Pasadena Chronicle, February 26, 1937

ELECTION IS IN CLASS MEETINGS jtasaiicim Ш (fljvomdc ALPHA GETS 137 NEW MEMBERS Vol. XXVIII Pasadena, California, February 26, 1937 No. 23 Elect New Members To Alpha Honor Society Elects 137 New Members To A.G.S. WILL MEET MARCH 2 First Meeting Of Semester Will Be Held Tuesday For Scholars With one of the largest mem¬ berships in the history of the or¬ ganization, according to Miss Kathleen D. Loly, an adviser, Al¬ pha Gamma Sigma, honorary scholarship society of the Pasadena junior college, will meet for the first time this semester next Tues¬ day evening, March 2, at the Uni¬ versity club. More than 135 new members will attend the meeting. Life members of the organization are Barbara Barnett, W. Kenneth Bodger, Shizuko Fujimoto, Dillon Glendenning and Vincent Guinn. Members Tolds Newly elected members are Mar¬ iano tG. Abejon, Yoneko Aisawa, Claude E. Allen, Roy D. Allen, Charles V. August, Howard Bach¬ man, Elizabeth Louise Bailey, Frances Roberta Bailey, Hazei Bankson, Soflora Ann Barber, Mar¬ guerite Dominick Blake, James R. Bobbitt, Gordon Theodore Bowen, Margaret Helen Bradfield, William Bowles Brownell, Dorothy Louise Burket, Chester Lee Callander, Leland B. Carter, Marion Lucille Chisholm and Bettie Clara Clough. Arthur Bernard Cole, Louise Col¬ lins, Jose Colon, Rachel Joy Colvin, Marilyn G. Cox, Wilbur Davie Cra¬ ter, Donald Cyr, Barbara Caroline Daley, Dorothy Frances Davis, Dorothy Jane Davis, Betty Jane Diemer, Eloufi Dorn, Evelyn Marie Dorrell, Corinne Durham, Samuel Calvin Edinger, Marjory Elaine Ein, Paul L. Epperson and Beatrice Erichsen. Richard Kennedy Farnham, Frank Edgar Paris, Robert Fey, Ruth H. Fisher, Barbara Marie Fitch, William Peter Fosselman, David Freeman, Doris Aline George, Esther E. Getty, Alice Catherine Gibbs, Mary Rosalie Gieseler, Frederic Leland Gillett, Dorothy Elizabeth Gobbe, Thomas Edward Hanes, Clifton Ferrell ( Continued on Page Three) Prizes Given By Pomona To be awarded on the basis of competitive examinations, ten scholarships to Pomona college for the year 1937 and 1938 are being offered to junior college students of advanced standing. With half -of the money available for the first semester, and half for the second, one scholarship of $300 and two $150 scholarships are be¬ ing offered. Five other $150 schol¬ arships are also offered. For a student who does satisfactory col¬ lege work during the first semester and is nominated by Alpha Gamma Sigma, the tuition for the second semester is offered. The examination will be given in Claremont, Saturday, March 13, and all students interested should file an application with the fee of $2.50 with the committee on ad¬ missions before March 1. Mary Elizabeth Rudge, who graduated from Pomona college last week, and Yvonne Littlejohn, a recently enrolled member of the college, are both former students of Pasadena junior college. John Philips, a former Pasadena high school student, was awarded the second prize of $25 for excel¬ lence of speech among freshman men. Formerly a member of the Pasadena junior college male quar¬ tet, Paul Owens was selected as tenor soloist in the Pomona glee club, of which he has been a mem¬ ber for a year. DR. CHEVALIER IS BACK THIS TERM Dr. Marion Chevalier, who taught on this campus two years ago, has rejoined the language department as instructor of French. For this semester she is taking the place of Miss Elizabeth Richards who is leaving for Europe next month. Dr. Chevalier studied at the Uni¬ versity of Southern California and at Johns Hopkins university. Be¬ fore taking her doctors degree at Johns Hopkins she studied in Paris at the Sorbonne, Ecole des Chartres and College de France. Forty Clubs Meet Today In Semester’s First Club Hour - * - General Meetings Not Scheduled To Enable Students To Attend Individual Club Meetings On Campus - + - With more than 40 clubs scheduled to meet, the first club period of the semester will be held today during assembly period on the campus. Meetings feature both open and closed conclaves, and all students are welcome to any of the open meetings, according to Bill WeilJ secretary of organizations.' No general meeting has been scheduled for today’s club period as heretofore. “We want all stu¬ dents who are at present unaffili¬ ated with any organization