Pasadena Chronicle, January 14, 1938

CLUB TALENT SLATED FOR ASSEMBLY PASADENA CHRONICLE SEMI-ANNUAL HOMECOMING DANCE DUE Vol. XXK Pasadena Junior College, Jan. 14, 1938 No. 16 Bob Coates Is Elected ASB President In Primary Amateur Contest At Assembly Today's Meeting Features Finals Of Semesterly Tilt Amateurs representing various PJC clubs will headline today’s as¬ sembly program, presenting acts varying from musical numbers to slapstick comedy. Six finalists in a contest that is becoming an an¬ nual affair, will vie for applause and a loving cup to be awarded to the winner. FEW RULES Each club is allowed to select its best act for public showing, there being no further rules concerning the contest. The talent for each act will come from the club repre¬ sented. Preparations for the occasion were started a few weeks ago when club presidents began searching their organizations for talent. Af¬ ter suitable acts had been found, the clubs taking part met Wednes¬ day afternoon before judges of the preliminary contest. Six acts were chosen to enter the finals during assembly period today. As the Chronicle went to press before that time, the names of the six clubs were not available. TIOGA WINS Last semester, Maxine Bailey, representing Tioga, women’s re¬ strictive social club, won the cup. Secretary of Organizations Ro¬ salie Meub, in charge of the affair, commented, “We hope that a large audience is present at the assembly, as we are sure that all the clubs have worked hard to make their acts as good as possible.” Judges had not been selected at Chronicle press time. SOCIETY HEARS MINE OFFICIAL As featured speaker _ at the monthly meeting of the Mineralogi- cal Society of Southern California, Dr. Louis D. Ricketts addressed 250 listeners, including 50 PJC stu¬ dents, on “Copper Development at Ajo, Arizona” last Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in the Pasadena public library. Moving pictures of the New Cornelia mine at Ajo, Ari¬ zona, followed the lecture. During the course of his talk, Dr. Ricketts reviewed the progress made in the mechanics of copper mining in the last 50 years. The moving pictures presented a com¬ plete story of copper mining from the blasting of the ore, through the smelting process, up to the finished product. After the movies, Dr. Ricketts answered group ques¬ tions. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1880, Dr. Ricketts has been instrumental in the devel¬ opment of Arizona as one of the leading copper producing states. He has held, among other positions, the post of president and manager of the Inspiration and the Andes copper companies. He has also de¬ signed many of the larger smelters in use today throughout the South¬ west. REDLANDS PROFESSOR ADDRESSES FACULTY With “The Art of Teaching” as his subject, Dr. Lawrence E. Nel¬ son, of Redlands university, ad¬ dressed the faculty of Pasadena junior college, Wednesday, January 5, in 200C at 3:15 p. m. Dr. Nelson, using the questions and answers to intelligence tests as the basis for his lecture, made as his main point, the fact that “teachers should make students think, and not do the thinking for them ‘because it is quicker.’ ” Dr. Nelson also explained the part the English language and literature play in education. This was the first meeting of 1938, and the first of the two gen¬ eral meetings of the year. The next meeting will be in the Little Theatre at 3:15, Wednesday, Feb¬ ruary 2. YMCA HEARS DELEGATES Reports from Asilomar delegates were given last Tuesday evening at the downtown “Y” where the YMCA met for a business meeting and recreation. Members met in the lobby where they played ping-pong and then convened for their business meet¬ ing. BUSINESS CLUB ELECTS Members of the Magnatura busi¬ ness club elected J. Oliver Morgan as, president for the second semes¬ ter, at a special meeting held at the home of Dale Babcock, last Tuesday evening. Paul Branch was elected vice-president, while the in¬ cumbent president, Bill Frey, was selected secretary. Sam Mardian is th new treasurer. LAST CHRONICLE OUT TODAY Today’s edition of the Pasa¬ dena Chronicle is the last issue of the semester, concluding its weekly news service during the initial period in the new build¬ ings. The past semester has seen the Chronicle take on new forms of typography, including com¬ pletely new type, style and head¬ lines tending to form a modern streamline makeup. This