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

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Pchf (Zcifal Pictorial Jrosk Handbook ELEVEN thousand pictorials of Poly Royal publicity were sent out this year to every state in the United States and to many territories and foreign countries. These attractive eight page pictorials, containing stories and pic- tures of past Poly Royals, plus cover- age of this year’s events, were mailed free by Cal Poly students and faculty members early in April to their friends and relatives, inviting them to the “or- iginal country fair on a college campus.” Editing the pictorial is another of the many activities of the publications de- partment, but production costs of the pictorial are paid from the Poly Royal fund. PAUL MADGE Editor JIRO KAI Editor THIS booklet of information is publish- ed for the benefit of all new stu- dents. The primary purpose of editing this Handbook is to present to the in- coming student all essential information pertaining to the college curricula, and to Poly traditions and customs. All school songs and yells as well as the en- tire constitution are printed for the convenience of the students. No funds were received from the SAC to finance the venture in 1946, but advertising revenue paid the bulk of the bill and El Corral paid the balance for the privilege of distributing 700 copies in the store.

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(jcal pcAt ftluA tanq Woundup GLENN ARTHUR Editor rpHE Goal Post is actually a cooper- ative publishing venture between the Publications department and the Ath- letic department. Advertising, which is the sole revenue other than sales, is handled by the publications advertising manager. Photographs of team mem- bers are taken by publication photog- raphers. After all expenses for engrav- ings, printing, photography, commis- sions to advertising solicitors and stu- dent salesmen are paid, the net profit is divided equally between Publications and the Athletic department. IN NOVEMBER the first and last issue of the 1946 Mustang Roundup ap- peared here on the campus. The would- be 25c monthly was greeted with polite but restrained enthusiasm. Many students volunteered reasons for the magazine’s short life. Some said the articles were too general and did not interest the majority. Others held that like similar college ‘mags’ the car- toons should be racy and plenty of them. The typical “kid campus” wanted more hot gossip and men’s room jokes like— “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t,” or “familiarity breeds.” These may have been contributing factors for the publications failure, but the real reason was the shortage of staff members for such an undertaking. HARVEY KRAMER Editor [28]

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Print £kcp BERT FELLOWS Director of Printing A M. (BERT) FELLOWS left an ex- cellent position with the Graphic Arts Industry of the state to accept the position as head of the Printing Depart- ment of California State Polytechnic College, which has announced a “School for Country Printers.” This will be a four-year degree course second in the nation only to Carnegie Tech. The students enrolled and majoring in this course are producing the college paper, “El Mustang.” They are doing the composition, makeup and bindery work necessary to produce the Califor- nia FFA magazine. The composition and makeup of “El Rodeo”, the college annual, was handled entirely by this de- partment under Bert Fellow’s supervis- ion. Many thousands of dollars have been invested in new equipment and the lat- est type of presses, so that when this department is installed in its new, mod- ern quarters in the Administration building, it will be known as one of the outstanding schools of printing in the United States. FIRST ROW (left to right) Don Miller, Guy Thomas, Ger- ald Craig, Ed Durbin, Stanley Thompson Bert Fellows, in- structor; Gene Kemper, Rob- ert Saunders; NOT IN PIC- TURE: Don Chatters, Emmons Blake. [30]