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Frazeur to
head dairy
By Pam Curlee
Dr Dean R Frazeur, former technical
director for (he Eskimo Pie Corp. has
joined the CSUF Food Science program
as the dairy processing professor and
will direct the dairy manufacturing pro¬
gram here
Frazeur will be 're-actlvatlng* the
dairy industry operation here, an oper¬
ation (hat readies students for a $30 bill¬
ion industry that is 'badly in need of
graduates,' according to Frazeur.
CSUF's dairy plant was built in 1953
and, according to Frazeur, no money
has been given by (arms, the state, and
the university towards a clean-up pro¬
gram that includes painting, repairs and
new equipment.
This new face on the dairy program "is
bound to bring in more students,* said
Frazeur. "This program will give kids a
future, a future where they don't have to
stick with dairy. They can go into the
food industry in many facets, * he said.
He added that California is the num¬
ber one dairy state and that the industry
wants graduates and will pay nearly $20-
22,000 a year for them.
He is instructing students in inspec¬
tion work, and the upgrading of milk
supplies. The new dairy program will al¬
so be involved in health department
work bv taking raw milk from farms and
turning it into drinking milk, cheese, yo¬
gurt, butter, dried milk and ice cream.
Frazeur received his bachelor's de¬
gree in dairy manufacturing from the
University of Minnesota, and his mas¬
ter's and PhD degrees in dairy chemis¬
try from Pennsylvania State University.
He will beteaching eight courses this
semester. He plans to redirect the dairy
program, "orienting it to CSUF's needs.
"I've been on the outside," he said, "I
know what these people need."
He began his career as a professor of
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CSUF was once barrier course
Former student
coordinates
handicapped
by Steve Schmidt
In the mtd-1950's, Weldon Percy had
to be carried up the stairs of i CSUF
building in his wheelchair so he could at¬
tend classes. There was no elevator to
take him there. Each day Percy asked
some fellow students for a lift upstairs,
and one day he was acddentalry drop¬
ped.
Getting around in a wheelchair those
days 'was lust one doggone hassle after
another,* Percy said.
Today Percy is CSUF's coordinator of
handicapped student services. With his
help, the campus has changed from what
was once an obstacle field of barriers to a
highly accessible school for those In
wheelchairs.
"It was a real r>roblem then,* Percy
said, recalling his early years at CSUF    ■
Now with the help of federal funds dis¬
tributed through the California Depart¬
ment of Rehabilitation and money contri¬
buted by local groups, the school is con-
.».    sldered or* of the most accomodating In
I    the California SUte University and Col-
*'t?    leges system for persons in wheelchairs.
And some of the 30 or more CSUF stu¬
dents with wheelchairs seem to agree.
"I'm real pleased with State,' said
sophomore   Jeff Eben,   a   Journalism
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PHILIP STEPHENS TOOLS PAST SAN RAMON 4 ON CAMPUS
Handicapped student aide has no trouble getting around campus
major 'It's a big difference from (my
previous school) Cal Poly San Luis Obis¬
po. This is like a vacation.*
Said Philip Stephens, a Handicapped
Services aide who, like Percy, also uses a
wheelchair, *When I first came here,
CSUF was only 50 percent accessible,
but today It is almost 100 percent access-
•Some (of the other CSUC schools) are
very poor and some are ok, but few of
them are as good as here,* said Steph¬
ens, a graduate student In economics.
What may be a simple task for some
can be a challenge for those in wheel¬��chairs. Curbs can act as Impassible road¬
blocks. Bathrooms can prove injtccess-
ible. But Irnprovements made at CSUF in
recent years have helped change all that.
Between 1973 and 1978 Just under a
haH-a-mlllion dollars was spent to con¬
struct ramps and bridges for accessibil¬
ity, modify bathrooms, and designate
easy-access parking spaces for the han-
. dicapped on campus.
Sitting in his San Ramon office last
week, Percy said CSUF is now nearly
completely accessible for those In wheel¬
chairs. The exception-the radio/televi¬
sion control room in the Speech-Arts
building -but Percy has made arrange-
ments with a local TV station to use their
control room In case It is ever needed f or
study.
Percy re-enrolled at CSUF in 1974,
before being hired as coordinator of han¬
dicapped student services. Before that
he ran an answering service In Vlsalia.
Foundation improves agriculture program
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By Matt Alger
The agriculture proirwtor, campus
would be of much !«»** ^•* net <or
the Agricultural Foundation of CSUF,
Z only independent university agricul¬
tural foundation in the state.	
-The foundation supports the agricul¬
tural laboratory program and withou*
their interest and support we would have
much less •Q«'Pn^Vfor°or^ro*ra,m^
said Charles M. Srnalhvood, *"«♦*•
School of Agriculture and Home Eco-
SSa "Sowithouttheir -u«wt.....we
would have a much diminished pro-
^The foundation funds the school farm
and student rxoject IW'*™/.h£d,in«
more than $1 million. In addition,**
Smallwood "pointed out, it»Jnen*f?
have donated eo>ilprnent to the agricul-
TVe^oundation funded 91 students
projects last year. The students reorived
$26,593 In profits from t^P^**5
and the foundation received $79,479. It
operates on a revolving fund, in which
the money earned Is re-invested in the
programs. Students receive as much as
60 percent of the revenue from projects
such as beef to as little as 35 percent for
field crops, depending on the amount of
expenses. v
The idea Is not to give a high amount
of return to students because they're
getting educational experience too,' said
Earie Basset, general manager of such
campus auxilliary organizations as the
CSUF Foundation, the CSUF Assod-
ation, Inc., and the Agricultural Foun¬
dation of CSUF.
The foundation will pay expenses for a
student to show a wholeIf***cattle
or to farm an entire field of crops. The
student usually must do all of the work
on*ose projects, although there are a
few ex-jtotions, such as with vineyeards,
which -eouire hiring pickers.
The  sUte does  provide  money  to
the  agriculture program,  but it  is
primarily devoted to salaries.    So the
foundation plays an important role In
providing agriculture students with
practical experience.
The only others in the California
SUte University and Colleges System
that have such comprehensive agricul¬
ture programs are California SUte Uni¬
versity, Chko, California Polytechnic
University, San Luis Obispo, and Califor¬
nia Polytechnic University, Pomona. But
all of those programs are funded by com¬
prehensive foundations in addition to the
sUte that rjrovides funding for other pro¬
grams as sell. 	
The Agricultural Foundation of CSUF
became a nonprofit corporation sep¬
arate from the CSUF Foundation In
1954 so that the agricultural operation
of the foundation could be given a
complete and unqualified audit opinion.
The Department of Finance was not al-
owed to examine other areas of the
CSUF Foundation's budget, which the
>d could prevent him
auditing the agricul¬
tural 'revolving fund* since some ot its
financial operations might have been
kept confidential by being included in
other areas of the CSUF Foundation
budget. Since that time, all of the auxil¬
iary organizations have been required to
undergo an audit each year.
Trie foundation is governed by a board
of directors of 25 people, usually repre¬
sentatives of agricultural Industries, and
the university president. The 25 laymen
are nominated by the president and
serve three year terms, which expire var¬
ious years. Bassett's accounting sttff of
12 prepares the budget, which is approv¬
ed by the board of governors.
As a student employee, Bassett estab¬
lished the Fresno SUte College 'revol¬
ving fund* for the agriculture program in
1948. An accounting maior and agricul¬
ture minor, he was hired at the end of
the school year as the FSC foundation s
financial secretary. He became general
manager in 1961.