new system, under the guidance of A1 Gutzmer, whose term as exe¬ cutive editor is this week brought to a close, has been de¬ signed to give more complete news coverage, more entertain¬ ing features and easier reading. The reason for this being the last issue is that next week is final exams week, and Chronicle workers must take time off for a little incidental studying, and “let the paper go” for a week. The first issue of the new semester will be out January 29, the customary Sunday-be- fore-sehool pal day, with helpful suggestions to the new students and the usual news. This paper will be the first under the re¬ vamped staff and newly ap¬ pointed editor. DAVIS-HALL CONTEST PLANS MADE Preliminaries for the annual Da- vis-Hall oratorical contest have been scheduled for January 25. Open to all Pasadena junior col¬ lege students, the preliminaries will take place in two different rooms. Lower division students will compete in one room and up¬ per division in the other. From all upper division students entering the contest, two or three will be chosen to compete in the final. The same procedure will be used with the lower division. IN CHARGE In charge of the upper division contestants is Miss Irene Peters, speech instructor. Miss Nell Marie Remsberg will be in charge of lower division. Speeches will be judged upon delivery and content. Time limit will be about five minutes. It will be entirely up to the students to choose their topics as no main sub¬ ject has been selected. These con¬ tests have always been conducted in this way in order not to handi¬ cap students by forcing upon them subjects about which they knew very little. FORMER WINNERS Last year’s winners were Joe Landisman in upper division and Bruce Jessup in lower division. This year’s contest will be. the thirty-first in these annual speech tournaments sponsored by the Da¬ vis and Hall families. During June last year a banquet was given at the Vista del Arroyo hotel honor¬ ing these families for their con¬ tinued interest in the contests dur¬ ing the la.st 30 years. Invitations to all previous winners were sent and out of the 60 invited, 40 at¬ tended. Records of winners since their graduation revealed that sev¬ eral had attained high positions in their fields. PJC SINGERS ENTERTAIN Students from PJC’s music de¬ partment entertained at the annual Boy Scout masters’ banquet of the San Gabriel and Pasadena district held at Oddfellows hall in Pasa¬ dena, Monday, January 10. The singers included the Euterpean Singers, the Nysaean Singers, the Girls’ Trio, the Male Octet and Norman Durask, soloist. OMD WILL 'TAP' NEW MEMBERS AT SEMESTERLY MEET Tapping of new members for Mast and Dagger has been set for the first item on the program of the assembly Friday, January 28, according to John Benton, Mast and Dagger president. Tapping is a. semi-annual event held at the end of every semester for the purpose of honoring outstanding students by accepting them for membership in the club, the highest honor on the campus. TRADITIONAL CEREMONY At this time, in a traditional cer¬ emony, outstanding students in all fields of activity on this campus are selected for membership in the club, now in its twelfth year on the campus. There are at present five active members, John Benton, Lila Ren¬ ner, Chuck Braden, Norman Wil¬ liams and Jack Burtt. Besides these active members, the club is repre¬ sented by a membership of more than 150 alumni, all of whom were active students at the junior col¬ lege in the past. The new members tapped at the assembly Friday will be introduced to the alumni members of the or¬ ganization at a dinner Saturday night, January 29, at the Arcade Tea Room. This introductory din¬ ner is a traditional event. Plans are being made for musical enter¬ tainment during the dinner, after which an election of next semes¬ ter’s officers will be held. The en¬ tire group will then attend a per¬ formance of “First Lady” at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. Future events for the club in¬ clude the sponsoring of an assem¬ bly during the first week of the new semester. The annual Mast and Dagger Carnival, to he held in the spring, is also being planned by the members at the present time. Bagnard, Shroeder Cede Student Body ц Presidency; Caplan, Prouse, McDonald, Moshisky, Shannon, Wilson Get Majorities Had only one more student voted in last Friday’s primaries, to¬ day’s election set-up