to be¬ come interested in at least one club on the campus,” Weil stated. “By having no general meeting as is usual we are giving all students an opportunity to attend some meeting.” Talks Will Be Featured Many of the open meetings to be held this morning will feature talks and lectures, some illustrated with slides and moving pictures. In¬ cluded in the list of subjects to be covered by these talks are art, na¬ ture, cosmetology, architecture, navigation and merchandising. Four separate meetings will be held by the members of the lan¬ guage department, with meetings of French, Spanish, German and Latin students in IQ, 100T, IS and 2Q. The language groups will com- Organization onsor Of Art Exhibit Sp< Students Show Work School Library Until March 5 In Sponsored by Zeta Gamma Phi, junior college honorary art frater¬ nity, an exhibit is now on 'display in the school library. The exhibits, comprised of the work of student artists, will remain in the library until Friday, March 5. Charles Reynolds, known as Chang to readers of Vo-Mag where a portfolio of his work was re¬ cently published, is among the stu¬ dents who have work on display. His lithograph of jungle life takes a prominent place in the showings. Students Exhibit A painting in oils entitled “Colt” is hung at the exhibit, by Phoebe Howell. Castleman Wilson also contributes to the section of the exhibit devoted to wild life and figure drawings with sketches done in charcoal, crayon and chalk. Jim Hawkins, art editor of the school magazine, has also contributed fig¬ ure drawings, as well as land¬ scapes and free composition, and Bob Dickenson, technical artist, has several architectural water color studies at the library exhibits. Others Display Work Other members of the art frater¬ nity who have contributed work in¬ clude Thomas Laursen, Lila Ren¬ ner, Genevieve McLean, Jane Hare and Charles Lesher, with art com¬ position in figure, landscape and general reproduction, in several mediums. • According to Lila Renner, cor¬ responding secretary of the art as¬ sociation, a surrealist party will be held sometime next month by mem¬ bers of the club, with the ultra modern cubistic trend in art as a motif. Attorney To Talk To Club With a United States district attorney scheduled as the ■ chief speaker, the Newman club of Pas¬ adena junior college will hold a free Communion breakfast at St. Elizabeth’s church, Sunday, Febru¬ ary 28, following the 7:30 Mass. Bob Wager, president' of the club, said, concerning the meeting, “This breakfast is free to all Catho¬ lic students interested in our ac¬ tivities and I feel sure that this should add greatly to the attend¬ ance.” Entertainment will be under the direction of Miss Virginia Hoe- val, newly-elected social secretary. Students wishing to make reser¬ vations are asked either to sign the paper in St. Phillip’s hall or call STerling 2968 or Alhambra 8318W. REPRESENTATIVES ASKED To insure a more adequate and complete coverage of news, presi¬ dents of all non-restrictive and hon¬ orary clubs are requested to ap¬ point Chronicle representatives as soon as possible. A list of officers has been requested from the ad¬ visers of these clubs, and so far but one answer has been recorded. bine business and social activity. An auction will be the feature of the meeting of the Philatelic club, Pasadena junior college stamp collector’s society. According to club officers, stamps will be auctioned and door prizes will be given at the meeting. Religious Clubs To Meet Several of the school’s religious organizations will meet. The Bible club will meet in 3Q to hear a talk by Paul Somers, YWCA general secretary of Pasadena, while mem¬ bers of the local chapter of New¬ man, Catholic social club, will hear a speech by Father Keating, Cath¬ olic minister. Lutheran students- will meet to form a new club, no Lutheran organization being ex¬ tant upon the campus at present. Many clubs will meet for election of officers or other business, includ¬ ing RICC, men’s RICC, Women’s Rifle club, American Home club, Out-of-State, Albibete, Abracadab¬ ra, Phatian, Pamphile, Bryddofeth, MOS and Mast and Dagger. All members of these organizations are urged to be present, and aspirants for membership are invited to many. “Art of Makeup” Topic Of special interest to girls will be the Trianon