
schools and many of them were by that time providing vocational instruction on a high school level.
In 1933, when the school was made a direct administrative branch
of the State Department of Education and at the same time placed under
the guidance of the Chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Education,
it was changed from a junior college to a two-year and three-year
technical college, offering terminal instruction in agriculture and
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industrial fields.
In 1936 a degree-transfer program was added, and
in 1940 the State Board of Education authorized the school to grant
the 3achelor of Science degree.
That authorization made the school
• a full-fledged four year degree granting college and the first baccalaureate exercises were held in 1942.
This authorization was based
on an attorney general's opinion in the interpretation of Section
4,
Chapter 101 of the 190 Statutes and later in Section 20655, of the
191.:.5 Education Code which reads as follows:
"The California Polytechnic School shall be
governed by the laws governing and regulating
the State colleges insofar as such laws are
applicable to the school."
UPS IDE DOWN SYSTEM
One of the unusual aspects of the instruction at California
Polytechnic is the educational plan which is followed to further carry out the objective of training for the maximum employability and
earning prnfer of every student.
This unique educational plan which
was established at California Polytechnic is sometimes described as
the "upside down educational plan," but it has advantages over the
conventional plan which is leading many educators throughout the
country to agree that it really is the "right side up" plan.
This
plan is characterized by the grouping of as ~any technical and jobgetting courses in the first two years as possible.
In the third and
fourth year the student takes, in addition to courses in his major,
those subjects considered as "background."
The net result of this
system is that a student who completes the four-year course leading
to a degree will have covered. substantially the same program as would
be covered in a similar r.1ajor in a typical agricultural mechanics type
college--but in an inverted order.
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The student comes immediately into contact with the field of his
major interest and choice and thus doesn't feel thwarted by numerous
hurdles which at first seem to him unrelated to his interest.
In ad-
dition he then realizes a need for some "theory" courses which are
taken either concurrently or after his practice.
A third important
advantage, is that this system enables the student to earn a living,
usj_ng the skills he has leat'ned; at whatever point he may be forced
to leave school because of finances, being needed at home, or other
reasons.
This educational pattern definitely improves the immediate
earning capacity of those students, who, for various reasons, complete their formal education after one or two years of college, as
so many of them in all colleges do.
Naturally, if the student is
able to complete the four-year course his opportunities for success
in the more highly paid positions will be greatly increased.
As is indicated by the footnote relating to the enrollment chart
on Page
4,
the proportion of degree students to technical and voca-
tional students in 1946 is not normal.
Normally about two-thirds
of the students have nq intention of taking a degree course when they
enter.
Because of the "upside down" plan, it is possible to run the
vocational and technical courses closely parallel with the degree
program.
This enables students who enter in the vocational or tech-
nical courses to change their program if they desire, and, without
too much shifting of courses, complete a final year or two leading
to a degree.
The longer curricula vary principally from the two
shorter programs in that a greater number of courses in social, biological and physical sciences are given, but actual occupational
instruction is emphasized in all three levels.
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Below is a diagram which shows hOvV this plan works:
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It should be noted in studying the chart that under
the ''upside... dovm" plan the emphasis during the first
and second years of training is placed upon the courses
in the occupational field of the student's interest.
The related physical and biological sciences and related social science courses, which help one to know
the "why," represent a relatively small portion of the
total course content during the early years of the program, and become increasinly important as one nears the
completion of his training period.
ADMISSION REQUIREUENTS
There has been no change in the admission requirements during
the past year, except that a number of non-hieh school ~raduates were
admitted under the State Board of Education ruling that any veteran
of World War II, who served 90 days or more in the armed services,
may enter as a regular student whether he has completed high school
or not.
With the exceptions of students who enter under this pro-
vision and under the provision for persons over 21 years of age as
"special students," high school graduation is a prerequisite for admission to any of the three levels of instruction.
Other require-
ments are that the student must submit evidence of fitness to profit
by college instruction; such fitness to be shown by previous scholastic records, by evidence of good moral character and personal
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qualifications, and by a satisfactory score on such aptitude tests
as are given.
It is the opinion of the administrators of the college
that admission of a student, and his progress through the school,
should be based upon demonstrated and continuing ability and interest, rather than the previous completion of a pattern of courses
under a totally different environment.
CREDIT BY EXAl~iINATION
Of particular value to returning servicemen during the past year
was the provision for receiving full credit for a course by challenge
examination.
Many of the ex-servicemen students had gained adequate
knowledge of certain subjects required in their curricula through
special military training programs or through experience.
Because
one of the objectives of California Polytechnic is to encourage maximum development, provisions are made to give full credit to any
student who can prove by a written or oral examination or by a demonstration, that he has an adequate knovdedge of all material which
would be covered in the course which he wishes to challenge.
This
provision allows the student to extend his educational experience
rather than to review what he has mastered already.
EXPANSION OF OFFERINGS
In 1946 California Polytechnic was accredited by the State Board
of Education to give the Special Secondary Credential in Vocational
Agriculture and the Special Secondary Limited Credential in Agriculture.
This authorization followed passage of Senate Bill 788, which
amended Sections 20451 and 20452 of the Education Code so that the
state colleges could give courses "of such length as may be necessary to fulfill the requirements for the various credentials approved
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for the teacher-training program of that college by the State Board
of Education ."
Because of the four-year linitation prior to passage
of this bill, an arrangement had been in force through which the
University of California granted credit for work taken at California
Polytechnj_c by agriculture teacher candidates .
This arrangement had
been in operation since 1931 with the Commission on Credentials,
University of California, accepting the work done at California
Polytechnic as meeting requirements for the special credentials in
vocational agriculture.
This arrangement 1vas broadened about seven
years ago and the credit for work taken at California Polytechnic has
been used not only to meet the requirements for the credentials in
agriculture, but also to satisfy most of the requirements for a
general secondary credential .
When Senate Bill 788 became law, California Polytechnic expanded its services and is now offering not only the skills and
methods courses for agriculture teacher candidates, but also the
reconmended work in general and professional education.
This pro-
gram was approved by the Accreditation Conmiittee at its March 11,
1946 meeting. The cooperative arrangement with the University of
California also is still in operation .
As a continuation to and an expansion of California Polytechnic's
present program the college submitted on December, 1946 a 158 page report giving a complete picture on completed and contemplated educational expansion as the basis for an application to the Connnittee on
Accreditation, State Board of Education, for the folloviing:
Regular re-accreditation for:
The Special Secondary Credential in Vocational Agriculture
The Special Secondary Limited Credential in Agriculture
Original regular accreditation for:
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The General Secondary Credential with majors in
Social Studies
Mathematics
Life Science and General Science
Physical Science and General Science
Agriculture
Physical Education
The Special Secondary in Physical Education
In complying with the recommendation made by the Committee on
Accreditation (Appendix to l~inutes, Feb. 28 to March 1, 1946)
California Polytechnic established a Department of Education, and
has employed Dr. Neil M. Daniels and Dr. F. C. Snow, both of whom
have had appropriate training and experience in teacher education.
To complement the college's present services in the field of
agriculture and industry, California Polytechnic has broadened its
offerings in the Related Subjects Division with undergraduate work
in progress and graduate work planned in mathematics, social science,
life science, physical science, and physical education.
The vocational agricultural teacher training work which California
Polytechnic has been giving and which has proved successful, as shown
by the record of the teachers we have placed in the field, fits into
the pattern of the general secondary credential.
Agricultural and
industrial curricula already provide for vrnrk which is more than the
equivalent of the state nin:i..mum for a teaching minor in the science,
mathematics and social science fields.
However, to strengthen these
offerings, the faculty was increased in 1946 by 56 new staff members,
including ten with doctorates and all with appropriate experience,
and the offerings expanded to the place where the college now can
offer a B. S. degree vrith majors in :s:athematics, Social Science,
Life Science and Physical Science.
In addition to these new degree
majors the college is novr adequately staffed to train applicants for
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the Special Secondary in Physical Education and the General Secondary
with teaching majors in Agriculture and Physical Education.
In establishing degree majors in the Related Subjects Division
the college is strengthening and supplementing its work in engineering and agriculture with the same objective as it has always had--to
place adequately trained men in agricultural and industrial production .
The college is adding to this objective another--to place
teachers adequately trained in selected and related fields in the
secondary schools of California--teachers who not only know the theory,
but who have seen it applied and who can challenge secondary school
pupils with the value of the activities in which they are engaged.
Provisions were made during November, 1946, for training general secondary teacher candidates in critic schools located near the
college.
The college respectfully requested the Committee on Accredi-
tation to pass favorably upon the application prior to June 1, 1947,
so that summer school students could take advantage of present and
proposed offerings in working toward additional credentials.
NEW CURRICULA
Beginning in 1946 three new degree majors were established and
organization was completed for a fourth new degree major to be opened
to enrollment in the Spring quarter.
Architectural Engineering
A four-year course leading to the B. S. degree in Architectural
Engineering was opened to enrollment in September, 1946, and 27 students entered .
The three-year technical and two-year vocational cur-
ricula in architecture were resurned after being discontinued during
the war years.
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Electronics and Radio
The new four-year course leading to the B.
s.
degree in Electronics
Engineering was an outgrowth of the regular Electrical Engineering curricula.
The Electrical Engineering department specializes in "power"
while the new Electronics department deals with "communications" and
its allied fields.
The new department began in March, 191.i.6, with 25
students enrolling in the de gree course.
By Fall of 1946 the depart-
ment had 89 students majoring in Electronics.
Agricultural Engineering
The demand on the part of students for a four-year degree course
in Agricultural Engineering was answered in the Fall, 1946, when the
fourth year was added to the existing Agricultural Mechanics vocational and technical curricula .
Thirty~two students are majoring in
Agricultural Engineering, but in addition to that the department is
acting as a service agency to all other agricultural departments
with 611 students enrolled in required agricultural mechanics courses.
Printing
A four-year de gree course in Printin6 , one of the few such degree
courses in t he United St ates, was established in 1946 with a full-time
printing instructor employed in October, 1946.
This course, vrhich has
received the whole-hearted endorsement and staunch backing of the
California Newspaper Publisher's Association, will accept limited enrollment in the Spring quarter, 1947.
The major task confronting the
new instructor was overhauling the college's print shop equipment,
re-equipping the shop, and moving it to its new location in the
Publications Wing, Administration Building .
Graduates of this course
will have practical training in all fields of the printing trades,
with related work in rural journalism, social sciences, physical
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sciences, and other required subjects.
California with its more than
300 small daily and weekly newspapers has many excellent opportunities
for well-trained printer-journalists.
PROJECT OPERATION
Closely tied in with the college's objective of training students primarily for an occupation is the college's unique project
system.
This system consists of self-owned or managerial projects
operated by students in such a way as to give knowledge in the commercial production and marketing of agricultural products or in the
construction, rebuilding, repair, or maintenance of industrial machinery and equipment.
This combination of the very practical "learn
by doing" and "earn while you learn" philosophies not only enables a
student to earn money while doing work directly related to his major
academic interest, but also creates an added incentive for the more
rapid acquisition of further skills and knowledge to the end that the
projects will be more profitable.
In each major department students are encouraged by their instructors
to take part in project activities, either individually or as a group.
There is available a $90,000 revolving fund from which students may
borrow to get the money for an investment in livestock, ornamental
plants, seeds, feed, machinery to be rebuilt, etc.
No co-signer is
required for a student to borrow from the project fund, and the fund
is so operated as to guarantee against individual student financial
loss.
Most popular agricultural projects are those of fattening live-
stock, raising foundation beef, sheep, swine ~r dairy cattle; conducting individual dairy projects or operating the project herd as a
group; operating the poultry unit as a project or as individual projects; growing ornamentals or field and truck crops .
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In the industrial departments the projects are usually group
projects rather than individual projects.
In aeronautics, for example,
the department, which is the 84th government approved repair station
in the United States and operates under strict C.A.A. regulations,
accepts aircraft or engines damaged beyond feasible commercial repair to be overhauled for their owners or to be purchased out-right
and rebuilt by students.
The project fund of 090,000 is not state money, but is a fund
which grew out of a loan arrangement started in 1924 with the Citizen's
St2te Bank which enabled students to borrow directly from the bank to
finance their projects.
Faculty members of the school stood behind
this arrangement to protect the bank.
From the very beginning of this
project system, the school took a percentage of each student's net
profit for the purpose of establishing a revolving fund.
Because of
the small enrollment in the early years of the project system, the
revolving fund was too small to handle the financing of all projects.
Up until 1932 students were still borrowing money through the bank
to finance many of the projects.
After 1933, the college's rapid
growth was instrumental in building the fund up to its present size.
This fund is administered by a non-profit corporation known as
the California Po+ytechnic School Foundation, the board of directors
of which are all faculty members, which arrangement was made through
the State Departments of Education and Finance.
The Foundation is
allowed to operate under lease with the State Department of Finance
which limits the use of the corporation's funds.
The accounts are
audited by the Department of Finance and at the close of a fiscal
year any cash or securities in excess of the given working capital,
which has been set at $90,000 is sent to the General Fund of the
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state.
The project system of instruction is carried on at the
Voorhis Unit of the college as well as at San Luis Obispo.
A limiting factor on the operation of the project system at the
present time is lack of space for expansion, inadequate facilities,
etc.
For example, in the Animal Husbandry department lack of barn
space and insufficient grazing land limit the number of animals which
can be raised and thereby limits the number of students who can experience project operation.
In 1946, only 130 of the 400 students
in Animal Husbandry carried livestock projects because of lack of
facilities.
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These students marketed 130 fed cattle, 500 fat hogs,
fed lambs at a total gross market value of $60,000.
Project operation in the other agricultural departments is on
an equally large scale, but each is lir1ited in expansion by lack of
facilities.
For more specific information on project activities dur-
ing 1946 in each department consult the Departmental Reports in Section IV of tl1is Annual Report.
STUDENT LABOR
In addition to the opportunities for students to earn money
through managerial and self-ovmed projects, California Polytechnic
uses a maximum number of students to operate the college farm and
handle grounds and campus maintenance on the 2083 acres at San Luis
Obispo and 150 acres at the Voorhis Unit.
The college was forced to
hire some full-time farm, janitor, gardener and dining hall help
during the war~years, and the situation has not yet ~eturned to the
pre-war condition of competition between several students for every
available job.
Naturally, the fact that from 70 to 80 percent of the
students are receiving government financial aid in some form or another, ·
makes for less competition among students for the jobs.
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In addition to absorbing a great amount of on-campus student
labor, the college has an employment office where off-campus job
opportunities are handled under direction of an instructor assigned
part-time to that duty.
Following is a recapitulation of a typical month of on-campus
student work as shown in the Foundation and State payroll reports for
December 1946:
San Luis
Obispo
STUDENT LABOR - STATE PAYROLL
FOR MONTH OF DECEI@ER, 1946
San Luis Obispo
Voorhis
Number
Voorhis
Number
Employees* Payroll Total
Employees* Payroll
• Adm.
106.88
6
21.83
2
106.88
6
Total
21.83
2
-
Instr.
AP0
28
I nd .
R .S.
Lib.
25
p .I~.: .
1
628.25
[i37.53
231.13
120.76
57.38
25
6
85
h5.oo
2
1475.05
45.00
-2
I:1 . 0.
Bldg.
Grds.
Autos
Repairs
5
Farm
Gen.
Crops.
Dairy
4
5
)t= .A.
9
Poultry
Totals
581.51
243.30
225.75
130.20
27
13
4
h
1180 . 76
49
153.00
42 .23
40.69
253.70
133.73
2
11
13
1
196.SO
135.15
32.40
19.20
106.80
1
Orch.
364 .05
25
8
24
623.35
9
126 .00
164
3386.04
38
556.88
* As the number of different employees suggests, every effort is made
to employ many different students in order to provide experience to
as large a percentage of the total enrollment as practicable.
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STUDENT LABOR - FOUNDATION PAYROLL
FOR MONTH OF DECEMBER, 1946
Project Fund - San Luis Obispo
Number of
Employees*
Payroll
37
758 .52
Dairy
Beef
Hogs
Sheep
Horses
Poultry
Crops
Feed
1
3
1
1
20.15
100 . 75
20.15
21 . 45
12
324.62
8
137 . 20
4
b7
Total
Total
43 .50
1, 426 . 34
Cafeteria Dormitory - San Luis Obispo
Cafeteria
Dormitory
89
66
1333 .10
1011.31
2,344 .41
Cafeteria Dormitory - San Dimas
Cafeteria
Dormitory
17
16
208 . 70
161 . 70
2
65 . 80
4
138 . 00
Administration Office Salaries
San Luis Obispo
Veterans Housing
Grand Total
i{•
138 . 00
4,344 .94
As the number of different employees suggests, every effort is made
to er:iploy many clifferent students in order to provide experience to
as large a percentage of the total enrollment as practicable.
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GENERAL FARM OPERATION
During 1946 about 330 acres of state land and 83 acres of project-leased land was farmed and produced a good harvest of oats and
vetch, alfalfa, small grains, and corn for ensilage.
Summary Crops Production - 1946
-
Value
Amount
Acres
-
Land
Crops
185
State
Oats & Vetch
420 Tons
$8,394.90
47.8
State
Alfalfa
117.7 Tons
) 2,382.00
25
State
Small Grains
25 .5 Tons
t~l, 081.00
23
State
Corn ( ensilage)
200 Tons
$1,000.00
Hay
121 Tons
~?2, 420.00
Project-leased
83
State
48.3
48.3 Acres
Irrigated Pasture
<_'-.
qi
396.40
The Fall of 1946 was dry and the outlook for next year's crop is
none too good.
Lack of rainfall has emphasized the need for a study
of water resources which the college is conducting.
committee is studying several possibilities:
from the Salinas River Reservoir
2.
Obtaining water
Building a dam on the college
property to store flood waters on ovin land
nearby Laguna Lake
1.
At present the
3. Bringing water from
4. Further develop own wells
5.
Purchase· ad-
joining property on which a good irrigation well is located.
During the year the farm acquired a new International TD14, 60
horse-power, tractor; two Ford Ferguson tractors, used pr~narily in
student truck crops projects; an All-Crop Harvester to harvest small
crops.
The farm also acquired several additional plots of land:
14 acres
of land adjacent to the dairy which had heretofore been leased, and
2
3/h
acres adjacent to the citrus grove.
