Pasadena Chronicle, April 12, 1940

Constitution Will Form New A SB Offices LYLE SMITH FEATURE OF FRESHMAN DANCE AT MASONIC TEMPLE Pasad ena C hronic 1 NAME BAND PLAYS & Ш BIG ASSEMBLY ^ ON BOTH CAMPUSES Vol. XXXI Pasadena California, Friday, April 12, 1940 No. 26 Assemblies come and go; some people attend and some people don’t. At times it seems as though nobody really cared whether they were to have an assembly or not. Usually, how¬ ever, the assembly committee receives nothing but criticism on the programs which they ar¬ range and present. Everyone has his or her own idea on what a good convocation is. The assembly today will prob¬ ably not please everyone but you can rest assured that the committee and others connected with the arrangements have given their best in an effort to present an entertaining pro¬ gram. They have had an enor¬ mous amount of difficulty in contacting the larger entertain¬ ers. They are all very busy and they don’t receive any remuner¬ ation for their services here. An¬ other drawback is the fact that they have to present a program for two assemblies — east and west campuses. That is a good deal to ask un¬ professional entertainer whose time is worth a good deal of money. They work late at night and then are expected to get up in the middle of their night, come out here and give a good show. That is a pretty hard role to fill. Changing the subject slightly to the assembly’s programs, it might not be a bad idea to ar¬ range the schedule so as to have a certain number of lec¬ tures, certain number of big name bands, so many days for the classes, etc. By using that method, everyone’s taste in as¬ sembly programs should even¬ tually be pleased. T. H. Christie To Tell Secrets Of Stars In Faraday Speech ■“What the Stars Tell the Earth,” will be W. H. Christie’s topic of the 13th Annual Fara¬ day lecture on April 18, at 7:30 in the west campus auditorium. Students again this year may participate in the note taking contest for which prizes are of¬ fered. Mr .Christie is connected with the Mount Wilson observatory and is known for his Friday night lectures there. He works under the direction of Dr. Wal¬ ter S. Adams, of the Mount Wil¬ son observatory staff, and is a stellar astronomer specializing in photometry and spectroscopy. Before Mr. Christie came to Mount Wilson, he was astron¬ omer at the Dominion Observa¬ tory at Ottowa, Canada. Assistant in England As a medical laboratory assis¬ tant at McGill university in Eng¬ land, Mr. Christie worked until he came to British Columbia in 1914, then went overseas. He returned to the University of British Columbia where he re¬ ceived his BA. These lectures are presented by the science and mathecatics association of the Pasadena city schools. The association is not so much interested in how much the student actually learns from the lecture, but what inspira¬ tion he may derive from hear¬ ing an expert in his field. С о m m i t tee representatives from the junior high schools in¬ clude Hal E. Rowley, Eliot; Wil¬ liam T. Kennedy, Marshall; L. E. Hitchcock, McKinley; I. S. Cummings, Washington; and W. E. Pickett, Wilson. JC Committeemen Junior college committeemen under chairman George W. Jos- ten, are: Irma Bush, Adelaide Mameson, Pearl Shewman and E. H. Floyd, in charge of the annual Faraday dinner; Glen E. Cline, in charge of choosing the speaker; W. D. Leech is deputy chairman and in charge of pub¬ licity; P. S. Flahive, stage; B. W. Howard, finance; A. G. Wil¬ cox, Sci-Math; Earl Holder, prizes. GEOLOGISTS REMINISCE Students who went on the Easter vacation geology excur¬ sion attended a bouffe supper party last Sunday evening at the home of E. V. Van Amringe, geology teacher. Mary Bacon with latest fad, text-toter, shown at art exhibit. Educators Rave As Exhibition Closes Tonight By W. Ellis Teas The most ambitious student project ever to be under¬ taken by the junior colleg art department comes to a suc¬ cessful close tonight when the Art in Education exhibition on the second floor of the C building entertains a host of interested visitors for the sixth consecutive evening. Planned and excuted primarily for the Pacific Arts as¬ sociation convention in Pasadena last week-end, the exhibi¬ tion was received so enthusias¬ tically by artists and educators that it was maintained for the duration of this week. Museum Director Victor D’Amico, director of the Fieldstone Museum school of New York City, guest speak¬ er at the PAA convention, termed the show well organized and clearly presented. William Warner of the Ohio State uni¬ versity enthused it to be the “snappiest show of its kind I have ever seen.” Fannie M. Kerns, director of Art Educa¬ tion in Pasadena city schools, remarked: “The people were im¬ pressed by the art arrange¬ ments. . . Art is not separated from living for the student . . .” These and like commenda¬ tions were the adequate but sole reward of eighty or more art major students who had de¬ voted days and many sleepless nights to the cause during the past three weeks. So thorough and professional was their work that art instructors here re¬ ported it practically impossible to convince visitors that faculty participation had been limited to supervision and kept at a minimum