Pasadena Chronicle, June 18, 1936

GRADUATION EXERCISES TO* BE IN BOWL Jtoaticno (fljrcmidc HONORS TO BE GIVEN STUDENTS Vol. XXVII Pasadena, California, June 18, 1936 No. 34 Assembly Will Fete Graduates Students Outstanding In Scholarship, Activities To Be Honored TO BE OPEN HOUSE Student Union Building Is Scene Of Annual Meet? Starts At 10?30 For the presentation of awards to those students who have shown themselves outstanding in both scholarship and activities during their stay at Pasadena, junior col¬ lege, the annual “Open House” will be held at the student union build¬ ing shortly after the close of school today at 10:30, according to Charles Braden, secretary of activities. Principal Gives The awards to be presented to the student body officers of the past semester will be given to them by Dr. John W. Harbeson, principal of the junior college. Parchments and Bulldog pins will be given to outstanding students of the gradu¬ ating classes by Sam Schwartz, student body president. Administra¬ tion honors, for those whose high scholastic records exempted them from final examinations, will be presented by John A. Anderson, dean of records. Four awards will be presented to the clubs whose teams won in the recent intra-mural competitions. These are basketball and football, O. S. F.; volleyball, Armulite; and baseball, Sequoia. Individual awards will be presented for track and the basketball throw, while the Armu- lites will also receive the relay awards. Coach Jack Niday will present the athletic awards. Key Awarded To the outstanding graduate en¬ gineering major, Dr. Harbeson will present the Engineering Honor Key. Margaret Dressier, a student in lower division German, will re¬ ceive a $5 first prize, which she won in a recent competition for lan¬ guage students, the Stanford Translating contest, in which near¬ ly 150 students from all over the state were entered. Miss Dressier translated the poem, “Chronik,” by Agnes Migel, a contemporary North German poetess. Is Business Reward Awards of $150 and $125 will be given to two needy students who are outstanding in business educa¬ tion, and who are planfiing to at¬ tend a four-year college and major in business education. These will be presented by Leland M. Pryor, head of the business department here. Dr. Harbeson will present the winners of the one-act play contests with drama awards. Refreshments will be served at the affair. New Board To Appoint People For Positions With applications for appoint¬ ive offices due yesterday, the new board of representatives will meet to choose new cabinet officials today. The offices that are to be tilled by the newly-elected board in¬ clude all cabinet offices, associate justices, clerks of the board, court and cabinet, and editors of the Chronicle, Campus and Handbook. Those who are on the new board are as follows: Sam Schwartz, president; Jack Stock¬ ing, senior president; Phil Cart¬ wright, junior president; Dick Balch, sophomore president ; Carolyn Munn, A. W. S. presi¬ dent; and Paul Douglas, A. M. S. president. The points on which the vari¬ ous applications for the jobs will be judged will include grades, citizenship, past service and experience. Graduate Prom To Be Held Bob Mohr’s, Bob Martin’s Orchestras To Play At Vista Hotel DINNER SCHEDULED Bill Caldwell Is In Charge As Bids Given Out In Rehearsal Order Mast, Dagger Will Hold Dinner Clark Talks For Services Stressing the importance of high and distant horizons to be goals throughout life, Reverend Stephen Cutter Clark, pastor of St. Mark’s Episcopal church, gave the bacca¬ laureate address at the church ser¬ vice held last Sunday evening at the Civic auditorium. Attended by a large percentage of the graduating seniors and soph¬ omores, this traditional ceremony was the first of the graduation, ac¬ cording to Miss Catherine J. Rob¬ bins, dean of women, who was in charge of arrangements. Seniors marching in the processional wore caps and gowns and were presented with their stoles at the hooding ceremony supervised by the Spar¬ tans. Dr. William E. Boyer of the Cal¬ vary Baptist church delivered the invocation and the benediction. The musical program for the eve¬ ning was arranged by Miss Lula C. Parmley, head of the music de¬ partment. Precessional and reces¬ sional marches were played by the symphony orchestra under the di¬ rection of Milton C. Mohs. Ushers for the affair were cho¬ sen from the men faculty mem¬ bers. REGISTRATION FOR WORK IS URGED Students who have completed all educational requirements in accord¬ ance with California state laws are urged to register with the local of¬ fice of the United States employ¬ ment service, according to report j from the office of the state director j of the California Youth Adminis¬ tration, Anne deG. Treadwell. Tea Room To Be Scene Of Traditional Banguet Tonight To honor the newly-elected mem¬ bers, the Order of Mast and Dag¬ ger will hold its traditional ban¬ quet tonight at the Brandy Cake Tearoom. According to Olive Pu- pis, committee chairman, all alum¬ ni members of the honorary or¬ ganization are urged to be present. The dinner which is formal is plan¬ ned for six o’clock. Bud Poulsen, president, will be in charge of the evening’s enter¬ tainment until the election of offi¬ cers, which will be held after the dinner. Only members active last semester are eligible for election to office. < Charles Braden, Inez Endicott, Harry Sheldon, Carl Deisenroth, Maria Tomicich, Anna Katherine Jones, Eugenia Saunders, Marjorie Betts and Ray Kahn are the new Mast and Dagger members who were tapped at the semi-annual ceremonies held during a recent as¬ sembly. These nine students were honored by the organization for outstanding service contributing to junior college activities. Plans for