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The farm will receive considerable benefit from the new allmetal Farm Mechanics Building (120 x 180 foot with a 60 by 60 foot
wing) which was begun in July, 1946 and will be finished around May,
1947. The building will be equipped for the maintenance, servicing,
and repair of tractors and other farm machinery to be housed there.
There is need for additional farming land to produce the feed
for livestock an(,! give room for student crop projects.
Near the end of the year, the farm received a. very valuable
gift in the form of three registered purebred Suffolk draft mares
donated by Norman McLeod, Pomona.
Of the three new mares, one has
foaled since it arrived on the campus and the other two are expected
to foal soon.
They replaced three old work horses.
SCHOLARSEIPS AND LOAN FUNDS
During 1946 two additions were made to the number of scholarships offered to students at California Polytechnic.
The Bank of America is offering one $200 agriculture scholarship to an outstanding Future Farmer to be awarded at a Marketing Day.
The San Francisco Downtown Optimists Club is offering one ~?50
agriculture scholarship to be awarded at the Junior Livestock Show,
Cow Palace, San Francisco.
Other additions and changes made recently to scholarships offered
include:
W. P. Rucklos established a new $100 annual scholarship award
to a worthy aeronautical student who has completed the freshman year
here.
The Rucklos Calcium Carbonate company established a new 0100
annual scholarship award to a worthy animal or dairy husbandry student who has completed the freshman year here.
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The Sears, Roebuck and Company is continuing to offer up to $2000
in freshman scholarships to worthy agricultural students wishing to
attend California Polytechnic.
The South San Francisco and Stockton Union Stockyards Company
has increased its award from one $100 annual scholarship to two
:noo
annual scholarships to be awarded to Future Farmers on the basis of
excellence of perfotmance in beef, sheep or hog project work.
The E. C. Loomis and Son Scholarship has been increased from
one ~50 annual award to one 0100 annual award to an outstanding
graduate of t he high school vocational agriculture department at San
Luis Obispo, Arroyo Grande, Santa J\!aria, or Cambria .
Philip R. Park, Incorporated, has increased their one annual $100
scholarship to tvro $100 annual awards to worthy boys who have completed
two years of outstanding work at California Polytechnic in aninal husbandry, dairy or poultry production.
Other scholarships being continued are:
the Safeway Stores, Inc.,
$100 annual scholarship; t he Poultrymen's Cooperative Association of
Southern Calif ornia, :)100 annual scholarship; the Washburn and Condon,
($100 annual scholarship; the Challenge Creamery $100 annual scholarship; the Carl Raymond Gray, four (;100 scholarships; and the Sears,
Roebuck and Company, $200 sophomore scholarship .
LOAN FUNDS
The principal source of loans is the Leopold Edward Wrasse Loan
Fund.
This loan fund was established by a gift of $25,000 in bonds
from an elderly Fresno County farmer in 1938 for the benefit of deserving boys desirous of an education and needing financial assistance.
The bonds were sold by the school for ~28,000. When Hr .
Wrasse died February 1, 1945, at the age of 96, his will contained
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a provision that the net income from approximately $400,000 of his
estate would go to the college to augment this loan fund after certain other provisions of the will were fulfilled.
Interesting as-
pect of this will was the .fact that i\Ir . Wrasse, youngest of 17 named
relatives who were last known to have been living in Germany, requested that any of these 17 relatives who were found to be living
were to receive the interest from the estate until their death.
that time the college is to receive the entire amount.
At
At present
there is approximately $4,500 available for loans during the school
year 1946-47.
Two other loan funds were established in the past year.
The
Veterans Loan Fund, a short time loan fund, was established by the
California Polytechnic Women's Club for assistance of needy veteranstudents.
The California Polytechnic :Memorial Loan Fund was esta.blished
from the contributions of numerous persons.
It is designed to aid
needy students where immediate financial assistance is needed.
Other loan funds available are:
the Rotary Club fund, the
California Polytechnic Women's Club Fur1d, The Student AccolTilnodation Loan Fund and the Wilder Memorial Loan Fund.
STUDENT PERSONNEL SERVICES
Latest service to veteran students added in 1946 was that of a
complete Veteran's Administration Guidance and Counseling service established in offices in the Administration Building on a contract
basis between the Veteran's Administration and the college.
This
vocational guidance and counseling service for veterans began operation in December, 1946.
Since 1945 there has been a field representative contact office
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of the Veteran's Administration on the campus, and since April, 1946
there has been a training office for counseling Public Law 16 veterans.
The men in charge of both of these offices are former Polytech-
nic students who work in close cooperation with the College's Director of Testing and Guidance.
To further coordinate guidance service for the returning service men, the college has established the Committee on Veteran's
Education which is composed of representatives from the Dean's office, the Registrar's office, the Recorder's office, personnel in
charge of resident students, the Comptroller 's office, Veteran's
Administration personnel and the Director of Testing and Guidance.
Whether for the veteran or non-veteran the individual and group
counseling plan tries to meet basic human problems.
This plan in-
cludes a preliminary testing program for finding the student's educational needs; a course in Personal Development which includes such
topics as how to study and take notes, how to read and study scientific material; how to maintain mental health; and how to develop
personal, social and vocational proficiency .
Individual conferences
are held to aid the student to self-discovery and the best solution
of his problem.
The college recognizes that men with varying academic backgrounds
have difficulty in immediate adjustment to college courses.
In order
to keep men from dropping out for lack of some previous training or
because the training was acquired sometime ago, the college has established "refresher" courses in English, mathematics and science.
Credit in these courses may not be used for fulfilling degree requirements, but makes it possible for students to enter regular
courses without handicap.
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As an added service faculty members also conduct evening coaching sessions in a variety of subjects to aid students, principally
veterans, who may find it very difficult to keep up with their regular assignments.
Guidance is not considered the province of a specialist alone
at California Polytechnic.
Department heads are expected to become
well acquainted with the qualifications of their students, and in
fact, are held largely rP-sponsible for the placement of their graduates.
STUDENT RECORDS
The college recognizes that sound personnel services depend upon adequate student records.
Students are encouraged to go to the
Director of Testing and Guidance or to the Recorder to exa..rnine their
records to discuss past perfonnance and future plans.
PLACE1.1ENT
Because California Polytechnic emphasizes education for production, its students have little difficulty in finding employment through
department heads and the office of placement, where representatives
of industry and agriculture meet students and frequently offer them
positions months before they have completed work for the degree.
The record of placement of agriculture teacher candidates is 100%
since only enough outstanding students are admitted to the teacher
training program to fill the vacancies which will exist the following year.
THE LIBRARY
Great strides in the expansion and improvement of library service were made during 1946.
A faculty committee survey of the or-
ganization and needs of the library was completed early in 1946 and
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led directly to the appointment of three librarians holding professional degrees in library science and the employment of one fullt.irne and two part-time clerical assistants .
Funds were also made
available for the appointment of another trained librarian and the
position will be filled as soon as a suitable applicant can be found .
Request for increased personnel has been made in the next biennium
bud~et for the appointment of two trained librarians in 1947 and one
trained librarian in 1948, and. the employment of one clerical assistant in 191.i 7.
Durine the year final plans were completed by the State Division
of Architecture for a new library building to cost '~400,000.
This
building will be the first pemanent post-war building to be constructed on the campus.
It will provide adequate housing for 130,000
volumes and a seating capacity of .528 persons.
At the beginning of the Fall quarter, the present library was
.
enlarged by the addition of a new res erve book room adjacent to the
present main reading room.
Additional study hall space with a seat-
ing capacity of seventy was made available near one of the dormitories .
An additional result of the survey has been an increase in the
appropriation for the purchase of books in order to meet the increased
demands of the students and faculty upon the resources of the library.
The original book budget for 1946-47 was $5,000; it was later increased by ~2000 more.
For 1947-48 $10,000 has been requested.
This
is exclusive of money to be spent for periodicals and operating expenses.
The library now subscribes to 305 magazines and four daily
papers, two weekly papers and the Sunday edition of the New York Times .
Seventy-six periodicals were added to the subscription list in the
Fall of 1946 ,
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Other additions in 1946 were the purchase of the Education Index
and the Industrial Arts Index services as an aid to patrons who desire to do research work .
These are in addition to the Agricultural
Index, the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, and the Educational Film Index to which the college has subscribed for many years.
In order to improve the service, re-cataloguing and re-labelling
of the books began in the Fall of 1946.
A comparative study of accessions and expenditures for 1945-46
and 1946-47 follows:
1945-46
1946-47
6h5
Total volumes added
Expen. purchase library books
Expen. staff salaries
Expen. purchase periodicals
Expen. maintenance & operation
1675
$7000
$1700
$1991
:) 400
$9600
$ 500
0 640
c1200
FACULTY
The addition of fifty-six new staff members during the current
school year, including ten with doctorates and all with appropriate
experience were appointed prior to December 31, 1946.
This brought
the total teaching and administrative staff to 95 full-time persons
and two part-time persons .
The following chart indicates the amount
of preparation as indicated by earned degrees and equivalent preparation:
1,
Full
Part
Time
Time
Total
Percent of
Total Facult;!
Doctor's Degree or
Equivalent preparation
12
12
12
60 Semester Hours of
Graduate Study, excluding those listed above
1
1
1
Master's Degree or Equivalent preparation
31
1
32
32
Bachelor's Degree or
Equivalent Preparation
1
47
49
5
6
100
Less than Bachelor's
degree
46
5
~31T
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FACILITIES
A number of new buildings have been added to existing facilities during the year 1946.
Construction on four new buildings of a
permanent nature was begun and is rapidly nearing completion:
1.
Aero Hangar and Shop, 100 ft. x 120 ft.
2.
One Agricultural Mechanics and Fann Machinery Building,
100 x 180 ft. with 60 x 60 ft. wing.
J.
One Dairy Building including space for judging for dairy
classes during bad weather.
4.
Central Feed Processing and Storage Plant, 60 ft. x 60 ft.,
that will be used extensively by students in grinding, mixing, and preparing feeds for livestock projects on the campus. This feed mill includes 8 storage tanks, 21 ft. x 18
ft. X 6 ft.
In addition to the permanent buildings, forty 20 ft. x 48 ft.
temporary buildings have been moved onto the campus for classroom and
laboratory purposes.
for use as classrooms.
Tvrenty of these units are now being equipped
The remaining units are distributed over the
campus in connection with existing laboratories and will be used as
laboratories and shops in the various departments,
An addition to the present Poultry Plant is nearing completion
and will more than double the present facilities for instruction,
particularly in killing, dressing and preparing birds for market.
A lack of adequate athletic facilities to take care of the physical education needs of an enrollment more than double normal is being rapidly remedied vri th the adcli tion of a new $60,000 athletic field,
which provides a new track, new practice football field, and a complete
new baseball field.
The biennium budget for the coming two years as submitted, would
make it possible to replace a great deal of the outmoded mechanical
equipment, both in the shops and on the farm, and more than double
the science laboratory equipment.
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Listed below is a summary of the Buildings, Grounds and Equipment
at the California Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo (does not include
Voorhis Unit nor the college library):
BUILDINGS, GROUNDS AND EQUIPMENT
(except library unless specified)
1.
Number of buildings used for educational purposes -11._; for dormitory purposes .1:.£_; for other purposes -2:z_.
2.
Number of regular classrooms available:
Seating 1-15 4;
16-30 10;
45-60 -11._;
61 and over _L;
-
-
31-45
_g_;
Total
_a_.
3. Types of special rooms available:
Student
Capacity
Type
Auditorium
4 Ind.Demonstration Rooms
3 Ag.Demonstration Rooms
Typing Room
Printing Room
Music Room
Projection Room
4.
450
120
90
15
15
I
60
30
Special equipment and/or
remarks as to use
Stage, piano-used for lectures
Demon.table,gas,water,and sink.
Special demonstration equipment.
r;ypewri ters
Print.mach.,Linotype,press,etc.
Recording Equip.Instru.music.uniform.
Projectors & black-out (piano stor./
! blinds.
Laboratories and Shops.
Laboratory
or shop
Student !Aver . annual Amount / Present Value ! Fee
Capacityiexpenditure budgeted ' apparatus and per
equipment
student
past 5 yrs. this yr.
Do not keep expenditu re records
Nil
h50
ff
or
apparatu
s
value
by
individual
100
rooms.
30
"
9 Ag. Instr. Units
4 Aeronautics Shops
Air Condition. Shop
Sheet Metal Shop
20
12 Electrical Shops
55
'2 I~!achine Shops
75
3 Ag. Mechanic Shops
75
4 Drafting Labs.
110
Power Plant
~u
l~achine Shop
25
Nelding Shop
40
2 Chemistry Labs.
50
2 Physics Labs
60
2 Bio•Science Labs.
50
5. Value of property owned by institution.
Grounds (assessed value)
Buildings (assessed value)
Furniture-including apparatus
Library (books only)
Other property-included in Furniture & Apparatus
Total Property
"
"
"
"
ft
"
"
ft
ft
1
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ft
"
$
:J..82,676.75
3,100,223 . 81
555,426 .57
25,655.23
$ 3,863,982 .36
LANDS OWNED BY THE COLLEGE
The la.nds of the California Polytechnic College total about
2,233 acres, of which 2,083 acres are embraced in the home unit at
San Luis Obispo and 150 acres in the Voorhis unit at San Dimas.
Because of the type of agricultural instruction given at both the
home unit and the branch, the availability of good farm land is a
ma,jor factor .
Additions must be made soon because of increased en-
rollnent, in order to give each student as much opportunity as possible .for actual project operation.
There are several hundred acres
at San Luis Obispo suitable only for range purposes .
devoted to hay, alfalfa and orchard.
Other land is
The major campus and land im-
mediately surrounding the various buildings now require
acres.
about 100
Additional land must be obtained for truck crops especially.
At San Dimas about JO acres of the land utilized for citrus, avocados and small deciduous tract, are well adapted to these uRes.
siderable of the land is not suitable for expansion.
Con-
Additional ad-
jacent farming land is needed particularly for student-owned project
operations.
LONG-TIMI:: BUILDHTG PROGRAE
In the report submitted by the di.rector of finance to the legislature in January, 1946, the college had eleven construction projects listed in the first overall priority list, and sixteen projects
listed in the second priority list for the State Departnent of Education.
A swrr of $1,796,267 will be set aside from Fair and Exposition
f _unds if they are made available to cover the first eleven i terns.
The second group of items on the priority list are covered by a sum
of ~~li, 511,800 provided this is made available from horse racing
funds.
Following is the list of projects:
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In the first group of projects are the following:
Library and Classroom Building . . . . . . . $ 400,000
Water Tank and Distribution System
. . .
14,000
Central Feed Storage Unit . . . . . . . . .
66,667
Utility Building & Distribution System . . . 224,933
Poultry Instruction Plant • . . . • .
100,000
Replace Corral Fences ., . . . . . . .
26,667
Athletic Field and Addition to Gymnasium •• 133,000
Aeronautics and Industrial Shop . . • . . • 352,000
Agricultural Mechanics Building . . ,. . . . 202,000
Corporation Yard and Garage . . . . . . . . 124,000
Science Unit No. 1 . . . . . . .
. . . 153,000
$1,796,267
In the second group of projects are the following:
Farm Buildings, Propagation House, etc • • •
Addition to Electric Laboratory . . . . . .
Engineering Building . . . . . . . . . . . .
Farm Buildings (Farm Implement Storage,
Veterinary Hospital, Swine Isolation
Unit, & Livestock Judging Pavilion) . . .
Food Processing Building . . . . .
. ..
Women's Dormitory
. . .
. . . .
Men's Gymnasium . . . . . . . . . . • . , .
Cafeteria and Kitchen . . . .
. . . . .
Infirmary • . . • . . . . . • . • •
Agricultural Classroom Unit , . . . . . . .
Addition to Administration Building . . . .
Permanent Roadways and Grounds Improvement .
Auditorium and l,:usic Building . . . .
Residences for Employees
. . . . . .
Extension to Beef Unit. . . . . . . . . . .
Extension of Utilities . . . . . . . . . . .
184,533
20,000
199,000
175,000
200,000
124,000
134,000
116,000
32,000
199,000
100,000
5'20,000
387,000
67,000
31,000
227,000
$2,715,533
• $4,511,800
HOUSING
Most serious problem confronting the college in 1946 was that
of housing a record enrollment of students, and also of providing
housing for new staff members, many of whom would not accept a position unless housing arrangements could be made.
Because California
Polytechnic's enrollment is 90 percent out-of-town students, housing
is always an important problem.
At the beginning of the l946 Fall
quarter, the college was forced, because of delays in receiving
authorization to use Camp San Luis Obispo, to house 150 students
tenporarily in the gymnasium, 135 in the farm machinery shop, 75
in the dormitory loun8es.
While waiting for a release on the Army
Camp, pernission to use the city's newly acquired USO Building was
granted for 30 days, and 200 students were moved into the USO quarters.
Accormrrodations were arranged for 300 students to be housed
in the Guest houses and Bachelor Officer quarters at the Army Camp
some five miles from the campus when clearance was finally granted .
Of the nearly 400 married students attending the college, 125
married veterans families are housed in the on-campus veterans'
village consisting of 75 one and two-bedroom movable house units, and
50 trailer uni ts.
This housing for married students vras arranged in
November, 1945, with the National Housing Agency, and the college
paid i$l.~J, 195 to the firm of Close and Levris for moving and installing the units on the campus early in 1946.
They are now complete-
ly landscaped, have central wash rooms with electric washing machines, and all modern conveniences .
A mobile food market, operated
as a private business by tvrn veteran students, serves the on-campus
residents with a complete line of groceries, vegetables, meats , etc.
JIIilk and poultry products, as well as fruit and truck crops, can be
purchased by these families at the campus sales stores of these departments .
To help alleviate the housing shortage problem facing new
instructors, the college brought in five four-apartment units in the
Fall of 1946 to house 20 faculty families .
These were installed and
ready for occupancy in December, 1946 .
A site had been cleared and all arrangements completed for bringing to the campus an additional 188 trailer uni ts"
When the federal
gover11L1cnt withdrew all financial support for such projects last
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December
14, it was necessary for the college to temporarily post-
pone the installation of these units pending satisfactory financial
arrangements.
DEPARTMENTAL
REPORTS
AGRICULTURAL DIVISION
AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
At the opening of the Fall quarter, 1946, there were 611 students
enrolled in agricultural mechanics classes, which are required of all
agricultural students.
In addition there were 32 s·tudents majoring
in this department, in either the new four-year degree course, or the
two or three year vocational and technical curriculum.
