Pasadena Chronicle, April 12, 1946

Pasadenans to Observe Easter in Bowl Golden Gloves Finals Tonight Vol. 39 Pasadena Junior College, April 12, 1946 No. 11 Rockets Race to Poland for Morning Service Honors SCA Student Service Drive Dead of World War II A special assembly the morning of May 1, will open the SCA-sponsored World Student Service Fund drive, a cause supporting students in the disrupted countries which fell vic¬ tims to World War II. This campus is campaigning for sufficient money to support the War¬ saw University in Poland, where students are desperate for funds. Xenia Zytomirska, acting Polish representative to the United States, will be the speaker at the assembly; she spent her wartime years in Poland instructing the students of Warsaw’s Coeds Retaliate With Friendly ‘Hello-o-o-o Day For the day of May 2, all members of the fairer sex will don pigtails, freckles, glasses and cotton dresses, to participate in the AWS sponsored “Hello-o-o Day,” a day devoted to smiles and general all¬ round friendliness among the students. “Hello-o-o Day” correspond to round friendliness among the students. “Hello-o-o Day” corresponds to for this purpose of creating a better attitude among all students. The plan is for all women stu¬ dents to braid their hair with a Early Easter morning, Sunday, April 21, one of the first Easter Sunrise Services in Pasadena’s history will be held in the famed Rose Bowl. The program, beginning at 5:00 a. m., will feature the presentation of an original Easter story and the playing and singing of appropriate musical selections. In addition to the traditional Easter theme, the underlying vein of the program will be a memorial to those whose lives were lost in World War II, and a solemn dedication on this, the first Easter of peace. This aim will be carried out by a message, around which the service is based, written by Katharine Kester of the PJC drama department. The message, inspired by Cardinal Spellman’s The Risen Soldier, unites the three themes, resurrection, peace and memorial and is to be narrated by Mr. Nathan Hale, noted author and play wright, Gordon Spaulding, of Pasadena Playhouse fame, and Joella Anderson, PJC student. Spencer Tracy to Read Scripture As a part of the message, the scripture and a special poem will SPENCER TRACY ... orator be read by Mr. Spencer Tracy, honorary OMD member and father of a PJC boy. Musical selections for the program will be presented by the com¬ bined vocal organizations of Pasadena Junior College under the direction of H. Leland Green, and the Sunrise Choir, a combination of the civic chorus and many church choirs, under the direction of Dr. Richard Lert. Featured as vocalist will be Miss Betty Jaynes, former operatic star, whose selections are to be Bach Gounod’s Ave Maria and I Know That My Redeemer Liveth. City Board Sponsors PJC Project Sponsored by the City Board of Directors, the sunrise service has been entirely planned and arranged by PJC students and faculty under the chairmanship of Marian Moser, Walt Raitt and J. Ray Risser. Special buses will be run directly to the Rose Bowl. Schedules will be announced in Pasadena papers next week. Tickets for the event are now available free of charge at the Student Bank, the Chamber of Commerce and the Broadway Depart¬ ment Store. However, 30,000 seats are available for which no tickets are necessary, and reserved seats will be held only until .4:50 a. m. Soph Sock Hop Slated for Saturday Pan American Day Program Shown “Close-ups of Latin America,” a Pan American Day commemor¬ ative program, was presented last night by social science students in the Altadena Farnsworth Park auditorium. Written and produc¬ ed by the two classes of history of the Americas and Pan Ameri¬ can relations, the show highlight¬ ed the outstanding southern coun¬ tries for postwar travel. Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Cuba were spotted by speeches, a fashion show, dances, songs and dramatic selections. The whole program was present¬ ed with the theme of tourist trav¬ el and the hope that many in the audience might be encouraged toward visiting our southern neighbors. Shown through the magical medium of television the Latin numbers were welded by the nar¬ rated script of announcer Dewey Wallace. red ribbon on the right pigtail and a white ribbon on the left one, to wear glasses with the glass removed and the rims paint¬ ed a bright color, to wear cotton dresses -and to paint freckles a- cross the nose with a pencil. Community Day Contest “Hello-o-o Day” will continue to Community Day, May 3, when prizes for the longest and short¬ est pigtails and the most typical country girl will be awarded. Measurements of these braids should be put in Betty Rutte’s box in 29C or in the Dean of Women’s office. It is hoped that women stu¬ dents will take as much of an in¬ terest in their “Whiskereeno” and that all will cooperate to help make “Hello-o-o Day” a success. Plans for this day are being made by Betty Rutte, AWS pres¬ ident and her board. All students, no matter what grade level, are urged to enter and to make this Community Day spirit even better than the last one. junior college, conducting class¬ es in Polish and English dialects. During the occupation, she was active in underground work and turned her writing talents to the editorship of underground news¬ papers. To aid Miss Zytormirska in col¬ lecting funds, the SCA’s week- long drive, from May 1 to May 8, will be a “rocket race to Po¬ land.” Clubs on campus have been asked to nominate their own “pilot” and back him in his flight, each five cent ticket send- him five more miles. A large dis¬ play in the main hall will show each flyer’s progress on a world map. After “grounding” the slowest flyers during the first three days, the voting will con¬ tinue until a complete blackout Wednesday noon. At this time there will be a show in the aud¬ itorium, with cartoons and short subjects. The only requirements for a man student to be a “pilot,” is that he be passing in all his class¬ es, and that he turn in an entry blank and a snapshot of himself to the SCA office, 25C, by April 26. The name of the winning “ace” will be announced at the OMD Festival, when there will be a joint coronation with the queen elected in the OMD drive. Festival Winners Revealed at Tea The Little Theater was the scene of festivities Tuesday after¬ noon when awards were present¬ ed to the two winners of the up¬ per division Frederick Arthur Smith contest. From the ten finalists selected from the preliminary contest, judges chose as winners Nancy MacNaught and Hal Cleveland, on the basis of convincing character portrayal and dramatic achieve¬ ment. Judges for the event were: Graydon Spaulding, Shakespear¬ ean actor; Mrs. J. P. O’Mara of the Shakespeare Club; Mrs. Es¬ ther Cogswell, head of the Wil¬ son drama department; and Miss Mildred Poorman, Chronicle ad¬ viser. Presiding at a colorful tea-table after the contest, members of the English Council under the super¬ vision of Miss Dorothy Dixon, English department chairman, served refreshments. The table was decorated in yellow, with daf¬ fodils and iris as a centerpiece. Finalists in the lower division contest who will compete Thurs¬ day are Barbara Bree, Shirley Brown, Joan Dahlgren, Eleanor Eby, Jo Anne Good, Emilie Hole, Florence McNabb, Pat Penny, Elizabeth Warner, Tom Wirick, Charles Young and Janene Zim¬ merman. Tomorrow night from 9 to 12 the Women’s Gym will be the scene of the Soph Sox Hop, a dance given by the twelfth grad¬ ers for the entire student body. “Miss PJC Coed” will be attir¬ ed in her best sweater skirt, or a cotton dress; her escort will choose slacks, cords or levis. Loud socks are the best possible cover¬ ing for the feet, since not a single person will be admitted who is wearing shoes, sandals, boots, harachis, coolies or any other kind of outer foot gear. Admission to the dance will be eighty cents per couple, and bids may be obtained from any Soph Council member or at the door of the gym. Since a prize is to be given for the loudest socks displayed at the dance, all attending are asked by the Soph Council to dig up their old yellow and purple argyles or any other bright socks. Men have been requested to shave their beards and to resume speaking to the female contingent of the school before attending the dance. Such scenes as this will take place tonight in the “ice box” gym when contestants in all weight divisions will battle for the golden gloves championship. Admission for students will be 50 cents; general admission, $1.10 and reserved seats, $1.25.