Pasadena Chronicle, April 18, 1941

Vol. 32 Pasadena Junior College, April 18, 1941 No. 37 200 Co-eds Carnival Queen First Judging This Afternoon More than 200 co-eds will par¬ ade before Mast and Dagger judges this afternoon in the pre¬ liminary carnival queen judging. Only 20 of these girls will ad¬ vance into the finals next week. From the 20 contestants picked by OMD members this afternoon the 1941 Carnival Queen and her court of six princesses will be chosen. The carnival queen will reign over the 15th annual Mast and Dagger Carnival on May 16. In¬ tent on carrying out the carnival theme of “Joe College,” OMD members are expected to pick girls who most typify the colle¬ giate co-ed. The seven girls of the carnival court will be an¬ nounced several days before the carnival, and the queen will be coronated at the carnival. OMD President “Swish” Ogura announced that applications for booths at the carnival will be taken at the East Campus Stu¬ dent Body offices on April 25 from 12 to 3 p.m. He warned that “Mast and Dagger has ac¬ commodations for only 100 of the school’s 125 organizations and a first come-first served pol¬ icy will prevail.” Business School Courses Train Clerical Workers For Defense Jobs Thousands of trained young men are needed to meet the de¬ mand for semi-clerical jobs in the aircraft production and ship¬ building industries, according to an announcement by Mr. Leland M. Pryor, director of the School of Business, PJC, West Campus. In order to meet this demand, a defense training class has been established by the School of Busi¬ ness to prepare young men for these jobs. Class begins Monday, April 21, from 3 to 4 p.m. daily, in Room 101, West Campus. Registration opens at this time also, with the class continuing untl the end of the semester. JC men are urged to train now for assured positions in the De¬ fense program. Students having satisfactorily completed one se¬ mester of typewriting may en¬ roll free of charge. Offered in the course are blue¬ print reading, elementary filing and indexing, elementary rec¬ ords, techncal vocabulary, and trade arithmetic. Mr. George Juett, West Cam¬ pus faculty member, will act as coordinator for the defense train¬ ing program between the student and business. Lyle Smith Plays For Senior Dance Only 400 bids have been print¬ ed for the annual Senior Dance tomorrow night at the Masonic Temple (200 S. Euclid). These are distributed on a “first come, first served” basis. Music will be provided by Lyle Smith and his orchestra from 9:00 until 12:00. Classical Director Paul Carroll . . . Unusual CarrolTs Latest Liliom; Colorful HungarianTragedy, Set For May 2 Festive carnival settings, trag¬ edy, Hungarian atmosphere, in¬ termingle to make “Liliom,” an¬ nual Delta Psi Omega production scheduled for May 2. Unusual in that it has a stu¬ dent director (Paul Carroll), “Liliom’s” cast is headed by La- mont Johnson in the title role; Nan Wallace, in her second PJC production; Dorothea Straub, Mickey Payne, and Marion Sprott. AUTHENTIC COSTUMES Delta Psi Omega faculty ad¬ visor William O. Payne has ar¬ ranged with Mrs. Nelbert Choui- nard to borrow authentic Hun¬ garian costumes for the produc¬ tion. Mrs. Chouinard also loaned the cast slides she took in Hun¬ gary just before the war broke out. Shown at rehearsal Mon¬ day, they pictured costumes, street scenes, helped cast with atmosphere. “Liliom’s” setting consists sale- ly of risers, is technically known as an “abstract stage.” Curtain rises on a crowded carnival scene, characters are slyly in¬ troduced to the audience. No Fines 35 Citations Given Auto Drivers In Latest Police 7Blitz As a follow-up to the traffic “blitzkrieg” which swept the East Campus a few weeks back, Pasadena police spent several busy hours last Monday serving some 35 citations to unwary stu¬ dent automobile owners on the West Campus. NO FINES LEVIED Well pleased with the results of the raids, Captain Morris felt that much progress had been made over the inspection of a year ago. All faulty equipment has been corrected and the court was not forced to levy any fines, he added. Music Pegasus Presents Ken Baker In Today^ Assembly Center of attraction at this morning’s assembly will be Ken (Baker, his, orchestra and soloists. Baker is well known to PJC au¬ diences, played for last semest¬ er’s AMS stag, is engaged for the Pegasus dance April 25 at the Glendale Civic. Baker’s orchestra is probably the youngest in the world: the oldest member is only 25 and the youngest 20. Known as the “Prince of Rhythm,” Baker is a local Glendale product, has many friends here at PJC. Besides the Pasadena Civic, Ken has played for audiences at Victor Hugo’s in Beverly Hills, Hollywoods Palomar, the Cotten Club, and to theater crowds at the Shrine auditorium in Los Angeles, to mention a few. Gather Findlay Speaks ‘ Job Personality ' To West Campus “How