Vol. 32
Pasadena Junior College, April 25, 1941
No. 38
Chronicle Managing Editor Davis, Adviser Hodges . . .
talk over plans for editing Pasadena Post on May 2 with
Post City Editor Arnold Huss ( who speaks on ‘‘Journal¬
ism As a Profession” in room 158C this morning at 8 :50)
Semi-annual Chronicle editing of the Post is held in con¬
junction with Boys and Girls Week.
April 27 - May 4
Vocal Groups
Spring Concert
Tonight Features
PJC Symphony
By exchanging coupon No. 28
at the Student Union, students
may obtain free tickets to one of
PJC’s best productions of the
year, the annual Spring Concert
tonight, featuring the five vocal
organizations and the Symphony
orchestra with Margaret Elner
and May Sakoda soloists.
PIANIST FEATURED
Margaret Elner, versatile pian¬
ist who is also a member of the
Nysaean Singers will play a
Liszt Fantasy. May Sakoda, who
recently returned from Japan
after several years absence will
sing “I Know That My Redeem¬
er Liveth” from the Messiah.
The vocal half of the .pro¬
gram will be closed by the com¬
bined groups of 300 voices
singing “The Heavens Are
Telling” from the “Creation.”
A group of Czechoslovakian
girls in native costume will ap¬
pear as guest artists singing
songs of their homeland.
PJC Students Take Over City
For 7Boys and Girls Week
In 1920 New York City’s Rotary Club founded a youth
observance which within a few years spread to all parts of
the world. Designed primarily to focus public attention upon
students activities and progress, “Boys and Girls Week” is
being nationally observed April 27 through May 3.
Sponsored in Pasadena by the Junior Chamber of Com¬
merce, PJC has two active days of participation — Tuesday,
April 29, and Thursday, May 1.
Tuesday will be city government
day, Thursday city business day.
Last year 600 positions were
open to interested students, this
year there is room for more
than 1000. Even so Dear. J. A.
Anderson announced four appli¬
cations for every job had been
turned in. Most popular single
office was that of City Manager,
having over 20 applications.
ONE DAY JOBS
Hand-picking the one-day job
holders was a committee com¬
posed of one faculty, one stu¬
dent, and one Junior Chamber
of Commerce representative. An¬
nouncement of those obtaining
positions is posted on the door of
24
С
(E). Students will be given
absence excuses, introduction
letters to downtown office in
24 C.
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35th Consecutive
Davis-Hall
Speech Contest
On May 13
Awards Presented
ROTC Cadet's
Military Ball At
Civic Tonight
More than 600 of PJC’s ROTC
cadets, and hundreds of visitors
from other ROTC units through¬
out Southern California, will at¬
tend the annual Military Ball this
evening at 8 p.m. in the Gold
Room of the Civic Auditorium.
Distinguished army and reserve
corps guests will act as recep¬
tionists.
Unique entertainment will be
furnished by several military
pipers from Los Angeles. Part
of the evening will be devoted to
a presentation of shiny new med¬
als to the best company com¬
mander of PJC’s unit, the best
non-commissioned officer, the
best private, and the best fresh¬
man private. These were chosen
by competition earlier this week.
May 2
A great number of post cards
have been sent out by the Music
department inviting former mem¬
bers of the vocal organizations
to come to this Homecoming
concert. The reply has been a
gratifying response from alumni
signifying their intentions to at¬
tend. Admission price for par¬
ents and friends outside of school
is 25 cents.
'Does Education Pay?'
Noted Educator
Will Speak Here
On May 5
Dr. Willis J. Sutton, superin¬
tendent of schools of Atlanta,
Georgia, will speak on “Does
Democracy Pay?” at PJC’s East
Campus Sexson Auditorium on
May 5 from 7 to 9 p.m. This
event will climax Pasadena ob¬
servance of the 22nd annual
Public Schools Week, April 28 to
May 5, and will carry out the
general theme of “Education, the
bulwark of Democracy.”
Dr. Sutton’s outstanding speech
at the recent National Educa¬
tion Assn, convention in Atlantic
City stamped him as one of the
foremost educational speakers in
the country. Starting time of the
speech has been advanced to 7:30
to enable Dr. Sutton to make
early plane connections foi At¬
lanta. A band concert by the
PJC Bulldog Band will precede
the speech.
'Liliom/ Delta Psi Omega Play
Features Emotional Depth7
Relying for their success on “emotional depth emphasized
by scenic environment,” “Liliom” producers are using little
stage equipment, many picturesque background?, elaborate
costumes, in this annual Delta Psi Omega production, May 2
in Sexson Auditorium.
