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FOREWARD
This report will confine itself to the actual progress
accomplished by the California State Polytechnic College during the 1948 calendar year January 1, 1948 to December 31, 1948.
This report is submitted to the State Board of Education
and the State Department of Education for the purpose of
acquainting these two groups with the activities of this
college ayer which they have administrative control.
Past reports have contained considerable explanation of
the organization, administration, financial support and educational philosophy of the college, but it is felt that the
differences between this college and other state colleges are
now clearly understood.
Only mention is made of these factors
when it is necessary.
Following a visitation of the evaluation committee of the
Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools, California
State Polytechnic College was granted full, unrestricted accreditation as a four year college.
This accreditation was made at
the annual meeting of the association held in Spokane, Washington
in December, 1948.
The largest enrollment in the history of the college registered in the fall, 1948.
A total of 2575 students registered at
the San Luis Obispo campus and 408 at the San Dimas campus.
In September, 1948, 29 new instructors were added to the
faculty bringing the total number of instructors on both campuses to 170.
The college during September of last year was
working under a student-instructor ratio of 19 to 1, although
the state legislature authorized a ratio of 16 to I.
This
difference was due to a miscalculation by the legislature and
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when the college's budget was issued it was found that the
instructor load had ir:icr_e_a sed to 19 to 1.
tration is working for a desired
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The college adminis-
to 1 rati~.
With the increase of enrollment during 19h8 has come a
greater demand for a co-education progran:i•
Each year, since the
state legislature in 1936 authorized a co-educational program at
California State Polytechnic College, the demand for such a program has increase~.•
has not taken actio~.
Due to a lack of facilities the administration
Housing and instructional facilities are
the greatest hurdles to overcome before women students can enroll
in the college,.
It is felt that when facilities do become avail-
able, there is such an ample demand that women will make up onefourth of the college's enrollment.
Hou.sing continued to be a major problem at the college,.
With
increasing enrollments, it is felt that provisions must soon be
made to house at least 1800 single men on the campus~
The corner stone for the new Walter F. Dexter Memorial
Library was laid in October, 1948.
The building is expected to
be ready for occupancy in September, 19h9.
Plans for a new
~cience building are now underway which marks the beginning of a
campus master building plan!
An active committee is working
with the State Division of Architecture in planning the future
expansion of the college.
A large relief map has been constructed
to help the committee and state group in planning the college's
future campus~
California State Polytechnic College continued to be a
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popular meeting place for various state organizations~
Among
those gathering at the qollege during the past year were members
of the California State Veterinary Medical Association, the
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California Association of Nurserymen, California Agricultural
Teachers Association, California Farm Bureau, Dairy Department,
Future Farmers and California Association of Health, Physical
Education, and Recreation,
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TABLE
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OF
CONTENTS
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Page
10
Faculty
Instructional Methods
Divisions of the College
Agricultural Division
Engineering Division
Science and Humanities Division
11
12-13
14-19
14-15
15-17
18-19
Physical Facilities
Housing
Student Labor
General Farm Operation
Scholarships
19-21
21-22
Student Welfare Service
Postal Service
Student Coordinator
Guidance Center
Teacher Training
Library
•
1-10
Enrollment
By Departments
By Classes and Curriculum Level
By Counties and States, etc.
Yoorhis Unit--By Departments and Counties
Distribution Summary
Transfers From Other Colleges
Veterans and Non-Veterans
Married Students
Degrees and Certificates Granted
Transfers at Voorhis Unit
Department Functions and Facilities
Agricultural Engineering and Mechanics
Animal Husbandry
Fruit, Field and Truck Crops
Dairy Husbandry and Dairy rsanufacturing
Ornamental Horticulture
Poultry
Related Agriculture Sciences
Engineering and Industrial Division
Aeronautical Engineering
Architectural Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
Electronic and Radio Engineering
Printing
Related Industrial Departments
Voorhis Unit--San Dimas
New Facilities
New Courses and Changes
Events During the Year 1948
2 '
3
4-5
6
7
8
8
9
9
22-24
25
26
27-28
27
27
27-28
29
30-31
32-54
32-33
33-36
36-40
40-41
42-43
43-44
44
45
46
46-47
47-48
49-50
50-51
51-52
53
55-56
57-58
58-59
60-71
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ANNUAL REPORT TO THE
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
-ON THECalifornia State Polytechnic College
FOR THE PERIOD
,January 1, 1948 to December 31, 1948
ENROLLMENT
Because of lack of facilities, it was necessary to limit the
fall quarter enrollment in 1948 to 2983 students.
This was an
increase of 334 students over the total of 2609 enrolled in the
fall quarter of 1947.
Of this figure of 2983 students, 2575 were
enrolled at the home campus in San Luis Obispo and 408 were
enrolled at the branch in San .Dimas.
Approximately JOO appli-
cants for admission to the San Luis Obispo campus were turned
down because of lack of facilities and nearly 100 applicants
were rejected at San Dimas for the same reason.
The number of regularly enrolled students at San Luis Obispo
were divided fairly even between the engineering and industrial
and agricultural divisions, with 1250 in engineering and 1178 in
agriculture.
Following are summaries of the San Luis Obispo
enrollment:
By Division
Agricultural Division ~ • • 1178
Engineering Division . . . 1250
Science & Humanities . . . 147
•
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.
First year •
•
• 875
Second year , • • • • 689
Third year
• • • • 741
Fourth year
242
• •
Fifth year
• 28
•
.. . .. .
2575
2
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ENROLLMENT BY DEPARTMENTS
Agricultural Division
Engineering and Industrial Division
Agricultural Engineering.
Aeronautical Engineering
Agricultural Inspection
. . 115
. . . 33
Architectural Engineering . . . 177
Animal Husbandry • . . . . . . • 492
Air Conditioning & Refrig . • • 271
Field Crops Production •. • •
97
Electrical Engineering
Truck Crops Production
38
Electronics & Radio . . . . . • 193
Dairy Husbandry
. .. ..
• •
. . 141
Dairy Manufacturi•ng ..• • •
....
Horticulture . . . .
Fruit Production . • .
55
Ornamental
80
Poultry Husbandry
.
...
Printing
94
Science & Humanities Division
Biological Sciences • . . • •
20
.... ....
14
.....
Physical Science . . . . . .
Social Science . . . . . . .
Physical Education
•
...
. . . .. . . .
1178
Matherna tics
• • • • "J-97
Maintenance Engineering. • • •
Mechanical Engineering
• 33
. 155
64
9
40
1L7
12
. 216
. • • . 29
1250
3
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SAN LUIS OBISPO
ENROLLMENT BY CLASSES AND CURRICULUM LEVEL (October, 1948)
AgricuJ.tural
Vocational
Technical
Degree
Spe.c ial
69
19
92
56
65
251
185
259
137
10
9
0
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13
7;;-
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
Fifth Year
0
0
0
0
0
73o
213
Total Agriculture
Engineering and
Industrial
Vocational
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
Fifth Year
Technical
Degree
85
94
302
278
298
13
4
0
0
0
68
0
0
17
2Ti7""
Vocational
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
Fifth Year
0
1178
Special
2
3
2
98
1
2
0
976
Total Engineering
Science and
Humanities
13
Technical
Degree
10
1250
Special
0
0
48
0
0
0
0
40
0
0
40
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
0
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Total Science & Humanities
12
12
147
SAN DIMAS BRANCH
ENROLLMENT BY CLASSES AND CURRICULUM LSVEL (September 1948)
•
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Total
Vocational
12
8
0
20
Technical
28
26
17
71
Degree
126
105
70
301
Special
11
,3
2
lo
Total
177
142
89
408
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COMPARATIVJ SUMMARY OF REGISTRATION
SAN LUIS OBISPO CAMPUS
Jan. 4,
County
•
Alameda
Alpine
Amador
Butte
Calaveras
Colusa
Contra Costa
Del Norte
Eldorado
Fresno
Glenn
Humboldt
Imperial
Inyo
Kern
Kings
Lake
Lassen
Los .Angeles
Madera
Marin
Mariposa
Mendocino
Merced
Modoc
Mono
Monterey
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
194b
23
0
2
6
Mar. 21,
1946
Nov. 1,
Nov. l,
1946
1947
1948
25
0
19
0
0
1
0
35
0
0
1
0
2
13
0
63
85
0
1
6
1
9
0
1
3
15
0
0
24
6
7
5
4
2
17
0
0
23
7
13
12
2
4
0
6
0
2
2
163
1
397
0
9
7
24
0
8
2
39
5
0
24
14
19
84
2
25
15
9
0
3
3
12
7
1
197
5
1
1
8
16
4
0
8
1
1
25
1
0
24
0
34
6
0
3
5
1
0
65
0
18
13
15
2
7
0
0
20
29
18
1
17
6
0
185
6
3
0
October
Jan. 1,
19hl
3
34
20
17
16
81
7
37 ·
18
9
1
6
2
0
1
2
0
0
8
7
1
12
1
0
11
5
1
13
15
19
14
i34
6
19
15
10
3
3
3
0
9
13
1
0
19
4
3
40
4
0
32
13
5
28
69
34
19
175
22
32
43
28
1
0
0
4
0
1
12
0
7
65
5
13
12
. 3
27
17
1
3
439
11
10
2
13
27
4
1
41
4
4
59
5
0
35
27
9
44
78
61
28
427
28
64
53
33
5
0
2
30
1
14
73
10
17
16
3
50
17
3
10
588
3
11
1
7
41
4
0
52
7
5
78
7
0
81
38
11
54
125
53
27
225
37
89
53
32
s
5
•
•
County
Sierra
Siskiyou
Solano
Sonoma
Stanislaus
Sutter
Tehama
Trinity
Tuolumne
Tulare
Ventura
Yolo
Yuba
0th er St at es &
Foreign Countries
Other States
Foreign Countries
u.s·. Territories
Mar. 21,
Nov. · 1,
Jan. ·4,
Jan. 1,
1940
1941
1946
1946
0
0
1
2
4
7
0
2
5
10
24
9
8
4
6
19
4
7
1
3
21
9
3
5
29
67
1
2
1
0
15
11:
0
7
4
1
19
15
0
2
2
0
2
0
18
8
3
1
67
3
October
2
4
5
21
38
9
5
1
3
56
33
4
7
179
231
1518 ➔~
1,
1947
6
43
34
2
1
20
~
Nov·.
21
2185-~
* Not all 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. In 1946 actual enrollment was 1571
and 1947 it was 2229, and in 1948 it was 2575, Had the balance
been included in this study, some additional counties would be
represented~ ·
1948
2
3
11
25
43
11
4
0
1
56
46
2
11
301
31
34
2553 ➔f-
6
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VOORHIS UNIT ENROLLMENT
BY DEPARTMENTS AND COUNTIES
September, 1948
I
Counties
Alameda
Butte
Colusa
Fresno
Imperial
Kern
Los h.ngel es
Marin
lJiendocino
Merced
Napa
Orange
Placer
Riverside
San Bernardino
San Diego
San Francisco
San Joaquin
Sacramento
Santa Barbara
Santa Clara
Santa Cruz
Sonoma
Stanislaus
Tahema
Tulare
Yuba
Ventura
Out of State
Out of Country
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Ornarn.
Hort.
0
0
0
0
0
1
68
1
Agricu.
Inspec.
Citrus
Fruit
Prod.
2
1
1
0
0
1
3
1
1
0
0
0
84
33
0
0
0
0
0
o·
1
0
0
0
8
22
4
18
Deciduous
Fruit
Crops Total
Prod.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
lO
0
0
0
0
3
0
2
1
0
1
4
0
0
2
0
1
1
16
26
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
h
1
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
2
10
3
6
1
5
5
1
1
3
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
~
7
0
l71r
5
8 .
5
0
0
0
0
1
7
113
-
T
-rr-
3
1
1
4
3
1
195
1
1
1
4
51 '
1
17
18
16
2
1
3
6
2
2
2
2
1
13
3
42
9
2
400
7
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SUMMARY OF ENROLLMENT DISTRIBUTION
In contrast to other state colleges, California State Polytechnic College's enrollment is wide-spread throughout the state.
Fifty-three of the
58 counties in the state were represented in
the fall of 1948.
The counties not represented were Alpine,
Calaveras, Mono, Plumas, and Trinity.
In a San Luis Obispo campus enrollment breakdown, 214 students were registered from 38 of the 48 states.
New York had
the most out-of-state students with 26, Nevada with 15,
Massachusetts with 14, Illinois with 14, Oregon with 13,
Minnesota and Pennyslvania both with 12 and rrashington with
10.
Thi~ty-one students indicated Hawaii as their legal residence while two registered from Puerto Rico and one from Alaska
for a total of
34.
A total of 31 students registered from 11 foreign countries.
A study of the foregoing registration by counties at San
Luis Obispo and San Dimas shows a percentage distribution of
the counties having the largest representation as follows:
County
•
Alameda
Contra Costa
Fresno
Kern
Los Angeles
Merced
Monterey
Orange
Riverside
Sacramento
San Bernardino
San Diego
Percentage A.t
San Luis Obispo
3.3
1.2
2.8
1~6
22~8
1.5
2.0
J.0
J.l
1.4
2.0
4.8
Percentage at
San Dimas
.74
.98
.24
47.8
• 24
12.5
4.2
. 74
4.4
J.9
•
8
Percentage at
S~n Luis Obispo
County
San Francisco
San Luis Obispo
Santa Barbara
Santa Clara
Santa Cruz
Stanislaus
Tulare
Ventura
Percentage at
San Dimas
.49
2.0
8.7
3.4
1.5
.49
.49
2.0
1.2
.49
1.6
2.0
3.2
1.7
10.3
TnANSFERS FROM OTHER COLLEGES
It was in 1942, that the State Board of Education authorized the raising of curriculum level of California State Polytechnic College from a three-year technical college to a fouryear degree granting college.
It is interesting to note the
number of students who in 1948 transferred from other colleges
to complete their degree work here.
Following is the list of
colleges and the number of students who transferred~
University of California . . . 18 Other California Universities
and Colleges . . . . , • .
5
U. of Calif. at Los Angeles. , 2
State Colleges
California Junior Colleges . . 155
Fresno
. • • . • • • • • 4 Other State Colleges and
Universities . . . . . . . 38
Humboldt . . . . . • . . . 5
247
San Diego . , . . . . • . 14
San Francisco . . , , . • 2
San Jose. . . . . .
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ENROLLMENT OF VETERAN RND NON-VETERAN STUDENTS
San Luis Obispo, October, 1948
•
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
Fifth Year
Veterans
Non-Veterans
405
468
470
608
199
20
1700
221
133
43
8
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Total
875
689
741
242
28
2575
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E1'JROLLMENT OF M_'\RRIFJ) STUDENTS
SBnLuis Obispo, October, 1948
Public Law 346
Public Law 16
State Veterans
644
122
12
~~.Approximately 47% of veteran
enrollment
Married Veterans
Married Non-Veterans
32
Total Married Students
810➔H~
~:-➔:-Approximately
31% of total
enrollment
NUMBER OF DEGREES ;JvD CERTIFIC.t.a.TE GR.iiNTED
San Luis Obispo, 1948
;igricultu_re
Bachelor of Science
Agricultural Inspection
Animal Husbandry
Dairy Manufacturing
Dairy Husbandry
Ornamental Horticulture
Poultry Husbandry
Agricultural Mechanics
Crop Production, . General
Citrus Fruit Production
Deciduous Fruit Production
General Fruit Production
Engineering
ii.eronautical
Air .Conditioning & Refrig.
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electronics & Radio
6
23
6
3
6
8
0
7
5
1
1
•
11
134
5
13
2
1
2
2
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
·.1
1
0
0
0
4
0
1
8
1
91
12
40
6
3
3
Certificate of Completion
Horseshoeing Course
Physical Education Athletic
Coaching Workshop & School
Technical
0
0
0
0
0
13
Total
Vocational
8
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COLLEGE TRANSFERS ATTENDING VOORHIS UNIT F.,-~LL QUARTER 1948-49
Total Registration
• • • • • • • • • • • • . 408
..
Total Number Transfers
• • • •
.
. . 172
Total Enrolling Directly from High School •• 236
BREAKDOWN ON COLLEGE TRANSFERS
California Junior Colleges
• • • • • • •
California State Colleges • • • . • • , •
University of California
Davis
. .' . .
Berkeley •
U.C.L.A.
i-
..
..
Santa Barbara
. . . . .. .
.
• . 127
. •
4
. .. 18
. 9
. . 3
. . 3
•. 3
Four Year California Colleges (Not Included
above)
Out of State Colleges
Technical Colleges
•
. . . . . . . . • • ..
.............
Total
.....
Different Number of California Junior Colleges
Represented - 28
•
4
17
2
172
•
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FACULTY
For the school year beginning in September, 1948, 29 new
instructors were added to the faculty, bringing the total of
170 persons on the teaching staff at the San Luis Obispo and
San Dimas campuses.
The following charts indicated the distribution of the
teaching staff according to degrees as of December 31, 19u8:
San Luis Obispo
Degrees:
Ph .. Do, Ed.D
• • . . . . •
12·
M.:.A., M.S.
• • •
• • • •
62
A.B., B.S.
....... .
58
• .
17
No degree
.....
'
Total
. ... . .
~
149
Voorhis
Degrees:
Ph.D., or Ed.D
..•.. •
M.A. or M.S.
.. . . . . .
A.B. or B.S.
...
1
. 15
No degree . . . • • . . . •
0
Total • • • • • 21
•
•
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INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS ·
PROJECT SYSTEM
So that there will be a better understanding of st~tements
made about project operation under Departmental Activities later
in this report, the following information on the projec~ system
is included:
'I'he function of training students for maximum employability
and earning power is carried out by a thorough integration of the
rtdoing" practices with the underlying theory.
In classroom in-
struction, the formal laboratory experiences, and the actual project operations on a commercial scale are each used in their proper
proportion,.
The project system c:o nsists of self-owned or mana-
gerial projects operated by students in such a way as to give
knowledge in the coITu~ercial production and marketing of agricultural products or in the construction, rebuilding, repair or maintenance of industrial machinery or equtp~ent.
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.
Many students after graduation have
established fine foundation herds on their home farms from livestock raised as projects at the college.
A $90,000 revolving fund
from which students may borrow at the current rate of interest
•
without co-signers. makes it possible to finance the many projects •
One-third of the net profit of a project is returned to the Project
fund to guarantee against individual student financial loss.
•
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UPSIDE
norm
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
• California State Polytechnic College has established an unique
educational plan sometimes described as the "upside down educational
plan."
This plan is characterized by the grouping of as many tech-
nical and job-getting 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 general education.
The net result is that a student who completes the four-
year course leading to a degree will have covered substantially
the same material covered in a similar major in a typical agricultural mechanics type college--but in a somewhat inverted order.
This way the student comes immediately into contact with the field
of his major interest and doesn't feel thwarted by num·e rous
which seem to hj_m unrelated to his interest.
realization of need for some "theory" courses.
hurdles
He also acquires a
This system enables
a student to earn a living, using the skills he has learned, at
whatever point he may complete his formal education.
INSTRUCTION LENGTHS
A student enrolling at California State Polytechnic College
may elect to take a four-year degree curriculum leading to a
Bachelor of Science in his major field; or a three-year technical
curriculum, or a two-year vocational curriculum for which there
are appropriate certificates.
The two and three-year curricula
are offered in the Agricultural and Engineering and Industrial
•
divisions •
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DIVISIONS OF THE COLLEGE
•
AGRICULTURAL DIVISION
During the calendar year, 19h8, this division of the college
offered instruction in eleven major curricula. · These departments
were:
Agricultural Engin0cring and Mechanics, -A gricultural Inspection,
Animal Husbandry, Citrus Fruit Production, Dairy Husbandry, .Dairy
Manufacturing, Deciduous Fruit Production, Field Crop Production,, _
Ornamental Horticulture, Poultry Husbandry, and Truck Crop Production,
The first two years in the majors of Agricultural Inspection and
Citrus Fruit Production must be completed at the San Dimas branch._
In addition to those two majors, the San Dimas branch also provides
instruction in Ornamental Horticulture and Deciduous Fruit Production to those students who elect to take the first two years of their
work in those majors at the southern branch.
During the year, 1948,
a special 12 weeks farriers course was added to this division on the
San Luis Obispo campus.
The college prepares men in the field of agriculture with the
principal objective being to provide graduates of this division with
a full and broad understanding of basic factors involved in production, management and marketing, together with the necessary skill~,
experience, and related subjects to make such a graduate an efficient
agricultural producer.
The educational approach used at Californ:La State Polytechnic
College not only prepares men for positions in the production fields
but gives thorough training in managerial skills and in the various
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other fields closely related to agriculture.
This knowledge of all
basic factors in the agricultural industry not only enables the students to reach the top in the industry but it gives him a grasp of
the significance of all agricultural processes and a consequent toler-
ant attitude towa~d eveey problem faced by the industry.
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The college herds, flocks, or.chards, range and crops land are
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used by students to develop practical application and technique.
An
unique phase of the California State Polytechnic College educational
philosophy is the use of the student owned and managed project as an
integral part of the instruction system_. Each student in the college
has the opportunity to select a productive project in the particular
field in which he is interested.
He has managerial and financial
responsibility over the project and must submit a complete record upon its completion.·
Student projects are financed through a project foundation fund
from which students may borrow at six percent inter.est, and each project returns a percentage of the net profit to this fund as a guarantee against any possible individual student financial loss,
This
practical system not only enables the student to earn money while
doing work directly related to his major occupation and academic- interest_., but also gives him the
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a proven incentive for learning.
feel" of ownership and management,
Observing the young man as a pro-
ducer under commercial conditions furnishes an excellent indicator
of his probable future success on the job.
ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL DIVISION
Instruction in eight major departments was offered during the
year in this division.
These departments are Aeronautical Engineer-
ing, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering, Architectural
Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic and Radio Engineering, Mechanical Enginee_ring, Printing and Maintenance Engineering.
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Maintenance Engineering was the only one 'of these departments which
accepted enrollment for the first time in ·1948o
Primary objective of all instruction in this division is to provide instruction that will lead to employment in maintenance, operation,
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production, application and sales phases of specific engineering
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fields.
