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A.W.S., A.M.S.
ASSEMBLIES SET
FOR TODAY
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(fI]ronidc
CARL ANDERSON
TO SPEAK AT
AUDITORIUM
Vol. XXVIII
Pasadena, California, April 2, 1937
No. 27
Art Work
Hatch And Patterson Win
Coast Is
Shown At
Y osemite
In National Debate Finals
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Seven Out Of Fifteen P. J. C. Entries Are Chosen To
Compete With Other High School Winners
20 Pasadena Students
Exhibit Efforts In
Park Showing
14 STATES ENTER
Paintings, Charcoals, Pen
Sketches Now Seen
In Library
By Elizabeth Arthur
Representing the work from the
majority of students in the Pasa¬
dena junior college art department,
a portfolio of art, which was sent
to be exhibited at the annual meet¬
ing of the Pacific Arts association
at Yosemite park during the week
of Spring vacation, is now on dis¬
play in the junior college library.
The convention is composed of
teachers and people interested in
art education, and representatives
from junior highs, high schools and
junior colleges from 14 states and
Hawaii were present.
Send Package
Since the work is viewed and
discussed in an informal manner at
at tea, the junior college art depart¬
ment sent their festive looking
work in a package done up in cel¬
lophane and ribbon, and adorned
with a cover designed in colors
suggestive of spring. Freida Klas-
sen designed the cover, and Charles
Lesher lettered the index.
Three out of the 20 students
whose work was sent to the meet¬
ing had two products of their ar¬
tistic skill on display. They were
designs of street clothes, from the
costume and design class, and a
water color of fruit by Laura Mor-
en; layout coloring and lettering
and a figure in pencil, by Charles
Lesher; a design, showing space
divisions and relation of dark to
light, and an abstract pattern in
colored chalk by Walter Scott.
Contributions Told
Cither contributions were a brush
drawing of a dog, by Freida Klas-
sen; a portrait, by Nancy Robb; a
flower composition in opaque paint,
by Mary Moshisky; a figure water
color drawing, by Thomas Lauren-
son; Lee Tuggle’s chalk and char¬
coal drawing, a marine-scape by
Strother MacMinn, and water col¬
ors by Virginia Sackett and Betty
Burton. James Hawkins made a
lithograph drawing of Bill Skow
for his presentation. A water col¬
or painting, done in four minutes,
( Continued on Page Three)
Club Period
Is Scheduled
With deadlines for reservations
by clubs set for next Tuesday,
April 6, plans for the third club
period of the present semester are
nearing completion, said Bill Weil,
secretary of organizations and di¬
rector of the monthly organizations
periods. Clubs signed up for meet¬
ings number around twenty, he
stated.
A general assembly will be held
in the men’s gym featuring a play
entitled “The Critic,” by Val Clark,
and presented by Bauble and Bells,
lower division dramatics society.
Sponsored by the organization com¬
mittee for students who are not
affiliated with any clubs or inter¬
ested in any of the open meetings,
the general meeting takes the place
of a club meeting for anyone who
so desires.
The cast of the play follows:
Eric, Eddie Callahan; Eric No. 2,
Eddie Long; Dorothy, Mary Ellen
Sheeky; Dorothy No. 2, Fern War¬
ner; Author, Evelyn Bolz; Nation
(the Critic), Peter Prouse; Aspir¬
ing Young Actress, Mabel Prouty;
Smyth, Harold Wolfe; Mother,
Betty Ellen Evans ; Sheriff Forrest,
Jim Donnelly; and Harrington,
Wendell Thompson.
Miss Katherine Kester, adviser,
is the director.
SERVICE CLUB HAS
POTLUCK SUPPER
Holding their annual faculty din¬
ner, the Spartans met at the home
of Rachel Williams, secretary, on
Thursday, April 1, at 6 o’clock, for
potluck supper.
Each girl invited a faculty mem¬
ber as her guest, and campus prob¬
lems were discussed. Eloise Jones,
Spartan president, led the discus¬
sion, with both the girls and teach¬
ers participating. “These get-to¬
gethers bring about harmony be¬
tween teachers and students both
in the classrooms and outside of
school, and help them to co-ope¬
rate with each other,” said Miss
Catherine J. Robbins, dean of
women.
