Yo.!. 4, No. 14
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San Marco·s~ Calif •. ' ;~r~al!esday; June_13, 1951 5¢ copy SU~WIER
VACATION ISSUE
MESSAGE FROM DEAN 8ABCOCK Last September, when we began the school year amid the clatter of construction and swirls of wind-driven dust and a confusion of trenches for water-pipes, I wrote to you of my hones that you would hecome members of a real community of friends here at Palomar. It seems to me that the hope ha s heen rPalized. We have seen thin gs become more settled. Although it is obvious that· there is still a campus to build, and we are all aware that our college must still p-row--offerin[! rnore to future classes as fast as money and energy are available-•I hope you have -a sense, as I do, of the advances that have been made in nine months. If you do agree with ~ e, in this 1 I think it is hecause vou have estal.,lished 'tnnds with the~working proup which is the real Palomar College. You members of the.praduating class may he conscious of such hands already; and if you are not so conscious perhaps you will become so, as you think back over the two years durinP.' :t"rhich yo u h a ve participated in Palo m ar's p: rowth. You who will return next September, to advance your own careers and to witness - another year (Cont. on na?e 4)
ARE Y0U A lUCKY HEIR? SOPHOMORE CLASS NILL ON PAr.E THHEE
PRESIDENT HILDRETH CONGRATULATES PIONEERS Many years from · now as· w e think of this year, 1950-51, we will think of the pioneers df Palomar College. No one who has had any contact with Palomar during this year will ev r~r forge t some o: the conditions u n d e r which the college was carried on ~ There were -those first few days in which reg is t ration of students was completed in bu i ldings without windows and without soors. The students will · remember the dust of the campus, ankle deep, of the consistency of talcum powder which fluffed ·i nto the air ~ith every step of the foot; the clangi&g of sh o v e 1 s, t he whine of tle sawa and the sharp crack of the hammers as the workmen went about their work. irJater had iust been hrour·ht to t h e campus., ·but wa .s hardly available for personal use; sanitation facilities were not yet completed; and everyone wondered w h ether education could possible be gin on the 26th of September. Pioneering has been done this year in fields other t han work on the campus. Yes, it was a struggle to sit hour after h o u r in cilassrooms where the heat of the fields was chok ing, and wh ~e later the mud was deep and the roofs leaked& · Those thin ~ s requlred courage, but probably in an even greater way thin ~ s which had to do w:i.th morale r equi red even more courage. Scores an d scores of students had to answer (Cont. on pa ~ e 4)