It is not the purpose of the Engineering and Industrial
Division of this college to prepare engineers interested in highly
specialized research or design.
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One objective of this division is to provide each student with
necessary skills in his specific field so that he not only will be
immediately employable but will be of value to his employer from the
first day he enters employment.
However, every student in this division also receives a thorough
foundation in general engineering theory as well as practices so that
he may advance rapidly in his field.
Engineering students receive
instruction in basic science and mathematics which enables them to
study and understand new developments and techniques and thereby keep
astride of changing conditions in any industrial field.
Recent studies have indicated that industrial concerns are looking for engineers to take over managerial and executive positions.
With this in miµd, such courses such as economics, industrial management, labor relations, background of modern affairs are required of
all engineering students.
In addition to this students are advised
to take courses that will help them in later life when they receive
the opportunity to get into managerial positions.
In the process of achieving these objectives, the Engineering
Division also attempts to inculcate in every student proper work
habits and attitudes• which will lead to successful employment.
Such
students have the proper attitude to start at tho bottom in their
specific field, and the pr.o per background to advance to higher ·p osi-
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In order to provide practical experiences similar to those
which will confront an engineering student at the time of employment, every engineering department has its own well-equipped
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laboratory in vvhich a student is given an opportunity to work with
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the same type of machinery, tools, equipment, etc. that is used in
-the specific engineerj_ng field for which he is training.
Laboratory
instruction in every engineering department is based on the objective of providing group or individual projects similar to those vmich
will be encountered by the students on the Job.
Such projects are
not routine laboratory exercises, but are practical projects conducted along commercial lines.
For example, aeronautical engineering
students operate group projects in the repair and overhaul of aircraft or aircraft engines in the department's shop, which was the
84th government approved repair station to be established in the
United States.
All such work by students must pass rigid CAA exami-
nations prior to the time that it is
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returned to service as
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air-
All student labor during instructional shop hours is done
without pay, but students assigned to work on a project outside of
instructional shop hours receive hourly pay from the foundation
fund, which is reimbursed at the time the aircraft or engine is
sold or at the time treovm.er pays for the repair work.
In the Electrical Department a job such as the installation of
a motor or the re-wiring of a shop or room is assigned to a group of
students·.
They
plan the job, make an estimate of the cost for labor
and material, and prepare a bill of materials. When these estimates
come in the job is assigned to one student who acts as foreman and
carries the work through to completion. He is assigned student
help from the laboratory classes, keeps all records of material and
labor used, and upon completion makes the final report.
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Similar
projects of various kinds are carried on by all departments in the
Division throughout the campus.
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SCIENCE AND HUM.ANITIES DIVISION
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Beginning September; 1947; the Science and Humanities Division
was established to include courses which previously were grouped
under the term of relat.ed subjects.
The division is now functioning
as a well~lmit administrative unit comprising the departments of
Education and Psychology, English, Health and Physic.a l Education, Biological Science; Mathematics, Music; Physical Science, and Social
Science.
The Bachelor or Science degree is offered to students who
complete work in five o;f these departments; Biological Science,
LTathematics; Physical Science, Health and Physical Education, and
Social Science.
At the close of 1948, it appeared that approximately
eight students would meet the requirements for the degree in some one
, of these graduation majors during the 1948-49 school year.
In most
cases they will continue on into the fifth year for teaching credentials.
With the approval
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the State Board of Education in the spring
of 1948, California State ·Polytechnic College now offers work leading
to a general secondary credential.
Because the work of preparing
students to meet credential requirements involves the integration of
professional education courses with t eaching majors and minors, graduate students preparing for teaching have been classified under the
Science and Humanities Division for administrative purposes.
The Science and Humanities Division continues to carry out its
three principle functions; the first of which is the providing for
students in Agriculture and Engineering those courses very closely
related to their major work.
The second function is to offer courses
in general education for all majors:.
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Tho third function of the
Science and Humanities Division is to assume the responsibility in
cooperation with the Agricultural Division and the Bureau of Agricultural Education for offering work leading to the fulfillment of the
requirements for credentials in J\griculture'•
Under the teacher-train-
ing .function the division also provides tho program for fulfilling
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credential requirements in Health and Physical Education, and for
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the genera~ secondary in subjects in which there is work leading to
a graduation major within the division.
It would seem that California State Polytechnic College can make
a distinct contribution to teacher training in California in the fields
in which it is training at the present time, because an opportunity is
given for the prospective teacher to take work in the applied aspects
of the major as well as in the theoretical ones.
For example, our
Mathematics and Physical Science ma jors are encouraged to take work in
Engineerll!.g; Biological Science majors ar o encouraged to take work in
Agriculturnl Econonics., Labor Rel ations, ·and Industrial Mariagement.
Th8 l at ter t.vm cour ses ar e designed··primarily to prepar e engineers to be
more effectivo in the per sonal r elationshi ps .in the profession.
The
cours es ar e built nr ound case studies of problerris in management and
l abor r c~ati ons e' It is f elt that the social studios t eacher will cert ainly bo able t o handl e t ho issues of the classroom- much more intelligcmtly if ho i s fa.niliar with some of tho a ctua1 -problems arising from
pers onal r ol ationships within the community.
During the year 1947, several additions were made to the Science
and Humanities offerings in order to round out the programs under the
three functions.
The year 1948 was devoted to coordination and stabi-
lization ~f curricula, r~ther than to the increase in offerings or
the establishment of new curricula for added vocational objectives.
PHYSICAL FACILITIES
The Walter F. Dexter Memorial Library, the most important addit~on to the college's physical facilities in recent years and started
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in December, 1947, will be ready for student occupancy in September,
1949. Total cost of the building and furnishings will be approximately
$750,000.
1948.
The corner stone for the bu~lding was laid on October
15,
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During 1948~ construction of new facilities for physical educa~
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tion included the football stadium amounting to $73,000 and the extension of the wooden bleachers was completed to bring the seating •
capacity of the stadium to 5200.
The baseball field has a new grand-
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stand seating 600 fans.
Contracts for physical education and athletic
facilities totaled $225~000 during 1948.
A start has been made on the plans for a science building group
which is estimated to cost approximately $2 1 000~000!
beginning of a master plan development for the campµs.
This marks the
The master
plan when completed will replace 10 old wooden structures, inadequate
for present needs and anticipated growth. Many of these buildings do
not comply 111fith present fire and safety regulations and are housing
equipment that would cost many thousands of dollars to replace~
In
addition there are approximately 36 temporary war surplus buildings
used as classrooms that must be replaced in the next five years.
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July of 1948, $248,ooo was established in the fiscal budget
for additions and betterments on the campus.
Approximately 5q per-
cent of the work intended has been accomplished.
Such items of work
range from a few hundred dollars to a top of $85,ooo for modernizing
and equipping the engineering shops!
Other major items include:
$20,000 for roads, $15~000 for paint~
ing 1 $20,000 for dairy manufacturing laboratory, . $7,000 for farm
fences, $2 1700 for construction of a brooder house, $3,200 for addition to poultry building~ $2~600 for replacing lights in dormitories,
$21000 greenhouses~ etco
Approximately $600 has been used to develop a relief map for
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campus building study (master plan).
Qualified students were em-
ployed to complete the topographical surveys of school property on
which buildings are to be erected~
Other students took survey maps
and constructed a relie£ map and minjsturebuildings for purposes of
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study of master plot plan.
The map has already proven of inestimable
value in assisting the campus development committee and the members
of the Division of Architecture in planning future expansion.
As
the master plot plan is drawn, the value of the relief map will again
be enhanced by its importance in matters of a reference sou~ce.
It is significant to note that the college is operating under
severe handicaps in having so many old and inadequate buildings.
utility system is lacking in capacity.
The
Plans are in the making for
replacement and expansion of gas lines, electrical services and fire
system.
One of the serious problems facing the college administration
is a replacement of the heating plant and utility distribution center.
The present· system was built in 1905 to accommodate approximately
200 students.
The enrollment in September of 1948 was 2575.
HOUSING
Student housing was a problem in 19~:~•
To realize the signifi-
cance of this problem to California State Polytechnic College it
should be noted that the college is a state-wide institution.
On
the San Luis Obispo campus only 225 of the 2575 students enrolled in
the Fall quarter of 1948 were residents of San Luis Obispo.
This
figure of 225 is misleading, however, because a large percentage of
the students were married (31 percent) and give San Luis Obispo as
their home address.
With this size of enrollment it was necessary
that more than 1800 students find housing either through the college
or privately in the city of San Luis Obisp~-• Since the city of San
Luis Obispo can accommodate a relatively small percentage of the
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total enrollment, the college must provide hous~g for almost all
out-of-town students.
Present facilities on the campus will with normal occupancy,
provide for only 742 men.
A maximum of 800 students are currently
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housed at Camp San Luis Obispo and 75 more reside at the Las Higueras
(Public Housing Administration) Housing Project, making a total of
1617 accommodations for single students.
in addition there are 75
houses and 238 trailers on the campus for married veterans and their
families.
All are in use and a waiting list exists for any type of
housing.
It is felt that provision must eventually be made to house an
additional . 1800 or more single men on the campus without consideration
of a larger enrollment than now exists.
However, it is expected that
arrangements for a long-time lease on Camp San Luis Obispo will be
completed in the very near future with the California National Guard
and that the entire hospital area at the camp will be available for
student housing for a definite periocl of time ..
The coliege also provides housing for 20 faculty families and
several single faculty nembers.
STUDENT LABOR
In addition to the opportunities for students to earn money
through managerial and self-owned projects, California State Polytechnic College uses a maximum number of students to operate the
college farm and handle grounds and campus maintenance on both the
Se.n Luis Obispo c1.nd San Dimas campuses•
Following are tables showing a typical month of on-campus student work as shovm in the Foundation and State payroll reports for
October, 1948,
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S'rUDENT
LABOR - FOUNDATION PAYROLL
FOR MONTH OF OCTOBER, 1948
Number
Employees
Payroll
Total
Project Fund
Dairy
Beef
Hogs
Sheep
Horses
Poultry
Crops
Feed
46
1
2
2
1
26
33
2'6
137
2;016.30
40.30
80.60
62.40
40.30
441.81
368.12
431.90
3;481. 73
Cafe-Dorm--SLO
Cafe
Dorm-Campus
Dorm-Camp
Dorm-Los Higueras
Health Center
Repairs-Co.mp
157
82
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5,109.60
1;321. 75
865.50
45.oo
148.90
84.oo
2
5
19
297
7,574.75
Cafe-Dorm--SD
Cafe
Dorm
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Vet Hill--SD
Vet Housing
Special Projects
Auto Shop
Repairs and Renewals
Admin. Office-SLO
4
3
55
4
1
1
68
GRAND TOTALS
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544
468.43
5731145
1,041il88
281180
153.50
1,064088
255.oo
6.oo
38.25
1,546.43
13,644.79
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STUDENT LABOR .- . STA rE PAYROLL .
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FOR MONTH OF · OCTOBER,. •l9h8 '
VbORHIS
SAN LUIS OBISPO
Function
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Number
Employee~
Adm.··
Ind.S &H
Lib.
P& M
18.38
1
74
60
10
2
87 •.70 •
6
3
47.10
275.18
13
4,-036.77
199
140.38
4
76}..i.90
1,948.32
988.67
230 ..62
104.26
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Totals
Payroll Total
18.-38
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Totals·
Instr.
Ag.
Payroll ·
Number
Employees
. Total.
M& 0
Bldgs.
Grds.
Repairs
Autos
Security
8
23
750.75
35
3,219.07
144
Totals
300.00
334.50
68.25
48.00
10
2'3
1
1
1,057.48
710.70
633.75
374 .. 26
442.88
48
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Farm
General
M.A.
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6
152,86
47.63
281.46
7
60.77
15.oo
2
2·
Poultry
Orchards 10
Total
47
897 .51
13
21}.63
TOTALS
391
8-, l 7L. 73
61
1,239.. 56
-A & B
Projects
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h93.42
425.0J
13
541.75
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Totals
58
541.75
13
425.03
GRAND TOrrALS
449
8,713.48
74
1,664.53
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GENERAL FARH OPERATION
In 1948, about 350 acres of state land and 49 acres of project
1-ensed land were farmed and produced a good harvest., A summary of
production for 1948 follows:'
Acres
Land
98.8 · State
Sudan
$10 per acre
Value
$ 988 ..00
Crop
Amount
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State
Now Permanent Pasture
$ 6 per acre
$ 260.00
125.2
State
Oats and Vetch Hay
443½ tons
$9221.47
4o.6
State
Oats and Vetch feed
367½ tons
$3305.16
and Silage
39.5
State
Alfalfa old and new
18.?
State
Corn for silage and
green feed
(included in the above)
201¼ tons
$1811.88
$15,586,Sl
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Leased
oats and Vetch Hay
26 tons
$ 390.00
30
Leased
Oats and Vetch Hay
37 tons
$ 832.50
$1,222.So
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SCHOLARSHIPS
In addition to the scholar.s hip program which has been in effect
at California State Polytechnic College, the Standard Oil .Company
of Californi~ last year introduced a series of scholarships for
worthy st~dents in the agricultural programs of the high schools ..
The Standard Oil scholarships amounted to ~~8,ooo.
These constituted
two, $2,000 scholarships and four, $l,OOO scholarships.
divided equally between the
4-H
They were
Clubs and the Future Farmers of
America.
In 1948, four of the scholarship winners have enrolled at
Cnlifornia State Polytechnic College.
Attending were winners of
both of the ~~2,000 scholarships and two of the $1,000 scholarship
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SrUDENT WELFARE SERVICE
POSTAL SERVICE
During the past year, development has been made in the postal
service on the campus in that a former temporary classroom unit was
made over into a complete post office for general campus use.
Each
student and faculty member has a post office box assigned and all
campus communications and mail for the various individuals are
handled through this postal service .
This service is under the super-
vision of the Student Welfare Department, directly controlled or
supervised by a permanent employee paid from the post office fee of
50 cents per quarter, charged to the student.
STUDENT COORDINATOR
A new position was added to the Student Welfare Department in
19h8--the Coordinator of Student Activities.
This position has been
filled and a very excellent program established.
The purpose of the
position is to coordi..nate the activities of the student body and the
student organizations as sponsored by the various departments ~n the
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GUIDANCE CENTER
The guidanc-e center is an integral past of the Admissions,
Guidance and Placement Division which includes the admissions, registrar's, recorder's and placement offices in addition to the guidance
center.
The center has numerous functions:
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Giv:ing Entrance placement
tests, counseling service, other testing services, occupational information, interviewing students who wish to change majors or levels
of instruction and persona]. counseling.
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This service is provided to all students (veteran and nonveteran) who request it and also to those referred to the center
by faculty member.s. •
The guidance center provided available information about each
student to the deans of divisions and instructors of each department.
In the past year the guidance center has handled the following number
of cases:
380 veterans who have completed advisement
250 non-veterans who have completed advisement
500 informal interviews
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TEACHER TRAINING
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In 1947 the California State Polytechnic College was approved
to prepare teachers for the Special Secondary C~edential in Vocational
Agriculture, the Special Secondary Limited Credential in Agriculture,
and Special Secondary Credential in Health and Physical Education.
In the spring of 1948 the State Board of Education added authorization
to recommend candidates for the General Secondary Credential with
teaching majors and minors in the following fields:
Biological Science,
Health and Physical Education, Mathematics, Physical Science, and
Social Science~
It was not possible for any of the students interested in obtaining a General Secondary Credential to complete their work during the
calendar year of 1948; however, at least 10 students will be eligible
for General Secondary Credentials with majors in the above mentioned
fields in June, :I.95'0..
In addition, several of the students getting
agricultural credentials will at the same time fulfill the requirements for the General Secondary during the calendar year of 1949 •.
It is the plan of the college to improve the instruction and pattern
in these credential areas during the coming year.
All teacher training activities are coordinated under the committee on teacher education. Representation on this committee is
college-wide and includes the dean of the agricultural division, the dean
of science and humanities division, department heads in the fields
represented by the General Secondary majors and minors, the dean of
instruction, the dean of admissions, guidance and placement, the
agricultural teacher trainer, and the Chief of the Bureau of Agricul-
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tural Education. _ The purpose of this committee is to insure that
teacher education remains a college-wide function and that the work
in the various programs is integrated so that candidates receive
balanced preparation for service in the pubiic schools of California,
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LIBRfu"'1.Y
One of the outstanding events of the college year took place
on October 15, 1948, when the Walter Friar Dexter Library Building
was dedicated vvith appropriate ceremonies.
Members of the State
Board of Education and their Y{ives were introduced during the program.
Dr. Roy E. Simpson, the State Superintendent of Public In-
struction, the Assistant Superintendent, Dr. Aubrey A. Douglass, and
President McPhee addressed the large group of faculty and students
that were in attendance.
Mrs. Yalter F. Dexter, widow of the late
Dr. Dexter assisted Mr. McPhee in placing the cornerstone.
The college is,looking forward to using the facilities that
will be available in the new building.
The library staff hopes to
occupy the new quarters in September of 1949.
The book budget for the library was increased to $18,000.00 for
the fiscal year 1948-49.
During the calendar year 1948, 4,025 books
were added to the library collection.
In 1948, 8,888 more boo~s
were loaned than were circulated during the previous year.
The total
number of book~ loaned . to students and the faculty in 1948 was 31,252
books and pamphlets.
In July 1948, one of the professional librarians assumed the
responsibility of maintaining the Audio-Visual Library and supervising the services of this department.
films for 1948~49 was
$4,ooo.
The budget for the purchase of
The purchase of ~qo new motion picture
projectors, as well as additional slide projectors, assisted materially in improving the Audio-Visual services available to the in-
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structional staff.
One junior typist clerk was added to the cataloging department
in July.
An additional junior typist clerk was appointed to assist
at the circulation desk.
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Some progress was made during 1948 in the re-cataloging of the
book collection.
A s'taff manual was prepared to assist new ·members joining the
library staff in becoming familiar with the policies of the college
and the library.
The faculty library committee assisted the librarian in preparing detailed plans of furnishings for the new library... The staff has
been engaged in making tentative plans in oonnection _with meeting
the changed ·conditions that will result from their occupation of the
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DEPARTMENT FUNCTIONS AND FACILITIES
AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Engineering_and.M~chanics :
Tho Agricultural
Engineering and Mcch:mics department serves the double function of
t c:.1.ching courses -in the varioU's niechanicsl and engineering phases of
agricul turo to students majoring in · oth-or • departmc➔nt-s of tho Agriculturc.l .D ivision, ns well as serv:i..xig th'.0 :requirements of' students -~taking
their 1:1,ajor work in the field.
A total of 1063 students were enrolled in courses offered by
this department in the Fall, 1948.
Of these, 110 were majors in
either the four-year degree curriculum in Agricultural Engineering
or the two-year vocational or three-year technical curriculum in
Agricultural Mechanics.
Eight full-time and two half-time instructors
make up the staff.
Physical facilities include three shops approximately
50'
x
75', .
and an nll-motal Agricultural Machinery Storage and Farm Shop building, 120 t x 180' ,_;.r ith a 60 1 x 60' wing.
This building also serves
as a headquarters for all the farming operations of the 2000 acre
college farm, as well as a repair and maintenance shop for the tractors, farm machinery, and other mechanical equipment used on the
farm.
'This makes a particularly desirable combination since a great
deal of this kind of ~ork is done by students, either as a regular
part of their class work or in their spare time outside of class.
Students majoring in Agricultural Engineering and Me chanics have
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a splendid opportunity to gain additional experience of a practical
nature as well as earning part of their expenses by doing repair
and maintenance vmrk on the -vride variety of farm equipment ovmed by
the school.
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In March 191i8 the old farm repair shop was remodeled and equipped
to accommodate two new courses in horseshoeing and farm blacksmithing.
The course j_n horseshoeing was designed as a twelve week terminal
course to train finished horseshoers, for which there is a great demand,
not only in California but in other states as well.
This course was
established at the request of the American Horse and i.Iule Association
and the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association.
Three special
classes of 12 men each were graduated from this course as finished
sheers and platers between March and December.
These courses are
also offered as electives to our regular students,
In June,
1948, the California Farm Equipment Dealers Association
requested this college to train men in the merchandising, sales and
management, shop and service, parts and inventory, and the finance
and credit phases of the farm machinery business.
The dealer group
appointed an education conunittee which has met several times with
members of the college staff in designing courses in this field, not
only for regular students, but for dealer groups who might come in
for intensive blocks of training during the summer.
It is hoped that an intensive program dealing with the merchandising, sales and management phases of the business be started in the
summer of 1949.
The program will consist of business mathematics,
report writing and a combination of psychology and public speaking
which is important to the selling aspects of the implement business.
Anirnnl H~sqandry:
This department provides instruction for stu~
dents intending to enter the field of livestock production, agricul-
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tural education, and related fields.
terod in the fall of 191i8.
A total of 487 students regis~
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Breeding herds maintained by the college include 100 register~d
beef cows, 150 registered ewes, and
75
brood sows; three breeds of beef,
three breeds of sheep and three breeds of hogs are represented.
Build-
ings include beef breeding barn and steer shed, plus feed lots to accommodate 250 head of steers throughout the year; central swine farrowing
house, and individual feeding pens to accommodate
75
brood sows and
approximately 800 fat hogs throughout the year; sheep barns and feeding
shed to accom_modate the sheep breeding flock and approximately 400 fat
lambs per year.
In addition to pasture and hay land available on the
college farm, approximately 600 acres of additional land adjoining the
college are leased for this deapartment.
Students enrolled in this department carry supervised livestock
programs to supplement their classroom and laboratory work.
These
projects involve the feeding, care and marketing of either beef,
sheep or swine.
Each year these student projects include about 250
head of beef cattle, 600 head of sheep and 800 head of svrine, marketed
yearly by the students and for about ~~56,690 in 1947-48.
The department also has available for instructional purposes a
Thoroughbred Breeding unit, operated cooperatively on the campus with
the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association since 1941.
Thorough-
bred mares were. given to the college by members of the association~
Offspring from these mares are raised to yearlings and sold at the
annual California Thoroughbred sales.
