Pasadena Chronicle, January 12, 1940

VOTE Ш TODAY'S ELECTION Pasadena Chronicle BIG NAMES FEATURE ASSEMBLY Vol. 31 Pasadena Junior College, January 12, 1940 No. 15 Close races featured in final vote today; Erickson in decisive victory over South Candidates in hot contest for chief justice-AWS posts Two close races for the of¬ fices of chief justice and As¬ sociated Women Students president are featured on to¬ day’s final election ballot. Thuel Schuhart, incumbent jun¬ ior president, and Pete Paulson, incumbent secretary of finance, led Bob Blodgett, Leland Harder, Bill Vatcher and Richard Farn- ham in the primary elections to reach the final ballot. In the women’s race, Louise McCastline scored a minor upset over incumbent Mable Prouty. Both of these enter the finals, having defeated Virginia Spahr in the primaries. The following offices are also cn the final ballot: Sophomore class president: Bill Humphrey and Bill Simmons led Charles Rubsamen and Ernest Blumberg in the primary vote. East campus AWS first vice- president: Marilyn Cox, incum¬ bent, and Joan Bathrick led the field. West campus AWS first vice- president: Marjorie Anderson and Doris Young reached the finals. Election campaigns made by students “We want to work for a better school spirit,” was the basic idea in the platforms of the various candidates for student body of¬ fices last week. Campaigns were built around that theme and had unlimited freedom in their pro¬ gram. In previous elections, restric¬ tions have been harsh on ideas i and stunts. This year, however, \ campus officials relented and al- : lowed the policy of “anything goes.” Posters, placards and dodgers as usual flooded the halls and the campus. Some candidates used animals to help their campaign slogans, others used suckers and small cards. Highlight of the en¬ tire campaign was the election assembly with the introduction of all candidates and their platforms. Vince Erickson, victorious in the day’s balloting listed the ob¬ jectives toward which he would work if he were elected, empha¬ sizing that a president can do little without the cooperation of other student board members. MOTLEY MUSICIANS Immediately following his speech, bedlam broke loose as a strutting motley band of musi¬ cians marched blaringly down the aisles and up across the stage. They carried placards advocating Erickson. Elbert “Red” South spoke im¬ mediately afterword, explaining his plans for the creation of a better school spirit. He was greeted by yells from his suppor¬ ters. He also claimed priority of residence in Pasadena, which was quickly refuted by Erickson. Eight writers honored Eight new members were ac¬ cepted by Nom de Plume writing society at the club’s meeting Tues¬ day night. New members are Carol Bortin, Sally Lou Wilson, Bette Thiele, Helen Morris, Jeanne Adams, Estelle Landers, Barbara Timmons and Bob Hard- grove. Election results S. B. PRESIDENT V. Erickson . 1825 E. South . 719 ASSOCIATE S. B. PRESIDENT R. Burns . 1531 H. Sharp . 221 A. Proyor . . 163 CHIEF JUSTICE T. Schuhart . 787 P. Paulson . . 652 B. Blodgett . 451 L. Harder . 216 B. Vatcher . . 147 R. Farnham . 139 AMS PRESIDENT W. Webb . 977 ASSOCIATE AMS PRESIDENT B. O’Donnell . 919 W. Mills . 322 AWS PRESIDENT L. McCastline . 411 M. Prouty . 388 V. Spahr . 295 ASSOCIATE AWS PRESIDENT B. Place . 877 SENIOR PRESIDENT B. Gillette . 425 G. Lee . 102 JUNIOR PRESIDENT H. Erickson . 514 D. Hungerford .... 104 A. Lorenzini . 78 SOPH PRESIDENT B. Humphrey . 176 B. Simmons . 155 C. Rubsamen . 98 E. Blumberg . . 69 MINOR AWS and AWS OFFICES EAST CAMPUS WEST CAMPUS AWS FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT M. Cox . 347 J. Bathrick . 172 B. Munn . 110 M. Starbuck . 86 AMS FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT D. Kraus . AWS SECOND VICE PRESIDENT H. Savory . 613 AWS SECRETARY J. Rowley . 569 AWS FIRST VICE PRESIDENT D. Young . 60 M. Anderson . .52 D. Hogeboom . 26 M. Jones . 26 AWS SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT A. Jones . 174 AWS TREASURER AWS TREASURER C. Minton . 588 E. Myers . 160 Mr. Evans , W/erc/a, form new bureau to provide speakers for community Would-be junior college public speakers will get an op¬ portunity for practical experience while doing a service to the community in the newly-formed Student and Faculty Speak¬ er’s bureau. This bureau, the brain-child of Don Wierda and Debate Coach William Evans, was organized to present com¬ petent speakers on any subject when called upon by civic groups. When the Pasadena District Safety council asked Mr. Evans to provide speakers on safety to talk at 15 different functions, the idea to organize the bureau was born. Henry Braumann, debate student, gave the first speech last Tuesday be¬ fore the Pasadena Council PTA. Other speakers will make the same speech to other civic organ¬ izations. For the most