for the position of student body president would be entirely different. After tying for second place with 459 votes each, Earl Schroeder and Dick Bagnard ceded the election to Bob Coates after four days of recounting and worrying. Bob Coates took the field far out in front with the wide total of over 900 votes, lacking only a few votes in last Friday’s primaries of being elected by the majority of votes cast. However, before any decision was made for more than a few hours, a rapid succession of recounts was made by the election board, headed by Blakemore Thom¬ as, acting in the capacity of chief justice in lieu of Bob Coates, in¬ eligible to supervise the election because he was a candidate. The result of the primaries of January 7, then, is that Bob Coates is president of the associated stu¬ dents. As all other elections for ASB and other offices were settled in the primaries, there will be no “final” election which was sched¬ uled for today. Up until Wednesday afternoon the apparent result of the five re¬ counts of the ballot was, in effect, a second primary, still leaving the election of the president in the balance unless a candidate, prob¬ ably Coates, would have won a simple majority in today’s election. However, one of the candidates got the idea of generously ceding the election to the far-ahead Coates, and both candidates filially did so. But only after a series of re¬ counts which is one of the longest any election board has ever faced. The first recount was called at the demand of Bob Coates, then only three votes from a majority. How¬ ever, the second recount swung sec¬ ond place from Bagnard to Schroe¬ der, and almost before the election board had filed the ballot, another recount at the demand of Bagnard was called, according to Miss Cath¬ erine J. Robbins, dean of women and adviser to the associated stu¬ dent body. A quick series of recounts final¬ ly reached a tie for Schroeder and Bagnard in the fifth tally, made Monday morning. The problem of further appending recounts was.not settled until late Wednesday after¬ noon when the two granted the ballot to Coates. Discrepancies in the respective counts ranged all the way from 2 to 30 votes, according to election board members. Six recounts, offi¬ cial and unofficial, were held, start¬ ing last Saturday and running through Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. One .recount, not prompted by the candidates, was made voluntarily by the election board itself. Holding a two-to-one margin over Rachel Williams, Peter Prouse, editor of Vo-Mag, was named to replace Coates for the Chief Justice pos-t. The count gave Prouse 1015, Williams 516. Wilbur Jacobs received 282. Associated Women Students fur¬ nished the closest contest of the Continued on Page Three LECTURER I Placement Exams For Juniors Offered Placement examinations are to be given on Saturday, January 22, at 8:30 a. m., and on Monday, Jan¬ uary 24, at 6:30 p. m., for all stu¬ dents wishing to enroll in the jun¬ ior class next semester. The regular placement examina¬ tion fee of $1.50 must be paid in the bank before taking the examin¬ ation. The receipt for this pay¬ ment will be used as an admit¬ tance to room 200C, where the examination is being given. С. C. Stewart, counselor in charge of the examination warned that students arriving late in room 200C will not be allowed to take the tests on that day. Mr. Stewart also emphasized the fact that no other date would be set for taking the examinations other than the Saturday and Monday already set aside. The placement examinations are given to determine the English classes for which students are suited. Results of these tests aid the counselors in deciding the courses best fitted to the student’s ability. Mr. Sibewar-t stated that students need not feel nervous in taking these placement examinations as they are simply tests to dete:mine the English knowledge and literary ability of students. There s no necessity or use in studying for these tests, Mr. Stewart added, as they cover general knowledge accu¬ mulated over a long period of ~ime. Players7 Guild Advisor Announces One- Act Play Writing Contest Pasadena junior college one-act playwrights will have a chance tt test the merits of their work in a one-act play writing contest, spon¬ sored by the Players’ Guild, according to Miss Elizabeth Flint, Players’ Guild adviser. The deadline for plays is April 8, giving entrants