Pictured above is a typical climax to the last two weeks of rushing — bids out today. (See story at right)
WRICC Bids Today; Male
Students Pledging Now
Duly received by a meager percentage of remaining male population, restrictive club bids
were issued last Friday afternoon through Dean Stong’s well-populated office.
Today’s issuance of bids from Women’s clubs, will climax two weeks of frantic rushing
and the hard-to-remember period of silence between Thursday midnight to 3:30 p.m., when
approximately 130 bids are released to nervous rushees. Miss Catherine Robbins’ office (E)
and Miss Olive Kelso’s (W) will be the scene of both joyful anticipation and heart-ache.
Lucky pledges will slide from sublime to rid iculous as initiation parties, although deprived
of too much informality by Council regulation, will, nevertheless, lose the dignity of teas,
breakfasts, etc., and properly introduce victims to the mysteries of “Sorority Initiation.”
AMPHION: Winifred Sample, George Rowe, James Blakesley, Louie George, Clarence
Garrison, Stanley Juleen. AREOPS: Jim Hey wood, Bob Harbison, Bob Trefzger, Bob Mayall,
Dick Gray, Russell Fritchey, Howard Joyce D.A.C.: Bob Brandin, Jim Herndon, Steve Jeffers,
Henry Boyd, Bob Clemmer, Frank Wilson, Don Liljenwall, Steve Whittlesey. M.O.S. Jack
Norton, Jack Cook, Stuart Bates, Tom Grant, Bill Skelton.
D.S.R. John Templeton, Jack Reitzel, Louis Sundstrum. O.S.F.: Bill Thralls, Jerry Scott,
Irving Cobb, Bob Ames,. O.S.R.: Fred Cornett, Lanny Joyner, Neil Goedhard. PEGASUS:
Bill Fuller, Jim Moore, Bill Saunders, Randolf Wright. SEQUOIA: Ken Kendall, Charles
Mar kell, Hal Stratton, Joe Peterson, Harrison Kelley, Bill Barnes. ZAMA: Bob Martin, Ted
Eckerman, Bill Eddy, Harvey Heather.
Ignorance Veils Patriotic Assembly
Board Will Replace
Sanborn; MacLeod,
Schmalz Considered
LAST MINUTE BULLETIN: Tentative plans for today’s as-
Vol. 34
Pasadena Junior College, February 11, 1943
No. 17
sembly, released by Dean Stong, following a conference with Bob
Graff are: Lincoln’s Gettysburg address by Bob Frame, a speech
Abbott, Costello
Valentine Theme Popular ;
AWS Officers Installed
With the emphasis on women’s activities, due to a lack of
campus men, the AWS-sponsored Valentine party, last Wed¬
nesday, in Sexson Auditorium was an assured success.
Hit of the afternoon, the full-length motion picture, “We’re
In the Navy,” starred Abbott and Costello. Previously seen
by the majority of the audience, it was, nevertheless, greeted
with the hysterical out-bursts heard only in large gatherings
of women students.
West campus cuties, urged on
by AWS president, Ruth Wylie
(W) crowded private cars, in¬
vaded street cars, city busses to
arrive at the Sexson Auditorium
in time for the 3:30 entertain¬
ment
Riot Coed Party
Cabinet Holds First
Confab, Hash Problems
Shades of the fabulous Peter Paulson Cabinet of ’40 were re¬
flected in the warm Life Science lecture hall early yesterday morning.
Sitting on the up-raised dias was not the receeding hairlined Paul¬
son, but quipping Bob Harbison, ASB vice-president. An ambitious
assortment of student leaders occupied the biologist’s chairs. Their
capacity for the semester upon them is one of advisement and ad¬
ministration for the legislating student board. They come from all
walks of the campus, and supposedly know more about at least one
PJC activity than anyone else.
Meeting every three weeks’ they hash over each other’s prob¬
lems, form a basic pattern of recommendation to Bob Graff’s
Board. Yesterday further discussion on an old apple was wormed
over. The problem of combining several cabinet posts, seeming
rather superfluous in war geared PJC, is still before the Board,
which to date has only appointed committees of investigation.
The Cabinet attacked the muddle vigorously, however, was not
adequately informed for intelligent discussion.
