Orange Coast College - Log Yearbook (Costa Mesa, CA)

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ADMINISTRATION CLASSES, CLUBS, AND FACULTY GOVERNMENT

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Big oaks from little acorns grow goes the old saying. No better illustration could be found than our own Orange Coast College, now winding up its tenth year of highly successful operation. Probably the first thing you new stu- dents noticed as you entered the Coun- seling Center to register was the differ- ence between this building and the one to the south. You soon learned that mod- ern structure was the student center, called The Cove. If you had chanced to come in from Harbor Blvd. and to drive in an easternly direction for a stretch before turning right, you would have passed a rectangular structure. In your mind you might have labeled it a gathering place. The church-type build- ing a short ways beyond would prob- ably have clued you in to OCC ' s structural origin — an old service base. As you went to your classes and used the facilities of the library, auditorium, etc., you soon learned that, to a great extent, the new had replaced the old. The dedication of the Agricultural Build- ing in January showed you the develop- ment and transition was still going on. Orange Coast College had its beginning Jan. 27, 1947 when the voters in the coastal area between Seal Beach and Corona del Mar approved the formation of a new junior college district. That fall a limited number of evening classes began at Newport Harbor High. In Feb- ruary, 1948, work was started on the A nmmum