Three new men were added to the staff in 1946, making a total
of four and one-half.
In 1947 the department will need a total of
nine men on the staff.
No new courses were added in 1946 but courses in Farm Carpentry,
Farm Povrnr, Irrigation, Farm Electricity, Farm Structures, which had
not been given for several years because of the war-time decrease in
enrollment, were re-established.
Next year new courses such as en-
gineering surveying will be added for the degree majors.
Two new shops, established in buildings built in 1940-41 for the
National Youth Administration, were completely equipped.
Numerous
pieces of equipment such as additional hand tools, electric drills,
etc . were added.
This departraent uses an average of eight part-time students on
student labor to maintain and repair shop equipment, repair farm
equipment, gates, feeders, etc.
The new Farm Uechanics and Farm Equipment building, to be
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completed in May, 1947, will give additional facilities for classes
in farm tractors, farm power, rural electrification.
Students major-
ing in Agricultural Engineering will have additional opportunities
to gain valuable experience in servicing and repairing farm machinery
and tractors.
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
At the beginning of the Fall quarter 304 students were majoring
j_n the Animal Husbandry curriculum.
One and one-half additional instructors were added to the staff,
making four and one-half faculty members teaching courses in beef,
swine, sheep, and light horse production .
Fifteen students were employed by the department on a part-time
basis taking care of the feeding, etc. of livestock and working in
the feed warehouse and feed processing plant.
About 130 students carried livestock projects, marketing 130
fed cattle, 500 fat hogs and 400 fed lambs, marketed at a gross of
about $60,000.
Students of this department who showed their project-owned livestock at the Grand National Livestock Show, Cow Palace, San Francisco,
and the Great Western Livestock Show, Los Angeles, in the open fat
classes only, not only received valuable experience, but took ribbons
and prize money back to the campus with them for the following:
From the Grand National.
Beef classes - reserve champion car-
load of Herefords, champion Shorthorn, reserve champion Hereford, second, third, fourth prize Hereford individuals, second and third group
of three Herefords, first place 1000-1150 Shorthorn individual,
first, second and third place _1150-1350 Shorthorn individual, first
in group three Shorthorns, second and fourth Angus individuals,
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second group of three.
Hog classes - chB.I'ilpionship Berkshire barrow
heavy weight class, champion Poland China in heavy weight class, first
in Poland middle vreight, first in Duroc middle weight, first pen of
Durocs in middle weight class, second and third prize Poland individuals, second prize Duroc light weight pen.
Sheep classes - reserve
champion pen with cross-bred wether lambs, first place pen of three,
second and third individual class, second place pen three Southdown
lambs, fourth place individual Southdown lambs.
From the Great Western.
Beef classes - reserve Grand Champion
Angus steer, reserve champion Hereford, reserve grand champion carload fat steers, first, second, third and fourth places in Hereford
individual classes, first prize Shorthorn in 875-1000 class, reserve
champion Shorthorn, first prize Shorthorn in 1000-1150 class, second
prize Shorthorn in 1150-1350 class.
Hog classes - Grand Champion
pen of fat barrows, cta.mpion fat barrow, reserve grand champion,
champion pen of Berkshire barrows.
Sheep classes - first and second
place Hampshire pen of lambs, second place Southdown pen lambs, second place individual Southdown.
The net profit made on livestock projects during 1946 was distributec. as follows:
Type of Livestock
Beef
Hogs
Sheep
Profit to Students
Share to Foundation
. $10,316.94
2,006.86
497.33
012,821.13
~5,136 .49
909.31
182.14
$6,227.94
Thoroughbred Breeding Program
A special program of this department is the Thoroughbred breedins program operated cooperatively with the California Breeders Association and the college for the purpose of providing training in
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handling light horses.
The program began in 1940 with an original
gift to the college of six brood mares in foal to some of the outstanding Thoroughbred sires owned by California Breeders.
Four
additional mares have been given to the college, and *Zuncho, a
Thoroughbred stallion imported from South America is standing at
stud at the unit as a permanent loan from Walter T. Wells.
During
1946 Wells also gave the college an outstanding mare, *Lampyris, imported from England originally by Marshall Fields.
During the an-
nual sales at Santa Anita the college sold three yearlings for a total
of
03, JOO. Two were sired by-¾~zuncho and one
by Count Atlas.
Five
additional off-spring were foaled during 1946 and will be sold at
next year's sales.
One important addition to the school's facilities which will
aid this department is the new Central Feed Processing a.nd Storage
unit which is novv under construction.
AGRICULTURAL INSPECTION
A student majoring in this field is required to take the first
two years of study at the Voorhis unit near San Dimas, which is the
heart of the Los Ange1es fruit and vegetable market area, second largest in the United States.
In his last two years at the San Luis
Obispo c~npus the student takes related work and required subjects
to fulfill the requirements for the B.
s.
degree.
Ninety-six majors
in this curriculum were enrolled at Voorhis unit and 26 upper division students were enrolled at the San Luis Obispo campus during
1946.
(See the Voorhis unit report for additional information ,)
CROPS AND FRUIT PRODUCTION
This department, which has increased almost three times as
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compared to pre-war enrollment, has been divided into three subdivisions, with an expert instructor in charge of each and all activities of the department under guida.nce of the same department
head .
The total 1946 enrollment of 113 was divided as follows:
General Crops,
55;
Truck Crops, 25; Fruit Production, 33.
Three in-
structors were added to the department, giving it a total of four
full-time instructors .
New courses added in 1946 include pomology,
bee keeping, deciduous fruit nursery ..
The work of this department
was strengthened by the addition to the related science division
staff o.f an outstanding soil technologist .
The department uses the
following land:
20 acres
9 acres
7 acres
120 acres
fruit plantings, 130 varieties grown commercially
in California.
irrigated vegetable land, (available on State
property)
irrigated vegetable land, (rented land adjacent
to campus)
planted to oats and vetch, (rented as student
project land)
All work in the truck crops and orchard program is carried on by
students, with no full time laborers .
This gives a laree number of
students practical training, and gives them part-time employment .
Truck crops are for the most part handled entirely as student projects, with the produce marketed on a commercial basis.
The depart-
r.1ent naintains a campus store operated by students to sell products
of the orchard, vineyard and truck crop land.
During the 1946 season
a total of ~3,639 .39 was sold in fruit and $1 ,664.81 was sold in
vegetables, mostly to faculty, married students and the college
cafeterias.
DAIRY PRODUCTION AND MANUFACTURING
Enrollment in this department
vrns
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divided almost equally between
the two divisions, with 36 students taking production curriculum and
34 students enrolled in•manufacturing.
Construction began on a n~r
cow shelter and judging barn, 100 ft. x 40 ft., during the latter
part of 1946 and wa.s nearly completed by If.arch, 1947.
J. H. Sawyer,
dairy farmer from Galt, donated an outstanding young Jersey bull and
also an outstanding yearling Jersey heifer to the department during
t he year.
rfr. Sawyer had paid $600 for the bull as a calf at the
s ame auction sale that the bull's sire sold for ~10,500 and his dam
for $.~ 2,JOO.
Mr. Sawyer also contributed to the student loan fund.
Thirty-five or 40 students supplemented their training by doing
practical work on a part-tirae student labor basis in the college's
dairy, earning an aggregate average monthly wage of $1,000.
During
the Foundation fund's last fiscal year, September 1, 1945 to August
JO, 1946, the dairy made a net profit of over $8,000.
An average of
71 college owned cows produced 700,000 pounds of milk containing
30,071 pounds of butter fat, or an average of 420 pounds of butter
fat per cow per year.
year.
The national average is 160 pounds per cow per
Over ~13,000 worth of purebred stock was sold to Future Farmer
and adult dairymen
throughout the Western area.
In addition to the college owned cows, about 50 cav1s are owned
by 15 students as their own projects.
A typical month of production
for student-owned project cows (March, 1946) shows:
18 cows in pro-
duction, producing 18,330 pounds of milk containing 740 pounds of
butterfat, or 40 pounds per cow per month.
This would be about 400
pounds per year per cow, or nearly three times the national average.
After all costs of feed, overhead, etc. are deducted, the profit from
these student-owned cows is turned over to the student ~rners.
A
new cooler and compressor was added to the manufacturing equipment.
All milking, bottling, processing and distribution is done by student
labor on an hourly basis.
Manufacturj_ng students conducted two stu-
dent projects, providing chocolate milk and ice cream for campus
consumption.
ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE
Forty-four students enrolled in this curriculum in the Fall of
1946, and one full-time instructor was added to teach the first year
courses.
Two 20 foot by 40 foot classroom units were constructed ad-
jacent to the horticulture unit's glass house and green house, providing greater efficiency in the handling of instruction.
Construc-
tion has begun on a new lath house to supplement the existing one
which is too small to take care of the number of students now enrolled .
Every student in this department takes part in some type
of project activity such as raising and selling vegetable plants,
bedding plants, pot plants, gallon can stock, lining out stock, or
cut flowers and bulbs.
The largest project in 19h6 was operated
jointly by four students and consisted of 32,000 gladiolus bulbs
planted for bulb production and cut flowers .
The project fund pur-
chases for resale to students for project purposes, sprays, fertilizers, seeds, rooted plants, and rents land on each project .
Stu-
dents receive 66 2/3 of the net profit with 33 1/3 going into the
project fund for the use of the Foundation and to insure against possible individual student loss caused by conditions beyond the control of the student.
The students are their own salesmen, turning
in sales tags on every item sold, with the money turned over to the
project fund weekly.
ly.
Students are reimbursed for their share month-
Some students earn as much as ~:i.50 per month on their projects .
Largest sales are to wholesale dealers throughout the county.
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One
class project during the year was the growing out of 60,000 tomato
plants for a commercial grower.
In addition to project operation, almost all students in this
department earn part-time student labor doing campus ground maintenance and gardening.
The deparunent is in charge of all ground
maintenance and uses student labor almost exclusively.
POULTRY PRODUCTION
Sixty-five students were registered in this department for the
Fall qua.rter, 1946, with the services of one-half time instructor being added.
The production capacity of the department was increased
by the addition of the following n~r equipment:
h Sunshine
Brooders with a capacity of 1000 chicks per brood,
or an increase in brooding capacity of 6000 per year.
4 fattening crates for grOW'ing meat birds
8 small growing and laying houses to increase project program.
1 automatic egg grader 2.nd candler
1 battery brooder with a capadty of 1000 chicks
Construction was nearly cm:ipleted by the end of the year on an
addition to the Egg Processing and Sales Building.
The new addition
includes lavatories, showers, butchering room, wrapping and refrigerati on f acilities.
Increase in facilities enabled the department to increase the
~umber of birds to about 3800 laying and breeding hens, or a 20
percent increase.
A breeding flock of Barred Plymouth Rocks was
added and a new breed of Turkeys, Beltsville White, ~as added.
Students are operating 80 projects consisting of either 150
laying or breeding hens each or 250 or more chicks each .
The student
operator of the project shares the net profit on the project with the
project fund, with the average student earning $10 to $15 per month.
About 25 to JO students· are paid by the hour for labor out of
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Foundation funds for processing and selling of products.
A few stu-
dents also work on part-t~~e labor for the State in maintenance and
repair of equipment and grounds.
INDUSTRIAL DlVISION
ARCHITECTURP~L ENGINEERING
A four-year degree course was added to the two-y~ar vocational
and three-year technical levels of this curriculum starting at the
1946. Forty-one students enrolled,
beginning of the ·F all quarter,
and one instructor was added as a part-time architecture and parttime engineering instructor.
During the laboratory classes (nine
hours per week) the students develop conplete working drawings of
ho1~es and dwelling uni ts according to drafting room standards and
local and state buildin6 codes.
The student ultimately blueprints
and binds his project to have it in useful form.
In upper division
work emphasis is placed on estimating construction costs-
AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
Three new instructors were added to this department, bringing
the total staff members to five.
154
students.
Enrolled in September, 1946, were
Additions to equipment included the following:
FM2 Navy Fighter
P51
Navy Fighter
P59 Army Jet Trainer
10 Pratt &Whitney engines
5 Lycoming R680-13 engines
2 Franklin six cylinder opposed engines
J Ranger six cylinder in-line inverted engines
L~ Link Trainers ( one a Navy donation, and three purchased
on surplus)
1 Doall saw
~umerous--instruments and aircraft accessories
Durine the year the college's 3000 foot by 200 foot air strip
was widened to about 300 feet, and 30,000 cubic yards of dirt was
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moved at one end to provide a location for the new 120 x 100 foot
hangar on which construction is nearly complete .
A 20 x 48 foot
utility building was also installed next to the new hangar .
Three
new all-metal buildings were constructed adjacent to the aeronautical
engineering shops:
one 20 x 98 foot building for paint and wing con-
struction; one 20 x 48 foot storage building·; one 20 x 68 foot building for engine overhaul, sand blasting and cadmium plating .
One Piper Cub was rebuilt and test flown and 10 other aircraft
are in various stages of being rebuilt in the CAA licensed aircraft
and engine repair station.
All work is done by students as part of
their laboratory work under strict supervision of licensed instructors.
Although not a part oi' the department's activities at pres~n~,
a Flying Club was organized during the year for students and faculty
members interested in promoting flytng and in learning to fly ,
club now has 50 members and two planes have been purchased.
The
One has
been assembled and is beine flown and the other is in the process of
being assembled .
AIR CONDITIONING
With the largest enrollment· of any of the six industrial departments (186 as of September, 1946), the department has added one
instructor in heating and ventilating, one instructor in heating, repair and maintenance, and one instructor in heating, ventilating and
plumbing layout.
Although the laboratory of this department has been
recognized by authorities in the field as one of the best equipped
college laboratories of its type in the United States , considerable
extension was made to take care of the increased enrollment.
The
Air Conditioning laboratory was extended into the wing formerly the
sheet netal shop, and a :raore extensive sheet metal shop has been set
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up in one of the new 20 x
4D
foot all-metal buildings constructed
next to the permanent building.
'lvro
other 20 x 48 foot buildings were
constructed as additions to the heating and ventilating laboratory
and the drafting and engineering practice room.
California Polytechnic is the only school in the country giving
a degree in the subject of air conditioning and refrigeration.
The
course is so unique that there are only two college text books now
suitable for use in the course, and the experienced instructors are
forced to write a complete text syllabus on every course.
Added to the equipment was a dozen refrigeration units comprising brine coolers, quick freezing box, cold storage box coolers,
test equipment and about $2000 in test instruments.
Received by the department as a gift from Walter T. Wells was
a three horsepow-er ammonia refrigerating unit.
Included as part of the practical training of students in this
department is the repair and maintenance of all refrigerating equipment on the campus, including that used by two cafeterias, dairy,
poultry, student store, etc.
Students also assist in repair and main-
tenance of all heating and ventilating equipment in campus buildings.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
This department remains as the "power" branch of the electrical
department after the division into a separate course of all "communication" phases of the work.
In the power division three additional
instructors were added to take care of the enrollment of 160 students.
During 1946 a great deal of additional equipment was ordered,
but manufacturers have been unable to fill the orders as yet.
One
Direct Current Supply unit to be used for induction heating test and
experiment work was purchased through War Assets Corp.
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An addition
of a 20 by 60 foot building supplemented the shop facilities.
An important part of the training of students in this department
is the practical experience gained in doing maintenance, repair,
wiring, and motor repair a.nd rewindinc work for other departments of
I
the college.
There are over 300 electric motors on the campus, and
the repair and maintenance of this equipment is both practical training and a useful service to the college.
Students doing such work in
tj_ri:e othor than regular laboratory periods are paid from student labor
f unc:s.
ELECTRONICS
This new division of the electrical department started vrith 25
students in March, 191+6, and by September, 191+6, had increased to 81.i.
Two new instructors were added to the staff, making a total of three.
The entire top floor of the Agricultural Education Building was turned
over to this departmentJ for laboratory and classroom facilities.
In addition to the original radio and electronics equipment transferred from the electrical engineering laboratory, considerable newand surplus equipment was obtained during the year.
The laboratory
benches were wired and power supplies installed on each to make available D.C. voltages varying from Oto 500 volts at½ amperes.
Included
in new equipment was:
7 model 772 Weston Multometers
4 RCA vacuum tube multimeters
4 four tube checkers
12 D. C. Milliar.nneters
L. oscilloscopes
2 radio frequency generators
4 audio frequency generators
1 square wave generator
1 distortion analyzer
1 "Q" meter
numerous--inductance and capacitance bridges
numerous--frequency meters
several --Army and Navy transmitters and receivers
several --Army and Navy public address systems
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A $100,000 radar unit, known as "No .
5"
in the Pacific defense
setup, was awarded to the college by the army in October, 1946 .
It
was shipped early in 19h7 from Fort HacArthur to San Luis Obispo for
demonstration use in electrical engineering and electronics classes.
The following courses were added:
Elementary Direct Current
Theory and Laboratory, Advanced Alternating Current Theory and
Laboratory, Electron Tubes and Laboratory .
The three-year technical course in Electronics and Radio is
primarily designed to train radio servicemen, commercial radio telegraph and telephone operators, general commercial communication technicians with specific preparation for commercial licenses.
The four-year degree course in Electronics Engineering will fill
a need no other college is meeting today.
Students are hired regularly on part-time student labor to construct laboratory equipment frorn small .supplies, consisting of mountint: meters in cabinets, replacing worn out or burned out parts in
equipment, and in constructing equipment and tools which will be used
as the department grm~s.
It is anticipated that this department will be able to handle
100 to 150 students by September, 1947, with additional equipment
and instructors.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Eighty-three students enrolled in this department in the Fall of
1946 . Tvro mechanical engineering instructors and two drafting instructors were added to the staff .
Enrollment in this department was
limited because of lack of acconnnodations.
The department will con-
tinue to be crowded until the new central heating and pow-er distribution plant, with laboratory and classroom facilities for this
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department, is constructed.
Laboratory work is organized around the
central heating plant povrer generating and utilities dispersing center, which uses internal combustion, steam engines and steam boilers.
