AS PRESIDENT of the California From The DeSk 0f. The State Polytechnic College, I have the PI'ESIdenl' honor to submit to the State Board of Education and the State Depart- ment of Education this report on major developments at the college during the 1949 calendar year. In the belief that the differences between this college and other California state colleges are now more clearly understood than in past years, I have limited my report to a review of the activities of the college during 1949. No simple recital of progress achieved by the college in one year would seem impressive unless Viewed against a backdrop of the 45-year struggle of the institution to attain educational respectability for occupational training. The growth of the college in the past decade is the direct result of the active and sympathetic support of mem- bers of the State Board of Education, the State Department of Education, and the Legislature. That the college now has full, unrestricted accreditation, and is approved as a a teacher training institution, is a tribute to their confidence in the soundness of the college’s basic philosophy of occupa- ‘ tional training. a Respectfully submitted, " a W San Luis Obispo campus of the California State Polytechnic College.