“Liliom’s” rehearsals run without a hitch, progress ra¬
pidly, because “we are stressing smooth technique and or¬
ganization to eliminate ordinary rehearsal tension,” says
For the 35th consecutive year,
the better speakers of PJC will
meet, May 13 in the Social Hall
to decide the winners in the an¬
nual Davis-Hall speech contest.
As usual winners of 1st and 2nd
places will receive the Davis-
Hall gold medals. Preliminaries
are to be held April 28, in 104 D,
from 2 to 5 p.m.
Traditionally one of the out¬
standing speech events of the
season, this year’s contest prom¬
ises to be most timely because of
the topic “Youth Looks at the
World,” which win be the theme
of all speeches. Elizabeth Rems-
berg, faculty supervisor, expects
the seven minute talks to cover
a great variety of fields and
thoughts, because of the exten¬
siveness of the theme. There will
be no restrictions on the subjects
chosen so long as the speaker
expresses his own opinion as well
as what he has read. The contest
is open to all active student body
members of PJC. All orations
must be memorized and delivered
without notes.
Interested students should con¬
tact Miss Remsberg in 172 C
MWF at 10 or 11, or in 160 C,
9:00 MWF or 11T Th as soon as
possible.
BACTERIOLOGIST SPEAKS
Dr. Arthur Foord spoke on
“Laboratory and Clinical Diag¬
nosis in Relation to Medicine” at
a recent meeting of the Aescu-
lapians.
faculty advisor Wm. O. Payne.
BACKGROUNDS HOMEMADE
Backgrounds, “merely a type
of peasant design to give color¬
ful support to play, action,” are
being made by June Spencer,
will be projected upon the back
stage by a Linnebach projector.
COSTUMES FROM HUNGARY
“Liliom’s” costumes were ob¬
tained in part from the Choui-
nard Art Institute, came direct¬
ly from Hungary. Other cos¬
tumes for the large cast are be¬
ing made from five 60 yard bolts
of cloth by stage design classes
under direction of Edith Cran¬
dall. Girl’s outfits have one and
three-fourths yards of cloth in
each sleeve; five yards in each
of their six petticoats; “caps . . .
they perk, have ribbons tying
under belts.”
F ilms--Exhibits-Demonstrations
Future Jobs Will Be
Discussed At Today's
Vocational Conference
Aiding the student body to learn more of their chosen
vocation or to help others decide, is the thought behind this
morning’s semi-annual Vocational Conference Day.
Formerly the spring semester was reserved for a voca¬
tional day, giving the students a chance to display their hob¬
bies, but during the last few years vocational day has become
so popular and in such demand by the students, that avoca-
ASB President Bill Burke
. . . his board will probably
have smaller melon to cut for
next year.
1941-42 Budget
April 30 Is
Deadline For
Budget Requests
Looking far ahead in Finance
Seci'etary Jim Eley who has is¬
sued a call for requests for a
share in the 1941-42 ASB budget.
Notices have been sent out to
those organizations now receiving
a part of this years funds; oth¬
ers which now have no account
but expect to need funds next
year should see Eley in the Dean
of Record’s office or the West
Campus Bank.
DEADLINE APRIL 30
Warning that each activity
must turn in an itemized appli¬
cation before April 20, Eley of¬
fers his assistance to the vari¬
ous organizations and their fac¬
ulty advisors who have trouble
in drawing up such a budget.
“The April 30th deadline is man¬
datory for all who wish full con¬
sideration to their applications,”
Eley stated.
This year’s total income will
be up approximately §3000 as a
result of the increase in ASB
fees; good part of this increase
will go to the printing of the
traditional Campus which suf¬
fered this pear due to a short¬
age of funds.
This year’s funds with 7000
students enrolled totaled §96,000,
next year’s will probably be
much lower with enrollment off
due to national defense jobs.
First Come, First Served
OMD Carnival
Booths Issued
At Noon Today
If your organization plans
sponsoring a booth at the 15th
annual Mast and Dagger Carni¬
val on May 16, come to the East
Campus student body office to*
day 12 to 3 p. m. as applications
for booths and concessions will
be given out at that time.
OMD President “S w i s h”
Ogura warns prospective spon¬
sors that, “there are 125 or¬
ganizations on both campuses
and Mast and Dagger has ac¬
commodations for approxi¬
mately 100 booths, so a strict
“first come, first served” poli¬
cy will prevail. Applicants
must have booth application
blanks completely and correct¬
ly filled out.”