Included in new equipment received are the following:
2 Superior Diesel Engines connected to 100 kilowatt generators
1 Hesselman Oil Engine electric generating unit, 125 kilowatt output
1 International Diesel Engine electric generating unit, 20 kilowatt output
1 General Motors Diesel Engine generator unit, 300 kilowatt output
2 Superior Diesel Engine generator units, 264 kilowatt output each
1 Atlas Diesel Engine generator unit, 200 kilowatt output
2 Hudson gas engines out of landing craft, 50 horsepower each
1 Packard gas engine out of a PT boat, 1250 horsepower
1 General Motors marine diesel from landing craft, 225 horsepower
1 Hudson marine diesel from landing craft, 150 horsepower
All a.bove i terns were donations from the Navy with the exception
of the oil engine and the International which were purchased through
War Assets Corporation.
ment was obtained.
A number of pieces of laboratory test equip-
In keepin~ with the practical training philosophy.,
students are overhauling and installing the engines in the central
heating plant .
Except for additional floor space for classrooms in the emergency
steel units, the department has no new buildings.
Due to building
conditions, the new central utilities dispersing plant can not be
built for sometime .
Mechanical Engineering students are hired on student labor to
help operate the central heating plant .
During the war operation of
electrical generating equipment for instructional purposes was discontinued because of lack of students .
These engines are being over-
hauled by the students and next year will again be in operation
generating electrical power for the campus.
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RELATED INDUSTRIAL SHOPS
WELDING
One instructor was added, and because of the use of welding in
engineering design and construction a welding engineer was obtained
for the position.
There :i.s a close tie-up bebreen this course and
mechanical engineering because welding is commonly used in fabrication of engineering structures.
The rear of the welding shop is be-
ing converted into a construction materials testing laboratory with
tepsion and compression equipment, hydraulic press, hardness testers,
torsion tester, heat treatment furnaces, grinding and polishing machines and microscopes.
An atomic hydrogen welding unit has been added
to regular equipment and several more A. C. welding units have been
added to be used in training agricultural m$chanics students.
MACHINE SHOP
One instructor was added.
siderable is on order.
No neiN equipment was added, but con-
All new equipment is to be installed in the
new machine shop (formerly the NYA machine shop).
The present shop
has been in use more than 40 years, and much of the equipment is antiquated, although in good working condition.
commodate
25
first year men and
VOORHIS
15
The new shop will ac-
second year men.
UN IT,
SAN
DIMAS
ENROLLMENT
After having been closed for instruction for a three year period
during the war, the Voorhis Unit, citriculture and horticulture branch,
reopened September 11, 1946.
Enrollment for the Fall quarter was 238
students, which was almost double that of normal enrollment prior
to the war.
Of the 238, 197 were veterans and the remaining hl non-
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veterans.
Only 21 men withdrew at the end of the Fall quarter and
December enrollment reached 250.
There were approximately 150 men
eligible for admission who applied but were not accepted because of
limited facilities.
Of the total students enrolled at the beginning
of the Fall quarter, 192 single men were housed in the six dormitories
on the campus, and 13 married students brought their own trailers into a park made available on the campus.
STAFF
Dean of the Voorhis unit, Harold O. Wilson, was an instructor
at the Californ~a Polytechnic College from 1936 to 1940 and Regiohal
Supervisor with the Bureau of Agricultural Education from 1940 to
1945.
Nine instructors and a librarian were added to the staff in
1946.
Two instructors each are assigned to citrus fruit production
and agricultural inspection; one instructor each assigned to agricultural mechanics, general crops and deciduous fruits, public2.tions and
English, mathematics and music , farm accounting and farm management .
J:MPROVEMENTS
During the summer 1946 $29,000 was spent in renovating the physical facilities, including grounds, repair and repainting of buildings,
etc.
NEW EQUIPMENT
The following pieces of equipment were purchased:
new D-2
Caterpillar with a Dyrr offset disk and a furrowing out tool; new
Ford-Ferguson tractor with numerous attachments, including a two-way
plow, scraper blade, cultivator, and rotary broom; new International
1½ ton truck with orchard bed; many hand tools.
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HOUSING
Plans were made in 1946 to erect buildings to accommodate another
80 single men on the campus.
A building approximately 8,000 square
feet in size has been assigned to Voorhis unit from the Santa Ana Army
Air Base through the Federal Works Administration program that will
provide classroom space for another 150 persons.
If facilities are
sufficient to accommodate the students by next Fall, it is anticipated that 400 students will enroll at that time.
LANDS
The present campus covers 157 acres.
Of this 25 acres are suit-
able for farming operations and 17 of that already in oranges, equally divided between Washington Navels and Valencias . Another three ·
acres are planted to avocados of several varieties.
Another 2½ to
three acres are in a variety of deciduous fruits and a few walnut
trees.
Only a few acres are available for truck crops.
EXPANSION
To meet the demand on the part of students, plans have been made
to widen of ferings in deciduous fruits and crops, and to add dairy,
poultry and rabbit production to the offerings.
To add these courses
will necessitate additional land, buildings, and staff .
SPECIAL
PR O G RAMs ·
AGRICULTURAL TEACHER TRAINING
All vocational agricultural teacher candidates f .o r California
a.re selected by the State Bureau of Agricultural Education whose offices are located a.t California Polytechnic.
California Polytechnic
has been giving skills and methods courses for agriculture teacher
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candidates since 1931.
Credit is recorded by the University of
California, under an arrangement approved by both the state and
federal agencies concerned with vocational agricultural teacher
training.
Starting in September, 1946, California Polytechnic ex-
panded its services and is now offering directly not only the skills ·
and methods courses for agriculture teacher candidates, but also the
recommended work in general and professional education.
This program
was approved by the Accreditation Committee at its March 11, 1946
meeting.
Twenty-five to 30 candidates are selected each year from applicants who are graduates of an agricultural college, with a B. S. degree in agriculture, and who meet all qualifications.
Host of the
trainees are either graduates of the University of California at
Davis or California Polytechnic and are usually in contact with the
teacher training staff durine their senior year.
All are weeded out
except those with practical farming experience, good college records,
and demonstrated abilities in lead~rship of farm youth.
Following the period of selection, the teacher candidates are
enrolled for one year of training on the graduate level, with specific
provisions and understanding that there will be a further evaluation
and culling at the end of the first month, or any other time during
the period when it appears the candidate would not make a good agriculture teacher.
This training period is divided roughly into two parts:
1.
A period spent at California Polytechnic to add to technical proficiency and securing professional training through
regular classes under the teacher training department.
2.
A period spent in a selected "critic center" under the careful supervision of an especially-chosen, experienced, voca-
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tional agriculture, critic teacher.
SERVICE AND EXTENSION
The college serves as headquarters for the State Bureau of
J\.gricul tural Education.
From this point, the bureau directly super-
vises vocational agriculture throughout the state; and through the
college provides foundation stock for boys, and teaching materials
for 360 instructors in 196 high schools in California.
program to hir;h schools includes such activities as:
This service
the using of
faculty ~embers to visit schools to discuss with students, dairy,
animal husbandry, crops, poultry, farm mechanics, and other agricultural problems; the writini of articles by Polytechnic instructors
for agricultural magazines; the corresponding by the faculty to advise high school departments on the solution of problems; the judging
of livestock, poultry, and other products at fairs; the furnishing
of breeding stock and hatching eggs to improve the herds and flocks
of Future Farmers throughout the state; the preparing of teaching aids,
such as film strips, price charts, blueprints, photographs, and economic analyses; and the holding of annual conferences on the campus.
Through the president of the college, who is also the 'State Director of Vocational Education, the staff is kept constantly in touch
with new developments in business education, trades and industries,
distributive education, and home-making education.
DRUG AND OIL PLANT PROJECT
This program, which is under the direction of the college, has
offices in Los Angeles with a project director and assistant.
prograrn began in April, 1942, under an emergency grant from the
Governor's Emergency Fund and later supplemented by a special
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The
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•
appropriation of $35,000 by the legislature .
Governor siened a bill appropriating
$~io,ooo
In March, 1946, the
to continue the re-
search and demonstration work in medicinal drugs and oils for which
this state is a potential production area.
During the Fall of 1946 the state leased 1000 acres south of the
college on the Arroyo Grande Mesa, which had proved to be a congenial
host for growing certain types of Eucalyptus trees which are there
now.
Negotiations during the year located a source of Eucalyptus
seed of varieties which produce safrol and citral in Australia and
the seed should be ready for planting early in 1947 in demonstration
plots on the Arroyo Grande Mesa property.
It is planned to set out on this 1000 acres another 435,000
plants as young trees.
The plants, either in seed beds, flats or in
plant bands, are available in the project's nursery at Oceano, and in
outside nurseries which are caring for them for this use.
Late in
1946 JOO acres were prepared for field plantings.
Trial plantings o.f lavender, pennyroyal, oregano, byssop and other
plants have been made on 1000 acres of rented land in Mendocino County,
near Willits.
Transplanted from the
u. s.
Department of Agriculture
station at Salinas to the Mendocino land were Ephedra plants, source
of drug known as Ephedrine.
The r.Tendocino land also contains a sub-
stantial amount of California. Tan Bark Oak trees from which the project will make experimental extractions as an index to production of
tannin from the 3,000,000 acres of these trees now growing in
California.
The project has undertaken the promotion and supervision of domestic production in California of many crops primarily of medical or
condiment nature, and in addition has encouraged the harvesting of
native or cultivated plants in California which are sources of
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.,, .
essential oils .
IJ
C ONC L US I ON
California Polytechnic School, although established in 1901,
is considered by its employees and its students as a new and 0rowing
institution with tremendou$ potentialities .
With the proper leader-
ship and interest, which has always been shown by members of the
staff, a spirit prevails that is stimulating to the average student
as well as to members of the faculty,
The college has sometimes been criticized for being too flexible,
yet the characteristic of flexibility made it possible for the institution to carry on a successful prcigram for the United States Navy
1
where frequent change was· the rule rather than the exception.
So long as a sound core of instruction is maintained and based
on well defined objectives., it has been the experience of the administration of the college that students and staff alike appreciate an
opportunity for the freedom of thought that characterizes the college .
The college that proposes to meet the changing needs of agricultu.re, industry a.nd education must be in a position to accept continually the challenge of change and to develop its program accordingly.
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FOREWORD
~his report deals with the proGress of the California Polytechnic
School* durin.:; the calendar ye2.r, Januar:r 1, 19M to December 31, 1946.
Eowever !J for the benefit of those
w:10
read the report w 10 nay not be
entirely fa~iliar with the history and educational philosophy of this
state college, certain sections have beon included which do not deal
exclusively with activities of the 1946 calendar year.
It is hoped
th2.t the inclusion of a limited anount of bac~(ground material relative
to tho college's unique educational philoso,hy and teaching techniques
will riiake for a better understa.nding of activities which occurred during 19L6 .
Thj_s was the first year since 1943 t1at the l:ie.jor portion o.f
the college's activities was not devoted to military training.
But
even tr..ough 11 of t:-ie 12 months i::1cluded in the report were given over
exclusively to peace- tir.1e pursuits,
:~-r, WQ.~m' t,
until ?ebruary of 1946
Because of a sreatly increase d 0:-~,... _lr::s~-:t, ·:.:.:_-:....c>.. !:ear_/ doubled
11orT1al pre-vrnr em·ollnent figure ~'J ., a:1c: because of !:ousin:; and ex-
pa:nsion pro_ ;~·~--1s :related to prov.:.dir.g ec:ucational op::_Jor~L-:~_··:
~: or
-"- A bill i.s now bE:.f'ore the 57th sessfo~"l oi' the ca2_ :::.__·.~-.:,~ia Le 6 islature
to change the n2..~-:1e frm:i California Polytecimic Sc: -:-c::.. :,o C2.2.L ornia
State Polytechnic College.
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Conclusion of War-Time Programs •
Naval Aviation Training
Foo.d Production War Training
•
•
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•
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.
2
•
.
I
Regular Progr am
Enrollment
Courses of Study
Vocational Objective
Upside Down System •
Admission Requirements
Credit by Examination
Expansion of Offerings
•
New Curricula
Project Operation
•
Student Labor
.
General Farm Operation
Scholarships and Loan Funds
Student Personnel Services
The Library
•
Faculty
• •
FacHities
Lands Ovmed by the College
Long-Tine Buildinf; Program
Housing
.
.
3
•
3
.
8
8
•
•
•
.
.
.
25
27
29
31
•
.
.
Special Programs
•
Agricultural Teacher Training
Service and Extension --.,__ •
Drug and Oil Plant Project
Conclusion
.
35
38
40
•
•
.
•
•
.
•
•
.
.
.
34
34
37
37
37
.
•
32
•
.
Departmental Reports
•
Agricultural Division
•
Agricultural Engineering
Animal Husbandry
Agricultural Inspection
Crops and Fruit Production
Dairy Production and Hanufacturing
Ornamonta.l Horticulture
Poultry Production
Industrial Division
Architectural Engineering
Aeronautical Engineering •
•
Air Conditioning
Electrical Engi.neering
Electronics
•
Mechanical Engineering
Related Industrial Shops
Voorhis Unit, San Dimas
14
17
.
.
13
14
19
21
24
.
.
11
•
40
41
43
.
.
44
45
45
45
46
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48
49
51
47
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FOREWORD
This report deals with the pro8ress of the California Polytechnic
School* during the calendar year, January 1, 1946 to December 31, 1946.
However, for the benefit of those who read the report who may not be
entirely familiar with the history and educational philosophy of this
,,
state college, certain sections have been included which do not deal
exclusivel:r with activities of the 1946 calendar year.
It is hoped
that the inclusion of a limited amount of background material relative
to the college's unique educational philosophy and teaching techniques
will make for a better understanding of activities which occurred during 1946.
This was the first year since 1943 that the major portion of
the college's activities was not devoted to military training.
But
even though 11 of the 12 months included in the report were given over
exclusively to peace-time pursuits, it wasn't until February of 1946
that the naval aviation training progra~ was concluded.
Because of a greatly increased enrollment, which nearly doubled
nonnal pre-war enrollment figures, and because of housing and expansion programs related to providing educational opportunities for
veterans, the calendar year of 1946 was an important epoch in the
educational progress of this state technical college of agriculture
and industry.
➔}
A bill is now before the 57th session of the California Legislature
to change the na~e from California Polytechnic School to California
State Polytechnic College.
ANNUAL
REPORT TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION .
•.
ON ·THE
PROGRESS OF THE CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC
SCHOOL
CONCLUSION
OF
WAR-TIME
PROGRAMS
NAVAL AVIATION TRAINING
The first month of the cal~ndar year of 1946 brought to a successful close the naval aviation training activities of the college
which had begun . thr.ee years before.
Dur1ng the period from January
6, 1943 to November, 1944, more than 3600 naval aviation cadets were
trained at the California Polytechnic Naval Flight Preparatory
School.
A few months prior to the nation-wide discontinuance of this
phase of naval avi~tion training, which was conducted in 17 colleges
in the United States, the Navy selected the college as one of eight
schools to continue a new naval aviation training progra-rn.
This new
program began in July, 194h, and until November of that year, both
procrams ran concurrently.
This latter program, called a Naval Aca-
demic Refresher Unit, continued through February, 1946, with a total ·
of 1100 trainees receiving instruction.
At the time the Naval Academic Refresher program was discontinued
I ,
the Navy requested the school to continue with another nav:r training
program, but the urgent need by returning ex-servicemen for housing
accommodations ~ade it necessary for the college to decline the
invitation .
Despite the fact that the naval aviation training activities of
the college during the three year period were conducted on an "allout" basis, all regular activities of the college were maintained with
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no cessation of educational service.
The faculty was retained with
little change, with most faculty members instructing both civilian and
naval students .
FOOD PRODUCTION WAR TRAINING
Another wa:r-tirne activity of California Polytechnic which was
concluded during the calendar year of 1946 was that of the Food Production War Training program.
This program closed officially on
June 30, 1946 after three years of service in training given to more
than 123,000 California fanners and members of farm families .
California Polytechnic served as state headquarters and the president
of the college was state director of this program .
The program was
financed by the federal govermnent to provide training in methods of
food production for farm workers, preservation and conservation of
food for farm fanilies, and related mechanical skills .
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REGULAR
PROGRAM
ENROLLMENT
Because of lack of facilities, dormitories, classrooms, laboratories, etc., it was necessary to limit the Fall quarter (1946) enrollment to 1809 students.
ment .
This was more than double normal enroll-
Regular facilities of the college were not designed to care
for more than 900 students, and even present emergency provisions for
classrooms, laboratories, and housing are already over-taxed.
Of this
figure of 1809 students, 238 enrolled at the Voorhis branch, near San
Dir.las, and 1571 enrolled at the home campus, San Luis Obispo.
The number of regularly enrolled students at San Luis Obispo were
divided fairly evenly between the agricultural division, with 792, and
the industrial division with 779.
Following is a breakdown of the San
Luis Obispo enrollment by departments, by classes, by counties, etc.
as of November 1, 191~6:
Enrollment By Departments
Agricultural Division
General Agriculture
Industrial Division
. . . . 131*
Agricultural Engineering
General Engineering
32
•
• •
Architecture .
Agricultural Inspection
26
. . . . . . . 154
Air Conditioning . . . . . 186
General Crops
55
Electrical Engineering • . 160
25
Electronics
36
Mechanical Engineering
Animal Husbandry. , . . . . 304
Truck Crops
......
Dairy Production.
Dairy Manufacturing
Fruit Production . . .
34
...
Ornamental Horticulture
Poultry
..
~
. . . . . . .
33
44
65
~
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Aeronautics
.
.. . . . .
84
83
779
*
The majors of General Agriculture
and General Engineering were added
this year to take care of the
overflow from specific departments
where lack of facilities limited enrollment. At the end of the year,
these students will be given a priority over new students in changing
over to the major of their preference.
ENROLLMENT BY CLASSES AND CURRICULUM LEVEL (NOVEMBER, 1946)
AGRICULTURAL
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
VOCATIONAL
TECHNICAL
bEGREE
SPECIAL
95
58
348
43
75
57
4
0
8
8
0
0
9
104
74
4
81
2
~
~
Total Agriculture 792
INDUSTRIAL
VOCATIONAL
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
48
2
TECHNICAL
DEGREE
56
513
87
12
0
0
0
0
bO
)0
SPECIAL
2
0
0
33
2
24
tl;7
4
Total Industrial 779
Grand Total
1571
Source of Financial Aid to Students*
G. I. Bill of Rights (Public Law 346) . . • 1130
Vocational Rehabilitation (Public Law 16) . . 135
State Veterans Welfare Act. . . . . . . . .