ample time to work their productions into shape. The length of the play should be limited to 30 minutes playing time. Players’ Guild will produce the prize-winning play in the little Theater, probably during a club period assembly. Fred Hoffman of the English department, Miss Flint and two stu¬ dent judges, to be selected from the membership of the Guild, will judge the plays, and their decision will be filial. Economy of character, space and time, with no over-crowding of incident, were advised by Mr. Hoffman. “Students should realize the value of accuracy in dialogue and should employ skill in plot structure, with unity and economy of incident,” he further recommended. Plays should be submitted to Miss Flint or Roy Winder, Players’ Guild president. BRADFORD ELECTED WAA PRESIDENT Electing Becky Bradford, who ran unopposed, president for the second consecutive semester, mem¬ bers of the Women’s Athletic As¬ sociation of Pasadena junior col¬ lege chose their officers for the spring term Wednesday, January 5, during gym periods. Other officers forming the WAA cabinet are Barbara Fitch, vice- president; Mary Ann Moss, corres¬ ponding secretary; Marjorie Geh¬ rig, recording secretary; Evelyn Bradford, treasurer; Frances Bail¬ ey, parliamentarian; Virginia Mc- Intire, baseball manager; Twila Jack, tennis manager; Joan Bur¬ rows, speedball manager; and Mir¬ iam Brooks, swimming manager. These officers were installed at the Hockey-Archery finale, Thurs¬ day, January 13, in the women’s gym. All WAA members were in¬ vited. CLIO ELECTS OFFICERS Election of officers for the com¬ ing semester was the chief business at the last meeting of Clio club, PJC discussion group. The new of¬ ficers are: Jean Valentine, presi¬ dent; Alice Wilson, vice-president; Dale Clayton, secretary, and Charles Carkeek, treasurer. The election of officers followed a talk given by Mrs. John Clayton, author and traveler. Dancing, re¬ freshments and pool followed the elections. MUSIC HOUR The Campus Music Hour will lot be given this week because tf examinations. Selections from ‘Porgy and Bess,” the opera by George Gershwin, will be given a the Music Hour in the Little Theater the week after, at 11:20 jVonday, January 24, and Wed- rnsday, January 26, and at 12:20 Tuesday, January 25. DR. SACHAR NEXT 'YOUTH' LECTURER Historian, biographer, educator, and recognized by authorities as one of the ablest forum speakers of his time, Dr. Abram Leon Sa- char will discuss “What Is Youth Thinking” at the Tuesday Evening Forum lecture, January 18. Throwing out the picture of the happy-go-lucky youth of pre-de¬ pression days, Dr. Sachar will pre¬ sent a new youth, a product of hardships and financial troubles. He will discuss what this new youth of today is thinking. VOTED FAVORITE He was voted the favorite one of 26 speakers, including many na¬ tionally known celebrities, at the Sinai Forum in Chicago. He also polled first in the important Cincin- atti Forum. Among the large cities of the country in which he has appeared, are Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Rochester, Montreal, Winnipeg and St. Louis. At Cleveland he spoke on the celebrated Town Hall pro¬ gram and was immediately re¬ booked for the entire course. SIMPLIFIES TOPICS He is noted for his ability to present the most complex subject in simple words. He has a sense of humor which livens his talks and retains interest. Sachar was born in New York, and later attended Washington and Harvard universities. He also spent three years in post graduate research work at the University of Cambridge. He received his doctor of Philosophy degree for his work upon the Victorian House of Lords. RESIGNS POST He resigned in 1929 from the faculty of the University of Illinois so that he might become National Director of the Hillel Foundations. His articles have appeared in the New Republic, the Menorah Jour¬ nal, Books, and other prominent journals. He has interviewed fa¬ mous political figures, correspon¬ dents, relief officials and labor lead¬ ers. It was the Prime Minister of Ontario, Canada, who said of one of Ids speeches: “Dr. Sachar’s address is the most, remarkable of its kind that I have ever heard.” ENROLLMENT JUMP TO 4750 FORECAST An increase of 150 students is expected when the records office completes registration for the next semester on Friday, January 28 and Monday, January 31. The present enrollment figure stands