San Diego State University - Del Sudoeste Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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THE COLLEGE

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STATE COLLEGE HISTORY IKE a sturdy ship sailing forth onto the sea of education. setting her course for progress, the State Normal School, chartered in 1897 by the California Legislature, twenty-five years ago began her quest for the establishment of higher learning in San Diego. A year of preparation in the Hill Block on F Street, preceded the launching. Among the fmst oPHeers who steered the ship well on her course. were such skillful educational navigators as David Prescott Barrows, president emeritus of the University of California; Dr. William Kemp, present dean of the School of Education at California; Clarence Phelps, president of the Santa Barbara State College; Miriam Besley, present director of practice teaching in the Detroit Teachers' College; and Vice-President Wilber F. Bliss, who after many years of distinguished service, wrote his last entry in the log of the ship a short time ago. Of the original crew of students, there are Dr. Myrtle Johnson, and Dr. Georgia Coy, still with the ship; and e third member of the crew, Miss Gertrude Laws, was untii last year, director of education. As the ship sailed ever onwards, signs of a successful voyage appeared. The State Normal School became the Teachers' College in 1921. That same year the vessel sighted a little craft with Junior College on her bow. As the two ships discovered a common purpose, they merged the crews and continued on the quest as the State College. Theoretically, the crews became one, but it was not until storms had brought common dangers that a bond of unified loyalty was formed. The captain of the ship soon received a message that the State College had been raised in status by being given the privilege of granting degrees after a four- year course, major in education. Inspiration for greater effort came in the form of higher standards for coilegiate seamanship, the years required for promotion to advanced rank having been increased from two years to three, for members of the Teachers' College crew. With this new system, the officers set an objective which requires a four-year course, allowing two years of general training tin the Junior Collegei, and two years professional work On the Teachers' CollegeL enabling the crew to obtain degrees in the various branches of learning. State College has reached that part of her voyage where she can send one hundred and sixty of the crew into the world, conferring upon eleven of them the first baccalaureate honors in the history of San Diego. Under the inspiring direction of the emcers, President Hardy, Dean Peterson, Dean Coldweli and the faculty, the ship has sighted her splendid objective. Experiencing the stimulus which emanates from the gradual realization of hopes and attainment of ideals, the crew is eagerly setting the sails to catch the wind which blows steadily toward the harbor,--the harbor of her quest.