meeting, where a cosmetologist from Nash’s depart¬ ment store will speak on the sub¬ ject, “The Art of Makeup.” The discussion will be open to all inter¬ ested women students of Pasadena junior college. “This is one of the largest club periods we have ever held,” de¬ clared Weil. “Started last уезг, club periods are held once a month to enable clubs to meet during school hours and to give students a better opportunity to become in¬ terested in extra-curricular activi¬ ties.” Records Ojji ce Announces 216 More Students Showing an increase in regis¬ tration of 216 students over the same period in 1936, the official figures of the records office up to the close of registration, Mon¬ day, February 15, were released this week. The total enrollment for the spring semester of 1937 is 4053, and includes 35 nurses enrolled in the school of nursing at the Huntington Memorial hospital. Last year at the same time there were 3837 students enrolled in the school, of which 39 were nursing students in attendance at the hospital. Figures as to the total enroll¬ ment in eah class in the school were not available, but will probably be tabulated early next week, according to Mrs. Lucile Barrington of the records office. Arizona Field Trip Planned Ghost mining towns, Indian res¬ ervations and an old mission are just a few of the things in store for geology students during the an¬ nual Easter vacation field trip, ac¬ cording to E. V. Van Amringe, geology instructor. Areas of south¬ ern Arizona will be covered by the caravan of cars which will leave Pasadena on Friday morning, March 19. All students going on the trip will be excused from classes on Friday, thus providing an early start and enabling the group to spend two nights in Tusc- on, Arizona. The caravan will proceed through Imperial valley, stopping at the kyanite mines of the Vitrefrax cor¬ poration, and camping at Tumco, a ghost mining town in the Cargo Muchacho mountains, Friday night. Saturday morning they will jour¬ ney on to Tucson and visit the campus at the University of Ari¬ zona. Sunday services will be held at San Xavier del Вас, one of the most picturesque and brilliantly colored missions in North America. The entire service will be given by the Papago Indians. The rest of the day will be spent m visiting several mines in the vicinity, the Sahuaro National Monument, the natural reserve of desert plants, and the Colossal Cave, a limestone cavern, rivaling those of Carlsbad. Covering an area of 1700 miles, the wanderers are due back in Pasadena by the Saturday night before Easter. Students will be expected to cook their own meals and sleep on the ground or in sleeping bags if necessary. MUSICAL GROUPS GIVE PROGRAMS Vo-Mag Sale Is Taken By Senior Class Sophomores Lose, As 869 Copies Of Magazine Are Given Out Making sales totaling 869 copies, the seniors and sophomores com¬ pleted the sale of Vo-Msg last week, according to Miss Ida E. Hawes, dean of guidance. The seniors came out ahead in the contest, in which they were pitted against the sophomores, by a close 23 sales. The seniors sold 446 copies of the guidance depart¬ ment publication, while the sopho¬ mores sold 423 copies. Individual Winners Louise Hall and Henry Swafford, as a sales team, together sold more copies of the book than any other team, and they are to receive a prize for their efforts. With Jack Pettingall, business manager, in charge' of sales, and James Greene and Irwin Guihan working under him as sales mana¬ ger and subscription manager re¬ spectively, the issue sold very well, according to Miss Hawes. “The sales results have been very satis¬ fying,” she said, “and we wish es¬ pecially to thank the members of the two classes for their coopera¬ tion in this matter.” Next Issue Told Coming out on April 21, the next issue of Vo-Mag will feature “Mod¬ ern Art.” Carter Cordner, editor, and James Hawkins, art editor, are already laying plans for the issue, and features which they hope to include in the publication will be color reproductions of modern ar¬ tists’ work, and articles by several authorities in this field. Dramatists Record High Vote Is Cast, As 67 Per Cent Of Class Mark Ballots Harold Shafer Is Frosh President, Muriel Stevens Chosen Soph Viee-Prexy, Earl Roulac Named To Junior Office, Senior Candidates Tie At a recent