6
Earning way or private source . . . . . . . 300
1571
* Note:
Due to the fact that the majority of the students enrolled in
1946 were receiving government financial aid in some form or
another, and were generally eligible because of length of
military service to at least four year's training, there was
more enrollment in the degree curriculum than is normal. If
these men were paying their own expenses, it is probable that
many of them would have enrolled in the shorter vocational or
technical course. In normal years the total enrollment is
divided fairly evenly between the three levels of instruction.
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C OMPARAT IVE
4,
Jan .
Counti
Alameda
Alpine
Amador
Butte
Calaveras
Colusa
Contra Costa
Del Norte
Eldorado
Fresno
Glenn
Hur:1boldt
Imperial
Inyo
Kern
Kings
Lake
Lassen
Los Angeles
Madera
Marin
Mariposa
Mendocino
Merced
Modoc
Mono
~{onterey
Napa
Nevada
Orange
Placer
Plumas
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
Tuolumne
0 F
SU!,! MARY
1940
23
Jan . 1,
1941
25
0
2
6
3
15
1946
19
1946
35
0
0
0
0
1
9
0
1
1
0
0
5
2
1
0
RE GI S TRAT I ON
Nov . 1,
Mar. 21,
17
7
2
13
0
0
0
0
0
0
24
6
23
7
13
12
0
20
1
65
6
12
3
7
7
4
2
17
6
2
18
13
0
3
0
185
1
197
5
6
0
1
1
5
8
3
15
16
4
4
0
0
0
0
3
2
8
29
6
18
1
2
163
397
1
2
3
3
0
1
2
0
0
0
o·
2
9
13
1
0
19
39
8
7
l
12
1
4
0
0
0
0
24
24
9
7
3
34
8
6
0
1
1
25
0
5
1
0
11
4
3
40
32
5
13
28
69
34
19
1
5
24
14
20
13
15
17
19
19
84
16
14
81
134
175
2
7
37
32
18
6
19
15
9
10
34
25
15
9
3
0
0
1
0
1
4
7
0
5
2
10
1
28
1
2
4
1
8
19
7
15
4
0
2
0
2
6
2
1
7
1
0
3
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43
9
19
24
0
22
2
3
0
County
Tulare
Ventura
Yolo
Yuba
Other States &
Foreign Countries
Other States
Foreign Countries
Jan. 4,
1940
Jan. 1,
Mar. 21,
Nov. 1,
1941
1946
1946
15
21
4
9
3
18
8
3
43
34
1
1
11
6
5
29
67
67
179
20
737
*
2
1518
*
Only 1518 of 1571 students registered at the San Luis Obispo campus
were included in this survey as some cards were not available at
the time the study was made. Had the balance been included in this
study, some additional counties would be represented.
V O O R H I S U N I T E N R O L L ME N T
BY
DEPARTMENTS
AND
COUNTIES
November 1, 1946
County
Los Angeles
San Diego
Or ange
Riverside
San Bernardino
Santa Barbara
Fresno
Sacramento
Ventura
Yolo
Kings
Kern
Sonoma
Napa
Santa Cruz
San Luis Obispo
Alameda
San Francisco
Imperial
Tehama
Tulare
Mendocino
Out of State
Out of Country
Ornamental
Horticulture
Fruit
P~oduction
Agricultural
Inspection
Total
30
34
44
4
108
19
20
7
8
9
6
5
4
1
1
1
6
1
1
9
2
1
2
1
1
1
4
6
~
1
734
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6
5
7
2
2
15
14
4
3
1
5
16
1
l
1
1
4
4
2
1
1
2
2
1
1
3
3
1
2
2
2
1
1
1
3
2
9b
13
3
238
A study of the foregoing sunm1ary of registration by counties at
San Luis Obispo and San Dimas shows a percentage distribution of the
counties having the largest representation as follmvs:
California Polytechnic - San Luis Obispo
Los Aneeles . • . . 26.2%
Riverside •.
San Luis Obispo .• 11.05%
Santa Barbara • . • 2.1%
. . . 11.8%
Out-of-state
San Diego .
....
Kern
......
Tulare . . . .
Santa Clara • . . .
..
. 1.8%
Santa Cruz
h.5%
Foreign . .
Fresno
Ventura . .
..
...
. . . . 1.3%
Note: Remaining 33 counties
which are represented in the
enrollment study have less than
1% each of the total.
2.2%
California Polytechnic - San Dimas
. . . . 1+5 .ii~;
. . . . . . 8 .1.i;:;
Los Angeles
Kern
Orange •
Fresno
...
Ventura . . . . . .
Riverside • . . . .
San Diego
San Bernardino
Out-of-state
Santa Barbara
.
....
1.7%
....
1.3%
.....
1.3%
8.0%
Alameda •
6.7%
Out-of-country
6.3%
Sonoma
5.9%
San Luis Obispo
.5-5%
San Francisco
1.7%
Imperial
1.3%
.....
.8%
.
.8%
.8%
.8%
..
The following eight counties have one-half
of one percent: Sacramento, Yolo, Kings,
Napa, Santa Cruz, Tehama, Tulare.
California Polytechnic stands out in contrast to the other state
colleges in that its enrollment is wide-spread throughout the State,
with 50 of the 58 counties represented in the survey made from only
1.518 of the 1571 students enrolled on the San Luis Obispo campus.
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Some directory cards were not filled in properly at the time of the
survey, but had they been complete some additional counties would
have been represented.
A study of the home counties of matriculat-
ing freshmen at the University of California in Berkeley from 1935
to 1946 showed 61.6 percent came from the counties of Alameda, San
Francisco and Contra Costa.
At the University of California at Los
Angeles, 91.78 percent of the freshmen enrolled are from Los Angeles
County .
At Fresno State College, 93.9 percent of the total enroll-
ment for the Fall s.emester of 1938 came from the six counties of the
San Joaquin Valley.
If most of the other state colleges are drawing their enrollment from the immediate vicinity of the schools, how does California
Polytechnic account for this state-wide distribution?
The most im-
portant reason is the fact that this college is the only one of its
kind in the State offering vocational training on a college level.
This college, with its training program built upon the student operation of productive projects, is filling a need and rendering a service which no other institution, because of its facilities, location,
or educational concept, is able or willing to provide.
iraturally the
college's excellent placement record in agriculture and industry has
become known throughout the State and this fact in itself attracts
many students.
COURSES OF STUDY
VOCATIONAL OBJECTIVE
During the calendar year, 1946, the college offered instruction in eleven agricultural and seven industrial majors at the San
Luis Obispo canpus and three agricultural majors at the Voorhis
branch.
The majors of Electronics, Architecture, General Engineering,
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General Agriculture, and Truck Crops were added to the offerings during the year.
These new offerings were the result of considerable
study on the part of the faculty committee for post-war expansion,
and fit in well with the general pattern of vocational training on
a college level .
The addition of such new courses must fit a measured demand for
training in a particular field, and must also fall within the legal
limitations established by the State legislature in 1901 in the act
which founded the school .
Education Code, Chapter 3, Section 206.51 -- "The purpose
of the school is to furnish to young people of both sexes
mental and r.ianual training in the arts and sciences, including agriculture, mechanics, engineering, business
methods, doraestic economy, and such other branches as
will fit the students for the non-professional walks of
life . This article shall be liberally construed, to the
end that, the school may at all times contribute to the
industi-·ial welfare of the State . "
The purpose of the school is clearly defined in the above act,
and the final sentence gives basis for a broad interpretation.
This objective of vocational training for specific occupations has
remained unchanged since it was established 46 years ago .
The fact
that the college does not have women in attendance at the present
time is the result of a legislative act in 1929 which prohibited
them from attending.
Although this law was repealed in 1933, the
college can not accommodate women again until proper dormitory facilities are made available.
During the more than four decades of service to the State of
California the school has raised the level of instruction and has
expanded the number of occupations for which training has been provided, but the basic philosophy has not been modified in the slightest
degree.
The prirnary function of all instruction at California
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Polytechnic is to impart to the students those skills and sciences
necessary to successfully perform the vocational and technical
practices for which they will be employed.
Complementing the strict-
ly occupational training are those subjects which help the student
understand the world in which he lives, which assist him to express
himself, to live harmoniously with other people, and to assume responsibility and community leadership.
The transition of the level of instruction from that of a vocational high school to that of a four year degree granting college
was gradual.
The school began in 1901 as a state vocational high
school, and as such was considerably ahead of its time as far as the
educational philosophy of that day was concerned.
The idea of this
type of vocational training gradually spread to the district high
schools and ultin1ately became a part of the basic Federal and State
programs of vocational education, beginning in 1917.
Because the
school had been established to provide education on a state-wide
basis, and since no level of instruction was proposed in the legislative act which created the institution,it was found necessary ·and
desirable in 1927 to raise the level of instruction to that of a
junior college.
This was done mainly because the concept of vocation-
al training on a high school level had spread to the district high
schools and many of them were by that time providing vocational instruction on a high school level.
In 1933, when the school was made a direct administrative branch
of the State Department of Education and at the same time placed under
the guidance of the Chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Education,
it was changed from a junior college to a two-year and three-year
technical college, offering terminal instruction in agriculture and
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industrial fields.
In 1936 a degree-transfer program was added, and
in 1940 the State Board of Education authorized the school to grant
the 3achelor of Science degree.
That authorization made the school
• a full-fledged four year degree granting college and the first baccalaureate exercises were held in 1942.
This authorization was based
on an attorney general's opinion in the interpretation of Section
4,
Chapter 101 of the 190 Statutes and later in Section 20655, of the
191.:.5 Education Code which reads as follows:
"The California Polytechnic School shall be
governed by the laws governing and regulating
the State colleges insofar as such laws are
applicable to the school."
UPS IDE DOWN SYSTEM
One of the unusual aspects of the instruction at California
Polytechnic is the educational plan which is followed to further carry out the objective of training for the maximum employability and
earning prnfer of every student.
This unique educational plan which
was established at California Polytechnic is sometimes described as
the "upside down educational plan," but it has advantages over the
conventional plan which is leading many educators throughout the
country to agree that it really is the "right side up" plan.
This
plan is characterized by the grouping of as ~any technical and jobgetting courses in the first two years as possible.
In the third and
fourth year the student takes, in addition to courses in his major,
those subjects considered as "background."
The net result of this
system is that a student who completes the four-year course leading
to a degree will have covered. substantially the same program as would
be covered in a similar r.1ajor in a typical agricultural mechanics type
college--but in an inverted order.
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The student comes immediately into contact with the field of his
major interest and choice and thus doesn't feel thwarted by numerous
hurdles which at first seem to him unrelated to his interest.
In ad-
dition he then realizes a need for some "theory" courses which are
taken either concurrently or after his practice.
A third important
advantage, is that this system enables the student to earn a living,
usj_ng the skills he has leat'ned; at whatever point he may be forced
to leave school because of finances, being needed at home, or other
reasons.
This educational pattern definitely improves the immediate
earning capacity of those students, who, for various reasons, complete their formal education after one or two years of college, as
so many of them in all colleges do.
Naturally, if the student is
able to complete the four-year course his opportunities for success
in the more highly paid positions will be greatly increased.
As is indicated by the footnote relating to the enrollment chart
on Page
4,
the proportion of degree students to technical and voca-
tional students in 1946 is not normal.
Normally about two-thirds
of the students have nq intention of taking a degree course when they
enter.
Because of the "upside down" plan, it is possible to run the
vocational and technical courses closely parallel with the degree
program.
This enables students who enter in the vocational or tech-
nical courses to change their program if they desire, and, without
too much shifting of courses, complete a final year or two leading
to a degree.
The longer curricula vary principally from the two
shorter programs in that a greater number of courses in social, biological and physical sciences are given, but actual occupational
instruction is emphasized in all three levels.
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Below is a diagram which shows hOvV this plan works:
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It should be noted in studying the chart that under
the ''upside... dovm" plan the emphasis during the first
and second years of training is placed upon the courses
in the occupational field of the student's interest.
The related physical and biological sciences and related social science courses, which help one to know
the "why," represent a relatively small portion of the
total course content during the early years of the program, and become increasinly important as one nears the
completion of his training period.
ADMISSION REQUIREUENTS
There has been no change in the admission requirements during
the past year, except that a number of non-hieh school ~raduates were
admitted under the State Board of Education ruling that any veteran
of World War II, who served 90 days or more in the armed services,
may enter as a regular student whether he has completed high school
or not.
With the exceptions of students who enter under this pro-
vision and under the provision for persons over 21 years of age as
"special students," high school graduation is a prerequisite for admission to any of the three levels of instruction.
Other require-
ments are that the student must submit evidence of fitness to profit
by college instruction; such fitness to be shown by previous scholastic records, by evidence of good moral character and personal
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qualifications, and by a satisfactory score on such aptitude tests
as are given.
It is the opinion of the administrators of the college
that admission of a student, and his progress through the school,
should be based upon demonstrated and continuing ability and interest, rather than the previous completion of a pattern of courses
under a totally different environment.
CREDIT BY EXAl~iINATION
Of particular value to returning servicemen during the past year
was the provision for receiving full credit for a course by challenge
examination.
Many of the ex-servicemen students had gained adequate
knowledge of certain subjects required in their curricula through
special military training programs or through experience.
Because
one of the objectives of California Polytechnic is to encourage maximum development, provisions are made to give full credit to any
student who can prove by a written or oral examination or by a demonstration, that he has an adequate knovdedge of all material which
would be covered in the course which he wishes to challenge.
This
provision allows the student to extend his educational experience
rather than to review what he has mastered already.
EXPANSION OF OFFERINGS
In 1946 California Polytechnic was accredited by the State Board
of Education to give the Special Secondary Credential in Vocational
Agriculture and the Special Secondary Limited Credential in Agriculture.
This authorization followed passage of Senate Bill 788, which
amended Sections 20451 and 20452 of the Education Code so that the
state colleges could give courses "of such length as may be necessary to fulfill the requirements for the various credentials approved
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for the teacher-training program of that college by the State Board
of Education ."
Because of the four-year linitation prior to passage
of this bill, an arrangement had been in force through which the
University of California granted credit for work taken at California
Polytechnj_c by agriculture teacher candidates .
This arrangement had
been in operation since 1931 with the Commission on Credentials,
University of California, accepting the work done at California
Polytechnic as meeting requirements for the special credentials in
vocational agriculture.
This arrangement 1vas broadened about seven
years ago and the credit for work taken at California Polytechnic has
been used not only to meet the requirements for the credentials in
agriculture, but also to satisfy most of the requirements for a
general secondary credential .
When Senate Bill 788 became law, California Polytechnic expanded its services and is now offering not only the skills and
methods courses for agriculture teacher candidates, but also the
reconmended work in general and professional education.
This pro-
gram was approved by the Accreditation Conmiittee at its March 11,
1946 meeting. The cooperative arrangement with the University of
California also is still in operation .
As a continuation to and an expansion of California Polytechnic's
present program the college submitted on December, 1946 a 158 page report giving a complete picture on completed and contemplated educational expansion as the basis for an application to the Connnittee on
Accreditation, State Board of Education, for the folloviing:
Regular re-accreditation for:
The Special Secondary Credential in Vocational Agriculture
The Special Secondary Limited Credential in Agriculture
Original regular accreditation for:
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The General Secondary Credential with majors in
Social Studies
Mathematics
Life Science and General Science
Physical Science and General Science
Agriculture
Physical Education
The Special Secondary in Physical Education
In complying with the recommendation made by the Committee on
Accreditation (Appendix to l~inutes, Feb. 28 to March 1, 1946)
California Polytechnic established a Department of Education, and
has employed Dr. Neil M. Daniels and Dr. F. C. Snow, both of whom
have had appropriate training and experience in teacher education.
To complement the college's present services in the field of
agriculture and industry, California Polytechnic has broadened its
offerings in the Related Subjects Division with undergraduate work
in progress and graduate work planned in mathematics, social science,
life science, physical science, and physical education.
The vocational agricultural teacher training work which California
Polytechnic has been giving and which has proved successful, as shown
by the record of the teachers we have placed in the field, fits into
the pattern of the general secondary credential.
Agricultural and
industrial curricula already provide for vrnrk which is more than the
equivalent of the state nin:i..mum for a teaching minor in the science,
mathematics and social science fields.
However, to strengthen these
offerings, the faculty was increased in 1946 by 56 new staff members,
including ten with doctorates and all with appropriate experience,
and the offerings expanded to the place where the college now can
offer a B. S. degree vrith majors in :s:athematics, Social Science,
Life Science and Physical Science.
In addition to these new degree
majors the college is novr adequately staffed to train applicants for
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the Special Secondary in Physical Education and the General Secondary
with teaching majors in Agriculture and Physical Education.
In establishing degree majors in the Related Subjects Division
the college is strengthening and supplementing its work in engineering and agriculture with the same objective as it has always had--to
place adequately trained men in agricultural and industrial production .
The college is adding to this objective another--to place
teachers adequately trained in selected and related fields in the
secondary schools of California--teachers who not only know the theory,
but who have seen it applied and who can challenge secondary school
pupils with the value of the activities in which they are engaged.
Provisions were made during November, 1946, for training general secondary teacher candidates in critic schools located near the
college.
The college respectfully requested the Committee on Accredi-
tation to pass favorably upon the application prior to June 1, 1947,
so that summer school students could take advantage of present and
proposed offerings in working toward additional credentials.
NEW CURRICULA
Beginning in 1946 three new degree majors were established and
organization was completed for a fourth new degree major to be opened
to enrollment in the Spring quarter.
Architectural Engineering
A four-year course leading to the B. S. degree in Architectural
Engineering was opened to enrollment in September, 1946, and 27 students entered .
The three-year technical and two-year vocational cur-
ricula in architecture were resurned after being discontinued during
the war years.
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Electronics and Radio
The new four-year course leading to the B.
s.
degree in Electronics
Engineering was an outgrowth of the regular Electrical Engineering curricula.
The Electrical Engineering department specializes in "power"
while the new Electronics department deals with "communications" and
its allied fields.
The new department began in March, 191.i.6, with 25
students enrolling in the de gree course.
By Fall of 1946 the depart-
ment had 89 students majoring in Electronics.
Agricultural Engineering
The demand on the part of students for a four-year degree course
in Agricultural Engineering was answered in the Fall, 1946, when the
fourth year was added to the existing Agricultural Mechanics vocational and technical curricula .
Thirty~two students are majoring in
Agricultural Engineering, but in addition to that the department is
acting as a service agency to all other agricultural departments
with 611 students enrolled in required agricultural mechanics courses.
