06. EXTENDED FIELD TRIP
The Extended Field Trip program began when Gere Smith was department head.
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Since most of the students were from California, he encouraged developing a program that would give students the opportunity to reinforce classroom lessons through travel opportunities related to landscape architecture
study. Walt Tryon had seen a successful offcampus program at Syracuse, but the faculty did not travel with the students; they met only once mid-semester to guide and teach them. A similar program would
not find support within the California State University because of its high risk. Dick Zweifel was very interested in a Cal Poly abroad program so Smith, Tryon, Bartels and Zweifel developed a program that could be institutionalized.