meeting of the East¬ ern Star organization of Pasadena, the Pasadena junior college male quartet, under the direction of Miss Carrie Sharp, and the Nysaean singers, with Miss Lula C. Parm- ley, head of the music department, as director, gave a concert last Friday. Last Monday evening, at the D. A. R. Washington birthday din¬ ner held at the Pasadena Athletic club, a program was given by the male quartet. Excerpts from Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” were presented by the Euterpean singers, under the direction of Miss Sharp, who were guests of the Los Angeles Opera-Reading club at the Biltmore theater last Tuesday. Offer Plays Members of Bauble and Bells club were guest players at the regular weekly meeting of the Pasadena Drama Guild last Tues¬ day evening at 8 p. m., and pre¬ sented a play entitled “Little Prison,” enacting the predicament of five women caught in a stalled elevator. Miss Nancy D. Applewhite was assisted in the production by Lor¬ raine Gilb, student director, and Mrs. Michael Hallward. The cast of the play included Betty Ellen Evans, Ann Sanborn, Miriam Shoop, Frances McBride and Jeanne Doris Nordwall. As a curtain raiser, a short, “The Collar Button,” was presented by the group and was directed by James Sherman. More productions of this type will be sponsored by the Pasadena Drama Guild. For the purpose of voting in new members and deciding on a definite membership policy, Bauble and Bells will hold a very impor¬ tant meeting in 208Q during the assembly today, said Miss Kather¬ ine Kester, adviser. A Bauble and Bells cast, consis¬ ting of Lorraine Gilb, Florence Jan¬ sen and Roger Tierney, will present a play entitled “Farewell Cruel World” today at the Broadoaks School assembly. TEAMS START PRACTICE Baseball for the Freshmen candi¬ dates will not start until Coach Nor Jaqua’s basketball fives complete their season. As there are several promising diamond stars on the two cage teams, Coach Jaqua has decided to wait until the season is completed. Councils To Complete Net v Government Frosh Applications Due Monday Afternoon At 4 O Clock Voting with an increase of more than 100 per cent over -last semester's election, the student body elected all minor class officers and the freshman president last Friday during assembly period. Intro¬ duced by Bob Stapleton, secretary of activities, the candidates were elected in separate class meetings, with the freshmen in the men’s gym ’’and the other three classes in the bleachers. Harold Shafer was elected fresh¬ man president by a margin of ,137 votes, ballots being cast by 67 per¬ cent of his class. Defeated competi¬ tors were Robert Morgan and Charles Shannon, between them splitting fewer than half the votes cast.- Other freshmen candidates elec¬ ted to office included Bill Solani, elected vice-president from a field of five; Nadine Gunderson, secretary; and Frank Towner, treasurer. Wan¬ da Schoenberg and Eleanor Smith were elected to the Associated Wo¬ men students cabinet by the same class. Elected by a slim margin of three votes, Muriel Stevens was elected vice-president by 26 per cent of the sophomore class. Ramona Martin and Willard Smith were elected re¬ spective secretary and treasurer, while the new sophomore A. W. S. cabinet members are Mary Ann Moss and Barbara Lombard. The junior class elected Earl Roulac as vice-president; and Billie Crain and Alyss Greer as A. W. S. cabinet members. Nathalie Rice and Beatrice Barnett were un¬ contested for the offices of junior secretary and treasurer. Thirty per cent of the class cast ballots. The office of vice-president for the senior class ended as a three- way tie, each candidate for the job receiving 46 votes. They were Charles Emarine, Patty McC'une and A1 Radka, one of whom will be elected in a re-vote, to be held next Friday during assembly рёг- iod. Carl Stanford was elected uncon¬ tested for the position of secre¬ tary of the junior class, while Jane Hare was named by ballot to be the new treasurer, and Margaret Ar¬ nold and Jane Hazenbush A. W. S. representatives. A poll of 15 per cent was made by the senior class. The student body was enter¬ tained by two separate vaudeville ( Continued on Page Three) With lower division deadlines last Monday and next Monday for sophomores and freshman class council applications, present