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1 BULLE California State COLLEGE UNION LOA.N APPROVED Word has been received from the Washington Office of the Housing and Urban Development Agency that the $3,000,000 loan for the San Luis Obispo College Union was approved Thursday, August 4. This approval now paves the way for the architect to develop working drawings for the project, now anticipated for construction start summer The 96,000 square foot building is est~ated to cost a total of 3.7 million dollars including equipment. $3,000,000 of which is in the form of the loan from the.federal government. TROUTNER TO HEAD GUATEMALA PROJECT William R, Troutner of the Crops department faculty will leave early in Septembet for Guatemala to be chief of party there in connection with a contract which Cal Poly has signed with the u. s. Agency for International Development. His appointment, which is for one year, is effective September S. The project covered by the contract concerns the development of processing and marketing of fruit and vegetables in Guatemala. One of Troutner's first projects will be to review and to suggest equipment for a packing center for fruits and vegetables which the General Directorate of Marketing of the Guatemalan Ministry of Agriculture is constructing in the Teculutan area of the country. The party of which Troutner will be chief will fluctuate in number and will include personnel sent to Guatemala for brief periods, Troutner's headquarters will be in the American Embassy in Guatemala City. He will be working with Donald R. Fiester, Development Officer for Agriculture of the United States A. I. D. Mission to Guatemala, who was a three-year tech graduate of Cal Poly in field crops in 1947, Troutner will be accompanied to. Guatemala by his wife Beth and teenage daughters Melinda and Nancy. WOMEN'S PE WORKSHOP REGISTRATION SETS NEW RECORD Advance registration for the 17th annual California Physical Education Workshop for Women in Secondary Schools, which opened here on Sunday, August 7, has set a new record of 273 registrants. This exceeds the registration for the workshop last year by approximately fifty. The 19th annual Workshop for Physical Education and Athletic Coaching, which began August 1, has an enrollment of 256 men.

, -2- HEART ATTACK FATAL TO VERNON H. MEACHAM Vernon H. Meacham, 65, whose career as a Cal Poly instructor spanned 35 years, died suddenly July 31 at the home of his son Malcolm in Yuba City.

2 , -2- HEART ATTACK FATAL TO VERNON H. MEACHAM Vernon H. Meacham, 65, whose career as a Cal Poly instructor spanned 35 years, died suddenly July 31 at the home of his son Malcolm in Yuba City. He had gone into the yard and started to use the lawn mower when. he collapsed of a heart attack.. Since their retirement in 1964, Mr. and Mrs. Meacham have been living in a Leisure Wo~ld community in Walnut Creek. A 1924 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Meacham grew up on a farm in Sonoma County. He taught vocational agriculture at Gilroy and Mantec.a High Schools 1926 to In 1929 he operated a dairy farm in the Creston area for a ~hort time before joining the Cal Poly faculty. In 1938 he went to San Dimas to direct the new Voorhis Campus there. During World War II, he returned to San Luis Obispo to help with the Navy training program. From 1947 to 1950 he was Dean of Student Welfare, after which he joined the staff of the Agricultural Engineering Department. He was Coordinator of Athletics, in which he had always taken a keen interest, from and served for several years as Cal Poly representative in the CCAA. HOWARD WEST CONFERRING WITH CAL POLY GROUP IN TANZANIA Howard West, Campus Coordinator of OVerseas Projects, is in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa, to confer with California State Polytechnic College faculty members and con sultants who are now serving the Dar es Salaam Technical College there. West left San Luis Obispo July 31 and flew to Tanzania via London, which represented a change of plan en route at Montreal inasmuch as his original flight plan would have taken him through Paris. The conference with the Cal Poly personnel at Dar es Salaam will be completed in time for West to return to the campus about mid-august. SUMMER FILM SERIES TO SHCM "FINCHO" FRmAY On Friday, August 12, the Summer Committee presents the third in its series of summer films, FINCHO. Filmed in Nigeria with a non-professional native cast, its locale is a native village still on the tribal system and largely under the influence of the local jujuman, or witch doctor. Their first encounter with civilization occurs as a white man contracts for purchase of lumber on the tribal land. FINCHO is professionally produced, beautifully photographed, and acting by the non-professional natives is surprisingly competent. Showtime is 8 p.m. in the Little Theater - 50.

-3- SIX NEW FACULTY MEMBERS APPOINTED TO AGRICULTURE DIVISION Appointment of six new members to the faculty of the Agriculture Division at California State Polytechnic College has just been announced