Cabinet members are listed below: Secretary of Men’s Athletics,
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Fresmen dance to music of Herb Atkins at Hi-Jinks, Friday night.
TUCK MENNING
. . . not for his life
Prosecution
Hatches New
Trial Angle
A surprise angle prepared by
defense attorneys, Don Boyer and
Sam Prichard will set off bomb¬
shell for Tuck Menning in illegal
parking court trial tonight.
A complete surprise to the pro¬
secution as well as to the as¬
sembled audienee will be a mys¬
tery angle unveiled at tonight’s
session. Up to that time, attor¬
neys concerned refuse to talk.
Today finds Tuck Menning
serenely confident of victory, hold¬
ing complete faith in his defense
attorneys, Sam Pritchard and
Don Boyer.
“I know,” he said in an exclu¬
sive interview with the Chron¬
icle, “that with such an efficient
court system as we have in this
school, the possibilities of convict¬
ing an innocent man are nil. I in-
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SUE CHUTE
. . . starts things rolling
Catch Men
Is Problem;
Dance Nears
Girls will escort lucky males
to semi-annual Backwards Dance,
February 22, from 9:00-12:00 at
the Civic Auditorium. Coeds can
purchase tickets on both cam¬
puses at 55 cents a couple. Tues¬
day, February 10 a meeting was
held in Miss Catherine Robbin’s
office where theme and orchestra
were discussed. Janet Frayne,
newly elected secretary of Social
Affairs, and her committee, with
Miss Robbins are assuming gen¬
eral chairmanship of the affair.
Refreshments, served by Bar¬
bara King’s committee, carried
out the Valentine motif. Plan¬
ned by AWS presidents, Sue
Chute (E) and Ruth Wylie (W)
and under the direction of Miss
Catherine Robbins and Miss
Olive Kelso, the girls “get-to¬
gether” united frosh, new-com¬
ers, sorority girls, and just
plain students in an afternoon
of fun and general merry-mak¬
ing. Special thanks were ac¬
corded to Beth Johnson, enter¬
tainment; Mary Faith Martin,
tickets; Francis Alex, reception;
Margaret Schultz and Janet
Safford, publicity.
One of Sue Chute’s (E) and
Ruth Wylie’s (W) first activities
as newly elected AWS presidents
was the coed party. Also recog¬
nized by Miss Robbins and Miss
Kelso at the installing service
were: First vice-president, Beth
Johnson (E), Wynell Morton
(W) ; second vice-president, Betty
Johnson (E), Joan Commerford
(W); third vice-president, Fran¬
ces Alex (E), Betty Stegner (W);
secretary, Barbara King (E),
Emmy Butikopher (W) ; treas¬
urer, Mary Faith Martin (E),
Marion Hall (W).
Betty Jean Schneider and Nicky
Curren late AWS presidents,
reached special stages of conster¬
nation when gavels were discover¬
ed missing. Their failure to arrive
in time, however, did not dampen
the enthusiasm of the coeds, and
the meeting broke up with the
general faith in coming year.
on Lincoln by Dr. William Langsdorf, and patriotic music. Milk
bottles will be passed to collect money for mailing Chrons to
service men.
By BILL ANTHONY
The Chronicle went to bed (i.e. press) around supper time
last night. Within five minutes before the huge forms were
lifted off the stone and laid upon the press bed, today’s as¬
sembly was still a mystery to the editors. Not a single stu¬
dent or faculty member responsible for PJC assemblies would
talk. All professed ignorance,
moter is planning to pleasantly
surprise the assembly audience
with a sparkling exhibition, or a
hastily, mid-nite planned sequence
of drab speeches is to greet the
unsuspectors, will only be reveal¬
ed in the assembly itself.
It has been rumored that Con¬
federate sympathizers have been
at work sabotaging the proposed
patriotic motif. Gremlins, too,
have been accused of perpetuat¬
ing the greatest hoax as yet not
played upon the student body.
Constantly barraged all day yes¬
terday with Chron reporters seek¬
ing a clue, Deans Robbins and
Stong, usually in the know, could
offer no explanation. Assembly
advisor R. L. Dalager likewise
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So whether some clever pro-
