Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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Years Progress Unlimited! Then on Paddy’s Day in ’65, the voters of the region passed a measure to establish a separate junior college district, to em¬ brace see and American River eollege. Subsequently, the new district—with its own Board of Trustees—became known as the Los Rios Junior eollege District (translation: “two rivers,” in recognition of the areas of the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers). Now three new campuses for the Los Rios je District are on the drawing boards, designed to help fulfill the educational needs of the thousands of students and also the needs in the community for more higher education and vocational training. They will help to expand the aca¬ demic program of which City College is so vital a part: a pro¬ gram to meet current and future challenges of rising student en¬ rollment, including teenagers, for¬ eign students, adults and return¬ ing military personnel searching for higher education, especially vocational training, in such di¬ verse fields, for example, as aero¬ nautical engineering, nursing, merchandising, electronics. The new campuses will be enthu¬ siastically welcome. Their educa¬ tional claim is on the future. City College shares the future with them, but already claims a 50- year contribution that other schools will have to spend a half century matching. SACR 191 18 STUD Over-all, since 1918 this two- year college has graduated 17,- 117 students (a grand total of 18 graduated in 1918—the first graduates). In its role as edu¬ cator for the first of two years of undergraduate education prior to university work, al¬ ready see has earned laurels at the University of California for the excellence of its training. SCC’s corollary role as a two- year institution for occupational training will assume greater im¬ portance when the current war ends and more veterans return to swell the classrooms. Sacramento City College looks forward to a second 50 years with confidence and pride in its vital role in the community, state and nation. hos Rios District Map On Pages 26 and 27 BIRTHDAY PARTY —The cutting of the Golden Jubilee Cake was the first order of business of the College year. President Harold H. Stephenson gets assistance from Student Association President Mike Zellmer and Mrs. Louis Gutenberger, presi¬ dent of the see Patrons Association. Other official events of the year-long celebration included a con¬ cert of the Sacramento Symphony Orchestra. 3

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see Begins Second Fifty DURING ITS FIFTY YEARS of continuous operation, Sacramento City College has experienced peri¬ ods of prosperity and depression, growth and retrenchment—both in numbers of students and in campus development. see had its beginning in 1914 when the late Mr. C. C. Hughes, superintendent of the Sacramento City School System, recom¬ mended that the board of educa¬ tion establish a junior college in a wing of Sacramento Senior High School. By 1916, Mr. Hughes’ idea had taken permanent shape. In 1925 the cornerstone for the Administration Building on the present campus was laid. (For a note on a current problem of this venerable structure see the inside back cover). Remaining today in memory of the late Mr. Hughes is the foot- ! ball stadium, which bears his ! name but which remains part of the City School System. An early arrival on the junior col¬ lege scene in California SCC had a steady growth but was adverse¬ ly affected by two world wars, I when its young men left the cam- I pus almost exclusively to help I meet the threat to the nation. After WW II, and before the “baby boom” hit the campus near I the middle of this decade. City [ College had almost settled down to a permanent status as part of the Sacramento Unified School District. RECOGNITION—Before the election and the new Lt. Governor took office this month, Lt. Governor Glenn Anderson signed this proclamation in honor of Sacra¬ mento City College’s Golden Jubilee year. The resolution was introduced into the California Senate by City College instructor, Albert Rodda, long representing Sac¬ ramento County as a State Senator. 21st eentury Ho! JV . OLuJIaaa — Glenn II ANDBmiON tmUrrnt ilr iraiir C Attbit: iC Senstf KttolMikm No, I llJesd and m dy adopted April 19, I9U. ■ WlWd by the Senate of the Sute of California That the memben commend Sacramento City College on the occanoo of its Golden Jubilee and congratulate the cdUege for its many exceptional acliieire ments during the past 50 years; and be it further That the m e mb e rs extend sincere wishes to Sacramento City College that it continue to be a strong and constmedve force for the welfare of the community and the state; and be it further RuoNd, That the Secret of the Senate transmit a suitably prepared copy of this resolution to Sacramento City CoOeg felste Kesolitioi Wm B tm Om Attett iaiie ■ Kfltti Sacramento City College which was founded in 191 under the name of Sacramento Junior College as a part of die Sacramento School System n now celebrating its Gcdden Jubilee Annsvermry; Sacramento Oty College is now oporated by an independent junior collegt Sntkt known as the Los Rios Joint Junior College District; and During the SO years of the college ' s operation more than 110 000 students enrolkd in the day program and many more thousanrh enndkd m evening students; and antfm Thousanch of students were abk to tompkte lower division re |uifcments at Sacramento City College before transferring to baccalaureate degree-grandng colleges and universities; and mttTttti Technical and vocational programs at Sacramento City College have helped innumerable students make vahiable cootri butioiis to the economic progress of the community and the state; and Ufkim, Numerous cultural and recreatkinal advanuges have been provided by die college for the enjoyment o£ the puUic in the Sacramen area; and (UMKIS Invaluable guidance and counsel have been provided by the faculty of Sacramento City College to help students better meet their academic vocational and personal problems; now therefore, be it

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GRADUATION last spring was presided over by Presi¬ dent Stephenson. 728 stu¬ dents received Associate in Arts degrees. PRES. Nicholas Ricciardi 1942- 49. During World War II, he saw the boys leave the campus. Many faculty members then were re¬ assigned to high schools in the IN 1918, the first SCC ceremony, six students graduated. Since that time, their “sheepskins.” (Commencement photographs by Pete Sardelich). c collected MULTI-COLORED HOODS worn at the annual rites. H ■ f 1 1 I 4 i 1