Proceeds from the sale of these
yearlings help to defray the cqst of maintaining this instructional
unit. ~~uncho, a Thoroughbred sire imported from South America, was
donated to the college by Walter T,. .Vells.
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The unit provides stu-
dents with instruction in care, handling, and breeding of light
horses.
Five head of Thoroughbred yearlings were raised by students
and sold by the college foundation.
Five head were sold at the
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annual California Thoroughbred Breeders Sale at Santa Anita in July
for $4,800.
Profits from t~ese sales help maintain the cost of
operating the breeding unit.
Six full-time and two half-time instructors were assigned to
the department.
During the 1946-47 fiscal year animal husbandry students received $12,470 as their share of the profits from student-owned and
operated projectso
The foundation received $6,239.52 as its share
of the profits from these projects. Approximateiy $6,800 was paid
out to students for wages for operation of the beef, swine, sheep
and horse breeding herds and foundation owned livestock and the
feed room operatiqns.
An average of 12 students were employed part
time during the year at approximately $40 each per month.
Forty students fed out and marketed ~30 head of beef cattle including:
Reserve Grand Champion carload of steers at Great Western
livestock show; also Champion Angus and Champion Shorthorn steers of
the open division at the Great Western; Champ Shorthorn load of steers
at the Grand National Livestock show, and the Champion Junior Calf,
Reserve Champion Senior Calf, and Reserve Champion Junior Calf at
the same -show.
Sixty students fed out over 360 head of hogs as projects.
cluded were:
In-
Grand Champion barrow and Reserve Grand Champion pen
of barrows at the California State Fair; and miscellaneous ribbon
winners in hog classes at both the Grand National and Great Western
Livestock shows.
Forty-four students fed out project sheep in three classes:
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rams, show fat lambs and commercially fed lambs.
Three students
were assigned the rams and sold them at the California State Ram
Sale -in May.
Thirteen students fed fat lambs and exhibited them
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at the Great Western Livestock Show, the State Fair, Los Angeles
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County Fair, and the Grand National Livestock show~
At the San
Francisco · show; student ovm.ed lambs took the Open Division grand
championship carload (of 50 lambs) and Open Division reserve champion
individual.
Tvrenty-eight students fed out 300 head of feeder lambs
purchased in Nevada.
The lambs were sold in South San Francisco on
the open market at $25~50 per 100 weight, the highest price paid
per pound on that market up to that date.
95 percent choice, the remainder, good.
The lambs graded over
In cooperation with the
California Wool Grovrnrs Association the sheep department sponsored
a sheep shearing school at which over 90 students and sheepmen improved their shearing technique.
Thoroughbred mare Cheeky Sue was donated to the school by D~
s.
Jeppson of Chatsworth in 1948.
Fruit, Field and Truck Crops:
The Crops department ~Tith 190
students enrolled this year consists of three sub-departments,
Field Crops, Fruits and Truck Crops.
The field crops program with 98 enrolled is designed to train
students for farming where field crops is the major interest as
well as for farms where livestock is combined with field crops.
Many students majoring in field crops have also received employment in fields related to crop production, such as fieldmen and
buyers • . Field crops has been a favorite major also for those training to become agriculture teachers under the Smith Hughes program.
The fnrm lands of the college continue to be utilized as a train-
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ing area for practice and observation in crop production.
the past year for the first time sugar beets were inqluded.
During
Two
acres were grown and harvested entirely by the students, and the
forty tons of beets grown delivered at the local loading platform.
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Inadequacy of water for irrigation during the 19!.i.8 season considerably limited the growing of field crops~
The outdoor laboratory for growing varieties and kinds of field
crops for student study and identification has been considerably
expanded in area, a Dallis hut has been installed as a field house
and water available from domestic supply has been installed in ample
quantity.
The Division of Agronomy of University of California at
Davis has been very helpful in providing seeds of many promising
kinds not available from commercial seed companies.
Forty field
plots of various kinds and mixtures of irrigated pasture plants have
been established.
Eight varieties of ·alfalfa including the new
African and Indian are growing for study and observation.
All the
new disease resistant cereals as well as the standard kinds for
California are gro-w:n. for field observation and laboratory study~
Tw:o new courses were ad~ed to the curriculum of field crops.
The course in Commercial Seed Production was given on a practical
basis through cooperation of local growers of grain seed crops and
especially th~ough the cooperation of the Waller Franklin Company
of Guadalupe growers of flower and vegetable seeds.
Dr. Jim Harring-
ton, vegetable seed specialist with the University of California at
Davis was also helpful in planning the course.
A member of the
Crops staff _has represented the California State Polytechnic College and the agricultural teachers of California as a member of
California Seed Council for the past seven years.
The advanced course in forage crops entitled Irrigated Pastures
was offered as elective and more than 50 students completed the
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Extensive variety plantings of irrigated pasture plants at
the college as well as irrigated pastures in nearby farms in this
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part of tho state, give students opportunity to come to know the
pasture plants and to study pasture management and operation in
the field.
There was a considerable expansion in the work of the department in presenting courses in crop product:i,.on to students other than
those majoring in crops.
The Forage crops course, for example,
offered in the spring, enrolled more than 250 students.
To take
care of the expanding program Gordon Van Epps was added to the
staff in September·.
Van Epps is a graduate in Agronomy of the Utah
State College and received his masters degree there last year.
The fruits, sub-department with an enrollment of 53 major students, and 112 students other than majors taking tho general fruit
cour~e has shown increasing enrollment and expanding interest.
The
program is taught in a practical manner and most of tho various
orchard operations in the college's twenty-five acres of orchard
and vineyard is carried on in instructional laboratories.
The work
which must be carried on at times other than laboratories is done by
hiring tho fruits majors for all operations•
new variety trees and vines were added,
During the year many
The plantings now include
more than 160 varieties. · The class in pomology has now completed
successfully tho grafting of 50 large roadside black walnut trees
on the college roads to adapted English kinds. · During the year Stark
brothers donated 25 trees of the special patented varieties which
they control.
And the University of California donated a group of
their new group varieties including Delight Scq,rlet and Porlette.
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These have grovm well and offer promise as varieties adapted to
the central area.
Several growers of grapes, stonefruits, nuts and
dried fruits have donated commercial packages of fruits which were
useful in instruction in the marketing and production courses.
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Several leading commercial companies active in pest control sales
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have donated field scale quantities of their products which were
used in the laboratory instruction in pest control.
The Wine grape
plot originally established in cooperation with the Division of Viticulture, University of California yielded well and Cobernet Sauvignon, probably the choicest wine grape in the plot, continued to show
up at yield levels amongst the highest in the state of C2lifornia.
The Division of Viticulture took samples which were studied in the
enological laboratory at Da~is.
For the first time recently a course in Citrus and Avocado production was offered at the San Luis Obispo campus.
The three acre
orchard of avocadoes and citrus offered excellent laboratory conditions.
This course is for one quarter only and is designed to
train deciduous fruit majors and students planning to teach agriculture in the fundamentals of citrus and avocado production.
Those
training to enter citriculture as a vocation are trained, of course,
in the Citrus fruit major at Cal Poly at Voorhis Unit.
In cooperation with the Soils instructors several mineral deficiencies in the orchard have been determined and marked responses
secured by application of the deficient minerals.
New pear varieties planted during the year have been established
on the old Home variety which resists pear blight, a disease prevalent in this community.
A new method of spraying with copper com-
pounds has very successfully checked blight in the older trees.
A
new irrigation system was established consisting essentially of
n:µi-
vasion~ metal pipe originating as war surplus which now permits
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adequate irrigation of citrus, walnuts, avocadoes vi.neyard and
apple plantings.
A power duster also was purchased during 191~8
and permits more effective instruction and pest control in orchard
cl!ld vineyard•
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The boekeeping course offered under the fruit major in the
spring using the college apiary of twenty hives for laboratory instruction enrolled 35 student_s .
practical level.
Beekoeping is taught here on a
Some interest has been shown by the commercial
beekeepers in obtaining trained helpers from this program and one
student has been placed.
The instructor is a member of the Califor-
nia State Beekeepers Association and attends their annual meeting~.
Leading com.~ercial beekeepers have donated five three pound packages
of bees and three queens for the college apiary.
Dairy Husbandry and Dairy Manufacturing:
The dairy unit main-
tains a purebred Guernsey, Holstein and Jersey herd of around 200
head.
This includes approximately 50 animals that are owned by 25
students .and operated as projects.
•rhis is one of the outstanding
college herds in the United States as indicated by a herd average
of 523 pounds of butterfat per cow per yoar and a high score on
conformation.
It includes several national champions in production.
The herd produces ~round $6500 worth of dairy products and $1000
worth of surplus stock each month.
Tho dairy department has a monthly student payroll of around
$.'1600 each month.
The dairy projects and this largo payroll helps
a considerable number of students in paying college expensqs.
The
college offers majors in both the dairy husbandry and manufacturing
fields.
Modern barns house the dairy herd, and at the present time, a
college creamery is being equipped with the most modern dairy manu-
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facturing machinery.
This will be a valuable additional facility
for students in this major fieict.
There are now approximately 175 students majoring in either
the dairy husbandry or dairy manufacturing fields.
There has been
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no difficulty ·whatever in placing dependable, well-trained dairy
students.
For a number of years, there has been a material shortage
of skilled dairy workers and a larger number of graduates are needed
by the industry.
All work about the dairy barns and croamery is done by students
with the exception of a dairy herdsman and one full-time milker.
Three students milk over 25 head of the highest producers, three
times daily.
Students do a considerable amount of other work in-
cluding handling, processing and distribution of the dairy products
and feeding and caring for the dairy cattl_e .
Last year, the dairy department had a gross income of approximately (·, 90,000 and showed a net income after operating expenses had
been paid, and, of course, in addition the entire dairy serves a
very valuable educational purpose.
There are now three full-time
instructors in the dairy department and a fourth is now need~d.
The average of 523 pounds of butterfat per cow during last year
is more than double that of 262 pounds for the average California
cqw.
The college Holstein herd during 1948 made a new national
average of 639 pounds of butterfat per cow.
Breeding stock is being
shipped throughout the West and as far distant -as Ohio.
Last year,
two Polytechnic Holstein bulls were purchased cooperatively by the
United States Department of Agriculture and the University of Ohio.
Semen for artificial insemination has also been shipped as far as
Kansas.
The dairy department staff also assisted with numerous dairy
events such as fairs, field days and Future Farmer activities •
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Ornamental Horticulture:
In addition to instruction offered
to more than 80 students majoring in the department., the Ornamental
Horticulture unit has a very practical function in that it handles
the campus grounds maintenanqe,.
Students propagate and grow all
, trees, shrubs and flowering plants used on the campus.
The unit consists of 5000 square feet of glasshouse,
2400
square feet of lath house and 1800 feet of cloth house space.
A
propagation or head house of 1600 square feet is the main center of
activity.
Over 10,000 plants are now in the nursery, with another
10,000 in the cloth and lath houses.
The glasshouses
are used
for student training in pot plant raising and propagation of shrubbe~J plants.
One glasshouse
plants by cuttings.
is devoted entirely to the propagation of
Attached is a potting room which is adjacent
to concrete cold frames used for hardening off cuttings.
Eight new concrete soil bins with a capacity of over eight
cubic yards each have been constructed in the propagating area.
These new bins have been constructed so that the soil is dumped into
the bins from above and can be removed at the level of a concrete
slab where canning of plants and soil mixing is done.
Twenty-five stude1it projects were operated during the year.
Total gross sales amounted to over $1,000.
Projects included cut
flowers, pot plants, lining-out stock, bedding plants both ornamental
and vegetables and gallon-can plants.
Project operation included
growing of annuals~ herbaceous perennials and woody perennials.
During the year, 112 students were on student labor payrolls
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receiving a total of $5,200 for operating the nursery and grounds
maintenance.
Under direction of the campus head gardener, students
of this department did most of the shrubbery and tree spraying,
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pruning, and fertilizing, and irrigating both lawns and shrubbery •
In the nursery students perform such operations as watering, pest
control, propagation of plants, and general nursery practices.
The department also has electrically heated combination hot beds
and cold frames; an electric 50 cubic foot refrigerator for storing
and holding bulbs, cuttings, scion wood, and deciduous plants; a new
four cubic foot propagation oven; and a soil shredder; ~swell as
recording thermometers, hygrometers and numerous other small items
obtained through war surplus.
Gifts in the form of plant materials have been received by many
donors • .'
During the year the department was host to the Tri-County chapter of the California Association of Nurserymen, and aided in planning a short course ·for nurserymen which will be held at the college
in 1949.
Poultry:
Providing instruction to about 110 poultry majors is
only part of the function -of this department which also provides instruction in poultry husbandry to several hundred other agricultural
majors who take such courses to round out a diversified experience
in all farming operations.
A ·flock of 4200 laying and breeding hens is maintained for student project work.
During 1948 the plant did more than
$56,ooo
in
busihess from sales of eggs, chicks, dressed poultry and other products.
An intensive trap nesting and pedigree breeding program is
carried on and each year approximately 120,000 hatching eggs and
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40,000 baby chicks are sold, mostly to Future Farmers and former Cal
Poly students,
About 10,000 birds are raised and marketed locally
each year by students as project activity.
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During the year- seven ·new breeding p~ns were completed for pro-
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ject and student us~.
Two new brooder houses and a storage building
were also completed to supplement the teaching and student project
facilities,.
During the year the turkey program was expand~d to include the
following varieties·:
Narragansetts, Bourbon Reds, Beltsville White,
Black, and Small Type Baby Beef Bronze.•
The poultry f'locks now include pedigreed White Leghorn flock,
also New Hampshires, Barred Rocks, Dark Cornish as well as crossbreds raised for frJers.
Individual student projects were increased to 95 during the
year, with each student project consisting of either 150 laying
breeding hens each or 250 or more chicks each.
or
The student operator
of the project shares the net profit on the project with the project
fund, with the average student earning from $10 to $15 per month.
About 30 students were paid by the hour for labor out of project
funds for processing and selling products.
Related Agriculture Sciences:
Two fields, Soil Science and
Vet erinary Science, are included under the Agricultural Pivision.
The work covered in both of these fi elds is closely related to the
activities of the agricultural majors.
Soil Science courses are required of all students in the agricultural division.
As well as supplying essential technical information
for students in agriculture, the soils courses provide a substantial
background for individuals especially interested in Soil Scienc~.
Veterinary Science is offered to supplement the major work p~o-
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vided in the Animal Science Departments of ·the Agricultural Divisio~~
Keeping college herds and flocks healthy provides opportunities for
laboratory classes and at the same time gives students valuable e~perience and practical training.
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ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL DIVISION
Aeronautical Engineering:
hangar
Extensive shop, laboratory,
and flight strip facilities provide actual ma.intenance
and operations experience for the student in this department~
The combination of these shop courses with classroom work gives
the future engj_neer the practical as well as the theoretical
background necessary for a complete understanding o.f the fundamentals of aircraft and aircraft engine construction, oper- ·
ations, maintenance and design.
Extensive work was accomplished in the layout and setting
up of equipment and machinery for more productive utilization
by the students.
The engine shop and hangar tool rooms were
reorganized for more efficient · operations during 1948.
A concrete apron of 60,000 square feet was constructed 'in
1948 in front of the hangar.
A drainage system for the roof of
th e hangar was also installed.
Work has progressed on the cohversion of war surplus material
for use in laboratory and shop work.
Tvlo
new instructors were added to the staff making a total of
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Architectural Engineeringt Courses offered in the department
of Architectural Engineering are designed. to prepare the student
for activities in the engineering and structural phases of the
architectural profession and the building industry.
Purely
architectural subjects are offered only to the extent of providing the student with a sympathetic understanding of the problems
of architectural practice and design.
Graduates find employment as junior draftsmen and junior
engineers in architect's offices, large construction firms, contracting companies and building material organizations.
Some
graduates find placement opportunities as estimators, construction
supervisors, structural designers and detailers, building contractors and sales engineers.
Departmental facilities include well-lighted drafting rooms
and studios with appropriate library catalog facilities.
Equipment
and conditions throughout the department are designed to carry out
an atmosphere paralleling that found in the architectural profession
and the building industry.
Reproduction facilities are available
for blue printing and other methods of reproduction.
More than 130 students were enrolled in this department in
the fall of 19u8.
The staff consists of two registered architects and one
assistant instructor.
Electrical Engineering:
The Electrical Engineering _Department offers
the student adequate training in the technical and practical _p hases
of electrical works to that when he enters industry he will have
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developed some of the skills necessary to carry on l~borat.o ry work.
The technical cu·r riculurn offers considerable practice to the
student in actual construction and installation of the electrical
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The following are a few of the jobs c?mpleted during the
past year:
The old Agricultural Education Building was rewired to some
extent and new larger size power cables were installed to improve
voltage regulation.
One dormitory was rewired and new lights installed.
Considerable electrical work was done in the welding shop in
the way of circuits for equipment.
The illumination engineering class drafted the circuits and
specifications for flurescent lighting in the E•. E.• Laboratory.
• The installation was made by the electrical construction classes_.
Electric lines and equipment were maintained and repaired
by electrical construction classes,
Mechanical Engineering:
The enrollment in Mechanical Engineer-
ing increased to 216 for the fall quarter, 1948.
Of these, _ 42 were
enrolled in the technical and vocational levels training for
technical positions in operation, maintenance or junior engineer~
ing.
The remainder of the students are working toward an mechani-
cal engineering degree with emphasis on Production Engineering, _
Velding, or Mechanical Equipment of buildings, according to the
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individual students choice.
The limited design courses given in
the senior ye ar are for the purpose of providing background in
applications of Mechanical Engineering to special types of problems rather than to train design or research . engineers.
Overhaul of a large Diesel engine to be installed in the
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Power. Plant.is well underway vri.th Mechanical Engineering students
doing most of the overhaul work during supervised class periods.
Two small gasoline engine test units have been completed by
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students in project work and are being used in laboratory classes •
A 100 horsepower engine test dynampmeter is being built by a student as a senior project.
This unit will be installed and ready
for use by the start of the 19h9-50 academic year • .
The new hydraulics laboratory is nearing completion.
Some
preliminary tests have proved the soundness of the design and
workmanship of the students who originated and carried out the
project with limited funds and the minimum of instructions from
the faculty.,
The nevY strength of materials laboratory has been utilized
since the start of the 19h8-h9 academic year in teaching a new
laboratory course -t o all mechanical, aeronautical, el.e ctrical,
and architectural students.
Additional equipment now on order
will bro aden the scope of the new course.
Equipment and instruments are being purchas es for a new
laboratory to be used for fuels and lubricants testing.
This
t esting is now included in the freshman Mechanical Engineering
Laboratory course.
When sufficient equipment is on hand and space
is available, the t esting of fuels and lubricants will be condu ct ed i n a s eparat e l aboratory cours e.
This will permit extension
of the present fr eshman labor a tory cours e to include other basic
t ests and demonstrations fundamental to Mechanical Engineering.
All l aboratories are planned so they may be easily moved to
the new Power Plant and Mechanical Engine~ring Laboratory building when it i s constructed •.
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One new instructor was added to this department during 1948 •.
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Air Conditioning and Refrigeration:
This department is the
largest of any in the industrial division. · About half of these
were degree engineering students and the other half were technical
students,
The department also gives heating and Yentilating
courses for mechanical and architectural students and dairy refrigeration and steam for dairy manufacturing and dairy production students~
About 180 students in these departments took work in the
refrigeration and air conditioning department,
Because of the rapid growth of the department three new
teachers were added during 1948 making a total of 10 •.
The department has attracted national attention.
It has stu-
dents from all parts of the United States, Hawaii, Cuba, and Puerto
Rico.
The laboratories of the department now include a refrigeration
laboratory, a heating and ventilating laboratory, an air conditioning tests and measurements laboratory, and a sheet metal shop,
These laboratories have a combined floor space of 6720 square feet
and contain equipment and instruments valued at $90,000.
All of
the equipment has been installed by students of the department.
An altitude test chamber and a variable temperature and humidity
reversible cycle air conditioning system are being installed this
year.
The latter will be the first system of its type.
In addition to the regular laboratory work students maintain
all of the refrigerating systems on the campus and a considerable
portion of the heating equipment.
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There are 58 refrigerating
systems on the campus other than those in the refrigeration
laboratory.
Also, installations as needed by other departments
are designed, constructed and installed by students.
During 1948
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the following installations were made for other departments:
Two
refrigerating systems, two hot water radiant panel heating. systems,
one forced draft hot air heating system, four ventilating systems,
three exhaust systems, and several small sheet metal jobs.
Electronic and Radio Engineering:
By the fall quarter 185
students had enrolled in this comparatively new major in the
Engine'ering and Industrial Di vision.
It prepares students to
fill positions, exclusive of planning and pure research, carried
on by engineers in the fields of communications and electronics.
Facilities include five laboratories, a shop, instrument stock
room, small parts stock room and department offices.
As part of
the project system, the students operate a small radio repair
shop and service approximately 500 radios for the campus community.
The average repair charge on these radios was
$5.
One new instructor was added to the staff in 1948 bringing the
total to five full-time instructors,
Several students are employed
on an hourly basis to build the much ne'eded laboratory eqµipment.
A new laboratory for work in Industrial Electronics was
started during the year.
This laboratory will handle heavy equip-
ment including a 37.5 KW Induction Heating unit and Electronic
control units.
A small room has been set aside to house the receivers and
transmitters used on the amateur bands, and amateur station
W6BHZ.
With the station in operation, it is now possible to do
laboratory work in radiation, as well as give the students an
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opportunity to · cqntact by radio amateur radio operators from all
parts of the world.
In recognition of the outstanding work and curriculum of this
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department, which completed its third year in 1948., the Institute
of Radio Engineers orge.nized a student branch of the society on
the campus.
This recognition by the leading professional engineer-
ing society in the fields of radio and electronics places the
department on a par with the accepted engineering schools in the
country.
The department has obtained a federal lic~nse to operate the
Mark~ XVI Radar set obtained from the government.
This radar
station including the 75 foot tower was erect~d by the students
and the set is being operated as station W6-XDM~
This station is
operated so that the students may have experience in operational
problems, maintenance and installation problems and experimental
·work with a radar station.
