Pasadena Chronicle, December 17, 1937

CHERYL WALKER WILL RULE AT TOURNAMENT PASADENA CHRONICLE ELECTION APPLICATIONS DUE TODAY VoL XXK Pasadena Junior College, Dec. 17, 1937 No. 14 Application For Offices Due Today Major Student Body Officers Polling Set For January 15 Applications for major elective student body offices for next se¬ mester must be in the application box at the Student Union building by four o’clock today. The stu¬ dent body presidency, the office of Chief Justice, AMS and AWS presidencies, minor AWS and AMS offices, and the presidencies of the sophomore, junior and senior classes are open for next semester s election and may be applied for now. APPLICATIONS SIQNED The printed application blanks, which may be obtained in the Stu¬ dent Body offices, include, besides the applicant’s name and the office for which he wishes to run, a list of subjects being carried this se¬ mester and the grade being made in each. The cards must be ap¬ proved by the deans. Bob Coates, chief justice, con¬ trasted a junior college office with that of a junior high position in pointing out the heavy demands made on office holders. JUSTICE EXPLAINS “Students wishing to serve the school in a student body position must be willing to sacrifice a great deal, in order to put in the long hours of work connected with any of the offices open for election,” Coates stated. The Chief Justice is in charge of the election particu¬ lars. The offices are open to all schol¬ astically approved students as well as to the present officers, who may succeed themselves in office. Ac¬ cepted applicants will have their names on the ballot for the pri¬ mary election, scheduled for Janu¬ ary" 14. The final election will be run o(F on the day after the pri¬ maries, Saturday, January 15. EXAM SCHEDULES REVISED •Scheduled to take the place of the former three hour semester exami¬ nations, a plan has been formulated by the administration under which all semester exams will last for on¬ ly two hours. REASON STATED “Because of the fact that a great¬ er number of students than ever before are signed up in three and four o'clock classes, due to the al¬ tered class hours which went into effect this semester, the two hour exam schedule is necessary,” John A. Anderson, dean of records, said. For this reason, it was necessary to provide for eight periods of exams instead of the former six. Under the old schedule, it was possible to work in a three hour exam for every class within a six- day period. With the new addition of more classes, it would take eight days to complete three hour exams for every class. However with the shortening of exams to two hours, it will still be possible to work all examinations into a six day period. THREE EXAMS A DAY . Under the new schedule, there will be three examinations instead of two each day. The schedule has been worked out in such a way that the smallest possible number of students will have three exams in one day. LIBRARY LAB PROVES USEFUL It may be a library laboratory to those in charge, but it is just 20C to social studies survey and survey of commerce students. Discussions on soil erosion, the rural problem, and the national income are read and devoured here daily. The room proves a great aid to students in the so¬ cial studies courses. Each few weeks these classes take up a new unit of work, and all the books in the school li¬ brary pertaining to the unit are placed in this room to make them easily accesible to the stu¬ dents. At the end of each unit the books are changed in prepa¬ ration for the coming week. A list is being kept of the stu¬ dents that use the room, as well as a list of the number of books taken out, in an effort to deter¬ mine the popularity of the li¬ brary laboratory. “If the ex¬ periment proves successful, a similar room will soon be pro¬ vided for the Humanities Survey classes,” states Miss Grubel, librarian. Queen Annual Cheryl Walker To Rule Over Forty-Ninth Rose Tournament; Coronation Due At Ball Chronicle Staff Edits Post Chronicle staff members bad com¬ plete charge of the editing and writing of the Pasadena Post for last Tuesday, under the supervision of Wayne Hodges, adviser to the Chronicle. “I appreciate the generosity of the staff of the Pasadena Post and Star-News for allowing us to edit the paper. The experience given the students of journalism will prove invaluable to