Fenn College - Fanfare Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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President Edward Hodnett Salutations to the Class of 1949 and'greetings to all Fenn students! On this the 25th Anniversary of Co- operative Education at Fenn College, We should also salute those men and women, many of whom are still serv- ing Penn, who aided Dr. C. V. Thomas to bring the opportunities of this American form of education to Cleveland. My first year at Penn has been a happy one, and no phase of it has been happier than my relations with you, the student body, in both day and evening divisions. The habit of cooperation seems to permeate the College. FANFARE is not merely a year book, it is a book' of years. It records events and personalities that are as much part of an education as labora- tories and classes. Education is the sum of much more than this book can enclose. Yet how it adds up for each of you is to an important degree determined by your associations with the men and women smiling at you from these pages. Fenn is a fine world of play and work, laughter and serious thinking, and best of all, good fellowship. As the years go by, we shall be glad to have this documentary means to re- call at will that world and its friend- ly inhabitants.

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Of the many steps in the de- velopment of Fenn College, since the first classes were held in 1881, the decision to initiate the Day Coopera- tive Plan in 1923, is outstanding be- cause of its influence in determining to a considerable degree, the destiny of the college. These basic conditions led to this daring adventure in edu- cation: C15 The up-surge in scientific and technological development - radio broadcasting--industrial elec- tronics - refrigeration - aviation- the automobile industry, etc. C25 Young men needed, not only more education-but a kind of education, geared to life. f3P Urban centers in general- Cleveland in particular - needed more educational opportunities. Fourteen students enrolled in the first class. Each year the enroll- ment increased--frequently, dou- bled. By 1928, our facilities were in- adequate and the three-story Pros- pect - Fenn Building made it possible to extend the original three-year pro- gram into a five-year degree pro- gram. Accordingly, in 1930, ten young men made up the first gradua- ting class. The demand for this type of education led to similar programs in Business Administration in 1930, and to Arts and Sciences in 1932. By 1938, just ten years later-the Col- lege had again outgrown its facili- ties. Hence in that year, the College acquired the 21-story building at 24th and Euclid-now known as Fenn Tower. By 1948, the original student body had grown from four- teen, in 1923, to 1885-the full time faculty, from 3 to 136. The new mechanical engineering building represents the first step of the devel- opment planned by the Board of Trustees. Full accreditation of the College by National and Regional accrediting agencies, attests to the basic educational soundness of the Fenn Plan. Fenn faces the future with con- victions growing out of these experi- ences, and with the faith in this ap- proach to the development of human resources. Dean Ioseph C. Nichols 21