Work with this radar supplements the
textbook work on general radar instruction.
Printing:
A completely equipped printing plant is operated
by students majoring in printing and publishing.
They produce a
weekly newspaper, monthly Future Farmer magazine, and all other
student body publications, including programs, ruled forms, etcetera. · Graduates will be qualified to operate their own print
shops, newspaper publishing plants, or work in management or
supervisory capacities in various fields of the allied printing
industry~ . . One of two degree courses of its kind in the country,
this department is offering instruction endorsed by the California
Newspaper Publishers association and by the International Typographical Union which permits the use of its apprentice training
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manuals as text books •
One new instructor was added to the department last year, and
another is expected to report this year.
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During 1948 considerable new equipment was added, including
the following:
type cases and composing stones, complete new series
of linotype matrix in various sizes, many new fonts of type faces, .
Ludlow type casting machine, ·Kluge automatic press, ·precision lineup table," 14 x 20 Multilith Press, · Two additional linotype machines
are expected to be added during the coming year. ·
Students in this department do all the mechanical work involved
in the publication of the 10 page weekly college newspaper, monthly
college magazine, athletic programs, a monthly magazine sent to
12,500 Future Farmer members, a pictorial brochure featuring the
student Poly Royal show, and many smaller printing jobs for student organizations.
Students doing work outside regular labora-
tory hours receive hou!lly pay which is included as part of the
cost of every job and is charged to the student organization
ordering the work.
wages last year.
students rec eived about $2000 in such project
During their senior year courses in estimating,
pl ant organi zation andJ.ayout, bookkeeping and management are
offered.
Publi shers and printing concerns of the Pacific Coast
are showing an intense interest and are seeking to employ graduates in excess of the present capacity of the course,
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RELATED INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENTS_
Welding i
This department g~ve instruction in both oxy-
ac·e tylene and arc welding to approximately 500 students each quarter~
Three full-time and three student instructors carried on
the program.,
The arc welding section was reorganized, designed, and built
by students of the welding classes.,
'11 he capacity of the shop was
enlarged from eight to 14 arc welding stations plus one .demonstration area.
This increased instructional efficiency •.
Eight hundred square feet of floor space was added as a
stock and tool room.
thereby provided.
A material and tool control system was
The over-all operating program was improved
considerably by this system as well as a great improvement in
wash room facilities.
A new 500 pound capacity acetylene generator was installed
by students of the welding classes,
This brings the acetylene
generating capacity up to the load requirement.
Machine Shop:
During the year, two additional machine tools
were added to the 73 machines already in the machine shop.
The
new ones - a flat lapping machine and a tapping ma.chine were
obtained from the i~ar Assets Administration through the State
Department of Education.
Two of the machines already in the ·
machine shop were cleaned and overhauled, and put in firstclass condition.
The most important work in 1948, however, was the reorgani-
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All grading of students' work was
made as objective as possible, using a point system based on precision measurement of the project.
To this
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end a number of .P recision grading fixtures were built which can
instantly indicate errors in work as small as 0.0005" • . Each grading fixture was designed to check one or more dimensions on acertain class project,
This grading ·system has greatly speeded up
the grading of class wo~k, reduced grading errors almost to zero,
and has entirely eliminated the occasional complaint from students
about the reliability of their grades.
Any student can, if he so
desires, check the grading of his work and arrive at the same grade
score as did the teacher.
During the year a number of small tools were added to the shop
tool room, broadening the types of work possible to turn out in
the machine shop.
A good deal of maintenance and repair work was
done for the school..
_.Assistance was also given many departments
in th~ design and construction of testing and laboratory equipment.
Twenty instructional films were also added to the shop film library
improving and speeding up the instruction in machine tool operation.
Three full-time and four part-time instructors are now
employed in the department to handle a ·per quarter enrollment of
28 classes totaling approximately 430 students.
The shop now has the following facilities:
a bench shop for
20 students where hand operations can be taught; a machine shop
where a beginning class of 20 and an advanced class of 12 can be ·
handled at the same time; a lecture room for talks, tests, and
films; and adequate storage facilities for tools and supplies.
The shops are in a steel-framed building, clean and well-lighted,
with ample room without crowding of equipment, and have locker
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Adequate classrooms, laboratories, shops, equipment, citrus
groves, deciduous orchards, tr_uck crop land, greenhouses, glas~houses, are included at the southern branch of the college to provide the first two years of work in the degree curricula and all
of the instruction in the two and three yenr program in Agricultural Inspection, Citrus Fruit Production, and Ornamental Horticulture.
Dormitories, cafeteria, student store, swimming pool, athletic
field, chapel, and other facilities makes the Voorhis campus a compact unit ideally situated for the type of instruction offered.
Agricultural Inspection:
Adequate facilities are provided at
the Voorhis Unit for teaching men in the common practices and skills
and the essential techniques in agricultural inspection.
The cur-
ricula were established after each course and combination had received the approval of the State Department of Agriculture for its
effectiveness in training inspectors.
Graduation requirements in-
clude actual work . in commercial packing houses and at inspection
points.
Field trips are made to shipping points, picking, propa-
gatton districts, in addition to the campus area.
Citrus Fruit Production:
The San Dimas campus has facilities
for teaching fruit production on a practical basis.
The college-
owned grove and orchards are operated primarily by studBnts as part
of their instructional program.
Various irrigation methods are em-
ployed on the campus in connection with fruit proauction.
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Farm
equipment, including tractors, tillage implements 1 spray rigs, and
fumigation equipment~ is owned, maintained and operated on the
campus farm.
A small nursery of citrus, avocado, and deciduous
plantings is operated to give instruction in the problems of propagation and raising of trees.
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Ornamental Horticulture:
The facilities on the Voorhis campus
consist of a lath house, two glasshouses, propagation frames, a
subtropical canyon, a two-acre nursery, and one acre of cut flowers.
Extensive landscaped portions of the campus include, in addition to
the buildings, seven acres of lawn and three miles or roadway.
Estates, parks, golf courses, nurseries, and flower plantings in the
vicinity serve as a natural laboratory for field experience and
practice.
Additional Courses:
Courses in deciduous fruits, vegetable
crops, poultry, and the general required related courses also are
being offered at the Voorhis Unit •
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NEW FACILITIES
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INSTRUCTIONAL
This 5or x 90' building made of a new type lath
Lath House:
was completed at the close of the suminer, 1948.
of light aluminum strips.
The lath is made
These are supported by aluminum stringers
fastened to redwood framework.
Four men who were enrolled as stu-
dents during the school year 1947-48 were hired during the summer
to work with one of the instructors in the Ornamental Horticulture
Department for the purpose of erecting the lath house according to
the plan which had been worked out by the Architecture Design class
the previous year.
This procedure not only saved the state ap-
proximately 50 percent of what the building would have cost to have
had it built by rt contractor, but it also provided work experience
to students planning to enter this field who would otherwise not
have had such an opportunity for experience.
Crop Land:
Approximately 50 acres of level land was rented
during the fall of 1948 to provide additional facilities for the
growing of crops.
This land joins the Voorhis Unit on the west and
is handy for instructional purposes.
being gro'V'l11. there this year.
are planted to truck crops.
Cereal and truck crops are
Water is limited, so only a few acres
This additional acreage of open level
land has also been of great assistance to the farm tractors and
farm machinery classes, as well as for the various crops classes.
Student Housing:
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August 31, 191+8, saw the completion of a 44
family apartment unit that had been allocated to the Voorhis Unit
by the Public Housing Authority through county and state agencies •
This was the last project of its kind to be completed in the United
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States under the P.H .A. program •.- The l-1-4 apartments are made up of
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five different buildings, two buildings having 14 two room apartments each and the other three buildings comprise 16 three room
apartments.
Availability of family housing on the campus permitted
many veteran students to enter training who for the past two years
have not boon able to attend school because of no accommodations
for thoir families in the area.
Tho colloge manages the housing
unit for the Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles who is
the official local agency that has the contract with the Public
Housing Authority and the state.
State funds that were provided
in Chapters 29 and 391 were secured by the county to supplement the
funds furnished by P.H,A. to erect the housing unit.
NEW COURSES AND CHANGES
Tho only significant addition that was made to the curriculum
at San Di mas dur:ing the current year was the addition of Chemistry
made up of coursGs PSc
4,
321, 322, and 323.
It was necessary to
add Chemistry in order for the many students 2ttending San Dimas
who are transfers from other colleges to secure a full schedule
during the year or years that they must be at San Dimas to complete ma jor courses which are offered only at San Dimas.
Complete
Chemistry laboratory facilities were installed during the fall
quarter.
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different students are taking adva~tage of those
offerings during the y earo
There is an ever increasing demand on the part of prospective
student s of the Southern California area for .Animal Husbandry, Dairy
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and Poultry courscso
At the -present time, there are not facilities
to provide this type of program even if it were decided that such
courses should be offered.
In addition to the increasing demand
for work in fields mentioned above other than those which are now
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offered at San Dimas, there are an increased number of requests
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for specialized courses in the major fields that are now offered
from which students may choose electives •
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EVENTS DURING THE YEAR 1948
More than 2.50 California veterinarians attended a three day
professional conference held on the California State Polytechnic
College campus from January .5-7.
Sponsored by the California State
Veterinary Medical Association, the conference program included
well-knovm veterinary medical authorities from throughout the United
States as speakers.
Students of Chico State college cooperated in 1948 with students of California State Polytechnic College by selecting a coed
to reign as queen over Poly's Sixteenth annual Poly Royal, April
30 and May 1.
President Julian A, McPhee was in Washington,
n.c.
from
January 23 to January 28 attending t·wo educational meetings.
As
president of the American Vocational Association, McPhee was a
delegate to the American Council on Education. ·The second meeting
was a conference of American Vocational Association officials.
Word was received on February 2 from the New York headquarters
of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) stating that California
State Polytechnic College was officially recognized as a radio engi-·
neering school.
Only _two other western schools, University of
California and Stanford, are recognized by the IRE.
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Joe
w.
Jarvis, . supervisor of Agricultural Development of the
Union Pacific Railroad, was the principal speaker at a banquet at
the Cal Poly chapter of the Young Farmers on February 12.
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Working on the premise · that every member of the faculty should
be well-versed in all phases of the educational program at Cal Poly,
the administration developed a plan to indoctrinate every member
of the staff with a thorough background of purposes and methods used
by each of the eleven agricultural departments, eight engineering
departments and five science and humanity departments.
One of the college's famed Holstein cows set a new world's record in February for milk production in her class~
She is Polytechnic
Bess Blossom who produced 808 pounds of butterfat and 21;126 pounds
of mj,lk in 365 days being milked twice a day.
Fifty-five California State Polytechnic College musicians presented musical programs before audiences totaling more than 10,000
persons during a week-long tour of seven Sacramento Valley counties
March B"-13'.
The six man rodeo team representing Cal Poly at the University
of Arizonafs annual intercollegiate rodeo took second place against
competition from colleges throughout the United States.
The California Polytechnic college dairy herd of Holsteins was
placed as the second highest production Holstein dairy herd in the
United States·, according to word received during March from the
·National Holstein-Friesian Associatione
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The herd of 22 made the
remarkable average of 16.,195 pounds of milk, with 606.1 pounds of
butterfat, an average test of 3. 7 percent·.
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Because of the demand for trained horseshoers, California State
Polytechnic College inaugurated a 12-week course similar to the only
other such course in existence which is given at Michigan State colie~e.
Tho course for training farriers was added as part of the
course offerings at Cal Poly at the insistence of the Horse and Mule
Association of America, the California Thoroughbred Breeders• Association and many individual breeders and veterinarians in .the state.
More than 60 members of the Tri-County chapter of the California
Association of Nurserymen attended a conference held on the campus
of California State Polytechnic College on May 21.
Representatives
from Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties discussed
nursery instruction and·problems.
The Federal Communications Commission on May 24 assigned an
experimental Class One radar license to tho electronic and radio
engineering department at California State Polytechnic Co'ilege.
State legislators and state administrative officials visited
the California State Polytechnic College campus on May 19.
The
visitors were invited by State Senator Chris N~ Jespersen to see
the college's expansion problems and long-range building program
plans.
Robert LaFollette, former United States senator from Wisconsin
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and now vice-president of the Sears Foundation and .Edward Condon,
president of the Foundation, visited the campus on May 28.
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On June
4, 135
students graduated from California State
Polytechnic College, the largest class in history.
Eighty-three
degrees were issued, 29 three-year technical certificates, 11 twoyear technical certificates and 12 vocational certificates.
The
first honorary degree ever issued by the college was conferred upon Senator Cr1ris N.. Jesper·sen.
bachelor of science..
He received an honorary degree of
Speaking at the forty-ninth annual commence-
ment was William Blair, president of the State Board of Education.
In attendance was Dr, Roy E. Simpson, superintendent of public instruction and director of education.
The annual business meeting of the California State Veterinary
Medical Association was held on the campus of California State
Polytechnic College in June.
Dr.
s.
T. ].fichael of San Francisco
was elected president of the .organization.
More than 250 agricultural teachers from all sections of the
state -convened at Cal Poly for their annual five day conference in
June~
The event was sponsored by the California Agricultural
TeachGrs Association.
Starting on June 28, the college offered
additional summor courses for academic credit to many of the
t eachers.
A total of 721 students enrolled for the regular summer quarter
at California State Polytechnic College, the largest in the history
of the school •
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Polytechnic Bess Colantha, one of the three full sisters in
the California State Polytechnic College Holstein herd, set a new
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national record in June.
At three years, six months of age, she
completed a record of 28,157 pounds of milk and 1010.7 pounds of
butterfat.
---------A professional book collection valued at $5,000 was donated
to the college library by Charles E. Teach, retiring Snn Luis Obispo
superintendent of schools.
---------Nearly 100 livestock specialists in the state convened in July
at California Stnte Polytechnic College for a three-day session.
Those attending r~ceived schooling and rofroshcr courses as they
apply to future judging in livestock rings ~n California.
The
event was sponsored by the college, the University of CPlifornia
and the ~iestern Fairs Association.
On July
24,
Governor Earl Warren made a two-hour tour of
California State Polytechnic College ca~pus.
He was the guest of
Julian A. McPhee, president of the colleg0.
Registration for the second summer session at the college,
which began July 2h, reached 518 students.
-----------The quarterly meeting of the California Farm Bureau Federation Dairy Department met on the campus of the college on August
20.
Close to
75
dairymen from California atten
which was highlighted by reports from the farm bureau dairy legis-
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Twenty-two animals, ovmed by eight students ·of the college
comprised the college's entry in the state fair livestock show.
Over 150 physical education instructors from the public schools
of Cc1.lifornia met on the campus of California State Polytechnic College from August 16 to August 27 for their annual workshop.
The
event was carried on in cooperation between tho California Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation and the college.
-------.~-----The . largest student enrollment,. 2575, in tho history of the
college registered in September.
Mrs. Walter Friar Dexter fitted a cornerstone int"o place for
the new library named for her late husband, Dr. falter F.- Dexter,
state superintendent of instruction from 1937 until his death in
1945.: The cornerstone laying took place October 22 on the California State Polytechnic College campus at a ceremony attended by
members of the State Board of Education, members of the State
Department of Education, faculty and students.-
Speakers included
William L. Blair, president, State Board of Education; Roy E. Simpson,
state superintendent .o f instruction; Aubrey Douglass, associate
superintendent; and Julian A. McPhee, college president.
Members of the Str-i.te Board of Education held a two-day meeting
on the campus of the California State Polytechnic College on October
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Approximately 40 college students entered livestock raised
under the college project system in the Grand National Livestock
Show in the San Francisco Cow Palace in October.
Nearly 500 members of the Future Farmers of America gathered
on the college campus October 11-13 for the twentieth annual state
FFA convention.
Approximately 185 high schools were represented by
delegates.
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A dairy cattle judging team from the college placed third in
a field of six teams from western colleges competing in the Pacific
International Livestock Exposition in Portland, October 8 and 9,
Alumni returned to the California State Polytechnic College
campus on October 8 and 9 for an annual Homecoming celebration ~nd
adopted a new constitution.
Members of the college chapter of the Institute of Radio
Engineers attended the :Vest Coast convention of the national organizations in Los Angeles during October.
Seventeen business managers and comptrollers of California
state colleges met on the Cal Poly campus on October 18 and 19.
California State
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Polytechnic College st11dents won top honors
at the Grand National Livestock Exposition early in November at
the San Francisco Cow Palace and at the • Great Western Livestock
Show lnte in the month in Los Angeles.
The college livestock
judging team won second place in competition with western colleges.
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Dr. Roscoe Balch, member of the college veterinary staff and
Henry E. Gran, member of the biological science department, assisted
scientists of the Hooper Foundation in research work on the virus
which causes sleeping siclmess in horses.
John Harrison and James Smith, animal husbandry students at
the college, received awards for accomplishment in the field of
agriculture from the Santa Fe Railway on November 10.
----------.Dr..
Hubert H. Semans, dean of Science and Humanities Division
at the college, was elected secretary of tho California Council
on Teacher Education at a conference at Yosemite in November..
Twenty-six freshman and sophomore students received 1948-49
Sears-Roebuck Foundation Scholarships for interest in the agricultural field.
in 19,38..
The scholarships were first awarded by the foundation
Students from Cal Poljr were the first from any college
west of the Rockies to roceive the scholarships.
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California State Polytechnic Collogo was granted full, unrestricted accreditation as a four-year college by the Northwest
Association -of Secondary and Higher Schools at the annnal meeting of tho association on December 11 in Spokane, '.Vashingtons
250 page application for membership had been submitted to the
association in November,.
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lm evaluating committee T~_sited tho
campus, inspecting facilities and interviewing personnelo
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Miss Dona Grace Burbage, freshman at Humboldt State College,
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was introduced to students at Cal Poly at an assembly on Dece,nber
17. She vvill reign over Cal Poly's 1949 Poly Royal celebration
April 29 ·and JO.
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The dairy herd at California State Polytechnic College had
tho highest production por cow in the history of the college during
1948.
The 1948 record is approximately double the state average
per cow and is one of the highest college herd averages in the
nation.
The 72 cow herd averaged 12,610 pounds of milk and $23.7
pounds of butterfat per cow for a butterfat percentage o~ ~.2.
The figures were compiled for the Dairy Herd Improvement Association's
yearly production test.
During 1948 tho college herd of Guernsey,
Holstein and Jersey breeds pro milk.
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A total of 2492 students registered for the winter quarter at
the college.
The figure was higher than the 1947-48 winter quarter
total of 2119 but was a decline from tho all-time high of 2575 students recorded in the fall of 1948.
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ACTIVITIES 19 49--SAN DDMS
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The Ornamental Horticulture Department, Voorhis Unit, was
granted permission in January to exhibit in the Southern California
Spring Flower Show, held April 22 - 25 at the Fanny D. Morrison
Horticulture Center, Brookside Park, Pasadena~
Mrs. Lavina Penley, Librarian, attended a meeting for the
southern ·section of the school librarians association of California
at Pomona College, February 7.
Mrs. Penley is one of the directors
of the association.
Mr. P.
w.
-----------Rohrbaugh, Citrus department instructor, flew to
Corpus Chr.isti, Texas, January 22 at the invitation of Dr, n. Vf,
Jones, president of the Texas College of Arts and Industry, for
consultation on the plan and development on a new branch of the
college as an jnstitute of citrus and vegetable courses training
center.
--~-----Dean Harold
o.
Wilson attended a meeting of the San Bernadina
County Agricultural !eachers Association and gave a short talk on
the agricultural program of the Voorhis Unit.
The Ornamental Horticulture club heard Mrs. Harry Hood, one
of the leading Ecologists of the state, at its dinner meeting
here February
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----------Dean Harold o... Wilson vvas appointed in February to serve as
a member of the advisory connnittee for the 33rd annual National
Orange Show_.
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Art Getweiller of the United Wholesale Florists Association
spoke to the Ornamental Horticulture club February 19.
Cal Poly citrus judging team won first in its division at the
annual National Orange Show in San Bernadino, March 13.
Dean Harold Wilson and George J. Peavey attended a district
meeting of the American College Public Relations Association h~ld
at Cal Tech, March 30.
Dean Harold Wilson and George Peavey attended
the second annual school administrators conference at Claremont
College, April 17.
An exhibit sponsored by Cal Poly was shown at the state exposition building, Exposition Park in April.
Dean Harold Wilson attended a conference on vocational and
techn~cal education in junior colleges at the San Bernadino Valley
College, April 6 and 7.
Mrs. Lavina Penley represented Voorhis Unit at an all-day meeting of the California Library Association held at Occidental CQllege April 17.
Approximately 500 teachers and administrators attended the
Southern California Educational Conference representing the five
branches of vocational education which met on the campus May
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During the month of August the Bureau of Agricultural Education staff held a regular meeting at the Voorhis Unit.
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During the week of August 9 - 15 an Ornamental Horticulture
school was conducted by members of the Voorhis Unit agriculture
department for 28 agricultural teachers of Southern California •.
On August 21 Dean Wilson officiated at the Sear's swine show
in Ventura • .
During the week of August 23 the California State Department
of Agriculture held a state conference for representatives of their
office and representatives of the commercial trades • .
------,--During the Los Angeles County fair, September 1948 the Young ·
Farmers Association Chapter at the Voorhis Unit cooperated with
the Bureau of Vocational Agriculture Education in conducting Camp
Condee for Future Farmer members of Southern California • .
Cal Poly sponsored an educational exhibit at the Los Angeles
County Fair, September 17 to October 3 in Pomona.
Illustrations
of work done on the campus were shovm.
On December 10 and 11, 19h8, Cal Poly Chapter Young Farmers
Association was host to 150 representatives of the southern region
of the Young Farmers Association,
During the month of December the Voprhis Unit cooperated with
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the San Luis Obispo campus in preparing a float for the Pasadena
Tournament of Roses•·
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THIS REPORT IS SUBMITTED AT THE QUARTERLY MEETING
OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION CONVENING AT SACRAliIE.NTO,
APRIL 1,
1949.