even in that capacity. Influences Of Art The purpose of the exhibition was to portray in an organized presentation of five separate but related units the influence of art in general education and its application in post-school life. Every portion of the show, from construction of the display area to moulding of the plaster let¬ ters that constitute the text, was sudent labor. The Zeta group, honorary art fraternity, directed the project. Leading the activity as stu¬ dent director-in-chief was Beth Lewis. Her two assistants for this task were Ernie Rook and Josefa Wenter. Working as co¬ operative group on the separate units of the show were the fol¬ lowing students: contraction, Edward Anderson; Eagle em¬ blem, David Tilford, assisted by Bill McDonough; lighting, Gene Huxley; lettering and layout, Leola Crandall, Jim Whitney and Jack Kaltenbach; democra¬ cy design, Bob Rives; illustra¬ tion and development of a de¬ sign, Elizabeth Madley and Blanche Wellbaum; organized design (third dimensional de¬ sign) George Suzuki assisted by Jeannette Beinhaur; design in Action, Jim Whitney; wall mur¬ al, Ernie Rook and Jeannette Beinhaur; craft display, Harold Brittain; home arts, Beth Lewis; fashion illustration, Josefa Win¬ ter; Zeta, Dennison Herring as¬ sisted by Bill Edginton; occu¬ pational, Warren Rogers and Jack Griffin, social civics, Bill Seavey; activities mural, Thel¬ ma Gavel, assisted by Charlotte Smith and Virginia Lee Smith; programs, Jack Griffin and Bill Seavey; photography, Walter Durnin and W. Ellis Teas; still- life setups were by Setsuko Itow. Students who participated in the demonstration at various booths were: figure composition, Bob Rives and Joy De Longe; artcraft display, Arnold Frew, Rodney Munsen and Pat Davis. Mutual To Feature PJC Geology Drama Modern stratigraphic geology will be the basis of the Pasa¬ dena Junior College March of Science broadcast, April 18, 1:15 to 1:30 pm, over the Mutual- Don Lee network. “William Smith,” probably one of America’s most common names, is the name of the now forgotten surveyor who in 1769 discovered the rock classifica¬ tion system that is still used to¬ day in geology. This thrilling story and itc; application to the field of sci¬ ence will be the 14th broadcast in the series produced by the collegians for the west coast’s largest network. Yesterday the Mutual-Don Lee system presented the story of Edward Jenner and his small pox discovery from the studios of KPPC, with the following PJC student cast: Howard Clapp, Georgie Lee Gripp, Eliz¬ abeth Doty, Don Fuller, Ray Cushman, Barclay Hodgkin, Ray Everhard, David Lacy, Ruth Miles, Dan Benedict and Bob Longacre. DANCE COMING UP One of the most popular bands of PJC will play at the DKO dance in the near future. The orchestra in La Verne Boy¬ er’s, and he will play all the latest swing tunes. Boyer played at a recent assembly and was well received. Students To Have New Representation Appointive Court By Dave Orswell A student body vice-president, representation by popu¬ lation, new commissions, an appointive Supreme Court these and other important changes and additions were passed by the Constitution Committee (Chronicle, April 5) at their first meeting last Tuesday night. A tentative government-organization plan was pre¬ sented to the committee by Warren Allen and Harlan Erick- RADIO ORCHESTRA UN-CLASSIC HOUR IN ASSEMBLY Today’s assembly comes from the National Broadcasting com¬ pany with the presentation of Claude Sweeten and his NBC Hollywood orchestra, Herbert Allen, NBC comedian and Wee Willie Stulla of “un-classical hour” fame. Sweeten ,long associated with the NBC studios and at the pres¬ ent time on the Signal Oil car¬ nival program, will play some of the “24-40” program. Fea¬ tures will bring forth a swing trio and a humorists bassoon¬ ist. Guests of PJC student body officers will be student officers from Chaffey JC, Glendale JC, and LACC. Seward Murphy and Red South will be masters of ceremony. The assembly on the west campus has been moved up to the 11:00 o’clock hour and to the 1:00 o’clock hour on the east campus through the cooperation of the faculty and the adminis¬ tration. Seats for faculty mem¬ bers will be reserved. Burris, PJC Grad, In Civic Concert Glen Burris, now profession¬ ally known as Glen Bard, for¬ mer Pasadena junior college music major and now world- famous baritone, will appear in a recital at Pasadena Civic audi¬ torium, Thursday, April 18, at 8:15 pm. Since he left PJC nearly three years ago, Burris has been liv¬ ing in Hollywood, studying un¬ der Andres de Segurola, and in the Allied Arts festival of Southern California last April, Burris was awarded three first places. He has also been selected to sing for the newly formed Los Angeles Opera company, which will give programs in conjunction with the Philhar¬ monic orchestra next month. 