Printing
A four-year de gree course in Printin6 , one of the few such degree
courses in t he United St ates, was established in 1946 with a full-time
printing instructor employed in October, 1946.
This course, vrhich has
received the whole-hearted endorsement and staunch backing of the
California Newspaper Publisher's Association, will accept limited enrollment in the Spring quarter, 1947.
The major task confronting the
new instructor was overhauling the college's print shop equipment,
re-equipping the shop, and moving it to its new location in the
Publications Wing, Administration Building .
Graduates of this course
will have practical training in all fields of the printing trades,
with related work in rural journalism, social sciences, physical
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sciences, and other required subjects.
California with its more than
300 small daily and weekly newspapers has many excellent opportunities
for well-trained printer-journalists.
PROJECT OPERATION
Closely tied in with the college's objective of training students primarily for an occupation is the college's unique project
system.
This system consists of self-owned or managerial projects
operated by students in such a way as to give knowledge in the commercial production and marketing of agricultural products or in the
construction, rebuilding, repair, or maintenance of industrial machinery and equipment.
This combination of the very practical "learn
by doing" and "earn while you learn" philosophies not only enables a
student to earn money while doing work directly related to his major
academic interest, but also creates an added incentive for the more
rapid acquisition of further skills and knowledge to the end that the
projects will be more profitable.
In each major department students are encouraged by their instructors
to take part in project activities, either individually or as a group.
There is available a $90,000 revolving fund from which students may
borrow to get the money for an investment in livestock, ornamental
plants, seeds, feed, machinery to be rebuilt, etc.
No co-signer is
required for a student to borrow from the project fund, and the fund
is so operated as to guarantee against individual student financial
loss.
Most popular agricultural projects are those of fattening live-
stock, raising foundation beef, sheep, swine ~r dairy cattle; conducting individual dairy projects or operating the project herd as a
group; operating the poultry unit as a project or as individual projects; growing ornamentals or field and truck crops .
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In the industrial departments the projects are usually group
projects rather than individual projects.
In aeronautics, for example,
the department, which is the 84th government approved repair station
in the United States and operates under strict C.A.A. regulations,
accepts aircraft or engines damaged beyond feasible commercial repair to be overhauled for their owners or to be purchased out-right
and rebuilt by students.
The project fund of 090,000 is not state money, but is a fund
which grew out of a loan arrangement started in 1924 with the Citizen's
St2te Bank which enabled students to borrow directly from the bank to
finance their projects.
Faculty members of the school stood behind
this arrangement to protect the bank.
From the very beginning of this
project system, the school took a percentage of each student's net
profit for the purpose of establishing a revolving fund.
Because of
the small enrollment in the early years of the project system, the
revolving fund was too small to handle the financing of all projects.
Up until 1932 students were still borrowing money through the bank
to finance many of the projects.
After 1933, the college's rapid
growth was instrumental in building the fund up to its present size.
This fund is administered by a non-profit corporation known as
the California Po+ytechnic School Foundation, the board of directors
of which are all faculty members, which arrangement was made through
the State Departments of Education and Finance.
The Foundation is
allowed to operate under lease with the State Department of Finance
which limits the use of the corporation's funds.
The accounts are
audited by the Department of Finance and at the close of a fiscal
year any cash or securities in excess of the given working capital,
which has been set at $90,000 is sent to the General Fund of the
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state.
The project system of instruction is carried on at the
Voorhis Unit of the college as well as at San Luis Obispo.
A limiting factor on the operation of the project system at the
present time is lack of space for expansion, inadequate facilities,
etc.
For example, in the Animal Husbandry department lack of barn
space and insufficient grazing land limit the number of animals which
can be raised and thereby limits the number of students who can experience project operation.
In 1946, only 130 of the 400 students
in Animal Husbandry carried livestock projects because of lack of
facilities.
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These students marketed 130 fed cattle, 500 fat hogs,
fed lambs at a total gross market value of $60,000.
Project operation in the other agricultural departments is on
an equally large scale, but each is lir1ited in expansion by lack of
facilities.
For more specific information on project activities dur-
ing 1946 in each department consult the Departmental Reports in Section IV of tl1is Annual Report.
STUDENT LABOR
In addition to the opportunities for students to earn money
through managerial and self-ovmed projects, California Polytechnic
uses a maximum number of students to operate the college farm and
handle grounds and campus maintenance on the 2083 acres at San Luis
Obispo and 150 acres at the Voorhis Unit.
The college was forced to
hire some full-time farm, janitor, gardener and dining hall help
during the war~years, and the situation has not yet ~eturned to the
pre-war condition of competition between several students for every
available job.
Naturally, the fact that from 70 to 80 percent of the
students are receiving government financial aid in some form or another, ·
makes for less competition among students for the jobs.
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In addition to absorbing a great amount of on-campus student
labor, the college has an employment office where off-campus job
opportunities are handled under direction of an instructor assigned
part-time to that duty.
Following is a recapitulation of a typical month of on-campus
student work as shown in the Foundation and State payroll reports for
December 1946:
San Luis
Obispo
STUDENT LABOR - STATE PAYROLL
FOR MONTH OF DECEI@ER, 1946
San Luis Obispo
Voorhis
Number
Voorhis
Number
Employees* Payroll Total
Employees* Payroll
• Adm.
106.88
6
21.83
2
106.88
6
Total
21.83
2
-
Instr.
AP0
28
I nd .
R .S.
Lib.
25
p .I~.: .
1
628.25
[i37.53
231.13
120.76
57.38
25
6
85
h5.oo
2
1475.05
45.00
-2
I:1 . 0.
Bldg.
Grds.
Autos
Repairs
5
Farm
Gen.
Crops.
Dairy
4
5
)t= .A.
9
Poultry
Totals
581.51
243.30
225.75
130.20
27
13
4
h
1180 . 76
49
153.00
42 .23
40.69
253.70
133.73
2
11
13
1
196.SO
135.15
32.40
19.20
106.80
1
Orch.
364 .05
25
8
24
623.35
9
126 .00
164
3386.04
38
556.88
* As the number of different employees suggests, every effort is made
to employ many different students in order to provide experience to
as large a percentage of the total enrollment as practicable.
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STUDENT LABOR - FOUNDATION PAYROLL
FOR MONTH OF DECEMBER, 1946
Project Fund - San Luis Obispo
Number of
Employees*
Payroll
37
758 .52
Dairy
Beef
Hogs
Sheep
Horses
Poultry
Crops
Feed
1
3
1
1
20.15
100 . 75
20.15
21 . 45
12
324.62
8
137 . 20
4
b7
Total
Total
43 .50
1, 426 . 34
Cafeteria Dormitory - San Luis Obispo
Cafeteria
Dormitory
89
66
1333 .10
1011.31
2,344 .41
Cafeteria Dormitory - San Dimas
Cafeteria
Dormitory
17
16
208 . 70
161 . 70
2
65 . 80
4
138 . 00
Administration Office Salaries
San Luis Obispo
Veterans Housing
Grand Total
i{•
138 . 00
4,344 .94
As the number of different employees suggests, every effort is made
to er:iploy many clifferent students in order to provide experience to
as large a percentage of the total enrollment as practicable.
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GENERAL FARM OPERATION
During 1946 about 330 acres of state land and 83 acres of project-leased land was farmed and produced a good harvest of oats and
vetch, alfalfa, small grains, and corn for ensilage.
Summary Crops Production - 1946
-
Value
Amount
Acres
-
Land
Crops
185
State
Oats & Vetch
420 Tons
$8,394.90
47.8
State
Alfalfa
117.7 Tons
) 2,382.00
25
State
Small Grains
25 .5 Tons
t~l, 081.00
23
State
Corn ( ensilage)
200 Tons
$1,000.00
Hay
121 Tons
~?2, 420.00
Project-leased
83
State
48.3
48.3 Acres
Irrigated Pasture
<_'-.
qi
396.40
The Fall of 1946 was dry and the outlook for next year's crop is
none too good.
Lack of rainfall has emphasized the need for a study
of water resources which the college is conducting.
committee is studying several possibilities:
from the Salinas River Reservoir
2.
Obtaining water
Building a dam on the college
property to store flood waters on ovin land
nearby Laguna Lake
1.
At present the
3. Bringing water from
4. Further develop own wells
5.
Purchase· ad-
joining property on which a good irrigation well is located.
During the year the farm acquired a new International TD14, 60
horse-power, tractor; two Ford Ferguson tractors, used pr~narily in
student truck crops projects; an All-Crop Harvester to harvest small
crops.
The farm also acquired several additional plots of land:
14 acres
of land adjacent to the dairy which had heretofore been leased, and
2
3/h
acres adjacent to the citrus grove.
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The farm will receive considerable benefit from the new allmetal Farm Mechanics Building (120 x 180 foot with a 60 by 60 foot
wing) which was begun in July, 1946 and will be finished around May,
1947. The building will be equipped for the maintenance, servicing,
and repair of tractors and other farm machinery to be housed there.
There is need for additional farming land to produce the feed
for livestock an(,! give room for student crop projects.
Near the end of the year, the farm received a. very valuable
gift in the form of three registered purebred Suffolk draft mares
donated by Norman McLeod, Pomona.
Of the three new mares, one has
foaled since it arrived on the campus and the other two are expected
to foal soon.
They replaced three old work horses.
SCHOLARSEIPS AND LOAN FUNDS
During 1946 two additions were made to the number of scholarships offered to students at California Polytechnic.
The Bank of America is offering one $200 agriculture scholarship to an outstanding Future Farmer to be awarded at a Marketing Day.
The San Francisco Downtown Optimists Club is offering one ~?50
agriculture scholarship to be awarded at the Junior Livestock Show,
Cow Palace, San Francisco.
Other additions and changes made recently to scholarships offered
include:
W. P. Rucklos established a new $100 annual scholarship award
to a worthy aeronautical student who has completed the freshman year
here.
The Rucklos Calcium Carbonate company established a new 0100
annual scholarship award to a worthy animal or dairy husbandry student who has completed the freshman year here.
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The Sears, Roebuck and Company is continuing to offer up to $2000
in freshman scholarships to worthy agricultural students wishing to
attend California Polytechnic.
The South San Francisco and Stockton Union Stockyards Company
has increased its award from one $100 annual scholarship to two
:noo
annual scholarships to be awarded to Future Farmers on the basis of
excellence of perfotmance in beef, sheep or hog project work.
The E. C. Loomis and Son Scholarship has been increased from
one ~50 annual award to one 0100 annual award to an outstanding
graduate of t he high school vocational agriculture department at San
Luis Obispo, Arroyo Grande, Santa J\!aria, or Cambria .
Philip R. Park, Incorporated, has increased their one annual $100
scholarship to tvro $100 annual awards to worthy boys who have completed
two years of outstanding work at California Polytechnic in aninal husbandry, dairy or poultry production.
Other scholarships being continued are:
the Safeway Stores, Inc.,
$100 annual scholarship; t he Poultrymen's Cooperative Association of
Southern Calif ornia, :)100 annual scholarship; the Washburn and Condon,
($100 annual scholarship; the Challenge Creamery $100 annual scholarship; the Carl Raymond Gray, four (;100 scholarships; and the Sears,
Roebuck and Company, $200 sophomore scholarship .
LOAN FUNDS
The principal source of loans is the Leopold Edward Wrasse Loan
Fund.
This loan fund was established by a gift of $25,000 in bonds
from an elderly Fresno County farmer in 1938 for the benefit of deserving boys desirous of an education and needing financial assistance.
The bonds were sold by the school for ~28,000. When Hr .
Wrasse died February 1, 1945, at the age of 96, his will contained
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a provision that the net income from approximately $400,000 of his
estate would go to the college to augment this loan fund after certain other provisions of the will were fulfilled.
Interesting as-
pect of this will was the .fact that i\Ir . Wrasse, youngest of 17 named
relatives who were last known to have been living in Germany, requested that any of these 17 relatives who were found to be living
were to receive the interest from the estate until their death.
that time the college is to receive the entire amount.
At
At present
there is approximately $4,500 available for loans during the school
year 1946-47.
Two other loan funds were established in the past year.
The
Veterans Loan Fund, a short time loan fund, was established by the
California Polytechnic Women's Club for assistance of needy veteranstudents.
The California Polytechnic :Memorial Loan Fund was esta.blished
from the contributions of numerous persons.
It is designed to aid
needy students where immediate financial assistance is needed.
Other loan funds available are:
the Rotary Club fund, the
California Polytechnic Women's Club Fur1d, The Student AccolTilnodation Loan Fund and the Wilder Memorial Loan Fund.
STUDENT PERSONNEL SERVICES
Latest service to veteran students added in 1946 was that of a
complete Veteran's Administration Guidance and Counseling service established in offices in the Administration Building on a contract
basis between the Veteran's Administration and the college.
This
vocational guidance and counseling service for veterans began operation in December, 1946.
Since 1945 there has been a field representative contact office
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of the Veteran's Administration on the campus, and since April, 1946
there has been a training office for counseling Public Law 16 veterans.
The men in charge of both of these offices are former Polytech-
nic students who work in close cooperation with the College's Director of Testing and Guidance.
To further coordinate guidance service for the returning service men, the college has established the Committee on Veteran's
Education which is composed of representatives from the Dean's office, the Registrar's office, the Recorder's office, personnel in
charge of resident students, the Comptroller 's office, Veteran's
Administration personnel and the Director of Testing and Guidance.
Whether for the veteran or non-veteran the individual and group
counseling plan tries to meet basic human problems.
This plan in-
cludes a preliminary testing program for finding the student's educational needs; a course in Personal Development which includes such
topics as how to study and take notes, how to read and study scientific material; how to maintain mental health; and how to develop
personal, social and vocational proficiency .
Individual conferences
are held to aid the student to self-discovery and the best solution
of his problem.
The college recognizes that men with varying academic backgrounds
have difficulty in immediate adjustment to college courses.
In order
to keep men from dropping out for lack of some previous training or
because the training was acquired sometime ago, the college has established "refresher" courses in English, mathematics and science.
Credit in these courses may not be used for fulfilling degree requirements, but makes it possible for students to enter regular
courses without handicap.
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As an added service faculty members also conduct evening coaching sessions in a variety of subjects to aid students, principally
veterans, who may find it very difficult to keep up with their regular assignments.
Guidance is not considered the province of a specialist alone
at California Polytechnic.
Department heads are expected to become
well acquainted with the qualifications of their students, and in
fact, are held largely rP-sponsible for the placement of their graduates.
STUDENT RECORDS
The college recognizes that sound personnel services depend upon adequate student records.
Students are encouraged to go to the
Director of Testing and Guidance or to the Recorder to exa..rnine their
records to discuss past perfonnance and future plans.
PLACE1.1ENT
Because California Polytechnic emphasizes education for production, its students have little difficulty in finding employment through
department heads and the office of placement, where representatives
of industry and agriculture meet students and frequently offer them
positions months before they have completed work for the degree.
The record of placement of agriculture teacher candidates is 100%
since only enough outstanding students are admitted to the teacher
training program to fill the vacancies which will exist the following year.
THE LIBRARY
Great strides in the expansion and improvement of library service were made during 1946.
A faculty committee survey of the or-
ganization and needs of the library was completed early in 1946 and
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led directly to the appointment of three librarians holding professional degrees in library science and the employment of one fullt.irne and two part-time clerical assistants .
Funds were also made
available for the appointment of another trained librarian and the
position will be filled as soon as a suitable applicant can be found .
Request for increased personnel has been made in the next biennium
bud~et for the appointment of two trained librarians in 1947 and one
trained librarian in 1948, and. the employment of one clerical assistant in 191.i 7.
Durine the year final plans were completed by the State Division
of Architecture for a new library building to cost '~400,000.
This
building will be the first pemanent post-war building to be constructed on the campus.
It will provide adequate housing for 130,000
volumes and a seating capacity of .528 persons.
At the beginning of the Fall quarter, the present library was
.
enlarged by the addition of a new res erve book room adjacent to the
present main reading room.
Additional study hall space with a seat-
ing capacity of seventy was made available near one of the dormitories .
An additional result of the survey has been an increase in the
appropriation for the purchase of books in order to meet the increased
demands of the students and faculty upon the resources of the library.
The original book budget for 1946-47 was $5,000; it was later increased by ~2000 more.
For 1947-48 $10,000 has been requested.
This
is exclusive of money to be spent for periodicals and operating expenses.
The library now subscribes to 305 magazines and four daily
papers, two weekly papers and the Sunday edition of the New York Times .
Seventy-six periodicals were added to the subscription list in the
Fall of 1946 ,
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Other additions in 1946 were the purchase of the Education Index
and the Industrial Arts Index services as an aid to patrons who desire to do research work .
These are in addition to the Agricultural
Index, the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, and the Educational Film Index to which the college has subscribed for many years.
In order to improve the service, re-cataloguing and re-labelling
of the books began in the Fall of 1946.
A comparative study of accessions and expenditures for 1945-46
and 1946-47 follows:
1945-46
1946-47
6h5
Total volumes added
Expen. purchase library books
Expen. staff salaries
Expen. purchase periodicals
Expen. maintenance & operation
1675
$7000
$1700
$1991
:) 400
$9600
$ 500
0 640
c1200
FACULTY
The addition of fifty-six new staff members during the current
school year, including ten with doctorates and all with appropriate
experience were appointed prior to December 31, 1946.
This brought
the total teaching and administrative staff to 95 full-time persons
and two part-time persons .
The following chart indicates the amount
of preparation as indicated by earned degrees and equivalent preparation:
1,
Full
Part
Time
Time
Total
Percent of
Total Facult;!
Doctor's Degree or
Equivalent preparation
12
12
12
60 Semester Hours of
Graduate Study, excluding those listed above
1
1
1
Master's Degree or Equivalent preparation
31
1
32
32
Bachelor's Degree or
Equivalent Preparation
1
47
49
5
6
100
Less than Bachelor's
degree
46
5
~31T
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FACILITIES
A number of new buildings have been added to existing facilities during the year 1946.
Construction on four new buildings of a
permanent nature was begun and is rapidly nearing completion:
1.
Aero Hangar and Shop, 100 ft. x 120 ft.
2.
One Agricultural Mechanics and Fann Machinery Building,
100 x 180 ft. with 60 x 60 ft. wing.
J.
One Dairy Building including space for judging for dairy
classes during bad weather.
4.