se¬ mester student body administra¬ tions are rapidly taking shape, ac¬ cording to Bob Stapleton, secretary of activities. President Talks “Freshmen who wish to be active in Pasadena junior college govern¬ ment may still sign up for mem¬ bership applications in the fresh¬ man class council,” said Harold Shafer, newly elected freshman class president. “Cards must be turned in to the student body of¬ fices by Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock.” The sophomore class council, headed by Henry Swafford, class president, has already been chosen from the applications, the deadline on sophomore council applications being declared as last Monday by Swafford. Government Complete With the representative councils formed, the school’s political scheme will be complete, as all minor class officers were elected in last Friday’s assembly election. Senior, junior and sophomore presi¬ dents were elected by popular vote last semester with the other stu¬ dent body officials now in charge of campus government and activity. The class councils are comprised of students interested in student government who apply for the of¬ fice at the beginning of each se¬ mester, chosen as a representative body by class officers. RELIGIOUS GROUPS GATHER IN L. A. Traveling to Los Angeles junior college, Pasadena student and fac¬ ulty representatives heard Protest¬ ant, Catholic and Jewish speakers discuss religious problems last Sat¬ urday. Three symposiums on “Make America Safe for Differences” fea¬ tured the parley, attended by dele¬ gate from all Southern California junior colleges. Sponsored by the University Re¬ ligious Conference, the meeting also marked opening of “Brother¬ hood Days,” a nationwide move¬ ment seeking closer understanding between the Jewish and Christian faiths. Week’s News NEWS Harold Shafer is new frosh pres¬ ident, as students cast record vote in Friday balloting. Page 1. One hundred and thirty-seven are newly elected to membership in Alpha Gama Sigma. Page 1. Architect’s conception of campus as it will look in September of this year. Page 3. Stanford registrar’s visit, schol¬ arships to Occidental college are told by records office. Page 3. Annual band festival, with Bull¬ dog band playing host to many ex¬ pected visiting bands. Page 3. FEATURES History of campus demolition and rebuilding recounted as end of sev¬ en semester wait seen. Page 2. Correspondent visits Guatemala, Salvador in South American jaunt. Page 2. • • • SPORTS Compton Tartars will be hosts to Bulldog quintet tomorrow night in Compton, as last game of season scheduled. Page 4. Jaqua’s San Gabriel League champs will meet Tustin tomorrow night in Orange in the first round play-off of the C.I.F. tourney. Page 4. Drama Guild Picks Eight Eight new members of the Play¬ ers’ Guild were chosen -as a result of tryouts held last Wednesday afternoon. Tryouts were judged by past and present officers of the club and Miss Elizabeth E. Keppie, ad¬ viser. James Laird, Joseph Landisman, Edwin Morgan, Henry Smith, Kay Snyder, Josephine Merrill, Natalie Graveson and Harlan Swan were those selected for membership in the upper division drama group. Formal initiation will be held during assembly period today, with a tea to be held at 3 p. m. in 1A. The play “Belinda” will be pre¬ sented under the direction of Bar¬ bara McCullough. Those having roles in -the production are Patsy Burr, Belinda; Virginia Miller, Delia; Gordon Foster, Tremayne; Bob Hansen, Baxter; Murray Huss, Devenish; and Barbara Barnett, Betty. Formal initiation will be held next Saturday evening at the home of Rosalie Meub, 2365 Mar Vista avenue, Altadena. Roy Winder, president, will be in charge. According to Miss Burr, selec¬ tions from “Cyrano de Bergerac” and “St. Joan” are also now in pre¬ paration for presentation at com¬ munity affairs, to give club mem¬ bers experience in play production. COSMOPOLITAN TO GATHER FOR TEA For all students interested in international relations and foreign affairs, the Cosmopolitan club is holding a membership tea today at 3 p. m. in 104D. The club recently held an elec¬ tion of officers. Lucille Cook is the new president. Officiating as vice president for the year will be So¬ flora Barber. Sarah Meyers and Walter Griffiths were chosen as secretary and treasurer respective¬ ly.