Favor Shift
Of Vacation
To Summer
By Dave Davis
Discussion of a new angle on
the annual Easter vacation week
headache — postponement dur¬
ing the present crisis — entered
its third week today, as opinions
of the Administrative Staff of
the Junior College were passed
on to Dr. John A. Sexson, super¬
intendent of schools, for furth¬
er consideration.
Last February 13, Audre
Stong, dean of men, wrote a
letter to Dr. John W. Harbe-
son, principal, in which he
stated his reasons for recom¬
mending the abolishment of
this year’s Easter vacation.
Mr. Stong (see Col. 1) felt
that the lure of paying jobs,
immediate work would cause
many students to leave school
before June 27th, and that if
Easter week were not cele¬
brated, school would close the
20th and all students would
remain in classes until that
time. Mr. Stong suggested
that it would be a good chance
to do away with the annual
Easter week “debacle.”
This letter was sent to Dr.
Harbeson who replied that he
was, to a certain extent, in fa¬
vor of the postponement, for it
certainly would aid students
who wish to work during the
summer in getting an early
crack at available jobs, and it
would also conserve much of
the material and energy that is
so badly needed at present. Dr.
Harbeson does not favor the
Easter week removal as a per¬
manent move, for as he ex¬
pressed it, “it provides an ex¬
cellent break during a tough
stretch of work.”
Easter Vacation for PJC
has long served as a surefire
debate topic for parents,
teachers, and students, but
this time the course of action
is more clearly oui lined than
ever before.
Since national existence
depends on the outcome of this
war, students have biggest stake
of all, and are therefore willing
to throw all they have into the
battle. It is unfortunately true
that some JC clubs have already
reserved houses for Easter, but
if the recommendation is passed
by Dr. Sexson, the club’s fi¬
nancial loss will not be great —
and as for the rest of the stu¬
dents — well, it is pretty definite¬
ly established that they are not
so petty as to cry over a few
days freedom from school,
when some of their classmates
are giving their lives to defend
the principles and practices of
just such institutions as PJC.
Yes, if we can get through
this war without losing any¬
thing more than five days vaca¬
tion we’ll be a mighty fortu¬
nate bunch.
SCA HOLDS DINNER
Serving as a portion of the
social end of the Student Chris¬
tian Association, a dinner was
held last evening at the Central
Christian Church, 5:45 p.m.
Vol 33 Pasadena Junior College, February 24, 1942 No. 22
Pledges
Restrictive Club Bids Issued Friday ;
Rushees Face Two Weeks' Pledging
Issuance of restrictive club bids and holding of acceptance dinners last Friday concluded the sec¬
ond semester’s round of rushing, determined new pledges who are now subject to two weeks’ of
misery at the hands of old members. Although list to date is incomplete, number of pledges seems
relatively small compared with last year’s crop.
Barrymore To
Offer Skit In
March Concert
A young people’s concert to
be presented at the Civic Audi¬
torium, March 6, will offer mu¬
sic lovers of Pasadena schools
an opportunity to see Albert
Coates, world famous director
of the Los Angeles Philhar¬
monic Orchestra, and Lionel
Barrymore, stage and screen
personality. Price of admission
10c and 25c.
Designed to instigate classi¬
cal appreciation in the youth
of Pasadena, the program will
include “Peter and the Wolf”
as read by Lionel Barrymore,
a skit accompanied by the or¬
chestra. The Philharmonic Or¬
chestra of Los Angeles will
make the first appearance at
the Civic Auditorium in sev¬
eral months, presenting light
operatic and concert program.
Tickets for the occasion have
been distributed to the junior
highs and are on hand at the
music department of PJC where
they may be purchased from
any of the music instructors.
They also may be had for a
limited time at the Civic Audi¬
torium box office and at F. C.
Nash and Co.
Amphion: Art Killian, Grief
Richard, James Mayfield, War¬
ren Helgeson. Areops: Russell
Cramer, Carl Blahnik, Kenneth
Hiestand. Baccy: Chuck Ship-
pey, Bill King. DAC: Robert
Gordon, Hale Thomas, Darrell
Tobias, Chuck Edison, Bob
Graff, Ross Handy, Don White-
head. DSR: Harold Coombers,
James Procto, Frank Miller, Jim
Backer, Donald Butler. MOS:
Cliff Sharp, Tuck Menning, Bill
Lee, Johnny Owen, James
Munn. OCD: Dale Peers, Dick
Malcolm, Dave Picton, Bob
Leech. Odion: Jack Collis, Tom
Horn, Irving Noren, Jim Robin¬
son, Ted Steell, Bill Riter, Bob
Beaver. ODN: Edward McGach-
an. Omicron: Freelen Edwards,
Bill Scott, Bob Swain, Chester
Herzberger. OSF: Merritt Kel¬
ley, Bud Hartman. OSR: Carl
Walser, Darrel Meadows, Dar¬
rell Danielson, George DeSmet,
Wayne Tappon, Eugene Keith.