Central Feed Processing and Storage Plant, 60 ft. x 60 ft.,
that will be used extensively by students in grinding, mixing, and preparing feeds for livestock projects on the campus. This feed mill includes 8 storage tanks, 21 ft. x 18
ft. X 6 ft.
In addition to the permanent buildings, forty 20 ft. x 48 ft.
temporary buildings have been moved onto the campus for classroom and
laboratory purposes.
for use as classrooms.
Tvrenty of these units are now being equipped
The remaining units are distributed over the
campus in connection with existing laboratories and will be used as
laboratories and shops in the various departments,
An addition to the present Poultry Plant is nearing completion
and will more than double the present facilities for instruction,
particularly in killing, dressing and preparing birds for market.
A lack of adequate athletic facilities to take care of the physical education needs of an enrollment more than double normal is being rapidly remedied vri th the adcli tion of a new $60,000 athletic field,
which provides a new track, new practice football field, and a complete
new baseball field.
The biennium budget for the coming two years as submitted, would
make it possible to replace a great deal of the outmoded mechanical
equipment, both in the shops and on the farm, and more than double
the science laboratory equipment.
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Listed below is a summary of the Buildings, Grounds and Equipment
at the California Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo (does not include
Voorhis Unit nor the college library):
BUILDINGS, GROUNDS AND EQUIPMENT
(except library unless specified)
1.
Number of buildings used for educational purposes -11._; for dormitory purposes .1:.£_; for other purposes -2:z_.
2.
Number of regular classrooms available:
Seating 1-15 4;
16-30 10;
45-60 -11._;
61 and over _L;
-
-
31-45
_g_;
Total
_a_.
3. Types of special rooms available:
Student
Capacity
Type
Auditorium
4 Ind.Demonstration Rooms
3 Ag.Demonstration Rooms
Typing Room
Printing Room
Music Room
Projection Room
4.
450
120
90
15
15
I
60
30
Special equipment and/or
remarks as to use
Stage, piano-used for lectures
Demon.table,gas,water,and sink.
Special demonstration equipment.
r;ypewri ters
Print.mach.,Linotype,press,etc.
Recording Equip.Instru.music.uniform.
Projectors & black-out (piano stor./
! blinds.
Laboratories and Shops.
Laboratory
or shop
Student !Aver . annual Amount / Present Value ! Fee
Capacityiexpenditure budgeted ' apparatus and per
equipment
student
past 5 yrs. this yr.
Do not keep expenditu re records
Nil
h50
ff
or
apparatu
s
value
by
individual
100
rooms.
30
"
9 Ag. Instr. Units
4 Aeronautics Shops
Air Condition. Shop
Sheet Metal Shop
20
12 Electrical Shops
55
'2 I~!achine Shops
75
3 Ag. Mechanic Shops
75
4 Drafting Labs.
110
Power Plant
~u
l~achine Shop
25
Nelding Shop
40
2 Chemistry Labs.
50
2 Physics Labs
60
2 Bio•Science Labs.
50
5. Value of property owned by institution.
Grounds (assessed value)
Buildings (assessed value)
Furniture-including apparatus
Library (books only)
Other property-included in Furniture & Apparatus
Total Property
"
"
"
"
ft
"
"
ft
ft
1
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ft
"
$
:J..82,676.75
3,100,223 . 81
555,426 .57
25,655.23
$ 3,863,982 .36
LANDS OWNED BY THE COLLEGE
The la.nds of the California Polytechnic College total about
2,233 acres, of which 2,083 acres are embraced in the home unit at
San Luis Obispo and 150 acres in the Voorhis unit at San Dimas.
Because of the type of agricultural instruction given at both the
home unit and the branch, the availability of good farm land is a
ma,jor factor .
Additions must be made soon because of increased en-
rollnent, in order to give each student as much opportunity as possible .for actual project operation.
There are several hundred acres
at San Luis Obispo suitable only for range purposes .
devoted to hay, alfalfa and orchard.
Other land is
The major campus and land im-
mediately surrounding the various buildings now require
acres.
about 100
Additional land must be obtained for truck crops especially.
At San Dimas about JO acres of the land utilized for citrus, avocados and small deciduous tract, are well adapted to these uRes.
siderable of the land is not suitable for expansion.
Con-
Additional ad-
jacent farming land is needed particularly for student-owned project
operations.
LONG-TIMI:: BUILDHTG PROGRAE
In the report submitted by the di.rector of finance to the legislature in January, 1946, the college had eleven construction projects listed in the first overall priority list, and sixteen projects
listed in the second priority list for the State Departnent of Education.
A swrr of $1,796,267 will be set aside from Fair and Exposition
f _unds if they are made available to cover the first eleven i terns.
The second group of items on the priority list are covered by a sum
of ~~li, 511,800 provided this is made available from horse racing
funds.
Following is the list of projects:
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In the first group of projects are the following:
Library and Classroom Building . . . . . . . $ 400,000
Water Tank and Distribution System
. . .
14,000
Central Feed Storage Unit . . . . . . . . .
66,667
Utility Building & Distribution System . . . 224,933
Poultry Instruction Plant • . . . • .
100,000
Replace Corral Fences ., . . . . . . .
26,667
Athletic Field and Addition to Gymnasium •• 133,000
Aeronautics and Industrial Shop . . • . . • 352,000
Agricultural Mechanics Building . . ,. . . . 202,000
Corporation Yard and Garage . . . . . . . . 124,000
Science Unit No. 1 . . . . . . .
. . . 153,000
$1,796,267
In the second group of projects are the following:
Farm Buildings, Propagation House, etc • • •
Addition to Electric Laboratory . . . . . .
Engineering Building . . . . . . . . . . . .
Farm Buildings (Farm Implement Storage,
Veterinary Hospital, Swine Isolation
Unit, & Livestock Judging Pavilion) . . .
Food Processing Building . . . . .
. ..
Women's Dormitory
. . .
. . . .
Men's Gymnasium . . . . . . . . . . • . , .
Cafeteria and Kitchen . . . .
. . . . .
Infirmary • . . • . . . . . • . • •
Agricultural Classroom Unit , . . . . . . .
Addition to Administration Building . . . .
Permanent Roadways and Grounds Improvement .
Auditorium and l,:usic Building . . . .
Residences for Employees
. . . . . .
Extension to Beef Unit. . . . . . . . . . .
Extension of Utilities . . . . . . . . . . .
184,533
20,000
199,000
175,000
200,000
124,000
134,000
116,000
32,000
199,000
100,000
5'20,000
387,000
67,000
31,000
227,000
$2,715,533
• $4,511,800
HOUSING
Most serious problem confronting the college in 1946 was that
of housing a record enrollment of students, and also of providing
housing for new staff members, many of whom would not accept a position unless housing arrangements could be made.
Because California
Polytechnic's enrollment is 90 percent out-of-town students, housing
is always an important problem.
At the beginning of the l946 Fall
quarter, the college was forced, because of delays in receiving
authorization to use Camp San Luis Obispo, to house 150 students
tenporarily in the gymnasium, 135 in the farm machinery shop, 75
in the dormitory loun8es.
While waiting for a release on the Army
Camp, pernission to use the city's newly acquired USO Building was
granted for 30 days, and 200 students were moved into the USO quarters.
Accormrrodations were arranged for 300 students to be housed
in the Guest houses and Bachelor Officer quarters at the Army Camp
some five miles from the campus when clearance was finally granted .
Of the nearly 400 married students attending the college, 125
married veterans families are housed in the on-campus veterans'
village consisting of 75 one and two-bedroom movable house units, and
50 trailer uni ts.
This housing for married students vras arranged in
November, 1945, with the National Housing Agency, and the college
paid i$l.~J, 195 to the firm of Close and Levris for moving and installing the units on the campus early in 1946.
They are now complete-
ly landscaped, have central wash rooms with electric washing machines, and all modern conveniences .
A mobile food market, operated
as a private business by tvrn veteran students, serves the on-campus
residents with a complete line of groceries, vegetables, meats , etc.
JIIilk and poultry products, as well as fruit and truck crops, can be
purchased by these families at the campus sales stores of these departments .
To help alleviate the housing shortage problem facing new
instructors, the college brought in five four-apartment units in the
Fall of 1946 to house 20 faculty families .
These were installed and
ready for occupancy in December, 1946 .
A site had been cleared and all arrangements completed for bringing to the campus an additional 188 trailer uni ts"
When the federal
gover11L1cnt withdrew all financial support for such projects last
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December
14, it was necessary for the college to temporarily post-
pone the installation of these units pending satisfactory financial
arrangements.
DEPARTMENTAL
REPORTS
AGRICULTURAL DIVISION
AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
At the opening of the Fall quarter, 1946, there were 611 students
enrolled in agricultural mechanics classes, which are required of all
agricultural students.
In addition there were 32 s·tudents majoring
in this department, in either the new four-year degree course, or the
two or three year vocational and technical curriculum.
Three new men were added to the staff in 1946, making a total
of four and one-half.
In 1947 the department will need a total of
nine men on the staff.
No new courses were added in 1946 but courses in Farm Carpentry,
Farm Povrnr, Irrigation, Farm Electricity, Farm Structures, which had
not been given for several years because of the war-time decrease in
enrollment, were re-established.
Next year new courses such as en-
gineering surveying will be added for the degree majors.
Two new shops, established in buildings built in 1940-41 for the
National Youth Administration, were completely equipped.
Numerous
pieces of equipment such as additional hand tools, electric drills,
etc . were added.
This departraent uses an average of eight part-time students on
student labor to maintain and repair shop equipment, repair farm
equipment, gates, feeders, etc.
The new Farm Uechanics and Farm Equipment building, to be
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completed in May, 1947, will give additional facilities for classes
in farm tractors, farm power, rural electrification.
Students major-
ing in Agricultural Engineering will have additional opportunities
to gain valuable experience in servicing and repairing farm machinery
and tractors.
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
At the beginning of the Fall quarter 304 students were majoring
j_n the Animal Husbandry curriculum.
One and one-half additional instructors were added to the staff,
making four and one-half faculty members teaching courses in beef,
swine, sheep, and light horse production .
Fifteen students were employed by the department on a part-time
basis taking care of the feeding, etc. of livestock and working in
the feed warehouse and feed processing plant.
About 130 students carried livestock projects, marketing 130
fed cattle, 500 fat hogs and 400 fed lambs, marketed at a gross of
about $60,000.
Students of this department who showed their project-owned livestock at the Grand National Livestock Show, Cow Palace, San Francisco,
and the Great Western Livestock Show, Los Angeles, in the open fat
classes only, not only received valuable experience, but took ribbons
and prize money back to the campus with them for the following:
From the Grand National.
Beef classes - reserve champion car-
load of Herefords, champion Shorthorn, reserve champion Hereford, second, third, fourth prize Hereford individuals, second and third group
of three Herefords, first place 1000-1150 Shorthorn individual,
first, second and third place _1150-1350 Shorthorn individual, first
in group three Shorthorns, second and fourth Angus individuals,
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second group of three.
Hog classes - chB.I'ilpionship Berkshire barrow
heavy weight class, champion Poland China in heavy weight class, first
in Poland middle vreight, first in Duroc middle weight, first pen of
Durocs in middle weight class, second and third prize Poland individuals, second prize Duroc light weight pen.
Sheep classes - reserve
champion pen with cross-bred wether lambs, first place pen of three,
second and third individual class, second place pen three Southdown
lambs, fourth place individual Southdown lambs.
From the Great Western.
Beef classes - reserve Grand Champion
Angus steer, reserve champion Hereford, reserve grand champion carload fat steers, first, second, third and fourth places in Hereford
individual classes, first prize Shorthorn in 875-1000 class, reserve
champion Shorthorn, first prize Shorthorn in 1000-1150 class, second
prize Shorthorn in 1150-1350 class.
Hog classes - Grand Champion
pen of fat barrows, cta.mpion fat barrow, reserve grand champion,
champion pen of Berkshire barrows.
Sheep classes - first and second
place Hampshire pen of lambs, second place Southdown pen lambs, second place individual Southdown.
The net profit made on livestock projects during 1946 was distributec. as follows:
Type of Livestock
Beef
Hogs
Sheep
Profit to Students
Share to Foundation
. $10,316.94
2,006.86
497.33
012,821.13
~5,136 .49
909.31
182.14
$6,227.94
Thoroughbred Breeding Program
A special program of this department is the Thoroughbred breedins program operated cooperatively with the California Breeders Association and the college for the purpose of providing training in
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handling light horses.
The program began in 1940 with an original
gift to the college of six brood mares in foal to some of the outstanding Thoroughbred sires owned by California Breeders.
Four
additional mares have been given to the college, and *Zuncho, a
Thoroughbred stallion imported from South America is standing at
stud at the unit as a permanent loan from Walter T. Wells.
During
1946 Wells also gave the college an outstanding mare, *Lampyris, imported from England originally by Marshall Fields.
During the an-
nual sales at Santa Anita the college sold three yearlings for a total
of
03, JOO. Two were sired by-¾~zuncho and one
by Count Atlas.
Five
additional off-spring were foaled during 1946 and will be sold at
next year's sales.
One important addition to the school's facilities which will
aid this department is the new Central Feed Processing a.nd Storage
unit which is novv under construction.
AGRICULTURAL INSPECTION
A student majoring in this field is required to take the first
two years of study at the Voorhis unit near San Dimas, which is the
heart of the Los Ange1es fruit and vegetable market area, second largest in the United States.
In his last two years at the San Luis
Obispo c~npus the student takes related work and required subjects
to fulfill the requirements for the B.
s.
degree.
Ninety-six majors
in this curriculum were enrolled at Voorhis unit and 26 upper division students were enrolled at the San Luis Obispo campus during
1946.
(See the Voorhis unit report for additional information ,)
CROPS AND FRUIT PRODUCTION
This department, which has increased almost three times as
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compared to pre-war enrollment, has been divided into three subdivisions, with an expert instructor in charge of each and all activities of the department under guida.nce of the same department
head .
The total 1946 enrollment of 113 was divided as follows:
General Crops,
55;
Truck Crops, 25; Fruit Production, 33.
Three in-
structors were added to the department, giving it a total of four
full-time instructors .
New courses added in 1946 include pomology,
bee keeping, deciduous fruit nursery ..
The work of this department
was strengthened by the addition to the related science division
staff o.f an outstanding soil technologist .
The department uses the
following land:
20 acres
9 acres
7 acres
120 acres
fruit plantings, 130 varieties grown commercially
in California.
irrigated vegetable land, (available on State
property)
irrigated vegetable land, (rented land adjacent
to campus)
planted to oats and vetch, (rented as student
project land)
All work in the truck crops and orchard program is carried on by
students, with no full time laborers .
This gives a laree number of
students practical training, and gives them part-time employment .
Truck crops are for the most part handled entirely as student projects, with the produce marketed on a commercial basis.
The depart-
r.1ent naintains a campus store operated by students to sell products
of the orchard, vineyard and truck crop land.
During the 1946 season
a total of ~3,639 .39 was sold in fruit and $1 ,664.81 was sold in
vegetables, mostly to faculty, married students and the college
cafeterias.
DAIRY PRODUCTION AND MANUFACTURING
Enrollment in this department
vrns
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divided almost equally between
the two divisions, with 36 students taking production curriculum and
34 students enrolled in•manufacturing.
Construction began on a n~r
cow shelter and judging barn, 100 ft. x 40 ft., during the latter
part of 1946 and wa.s nearly completed by If.arch, 1947.
J. H. Sawyer,
dairy farmer from Galt, donated an outstanding young Jersey bull and
also an outstanding yearling Jersey heifer to the department during
t he year.
rfr. Sawyer had paid $600 for the bull as a calf at the
s ame auction sale that the bull's sire sold for ~10,500 and his dam
for $.~ 2,JOO.
Mr. Sawyer also contributed to the student loan fund.
Thirty-five or 40 students supplemented their training by doing
practical work on a part-tirae student labor basis in the college's
dairy, earning an aggregate average monthly wage of $1,000.
During
the Foundation fund's last fiscal year, September 1, 1945 to August
JO, 1946, the dairy made a net profit of over $8,000.
An average of
71 college owned cows produced 700,000 pounds of milk containing
30,071 pounds of butter fat, or an average of 420 pounds of butter
fat per cow per year.
year.
The national average is 160 pounds per cow per
Over ~13,000 worth of purebred stock was sold to Future Farmer
and adult dairymen
throughout the Western area.
In addition to the college owned cows, about 50 cav1s are owned
by 15 students as their own projects.
A typical month of production
for student-owned project cows (March, 1946) shows:
18 cows in pro-
duction, producing 18,330 pounds of milk containing 740 pounds of
butterfat, or 40 pounds per cow per month.
This would be about 400
pounds per year per cow, or nearly three times the national average.
After all costs of feed, overhead, etc. are deducted, the profit from
these student-owned cows is turned over to the student ~rners.
A
new cooler and compressor was added to the manufacturing equipment.
All milking, bottling, processing and distribution is done by student
labor on an hourly basis.
Manufacturj_ng students conducted two stu-
dent projects, providing chocolate milk and ice cream for campus
consumption.
ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE
Forty-four students enrolled in this curriculum in the Fall of
1946, and one full-time instructor was added to teach the first year
courses.
Two 20 foot by 40 foot classroom units were constructed ad-
jacent to the horticulture unit's glass house and green house, providing greater efficiency in the handling of instruction.
Construc-
tion has begun on a new lath house to supplement the existing one
which is too small to take care of the number of students now enrolled .
Every student in this department takes part in some type
of project activity such as raising and selling vegetable plants,
bedding plants, pot plants, gallon can stock, lining out stock, or
cut flowers and bulbs.
The largest project in 19h6 was operated
jointly by four students and consisted of 32,000 gladiolus bulbs
planted for bulb production and cut flowers .
The project fund pur-
chases for resale to students for project purposes, sprays, fertilizers, seeds, rooted plants, and rents land on each project .
Stu-
dents receive 66 2/3 of the net profit with 33 1/3 going into the
project fund for the use of the Foundation and to insure against possible individual student loss caused by conditions beyond the control of the student.
The students are their own salesmen, turning
in sales tags on every item sold, with the money turned over to the
project fund weekly.
ly.
Students are reimbursed for their share month-
Some students earn as much as ~:i.50 per month on their projects .
Largest sales are to wholesale dealers throughout the county.
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One
class project during the year was the growing out of 60,000 tomato
plants for a commercial grower.
In addition to project operation, almost all students in this
department earn part-time student labor doing campus ground maintenance and gardening.
