Hartnell College - La Reata Yearbook (Salinas, CA)

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ADMINISTRATIONS

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JAYSEE HISTORY The Salinas Junior College made its beginning in 1920. Then it only had 14 students. It was dropped after two years and its definite expansion began in 1928 and 1929 when the new wing was added to the high school building at the south end of the campus. It was organized on the 8-3-3 plan taking in students of the 12th, 13 th, and 14th years. The purpose of this arrangement was to make the junior college unit sufficiently large in order to be practical. The enrollment grew so rapidly that by 193 5 the junior college became a separate unit of the Salinas school system under a separate administration, and entirely divorced from the high school. This year, 1936, a new building and a new campus has been procured and it is hoped some time during the year will be ready for use. The college since 1928 has grown from a few classes, held in conjunc¬ tion with the high school, to a full-fledged junior college; with its own buildings, its own laboratories, its own gym, its own campus and a college administration and college faculty. The first year that the students of the junior college organized as a student body was in 1930 and in 193 5 two separate classes, 13th and 14th year organized individually with its own officers. The Salinas Junior College now is a complete educational organization with its faculty, student officers, student body commission, a Men’s Club, a Women’s Club, a Creative Writers’ Club. From a few college classes given in conjunction with each of the various departmens of the high school the junior college has now grown to where it has an Agricultural department, an Art de¬ partment, a Commercial department, an English department, a Foreign Language department, a Biological Science department, a Mathematics and Engineering department, a Social Science department, a Natural Science department, a Music department, a Physical Education depart¬ ment, a Public Speaking and Dramatics department, and a Home Econ¬ omics department. The junior college student body has in the past two years supported athletics, dramatics, a yearly tea, a school paper, and this year for the first time they have launched forth with a college annual and a college play. R. D. CASE Superintendent Salmas Schools