Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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■ STAFF MARGARET HAMILTON Editor Fall Semester LLOYD CHORLEY Editor Spring Semester 24

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they turned to and gave the Co-op a fine send-off by doing over five hundred dollars’ worth of business during the store’s first semester s existence. And it is from this comparatively modest beginning that the Co-op made such amazing strides. Merle Shreck was appointed to continue the good work when Junior College opened last fall and Thor Jensen was chosen to assist him. Shreck was forced, by the press of work, to tender his resignation as manager. The resignation would have been a serious set-back had not the Co-op possessed an assistant manager who was able to step in and fill Merle’s shoes, figuratively as well as literally. TT x , , Thor Jensen has put the Co-op on a healthy, business basis. He stocked up the store with a complete line of inks, pens, pencils, books, binders, athletic supplies, drawing instruments, fancy stationery and cards as well as some fifty-seven varieties of gum, nuts, and candy. He kept the store open during every period, having student clerks in charge when he was not in himself. By purchasing a three hundred dollar cash register (paid for out of the profits), he was able to prevent any leakage and at the same time to give each customer a receipt for refund purposes. To cap the climax, the Co-op was equipped with a fine large show case, which was loaned by the State Agricultural Society. Besides housing the Co-op s display of articles for sale, the show case, during the noon hours formed an ideal lounge for the boys, who hitherto had not been as fortunate as the girls in ha ing a restroom. The true worth of Jensen’s work is told very simply by the record of the business transacted in the store. The data is not yet ready for the last semester, but in the first semester alone, as compared with the previous semester’s record of five hundred dollars, the Co-op handled $4,327.29 in goods of one kind or another. No remarks can attest as eloquently as those figures to the absolutely efficient and business-like quality of Thor Jensen s manage¬ ment, with the possible exception of the paens poured forth by the students when they drew their dividends—a lOffi rebate on all purchases save candy. The Junior College and the Community Although the Junior College as such is comparatively new in American education, it is, in reality, a return to the old Community College. It differs mainly by being adequately and publicly supported so that its administrative officers may be real educational executives instead of financial agents. The Junior College is a place where students may prepare directly for their life work or indirectly for a more extended college course. Here they get the college viewpoint and have most of the advantages and few of the disadvantages of those who spend their Freshmen and Sophomore years in the overcrowded larger institutions. Aside from its advantages to students, a Junior College affects profoundly the community in which it is located by giving it standing in this and other States. It also reacts on the community by raising its standards of education and by a commendable pride in the greater opportunities it gives to its young people and adults. The Junior College brings to its community the latest results of research and scholarship, and, if one thinks in terms of dollars and cents, it is a sound business investment. It is a Junior College for the students who atte nd it and a Community College for the section in which it is located. J. B. LILLARD. 23

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The most impressive criterion of the progress made by the Junior College during the last school year is in all probability its bi-weekly publi¬ cation, “The Blotter ' a much improved and wholly unrecognizable continua¬ tion of “Jottings, the paper which was published by the J. C. during 1922. From the small mimeographed sheet that was regarded as the school’s regu¬ lar paper, it has grown into a comparatively large, well-organized publication which any school would be proud to call its own, and which is recognized throughout the state as one of the best Junior College or high school papers issued. The sensational development of “The Blotter is due to the work of the two editors, Margaret Hamilton, who had charge of the paper during the fall semester of last year, and Lloyd Chorley, who conducted the paper during the spring of 1924. To Miss Hamilton fell the task of making a real newspaper out of “Jottings, a task which she carried out in a highly commendable and entirely satisfactory manner. It was during her term of office that it was decided that the paper was to be printed and that the name was to be changed. With these steps the paper began its steady improvement and growth in all departments, not the least of which was that of advertising, for the business men of Sacramento began to recognize “The Blotter and to regard its advertisements as profitable investments. At this time also the student body as a whole began to take an active interest in the publication and to consider it as “the mouthpiece of the school.’ It became a strong inducement to the purchasing of student body cards, resulting in a much stronger financial condition for the paper itself. Also, more students became interested in writing for the paper and therefore more news came in and the standard of writing was raised. The spring semester saw the “Blotter under the editorship of Mr. Chorley, who has ably carried on the good work of his predecessor in main¬ taining the high standards of writing in the paper. He introduced several new features, which added to the interest of the publication and increased the pep, not only of the paper itself, but of the whole school. One of these was the “Student Opinion column, which from its first appearance attracted the attention of the subscribers. It was in this column that the “bobbed hair controversy was begun. The excitement that this argument created caused the entire school to take sides on the question, and, incidentally, resulted in the appearance of many more bobbed heads on the campus. All this exhibition of pep was made possible by the public column of “The Blot¬ ter, which, by the way, achieved fame when accounts of the bobbed hair war were published in local and San Francisco dailies. Another innovation of Mr. Chorley’s was the “Lemon Drop. The news for this issue was gathered, written and edited by women students, with Margaret Hamilton as editor. The circulation of “The Blotter has grown amazingly during the last school year. From a few interested students the number of readers has grown to more than a thousand, extending throughout the whole state. As a result of this growth, the paper has become a strong ad for Sacramento Junior College, and should attract students from the entire northern part of the state. 25