RESPECTFULLY SUBLUTTED,
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President, California
State Polytechnic College
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FOREWARD
This report will confine itself to the actual progress
accomplished by the California State Polytechnic College during the 1948 calendar year January 1, 1948 to December 31, 1948.
This report is submitted to the State Board of Education
and the State Department of Education for the purpose of
acquainting these two groups with the activities of this
college ayer which they have administrative control.
Past reports have contained considerable explanation of
the organization, administration, financial support and educational philosophy of the college, but it is felt that the
differences between this college and other state colleges are
now clearly understood.
Only mention is made of these factors
when it is necessary.
Following a visitation of the evaluation committee of the
Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools, California
State Polytechnic College was granted full, unrestricted accreditation as a four year college.
This accreditation was made at
the annual meeting of the association held in Spokane, Washington
in December, 1948.
The largest enrollment in the history of the college registered in the fall, 1948.
A total of 2575 students registered at
the San Luis Obispo campus and 408 at the San Dimas campus.
In September, 1948, 29 new instructors were added to the
faculty bringing the total number of instructors on both campuses to 170.
The college during September of last year was
working under a student-instructor ratio of 19 to 1, although
the state legislature authorized a ratio of 16 to I.
This
difference was due to a miscalculation by the legislature and
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when the college's budget was issued it was found that the
instructor load had ir:icr_e_a sed to 19 to 1.
tration is working for a desired
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The college adminis-
to 1 rati~.
With the increase of enrollment during 19h8 has come a
greater demand for a co-education progran:i•
Each year, since the
state legislature in 1936 authorized a co-educational program at
California State Polytechnic College, the demand for such a program has increase~.•
has not taken actio~.
Due to a lack of facilities the administration
Housing and instructional facilities are
the greatest hurdles to overcome before women students can enroll
in the college,.
It is felt that when facilities do become avail-
able, there is such an ample demand that women will make up onefourth of the college's enrollment.
Hou.sing continued to be a major problem at the college,.
With
increasing enrollments, it is felt that provisions must soon be
made to house at least 1800 single men on the campus~
The corner stone for the new Walter F. Dexter Memorial
Library was laid in October, 1948.
The building is expected to
be ready for occupancy in September, 19h9.
Plans for a new
~cience building are now underway which marks the beginning of a
campus master building plan!
An active committee is working
with the State Division of Architecture in planning the future
expansion of the college.
A large relief map has been constructed
to help the committee and state group in planning the college's
future campus~
California State Polytechnic College continued to be a
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popular meeting place for various state organizations~
Among
those gathering at the qollege during the past year were members
of the California State Veterinary Medical Association, the
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California Association of Nurserymen, California Agricultural
Teachers Association, California Farm Bureau, Dairy Department,
Future Farmers and California Association of Health, Physical
Education, and Recreation,
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CONTENTS
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Page
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Faculty
Instructional Methods
Divisions of the College
Agricultural Division
Engineering Division
Science and Humanities Division
11
12-13
14-19
14-15
15-17
18-19
Physical Facilities
Housing
Student Labor
General Farm Operation
Scholarships
19-21
21-22
Student Welfare Service
Postal Service
Student Coordinator
Guidance Center
Teacher Training
Library
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Enrollment
By Departments
By Classes and Curriculum Level
By Counties and States, etc.
Yoorhis Unit--By Departments and Counties
Distribution Summary
Transfers From Other Colleges
Veterans and Non-Veterans
Married Students
Degrees and Certificates Granted
Transfers at Voorhis Unit
Department Functions and Facilities
Agricultural Engineering and Mechanics
Animal Husbandry
Fruit, Field and Truck Crops
Dairy Husbandry and Dairy rsanufacturing
Ornamental Horticulture
Poultry
Related Agriculture Sciences
Engineering and Industrial Division
Aeronautical Engineering
Architectural Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
Electronic and Radio Engineering
Printing
Related Industrial Departments
Voorhis Unit--San Dimas
New Facilities
New Courses and Changes
Events During the Year 1948
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3
4-5
6
7
8
8
9
9
22-24
25
26
27-28
27
27
27-28
29
30-31
32-54
32-33
33-36
36-40
40-41
42-43
43-44
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45
46
46-47
47-48
49-50
50-51
51-52
53
55-56
57-58
58-59
60-71
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ANNUAL REPORT TO THE
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
-ON THECalifornia State Polytechnic College
FOR THE PERIOD
,January 1, 1948 to December 31, 1948
ENROLLMENT
Because of lack of facilities, it was necessary to limit the
fall quarter enrollment in 1948 to 2983 students.
This was an
increase of 334 students over the total of 2609 enrolled in the
fall quarter of 1947.
Of this figure of 2983 students, 2575 were
enrolled at the home campus in San Luis Obispo and 408 were
enrolled at the branch in San .Dimas.
Approximately JOO appli-
cants for admission to the San Luis Obispo campus were turned
down because of lack of facilities and nearly 100 applicants
were rejected at San Dimas for the same reason.
The number of regularly enrolled students at San Luis Obispo
were divided fairly even between the engineering and industrial
and agricultural divisions, with 1250 in engineering and 1178 in
agriculture.
Following are summaries of the San Luis Obispo
enrollment:
By Division
Agricultural Division ~ • • 1178
Engineering Division . . . 1250
Science & Humanities . . . 147
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First year •
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• 875
Second year , • • • • 689
Third year
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Fourth year
242
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Fifth year
• 28
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2575
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ENROLLMENT BY DEPARTMENTS
Agricultural Division
Engineering and Industrial Division
Agricultural Engineering.
Aeronautical Engineering
Agricultural Inspection
. . 115
. . . 33
Architectural Engineering . . . 177
Animal Husbandry • . . . . . . • 492
Air Conditioning & Refrig . • • 271
Field Crops Production •. • •
97
Electrical Engineering
Truck Crops Production
38
Electronics & Radio . . . . . • 193
Dairy Husbandry
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. . 141
Dairy Manufacturi•ng ..• • •
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Horticulture . . . .
Fruit Production . • .
55
Ornamental
80
Poultry Husbandry
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Printing
94
Science & Humanities Division
Biological Sciences • . . • •
20
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14
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Physical Science . . . . . .
Social Science . . . . . . .
Physical Education
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1178
Matherna tics
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Maintenance Engineering. • • •
Mechanical Engineering
• 33
. 155
64
9
40
1L7
12
. 216
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1250
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SAN LUIS OBISPO
ENROLLMENT BY CLASSES AND CURRICULUM LEVEL (October, 1948)
AgricuJ.tural
Vocational
Technical
Degree
Spe.c ial
69
19
92
56
65
251
185
259
137
10
9
0
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13
7;;-
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
Fifth Year
0
0
0
0
0
73o
213
Total Agriculture
Engineering and
Industrial
Vocational
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
Fifth Year
Technical
Degree
85
94
302
278
298
13
4
0
0
0
68
0
0
17
2Ti7""
Vocational
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
Fifth Year
0
1178
Special
2
3
2
98
1
2
0
976
Total Engineering
Science and
Humanities
13
Technical
Degree
10
1250
Special
0
0
48
0
0
0
0
40
0
0
40
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
0
~
Total Science & Humanities
12
12
147
SAN DIMAS BRANCH
ENROLLMENT BY CLASSES AND CURRICULUM LSVEL (September 1948)
•
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Total
Vocational
12
8
0
20
Technical
28
26
17
71
Degree
126
105
70
301
Special
11
,3
2
lo
Total
177
142
89
408
•
COMPARATIVJ SUMMARY OF REGISTRATION
SAN LUIS OBISPO CAMPUS
Jan. 4,
County
•
Alameda
Alpine
Amador
Butte
Calaveras
Colusa
Contra Costa
Del Norte
Eldorado
Fresno
Glenn
Humboldt
Imperial
Inyo
Kern
Kings
Lake
Lassen
Los .Angeles
Madera
Marin
Mariposa
Mendocino
Merced
Modoc
Mono
Monterey
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
194b
23
0
2
6
Mar. 21,
1946
Nov. 1,
Nov. l,
1946
1947
1948
25
0
19
0
0
1
0
35
0
0
1
0
2
13
0
63
85
0
1
6
1
9
0
1
3
15
0
0
24
6
7
5
4
2
17
0
0
23
7
13
12
2
4
0
6
0
2
2
163
1
397
0
9
7
24
0
8
2
39
5
0
24
14
19
84
2
25
15
9
0
3
3
12
7
1
197
5
1
1
8
16
4
0
8
1
1
25
1
0
24
0
34
6
0
3
5
1
0
65
0
18
13
15
2
7
0
0
20
29
18
1
17
6
0
185
6
3
0
October
Jan. 1,
19hl
3
34
20
17
16
81
7
37 ·
18
9
1
6
2
0
1
2
0
0
8
7
1
12
1
0
11
5
1
13
15
19
14
i34
6
19
15
10
3
3
3
0
9
13
1
0
19
4
3
40
4
0
32
13
5
28
69
34
19
175
22
32
43
28
1
0
0
4
0
1
12
0
7
65
5
13
12
. 3
27
17
1
3
439
11
10
2
13
27
4
1
41
4
4
59
5
0
35
27
9
44
78
61
28
427
28
64
53
33
5
0
2
30
1
14
73
10
17
16
3
50
17
3
10
588
3
11
1
7
41
4
0
52
7
5
78
7
0
81
38
11
54
125
53
27
225
37
89
53
32
s
5
•
•
County
Sierra
Siskiyou
Solano
Sonoma
Stanislaus
Sutter
Tehama
Trinity
Tuolumne
Tulare
Ventura
Yolo
Yuba
0th er St at es &
Foreign Countries
Other States
Foreign Countries
u.s·. Territories
Mar. 21,
Nov. · 1,
Jan. ·4,
Jan. 1,
1940
1941
1946
1946
0
0
1
2
4
7
0
2
5
10
24
9
8
4
6
19
4
7
1
3
21
9
3
5
29
67
1
2
1
0
15
11:
0
7
4
1
19
15
0
2
2
0
2
0
18
8
3
1
67
3
October
2
4
5
21
38
9
5
1
3
56
33
4
7
179
231
1518 ➔~
1,
1947
6
43
34
2
1
20
~
Nov·.
21
2185-~
* Not all 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. In 1946 actual enrollment was 1571
and 1947 it was 2229, and in 1948 it was 2575, Had the balance
been included in this study, some additional counties would be
represented~ ·
1948
2
3
11
25
43
11
4
0
1
56
46
2
11
301
31
34
2553 ➔f-
6
•
VOORHIS UNIT ENROLLMENT
BY DEPARTMENTS AND COUNTIES
September, 1948
I
Counties
Alameda
Butte
Colusa
Fresno
Imperial
Kern
Los h.ngel es
Marin
lJiendocino
Merced
Napa
Orange
Placer
Riverside
San Bernardino
San Diego
San Francisco
San Joaquin
Sacramento
Santa Barbara
Santa Clara
Santa Cruz
Sonoma
Stanislaus
Tahema
Tulare
Yuba
Ventura
Out of State
Out of Country
•
Ornarn.
Hort.
0
0
0
0
0
1
68
1
Agricu.
Inspec.
Citrus
Fruit
Prod.
2
1
1
0
0
1
3
1
1
0
0
0
84
33
0
0
0
0
0
o·
1
0
0
0
8
22
4
18
Deciduous
Fruit
Crops Total
Prod.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
lO
0
0
0
0
3
0
2
1
0
1
4
0
0
2
0
1
1
16
26
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
h
1
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
2
10
3
6
1
5
5
1
1
3
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
~
7
0
l71r
5
8 .
5
0
0
0
0
1
7
113
-
T
-rr-
3
1
1
4
3
1
195
1
1
1
4
51 '
1
17
18
16
2
1
3
6
2
2
2
2
1
13
3
42
9
2
400
7
•
SUMMARY OF ENROLLMENT DISTRIBUTION
In contrast to other state colleges, California State Polytechnic College's enrollment is wide-spread throughout the state.
Fifty-three of the
58 counties in the state were represented in
the fall of 1948.
The counties not represented were Alpine,
Calaveras, Mono, Plumas, and Trinity.
In a San Luis Obispo campus enrollment breakdown, 214 students were registered from 38 of the 48 states.
New York had
the most out-of-state students with 26, Nevada with 15,
Massachusetts with 14, Illinois with 14, Oregon with 13,
Minnesota and Pennyslvania both with 12 and rrashington with
10.
Thi~ty-one students indicated Hawaii as their legal residence while two registered from Puerto Rico and one from Alaska
for a total of
34.
A total of 31 students registered from 11 foreign countries.
A study of the foregoing registration by counties at San
Luis Obispo and San Dimas shows a percentage distribution of
the counties having the largest representation as follows:
County
•
Alameda
Contra Costa
Fresno
Kern
Los Angeles
Merced
Monterey
Orange
Riverside
Sacramento
San Bernardino
San Diego
Percentage A.t
San Luis Obispo
3.3
1.2
2.8
1~6
22~8
1.5
2.0
J.0
J.l
1.4
2.0
4.8
Percentage at
San Dimas
.74
.98
.24
47.8
• 24
12.5
4.2
. 74
4.4
J.9
•
8
Percentage at
S~n Luis Obispo
County
San Francisco
San Luis Obispo
Santa Barbara
Santa Clara
Santa Cruz
Stanislaus
Tulare
Ventura
Percentage at
San Dimas
.49
2.0
8.7
3.4
1.5
.49
.49
2.0
1.2
.49
1.6
2.0
3.2
1.7
10.3
TnANSFERS FROM OTHER COLLEGES
It was in 1942, that the State Board of Education authorized the raising of curriculum level of California State Polytechnic College from a three-year technical college to a fouryear degree granting college.
It is interesting to note the
number of students who in 1948 transferred from other colleges
to complete their degree work here.
Following is the list of
colleges and the number of students who transferred~
University of California . . . 18 Other California Universities
and Colleges . . . . , • .
5
U. of Calif. at Los Angeles. , 2
State Colleges
California Junior Colleges . . 155
Fresno
. • • . • • • • • 4 Other State Colleges and
Universities . . . . . . . 38
Humboldt . . . . . • . . . 5
247
San Diego . , . . . . • . 14
San Francisco . . , , . • 2
San Jose. . . . . .
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ENROLLMENT OF VETERAN RND NON-VETERAN STUDENTS
San Luis Obispo, October, 1948
•
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
Fifth Year
Veterans
Non-Veterans
405
468
470
608
199
20
1700
221
133
43
8
~
Total
875
689
741
242
28
2575
•
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E1'JROLLMENT OF M_'\RRIFJ) STUDENTS
SBnLuis Obispo, October, 1948
Public Law 346
Public Law 16
State Veterans
644
122
12
~~.Approximately 47% of veteran
enrollment
Married Veterans
Married Non-Veterans
32
Total Married Students
810➔H~
~:-➔:-Approximately
31% of total
enrollment
NUMBER OF DEGREES ;JvD CERTIFIC.t.a.TE GR.iiNTED
San Luis Obispo, 1948
;igricultu_re
Bachelor of Science
Agricultural Inspection
Animal Husbandry
Dairy Manufacturing
Dairy Husbandry
Ornamental Horticulture
Poultry Husbandry
Agricultural Mechanics
Crop Production, . General
Citrus Fruit Production
Deciduous Fruit Production
General Fruit Production
Engineering
ii.eronautical
Air .Conditioning & Refrig.
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electronics & Radio
6
23
6
3
6
8
0
7
5
1
1
•
11
134
5
13
2
1
2
2
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
·.1
1
0
0
0
4
0
1
8
1
91
12
40
6
3
3
Certificate of Completion
Horseshoeing Course
Physical Education Athletic
Coaching Workshop & School
Technical
0
0
0
0
0
13
Total
Vocational
8
•
10
COLLEGE TRANSFERS ATTENDING VOORHIS UNIT F.,-~LL QUARTER 1948-49
Total Registration
• • • • • • • • • • • • . 408
..
Total Number Transfers
• • • •
.
. . 172
Total Enrolling Directly from High School •• 236
BREAKDOWN ON COLLEGE TRANSFERS
California Junior Colleges
• • • • • • •
California State Colleges • • • . • • , •
University of California
Davis
. .' . .
Berkeley •
U.C.L.A.
i-
..
..
Santa Barbara
. . . . .. .
.
• . 127
. •
4
. .. 18
. 9
. . 3
. . 3
•. 3
Four Year California Colleges (Not Included
above)
Out of State Colleges
Technical Colleges
•
. . . . . . . . • • ..
.............
Total
.....
Different Number of California Junior Colleges
Represented - 28
•
4
17
2
172
•
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FACULTY
For the school year beginning in September, 1948, 29 new
instructors were added to the faculty, bringing the total of
170 persons on the teaching staff at the San Luis Obispo and
San Dimas campuses.
The following charts indicated the distribution of the
teaching staff according to degrees as of December 31, 19u8:
San Luis Obispo
Degrees:
Ph .. Do, Ed.D
• • . . . . •
12·
M.:.A., M.S.
• • •
• • • •
62
A.B., B.S.
....... .
58
• .
17
No degree
.....
'
Total
. ... . .
~
149
Voorhis
Degrees:
Ph.D., or Ed.D
..•.. •
M.A. or M.S.
.. . . . . .
A.B. or B.S.
...
1
. 15
No degree . . . • • . . . •
0
Total • • • • • 21
•
•
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INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS ·
PROJECT SYSTEM
So that there will be a better understanding of st~tements
made about project operation under Departmental Activities later
in this report, the following information on the projec~ system
is included:
'I'he function of training students for maximum employability
and earning power is carried out by a thorough integration of the
rtdoing" practices with the underlying theory.
In classroom in-
struction, the formal laboratory experiences, and the actual project operations on a commercial scale are each used in their proper
proportion,.
The project system c:o nsists of self-owned or mana-
gerial projects operated by students in such a way as to give
knowledge in the coITu~ercial production and marketing of agricultural products or in the construction, rebuilding, repair or maintenance of industrial machinery or equtp~ent.
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.
Many students after graduation have
established fine foundation herds on their home farms from livestock raised as projects at the college.
A $90,000 revolving fund
from which students may borrow at the current rate of interest
•
without co-signers. makes it possible to finance the many projects •
One-third of the net profit of a project is returned to the Project
fund to guarantee against individual student financial loss.
•
13
UPSIDE
norm
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
• California State Polytechnic College has established an unique
educational plan sometimes described as the "upside down educational
plan."
This plan is characterized by the grouping of as many tech-
nical and job-getting 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 general education.
The net result is that a student who completes the four-
year course leading to a degree will have covered substantially
the same material covered in a similar major in a typical agricultural mechanics type college--but in a somewhat inverted order.
This way the student comes immediately into contact with the field
of his major interest and doesn't feel thwarted by num·e rous
which seem to hj_m unrelated to his interest.
realization of need for some "theory" courses.
hurdles
He also acquires a
This system enables
a student to earn a living, using the skills he has learned, at
whatever point he may complete his formal education.
INSTRUCTION LENGTHS
A student enrolling at California State Polytechnic College
may elect to take a four-year degree curriculum leading to a
Bachelor of Science in his major field; or a three-year technical
curriculum, or a two-year vocational curriculum for which there
are appropriate certificates.
The two and three-year curricula
are offered in the Agricultural and Engineering and Industrial
•
divisions •
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DIVISIONS OF THE COLLEGE
•
AGRICULTURAL DIVISION
During the calendar year, 19h8, this division of the college
offered instruction in eleven major curricula. · These departments
were:
Agricultural Engin0cring and Mechanics, -A gricultural Inspection,
Animal Husbandry, Citrus Fruit Production, Dairy Husbandry, .Dairy
Manufacturing, Deciduous Fruit Production, Field Crop Production,, _
Ornamental Horticulture, Poultry Husbandry, and Truck Crop Production,
The first two years in the majors of Agricultural Inspection and
Citrus Fruit Production must be completed at the San Dimas branch._
In addition to those two majors, the San Dimas branch also provides
instruction in Ornamental Horticulture and Deciduous Fruit Production to those students who elect to take the first two years of their
work in those majors at the southern branch.
During the year, 1948,
a special 12 weeks farriers course was added to this division on the
San Luis Obispo campus.
The college prepares men in the field of agriculture with the
principal objective being to provide graduates of this division with
a full and broad understanding of basic factors involved in production, management and marketing, together with the necessary skill~,
experience, and related subjects to make such a graduate an efficient
agricultural producer.
The educational approach used at Californ:La State Polytechnic
College not only prepares men for positions in the production fields
but gives thorough training in managerial skills and in the various
•
other fields closely related to agriculture.
This knowledge of all
basic factors in the agricultural industry not only enables the students to reach the top in the industry but it gives him a grasp of
the significance of all agricultural processes and a consequent toler-
ant attitude towa~d eveey problem faced by the industry.
15
The college herds, flocks, or.chards, range and crops land are
•
used by students to develop practical application and technique.
An
unique phase of the California State Polytechnic College educational
philosophy is the use of the student owned and managed project as an
integral part of the instruction system_. Each student in the college
has the opportunity to select a productive project in the particular
field in which he is interested.
He has managerial and financial
responsibility over the project and must submit a complete record upon its completion.·
Student projects are financed through a project foundation fund
from which students may borrow at six percent inter.est, and each project returns a percentage of the net profit to this fund as a guarantee against any possible individual student financial loss,
This
practical system not only enables the student to earn money while
doing work directly related to his major occupation and academic- interest_., but also gives him the
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a proven incentive for learning.
feel" of ownership and management,
Observing the young man as a pro-
ducer under commercial conditions furnishes an excellent indicator
of his probable future success on the job.
ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL DIVISION
Instruction in eight major departments was offered during the
year in this division.
These departments are Aeronautical Engineer-
ing, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering, Architectural
Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic and Radio Engineering, Mechanical Enginee_ring, Printing and Maintenance Engineering.
•
Maintenance Engineering was the only one 'of these departments which
accepted enrollment for the first time in ·1948o
Primary objective of all instruction in this division is to provide instruction that will lead to employment in maintenance, operation,
16
production, application and sales phases of specific engineering
•
fields.
It is not the purpose of the Engineering and Industrial
Division of this college to prepare engineers interested in highly
specialized research or design.