part students will do the appearing, although fac¬ ulty members of the bureau will speak when specialized topics are to be presented. Besides individ¬ ual speeches, public addresses, forum debates, discussions and intercollegiate debates will be of¬ fered. DATES Student speakers from the bu¬ reau will speak before the follow¬ ing groups: Jan. 12, Altadena Ki- wanis club; Jan. 15, Altadena Chamber of Commerce; Jan. 17, Pasadena Post 13, American Le¬ gion; Jan. 17, Knights of the Round Table; Jan. 19, Civitan club; Jan. 22, Zonta club; Jan. 23, Pasadena Junior league; Jan. 24, East Pasadena Post 28, American Legion; Feb. 20, Shakespeare club. The pattern of a Speaker’s Bu¬ reau at Pasadena junior college closely follows that used at Cali¬ fornia and Stanford, in which the school provides the neighboring communities with student speak¬ ers. WILLIAM W. EVANS Housing expert to talk on next Tuesday Forum Melville Dozier, executive di¬ rector of the Los Angeles Coun¬ ty Housing administration, will address the Tuesday Evening forum on federal, state and community housing, in the east campus auditorium, January 16 at 8 pm. Mr. Dozier replaces Richard Neustadt who was to speak on social security. Mr. Neustadt is now scheduled to appear on January 30. Many jay see clubs will hold meetings during club day assembly next week All campus clubs will hold meetings during the regular assembly period January 19, a week from today. This is the second club day of the semester, and 130 organizations are expected to reserve rooms in which to hold programs, according to Dick Kendall, secretary of organizations. There will be no assembly as it is felt that any assembly would cause a decrease in club attendance. Club days are held for the purpose of encouraging more students to join junior college organi¬ zations. Most of the restrictive clubs will hold closed meetings, and information regarding them will be published in Monday’s bulletin. New class on school government may draft revised constitution Students interested in school government and in formation of a new school constitution wil have opportunity to render a great serv¬ ice to the school this next semester. Thuel Schuhart, junior class president in charge of drafting the new constitution, asks that those students interested see their coun¬ selors for particulars. This class will be under the direction of Keith Peters, and the regulation two units of credit will be given those who enroll. Robert Burns new associate; Bill Webb AMS prexy Senior Class President Vince Erickson decisively de¬ feated Pep Commissioner Red South in last Friday’s pri¬ mary voting to become next semester’s student body president. Other offices decided in the pri¬ maries are: Robert Burns, new associate student body president, defeated '■eland Pryor and Helen Sharp, mite-in candidates. Bill Webb, unopposed, was Iected Associated Men Students resident. Bill O’Donnell, incum- ent, defeated Wayne Mills for fe associate AMS job. Barbara ’lace, unopposed, was reelected ssociate AWS president. Bob Gillette defeated write-in andidate Granville Lee for the enior class presidency. Harlan Erickson, incumbent chief justice, defeated Dell Hungerford and Arthur Lorenzini to be elected junior class president. In the minor offices, Don Kraus was elected west campus AMS first-vice-president; Helen Savory, Jean Rowley and Camille Minton were elected east campus AWS second vice-president, secretary and treasurer, respectively; Ar- leen Jones and Erma Myers are the new west campus AWS sec¬ ond vice-president and treasurer. Skinnay Ennis, Jerry Colonna, Six Hits on assembly program Radio entertainment that keeps listeners tuned even while the commercials are on will be the bill of fare at the annual junior-senior assembly today. Skinnay Ennis and his orchestra head an all-star cast, including Six Hits and a Miss, Professor Jerry Colonna and Bill Goodwin of Bob Hope’s NBC radio show. Ennis nosed out Jaysee Clark, student singer in a popu¬ larity poll here last year. As an added attraction, Clark, Jack Duarte and Margery Garland, three of the six winners of an audition, are also in the big show. Muriel Stevens, Yolanda Cicarelli and Ida Mae Jensen, the other winners, will appear in a similar show next semester. TIME CHANGE Show will be first at the west campus beginning at 11:22, con¬ tinuing until 12:22. The east campus presentation will be on from 1:02 until 2:02. East cam¬ pus students must have ticket No. 40 from their student body books for admittance. No tick¬ ets are required on the west campus. This assembly is held in honor of the Tournament of Roses quen, Margaret Huntley and her Brown U. may offer jaysee scholarships On a survey of what goes on in higher education today, Dr. Bruce Bigelow of Brown university (Providence, R. I.), met and con¬ ferred with Dr. Glenn L. Lembke, curriculum