to develop personality and its importance in business.” will be the topic of an address given by Bruce Findlay, super¬ visor of the visual education di¬ vision of the Los Angeles Board of Education, when he speaks next Wednesday to West Campus business students. Sponsored by Magnatura, west campus business club, it promises to be one of the most educational assemblies of the year. Business students will be excused from their ten o’clock classes to attend. After graduation from Pomona College in 1917, Mr. Findlay at¬ tended Yale, USC, and a modern business college. Among other schools he taught at USC. From his position at USC he went on to be Assistant Superintendent of the Los An¬ geles City Schools. However he Bruce A. Find-lay . . . Jobs resigned this position in 1928, be¬ cause he' felt the need of addi¬ tional practical business experi¬ ence. For three years he was man¬ ager of the Chamber of Com¬ merce Convention department. During his last year in this ca¬ pacity, Los Angeles led the na¬ tion in volume of convention business. He resigned in 1939 to resume his educational work. Amidst his many activities Mr. Findlay has found time to collaborate with his wife on two books widely used in the school system: one, “Key and Cue,” dealing with business fundamentals, and the other, “Tell-A-Vision Plays.” Zeta Gamma Phi Initiates New Members Zeta Gamma Phi, honorary art fraternity, formally initiated eight new members April 15. Members for “Zeta” are chosen for their ability, personality, and attitude. The new members are: Anita Pollock, Albert Mason, Barbara Webb, Helen Polopolus, Stewart Weber, Miriam Morgan, Joe Bosch, Joseph Eto. PJC Music Department Presents Colorful Spring Festival April 25th Colorful peasant girls singing songs of their native land will feature PJC’s Spring Music Festival, April 25, Sexson Auditorium. Well known pianist Margaret Elner will play a Liszt Fantasy accompanied by the PJC Symphony Orchestra. Also featured will be Pasadena’s May Sakoda, young Japanese soloist, singing “I Know My Redeemer Liveth” with orchestral accompaniment. This year the concert serves as. a homecoming for members of PJC’s five vocal organizations, and its symphony orchestra. Nysean Singers will be directed and accompanied by Lula C. Parmley, chairman of PJC’s ambitious Music Department; Euterpean Singers, Carrie M. Sharp directing; A Capella Choir, Mable M. Oakes director; Men’s Glee Club with Isobel Smith director, and the Women’s Glee Club, Kath¬ erine Barnard directing. All will appear separately and in huge massed ensembles with orchestral, piano, organ accompaniment. Students may obtain free tickets by exchanging coupon No. 28 in their ticket book at the bank. General admission price for the pubic, 25 cents. PJC Takes Over City 7Boys and Girls Week7 Gives Students 1000 One-Day Jobs Traditional custom of the city of Pasadena each year is to hold a “Girls and Boys Week.” During this week students of Pasadena are given a chance to take over the reins of city gov¬ ernment, including business, medical, clerical, law, and other branches of city administra¬ tion. Gaining valuable vocational experience, students are also given a chance to meet pros¬ pective employers. Sponsored by Pasadena Junior Chamber of Commerce, “Boys and Girls Week” is to be held this year April 27 through May 3. С. C. Stewart . . . “Fill jobs according to merit” Doolittle, Smith Shakespeare Contests Celebrate Month of Bardb Birth Dramatic events that create great interest annually among the student body of Pasadena Junior College are spring contests in the interpretation of Shakespeare’s plays. Held during April, the month of Shakespeare’s birthday, these contests assume the atmosphere of a festival, promote gay rivalry among the competitors, who may be found any¬ where on the campus these days, alone or in groups, rehears¬ ing their scenes. Preliminaries were on April 3 for the Frederick Arthur Smith Memorial contest, in which the following students were chosen as finalists: Katharine Gibbs, Nancy Gillies, Helen Nomura, Eleanor Prosser, Marian Sprott, Francelia Welch, Thomas Bax¬ ter, Clarence Carpenter, Sylves¬ ter Deming, James Chamlee, Elmo Mitchell, Rodney Whitlow. The final contest will be held at 3 p. m., April 17, in the Little Theatre, East Campus. Mrs. Esther Cogswell, Wilson Junior High school; Miss Eugenia Ong, Pasadena Community Playhouse; Miss Blanche Townsend, Rice School of the Theatre, will act as judges. TRY “TWELFTH NIGHT” A special feature of the pro¬ gram will be scenes from “Twelfth Night”, under the di¬ rection of Miss Katharine Kes- ter, with Jane Pieratt as student director, and the following cast: Feste, Rita Mae Fuller; Maria, Katharine Gibbs; Countess Oli¬ via, Jean Elder; Malvolio, Daniel Livingston; Sir Toby Belch, Frank Williams; Viola, Eleanor Prosser. This contest bears the name of one of