I
One objective of this division is to provide each student with
necessary skills in his specific field so that he not only will be
immediately employable but will be of value to his employer from the
first day he enters employment.
However, every student in this division also receives a thorough
foundation in general engineering theory as well as practices so that
he may advance rapidly in his field.
Engineering students receive
instruction in basic science and mathematics which enables them to
study and understand new developments and techniques and thereby keep
astride of changing conditions in any industrial field.
Recent studies have indicated that industrial concerns are looking for engineers to take over managerial and executive positions.
With this in miµd, such courses such as economics, industrial management, labor relations, background of modern affairs are required of
all engineering students.
In addition to this students are advised
to take courses that will help them in later life when they receive
the opportunity to get into managerial positions.
In the process of achieving these objectives, the Engineering
Division also attempts to inculcate in every student proper work
habits and attitudes• which will lead to successful employment.
Such
students have the proper attitude to start at tho bottom in their
specific field, and the pr.o per background to advance to higher ·p osi-
•
tions •
In order to provide practical experiences similar to those
which will confront an engineering student at the time of employment, every engineering department has its own well-equipped
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laboratory in vvhich a student is given an opportunity to work with
•
the same type of machinery, tools, equipment, etc. that is used in
-the specific engineerj_ng field for which he is training.
Laboratory
instruction in every engineering department is based on the objective of providing group or individual projects similar to those vmich
will be encountered by the students on the Job.
Such projects are
not routine laboratory exercises, but are practical projects conducted along commercial lines.
For example, aeronautical engineering
students operate group projects in the repair and overhaul of aircraft or aircraft engines in the department's shop, which was the
84th government approved repair station to be established in the
United States.
All such work by students must pass rigid CAA exami-
nations prior to the time that it is
,vorthy 1• •
1
returned to service as
11
air-
All student labor during instructional shop hours is done
without pay, but students assigned to work on a project outside of
instructional shop hours receive hourly pay from the foundation
fund, which is reimbursed at the time the aircraft or engine is
sold or at the time treovm.er pays for the repair work.
In the Electrical Department a job such as the installation of
a motor or the re-wiring of a shop or room is assigned to a group of
students·.
They
plan the job, make an estimate of the cost for labor
and material, and prepare a bill of materials. When these estimates
come in the job is assigned to one student who acts as foreman and
carries the work through to completion. He is assigned student
help from the laboratory classes, keeps all records of material and
labor used, and upon completion makes the final report.
•
Similar
projects of various kinds are carried on by all departments in the
Division throughout the campus.
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SCIENCE AND HUM.ANITIES DIVISION
•
Beginning September; 1947; the Science and Humanities Division
was established to include courses which previously were grouped
under the term of relat.ed subjects.
The division is now functioning
as a well~lmit administrative unit comprising the departments of
Education and Psychology, English, Health and Physic.a l Education, Biological Science; Mathematics, Music; Physical Science, and Social
Science.
The Bachelor or Science degree is offered to students who
complete work in five o;f these departments; Biological Science,
LTathematics; Physical Science, Health and Physical Education, and
Social Science.
At the close of 1948, it appeared that approximately
eight students would meet the requirements for the degree in some one
, of these graduation majors during the 1948-49 school year.
In most
cases they will continue on into the fifth year for teaching credentials.
With the approval
01
the State Board of Education in the spring
of 1948, California State ·Polytechnic College now offers work leading
to a general secondary credential.
Because the work of preparing
students to meet credential requirements involves the integration of
professional education courses with t eaching majors and minors, graduate students preparing for teaching have been classified under the
Science and Humanities Division for administrative purposes.
The Science and Humanities Division continues to carry out its
three principle functions; the first of which is the providing for
students in Agriculture and Engineering those courses very closely
related to their major work.
The second function is to offer courses
in general education for all majors:.
•
Tho third function of the
Science and Humanities Division is to assume the responsibility in
cooperation with the Agricultural Division and the Bureau of Agricultural Education for offering work leading to the fulfillment of the
requirements for credentials in J\griculture'•
Under the teacher-train-
ing .function the division also provides tho program for fulfilling
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credential requirements in Health and Physical Education, and for
•
the genera~ secondary in subjects in which there is work leading to
a graduation major within the division.
It would seem that California State Polytechnic College can make
a distinct contribution to teacher training in California in the fields
in which it is training at the present time, because an opportunity is
given for the prospective teacher to take work in the applied aspects
of the major as well as in the theoretical ones.
For example, our
Mathematics and Physical Science ma jors are encouraged to take work in
Engineerll!.g; Biological Science majors ar o encouraged to take work in
Agriculturnl Econonics., Labor Rel ations, ·and Industrial Mariagement.
Th8 l at ter t.vm cour ses ar e designed··primarily to prepar e engineers to be
more effectivo in the per sonal r elationshi ps .in the profession.
The
cours es ar e built nr ound case studies of problerris in management and
l abor r c~ati ons e' It is f elt that the social studios t eacher will cert ainly bo able t o handl e t ho issues of the classroom- much more intelligcmtly if ho i s fa.niliar with some of tho a ctua1 -problems arising from
pers onal r ol ationships within the community.
During the year 1947, several additions were made to the Science
and Humanities offerings in order to round out the programs under the
three functions.
The year 1948 was devoted to coordination and stabi-
lization ~f curricula, r~ther than to the increase in offerings or
the establishment of new curricula for added vocational objectives.
PHYSICAL FACILITIES
The Walter F. Dexter Memorial Library, the most important addit~on to the college's physical facilities in recent years and started
•
in December, 1947, will be ready for student occupancy in September,
1949. Total cost of the building and furnishings will be approximately
$750,000.
1948.
The corner stone for the bu~lding was laid on October
15,
20
During 1948~ construction of new facilities for physical educa~
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tion included the football stadium amounting to $73,000 and the extension of the wooden bleachers was completed to bring the seating •
capacity of the stadium to 5200.
The baseball field has a new grand-
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stand seating 600 fans.
Contracts for physical education and athletic
facilities totaled $225~000 during 1948.
A start has been made on the plans for a science building group
which is estimated to cost approximately $2 1 000~000!
beginning of a master plan development for the campµs.
This marks the
The master
plan when completed will replace 10 old wooden structures, inadequate
for present needs and anticipated growth. Many of these buildings do
not comply 111fith present fire and safety regulations and are housing
equipment that would cost many thousands of dollars to replace~
In
addition there are approximately 36 temporary war surplus buildings
used as classrooms that must be replaced in the next five years.
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July of 1948, $248,ooo was established in the fiscal budget
for additions and betterments on the campus.
Approximately 5q per-
cent of the work intended has been accomplished.
Such items of work
range from a few hundred dollars to a top of $85,ooo for modernizing
and equipping the engineering shops!
Other major items include:
$20,000 for roads, $15~000 for paint~
ing 1 $20,000 for dairy manufacturing laboratory, . $7,000 for farm
fences, $2 1700 for construction of a brooder house, $3,200 for addition to poultry building~ $2~600 for replacing lights in dormitories,
$21000 greenhouses~ etco
Approximately $600 has been used to develop a relief map for
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campus building study (master plan).
Qualified students were em-
ployed to complete the topographical surveys of school property on
which buildings are to be erected~
Other students took survey maps
and constructed a relie£ map and minjsturebuildings for purposes of
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study of master plot plan.
The map has already proven of inestimable
value in assisting the campus development committee and the members
of the Division of Architecture in planning future expansion.
As
the master plot plan is drawn, the value of the relief map will again
be enhanced by its importance in matters of a reference sou~ce.
It is significant to note that the college is operating under
severe handicaps in having so many old and inadequate buildings.
utility system is lacking in capacity.
The
Plans are in the making for
replacement and expansion of gas lines, electrical services and fire
system.
One of the serious problems facing the college administration
is a replacement of the heating plant and utility distribution center.
The present· system was built in 1905 to accommodate approximately
200 students.
The enrollment in September of 1948 was 2575.
HOUSING
Student housing was a problem in 19~:~•
To realize the signifi-
cance of this problem to California State Polytechnic College it
should be noted that the college is a state-wide institution.
On
the San Luis Obispo campus only 225 of the 2575 students enrolled in
the Fall quarter of 1948 were residents of San Luis Obispo.
This
figure of 225 is misleading, however, because a large percentage of
the students were married (31 percent) and give San Luis Obispo as
their home address.
With this size of enrollment it was necessary
that more than 1800 students find housing either through the college
or privately in the city of San Luis Obisp~-• Since the city of San
Luis Obispo can accommodate a relatively small percentage of the
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total enrollment, the college must provide hous~g for almost all
out-of-town students.
Present facilities on the campus will with normal occupancy,
provide for only 742 men.
A maximum of 800 students are currently
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housed at Camp San Luis Obispo and 75 more reside at the Las Higueras
(Public Housing Administration) Housing Project, making a total of
1617 accommodations for single students.
in addition there are 75
houses and 238 trailers on the campus for married veterans and their
families.
All are in use and a waiting list exists for any type of
housing.
It is felt that provision must eventually be made to house an
additional . 1800 or more single men on the campus without consideration
of a larger enrollment than now exists.
However, it is expected that
arrangements for a long-time lease on Camp San Luis Obispo will be
completed in the very near future with the California National Guard
and that the entire hospital area at the camp will be available for
student housing for a definite periocl of time ..
The coliege also provides housing for 20 faculty families and
several single faculty nembers.
STUDENT LABOR
In addition to the opportunities for students to earn money
through managerial and self-owned projects, California State Polytechnic College uses a maximum number of students to operate the
college farm and handle grounds and campus maintenance on both the
Se.n Luis Obispo c1.nd San Dimas campuses•
Following are tables showing a typical month of on-campus student work as shovm in the Foundation and State payroll reports for
October, 1948,
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S'rUDENT
LABOR - FOUNDATION PAYROLL
FOR MONTH OF OCTOBER, 1948
Number
Employees
Payroll
Total
Project Fund
Dairy
Beef
Hogs
Sheep
Horses
Poultry
Crops
Feed
46
1
2
2
1
26
33
2'6
137
2;016.30
40.30
80.60
62.40
40.30
441.81
368.12
431.90
3;481. 73
Cafe-Dorm--SLO
Cafe
Dorm-Campus
Dorm-Camp
Dorm-Los Higueras
Health Center
Repairs-Co.mp
157
82
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5,109.60
1;321. 75
865.50
45.oo
148.90
84.oo
2
5
19
297
7,574.75
Cafe-Dorm--SD
Cafe
Dorm
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14
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Vet Hill--SD
Vet Housing
Special Projects
Auto Shop
Repairs and Renewals
Admin. Office-SLO
4
3
55
4
1
1
68
GRAND TOTALS
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544
468.43
5731145
1,041il88
281180
153.50
1,064088
255.oo
6.oo
38.25
1,546.43
13,644.79
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STUDENT LABOR .- . STA rE PAYROLL .
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VbORHIS
SAN LUIS OBISPO
Function
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Number
Employee~
Adm.··
Ind.S &H
Lib.
P& M
18.38
1
74
60
10
2
87 •.70 •
6
3
47.10
275.18
13
4,-036.77
199
140.38
4
76}..i.90
1,948.32
988.67
230 ..62
104.26
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Totals
Payroll Total
18.-38
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Totals·
Instr.
Ag.
Payroll ·
Number
Employees
. Total.
M& 0
Bldgs.
Grds.
Repairs
Autos
Security
8
23
750.75
35
3,219.07
144
Totals
300.00
334.50
68.25
48.00
10
2'3
1
1
1,057.48
710.70
633.75
374 .. 26
442.88
48
26
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Farm
General
M.A.
33
6
152,86
47.63
281.46
7
60.77
15.oo
2
2·
Poultry
Orchards 10
Total
47
897 .51
13
21}.63
TOTALS
391
8-, l 7L. 73
61
1,239.. 56
-A & B
Projects
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425.0J
13
541.75
58
Totals
58
541.75
13
425.03
GRAND TOrrALS
449
8,713.48
74
1,664.53
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GENERAL FARH OPERATION
In 1948, about 350 acres of state land and 49 acres of project
1-ensed land were farmed and produced a good harvest., A summary of
production for 1948 follows:'
Acres
Land
98.8 · State
Sudan
$10 per acre
Value
$ 988 ..00
Crop
Amount
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State
Now Permanent Pasture
$ 6 per acre
$ 260.00
125.2
State
Oats and Vetch Hay
443½ tons
$9221.47
4o.6
State
Oats and Vetch feed
367½ tons
$3305.16
and Silage
39.5
State
Alfalfa old and new
18.?
State
Corn for silage and
green feed
(included in the above)
201¼ tons
$1811.88
$15,586,Sl
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Leased
oats and Vetch Hay
26 tons
$ 390.00
30
Leased
Oats and Vetch Hay
37 tons
$ 832.50
$1,222.So
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SCHOLARSHIPS
In addition to the scholar.s hip program which has been in effect
at California State Polytechnic College, the Standard Oil .Company
of Californi~ last year introduced a series of scholarships for
worthy st~dents in the agricultural programs of the high schools ..
The Standard Oil scholarships amounted to ~~8,ooo.
These constituted
two, $2,000 scholarships and four, $l,OOO scholarships.
divided equally between the
4-H
They were
Clubs and the Future Farmers of
America.
In 1948, four of the scholarship winners have enrolled at
Cnlifornia State Polytechnic College.
Attending were winners of
both of the ~~2,000 scholarships and two of the $1,000 scholarship
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SrUDENT WELFARE SERVICE
POSTAL SERVICE
During the past year, development has been made in the postal
service on the campus in that a former temporary classroom unit was
made over into a complete post office for general campus use.
Each
student and faculty member has a post office box assigned and all
campus communications and mail for the various individuals are
handled through this postal service .
This service is under the super-
vision of the Student Welfare Department, directly controlled or
supervised by a permanent employee paid from the post office fee of
50 cents per quarter, charged to the student.
STUDENT COORDINATOR
A new position was added to the Student Welfare Department in
19h8--the Coordinator of Student Activities.
This position has been
filled and a very excellent program established.
The purpose of the
position is to coordi..nate the activities of the student body and the
student organizations as sponsored by the various departments ~n the
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GUIDANCE CENTER
The guidanc-e center is an integral past of the Admissions,
Guidance and Placement Division which includes the admissions, registrar's, recorder's and placement offices in addition to the guidance
center.
The center has numerous functions:
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Giv:ing Entrance placement
tests, counseling service, other testing services, occupational information, interviewing students who wish to change majors or levels
of instruction and persona]. counseling.
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This service is provided to all students (veteran and nonveteran) who request it and also to those referred to the center
by faculty member.s. •
The guidance center provided available information about each
student to the deans of divisions and instructors of each department.
In the past year the guidance center has handled the following number
of cases:
380 veterans who have completed advisement
250 non-veterans who have completed advisement
500 informal interviews
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TEACHER TRAINING
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In 1947 the California State Polytechnic College was approved
to prepare teachers for the Special Secondary C~edential in Vocational
Agriculture, the Special Secondary Limited Credential in Agriculture,
and Special Secondary Credential in Health and Physical Education.
In the spring of 1948 the State Board of Education added authorization
to recommend candidates for the General Secondary Credential with
teaching majors and minors in the following fields:
Biological Science,
Health and Physical Education, Mathematics, Physical Science, and
Social Science~
It was not possible for any of the students interested in obtaining a General Secondary Credential to complete their work during the
calendar year of 1948; however, at least 10 students will be eligible
for General Secondary Credentials with majors in the above mentioned
fields in June, :I.95'0..
In addition, several of the students getting
agricultural credentials will at the same time fulfill the requirements for the General Secondary during the calendar year of 1949 •.
It is the plan of the college to improve the instruction and pattern
in these credential areas during the coming year.
All teacher training activities are coordinated under the committee on teacher education. Representation on this committee is
college-wide and includes the dean of the agricultural division, the dean
of science and humanities division, department heads in the fields
represented by the General Secondary majors and minors, the dean of
instruction, the dean of admissions, guidance and placement, the
agricultural teacher trainer, and the Chief of the Bureau of Agricul-
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tural Education. _ The purpose of this committee is to insure that
teacher education remains a college-wide function and that the work
in the various programs is integrated so that candidates receive
balanced preparation for service in the pubiic schools of California,
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LIBRfu"'1.Y
One of the outstanding events of the college year took place
on October 15, 1948, when the Walter Friar Dexter Library Building
was dedicated vvith appropriate ceremonies.
Members of the State
Board of Education and their Y{ives were introduced during the program.
Dr. Roy E. Simpson, the State Superintendent of Public In-
struction, the Assistant Superintendent, Dr. Aubrey A. Douglass, and
President McPhee addressed the large group of faculty and students
that were in attendance.
Mrs. Yalter F. Dexter, widow of the late
Dr. Dexter assisted Mr. McPhee in placing the cornerstone.
The college is,looking forward to using the facilities that
will be available in the new building.
The library staff hopes to
occupy the new quarters in September of 1949.
The book budget for the library was increased to $18,000.00 for
the fiscal year 1948-49.
During the calendar year 1948, 4,025 books
were added to the library collection.
In 1948, 8,888 more boo~s
were loaned than were circulated during the previous year.
The total
number of book~ loaned . to students and the faculty in 1948 was 31,252
books and pamphlets.
In July 1948, one of the professional librarians assumed the
responsibility of maintaining the Audio-Visual Library and supervising the services of this department.
films for 1948~49 was
$4,ooo.
The budget for the purchase of
The purchase of ~qo new motion picture
projectors, as well as additional slide projectors, assisted materially in improving the Audio-Visual services available to the in-
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structional staff.
One junior typist clerk was added to the cataloging department
in July.
An additional junior typist clerk was appointed to assist
at the circulation desk.
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Some progress was made during 1948 in the re-cataloging of the
book collection.
A s'taff manual was prepared to assist new ·members joining the
library staff in becoming familiar with the policies of the college
and the library.
The faculty library committee assisted the librarian in preparing detailed plans of furnishings for the new library... The staff has
been engaged in making tentative plans in oonnection _with meeting
the changed ·conditions that will result from their occupation of the
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DEPARTMENT FUNCTIONS AND FACILITIES
AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Engineering_and.M~chanics :
Tho Agricultural
Engineering and Mcch:mics department serves the double function of
t c:.1.ching courses -in the varioU's niechanicsl and engineering phases of
agricul turo to students majoring in · oth-or • departmc➔nt-s of tho Agriculturc.l .D ivision, ns well as serv:i..xig th'.0 :requirements of' students -~taking
their 1:1,ajor work in the field.
A total of 1063 students were enrolled in courses offered by
this department in the Fall, 1948.
Of these, 110 were majors in
either the four-year degree curriculum in Agricultural Engineering
or the two-year vocational or three-year technical curriculum in
Agricultural Mechanics.
Eight full-time and two half-time instructors
make up the staff.
Physical facilities include three shops approximately
50'
x
75', .
and an nll-motal Agricultural Machinery Storage and Farm Shop building, 120 t x 180' ,_;.r ith a 60 1 x 60' wing.
This building also serves
as a headquarters for all the farming operations of the 2000 acre
college farm, as well as a repair and maintenance shop for the tractors, farm machinery, and other mechanical equipment used on the
farm.
'This makes a particularly desirable combination since a great
deal of this kind of ~ork is done by students, either as a regular
part of their class work or in their spare time outside of class.
Students majoring in Agricultural Engineering and Me chanics have
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a splendid opportunity to gain additional experience of a practical
nature as well as earning part of their expenses by doing repair
and maintenance vmrk on the -vride variety of farm equipment ovmed by
the school.
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In March 191i8 the old farm repair shop was remodeled and equipped
to accommodate two new courses in horseshoeing and farm blacksmithing.
The course j_n horseshoeing was designed as a twelve week terminal
course to train finished horseshoers, for which there is a great demand,
not only in California but in other states as well.
This course was
established at the request of the American Horse and i.Iule Association
and the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association.
Three special
classes of 12 men each were graduated from this course as finished
sheers and platers between March and December.
These courses are
also offered as electives to our regular students,
In June,
1948, the California Farm Equipment Dealers Association
requested this college to train men in the merchandising, sales and
management, shop and service, parts and inventory, and the finance
and credit phases of the farm machinery business.
The dealer group
appointed an education conunittee which has met several times with
members of the college staff in designing courses in this field, not
only for regular students, but for dealer groups who might come in
for intensive blocks of training during the summer.
It is hoped that an intensive program dealing with the merchandising, sales and management phases of the business be started in the
summer of 1949.
The program will consist of business mathematics,
report writing and a combination of psychology and public speaking
which is important to the selling aspects of the implement business.
Anirnnl H~sqandry:
This department provides instruction for stu~
dents intending to enter the field of livestock production, agricul-
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tural education, and related fields.
terod in the fall of 191i8.
A total of 487 students regis~
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Breeding herds maintained by the college include 100 register~d
beef cows, 150 registered ewes, and
75
brood sows; three breeds of beef,
three breeds of sheep and three breeds of hogs are represented.
Build-
ings include beef breeding barn and steer shed, plus feed lots to accommodate 250 head of steers throughout the year; central swine farrowing
house, and individual feeding pens to accommodate
75
brood sows and
approximately 800 fat hogs throughout the year; sheep barns and feeding
shed to accom_modate the sheep breeding flock and approximately 400 fat
lambs per year.
In addition to pasture and hay land available on the
college farm, approximately 600 acres of additional land adjoining the
college are leased for this deapartment.
Students enrolled in this department carry supervised livestock
programs to supplement their classroom and laboratory work.
These
projects involve the feeding, care and marketing of either beef,
sheep or swine.
Each year these student projects include about 250
head of beef cattle, 600 head of sheep and 800 head of svrine, marketed
yearly by the students and for about ~~56,690 in 1947-48.
The department also has available for instructional purposes a
Thoroughbred Breeding unit, operated cooperatively on the campus with
the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association since 1941.
Thorough-
bred mares were. given to the college by members of the association~
Offspring from these mares are raised to yearlings and sold at the
annual California Thoroughbred sales.
Proceeds from the sale of these
yearlings help to defray the cqst of maintaining this instructional
unit. ~~uncho, a Thoroughbred sire imported from South America, was
donated to the college by Walter T,. .Vells.
