San Jose State College Towel Check Token

1938 San Jose State College Towel Check Token.

Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation
Volume IX, No. 9, November 1938

News From Athletic Directors

San Jose State College — Dudley S. DeGroot, Director of Physical
Education, gives several suggestions that should prove helpful to
many directors. To overcome the holding of towels in circulation,
they are using a token method of checking. The business office
sells a small, half-dollar size, brass towel token. The student
deposits these when they take a towel and receive them back
when they return the towel. If the token is lost they purchase
another.

To help keep their new but already overcrowded gymnasium in a
more cleanly condition, the staff of eight has been organized to
take charge for a full week of systematic inspection and report on
the condition of the building. A very simple but complete report
sheet based upon the structure of the building has been
mimeographed in duplex form. The staff member inspects the
building and leaves one report in the director’s office and one in
the office of the Superintendent of Buildings. It has done the
trick.

One or two weekly staff meetings held on college the have served
to make his department run more smoothly. Noon or evening
meetings failed.

Thanks for checking-in,
Dave