Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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ft Campus Today we notice, but seldom appreciate, all of these changes that mark the evolution of Sacramento College from its beginnings as a mere department of Sacramento High School housed in the present Sutter Junior High School building. All this development and progress has been due to the untiring efforts and interests of Sacramentans who desire their college to be one of the finest in California. Foremost among the leaders have been those who have taught in or attended the college and therefore have its interests close to their hearts. Plans are even now being laid for additional tennis courts, a swimming pool, and a student union building. It is hoped that there will be as much progress during the next thirty years as we have had in the first three decades. PUBLICATIONS BUILDING FRONT VIEW OF THE CAMPUS COLLEGE CAMPUS

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MEN’S GYM Spots on the Students of Sacramento College have become so accustomed to the expansive and beautiful campus surrounding fine, capacious buildings that they seldom think of the sacrifice and planning which have gone into the formation of this institution. The first build¬ ings consisted of administration, classroom, and labo¬ ratory units and a gymnasium. As the college grew, it became evident that other facilities were needed to care for the increased enrollment and curriculum, so in 1936 the auditorium and fine arts building was built at a cost of over $221,000, and the library and men’s gymnasium were begun. In 1938 the aeronau¬ tics building, the cafeteria, and the home economics and science wings were added to the group of build¬ ings. In 1941 the shop building was completed. SOUTH WING WOMEN ' S GYM

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O F PARADE By RALPH Come, students of the high, residents of Sacramento, and support your college. Tell your friends that there is such an-institution here. The above admonition is an extract from the page contained in the 1918 midwinter term Review of Sacramento High School outlining the activities of the newly created Sacramento Junior College. Conceived and inaugurated in 1916, the junior college oc¬ cupied a remote wing of the high school, then located at Eighteenth and K Streets. The initial class numbered forty-five members, thirty-six of whom were women. The first graduating class in June, 1918, consisted of six girls, the infant college’s small male enrollment having previously transferred its allegiance to the nation’s military forces. Colle ge activities were suspended that fall because of the war; operations were resumed the following year, however, under the guiding hand of Miss Belle Cooledge. In 1922 the college was granted its independence from its former status as a depart¬ ment of the high school, although the two shared the latter’s new quarters at Thirty- fourth and Broadway, and was thereafter governed by its own board of education. This year also marked the graduation of the second class, comprising five girls. On March 7 the school’s first official publication, a weekly known as the Jottings, made its initial appearance. In 1923, the year in which the Pioneer made its debut, Dr. Jeremiah B. Lillard assumed his duties as duly appointed first president of the institution. In 1925 the citizens of Sacramento, realizing the fact that the college had outgrown its temporary quarters, voted bonds for the purchase of a new site and for the construc¬ tion of buildings thereon. The cornerstone of the first of these buildings was laid in September; a year later the first students enrolled. The facilities then consisted of a two- story building housing administrative offices, classrooms, and laboratories, plus a gym¬ nasium, which is now being utilized by the women students. Adult evening classes at Sutter Junior High School were begun in September, 1928. The following month the stadium with its gridiron and track was dedicated. By March, 1929, the Sacramento Junior College ranked as the largest institution of its kind in California, second largest in the country. While this physical growth was taking place, local supporters of the college were thinking of greater expansion. A bill