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The unit provides stu-
dents with instruction in care, handling, and breeding of light
horses.
Five head of Thoroughbred yearlings were raised by students
and sold by the college foundation.
Five head were sold at the
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annual California Thoroughbred Breeders Sale at Santa Anita in July
for $4,800.
Profits from t~ese sales help maintain the cost of
operating the breeding unit.
Six full-time and two half-time instructors were assigned to
the department.
During the 1946-47 fiscal year animal husbandry students received $12,470 as their share of the profits from student-owned and
operated projectso
The foundation received $6,239.52 as its share
of the profits from these projects. Approximateiy $6,800 was paid
out to students for wages for operation of the beef, swine, sheep
and horse breeding herds and foundation owned livestock and the
feed room operatiqns.
An average of 12 students were employed part
time during the year at approximately $40 each per month.
Forty students fed out and marketed ~30 head of beef cattle including:
Reserve Grand Champion carload of steers at Great Western
livestock show; also Champion Angus and Champion Shorthorn steers of
the open division at the Great Western; Champ Shorthorn load of steers
at the Grand National Livestock show, and the Champion Junior Calf,
Reserve Champion Senior Calf, and Reserve Champion Junior Calf at
the same -show.
Sixty students fed out over 360 head of hogs as projects.
cluded were:
In-
Grand Champion barrow and Reserve Grand Champion pen
of barrows at the California State Fair; and miscellaneous ribbon
winners in hog classes at both the Grand National and Great Western
Livestock shows.
Forty-four students fed out project sheep in three classes:
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rams, show fat lambs and commercially fed lambs.
Three students
were assigned the rams and sold them at the California State Ram
Sale -in May.
Thirteen students fed fat lambs and exhibited them
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at the Great Western Livestock Show, the State Fair, Los Angeles
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County Fair, and the Grand National Livestock show~
At the San
Francisco · show; student ovm.ed lambs took the Open Division grand
championship carload (of 50 lambs) and Open Division reserve champion
individual.
Tvrenty-eight students fed out 300 head of feeder lambs
purchased in Nevada.
The lambs were sold in South San Francisco on
the open market at $25~50 per 100 weight, the highest price paid
per pound on that market up to that date.
95 percent choice, the remainder, good.
The lambs graded over
In cooperation with the
California Wool Grovrnrs Association the sheep department sponsored
a sheep shearing school at which over 90 students and sheepmen improved their shearing technique.
Thoroughbred mare Cheeky Sue was donated to the school by D~
s.
Jeppson of Chatsworth in 1948.
Fruit, Field and Truck Crops:
The Crops department ~Tith 190
students enrolled this year consists of three sub-departments,
Field Crops, Fruits and Truck Crops.
The field crops program with 98 enrolled is designed to train
students for farming where field crops is the major interest as
well as for farms where livestock is combined with field crops.
Many students majoring in field crops have also received employment in fields related to crop production, such as fieldmen and
buyers • . Field crops has been a favorite major also for those training to become agriculture teachers under the Smith Hughes program.
The fnrm lands of the college continue to be utilized as a train-
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ing area for practice and observation in crop production.
the past year for the first time sugar beets were inqluded.
During
Two
acres were grown and harvested entirely by the students, and the
forty tons of beets grown delivered at the local loading platform.
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Inadequacy of water for irrigation during the 19!.i.8 season considerably limited the growing of field crops~
The outdoor laboratory for growing varieties and kinds of field
crops for student study and identification has been considerably
expanded in area, a Dallis hut has been installed as a field house
and water available from domestic supply has been installed in ample
quantity.
The Division of Agronomy of University of California at
Davis has been very helpful in providing seeds of many promising
kinds not available from commercial seed companies.
Forty field
plots of various kinds and mixtures of irrigated pasture plants have
been established.
Eight varieties of ·alfalfa including the new
African and Indian are growing for study and observation.
All the
new disease resistant cereals as well as the standard kinds for
California are gro-w:n. for field observation and laboratory study~
Tw:o new courses were ad~ed to the curriculum of field crops.
The course in Commercial Seed Production was given on a practical
basis through cooperation of local growers of grain seed crops and
especially th~ough the cooperation of the Waller Franklin Company
of Guadalupe growers of flower and vegetable seeds.
Dr. Jim Harring-
ton, vegetable seed specialist with the University of California at
Davis was also helpful in planning the course.
A member of the
Crops staff _has represented the California State Polytechnic College and the agricultural teachers of California as a member of
California Seed Council for the past seven years.
The advanced course in forage crops entitled Irrigated Pastures
was offered as elective and more than 50 students completed the
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Extensive variety plantings of irrigated pasture plants at
the college as well as irrigated pastures in nearby farms in this
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part of tho state, give students opportunity to come to know the
pasture plants and to study pasture management and operation in
the field.
There was a considerable expansion in the work of the department in presenting courses in crop product:i,.on to students other than
those majoring in crops.
The Forage crops course, for example,
offered in the spring, enrolled more than 250 students.
To take
care of the expanding program Gordon Van Epps was added to the
staff in September·.
Van Epps is a graduate in Agronomy of the Utah
State College and received his masters degree there last year.
The fruits, sub-department with an enrollment of 53 major students, and 112 students other than majors taking tho general fruit
cour~e has shown increasing enrollment and expanding interest.
The
program is taught in a practical manner and most of tho various
orchard operations in the college's twenty-five acres of orchard
and vineyard is carried on in instructional laboratories.
The work
which must be carried on at times other than laboratories is done by
hiring tho fruits majors for all operations•
new variety trees and vines were added,
During the year many
The plantings now include
more than 160 varieties. · The class in pomology has now completed
successfully tho grafting of 50 large roadside black walnut trees
on the college roads to adapted English kinds. · During the year Stark
brothers donated 25 trees of the special patented varieties which
they control.
And the University of California donated a group of
their new group varieties including Delight Scq,rlet and Porlette.
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These have grovm well and offer promise as varieties adapted to
the central area.
Several growers of grapes, stonefruits, nuts and
dried fruits have donated commercial packages of fruits which were
useful in instruction in the marketing and production courses.
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Several leading commercial companies active in pest control sales
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have donated field scale quantities of their products which were
used in the laboratory instruction in pest control.
The Wine grape
plot originally established in cooperation with the Division of Viticulture, University of California yielded well and Cobernet Sauvignon, probably the choicest wine grape in the plot, continued to show
up at yield levels amongst the highest in the state of C2lifornia.
The Division of Viticulture took samples which were studied in the
enological laboratory at Da~is.
For the first time recently a course in Citrus and Avocado production was offered at the San Luis Obispo campus.
The three acre
orchard of avocadoes and citrus offered excellent laboratory conditions.
This course is for one quarter only and is designed to
train deciduous fruit majors and students planning to teach agriculture in the fundamentals of citrus and avocado production.
Those
training to enter citriculture as a vocation are trained, of course,
in the Citrus fruit major at Cal Poly at Voorhis Unit.
In cooperation with the Soils instructors several mineral deficiencies in the orchard have been determined and marked responses
secured by application of the deficient minerals.
New pear varieties planted during the year have been established
on the old Home variety which resists pear blight, a disease prevalent in this community.
A new method of spraying with copper com-
pounds has very successfully checked blight in the older trees.
A
new irrigation system was established consisting essentially of
n:µi-
vasion~ metal pipe originating as war surplus which now permits
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adequate irrigation of citrus, walnuts, avocadoes vi.neyard and
apple plantings.
A power duster also was purchased during 191~8
and permits more effective instruction and pest control in orchard
cl!ld vineyard•
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The boekeeping course offered under the fruit major in the
spring using the college apiary of twenty hives for laboratory instruction enrolled 35 student_s .
practical level.
Beekoeping is taught here on a
Some interest has been shown by the commercial
beekeepers in obtaining trained helpers from this program and one
student has been placed.
The instructor is a member of the Califor-
nia State Beekeepers Association and attends their annual meeting~.
Leading com.~ercial beekeepers have donated five three pound packages
of bees and three queens for the college apiary.
Dairy Husbandry and Dairy Manufacturing:
The dairy unit main-
tains a purebred Guernsey, Holstein and Jersey herd of around 200
head.
This includes approximately 50 animals that are owned by 25
students .and operated as projects.
•rhis is one of the outstanding
college herds in the United States as indicated by a herd average
of 523 pounds of butterfat per cow per yoar and a high score on
conformation.
It includes several national champions in production.
The herd produces ~round $6500 worth of dairy products and $1000
worth of surplus stock each month.
Tho dairy department has a monthly student payroll of around
$.'1600 each month.
The dairy projects and this largo payroll helps
a considerable number of students in paying college expensqs.
The
college offers majors in both the dairy husbandry and manufacturing
fields.
Modern barns house the dairy herd, and at the present time, a
college creamery is being equipped with the most modern dairy manu-
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facturing machinery.
This will be a valuable additional facility
for students in this major fieict.
There are now approximately 175 students majoring in either
the dairy husbandry or dairy manufacturing fields.
There has been
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no difficulty ·whatever in placing dependable, well-trained dairy
students.
For a number of years, there has been a material shortage
of skilled dairy workers and a larger number of graduates are needed
by the industry.
All work about the dairy barns and croamery is done by students
with the exception of a dairy herdsman and one full-time milker.
Three students milk over 25 head of the highest producers, three
times daily.
Students do a considerable amount of other work in-
cluding handling, processing and distribution of the dairy products
and feeding and caring for the dairy cattl_e .
Last year, the dairy department had a gross income of approximately (·, 90,000 and showed a net income after operating expenses had
been paid, and, of course, in addition the entire dairy serves a
very valuable educational purpose.
There are now three full-time
instructors in the dairy department and a fourth is now need~d.
The average of 523 pounds of butterfat per cow during last year
is more than double that of 262 pounds for the average California
cqw.
The college Holstein herd during 1948 made a new national
average of 639 pounds of butterfat per cow.
Breeding stock is being
shipped throughout the West and as far distant -as Ohio.
Last year,
two Polytechnic Holstein bulls were purchased cooperatively by the
United States Department of Agriculture and the University of Ohio.
Semen for artificial insemination has also been shipped as far as
Kansas.
The dairy department staff also assisted with numerous dairy
events such as fairs, field days and Future Farmer activities •
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Ornamental Horticulture:
In addition to instruction offered
to more than 80 students majoring in the department., the Ornamental
Horticulture unit has a very practical function in that it handles
the campus grounds maintenanqe,.
Students propagate and grow all
, trees, shrubs and flowering plants used on the campus.
The unit consists of 5000 square feet of glasshouse,
2400
square feet of lath house and 1800 feet of cloth house space.
A
propagation or head house of 1600 square feet is the main center of
activity.
Over 10,000 plants are now in the nursery, with another
10,000 in the cloth and lath houses.
The glasshouses
are used
for student training in pot plant raising and propagation of shrubbe~J plants.
One glasshouse
plants by cuttings.
is devoted entirely to the propagation of
Attached is a potting room which is adjacent
to concrete cold frames used for hardening off cuttings.
Eight new concrete soil bins with a capacity of over eight
cubic yards each have been constructed in the propagating area.
These new bins have been constructed so that the soil is dumped into
the bins from above and can be removed at the level of a concrete
slab where canning of plants and soil mixing is done.
Twenty-five stude1it projects were operated during the year.
Total gross sales amounted to over $1,000.
Projects included cut
flowers, pot plants, lining-out stock, bedding plants both ornamental
and vegetables and gallon-can plants.
Project operation included
growing of annuals~ herbaceous perennials and woody perennials.
During the year, 112 students were on student labor payrolls
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receiving a total of $5,200 for operating the nursery and grounds
maintenance.
Under direction of the campus head gardener, students
of this department did most of the shrubbery and tree spraying,
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pruning, and fertilizing, and irrigating both lawns and shrubbery •
In the nursery students perform such operations as watering, pest
control, propagation of plants, and general nursery practices.
The department also has electrically heated combination hot beds
and cold frames; an electric 50 cubic foot refrigerator for storing
and holding bulbs, cuttings, scion wood, and deciduous plants; a new
four cubic foot propagation oven; and a soil shredder; ~swell as
recording thermometers, hygrometers and numerous other small items
obtained through war surplus.
Gifts in the form of plant materials have been received by many
donors • .'
During the year the department was host to the Tri-County chapter of the California Association of Nurserymen, and aided in planning a short course ·for nurserymen which will be held at the college
in 1949.
Poultry:
Providing instruction to about 110 poultry majors is
only part of the function -of this department which also provides instruction in poultry husbandry to several hundred other agricultural
majors who take such courses to round out a diversified experience
in all farming operations.
A ·flock of 4200 laying and breeding hens is maintained for student project work.
During 1948 the plant did more than
$56,ooo
in
busihess from sales of eggs, chicks, dressed poultry and other products.
An intensive trap nesting and pedigree breeding program is
carried on and each year approximately 120,000 hatching eggs and
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40,000 baby chicks are sold, mostly to Future Farmers and former Cal
Poly students,
About 10,000 birds are raised and marketed locally
each year by students as project activity.
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During the year- seven ·new breeding p~ns were completed for pro-
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ject and student us~.
Two new brooder houses and a storage building
were also completed to supplement the teaching and student project
facilities,.
During the year the turkey program was expand~d to include the
following varieties·:
Narragansetts, Bourbon Reds, Beltsville White,
Black, and Small Type Baby Beef Bronze.•
The poultry f'locks now include pedigreed White Leghorn flock,
also New Hampshires, Barred Rocks, Dark Cornish as well as crossbreds raised for frJers.
Individual student projects were increased to 95 during the
year, with each student project consisting of either 150 laying
breeding hens each or 250 or more chicks each.
or
The student operator
of the project shares the net profit on the project with the project
fund, with the average student earning from $10 to $15 per month.
About 30 students were paid by the hour for labor out of project
funds for processing and selling products.
Related Agriculture Sciences:
Two fields, Soil Science and
Vet erinary Science, are included under the Agricultural Pivision.
The work covered in both of these fi elds is closely related to the
activities of the agricultural majors.
Soil Science courses are required of all students in the agricultural division.
As well as supplying essential technical information
for students in agriculture, the soils courses provide a substantial
background for individuals especially interested in Soil Scienc~.
Veterinary Science is offered to supplement the major work p~o-
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vided in the Animal Science Departments of ·the Agricultural Divisio~~
Keeping college herds and flocks healthy provides opportunities for
laboratory classes and at the same time gives students valuable e~perience and practical training.
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ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL DIVISION
Aeronautical Engineering:
hangar
Extensive shop, laboratory,
and flight strip facilities provide actual ma.intenance
and operations experience for the student in this department~
The combination of these shop courses with classroom work gives
the future engj_neer the practical as well as the theoretical
background necessary for a complete understanding o.f the fundamentals of aircraft and aircraft engine construction, oper- ·
ations, maintenance and design.
Extensive work was accomplished in the layout and setting
up of equipment and machinery for more productive utilization
by the students.
The engine shop and hangar tool rooms were
reorganized for more efficient · operations during 1948.
A concrete apron of 60,000 square feet was constructed 'in
1948 in front of the hangar.
A drainage system for the roof of
th e hangar was also installed.
Work has progressed on the cohversion of war surplus material
for use in laboratory and shop work.
Tvlo
new instructors were added to the staff making a total of
s even full time instructors •
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Architectural Engineeringt Courses offered in the department
of Architectural Engineering are designed. to prepare the student
for activities in the engineering and structural phases of the
architectural profession and the building industry.
Purely
architectural subjects are offered only to the extent of providing the student with a sympathetic understanding of the problems
of architectural practice and design.
Graduates find employment as junior draftsmen and junior
engineers in architect's offices, large construction firms, contracting companies and building material organizations.
Some
graduates find placement opportunities as estimators, construction
supervisors, structural designers and detailers, building contractors and sales engineers.
Departmental facilities include well-lighted drafting rooms
and studios with appropriate library catalog facilities.
Equipment
and conditions throughout the department are designed to carry out
an atmosphere paralleling that found in the architectural profession
and the building industry.
Reproduction facilities are available
for blue printing and other methods of reproduction.
More than 130 students were enrolled in this department in
the fall of 19u8.
The staff consists of two registered architects and one
assistant instructor.
Electrical Engineering:
The Electrical Engineering _Department offers
the student adequate training in the technical and practical _p hases
of electrical works to that when he enters industry he will have
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developed some of the skills necessary to carry on l~borat.o ry work.
The technical cu·r riculurn offers considerable practice to the
student in actual construction and installation of the electrical
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equipment on campus •
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The following are a few of the jobs c?mpleted during the
past year:
The old Agricultural Education Building was rewired to some
extent and new larger size power cables were installed to improve
voltage regulation.
One dormitory was rewired and new lights installed.
Considerable electrical work was done in the welding shop in
the way of circuits for equipment.
The illumination engineering class drafted the circuits and
specifications for flurescent lighting in the E•. E.• Laboratory.
• The installation was made by the electrical construction classes_.
Electric lines and equipment were maintained and repaired
by electrical construction classes,
Mechanical Engineering:
The enrollment in Mechanical Engineer-
ing increased to 216 for the fall quarter, 1948.
Of these, _ 42 were
enrolled in the technical and vocational levels training for
technical positions in operation, maintenance or junior engineer~
ing.
The remainder of the students are working toward an mechani-
cal engineering degree with emphasis on Production Engineering, _
Velding, or Mechanical Equipment of buildings, according to the
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individual students choice.
The limited design courses given in
the senior ye ar are for the purpose of providing background in
applications of Mechanical Engineering to special types of problems rather than to train design or research . engineers.
Overhaul of a large Diesel engine to be installed in the
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Power. Plant.is well underway vri.th Mechanical Engineering students
doing most of the overhaul work during supervised class periods.
Two small gasoline engine test units have been completed by
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students in project work and are being used in laboratory classes •
A 100 horsepower engine test dynampmeter is being built by a student as a senior project.
This unit will be installed and ready
for use by the start of the 19h9-50 academic year • .
The new hydraulics laboratory is nearing completion.
Some
preliminary tests have proved the soundness of the design and
workmanship of the students who originated and carried out the
project with limited funds and the minimum of instructions from
the faculty.,
The nevY strength of materials laboratory has been utilized
since the start of the 19h8-h9 academic year in teaching a new
laboratory course -t o all mechanical, aeronautical, el.e ctrical,
and architectural students.
Additional equipment now on order
will bro aden the scope of the new course.
Equipment and instruments are being purchas es for a new
laboratory to be used for fuels and lubricants testing.
This
t esting is now included in the freshman Mechanical Engineering
Laboratory course.
When sufficient equipment is on hand and space
is available, the t esting of fuels and lubricants will be condu ct ed i n a s eparat e l aboratory cours e.
This will permit extension
of the present fr eshman labor a tory cours e to include other basic
t ests and demonstrations fundamental to Mechanical Engineering.
All l aboratories are planned so they may be easily moved to
the new Power Plant and Mechanical Engine~ring Laboratory building when it i s constructed •.
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One new instructor was added to this department during 1948 •.
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Air Conditioning and Refrigeration:
This department is the
largest of any in the industrial division. · About half of these
were degree engineering students and the other half were technical
students,
The department also gives heating and Yentilating
courses for mechanical and architectural students and dairy refrigeration and steam for dairy manufacturing and dairy production students~
About 180 students in these departments took work in the
refrigeration and air conditioning department,
Because of the rapid growth of the department three new
teachers were added during 1948 making a total of 10 •.
The department has attracted national attention.
It has stu-
dents from all parts of the United States, Hawaii, Cuba, and Puerto
Rico.
The laboratories of the department now include a refrigeration
laboratory, a heating and ventilating laboratory, an air conditioning tests and measurements laboratory, and a sheet metal shop,
These laboratories have a combined floor space of 6720 square feet
and contain equipment and instruments valued at $90,000.
All of
the equipment has been installed by students of the department.
An altitude test chamber and a variable temperature and humidity
reversible cycle air conditioning system are being installed this
year.
The latter will be the first system of its type.
In addition to the regular laboratory work students maintain
all of the refrigerating systems on the campus and a considerable
portion of the heating equipment.
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There are 58 refrigerating
systems on the campus other than those in the refrigeration
laboratory.
Also, installations as needed by other departments
are designed, constructed and installed by students.
During 1948
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the following installations were made for other departments:
Two
refrigerating systems, two hot water radiant panel heating. systems,
one forced draft hot air heating system, four ventilating systems,
three exhaust systems, and several small sheet metal jobs.
Electronic and Radio Engineering:
By the fall quarter 185
students had enrolled in this comparatively new major in the
Engine'ering and Industrial Di vision.
It prepares students to
fill positions, exclusive of planning and pure research, carried
on by engineers in the fields of communications and electronics.
Facilities include five laboratories, a shop, instrument stock
room, small parts stock room and department offices.
As part of
the project system, the students operate a small radio repair
shop and service approximately 500 radios for the campus community.
The average repair charge on these radios was
$5.
One new instructor was added to the staff in 1948 bringing the
total to five full-time instructors,
Several students are employed
on an hourly basis to build the much ne'eded laboratory eqµipment.
A new laboratory for work in Industrial Electronics was
started during the year.
This laboratory will handle heavy equip-
ment including a 37.5 KW Induction Heating unit and Electronic
control units.
A small room has been set aside to house the receivers and
transmitters used on the amateur bands, and amateur station
W6BHZ.
With the station in operation, it is now possible to do
laboratory work in radiation, as well as give the students an
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opportunity to · cqntact by radio amateur radio operators from all
parts of the world.
In recognition of the outstanding work and curriculum of this
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department, which completed its third year in 1948., the Institute
of Radio Engineers orge.nized a student branch of the society on
the campus.
This recognition by the leading professional engineer-
ing society in the fields of radio and electronics places the
department on a par with the accepted engineering schools in the
country.
The department has obtained a federal lic~nse to operate the
Mark~ XVI Radar set obtained from the government.
This radar
station including the 75 foot tower was erect~d by the students
and the set is being operated as station W6-XDM~
This station is
operated so that the students may have experience in operational
problems, maintenance and installation problems and experimental
·work with a radar station.