them,” Mr. Hodges said. HAN DLE E V ER YTH I NG Students handled all phases of tlie work, including organization of city coverage, reporting and writ¬ ing of all local news, writing of syndicated and local “columns,” editing of telegraph news, page make-up, photography and writing of headlines. Editors were A1 Gutzmer, edi¬ tor-in-chief; Merilyn Nutt, manag¬ ing editor; Jack Burtt and Harold Shafer, city editors; Dale Clayton, news editor; Georgianna Stacy, feature editor; and Ed Van der Veen, sports editor. OTHER WORKERS Others of the staff were Jack Clark, Bob Allison, Barbara Burtt, Betty Burt, Ralph Norton, Freda Groff, Shavenau Glick, John Bow¬ den, Hank Shatford, Jerry Carll, Don Courtier, John Beckler, Bob Ross, Helen Averitt, Berniece Jahn, Hallie Horne, Leila Belle Richey, Alice Wilson, Holis Goddard, Bette Miller, Helen Cochran, Forrest Duke, Renfrew Hopkins, Archie Hayward, Beverly Gray, Linwood Wilde, Margaret Holmes, John Lu- casj Roger Armstrong, Gayle Krai, Jim Haines and Margaret Lacey. WEEK'S NEWS IN BRIEF Student body election application cards due in Student Union build¬ ing this afternoon for eligibility in major elections. Page 1. * * * Cheryl Walker selected as Tour¬ nament of Roses queen to reign supreme over court of seven prin¬ cesses; will be crowned on 29th. Page 1. * * * Sophomore class dance to be held this evening in Gold room of Civic auditorium. Don Ricardo’s band to swing at 8:30. Page 1. * * * Assembly at 9:50 a. m. today features Players’ Guild presenta¬ tion, “Christmas that Bounced.” Page 3. * * * Rev. John F. Scott of All-Saints Episcopal church speaks at convo¬ cation last Friday on “Weak Spots.” Page 1. * * * Chronicle staff edits Tuesday morning’s Pasadena Post, gaining daily newspaper work experience. Page 1. Zeta Gamma Phi Win Float Design Prizes Joy DeLonge, member of Zeta Gamma Phi, honorary art frater¬ nity, received the honor of design¬ ing the theme float which will carry the Tournament of Roses queen and her court. Out of the 90 de¬ signs submitted to the judges, Miss DeLonge's was awarded first prize. In addition to this honor, she will receive a cash prize of 25 dollars. Her design represents a huge crown upon which the queen will sit. Margaret Bacon, also a Zeta Gamma Phi member, took second prize in the contest. She will be given an award of ten dollars. Don Kubly, a third prize winner from the same society, designed the float which is to be used as the Pasadena city schools entry. His design takes the shape of an orchid, and is 'appropriately named “Orchid Queen.” A prize of 20 dollars was awarded for his work. OPEN FORUM HEARS FACULTY MEMBERS Three members of the faculty held a panel discussion of the “Relation of Science and Human Happiness” at a meeting of the Pasadena junior college Open For¬ um, held last night in 202E. Dr. John McMorris, of the physi¬ cal science department, Lynn W. Hattersley of the social science de¬ partment and Fred Hoffman of the humanities survey classes were the men who served on the panel at this, the last Open Forum meeting of the year. Dr. McMorris upheld the view¬ point that science and human hap¬ piness are entirely divorced from each other, Mr. Hattersley ex¬ plained the relation between the social sciences and human happi¬ ness and Mr. Hoffman claimed that human happiness is inseparably re¬ lated to science. Fingerprinting Will Continue After Xmas Comely Cheryl Walker smiles when she hears the good news that she has been chosen to reign as queen of the Tournament of Roses. She won out over six other finalists who will serve as prin¬ cesses. They are Jetsy Posthuma, Beverly Arnett, Anita Edmison and Winifred Gordon of PJC; Winifred Argetsinger and Jean Stud- ley of Muir Tech. Fingerprinting on the campus for civilian identification will continue after vacation unless the majority of the student body has been fin- day. Bob Stapleton, student body j DANCE DUE TONIGHT AT CIVIC president, who is in charge of the fingerprinting, estimated that 1000 students had been fingerprinted up to last Friday. This first fingerprinting project at PJC, which started November 22, has been sponsored by the Pasa¬ dena Lions club in cooperation with the Associated ^Student body. The student union building will be the headquarters for the fingerprinting project after vacation. SOPHOMORE PRE- CHRISTMAS Don Ricardo’s famous NBC twelve-piece band