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

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Production Poultry Club t hese fellows arc go getters and are an active bunch on the Polvtech cam- pus. They like to deep sea fish and are always talking about the “big ones that they haul in. In the spring, they take an annual trip to look over the chicken and turkey situation. The club is well represented in student affairs . . . the campus prexy is a poultry major . . . and they monopolize the honor society. The member who makes the greatest profit during the year from his projects must treat the brothers to an outing. The fellow who makes the least money, supplies the others with stacks of chew- ing gum. In otherwords, they are so- cialistic and frown upon capitalism . . . Their assembly featured a fashion show which featured a hula dance in Poly- tech stvle. In the inter-club basketball meet, the club was runner up to the winners. FRED KOBAYSHI Poult rv Club Prexv OFFICERS President .........Fred Kobayashi Secretary .......... Peter Trumpy Treasurer .............Glenn Good 'ice President .... Lloyd Shatter f irst row (left to right): Archibald, Austin, Bernard, Burnette, Caldwell, Christen, Cook, Doughertv, Faw- cett. Second row: Dosa, Galli, Good, Goodman, Heilman, Harris, Keast, Kobayashi, Manson. Third row; McCall, Mindcn. Mount, Naritoku, Peck. Reed. Renwick, Sankott. Scaroni. Fourth row; Shaffer, Soloman, Mr. Leach. Taylor, Trumpy.

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Poultry RICHARD I. LEACH regarded as best poultrvman on Pacific Coast . . . travels . . . sober . . . but be knows good jokes . . . works wholeheartedly for poultry plant . . . makes it pay . . . well known among breeders. . . Hie poultry department is well re- garded by breeders on the Pacific coast for its top quality flock of “buzzards ’ I he department came in fourth place in 1940 in the Modesto Poultry Laying Contest. Using the project system whereby students pay for feed and split the difference between cost and profit from egg production with the depart- ment . . . the chicken herders’ are allowed a profit of fifteen dollars per month. With high price returns this year, the poultrvmcn arc getting rich. All “cafe eggs are supplied by the “feather merchants’ who also do a large retail business on the side . . . Some new equipment includes a sensational automatic chicken picker that picks many birds per hour, plus a few more . . . The students candle and grade the total output of eggs . . . Some of the men specialize in turkey production. Top: Feather Merchants in the process of culling a Hock of white leghorns . .. Left, they arc boxing pedi greed chicks for shipping to FFA chapters over the state . . . Hight, incubation with consideration.

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- RAYMOND P. MASON another one who knows his stuff . . . easily changes his mind when students state definite reasons, but just try to lx excused from class with a flimsy excuse . . . teaches first and third years of A. C. ... just can’t part with his vintaged Nash . . . advises Alpha Gamma The air conditioners have the best lab of any department on the campus and probably the best air conditioning lab- oratory on the Pacific Coast. Despite the fine facilities and the excellent teaching staff, the war put a crimp in the enroll- ment. Besides losing men to the serv- ices, the department is handicapped by a temporary lull in the industry itself. Inability to get materials and govern- ment’s ban on manufacture of “com- fort equipment such as refrigerators, cooling systems, etc. helped drain stu- dents into other work. Despite the problems, the few stu- dents left in the department have been doing excellent work. The majors fin- ished a quick freezing unit this year. It freezes down to 50 degrees below in less than twenty minutes . . . the cafe will quick freeze vegetables and meat and store them in the contraption. The men like to run tests on air velocities and on air quantities . . . they also maintain the auditorium air condi- tioning unit. The frosh recently finished a direct air forced heating unit lor Mr. Lucksingcr’s house on a project basis. They have worked on churches . . . the churches pay for materials and the stu- dents devote their labor, bight and sound, sound control, vibrations and ac- coustics, are three courses that loom high and mighty to newcomers. Onlv one student has completed the full course which leads to a degree . . . his certificate of higher learning was award- ed during the graduation exercises. Top: Just a corner of Poly's air conditioning laboratory which is considered by experts to be the best equipped lab of its kind on the Pacific Coast. Bottom: Prof. Mason gives an Ag Refrigera- tion class the fundamentals of quick freezing.