Pasadena Junior Col¬ lege’s most gifted actors, who died in the spring of 1939. The last school activity in which Frederick Arthur Smith partici- ( Continued on Page 2) Information Please7 Spartans Will Cook Dinner For Faculty Men Wednesday New and novel feature of the Faculty-Spartan dinner Wednes¬ day, April 23, is the announcement by Annette Soghomonian that the Spartans will cook and serve the dinner for their guests, the male members of the faculty. * About the middle of each semester, the East and West Cam¬ pus Spartans give a dinner in the social hall at one of the campuses and each girl invites one faculty member as her guest for the eve¬ ning, the women instructors in the fall and the men in the spring. Following the popular trend of the moment an “Information Please” quiz will take place after dinner with both students and faculty participating. Impromptu stunts, which always provide many laughs, is another feature in the evening’s entertainment. Assisting Annette, who is the chairman, are East and West Cam¬ pus Spartans: Betty Jean Devine, Thelma Gates, Doris Sirth, Evelyn Morick, and Mabel Murfee. At Ease! ROTC Unit Plans Military Ball At Gold Room Harried and drill weary cadets of PJC ROTC unit, are pausing to mop perspiring brows, pluck occasional gray hairs from wind- fa u r n e d, sun-tanned temples. From the lomliest buck-privates to top cadet officers the men are looking forward to a gala eve¬ ning of dancing, a week from today, when practically the en¬ tire unit of over 600 men will in¬ vade Pasadena’s Civic’s Gold Room to stage their annual Mili¬ tary Ball. Blitz invasion is sched¬ uled for eight o’clock sharp. Not content to make the ball a restrictive one, PJC military unit plays host to the regular army, the officer’s reserve corp, six other cadet units from sur¬ rounding communities. The program for the evening will consist of reception of guests by ROTC head man Cap¬ tain Sam Carter, USA, Captain Lawrence Ballard, USAR, Lieu¬ tenant Henry Downey, USA, Ca¬ det Lt. Col. Francis Bordeaux, Cadet Major Sam Weiss. If ca¬ dets and escorts safely negotiate this procedure, they are for a the presentation of awards time free to do as they will. Mili¬ tary pipers will be imported from Los Angeles. At the presentation of awards, protruding chests of the best comany commander, noncommissioned officer, pri¬ vate, and best freshman, will be adorned by appropriate medals. Adding to the spectacle a saber arch will be formed by the en¬ tire corps of PJC’s cadet officers, to be followed by the Grand March. JOBS OPEN Each day of the week is given over to a special purpose. Three days are set aside to give stu¬ dents a chance to gain practical experience in their chosen field. On Tuesday, April 29, govern¬ mental and civic offices will be turned over to students. Probable positions open this day are city attorney’s office, (four boys to act as attorneys) city library (six librarians) prosecuting attorney (one boy lawyer) city directors (seven boys or girls) welfare de¬ partment (three girls from the social science department) Mr. Koiner’s office (one boy to act as city manager) city auditorium (a sub auditorium manager and a sub civic community dance manager) Brookside Park (golf course and plunge manager and a superintendent of parks) and five boys for police department. Thursday, May 1 business and industry is to be run by students. Jobs available on board of education, teaching, counseling, banks, business ex¬ ecutives, banks, secretaries, sales clerks. Several hundred places are open this day. Friday, May 2, is health day. Primarily for pre-meds and nurses, two departments are open — Emergency Hospital (one boy, one girl, to act as Doc¬ tor’s assistants) Health Depart¬ ment (two boys). Some openings will be had for those interested in branch fields, laboratory as¬ sistants, doctor and dentist as¬ sistants. Last year 600 were given one- day jobs; more than 1000 are ex- ( Continued on Page 2) Yearbook for 42 Board Approves ASB Fee Increase For Next Year To insure students a book- bound annual next year in place of the semi-annual magazine “Campus,” PJC’s ASB board yes¬ terday approved a measure to boost the present student body fee 25 cents a semester. The measure will go into effect when school takes up next fall. DEMAND YEARBOOK After weeks of careful con¬ sideration the board adopted the increase to put a stop to the objections from the stu¬ dent body in regard to this year’s “Campus” and permit the publication of the tradi¬ tional yearbook. CLASS FEES INCLUDED As a part of the measure just passed, present 25 cent semester class fees will be included in the yearly ASB fee. Always before, class rates have been collected separately from the ASB fee, but together equalled $5.50. With the 25 cent semester increase for student body membership, the year’s total rate will now be six dollars.