will play for the sophomore class dance tonight in the Gold Room of Civic auditorium. The semesterly affair is scheduled from 8:30 to 12 p. m., and will be informal, according to Bob Braden, class president, in charge of arrangements. Bids may be obtained free by anyone at the door, the first 300 couples to come being ad- *- - ; - mitted. This limitation must be %• Aiding these council members imposed because of accomodations J wiU> suggestions and advice are providing for not more than this 1 B°b Stapleton, Roger Tierney, and number, according to Dick Shan- ! others. QSO MEETS TONIGHT QSO, the Pasadena junior college short wave club, will meet tonight, December 17„ at 7:30 p. m. in 203E, Mr. Skeeters’ physics class¬ room. Everyone is urged to be on time for this business meeting. Speakers, eats and prizes. non, vice-president. HAS PLAYED BEFORE Ricardo’s orchestra has played for PJC affairs in the past, last year playing for an assembly and the junior dance. Council members working with Braden on the ar¬ rangements are Lucille Remy, Pat Lewis, Howard Vose, Dick Shannon, Dick Brown, Nadine Gunderson, Elizabeth Farris and Harold Sha- EDITORIAL A few days ago, we saw a stu¬ dent going about 40 miles an hour down Colorado street out in front of the campus — with four others in the front seat. Why didn’t W. W. line them up and try to shoot his four friends with a sub-machine gun, instead? It amounts to the same thing, except that it would be easier to miss with bullets. There are four death spots on the campus, according to Mr. Hill, head of the English department. They are on the parking lot, the straightaway in front of the cam¬ pus, the corner of Hill and Colo¬ rado and the Sierra Bonita-Blanche intersection. It is a few like W. W. who make these sport-spots what they are. But one thing that really made us feel good last week was seeing a teacher with the front page edi¬ torial of last week’s Chronicle tucked under her arm walk to the curb, look both ways before walk¬ ing across the street and then wait¬ ing for a car to cross instead of trying to get across first. Frankly, we never expected the reaction we did get out of that last week’s editorial. We hope it did as much good as is indicated, for among the people who seemed in¬ terested were Courtenay Monsen, secretary of the board of education; Charles Kelly, chief of police; Charles Prisk, editor of the Pasa¬ dena Star-News; Audre Stong, local j dean of men ; and many others, j It was reprinted in the Star-News j on Monday. With cooperation from people like .that, we ought to be able to really do something about the traffic problem. In fact, steps have been taken to do just that. Bob Coates, chief justice, and Bob Stapleton, student body presi¬ dent, are at the head of the student police, including Vernon Lief’s Lan¬ cers. According to reports from the student administration, more arrests have been made this week, and students and faculty report a change for the better in the park¬ ing lot and other congested areas. Downtown and state police have also been seen at work around the PJC campus. With cooperation like that from all sides, we need only to enlist the help of the students themselves to make of the traffic problem only an interesting topic of conversation. The list of chaperones included members of the staff of the sopho¬ more class sponsors, members of the junior class administration, ami parents of the class officers and council members, including Miss Catherine J. Robbins, dean of women; Dean of Men and Mrs. Audre L. Stong; Dr. and Mrs. John W. Harbeson; Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Braden; Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Shan¬ non; Mr and Mrs. Myron Lewis; Mrs. J. B. McLean; Mr. and Mrs. Nor Jaqua; Major and Mrs. F. E. Bertholet; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson; Miss Abbie Butler; and Miss Verona Rockwell Kerr. DESIGNS BIDS This dance is a traditional event. Last year the present sophomore class held its freshman dance in the Shakespeare clubhouse on De¬ cember IS. Bids for this semester’s dance have been designed by Nadine Gun¬ derson and Elizabeth Farris, art students who are members of the council. Other traditional func- Continued on Pape Three Her Majesty Will Be Crowned Wednesday, December 29 Amid a chorus of surprise and approval. Miss Cheryl Walker, 19-year-old PJC girl