at 4600, and the increase to 4750 will include approximately 500 graduates of Pasadena junior high schools and high schools of neigh¬ boring towns. Under the new registration plans, whereby old students regis¬ ter in their Friday classrooms and new students register on Monday, larger numbers of students can be taken care of with less time spent waiting in lines, according to John A. Anderson, dean of records. Working in conjunction with Mr. Anderson this semester will be O. Gaylon Dressier, of the physical science department, who will help direct enrollment procedure. NEWMANITES WILL SKATE Newman club, religious organi¬ zation, will give a closed skating party at Lincoln Park Roller rink on January 21 at 10 p. m. The entire rink will be turned over to the club. This is probably one of the last affairs for the club this semester and all members are urged to attend. Tickets may be secured from the president of the club, Ronald Dube. January 31 Date For Pal Dance Many Social Affairs Are Planned For New Students The semi-annual Homecoming dance will be held as usual, the first Monday of the new semester, January 31, at the Civic auditori¬ um. The dance, sponsored by the Associated Students, will be as¬ sured of an excellent orchestra, it was announced by Secretary of So¬ cial Affairs Jeanette Eastman. It will be primarily an affair for new students. “Pals” are asked to es¬ cort their new students, and every¬ one is invited. PALS NEEDED This is only one of the many so¬ cial affairs arranged for the new students. They will first be taken on a tour of the campus on Sun¬ day, January 30. Following that will be i a vesper service in the auditorium at 8 p. m. and a tea sponsored by the YWCA in the social hall at 4:30 p. m. Seventy-five men and 75 women are needed as -“pals” for these oc¬ casions and are asked to sign up in the offices of their respective deans. USE DATE BUREAU The date bureau will again func¬ tion for the Homecoming dance, it was announced by Jeannette East¬ man. “I feel the date bureau will be particularly effective for this dance as many of the students will be new and this offers an excel¬ lent opportunity for them to get acquainted with their fellow stu¬ dents,” she stated. Girls are to turn their names in to the date bureau office at the north end of the Student Union. They are urged to turn pictures in with the rest of the information as it is absolutely necessary. Names must be turned in by Monday or Tuesday of the last week of school and boys looking for dates should call at the office during that week. DR. SEXSON WINS HIGH HONOR Dr. John Amherst Sexson, super¬ intendent of the Pasadena City Schools, has been elected president of the American Association of School Administrators, announced George Bush, superintendent of South Pasadena Schools. Dr. Sexson received the largest number of votes of the five candi¬ dates for the presidency, and will be inducted into office at the Atlan¬ tic City meeting in February. This post, the highest honor at¬ tainable in the field of education, came, to Dr. Sexson in recognition of his splendid accomplishments. For the past 15 or 20 years, lie has served on a number of major com¬ mittees and was chosen as one of the original group to serve on the American Policies Commission of the National Education Association. He is also president of the Cali¬ fornia Teachers’ Association and past president of the State Teach¬ ers’ Associations of Arizona and Colorado. PLAY SERIES BEGINS “Meet the . Duchess” will open the new series of plays at the South Pasadena Little Theater, January 24. Junior college student body. members have appeared in previous plays and assisted in pro¬ duction. The group was organized in September, and is now appear¬ ing in a permanent auditorium of their own at 1211 S. Fair Ooaks Avenue. WEEK'S NEWS IN BRIEF Election Board takes five days to untangle primary elections. Six counts necessary before final de¬ cision reached . Page 1. Plans for Homecoming dance near completion. Date bureau will be used for the second time . . . . Page 1. LAJC takes league opener from Bulldogs, 27-22 . Page 4. Finalists in Junior Chamber speech contest named. Will speak on Far East situation. . Page 3. Davis-Hall contest due soon. Traditional event here for past 30 years . Page 1. Dr. Abram L. Sachar, famed lec¬ turer, educator and biographer, will be next speaker at Tuesday Eve¬ ning Forum. . . . Page 1.