By Harold Shafer
Adding another spectacular victory to their long string of laurels,
George Hatch and Franklin Patterson, star debaters of Pasadena
junior college and Pacific Coast champions, won the National Phi Rho
Pi debate contest at Long Beach last Thursday, March 25. The Pas¬
adena pair, who have swept all opposition before them in State meets
this year, defeated 32 teams rep-"
resenting schools from all parts of
the United, States, during the three
days of strenuous competition. The
subject of the debates was: “Re¬
solved: That Congress shall be em¬
powered to fix minimum wages and
maximum hours for industry.”
Meet Muskogee
The contests ran through Tues¬
day, Wednesday and Thursday of
last week, with the winners meet¬
ing numerous opponents each day,
alternately taking the affirmative
and negative of the question. The
Muskogee (Okla.) junior college
A WS Gathers
For Confab
With Groups
Women Club Presidents
team met the Pasadena pair in the
finals.
Besides the 32 men’s teams, 15
women’s teams participated in de¬
bates. Extemporaneous and im¬
promptu speaking and oratorical
contests also were held in. connec¬
tion with the three-day affair.
Another team, composed of Royi
Huggins and Phil Cartwright, in
the same contest went through four
debates only to be downed in two
others, losing their chance to enter
the regular tourney with Hatch
and Patterson.
Attend Banquet
Phi Rho Pi is a national forensic
society for junior colleges. The
contestants were given a banquet
at the Villa Riviera in Long Beach
Wednesday night, at which 150
were seated at the tables.
Earl D. Davis, debate instructor
here, was in charge of the Pasa¬
dena group taking part in the con¬
test.
Davis Defends Debate
Invited To Discuss
Problems At Tea
Sponsored by the Associated
Women students, under the direc¬
tion of Ellen Lombard, president,
a tea was held Tuesday, March 30,
at the Flower Pot tearoom, from
3:15 to 4:30. The presidents of all
women’s clubs, restrictive and non-
restrictive, and the A. W. S. board
and cabinet, were invited.
According to Miss Lombard, the
purpose of this meeting was to
create a friendly spirit between
clubs and all women students in
general. They discussed problems
which arise in club work and solu¬
tions which are practical.
‘Meetings Make Friends'
“Meetings like this broaden the
outlook on campus life and take
girls out of their own club and en¬
vironment, having them meet
others, thus giving them a variety
of friends and acquaintances,” said
Miss Lombard.
The major part of the program
was taken up with a discussion,
led by Miss Lombard, in which the
group participated. Miss Catherine
J. Robbins, dean of women, gave
a short talk to all of the women
stressing friendly club spirit and
the elimination of snobbishness.
Carnival Discussed
Shirley Smith brought up the
subject of the forthcoming Mother
and Daughter banquet, the Mast
and Dagger carnival was discussed
by Eloise Jones, Betty Wilcox told
of her plans for an A. W. S. scrap¬
book, and the Frosh club was put
under discussion by Rachel Will¬
iams.
The club presidents who attend¬
ed were Dorothy Bonner, Catherine
Blake, Gretchen Gatchet, Betty
Junker, Asemal Kinnear, Betty
Martens, Patty McCune, Catherine
Petit, Frances Pfeiffer, Virginia
Phillips, Mildred Schmertz and
Shirley Smith.
Pan- A merican
Day Planned
Commemorating Pan-American
day, the class in History of the
Americas, under the leadership of
Miss Elizabeth M. Wheeler, is
planning to present a program il¬
lustrating Pan-American progress
at the Altadena Recreation Center,
April 14. The program will begin
at 8 p. m.
“Musical and dancing numbers
will vary a program of short
speeches by members of the class,”
said Miss Wheeler.
There will be guests of note from
various Latin-American countries,
according to Miss Wheeler. Also, as
guests will come leaders in various
civic organizations.
“For the promotion of friendship
between the northern and southern
Americas, this affair is being held,”
she continued. “It is an annual part
of the work of the class in history.
Relations between our southern
neighbors and ourselves are very
important, and we feel that this
program will do its part toward
promoting friendly ones.”
Following the program, refresh¬
ments will be served. _
MAKEUP WORK DUE
Monday, April 5, 3:00 p. m., is
deadline for all make-up work for
students having received “E’s” or
otherwise incomplete grades for
last semester’s work in the English
department, according to M. G.
Hill, chairman of the department.