Last year Thesus, ROTC re¬
strictive club, won first prize for
most successfully carrying out
the carnival theme. The sopho¬
more class won first prize for
selling the most articles (pop¬
corn). Booths should carry out
the “Joe College” carnival theme
in an original manner.
Regulations for booth appli¬
cants are:
1. Applications will be ac¬
cepted at the beginning of the
12 o’clock period.
2. No place in line can be
held except by the presence of
the club representative.
3. One person can represent
one club only.
tional day has been discontinued
entirely.
Nearly every field features
speakers who are well known in
their profession, thus enabling
the student to gain a true picture
of his vocational choice.
Highlights of the morning
Dr. George H. Merideth, on
“Teaching,” Mrs. Fairfax Walk-
up of the Playhouse, her sub¬
ject is “Drama as a Profes¬
sion,” Arnold Huss, City Editor
of the Pasadena Post, “Jour¬
nalism as a Profession;” Ham¬
mond G. Nash, “Merchandis¬
ing,” and David O’Leary, Depu¬
ty District Attorney of Pasa¬
dena, “Criminology.”
Instead of a speaker the En¬
gineering and Technology De¬
partments are sponsoring a
sound film, “Look to Lockheed
for Leadership” which will be
shown in the auditorium, and an
open house will be held in the
Technology building. Life Sci¬
ence is featuring a Wild Flower
Exhibit, Photo Exhibit, and Films
in 104 D.
Nationally known tennis stars
will be featured in a tennis dem¬
onstration on the Boys’ Tennis
courts. Ellsworth Vines will offi¬
ciate, while Frankie Parker, Hel¬
en Marlowe, Walter Wesbrook
and Jane Stanton will play an
exhibition game.
Regular Friday schedule is in
use today at East Campus, where
closed campus rules will be en¬
forced. Since no assembly is
scheduled for West Campus the
regular schedule will be followed.
Essay Finalists
PJC Students
Cooperate In
May Day Meeting
Tentative plans for the patri¬
otic mass meeting to be held in
the Civic Auditorium May 1.
were advanced Wednesday at a
meeting of civic and educational
leaders called at the suggestion
of Dr. John R. Lechner, chair¬
man of the Americanism Educa¬
tional League. At the May Day
meeting, starting at 8 o’clock,
the 36 finalists in the essay con¬
test, “My Idea of a Good Ameri¬
can Citizen” will find out at that
time who the 6 winners of the
major awards are.
DENNY TO APPEAR
Reginald Denny, well known
actor will act as master of cere¬
monies. Plans to date include an
appearance by a Hollywood mo¬
tion picture star, and perform¬
ances by Pasadena Junior Col¬
lege musical organizations.
Dr. Lechner, introduced by
Chairman W. L. Blair, managing
editor of the Post-Star News,
said of the contest: “This type of
project encourages the best in
our young people, increased the
faith of older persons in youth
and demonstrates the values of
our democracy.”
Duke Rinaldi’s Band To Play
Only 27 Out Of 220 Girls
Still Left In Carnival Queen Contest
Only 27 co-eds, out of more than 220 applicants, remain in the
race for the coveted role of OMD Carnival Queen. In two prelimi¬
nary Ridgings last Friday, Mast and Dagger members carefully
weeded out all but the most typical “Joe College” girls. Next Wed¬
nesday seven girls will be picked out of the 27 left, six of these girls
will be Carnival princesses— one will be queen.
Duke Rnaldi, popular PJC band leader, was signed to play for
dancers at the carnival, held on May 16 at the East Campus. Senior
President Bob Heublein will be master of ceremonies at the dance.
QUEEN CORONATED AT CARNIVAL
Announcement of the Carnival court (six princesses and queen)
will be made several days before the Carnival. Announcement of the
girls who will reign over the Carnival as queen will not be made un¬
til the night of the carnival, May 16. The queen will be coronated
the evening of the carnival.
The 27 girls who are still in the queen contest are: Phyllis
Anderson, Mary Bacon, Shirley Biller, Mary Bronson, Martha
Campbell, Muriel Clark, Lorraine Gouert, Gerry Griest, Mollie
Hill, Katherine Hubbard, Betty Rose Knapp, Betty and Dorothy
Kumer, Virginia Marston, Jeannie Olivera, Marilyn Phillips.
Esther Petzoldt, Madelne Reilly, Jerry Shaw, Dorothy Stevenson,
Anita Sympson, Berta Uriarte, Jerry Ward, Virginia Webber, Elea¬
nor Wilcoeks, Marilyn Wortman, and Margaret Zeebold.
Margaret Zeabold. . . gets reassunng nod, from Mast and
Dagger judges . . . goes into finals.