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

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located on the corner of what i$ now Osos and Higuera Streets Senor Garcia constructed his beautiful two story adobe home on one of the main streets of old San Luis Obispor It was one of the first buildings in the old town. 7

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WITS ITS HOMES... Located between the present towns of Pismo Beach and Arroyo Grande — Mr. Price used the up- stairs of his home as classrooms for the education of his thirteen children. John M. Price came to San Luis Obispo County in 1837 and is generaly believed to hove been the first non-Spaniard to settle in the county. The Mexican Governor appointed him Alcalde — the first ' gringo'' to be so honored. Mr. Price served as Justice of the Peace for many years — was a member of the first vigilance committee — built the first schoolhousc in the county. 6

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2ND THEN THERE WES CEL-POLY.. Myron Angel, who came to California in 1849 and to San Luis Obispo in 1883, fought vigorously for a school in San Luis Obispo which would teach the hand as well as the head. His efforts were successful and in 1901, just fifty-one years after California was admitted to the Union as a state, the state legislature estab- lished Col Poly as an occupational training school. Two years later, in 1903, Cal Poly opened its doers to students. The Governor, in 1924, threatened to close Cal Poly for budgetary reasons, but the efforts of alumni and Assemblyman MacMillan saved the college for the time. Again in 1932, economic measures threatened Cal Poly with extinction. Julian A. Mc- Phee exerted his in- fluence and saved Cal Poly for future genera- tions of students. With this history in mind, we dedicate 1958 EL RODEO to the found- ers of the Mission, the founders of San Luis Obispo, and the found- ers of California State Polytechnic College.