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

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Fifty years ago Cal Poly was nothing more than an idea. If had no past. At times, its planners weren't all too sure of its future. Now, fifty years later, it's easy to disregard the struggles that shaped history. It's too easy, perhaps, to think only of the present and plan for the future. But this yearbook deals with the past —and, primarily, with a school year From Presidential Hill in 1931. The president's house had been built for three years. that always will be remembered by those who made it. Yet, EL RODEO, 1951, seeks to extend that past even further —to remind those pres- ent that today was built on many yesterdays — also to rofresh the memories of those still with us who remember at first hand our younger eras. This, then, is a memory book. We have made it an album, with the format borrowed from another fashion. The layout, however, is from contemporaries. Thus betokening a story from the past —a use in the present and future. In this book, with its parade of past to present from page 1 to page 224, page 224 is by no means the end. It is only a point in the perennial pano- rama of Poly Progress. Paradoxically, EL RODEO, 1951, a memory book, points to the volumes and volumes that year after year will be added to page 224. Faith in this institution— the swelling accept- ance of its principles and philosophies —will add those volumes. 7

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prologue 6 In the early 30's a southern view of the cam- pus showed the beginnings of the expansion program.

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Colifornia Polytechnic School campus as seen from what is now Radio Hill — 1910.