Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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THE REGISTRAR’S OFFICE The Registrar’s office is a clearing-house of information for both students and faculty. Not only must this office maintain accurate records of the current work of students, but it must collect and preserve past records, prepare statistical information on many complex problems, gather facts about the manifold diverse university requirements, pro¬ vide facilities for stenographic work and mimeographing for the deans and the faculty, compile the annual catalogue, and accomplish scores of relatively minor but yet important tasks. The enrollment period is not the only busy season for the Registrar’s office. Throughout the whole year it is the fountain-head and source of information about a thousand matters. Mrs. Jackson, Miss Williams, Miss Ladd, Miss Truman, and I rejoice if our work finds the approval of faculty and students. MARY JANE LEARNARD, Registrar. THE COUNSELING AND STUDENT PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT For some time it has been felt by President Lillard and others of the Junior College authorities that one of the most pressing needs of the institution was a department to assist the student in getting the right start in college, and to aid him in the solution of his vocational and life problems. As a result of this felt need a committee was selected by the Presi¬ dent, and this committee drafted a plan for the establishment of nuch a department for the coming year. The work was started this year in a small way and was confined almost entirely to educational counseling. Such a plan as this is new in the junior college field, but with a compe¬ tent staff and the co-operation of the students, much is expected in the future. HARRY E. TYLER, Student Counselor.

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The Junior College The Sacramento Junior College is a new institution. What are the reasons for its existence? Among others are the following: 1. Freshman and Sophomore years of the universities are crowded. Classes are too large for the most effective teaching. 2. The majority of students attending any institution come from territory within a radius of fifty miles or less. Therefore, junior col¬ leges, strategically placed, will lead to thousands of young men and women enjoying the benefits of one or two years of college education who would never do so otherwise. The benefit derived by the state from such additional further schooled citizenry is incalculable. 3. Between the fields of unskilled and skilled labor, between the non-technical and the technical, the non-professional and the profes¬ sional, lie hundreds of vocations of a semi-profess ional nature for which satisfactory preparation can be completed within two years of college. The larger institution cannot do this job so well as can junior college. There is much to be said for the junior college, and little against it. It is bound to prosper in California. H. M. SKIDMORE, Dean of Men. SACRAMENTO JUNIOR COLLEGE Page Twenty-one

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EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Stability in student activities appears to have been reached in the number and variety of organizations operating on the campus. The trend has been in the direction of wider participation and an improve¬ ment in the quality of programs presented. Among the new faces are the revivified Engineers’ Club, Aviation Club, Far Eastern Club, and the emergence of honor fraternities from the Music and Dramatic Art Associations. The production of the “Pony Express” has become less extra¬ curricular and more curricular. It now appears in the catalog in the guise of Journalism. Debate and dramatic art are following the same course. These are logical steps in curricular evolution. We believe that it is the function of extra-curricular activity organizations to promote desirable forms of student activity in such fashion that they may be considered worthy of a place among the tried and true elements of the curriculum. E. I. COOK, Dean of Extra-Curricular Activities. THE COMPTROLLER The office of Comptroller of Student Funds has been created for the purpose of setting up uniformity in the keeping of student accounts and as a central agency for the government of business transactions involving student activities. In an effort to keep pace with a rapidly growing business organiza¬ tion, and in order that a more adequate and efficient type of service