coordinator of ’PJC, this week. Enthusiastic over the California system of public junior colleges, Dr. Bigelow, who is director of admissions at Brown, will recom¬ mend to that school the admission in full standing of junior college transfers and will propose the establishment of a competitive scholarship to Brown especially for junior college students. As yet, it seems, the public junior college system is comparatively unknown in the east and eastern colleges and universities have ac¬ cepted with reluctance transfers from such schools. Other new announcements of scholarships varying in amount from $50 to $500 have appeared on the records office bulletin board (main hall, C} in the past week. They are of both competi¬ tive and direct award types and are open to both men and women students. AT LAKE ARROWHEAD Snow sports claimed the atten¬ tions of Players’ guild last Satur¬ day when they spent a week-end at Lake Arrowhead as the guests of Dr. and Mrs. P. Berman, and Miss Helen Berman, at their mountain cottage. Miss Berman is second vice- president of the guild. Sfong expected to return today from bandmasters' clinic at Urbana, III. Pasadena’s bandmaster and dean of men, Audre L. Stong, was expected to arrive today from a sojourn at the four-day bandmas¬ ter’s clinic at the University of Illinois at Urbana. Dean Stong has been gone since New Year’s day, when he left immediately af¬ ter the Rose bowl game. The clinic is both a school and a general get-together for band leaders throughout the country. New methods of drill marching and other problems common to the group are studied. At the convention last year, Dean Stong addressed the con¬ vention with the subject of marching bands. In 1937, he spoke on public relations and jun¬ ior college bands. New commerce course A new subject, Non-textiles, will be introduced by the school of business next semester. China- ware, leather, furniture, hard¬ ware goods, and furs will be studied to assist students in sell¬ ing these objects. Students wish¬ ing to take this course are asked to make arrangements with their counselors as soon as possible. Merrill Poore will be class in¬ structor. PJC students give first of network science programs With an estimated audience of one million listeners in eight wes¬ tern states, the first in a series of 21 programs titled “Dramatic Moments in Science” originated at the studios of KPPC, yesterday afternoon with a PJC student cast. It was released over the en¬ tire Don Lee Pacific Coast net¬ work and locally over KHJ. Yesterday’s initial program, “An Opportune Accident Makes Scientific History,” told the story of a near fatal accident that pro¬ vided medical science with ex¬ periments worth millions to fu¬ ture mankind. CAST Cast of the first Don Lee air- show included: La Verne Erwin, Dawkins Espy, William Burke III, Charles Harris, Paul Wood, La- mont Johnson, Dorothy June Thompson, Frank Johnson, Frank Beals, Ed Clowes, Carl Palmberg, Bob Cummings and Lester Gallo¬ way. West campus life science instructor Paul L. Motsinger was in charge of research, script by Margaret Kuhns, production by Raymond Swartz and faculty su¬ pervision by N. Vincent Parsons. PJC SKILL With rehearsals for the second Don Lee School of the Air pro¬ gram already started, officials in charge of the series announced that PJC was selected to present the Thursday afternoon episodes because of the fine radio facilities, class in production and general skill of this department. PJC’s three science depart¬ ments, life, physical and applied science, will alternate in offering the weekly shows which will con¬ clude June 6. Scripts written by students will be carefully read and those found suitable for ra¬ dio work will be used in future broadcasts. First solo flights made by students William Green and Max Davis of the Civil Aeronautic Authority course, have soloed and have quite a few minutes of solo time. The aerodynamic, meterology and rules and regulations course of the flight theory curriculum may come to an abrupt close at the end of this semester. Whether this is the final de¬ cision in this case is yet to be dis¬ closed. Flight students began the study of navigation and meteorol¬ ogy last week. No mishaps have occurred, showing the competency of the instructors and the aptitude of this picked class. SPECIAL ASSEMBLY SCHED¬ ULE FOR TODAY EAST CAMPUS 8 o’clock — 8:00 to 8:45. 9 o’clock — 8:52 to 9:35. 10 o’clock — 9:42 to 10:25 11 o’clock — 10:32 to 11:15. 12 o’clock— 11-22 to 12:05. 1 o’clock— 12:12 to 12:55. Assembly — 1:02 to 2:02. 2 o’clock— 2:09 to 2:53. 3 o’clock— 3:00 to 3:53. 4 o’clock — 4:00 to 4:53. WEST CAMPUS 8 o’clock — 8:00 to 8:49. 9 o’clock— 8:52 to 9:35. 10 o’clock-— 9:42 to 10:45. 11 o’clock — 10:32 to 11:15. Assembly— 11:22 to 12:22. 