The deparunent is in charge of all ground
maintenance and uses student labor almost exclusively.
POULTRY PRODUCTION
Sixty-five students were registered in this department for the
Fall qua.rter, 1946, with the services of one-half time instructor being added.
The production capacity of the department was increased
by the addition of the following n~r equipment:
h Sunshine
Brooders with a capacity of 1000 chicks per brood,
or an increase in brooding capacity of 6000 per year.
4 fattening crates for grOW'ing meat birds
8 small growing and laying houses to increase project program.
1 automatic egg grader 2.nd candler
1 battery brooder with a capadty of 1000 chicks
Construction was nearly cm:ipleted by the end of the year on an
addition to the Egg Processing and Sales Building.
The new addition
includes lavatories, showers, butchering room, wrapping and refrigerati on f acilities.
Increase in facilities enabled the department to increase the
~umber of birds to about 3800 laying and breeding hens, or a 20
percent increase.
A breeding flock of Barred Plymouth Rocks was
added and a new breed of Turkeys, Beltsville White, ~as added.
Students are operating 80 projects consisting of either 150
laying or breeding hens each or 250 or more chicks each .
The student
operator of the project shares the net profit on the project with the
project fund, with the average student earning $10 to $15 per month.
About 25 to JO students· are paid by the hour for labor out of
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Foundation funds for processing and selling of products.
A few stu-
dents also work on part-t~~e labor for the State in maintenance and
repair of equipment and grounds.
INDUSTRIAL DlVISION
ARCHITECTURP~L ENGINEERING
A four-year degree course was added to the two-y~ar vocational
and three-year technical levels of this curriculum starting at the
1946. Forty-one students enrolled,
beginning of the ·F all quarter,
and one instructor was added as a part-time architecture and parttime engineering instructor.
During the laboratory classes (nine
hours per week) the students develop conplete working drawings of
ho1~es and dwelling uni ts according to drafting room standards and
local and state buildin6 codes.
The student ultimately blueprints
and binds his project to have it in useful form.
In upper division
work emphasis is placed on estimating construction costs-
AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
Three new instructors were added to this department, bringing
the total staff members to five.
154
students.
Enrolled in September, 1946, were
Additions to equipment included the following:
FM2 Navy Fighter
P51
Navy Fighter
P59 Army Jet Trainer
10 Pratt &Whitney engines
5 Lycoming R680-13 engines
2 Franklin six cylinder opposed engines
J Ranger six cylinder in-line inverted engines
L~ Link Trainers ( one a Navy donation, and three purchased
on surplus)
1 Doall saw
~umerous--instruments and aircraft accessories
Durine the year the college's 3000 foot by 200 foot air strip
was widened to about 300 feet, and 30,000 cubic yards of dirt was
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moved at one end to provide a location for the new 120 x 100 foot
hangar on which construction is nearly complete .
A 20 x 48 foot
utility building was also installed next to the new hangar .
Three
new all-metal buildings were constructed adjacent to the aeronautical
engineering shops:
one 20 x 98 foot building for paint and wing con-
struction; one 20 x 48 foot storage building·; one 20 x 68 foot building for engine overhaul, sand blasting and cadmium plating .
One Piper Cub was rebuilt and test flown and 10 other aircraft
are in various stages of being rebuilt in the CAA licensed aircraft
and engine repair station.
All work is done by students as part of
their laboratory work under strict supervision of licensed instructors.
Although not a part oi' the department's activities at pres~n~,
a Flying Club was organized during the year for students and faculty
members interested in promoting flytng and in learning to fly ,
club now has 50 members and two planes have been purchased.
The
One has
been assembled and is beine flown and the other is in the process of
being assembled .
AIR CONDITIONING
With the largest enrollment· of any of the six industrial departments (186 as of September, 1946), the department has added one
instructor in heating and ventilating, one instructor in heating, repair and maintenance, and one instructor in heating, ventilating and
plumbing layout.
Although the laboratory of this department has been
recognized by authorities in the field as one of the best equipped
college laboratories of its type in the United States , considerable
extension was made to take care of the increased enrollment.
The
Air Conditioning laboratory was extended into the wing formerly the
sheet netal shop, and a :raore extensive sheet metal shop has been set
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up in one of the new 20 x
4D
foot all-metal buildings constructed
next to the permanent building.
'lvro
other 20 x 48 foot buildings were
constructed as additions to the heating and ventilating laboratory
and the drafting and engineering practice room.
California Polytechnic is the only school in the country giving
a degree in the subject of air conditioning and refrigeration.
The
course is so unique that there are only two college text books now
suitable for use in the course, and the experienced instructors are
forced to write a complete text syllabus on every course.
Added to the equipment was a dozen refrigeration units comprising brine coolers, quick freezing box, cold storage box coolers,
test equipment and about $2000 in test instruments.
Received by the department as a gift from Walter T. Wells was
a three horsepow-er ammonia refrigerating unit.
Included as part of the practical training of students in this
department is the repair and maintenance of all refrigerating equipment on the campus, including that used by two cafeterias, dairy,
poultry, student store, etc.
Students also assist in repair and main-
tenance of all heating and ventilating equipment in campus buildings.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
This department remains as the "power" branch of the electrical
department after the division into a separate course of all "communication" phases of the work.
In the power division three additional
instructors were added to take care of the enrollment of 160 students.
During 1946 a great deal of additional equipment was ordered,
but manufacturers have been unable to fill the orders as yet.
One
Direct Current Supply unit to be used for induction heating test and
experiment work was purchased through War Assets Corp.
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An addition
of a 20 by 60 foot building supplemented the shop facilities.
An important part of the training of students in this department
is the practical experience gained in doing maintenance, repair,
wiring, and motor repair a.nd rewindinc work for other departments of
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the college.
There are over 300 electric motors on the campus, and
the repair and maintenance of this equipment is both practical training and a useful service to the college.
Students doing such work in
tj_ri:e othor than regular laboratory periods are paid from student labor
f unc:s.
ELECTRONICS
This new division of the electrical department started vrith 25
students in March, 191+6, and by September, 191+6, had increased to 81.i.
Two new instructors were added to the staff, making a total of three.
The entire top floor of the Agricultural Education Building was turned
over to this departmentJ for laboratory and classroom facilities.
In addition to the original radio and electronics equipment transferred from the electrical engineering laboratory, considerable newand surplus equipment was obtained during the year.
The laboratory
benches were wired and power supplies installed on each to make available D.C. voltages varying from Oto 500 volts at½ amperes.
Included
in new equipment was:
7 model 772 Weston Multometers
4 RCA vacuum tube multimeters
4 four tube checkers
12 D. C. Milliar.nneters
L. oscilloscopes
2 radio frequency generators
4 audio frequency generators
1 square wave generator
1 distortion analyzer
1 "Q" meter
numerous--inductance and capacitance bridges
numerous--frequency meters
several --Army and Navy transmitters and receivers
several --Army and Navy public address systems
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A $100,000 radar unit, known as "No .
5"
in the Pacific defense
setup, was awarded to the college by the army in October, 1946 .
It
was shipped early in 19h7 from Fort HacArthur to San Luis Obispo for
demonstration use in electrical engineering and electronics classes.
The following courses were added:
Elementary Direct Current
Theory and Laboratory, Advanced Alternating Current Theory and
Laboratory, Electron Tubes and Laboratory .
The three-year technical course in Electronics and Radio is
primarily designed to train radio servicemen, commercial radio telegraph and telephone operators, general commercial communication technicians with specific preparation for commercial licenses.
The four-year degree course in Electronics Engineering will fill
a need no other college is meeting today.
Students are hired regularly on part-time student labor to construct laboratory equipment frorn small .supplies, consisting of mountint: meters in cabinets, replacing worn out or burned out parts in
equipment, and in constructing equipment and tools which will be used
as the department grm~s.
It is anticipated that this department will be able to handle
100 to 150 students by September, 1947, with additional equipment
and instructors.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Eighty-three students enrolled in this department in the Fall of
1946 . Tvro mechanical engineering instructors and two drafting instructors were added to the staff .
Enrollment in this department was
limited because of lack of acconnnodations.
The department will con-
tinue to be crowded until the new central heating and pow-er distribution plant, with laboratory and classroom facilities for this
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department, is constructed.
Laboratory work is organized around the
central heating plant povrer generating and utilities dispersing center, which uses internal combustion, steam engines and steam boilers.
Included in new equipment received are the following:
2 Superior Diesel Engines connected to 100 kilowatt generators
1 Hesselman Oil Engine electric generating unit, 125 kilowatt output
1 International Diesel Engine electric generating unit, 20 kilowatt output
1 General Motors Diesel Engine generator unit, 300 kilowatt output
2 Superior Diesel Engine generator units, 264 kilowatt output each
1 Atlas Diesel Engine generator unit, 200 kilowatt output
2 Hudson gas engines out of landing craft, 50 horsepower each
1 Packard gas engine out of a PT boat, 1250 horsepower
1 General Motors marine diesel from landing craft, 225 horsepower
1 Hudson marine diesel from landing craft, 150 horsepower
All a.bove i terns were donations from the Navy with the exception
of the oil engine and the International which were purchased through
War Assets Corporation.
ment was obtained.
A number of pieces of laboratory test equip-
In keepin~ with the practical training philosophy.,
students are overhauling and installing the engines in the central
heating plant .
Except for additional floor space for classrooms in the emergency
steel units, the department has no new buildings.
Due to building
conditions, the new central utilities dispersing plant can not be
built for sometime .
Mechanical Engineering students are hired on student labor to
help operate the central heating plant .
During the war operation of
electrical generating equipment for instructional purposes was discontinued because of lack of students .
These engines are being over-
hauled by the students and next year will again be in operation
generating electrical power for the campus.
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RELATED INDUSTRIAL SHOPS
WELDING
One instructor was added, and because of the use of welding in
engineering design and construction a welding engineer was obtained
for the position.
There :i.s a close tie-up bebreen this course and
mechanical engineering because welding is commonly used in fabrication of engineering structures.
The rear of the welding shop is be-
ing converted into a construction materials testing laboratory with
tepsion and compression equipment, hydraulic press, hardness testers,
torsion tester, heat treatment furnaces, grinding and polishing machines and microscopes.
An atomic hydrogen welding unit has been added
to regular equipment and several more A. C. welding units have been
added to be used in training agricultural m$chanics students.
MACHINE SHOP
One instructor was added.
siderable is on order.
No neiN equipment was added, but con-
All new equipment is to be installed in the
new machine shop (formerly the NYA machine shop).
The present shop
has been in use more than 40 years, and much of the equipment is antiquated, although in good working condition.
commodate
25
first year men and
VOORHIS
15
The new shop will ac-
second year men.
UN IT,
SAN
DIMAS
ENROLLMENT
After having been closed for instruction for a three year period
during the war, the Voorhis Unit, citriculture and horticulture branch,
reopened September 11, 1946.
Enrollment for the Fall quarter was 238
students, which was almost double that of normal enrollment prior
to the war.
Of the 238, 197 were veterans and the remaining hl non-
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veterans.
Only 21 men withdrew at the end of the Fall quarter and
December enrollment reached 250.
There were approximately 150 men
eligible for admission who applied but were not accepted because of
limited facilities.
Of the total students enrolled at the beginning
of the Fall quarter, 192 single men were housed in the six dormitories
on the campus, and 13 married students brought their own trailers into a park made available on the campus.
STAFF
Dean of the Voorhis unit, Harold O. Wilson, was an instructor
at the Californ~a Polytechnic College from 1936 to 1940 and Regiohal
Supervisor with the Bureau of Agricultural Education from 1940 to
1945.
Nine instructors and a librarian were added to the staff in
1946.
Two instructors each are assigned to citrus fruit production
and agricultural inspection; one instructor each assigned to agricultural mechanics, general crops and deciduous fruits, public2.tions and
English, mathematics and music , farm accounting and farm management .
J:MPROVEMENTS
During the summer 1946 $29,000 was spent in renovating the physical facilities, including grounds, repair and repainting of buildings,
etc.
NEW EQUIPMENT
The following pieces of equipment were purchased:
new D-2
Caterpillar with a Dyrr offset disk and a furrowing out tool; new
Ford-Ferguson tractor with numerous attachments, including a two-way
plow, scraper blade, cultivator, and rotary broom; new International
1½ ton truck with orchard bed; many hand tools.
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HOUSING
Plans were made in 1946 to erect buildings to accommodate another
80 single men on the campus.
A building approximately 8,000 square
feet in size has been assigned to Voorhis unit from the Santa Ana Army
Air Base through the Federal Works Administration program that will
provide classroom space for another 150 persons.
If facilities are
sufficient to accommodate the students by next Fall, it is anticipated that 400 students will enroll at that time.
LANDS
The present campus covers 157 acres.
Of this 25 acres are suit-
able for farming operations and 17 of that already in oranges, equally divided between Washington Navels and Valencias . Another three ·
acres are planted to avocados of several varieties.
Another 2½ to
three acres are in a variety of deciduous fruits and a few walnut
trees.
Only a few acres are available for truck crops.
EXPANSION
To meet the demand on the part of students, plans have been made
to widen of ferings in deciduous fruits and crops, and to add dairy,
poultry and rabbit production to the offerings.
To add these courses
will necessitate additional land, buildings, and staff .
SPECIAL
PR O G RAMs ·
AGRICULTURAL TEACHER TRAINING
All vocational agricultural teacher candidates f .o r California
a.re selected by the State Bureau of Agricultural Education whose offices are located a.t California Polytechnic.
California Polytechnic
has been giving skills and methods courses for agriculture teacher
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candidates since 1931.
Credit is recorded by the University of
California, under an arrangement approved by both the state and
federal agencies concerned with vocational agricultural teacher
training.
Starting in September, 1946, California Polytechnic ex-
panded its services and is now offering directly not only the skills ·
and methods courses for agriculture teacher candidates, but also the
recommended work in general and professional education.
This program
was approved by the Accreditation Committee at its March 11, 1946
meeting.
Twenty-five to 30 candidates are selected each year from applicants who are graduates of an agricultural college, with a B. S. degree in agriculture, and who meet all qualifications.
Host of the
trainees are either graduates of the University of California at
Davis or California Polytechnic and are usually in contact with the
teacher training staff durine their senior year.
All are weeded out
except those with practical farming experience, good college records,
and demonstrated abilities in lead~rship of farm youth.
Following the period of selection, the teacher candidates are
enrolled for one year of training on the graduate level, with specific
provisions and understanding that there will be a further evaluation
and culling at the end of the first month, or any other time during
the period when it appears the candidate would not make a good agriculture teacher.
This training period is divided roughly into two parts:
1.
A period spent at California Polytechnic to add to technical proficiency and securing professional training through
regular classes under the teacher training department.
2.
A period spent in a selected "critic center" under the careful supervision of an especially-chosen, experienced, voca-
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tional agriculture, critic teacher.
SERVICE AND EXTENSION
The college serves as headquarters for the State Bureau of
J\.gricul tural Education.
From this point, the bureau directly super-
vises vocational agriculture throughout the state; and through the
college provides foundation stock for boys, and teaching materials
for 360 instructors in 196 high schools in California.
program to hir;h schools includes such activities as:
This service
the using of
faculty ~embers to visit schools to discuss with students, dairy,
animal husbandry, crops, poultry, farm mechanics, and other agricultural problems; the writini of articles by Polytechnic instructors
for agricultural magazines; the corresponding by the faculty to advise high school departments on the solution of problems; the judging
of livestock, poultry, and other products at fairs; the furnishing
of breeding stock and hatching eggs to improve the herds and flocks
of Future Farmers throughout the state; the preparing of teaching aids,
such as film strips, price charts, blueprints, photographs, and economic analyses; and the holding of annual conferences on the campus.
Through the president of the college, who is also the 'State Director of Vocational Education, the staff is kept constantly in touch
with new developments in business education, trades and industries,
distributive education, and home-making education.
DRUG AND OIL PLANT PROJECT
This program, which is under the direction of the college, has
offices in Los Angeles with a project director and assistant.
prograrn began in April, 1942, under an emergency grant from the
Governor's Emergency Fund and later supplemented by a special
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The
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appropriation of $35,000 by the legislature .
Governor siened a bill appropriating
$~io,ooo
In March, 1946, the
to continue the re-
search and demonstration work in medicinal drugs and oils for which
this state is a potential production area.
During the Fall of 1946 the state leased 1000 acres south of the
college on the Arroyo Grande Mesa, which had proved to be a congenial
host for growing certain types of Eucalyptus trees which are there
now.
Negotiations during the year located a source of Eucalyptus
seed of varieties which produce safrol and citral in Australia and
the seed should be ready for planting early in 1947 in demonstration
plots on the Arroyo Grande Mesa property.
It is planned to set out on this 1000 acres another 435,000
plants as young trees.
The plants, either in seed beds, flats or in
plant bands, are available in the project's nursery at Oceano, and in
outside nurseries which are caring for them for this use.
Late in
1946 JOO acres were prepared for field plantings.
Trial plantings o.f lavender, pennyroyal, oregano, byssop and other
plants have been made on 1000 acres of rented land in Mendocino County,
near Willits.
Transplanted from the
u. s.
Department of Agriculture
station at Salinas to the Mendocino land were Ephedra plants, source
of drug known as Ephedrine.
The r.Tendocino land also contains a sub-
stantial amount of California. Tan Bark Oak trees from which the project will make experimental extractions as an index to production of
tannin from the 3,000,000 acres of these trees now growing in
California.
The project has undertaken the promotion and supervision of domestic production in California of many crops primarily of medical or
condiment nature, and in addition has encouraged the harvesting of
native or cultivated plants in California which are sources of
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essential oils .
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C ONC L US I ON
California Polytechnic School, although established in 1901,
is considered by its employees and its students as a new and 0rowing
institution with tremendou$ potentialities .
With the proper leader-
ship and interest, which has always been shown by members of the
staff, a spirit prevails that is stimulating to the average student
as well as to members of the faculty,
The college has sometimes been criticized for being too flexible,
yet the characteristic of flexibility made it possible for the institution to carry on a successful prcigram for the United States Navy
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where frequent change was· the rule rather than the exception.
So long as a sound core of instruction is maintained and based
on well defined objectives., it has been the experience of the administration of the college that students and staff alike appreciate an
opportunity for the freedom of thought that characterizes the college .
The college that proposes to meet the changing needs of agricultu.re, industry a.nd education must be in a position to accept continually the challenge of change and to develop its program accordingly.
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