Cal State Polytechnic College - El Rodeo Yearbook (San Luis Obispo, CA)

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w j ED SAMOS Los Lcchcros Proxy Founded to hash out dairy problems of the dairy enrol lees, Los Lechcros also took a cut in membership from thirty- five to less than twenty-five. Los Lech- eros like trips and tours to surrounding dairies and ranches. And the judging Dairy Los Lecheros team represented at the Cow Palace came home with a member copping honors. I hey like skating parties . . . ice cream . . . cheese . . . own a small share in a bomber . . . and hate like ( to milk and bottle, with no regard to white man hours, three times daily. February saw a National Defense Dance . . . red. white and blue . . . sponsored by milkers. Sand bags piled high and streamers draped . . . evenly . . . from the center and a few stags made the dance an okay affair. They tried in the inter-club basket- ball meet, but they didn’t win. hirst row (left to right): Mr. Dnimm. Allen. Ambrosini. Anderson, K. Benton, Bishop, Boyd, Crawford, H. Detlefsen. Ford, Freeman, Mr. llg. Second row; Freidson, Gross, Goldsmith. Gobson, Grant, Harms, Han- sen. House, Hickman, Ketscher, Lawson, Lieb. Third row: McDougall, Makimoto, Martin, Martinez. Mc- Donald. Noble. Overgard, Pappas. Pata, Quist. Fourth row: Proscal. Boot, Santos, Speak. Ward, Walker. Webster, White, Whitmore, Winterbourne, Yenni.

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GEORGE DIU 1 MM Dairy Industries gives concise set of notes . . . easy tests . . . drinks milk . . . knows his cows . . . lias socialite daughter ... he rides her hike . . . his wife picks him up . . . inventor of an artificial cow . . . makes cows pose for pictures with hull- like’’ noises. GEORGE ILG friendly . . . calls fellows by name . . . drives new Olds to class . . . teaches organic and it’s a diliar . . . braggs about miles per shoe . . . “Shut up, Earl (Ambrosini) . . . dislikes smoking . . . “Shoot the milk to us llg. DAIRY MANUFACTURING Above you see two of the dairy manufacturing pro- cesses which Polv students learn. On the left, stu- dents are taking butter out of the big metal churn and on the right, a student adds renct to a vat of milk to facilitate thickening. Manufacturing lab classes such as these are con- ducted at local commercial creameries. DAIRY PRODUCI ION Below is some of the dairy cattle owned by one stu- dent as a project. Ed San- tos (right) now owns 13 purebred 1 lolstcin dairy cattle, valued at $1900, which he has accumulated while at Poly.

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Industries A team of ten Cal Poly dairy produc- tion majors brought honor and lame to the college this year by winning first place in the Tenth Annual I loard’s Dairymen Championship Collegiate Dairy cattle judging contest. The team of boys judged classes of the five major breeds of dairy cattle by the use of photographs in competition with other teams from all the outstanding agricul- tural colleges in the United States. Last year another Poly team tied for second place in the same contest. In the 11olstein All American judging contest, Poly teams have won many honors: first place in 1939. seventh in 1940, and third in 1941. Everyone of the boys of this years I he courses, dairy manufacturing and dairy production are plenty stiff . . . especially ice cream making with almost too much math. The entire college’s milk supply ... a quart per day per student ... is supplied by campus cows. The milk tests higher percentage of hutterfat than required by law. Lots of new equipment is headed by a reconditioned milking barn ... no cracks . . . and includes bottler, cooling system, separator, sterilizer, automatic self filler. A departmental award of perpetual trophy is awarded at Poly Royal for top student of the year. team works part time in the dairy unit to help earn school expenses and they own a total of 7c head of fine dairy cattle. OFFICERS President .................... Ed Santos I7ice President . ... Bob Procsal Secretary Treas.Donald Crawford James Pappas, first dairy production student to re- ceive a bachelor of science degree from Poly, is seen here with Brampton Poly Scars, noted Jersey sire, and a fine Jersey heifer, owned bv the college. I Icrc is the picture of the Cal Polv Dairy Judging team which appeared in I loard's Dairyman maga- zine after the team had won first place in nation- wide competition. Left to right: Ed Santos, Mr. Drumm, 1 larlan Dctlefscn. Earl Ambrosini, Robert Speck, Robert Winter- bourne. Be van Walker. Maurice Ketscher, James Lawson, James Pappas and Carl Bates.