The team of Hatch and Patterson
have won many other contests this
year, among them being the Pacific
coast championships at Stockton
this month. “I feel that debate
and the other speaking arts are
just as important as football and
other such competitive tourna¬
ments, and that these boys should
be given all credit due for helping
to bring fame to Pasadena junior
college in this way,” said Mr.
Davis.
Horace Mann
Equipment Is
Improvement
Records Office, Counselors
Especially Aided By
New System
Bv Donald R. Hopkins
That administration inter-office
communication will be speeded up
in the nearly completed Horace
Mann building by the installation,
now 24 per cent complete, of a
pneumatic tube system, was re¬
vealed recently by Courtenay Mon¬
sen, secretary of the Board of Edu¬
cation.
Commenting on the possibilities
of the new system, Principal John
W. Harbeson remarked that office
efficiency would be increased as
notes, transcripts and other rec¬
ords could be transmitted from one
office to another without entailing
the use of a messenger. The sys¬
tem is especially capable of facili¬
tating the work of the councilors
and the records office.
Is 73 Per Cent Finished
In regard to the building itself,
Mr. Monsen said that the Mann
structure is approximately 73 per
cent completed and that the entire
building program, which includes
the two wing buildings now lacking
only some cabinet work and science
equipment, and the landscaping
program, besides the work of re¬
constructing the main building, is
now approximately 85 per cent
completed.
SPRING ALUMNUS
IS PUBLISHED
Published four times a year for
the 3500 alumni of P. J. C. and the
Pasadena high school living in and
about Pasadena, the spring issue
of the Alumnus, edited by Ned F.
Stirling, head of the publications
department here, was issued Wed¬
nesday, March 31.
Important in this issue is the an¬
nouncement of plans for the annual
homecoming banquet, to be held
May 27, with Charles Paddock act¬
ing as master of ceremonies.
Articles of interest include a de¬
scription of the Pasadena high
school in the year 1900 by Ethel
Hartley Smith, a graduate of that
year, and in contrast to- that, a de¬
scription of the first years of P.
J. C'., by Nobu Kawai.
B. W. HOWARD SPEAKS
Bailey W. Howard, chairman of
the Pasadena Chamber of Com¬
merce and also chairman of the
physical science department, ad¬
dressed the members of the Junior
College Young Men’s Christian as¬
sociation, at a meeting last Wed¬
nesday, held at the downtown “Y.”
He spoke on the subject, “The
Meaning of Co-operation.”
Toured By
Bulldogs
Symphonic Band Featured
As Seven Coastal
Cities Played
100 GO ON TOUR
San Francisco Is Scene Of
Calif ornia-W estem
Conference
Rendering as its grand climax a
performance at the opening of the
California Western Music confer¬
ence at the Fairmont hotel, in San
Francisco, Pasadena junior col¬
lege’s combined symphonic band
completed a six-day spring concert
tour last Thursday, March 25, with
stops at seven cities extended
throughout the state.
Leaving early the previous Fri¬
day morning, the band, 100 strong,
made the trip in busses, and played
its first engagement that night at
Bakersfield high school, in Bakers¬
field. The next evening the band
played at Fresno, moving from
there to play at the Municipal audi¬
torium in San Francisco on Sunday
afternoon. The evening of the same
day the organization was heard in
the Municipal auditorium across
the bay in Oakland.
Play At Conference
The next day marked the high
spot of the tour when the band
played at the opening of the Cali¬
fornia Western Music Conference.
On the return trip the band
stopped at the new civic auditorium
in San Jose on Tuesday night, and
at the Warner Brothers’ theatre in
Santa Barbara, Wednesday night.
The journey was the largest and
one of the most successful trips in
recent years which has been made
by the organization, according to
Audre L. Stong, band conductor.
The money with which the trip was
sponsored was provided by several
sources interested in the welfare
of the school and the furthering of
band enterprises. Appreciation has
been expressed by Audre L. Stong
to the mothers, fathers and friends
of junior college students as well
as civic minded persons who sent
in their contributions during the
“dollar shower” fund, sponsored re¬
cently by the Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
The trip was the first of such
length which the organization has
made in four years, but it will not
cancel the usual shorter trips which
the band makes annually.
(Continued on Page Three)
A. M. S. Stag
Scheduled
Dean Cromwell, a conglomerate
group of the University of South¬
ern California athletes who took
part in the Olympic Games, a wres¬
tling match between Pat Patterson
and a mysterious Mr. X, Mack Rob¬
inson, and last but not least, Coach
Otto Anderson, will furnish the en¬
tertainment at the Associated Men
Students’ stag, to be held Wednes¬
day evening, April 7, in the men’s
gym.
