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

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Conditioning Air Conditioning Club The Air Conditioners are a last think- ing, personable hunch, which includes some of the most naive talent on the campus. They seem to be endowed with plenty of ready wit and make sessions out of any gathering. T hese men study sines, cosines, and all kinds of figures. I hey also loiter up the sand at Avila. They hazed a couple of members at the first of the school year in conjunc- tion with the Aero club. The pledges had a work out on the dunes at Oceano . . . some people call it a beach party. Mr. Mason is the advisor lor this group who are still the “windiest as- semblage of knowledge seekers in col- lege. JAMES MacDONALD Air Condition Club Proxy OFFICERS President ........ James McDonald Vice President ..... Rav Rabjohn Secretary Treasurer.... Gail Allen (Left to right): Mr. Sharpe. Myers. McDonald. Rabjohn. Allen. W ood, Levi, Mr. Mason.

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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.

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Mechanical NORMAN SHARPE liberal . . . optimistic . . . friendly talks with his students . . . cooperative . . .inventor of revolutionary ideas which are realized . . . wears sweaters . . . walks . . . gets jobs for fellows . . . teaches fluid flow, chem., trig., thermodynamics. I he mechanical industries is a new department having expectations of in creased enrollment. With its beginning in the Fall of 41, fellows were drawn from Fresno State, California, San Jose State, and Santa Rosa J. C. Then the department was cut down to war rations with about r6 finishing the Spring quarter. Preparation is given in this category for power plant work, machine shop, drafting, engines, air conditioning, re- frigeration, and other diversified skills . . . the scope is broad and acts as a basis lor which any engineering field can be entered. I he stiffer courses are engineering math, physics, fluid flow, spherical trig., illumination engineering . . . we’ll let the mechanical industrialists have all this. A great deal of work is done over a drafting board in this department . . . but it's not all theory . . . they get lots of practical training in power house operation, etc.