Bakersfield College - Raconteur Yearbook (Bakersfield, CA)

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, ' ff ,Q . . Y . I s 1 A-f 1115 '-2. -' ..-+'i- ' ' , '. f R ef . If -'r,li4Pl,- .v ,., .tn FQQQ - we .A--pt,,,, 57545 -Swiifs Q . ' 'af Members ofthe Fall Executive Council were, FIRST ROW, left to rightzlwayne Reeder, President lat rostrumlg Loretta Carlson, Sophomore Secretary: Normi Rucker, Director of Student Activities, Rusty Ferguson, Sophomore Representa- tive: Cleon Cox, Sophomore Presidentg Don Lohr, Sophomore Vice-President. SECOND ROW: Bob Crozier, Chief Justice, Bob Krause, Director of Assembliesg Carroll Redman Sophomore Representative: Velda Calder, A.W.S. President, Darrell Gordon, Associate Justice: Dr. Simonson. Tl-llRD ROW: Jack Burdick, Director of Athletics, Leo Haqiwarag Clark Vilas, Vice-President: Elmer Yick, Associate Justice: Marguerite Barron, Secretary. FOURTH ROW: Patsy Walston, Freshman Representative: Ruth Armstrong, Business Manager: Carol McClure, Racontaur Editor: Bill Rous, A.M.S. President, Barbara Ballard, Freshman Vice-President: Bob Marchino, Freshman President. NOT PICTURED are: Judy Barrett, Freshman Secretary: Jack Knight, Rip Editorg Barbara Kerley, Freshman Representative. jail btuhent xecutihe uunnil A Capably leading Bakersfield 'K College's student government ,nd through its fall semester was Student Bo'dy President Wayne Reeder.

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' an -is 5 -N . E Q.: 2 'asf me -' ,sf . ws, Familiar To all BC sTudenTs is The inTerior ofrrhe Grace Van Dylce Bird Library. To all sTudenTs comes The opporTuniTy To use and appreciaTe The library's TaciliTies, which include approximaTely l8.000 books, buT few are acquainTed wiTh iTs hisTory and ThaT of Bakersfield College iTselT. NineTeen-ThirTeen was The year oT BC's birTh, a one-year program being oTlered. WiTh an enrollmenT oT TiTTeen sTudenTs and a TaculTy of Two, Tive subiecTs lboTany, geology. commercial geology, hisTory and economicsl were TaughT in The high school Adminis- TraTion Building and The Commerce Building. which sTood in Elm Grove. ln l9l7 The regular Two-year course of sTudy was sTarTed wiTh eleven subiecTs in The curriculum, and in i928 The presenT Junior College Building was consTrucTed. In i935 The college library conTained only desks and encyclopedias -and was used as an orienTaTion classroom. Dur- ing This Time The college sTudenTs used The high school library. un+iI I937, when. wiTh a giTT of 54,500 from The Carnegie Library Fund, The library in iTs presenr Torm was begun. The name of The Junior College Library was changed in l95O To honor Miss Grace Van Dylce Bird, former direcTor of Balcersheld College. Familiar as The library iTself is The friendly and helpful service oT Mrs. Goldie Ingles, who has served as librarian Tor sixTeen years. is-mwszax' if - sais a-i -A3 an rf T f 1 '6- as Fw ,sf

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STarTing iTs acTiviTies aT a Three-day conference aT Greenhorn before The opening of school, The FALL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL used ThaT Time To in- docTrinaTe iTs members in The duTies oT Their respec- Tive oTFices and various governmenTal procedures, To emphasize The necessiTy oT cooperaTion, and To begin plans Tor The Tall semesTer sTudenT governmenT program. Wayne Reeder, sTudenT body presidenT, presided aT The council meeTings held each Monday oT The semesTer. AT These meeTings issues irnporTanT To The eTFicienT operaTion oT The sTudenT governmenT, such as The sTudenT body budgeT and all organiza- Tional acTiviTies. were discussed and decided upon, and The semesTer's agenda was planned. Frosh Week and The Ice Brealcer Dance began The acTiviTies oT The ExecuTive Council. In OcTober, BakersTield College acTed as hosT Tor The C.C.J.C.A. Conference held here Tor The TirsT Time. OTher con- Terences To which The council senT delegaTes were The lvleTropoliTan Conference lnTer-League aT Los Angeles Harbor J.C. and The C.J.C.S.G.C. held in Fresno. AT all Three oT These conTerences PresidenT Wayne Reeder presided as chairman of various workshops on diTTerenT phases oT iunior college sTu- denT governmenT. ln December The council spon- sored l-loliday EanTasy, The ChrisTmas Tormal. Many council members served on The Co-curricu- lar AcTiviTies CommiTTee, which in a purely advisory capaciTy soughT To co-ordinaTe The exTracurricular acTiviTies of BC. RepresenTed on The ExecuTive Coun- cil were The sTudenT body oTTicers, class oTFicers and represenTaTives, presidenTs of A.lvl.S. and A.W.S., and The publicaTions ediTors.