Work with this radar supplements the
textbook work on general radar instruction.
Printing:
A completely equipped printing plant is operated
by students majoring in printing and publishing.
They produce a
weekly newspaper, monthly Future Farmer magazine, and all other
student body publications, including programs, ruled forms, etcetera. · Graduates will be qualified to operate their own print
shops, newspaper publishing plants, or work in management or
supervisory capacities in various fields of the allied printing
industry~ . . One of two degree courses of its kind in the country,
this department is offering instruction endorsed by the California
Newspaper Publishers association and by the International Typographical Union which permits the use of its apprentice training
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manuals as text books •
One new instructor was added to the department last year, and
another is expected to report this year.
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During 1948 considerable new equipment was added, including
the following:
type cases and composing stones, complete new series
of linotype matrix in various sizes, many new fonts of type faces, .
Ludlow type casting machine, ·Kluge automatic press, ·precision lineup table," 14 x 20 Multilith Press, · Two additional linotype machines
are expected to be added during the coming year. ·
Students in this department do all the mechanical work involved
in the publication of the 10 page weekly college newspaper, monthly
college magazine, athletic programs, a monthly magazine sent to
12,500 Future Farmer members, a pictorial brochure featuring the
student Poly Royal show, and many smaller printing jobs for student organizations.
Students doing work outside regular labora-
tory hours receive hou!lly pay which is included as part of the
cost of every job and is charged to the student organization
ordering the work.
wages last year.
students rec eived about $2000 in such project
During their senior year courses in estimating,
pl ant organi zation andJ.ayout, bookkeeping and management are
offered.
Publi shers and printing concerns of the Pacific Coast
are showing an intense interest and are seeking to employ graduates in excess of the present capacity of the course,
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RELATED INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENTS_
Welding i
This department g~ve instruction in both oxy-
ac·e tylene and arc welding to approximately 500 students each quarter~
Three full-time and three student instructors carried on
the program.,
The arc welding section was reorganized, designed, and built
by students of the welding classes.,
'11 he capacity of the shop was
enlarged from eight to 14 arc welding stations plus one .demonstration area.
This increased instructional efficiency •.
Eight hundred square feet of floor space was added as a
stock and tool room.
thereby provided.
A material and tool control system was
The over-all operating program was improved
considerably by this system as well as a great improvement in
wash room facilities.
A new 500 pound capacity acetylene generator was installed
by students of the welding classes,
This brings the acetylene
generating capacity up to the load requirement.
Machine Shop:
During the year, two additional machine tools
were added to the 73 machines already in the machine shop.
The
new ones - a flat lapping machine and a tapping ma.chine were
obtained from the i~ar Assets Administration through the State
Department of Education.
Two of the machines already in the ·
machine shop were cleaned and overhauled, and put in firstclass condition.
The most important work in 1948, however, was the reorgani-
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zation of the grading system.
All grading of students' work was
made as objective as possible, using a point system based on precision measurement of the project.
To this
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end a number of .P recision grading fixtures were built which can
instantly indicate errors in work as small as 0.0005" • . Each grading fixture was designed to check one or more dimensions on acertain class project,
This grading ·system has greatly speeded up
the grading of class wo~k, reduced grading errors almost to zero,
and has entirely eliminated the occasional complaint from students
about the reliability of their grades.
Any student can, if he so
desires, check the grading of his work and arrive at the same grade
score as did the teacher.
During the year a number of small tools were added to the shop
tool room, broadening the types of work possible to turn out in
the machine shop.
A good deal of maintenance and repair work was
done for the school..
_.Assistance was also given many departments
in th~ design and construction of testing and laboratory equipment.
Twenty instructional films were also added to the shop film library
improving and speeding up the instruction in machine tool operation.
Three full-time and four part-time instructors are now
employed in the department to handle a ·per quarter enrollment of
28 classes totaling approximately 430 students.
The shop now has the following facilities:
a bench shop for
20 students where hand operations can be taught; a machine shop
where a beginning class of 20 and an advanced class of 12 can be ·
handled at the same time; a lecture room for talks, tests, and
films; and adequate storage facilities for tools and supplies.
The shops are in a steel-framed building, clean and well-lighted,
with ample room without crowding of equipment, and have locker
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VOORHIS UNIT----SAN DIMAS
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Adequate classrooms, laboratories, shops, equipment, citrus
groves, deciduous orchards, tr_uck crop land, greenhouses, glas~houses, are included at the southern branch of the college to provide the first two years of work in the degree curricula and all
of the instruction in the two and three yenr program in Agricultural Inspection, Citrus Fruit Production, and Ornamental Horticulture.
Dormitories, cafeteria, student store, swimming pool, athletic
field, chapel, and other facilities makes the Voorhis campus a compact unit ideally situated for the type of instruction offered.
Agricultural Inspection:
Adequate facilities are provided at
the Voorhis Unit for teaching men in the common practices and skills
and the essential techniques in agricultural inspection.
The cur-
ricula were established after each course and combination had received the approval of the State Department of Agriculture for its
effectiveness in training inspectors.
Graduation requirements in-
clude actual work . in commercial packing houses and at inspection
points.
Field trips are made to shipping points, picking, propa-
gatton districts, in addition to the campus area.
Citrus Fruit Production:
The San Dimas campus has facilities
for teaching fruit production on a practical basis.
The college-
owned grove and orchards are operated primarily by studBnts as part
of their instructional program.
Various irrigation methods are em-
ployed on the campus in connection with fruit proauction.
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Farm
equipment, including tractors, tillage implements 1 spray rigs, and
fumigation equipment~ is owned, maintained and operated on the
campus farm.
A small nursery of citrus, avocado, and deciduous
plantings is operated to give instruction in the problems of propagation and raising of trees.
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Ornamental Horticulture:
The facilities on the Voorhis campus
consist of a lath house, two glasshouses, propagation frames, a
subtropical canyon, a two-acre nursery, and one acre of cut flowers.
Extensive landscaped portions of the campus include, in addition to
the buildings, seven acres of lawn and three miles or roadway.
Estates, parks, golf courses, nurseries, and flower plantings in the
vicinity serve as a natural laboratory for field experience and
practice.
Additional Courses:
Courses in deciduous fruits, vegetable
crops, poultry, and the general required related courses also are
being offered at the Voorhis Unit •
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NEW FACILITIES
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INSTRUCTIONAL
This 5or x 90' building made of a new type lath
Lath House:
was completed at the close of the suminer, 1948.
of light aluminum strips.
The lath is made
These are supported by aluminum stringers
fastened to redwood framework.
Four men who were enrolled as stu-
dents during the school year 1947-48 were hired during the summer
to work with one of the instructors in the Ornamental Horticulture
Department for the purpose of erecting the lath house according to
the plan which had been worked out by the Architecture Design class
the previous year.
This procedure not only saved the state ap-
proximately 50 percent of what the building would have cost to have
had it built by rt contractor, but it also provided work experience
to students planning to enter this field who would otherwise not
have had such an opportunity for experience.
Crop Land:
Approximately 50 acres of level land was rented
during the fall of 1948 to provide additional facilities for the
growing of crops.
This land joins the Voorhis Unit on the west and
is handy for instructional purposes.
being gro'V'l11. there this year.
are planted to truck crops.
Cereal and truck crops are
Water is limited, so only a few acres
This additional acreage of open level
land has also been of great assistance to the farm tractors and
farm machinery classes, as well as for the various crops classes.
Student Housing:
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August 31, 191+8, saw the completion of a 44
family apartment unit that had been allocated to the Voorhis Unit
by the Public Housing Authority through county and state agencies •
This was the last project of its kind to be completed in the United
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States under the P.H .A. program •.- The l-1-4 apartments are made up of
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five different buildings, two buildings having 14 two room apartments each and the other three buildings comprise 16 three room
apartments.
Availability of family housing on the campus permitted
many veteran students to enter training who for the past two years
have not boon able to attend school because of no accommodations
for thoir families in the area.
Tho colloge manages the housing
unit for the Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles who is
the official local agency that has the contract with the Public
Housing Authority and the state.
State funds that were provided
in Chapters 29 and 391 were secured by the county to supplement the
funds furnished by P.H,A. to erect the housing unit.
NEW COURSES AND CHANGES
Tho only significant addition that was made to the curriculum
at San Di mas dur:ing the current year was the addition of Chemistry
made up of coursGs PSc
4,
321, 322, and 323.
It was necessary to
add Chemistry in order for the many students 2ttending San Dimas
who are transfers from other colleges to secure a full schedule
during the year or years that they must be at San Dimas to complete ma jor courses which are offered only at San Dimas.
Complete
Chemistry laboratory facilities were installed during the fall
quarter.
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different students are taking adva~tage of those
offerings during the y earo
There is an ever increasing demand on the part of prospective
student s of the Southern California area for .Animal Husbandry, Dairy
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and Poultry courscso
At the -present time, there are not facilities
to provide this type of program even if it were decided that such
courses should be offered.
In addition to the increasing demand
for work in fields mentioned above other than those which are now
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offered at San Dimas, there are an increased number of requests
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for specialized courses in the major fields that are now offered
from which students may choose electives •
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EVENTS DURING THE YEAR 1948
More than 2.50 California veterinarians attended a three day
professional conference held on the California State Polytechnic
College campus from January .5-7.
Sponsored by the California State
Veterinary Medical Association, the conference program included
well-knovm veterinary medical authorities from throughout the United
States as speakers.
Students of Chico State college cooperated in 1948 with students of California State Polytechnic College by selecting a coed
to reign as queen over Poly's Sixteenth annual Poly Royal, April
30 and May 1.
President Julian A, McPhee was in Washington,
n.c.
from
January 23 to January 28 attending t·wo educational meetings.
As
president of the American Vocational Association, McPhee was a
delegate to the American Council on Education. ·The second meeting
was a conference of American Vocational Association officials.
Word was received on February 2 from the New York headquarters
of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) stating that California
State Polytechnic College was officially recognized as a radio engi-·
neering school.
Only _two other western schools, University of
California and Stanford, are recognized by the IRE.
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Joe
w.
Jarvis, . supervisor of Agricultural Development of the
Union Pacific Railroad, was the principal speaker at a banquet at
the Cal Poly chapter of the Young Farmers on February 12.
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Working on the premise · that every member of the faculty should
be well-versed in all phases of the educational program at Cal Poly,
the administration developed a plan to indoctrinate every member
of the staff with a thorough background of purposes and methods used
by each of the eleven agricultural departments, eight engineering
departments and five science and humanity departments.
One of the college's famed Holstein cows set a new world's record in February for milk production in her class~
She is Polytechnic
Bess Blossom who produced 808 pounds of butterfat and 21;126 pounds
of mj,lk in 365 days being milked twice a day.
Fifty-five California State Polytechnic College musicians presented musical programs before audiences totaling more than 10,000
persons during a week-long tour of seven Sacramento Valley counties
March B"-13'.
The six man rodeo team representing Cal Poly at the University
of Arizonafs annual intercollegiate rodeo took second place against
competition from colleges throughout the United States.
The California Polytechnic college dairy herd of Holsteins was
placed as the second highest production Holstein dairy herd in the
United States·, according to word received during March from the
·National Holstein-Friesian Associatione
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The herd of 22 made the
remarkable average of 16.,195 pounds of milk, with 606.1 pounds of
butterfat, an average test of 3. 7 percent·.
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Because of the demand for trained horseshoers, California State
Polytechnic College inaugurated a 12-week course similar to the only
other such course in existence which is given at Michigan State colie~e.
Tho course for training farriers was added as part of the
course offerings at Cal Poly at the insistence of the Horse and Mule
Association of America, the California Thoroughbred Breeders• Association and many individual breeders and veterinarians in .the state.
More than 60 members of the Tri-County chapter of the California
Association of Nurserymen attended a conference held on the campus
of California State Polytechnic College on May 21.
Representatives
from Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties discussed
nursery instruction and·problems.
The Federal Communications Commission on May 24 assigned an
experimental Class One radar license to tho electronic and radio
engineering department at California State Polytechnic Co'ilege.
State legislators and state administrative officials visited
the California State Polytechnic College campus on May 19.
The
visitors were invited by State Senator Chris N~ Jespersen to see
the college's expansion problems and long-range building program
plans.
Robert LaFollette, former United States senator from Wisconsin
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and now vice-president of the Sears Foundation and .Edward Condon,
president of the Foundation, visited the campus on May 28.
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On June
4, 135
students graduated from California State
Polytechnic College, the largest class in history.
Eighty-three
degrees were issued, 29 three-year technical certificates, 11 twoyear technical certificates and 12 vocational certificates.
The
first honorary degree ever issued by the college was conferred upon Senator Cr1ris N.. Jesper·sen.
bachelor of science..
He received an honorary degree of
Speaking at the forty-ninth annual commence-
ment was William Blair, president of the State Board of Education.
In attendance was Dr, Roy E. Simpson, superintendent of public instruction and director of education.
The annual business meeting of the California State Veterinary
Medical Association was held on the campus of California State
Polytechnic College in June.
Dr.
s.
T. ].fichael of San Francisco
was elected president of the .organization.
More than 250 agricultural teachers from all sections of the
state -convened at Cal Poly for their annual five day conference in
June~
The event was sponsored by the California Agricultural
TeachGrs Association.
Starting on June 28, the college offered
additional summor courses for academic credit to many of the
t eachers.
A total of 721 students enrolled for the regular summer quarter
at California State Polytechnic College, the largest in the history
of the school •
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Polytechnic Bess Colantha, one of the three full sisters in
the California State Polytechnic College Holstein herd, set a new
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national record in June.
At three years, six months of age, she
completed a record of 28,157 pounds of milk and 1010.7 pounds of
butterfat.
---------A professional book collection valued at $5,000 was donated
to the college library by Charles E. Teach, retiring Snn Luis Obispo
superintendent of schools.
---------Nearly 100 livestock specialists in the state convened in July
at California Stnte Polytechnic College for a three-day session.
Those attending r~ceived schooling and rofroshcr courses as they
apply to future judging in livestock rings ~n California.
The
event was sponsored by the college, the University of CPlifornia
and the ~iestern Fairs Association.
On July
24,
Governor Earl Warren made a two-hour tour of
California State Polytechnic College ca~pus.
He was the guest of
Julian A. McPhee, president of the colleg0.
Registration for the second summer session at the college,
which began July 2h, reached 518 students.
-----------The quarterly meeting of the California Farm Bureau Federation Dairy Department met on the campus of the college on August
20.
Close to
75
dairymen from California atten
which was highlighted by reports from the farm bureau dairy legis-
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Twenty-two animals, ovmed by eight students ·of the college
comprised the college's entry in the state fair livestock show.
Over 150 physical education instructors from the public schools
of Cc1.lifornia met on the campus of California State Polytechnic College from August 16 to August 27 for their annual workshop.
The
event was carried on in cooperation between tho California Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation and the college.
-------.~-----The . largest student enrollment,. 2575, in tho history of the
college registered in September.
Mrs. Walter Friar Dexter fitted a cornerstone int"o place for
the new library named for her late husband, Dr. falter F.- Dexter,
state superintendent of instruction from 1937 until his death in
1945.: The cornerstone laying took place October 22 on the California State Polytechnic College campus at a ceremony attended by
members of the State Board of Education, members of the State
Department of Education, faculty and students.-
Speakers included
William L. Blair, president, State Board of Education; Roy E. Simpson,
state superintendent .o f instruction; Aubrey Douglass, associate
superintendent; and Julian A. McPhee, college president.
Members of the Str-i.te Board of Education held a two-day meeting
on the campus of the California State Polytechnic College on October
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Approximately 40 college students entered livestock raised
under the college project system in the Grand National Livestock
Show in the San Francisco Cow Palace in October.
Nearly 500 members of the Future Farmers of America gathered
on the college campus October 11-13 for the twentieth annual state
FFA convention.
Approximately 185 high schools were represented by
delegates.
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A dairy cattle judging team from the college placed third in
a field of six teams from western colleges competing in the Pacific
International Livestock Exposition in Portland, October 8 and 9,
Alumni returned to the California State Polytechnic College
campus on October 8 and 9 for an annual Homecoming celebration ~nd
adopted a new constitution.
Members of the college chapter of the Institute of Radio
Engineers attended the :Vest Coast convention of the national organizations in Los Angeles during October.
Seventeen business managers and comptrollers of California
state colleges met on the Cal Poly campus on October 18 and 19.
California State
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Polytechnic College st11dents won top honors
at the Grand National Livestock Exposition early in November at
the San Francisco Cow Palace and at the • Great Western Livestock
Show lnte in the month in Los Angeles.
The college livestock
judging team won second place in competition with western colleges.
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Dr. Roscoe Balch, member of the college veterinary staff and
Henry E. Gran, member of the biological science department, assisted
scientists of the Hooper Foundation in research work on the virus
which causes sleeping siclmess in horses.
John Harrison and James Smith, animal husbandry students at
the college, received awards for accomplishment in the field of
agriculture from the Santa Fe Railway on November 10.
----------.Dr..
Hubert H. Semans, dean of Science and Humanities Division
at the college, was elected secretary of tho California Council
on Teacher Education at a conference at Yosemite in November..
Twenty-six freshman and sophomore students received 1948-49
Sears-Roebuck Foundation Scholarships for interest in the agricultural field.
in 19,38..
The scholarships were first awarded by the foundation
Students from Cal Poljr were the first from any college
west of the Rockies to roceive the scholarships.
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California State Polytechnic Collogo was granted full, unrestricted accreditation as a four-year college by the Northwest
Association -of Secondary and Higher Schools at the annnal meeting of tho association on December 11 in Spokane, '.Vashingtons
250 page application for membership had been submitted to the
association in November,.
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lm evaluating committee T~_sited tho
campus, inspecting facilities and interviewing personnelo
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Miss Dona Grace Burbage, freshman at Humboldt State College,
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was introduced to students at Cal Poly at an assembly on Dece,nber
17. She vvill reign over Cal Poly's 1949 Poly Royal celebration
April 29 ·and JO.
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The dairy herd at California State Polytechnic College had
tho highest production por cow in the history of the college during
1948.
The 1948 record is approximately double the state average
per cow and is one of the highest college herd averages in the
nation.
The 72 cow herd averaged 12,610 pounds of milk and $23.7
pounds of butterfat per cow for a butterfat percentage o~ ~.2.
The figures were compiled for the Dairy Herd Improvement Association's
yearly production test.
During 1948 tho college herd of Guernsey,
Holstein and Jersey breeds pro milk.
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A total of 2492 students registered for the winter quarter at
the college.
The figure was higher than the 1947-48 winter quarter
total of 2119 but was a decline from tho all-time high of 2575 students recorded in the fall of 1948.
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The Ornamental Horticulture Department, Voorhis Unit, was
granted permission in January to exhibit in the Southern California
Spring Flower Show, held April 22 - 25 at the Fanny D. Morrison
Horticulture Center, Brookside Park, Pasadena~
Mrs. Lavina Penley, Librarian, attended a meeting for the
southern ·section of the school librarians association of California
at Pomona College, February 7.
Mrs. Penley is one of the directors
of the association.
Mr. P.
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-----------Rohrbaugh, Citrus department instructor, flew to
Corpus Chr.isti, Texas, January 22 at the invitation of Dr, n. Vf,
Jones, president of the Texas College of Arts and Industry, for
consultation on the plan and development on a new branch of the
college as an jnstitute of citrus and vegetable courses training
center.
--~-----Dean Harold
o.
Wilson attended a meeting of the San Bernadina
County Agricultural !eachers Association and gave a short talk on
the agricultural program of the Voorhis Unit.
The Ornamental Horticulture club heard Mrs. Harry Hood, one
of the leading Ecologists of the state, at its dinner meeting
here February
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----------Dean Harold o... Wilson vvas appointed in February to serve as
a member of the advisory connnittee for the 33rd annual National
Orange Show_.
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Art Getweiller of the United Wholesale Florists Association
spoke to the Ornamental Horticulture club February 19.
Cal Poly citrus judging team won first in its division at the
annual National Orange Show in San Bernadino, March 13.
Dean Harold Wilson and George J. Peavey attended a district
meeting of the American College Public Relations Association h~ld
at Cal Tech, March 30.
Dean Harold Wilson and George Peavey attended
the second annual school administrators conference at Claremont
College, April 17.
An exhibit sponsored by Cal Poly was shown at the state exposition building, Exposition Park in April.
Dean Harold Wilson attended a conference on vocational and
techn~cal education in junior colleges at the San Bernadino Valley
College, April 6 and 7.
Mrs. Lavina Penley represented Voorhis Unit at an all-day meeting of the California Library Association held at Occidental CQllege April 17.
Approximately 500 teachers and administrators attended the
Southern California Educational Conference representing the five
branches of vocational education which met on the campus May
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During the month of August the Bureau of Agricultural Education staff held a regular meeting at the Voorhis Unit.
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During the week of August 9 - 15 an Ornamental Horticulture
school was conducted by members of the Voorhis Unit agriculture
department for 28 agricultural teachers of Southern California •.
On August 21 Dean Wilson officiated at the Sear's swine show
in Ventura • .
During the week of August 23 the California State Department
of Agriculture held a state conference for representatives of their
office and representatives of the commercial trades • .
------,--During the Los Angeles County fair, September 1948 the Young ·
Farmers Association Chapter at the Voorhis Unit cooperated with
the Bureau of Vocational Agriculture Education in conducting Camp
Condee for Future Farmer members of Southern California • .
Cal Poly sponsored an educational exhibit at the Los Angeles
County Fair, September 17 to October 3 in Pomona.
Illustrations
of work done on the campus were shovm.
On December 10 and 11, 19h8, Cal Poly Chapter Young Farmers
Association was host to 150 representatives of the southern region
of the Young Farmers Association,
During the month of December the Voprhis Unit cooperated with
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the San Luis Obispo campus in preparing a float for the Pasadena
Tournament of Roses•·
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THIS REPORT IS SUBMITTED AT THE QUARTERLY MEETING
OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION CONVENING AT SACRAliIE.NTO,
APRIL 1,
1949.
RESPECTFULLY SUBLUTTED,
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President, California
State Polytechnic College
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