Title

A study of the development of the Recreation Department of Stockton, California

Author

Margaret Fitzgerald Coston, University of the Pacific

Date of Award

1948

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Department

Political Science

Abstract

Stockton is a city suffering from the sudden realization that it is no longer a small farm town, end that in the process of becoming a moderate-sized city, a community faces inevitable growing pains.

The municipal recreation phase of city government well illustrates this fact. Because of the great need for expansion in this field, and because the city is now just beginning to rise to meet the occasion, a study of the Recreational Department and the program of the Metropolitan Recreation Commission in Stockton City Government and San Joaquin County, is a particularly interesting activity.

In contrast to many theses which are based upon research in books and periodicals, this thesis has been the outgrowth of investigation based largely upon interviews with persons concerned with this phase of city government and upon personal observation, as well as reports and newspaper accounts of activities.

As a resident of Stockton during much of the time covered in this report, as an attendant at periodic meetings of both the Junior Youth Council and the Stockton Youth Council, as a participant in some of the Recreation Department's activities, and as a former employee of a Stockton group work agency, the author has had to guard against subjective reporting in writing this paper. She has. attempted to record evaluations which she considered valid and to include facts and sources on which her opinions were based.

Pages

113

Recommended Citation

Coston, Margaret Fitzgerald. (1948). A study of the development of the Recreation Department of Stockton, California. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1069