Pantheon: Don Webter, George
Morgan, Bob Gordon, Ray Ab¬
bott. Pegasus: Wally Ridout,
Tom Stanton, Bob White, Frank
Wyche, La Verne Kelley, Jorgen
Hansen, Clark McQuay, Tom
Cozzens, Donald MasLeod. Pha-
tian: Gene Killam, Gordon John¬
son, Bill Dube, Bob Perine, Paul
Lowrey. Sequoia: Dick Van de
Veere, Bill Sargent, John Os¬
good, Bob Wilfong, Clyde Welch,
John Cessman, Don Langille.
Zama: Chuck Adams, Jerry
May, Hal Stratton, Melvin Baer,
Huddy Scott, Ted Winn, Ben
Carr, Bill Milon.
Albibetes: Shirley Jo El wood,
Louise Halverson, Eloise Ewing,
Phyllis Brohn, Virginia Weber.
Aeolian: Dorothy Dunton, Mary
Baker Sue Christy. Alphometa:
Shirlee Milldrum, Jane Wells,
Pat Murphy, Barbara Oster,
Joanne Hauke, Helen Bench.
Abracadabra : Lorraine Gadow,
La Verne Matthews, Mary
Munn, Claire Kibby, Ruth Ken¬
yon, June Ostermann. L’Amitie:
Lou Ann Lawton, Bonny Lewis,
Rosemary Babb, Helen Doolittle,
Virginia Fuller. Tioga: Lois
Woodward, Jean Russell, Alice
Wellman, Lola May Cameron,
Dorothy Palmerston, Jean Thiel,
Nancy Macgregor, Marilyn
Davies, Dorothy Dassey, Helen
Knox, Winnie Lambert. Soreile:
Jean Hyne, Norma Lehmer,
Dorothy Kienholv, Betty Lou
Joslyn, Ann Wallace, Delfie
(Continued on Page 4)
Efficient
Ernie Blumberg.
Appointed
Associate Prexy
Last week the Board of Rep¬
resentatives further strength¬
ened PJC’s tight student gov¬
ernment by appointing effici¬
ency-expert Ernie Blumberg As¬
sociate Student Body President.
The position was made vacant
when Tom Ames, elected at the
close of last semester, left PJC
for an institute of higher learn¬
ing.
Politically experienced, Blum¬
berg was the Board’s popular
choice and will represent the
East Campus in all student ad¬
ministrative affairs. In addi¬
tion to various minor offices, he
has presided over AMS, control¬
led Lancer’s policing policies
last semester, and is a member
of OMD.
Dean Stong
Gives View
On Proposal
Dear Dr. Harbeson:
It would seem to me for vari¬
ous reasons that we should do
away with spring vacation. Be¬
sides the fact that it will close
our school a week earlier enabl¬
ing our summer school-minded
students and teachers to make
their first classes in summer
school, there are two or three
other reasons why this office
thinks it advisable.
First, there are a few stu¬
dents who are holding up their
enlistments until the end of
school and they will want to
leave the last week of school
as it is, before receiving their
diplomas. School holding over
until the 27th of June will
mean these students will not
be here for graduation, and
they Would stay if the school
year was shortened one week.
Second, even 11th graders
now are getting offers of jobs
of summer employment. And
11th graders, seventeen-year-
olds, now take examination
for work in Forestry, trail
and road building and fire
fighting, at sufficiently good
pay that even they are leav¬
ing about the 20th of June,
when the real fire hazzard
starts and when the Forestry
Department demands them.
When the fever of going to
work or attending the summer
school session strikes the boys
in the 11th grade, it will play
havoc all the more with 12th,
13th and 14th grade boys; so
to me, from not only the ADA
point of view and actual get¬
ting over of semester material,
but from the point of view of
keeping the boys here for grad¬
uation, yet make enlistment,
jobs and summer school avail¬
able earlier, I think the school
should hold right through East
er week. In these harried times,
I wonder if a week of loafing at
beaches is not a bad policy and
the killing of that week is
worse for the serious-minded
boys than going to school would
be.
AUDRE L. STONG,
Glen Riley RICO president is seen above shaking hands with new
Areop pledge, Kenny Heistand as he receives bid from Dean Stong