12 o’clock — 12:29 to 1:39. Remainder: regular Friday schedule. six princesses. After the show, a lavish luncheon will be held at Berkeley manor, NEW TRADITION Herb McDonald, master of cer¬ emonies, intends this to be a tradi¬ tional affair. “The purpose of this honoring is not to forget the queen and the princesses after New Year’s day,” he said. The assembly is an annual jun¬ ior-senior class dual presentation, with Junior Class President Thuel Schuhart heading the committee in charge. PJC Radio thespians broadcast on KPPC Theta Rho Pi, honorary radio society, produced two 15-minute plays in a half-hour radio pro¬ gram over KPPC Wednesday night from 9 to 9:30. “The Invisible Wound,” written by Karoli Kishvaludi, was the story of an Austrian couple in which the wife, by holding a trust for a friend, inadvertently aroused the suspicion of her hus¬ band who killed her in a fit of jealous rage. The title of the story steps in through the hus¬ band’s complaints of a pain in his hand where a drop of his wife’s blood fell. The hurt drove the man first to the doctor and then to his death. CAST Portraying the leading charac¬ ters were Paul Carror as the hus¬ band, Doris Norstad as the wife (Continued on page two) Princesses return to normal life by DAVE ORSWELL Last month, dame fortune smiled upon seven lucky girls from PJC, the Tournament of Roses queen and her court. Pictures, dinners, breakfasts and luncheons, fittings, rehears¬ als, lights and cameras were all part of their experiences as the most favored co-eds in the United States. Now the girls are returning to their everyday lives as citizens of PJC, returning to their books and homework, after weeks of gay festivities. BRIDGE PARTY Yesterday afternoon the seven charming girls were guests of honor at the Patrons’ association benefit bridge party, and today they are being feted in a junior- senior class luncheon at Berkeley manor following the assemblies also in their honor. Realizing the princesses were still in the minds of 3000 men students and still being envied by the other co-eds, each of the girls were asked to answer some questions which would be of interest to readers of the Chronicle. MOST THRILLING In reply to, “What has been your most thrilling experience since you were chosen as the royal ruler?” Queen Margaret Huntley said, “The coronation, by all means. The beautiful cere¬ mony made me think I was some¬ one else, living in a wonderful dream.” Princess Marilyn Walk¬ er agreed with Queen Margaret as to the best experience of all. The other princesses, Dixie Stro- meyer, Elayne Bilbo, Junette Duebbert, Dorothy Levinson and Edith Hickman said as if one per¬ son, “The parade with all those people watching was the most thrilling!” LONELY Queen Margaret’s general com¬ ments were to the effect that one really has to become a member of the court to appreciate all the wonderful things that happen. She enjoyed being together with the rest of the girls, and when photographers would take pic¬ tures of her alone she felt lost and deserted. “When I became nervous or tense I just yawned,” she said. “It was my secret relaxation.” The experiences of being roy¬ alty helped Margaret in her edu¬ cation. Learning to meet the pub¬ lic will help her through the rest of her life. DRAMA The only girl with an eye to¬ wards the dramatic side of being a princess was Marilyn Walker, who hoped “something would break.” Marilyn sat next to Ed¬ gar Bergen in the Rose Bowl and found him to be a “very charming man.” She wondered how she was go¬ ing to keep smiling for two hours during the parade without getting a “fixed face,” but she relaxed a wee blfby talking with her neigh¬ bors. “We threw flowers to the crowds from our float,” Marilyn said, “until there were bare spots around us.” TRAITORS Marilyn also commented that the judges picked redheads and brunettes while most of their wives were blonde. Princess Dixie Stromeyer “en¬ joyed every moment” of her roy¬ alty. “You bet I was rooting for USC!” was the decided comment. “I was afraid it would rain when the parade started,” she said. “I was very glad we had rain capes, even though it spoiled the effect of our velvet dresses. Vacation should be after New Year’s; now we need the rest.” POLICE ESCORT Junette Duebbert got a thrill out of the police escort that stayed with the court all day, January 1. “People at the Rose Bowl had to pull over and park out of our way, and were they mad!” “They would put me in a parade with a ‘dummy’ for the Grand Marshall,” Dorothy Levinson laughingly remarked. “Charlie was the most fun.” Dorothy said that when the girls left Margaret Huntley’s house for the parade and drove along Colorado street, the crowds did not recognize them, but dur¬ ing the parade she heard people saying to one another that there were the girls who had passed them not long ago. The Howard Hughes studios took “stills” of each girl but they (continued on page two)