'Barbary Coast' Is OMD Carnival Theme For 1940 With “Barbary Coast” as the theme, OMD presents to PJC, on May 16, its 14th annual spring carnival. Using the pic¬ turesque old San Francisco quarter to give atmosphere to the Occasion, the carnival gives all evidence of surpassing pre¬ vious affairs. Known as “Toast of the Coast” queen of Barbary Coast and her six princesses will be feted, danced and dined by their loyal subjects until the wee hours. Coronation of the queen will take place at “The Bella Union” ballroom, sometime in the evening. Chosen by Mast and Dagger members, from entries entered by organizations, the girls will be chosen for their ability to portray women of the gay 90’s. All entries for the royal person¬ age must be submitted to stu¬ dent union (EC) from April 18 Judges will eliminate and pick the queen on the 24th. BOTANISTS HEAR TALK Describing the adventures of a party of plant hunters which he led through the Andes moun¬ tains in South America, Dr. T. Harper Goodspeed gave a lec¬ ture at the Civic Auditorium Monday evening to an audience which included nearly 100 PJC forestry and botany students. son, its originators, and after hours of debate, questioning and thinking, the conventionites agreed upon: Chairman of Board (1) The office of a vice-presi¬ dent, chairman of the board, to be elected from the same cam¬ pus as the president, technically to be in charge of that campus, thereby relieving the chief exec¬ utive. (2) One representative per 1,000 persons to hold office on the board of representatives. (3) Bar, enforcement, and civil service commissions organized in addition to the elections com¬ mission. The placement of the pep commission was delayed un¬ til Wednesday night. (4) A su¬ preme court, five members, ap¬ pointed by the president with the board’s confirmation. (5) A new cabinet position, secretary of football publicity, to transfer the job from the secretary of public relations. President Over Board? The convention was dead¬ locked for a time over the duties of the president . . . whether or not he should preside over the board. After two tied oral votes a secret ballpt was taken whose count 8 to 4, placed the presi¬ dent m charge of the board. The enforcement commission will be filled by three presidents of the Lancers. Spartans and Shieldmen, who will enforce all campus laws and regulations. With more than three-fourths of the plan actually accepted, it is hoped by the delegates to fin¬ ish the correcting of the rest at the second meeting Wednesday night, but the results from this meeting were too late to meet Chronicle deadline. 'Drums Of Oudh' To Sound For PJC Across Playhouse Stage In Tourney “Drums of Oudh/’ Pasadena junior college entry in the one-act play tournament, will be presented April 16 at the Pasadena Community playhouse. Heading a cast composed entirely of Players’ Guild members are Paul Carroll and Miriam Shoop. Carroll, who last semester held the lead in “Bachelor Born,” is now producing his own show, “Lady of the Shad¬ ows,” which will ran for a full week in the near future. Miriam Shoop has played leads in two former JC produc¬ tions, “Death Takes a Holiday,” and “Mary the Ш.” Bloody Terror Under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Flint, this play re¬ enacts the psychological terror creai ed by the bloody Sepoy mu- tin vof 1857 in northern India. In past years student support at these functions has not been up to par, and PJC moral sup¬ port is urged. Others in the cast are Dick McMoyler, Grenes Krai, Sylves¬ ter Deming, Clyde Howard, Joe Adragna and Robert Mentzer. Under the direction of Arthur Lorenzini, master carpenter, a novel stage set has been de¬ signed for use on the Pasadena Community playhouse stage. Sound Effects This set, and sound effects, will be handled by PJC technic¬ ians Marc Williams. Don Trepp, Scott Malcolm and Harold Rich¬ ardson. Tickets for this presentation and the eight other one-act plays may be obtained for 40 cents at the box office of the Pasa¬ dena Community playhouse. Elda Paulson is the student director, and Charlotte Martin is prop girl. MIRIAM SHOOP and PAUL CARROLL, Stars of “Drums of Oudh” Almost Finished _ The leaders of the group were pleased to see “so much work accomplished” in the course of a few hours. When the organi¬ zation of the new constitution is completed, the actual phras¬ ing will commence, and the members “feel sure we will have the plan ‘in the bag’ bv next week.” Burke and Purdon 'Outward Bound' On the night of May 10, Bill Burke and Miriam Purdon heading a notable cast, wili meet the “examiner” in an at¬ tempt to decide their final rest¬ ing place — Heaven or hell. The occasion for this momen¬ tous decision will be the Delta Psi Omega presentation, “Out¬ ward Bound.” Beryl Mercer in the 1 roles. Not unknown is the of the actor who portray other character — Alfred The highest dramatic that can be conferred u PJC actor, is a members the nation-wide organi Delta Psi Omega. The cast includes L Johnson, Hal Wolff Brown, J. C. England, ’an othea Streib. They have appeared in such local successes as “It Can’t Happen Here,” “Bachelor Born ” “Death Takes a Holiday,” and “St. Joan.” The production is under the direction of Elizabeth Keppie, drama coach, and author of sev¬ eral books on voice. PEGASUS TO BE HOST The Pegasus club will be host to an all-star basketball team from Oakland this week-end. The visiting players will stay at the homes of club members and will be taken on a sight-see¬ ing tour Saturday evening. Pegasus will meet the all¬ stars tomorrow evening at 8 pm in the east campus gym.