3 -3- SIX NEW FACULTY MEMBERS APPOINTED TO AGRICULTURE DIVISION Appointment of six new members to the faculty of the Agriculture Division at California State Polytechnic College has just been announced by Vice President Dale W. Andrews. Robert Hooks ha s been assigned responsibilities in the area of swine production in the Animal Husbandry department. He has farmed for six years near Orland and has been swine herdsman at Washington State University. He is a graduate of Cal Poly and received his master of science degree in antmal nutrition and his Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University. Assigned to the area of Agronomy in the Crops department is Floyd Colbert, a 1962 Cal Poly graduate. He has his master of science degree from Colorado State Univer. sity and will complete the work for the doctor of philosophy at Oregon State University next year. He served as an instructor in the Crops department, Cal Poly, in as a sabbatical leave replacement. Alfred Amaral will instruct in agricultural business management. He was a part-ttme instructor at Cal Poly in A Cal Poly graduate in agricultural business management, he has been assistant sales manager in Martin Produce, Salinas, and ag representative for the Wells Fargo Bank in Salinas. Winton Frey, who has been a lecturer in the biological sciences department at Cal Poly, , has been appointed to the faculty of the Ornamental Horticulture department. He was a Cal Poly graduate in ornamental horticulture and has done gradu- ate work at the University of Washington. Frey has been a salesman in the Floral Arts Nursery in San Francisco and for three years was an agricultural inspector for San Luis Obispo County. Byron Harrison has been appointed as a leave replacement in the Agricultural Education department replacing Del Shirley for the coming year. He has been an agriculture teacher at Exeter High School for the last seven years and has served as dean of boys and vice principal. He has his bachelor's and master's degrees from Cal Poly. Richard Dorflinger has been appointed as a sabbatical leave replacement for Richa~~~,. Leach, head of the poultry department, who will be on leave during the fall quarter. He is a Cal Poly graduate. FINAL SHOWING OF SUMMER FIUt SERIES SCHEDULED AUGUST 19 The 4th and final in the College Union Summer Program Committee's film series will be presented on Aug. 19. It will be an American film--member OF THE WEDDING ' f.,. Directed by Fred Zinnemann and produced by Stanley Kramer, it is based on the book ~' and play of the same name by Carson McCullers. Starring Julie Harris, Ethel., Waters, and Brandon de Wilde, it is a "lyric tragi-comedy of a dreamy adolescent tomboy, enveloped in her own fantasies, troubled by loneliness and rejection." The showing will be in the Little Theater at 8 p.m. - 50

4 ,./, -4- APPLIED SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS GET 12 NEW FACULTY MEMBERS.. Twelve appointments to the faculties of the Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences departments at California State Polytechnic College have been announced by Vice President Dale w. Andrews. The appointments complete the staffing for. the three departments. Appointed to the Biological Sciences department were Charles W. Baker, Harry L. Fierstine, Dennis N. Homan, Alfred S. Lazarus and Pratapsinha c. Pendse. Baker will come to Cal Poly from Oregon State University where he has been a research assistant. under the National Science Foundation. He holds bachelor of scienc~ and master of science degrees from the University of Nevada. Fierstine has been an assistant professor at Long Beach State College and a teaching assistant and research assistant at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Long Beach State College with a master of arts degree and a doct_or of philosophy degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. Homan has the B.A., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, all from the University of Iowa. He will come to Cal Poly from Wisconsin State University where he is an associate professor. He has taught also at the University of Iowa and Illinois State University. Lazarus has been with the United States Public Health Service and has also been assistant professor at the University of Colorado Medical School, assistant professor at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, and professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He was a commander in the u.s. Navy. He is a graduate of the University of California with an M. A. and Ph.D. degree from the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. Pendse has been assistant professor at Colgate University. He is a graduate of Bombay University with a master of science degree from Poona University and from Utah State University. He also completed the doctor of philosophy at Utah State University... Named to,. the faculty of the Physical Sciences department are William E. Clements, specialist in mathematics from the Presbyterian Pan American School; David M. Roach, an engineer with the Leach Corporation; and Ralph s. Vrana, an instructor in Gililland Junior High School. Clements holds both the bachelor of science and master of arts degrees from Texa.s College of Arts and Industries. Roach has the bachelor of science and master of science degrees from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology at which he was one time an instructor. He has also taught at Wisconsin State University. A graduat~ of Columbia College, Vrana has the master of education degree from New York University and additional graduate work at several universities. The Social Sciences department has four new faculty members. Gabbert, David R. Gray, Allan L. Moberly and Jack c. Wells. They are George P.

' ~- ~PPLIED SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS GET 12 NEW FACULTY MEMBERS - (Cont.) Gabbert, who has an LL.B. from Southern Methodist University and an M.A. from Cal Poly, has been an instructor at Allan Hancock College, San Jose State and Florida State University.

5 ' ~- ~PPLIED SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS GET 12 NEW FACULTY MEMBERS - (Cont.) Gabbert, who has an LL.B. from Southern Methodist University and an M.A. from Cal Poly, has been an instructor at Allan Hancock College, San Jose State and Florida State University. Gray has both bachelor of arts and master of science degrees from the University of Kansas. Moberly will come to Cal Poly from the University of California at Santa Barbara where he has been teaching in Wilson High School. He is a graduate of Slippery Rock State College with the master of arts degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Wells has been an assistant specialist in the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, ~erkeley. He has the bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. DR. HYNES' RESEARCH NOTED IN TIME MAGAZINE Time magazine took note this week of the search for the larvae of the crane fly in the high Cascade mountains of Washington by Dr. Dennis Hynes of the Biological Sciences department. Said Time: "Last week entomologist Dennis Hynes, 37, of California State Polytech, slipped on snowshoes to walk atop thigh-deep drifts on Washington's Mount Baker and bring back iceboxes filled with larvae specimens of a crop-killing insect called the crane fly." Dr. Hynes is an experienced foe of the crane fly which he first studied under a twoyear grant from the National Science Foundation. He is now working on a new threeyear grant. David Wilson, a Poly biology student, is with him on the current field trip. FACULTY-STAFF ART SHOW TO OPEN FRIDAY The Faculty-Staff Art Show sponsored by The College Union Summer Program Committee opens August 12 in the Library Foyer and will run until August 26. Many entries have been received and the show promises to be very interesting. Staff contributing articles are reminded to bring them to the Activities Office (T.C.U.) by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 10. CAMPUS CALENDAR -AUGUST 9 - AUGUST 23, 1966 Tuesday, August 9 2 p.m. Executive Council Admin. 301 Friday, August 12 8 p.m. FINCHO, summer film series Little Theater Friday. August 19 8 p.m. MEMBER OF THE WEDDING, summer film series Little Theat~r

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