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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Baccalaureate services were held at the college’s Little Theater the day before graduation at Mustang Stadium.
June 13, 1964
Cal Poly set a record for number of graduates in 1964 with 980 diplomas printed.
Today, a university, in 2008 there were more than three times the grads with 3600 degrees conferred. ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
June 2, 1965
Having created a display for the Veteran's museum, I am not a fan of vandalism, but as pranks go, this one was a doozy.
Someone with a big truck or tractor swiped the 140-millimeter cannon from the Veterans Memorial Building and parked down Grand Ave. at Cal Poly, quite ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
January 5, 1965
My first two quarters at Cal Poly, class registration was held in Mott Gym. Hopefuls would walk in with a penciled in wish list of classes and walk around from table to table picking up punch cards.
The arena was filled with hundreds of students and every half hour ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
1963
Major league baseball spring training is still over the horizon but February baseball junkies can still catch a game by going to Cal Poly or Cuesta College. Today you hear the ping of the aluminum bat, but then it was wooden bats, wooden bleachers and uniforms that were gray ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
January 19, 1963
The first nuclear reactor in the county wasn't at Diablo Canyon, it was at Cal Poly. The equipment was labeled Universal Nuclear which sounds like a company James Bond worked for. I'm still waiting for the promised electric power too cheap to meter. This facility has since ...
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