Due to the unexpected departure
of the professional baseball players
on April 1, Cromwell, track coach
at U. S. C., the U. S. C. athletes,
Mack Robinson, and Anderson are
hastily recruited substitutes and
are all scheduled to talk about the
Olympic Games.
In addition to the foregoing en¬
tertainment, the stag will feature
a wrestling match, a type of
amusement which is steadily grow¬
ing more popular among the men
students, according to Vernon Leif,
A. M. S. president.
Following the entertainment, free
root beer and doughnuts will be
served to all.
SPEECH CLASS IS
PLANNING PROGRAM
Selections representative of vari¬
ous types of poetry were given by
the second period choral speech
class of Miss Elizabeth E. Keppie,
last Wednesday afternoon, at a
meeting of the Stanford Women’s
club at the home of Mrs. Ellen
Me Duffy.
Directed by Miss Keppie, the
choir presented refrain, lyric, dia¬
logue, dramatic, individual, se¬
quence and unison poetry. In com¬
memoration of the anniversary of
William Shakespeare, selections by
the great dramatist were also
given.
On, April 21, the verse choir will
give a Shakespearean program
over KPPC. A short sketch from
the “Taming of the Shrew” will
be featured by members of the
choir.
Reorganization
Of Credit Point
System Is Given
Effecting a change for the
purpose of creating a more sat¬
isfactory service point system,
the administration last week
posted bulletins in all class¬
rooms showing the reorganiza¬
tion of service point distribu¬
tion. Linder the new system,
assistant credit points are given
for a variety of services on a
basis of three for each semester
hour. A semester hour is equiv¬
alent to one hour a week
throughout the semester.
The bulletin lists the possible
number of points obtainable for
various extra-curricular activi¬
ties coming under the general
headings of “Student Body Offi¬
cers and Assistants,” “Club and
Class Officers,” “Musical and
Oral Arts,” “Publications” and
“Athletics.” A few other activi¬
ties are listed under “Miscel¬
laneous.”
Students wishing to obtain
service points for activities in
which they have participated
during the semester must apply
for them by filling out a card
to be signed by their advisers
and to be turned in before the
close of each semester, accord¬
ing to official notice by the ad¬
ministration.
McCunn Will
Speak For
Convocation
Administrator To Address
Entire Student Body
On Public Work
Speaking at the second convoca¬
tion of the semester, Drummond J.
McCunn, of the Board of Educa¬
tion, will address nearly 3500 Pas¬
adena junior college students next
Monday. To be held during the
regular assembly period, convoca¬
tion will start at 10 a. m., follow¬
ing second period.
Mr. McCunn will speak on the
subject of business opportunities in
the public service department of
the local and United States gov¬
ernments. He will talk on the
phases of public service opportun¬
ity as applied to Pasadena junior
college students and secondary
schools.
Classes To Attend
Humanities, social studies, physi¬
cal sciences, mathematics and life
science classes will all attend the
convocation. Attendance in these
classes is compulsory, and convo¬
cation slips are required at third
period classrooms following the
convocation. These convocation
slips may be obtained at the bleach¬
ers, and will be passed out to every
student in attendance.
Mr. McGunn has spoken to Pas¬
adena junior college students sev¬
eral times in the past, both at con¬
vocations and at smaller meetings.
Assistant superintendent of Pasa¬
dena city schools, he has addressed
student assemblies on both civic
and academic problems.
The purpose of convocations is
to acquaint students with prob¬
lems which they are likely to meet
once out of schools. Topics are dis¬
cussed which are immediately rela¬
tive to junior college graduates,
and speakers are Southern Califor¬
nia educators and civic leaders. The
convocations are held the first Mon¬
day of each month in the Horrell
field bleachers.
Week’s News
NEWS
A. W. S., A. M. S. plan assem¬
blies for this morning. Drama
slated for women, “The Ideal Male”
slated for the men. Page 1.
Art students exhibit work at Yo¬
semite valley during Easter week.
Exhibition now hangs in the junior
college library. Page 1.
One hundred bandsmen return
from trek to north, as concerts in
San Francisco, Bakersfield and
other cities are played. Page 1.
Miss Lula C. Parmley plans en¬
try of a, Capella choir in Southern
California Festival of the Allied
Arts. Page 3.
