Chaffey College - Argus Yearbook (Rancho Cucamonga, CA)

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When you registerec Registration . . . perhaps you had your appointment as did Jack with Director Charles J. Booth ... he talked over your plans for the future . . . and made out your program accordingly . . . took care of the usual requirements . . . and ironed out conflicts . . . and gave you a hint or two about the value of knowing the deans personally . . . thus you were officially welcomed to Chaffey Junior College. Or maybe your date, as was Eleanor ' s, was with Leo A. Wadsworth, assistant director . . . using the same routine as Mr. Booth ... he gave you tips about absences . . . and the procedure of getting excused . . . and suggestions were forthcoming about how to get a workable balance between curricular and extra-curricular activities . . . he, too, gave you a sense of being glad you had decided to spend the next two years here. Pleasant voices over the telephone and the smiles behind the desk in the main office . . . belong to Registrar Frances Cain and Janice Bailey who is secretary to Mr. Booth . . . they saw that you did the right things. You found them to be helpful friends in a thousand little ways . . . absence slips . . . appointments . . . grades . . . class room schedules . . . and always a quick ready answer to information please . . . they could tell you anything from the hour games started to the latest decision of the board. After meeting your advisers and planning your schedule, you searched out your room in which to register. When you walked in the door you were handed a most baffling pile of blanks . . . schedules wanted . . . blanks asking for your life history, and who to notify in case of emergency . . . information desired about your car . . . pamphlets and the Frosh bible full of helpful hints to newcomers.

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9 JS . t v , • f - ' 0 On Friday, September 12, you came to the campus to make plans for college. You ' re Year Began

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or the coming semester SEPTEMBER 12, FRIDAY, . . . Registration day at Chaffey ... you found that there was more to it than talking to the directors . . . first thing, you were snapped for posterity and the permanent record files . . . and handed a very business-like looking paper which turned out to be your guide for the day . . . picture . . . fill out your blanks. . . see your adviser . . . buy your books and locker . . . and purchase a student body ... it was all there in black and white, you couldn ' t miss. The place was swarming with people . . . mostly strangers as bewildered as you . . . oh, there ' s someone you know ... so you ' re going here, too? After you talked to the director or someone about your schedule if you hadn ' t done it during vacation or before you left school last spring, you v ent to a room marked A to C, F to J, or maybe T to Z, and sat down with a roomful of other people to fill out dozens of cards which later found their way into the PRESS office, permanent files, class files, class rec- ords, and so on . . . you met your adviser that day . . . you were given a hand- book and probably started out on a tour of the campus if you were a fresh- man or gathered with the gang to talk over the summer if this was your sec- ond year here. After buying vour student body ticket, books, and lockers you inguired at desks in the halls about clubs . . . the W.A.A. . . the Y.W.C.A. or the Y.M.C.A. and others. You ' re finished, free until Monday . . . then classes. Baffled, as were Jack and Eleanor, you began to write . . . where were you born? . . . when? . . . from what high school did you graduate? . . . what is your intended profession . . . what is your church affiliation ... do you earn while you learn ... by now you ' re wondering how much information it ' d be wise to divulge . . . what is your major? . . . where do you live? You manage to get something in each blank and you leave — the biggest task completed. You shell out $7.50 for your student body ticket . . . this business of getting an education is getting costly . . . but this ticket is to be your key to a year of social activities and fun — loads of it. Now you are ready to buy books and other supplies. 15