was revealed last Tuesday evening to be the unanimous choice for the Queen of the 49th Annual Tournament of Roses. On the evening of December 29 Miss Walker will be crowned Queen Cheryl at the Coronation Ball in the Civic auditorium, and with her chosen court princesses, the Misses Beverly Arnett, Anita Edmison, Winifred Gordon, Jetsy Posthuma, Winifred Argetsinger, and Jean Studley, she will rule over the Tournament until the last gun has gone off for the Cal-Alabama fracas in the Rose Bowl. PRESENTED AT BALL Queen Cheryl and her court will be presented so that every one at the ball may see them, according to Robert McCurdy, head of the Civic auditorium. This year there is to be an elevated stage, 110 feet in length and 40 feet in width, to be set up at the west end of the dance floor. The stand will be flanked on one side by the president’s box, where all of the Tournament officials will sit, and on the other side by the queen’s box, from which Queen Cheryl and her princesses will reign. ‘NAME’ BAND TO PLAY Decorations for the ball will be in a black and white motif with all of the stage set in these shades. The scheme will be further carried out by costumes of the “name” or¬ chestra, which will be announced too late for this Chronicle edition, and by the entertainers. Acts direct from New York City are being included in the floor show"', as well as the Fanehon and Marco dancers, according to Elmer Wil¬ son, civic auditorium impressario. Over 200 people will take part in the presentation of the royal court, and the use of the elevated stage will be a great improvement over Continued on Pane Three OUT-OF-STATE CLUB HOLDS HOBO DANCE Out-of-State club members held a hobo dance last Friday evening, December 10, in the men’s gym. Costumes to carry out the theme were worn, the men coming as tramps or hobos and the girls wearing cotton dresses. Decora¬ tions were appropriate to the oc¬ casion and refreshments were served. The club held its last meeting during assembly period last Friday in 202E, where they made final plans for the affair scheduled that evening. RECTOR SPEAKS AT CONVOCATION ' “Eighty per cent of all crimes are committed between 6 p. m. and midnight,” the Rev. John F. Scott said at the convocation last Mon¬ day. The rector of All Saints’ Episco¬ pal church used this illustration to point out the results of ill-used leisure time. “Weak Spots” was the theme of Dr. Scott’s speech as he discussed three major weak spots, which have to be overcome in human nature: temper, laziness and deceitfulness. SPEAKS OF HUMOR Dr. Scott, who is a graduate of Harvard and Cambridge, spoke of a sense of humor as an aid in over¬ coming an unruly temper; “as to the four kinds of humor— there is the person who doesn’t laugh at all; he who laughs at his own jokes; the one who laughs at other people’s jokes; and the fellow who laughs at himself.” Speaking of laziness, the example of Daniel Webster’s overcoming his indisposition to achieve his success as a statesman was presented. ' Laziness spoils chances for suc¬ cess,” added Dr. Scott. WEAK SPOTS TOLD The two main reasons for de- ceitfulness, are the fact that we hope to get something we don’t deserve and that we are afraid to take the consequences. The three mam objectives modeled to destroy our weak spots, according to Rev. Scott, are honesty, industry, and self-control. “If you don’t get your weak spots — ultimately, they will get you,” he stated. This was the third convocation to be held in the new John A. Sex- son auditorium. Miss Kathleen D. Loly, head of the foreign language department, introduced Dr. Scott. The PJC string quartet closed the program with Christmas carols. SUPPER GIVEN BY TRITON COUNCIL Triton members and a few in vi ted guests were present at an in formal supper in the new socia hall of the D building, Tuesday December 14, from 5:30 to 7:3. P- m., sponsored by the Tritoi couneil. The purpose of the Triton Coun cil is to aid new students in mak mg friends and in. meeting tb presidents of organizations in whicl they are interested. Service am co-operation are two standards о the council. Miss Catherine J. Robbins, deal of women, started the council in tb fall of 1936 and, from a group о 10 girls, it has grown to one wit! 30 members. The duties of Tritoi have enlarged considerably, am to date several successful partie. for new students have been given