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Palomar College, San Marcos, California
Friday, March lL 1955
oard Approves Pions Of New Palomar CampUS On Feb. 23, the Palomar College school board approved with slight revision the site plans for the renovation of the college campus-to take place within perhaps 15 years. The . replacement of the present science, library, and shower and locker bulidings, in addition to the con .. struction of the general shop building is scheduled for the initial reconstruction period. This is to be only the first of several such accommodations as foreseen by Dr. Putnam and the members of the board. Palomar College's
BULLETIN Palomar Rated Tops As we went to press Thur"Sday night, Dr. Putnam received word the Palomar College students ranked far above other junior college students at the University of California last year. The average junior college transferee made a 1.25 grade point average, while former Palomar s t u d e n t s attending UC averaged l.74-a remarkable B minus average!
EAGER HANDS of Willis and Skinner, Hoover Hig h School's leading debate team, reach for their first place trophy held by Mr. Ben Padrow, director of the speech tournament held last Friday and Saturday at Palomar.
Dr. Robert G. Sproul, President
Two Drive-ins by Campus Probable in Near Future After two months of "rumor construction" near the P a lomar campus,· students coming to school from the Vista are-a were surprised to see a g lorious sign proclaiming the in'tentions of Milt Arthur and El y Somerville to build a modern, one-thousand-car d r i v e - - - - - - - - - , - - - - - - in theatre. Fourteen days later an- On the other hand Ely Sommerother sign appeared, a short d is- ville announced the expected tanG! from the first, announcing Timco Incorporated's intention to ground breaking of his and Milt build a modern, one-thousand-car Arthur's theatre to' take place in drive -in theatre. Both of these the early spring. Arthur and Scmsites are on Highway 78 and · are merville's plans also include a ll situated a short quarter of a mile the m odern inovations for a drivefrom each other. in theatre that w ill show the finTimco Incorporated announced est pictures including Cinemathat they h ad· purchased eighteen · scope. acres of land from A. M. Dunn of Milt Arthur holds an interest V ista 1ast No vember tlirough the in twelv e other theatres. aro und Royer Realty f irm and that plans the Long Beach area. The twelve for a drive-in theatre with all the theatres consist of both dr.ive-ins modern inovations that will show and the indoor (ype and include the finest pictures including Cine- the Towne and State in Long mascope are nearly c;ompleted. Beach and the Braodway and Paulo in Santa Ana. Timco, Inc., owns the Campus Drive-in of Events theatre located in Sa n -Diego near March 11-Sophomore Assembly S an Diego State College. Charles Shippey, whose realty Mirror Staff meetingf irm handled the forty-year lease alternate. " S peech · Tournament at Arthur and Sommerville hold on fo urteen acres of U. E . ChamberLong Beach. lain's land, .stated pis belief t h at Circle K meeting. both companies would continue March 12-St. Patrick's Day with their plans to build the proDance. posed drive-ins and that the two .cYiinch 14-Student Council. theatres, far Jro m being a detriMarch 15-W.A.A. ment to each other wou ld be Knights. mutual assets. These t wo theatres, March 16-A.W .S. stated Shippy, are merely signs Circle K. of the things to com e in this March 17-Inter-Club ·CounciL valley. In a matter of four years March 18-Speech Tournament at or so, Shippey believes, there Will Pasadena College. ' be a comm unity here large March 21-Student Council. enough so that, . were Palomar W.A.A. . to float a four million dollar bond, \1:arch 23-Aipha Gama Sigma. "it w ould", he said, "pass, just A.W.S. Cabinet. like that."
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MEMO FROM DR. PUTNAM of the University of California, To the Editors: sent the following commendation Please accept -m y most sin· to our fac ulty and administration: cere congratulations on the "Th e outstanding academic F.eb. 18 issue of The Telescope. record achieved last year by This issue is a distinct improve- entering students at the Universiment upon previous issues of 1 t y from Palomar College has been our school paper. A printed brought to my attention, and Telescope is a real milestone seems worthy of special comin the progress of our college. mendation to you and yo ur Please convey my congratu- faculty. lations to all members of your "T he first semesters at a major staff. I hope_that The Telescope un iver sity are always trying for will continue to maintain the the new student, but are made high standards established by less so if his preparation has been sound and of high quality. Palothe Feb. 18 issue. mar College students have demonEditor's Note: The Editors are grateful to strated the soundness and the Archie Hicks, Publisher of The quality of the instruction they Coast D i s p a t c h, and his received. Will you convey to your staff wonderful crew whose generous help made it possible to my appreciation of the fine group publish Palomar College's first of youn g people it has sent to the Uni versity." printed newspaper.
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board members, with one eye on the currently up-coming building program , are peering compre. hensively even into what is proba. bly the ultimate stage of this school's major growth period. In an interview, Dr. Putnam dis· cussed plans for building to accommodate 1200 students. Even after the first step, cor· roborated by approval of the recent bond issue, resemblance of the new campus to the present campus will be disminished signi. fic~ntly. The new science building will occupy approximately 10,000 square feet of space and will stretch 170 feet from end to end. The structure will actually contain two buildings joined end to end under the same r oof; a covered . walk will separate the buildings. One of the two buildings will house the chemistry facilities, and in the other building will be physics and life science facilities. Our new library, Dr. Putnam believes, will be the most beautif ul building on campus when contractors have completed executing the plans of noted Califo rnia architects P adere.wski, Mitchell, and Dean. According to Dr. Putnam the building's beauty, is not mere showiness . . It is the expert· ness in planning and space utilization of Mr. Paderewski that gives it a wholly practical attractive· ness. The new library will have stack room enough for 28,800 volumes, as compared to the stock in our present library of about 11,000 books. H owever, Dr. ·Putnam has pointed out that at first the new library will contain little over the present stock of books requiring the use of only one tier of book· cases with a slight overflow in a second tier. The old books will be kept in one tier of new book cases, and the overflow will be put in J;he book cases now in u se. When t his tier becomes full, a new tier will be put in its place and the old one will remain in the library until th ~ third and last tier is nearly full and subsequently replaced. One of t he newer ideas featured in the library are carrels or cu biles for individual research· and study. In addition the reading room .for 72 students, one audioroom, audio-visual room, two reference rooms, and a foyer with soft furniture and various display cases are planned t o go into the allotted floor space. "There will be no excuse for not studying," asserted Dr. Putnam. "Both the library and science buildings are built with elasticity in mind," he explained. Each should take care of an enrollment (Continued on Page Two)