Tenth annual Faraday lecture
slated as Dr. Carl Anderson signed
for speaker’s position. Page 3.
FEATURES * * *
Diary of tenderfoot geologist in
1600-mile trip to Arizona disclosed.
Page 2.
SPORTS *
California, frosh beaten by Bull¬
dogs, but Modesto wins as week-
long trip of baseballers ends in vic¬
tory and defeat both. Page 4.
AWS, AMS
Plan For
Assembly
“BelinJ^,” By A. A, Milne
Will Be Played For
Meet By Guild
CLUB PERIOD NEXT
Players’ Group Presents
Drama Under Keppie’s
Supervision
With meetings sponsored this
morning by the A. W. S. and A.
M. S„ assembly period will fea¬
ture talks by women students on
“The Ideal Man” and a one-act
play from “Belinda,” by A. A.
Milne. The men’s assembly will be
held on the bleachers to “hear what
they should be,” while women stu¬
dents will gather in the men’s gym
to see the play, produced by the
Players’ Guild.
Rachel Williams, Eloise Jones
and Caroline Munn, with possibly
another woman student speaker,
will air their opinions as to their
respective ideal men. To speak
under the sponsorship of the As¬
sociated Men Students, headed by
Vernon Leif, they will attempt to
show what they believe to be most
important in male popularity.
According to Leif, the demand
for such an assembly, following
one of the same type for women
students, was so great that today’s
meeting for men promises to be
one of the most popular of the se¬
mester.
Besides the featured entertain¬
ment, Earl Roulac, Stewart Russell
and Tom Stevens are scheduled to
perform in a Ritz brother act. In
addition to this, Stevens will pre¬
sent some imitations. Several other
short skits are also on the pro¬
gram.
Jeannette Eastman, first vice-
president of A. W. S., is in charge
of the program for the women stu¬
dents. Ellen Lombard, president,
will preside over the meeting, in¬
troducing the student actors in the
play and announcing the program.
The Players’ Guild will present
the one-act performance for the
first time at Pasadena junior col¬
lege. Members of the cast of “Be¬
linda” include Murray Huss, as Mr.
Devenish; Barbara Barnett, Betty;
Virginia Miller, Delia; Patsy Burr,
Belinda; Bob Hanson, Mr. Baxter;
and Gordon Foster, Mr. Robinson.
Miss Elizabeth E. Keppie is fac¬
ulty adviser for the guild.
Under the student direction of
Bob Stapleton, secretary of activi¬
ties, a jointly sponsored assembly
period is held every year, arrange¬
ments being scheduled by the AMS
and AWS cabinets. Presented each
year, the joint meeting is held by
the men and women of the school
as a regular part of the assemblies
program for the ye'ar.
Nine Become
BPG Members
In a meeting attended by six
members and the adviser, Beta Phi
Gamma, honorary journalistic fra¬
ternity, picked nine new members
to membership, last Tuesday after¬
noon in tent 14.
Those elected, and the work they
have done are as follows:
Eleanor Spranger, Chronicle copy
editor; Elizabeth Arthur, associate
editor of the Chronicle; A1 Gutz-
mer, news editor of the Chronicle;
Harold Shafer and Howard Stein-
winter, assistant copy editors; Dor¬
othy LeBaker and Merilyn Nutt,
Chronicle reporters; Arthur Schlen-
dering, staff manager of the Cam¬
pus; and Gilbert Schlendering,
Campus.
Ruth Battelle, incumbent presi¬
dent, presided over the meeting, at
which dates for informal and for¬
mal initiation were set. Informal
will be held at the home of Eliza¬
beth Ann McGill, on April 8, while
formal has tentatively been set
for the Altadena Pines, April 16.
Miss McGill is in charge of ar¬
rangements.
Plans for four or five delegates
to attend a meeting of the organi¬
zation, which has national affilia¬
tions, at Colton next Monday eve¬
ning, were made. Miss Gladys L.
Snyder, adviser, will attend.
A writer’s contest during May
will also be attended by Beta Phi
Gamma delegates if present plans
go through.
ATTEND CONVENTION
Ten members of the Chronicle
editorial board and reportorial staff
attended the fifteenth annual press
convention at the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles
last Saturday, representing Pasa¬
dena junior college at both morn¬
ing meetings and at the luncheon
and afternoon conferences.