an alumni banquet to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the order are being made by an alumni committee headed by Ned F. Stirling and No- bu Kawaii. The affair will probably take place during the Christmas holidays next winter. School To Be In Muir Tech With the orchestras of Bob Mohr and Bob Martin, the annual senior- sophomore prom will be given in the Vista del Arroyo hotel follow¬ ing the graduation ceremonies to¬ morrow night, according to Bill Caldwell, senior class president in charge of arrangements. Bob Mohr’s orchestra will be fea¬ tured in the ballroom because of his fine vocalists, according to Caldwell, while Bob Martin’s band will play during the evening in the lounge. Begins at 9:30 The dance will begin at 9:30, when the orchestra will play its first number. The dance starts later than usual to allow students plenty of time to attend the affair follow¬ ing the graduation, as they do not get out of the ceremonies until approximately seven o’clock. Bids for the dance were given out to graduates only at the final graduation practice held at the Rose Bowl, yesterday afternoon. Dinner Optional A dinner, which is perfectly op¬ tional, is available to students, be¬ fore the dance, according to Miss Catherine J. Robbins, dean of wo¬ men, who said, “This banquet, held annually before the start of the dance, is independent of the dance in that the students may attend the prom without purch¬ asing the dinner. The price of tickets is 75 cents per plate, and the dinner will be held at the Vista.” The dance is to be semi-formal, in keeping with the traditions of the affair, while the dinner will be served from 9 to 10. Schedule For Summer Told Summer school sessions of Pasa¬ dena junior college will be held at Muir Tech, June 22 to July 31, and will offer a wide variety of courses to the student who desires to con¬ tinue his education on into the sum¬ mer, according to announcement from the counselor’s office. Among the classes which will be offered to students are business education, English, mathematics, physical science, social science and foreign language. All of these courses, except the courses in for¬ eign language, will be offered to both upper and lower division stu¬ dents. Further details may be ob¬ tained from the counselor’s office. Tuition fees for the summer se- sion are to be $5 for each two unit course, $7.50 for each three or more units in any academic subject and $10 for each three units in any laboratory science course. Fifteen or more students must enroll in each class before that course will be included in the curriculum. Registration will be at Muir Tech on the morning of the opening day, and students must present a slip signed by their counselor author¬ izing them to take the courses which they desire, according to Dr. Glenn L. Lembke, counselor. GRADUATES GET SUBJECT A TEST Four hundred students entering the upper division in September took the placement examination on Saturday morning, June 13, in the men’s gym, according to Dr. Glenn L. Lembke, counselor in charge of the examination. ‘The new placement examination, required of all students entering the thirteenth year, includes Eng¬ lish and psychology tests which are given in the morning,” said Dr. Lembke. For the benefit of students who have not made out their programs for next semester, the guidance de¬ partment has released the following vacation schedule when counselors will be in their offices for program¬ ming. Counselors will be in their offices on the following days with the exception of Saturdays and Sundays : George E. Breece, August 3-14 and August 24 until opening of school; Miss Florence L. Brubaker, June 22-26, June 29-30, and Au¬ gust 20 until the opening of school. 1 Dr. Glenn L. Lembke, July 20-24 •and August 17 until the opening of school. Cecil Stewart, July 13-August 7 and August 31 until the opening of school. Archie M. Turrell, June 29-July 3 and August 1 until the opening of school. Dr. Henry I. Weitzel, June 22-July 17 and August 31 until the opening of school. The guidance office advises stu¬ dents to make out their programs during vacation while there is still a selection of classes and to avoid confusion in the fall. Students may call the guidance office, TErrace 5111, station 57, to make appoint¬ ments during vacation. Day’s Schedule Shortened By Admin istration Today, Thursday, June 18, is the last day of the school year 1935-36, and as such is to have a special schedule which will re¬ lease all students from their scholastic duties at 10:20 a. m., according to announcement from the administration offices. The periods are to be 15 min¬ utes long with 10-minute pass¬ ing periods and there are to be no lunch periods. First period will start at 8 o’clock as usual, but will be let out at 8:15. Sec- nod period will last from 8:25 to 8:40; third period from 8:50 to 9:05; fourth period from 9:15 to 9:30; fifth period from 9:40 to 9:55, and sixth period from 10:05 to 10:20. Following the close of school immediately an “open house” will be held in the student union building for the presentation of student awards. This meeting will start at 10:30. Twenty-Five Hundred To Graduate In Bowl Commencement Rites C.S.F., Alpha Give Awards To Students Dinner Held In Honor 65 Lettermen of Nineteen Made Permanent Members Of Upper Division Club Nineteen upper division stu¬ dents received Alpha Gamma Sig¬ ma life membership pins at the initiation ceremony and luncheon given in their honor at the Brandy Cake Tearoom, Wednesday noon. With members from both the ad¬ ministration and faculty present, Dean of Men Patrick J. О ’Mara presented the emblems which rep¬ resented two years of good schol¬ arship in upper division work, ac¬ cording to Miss Mildred Welborn, chairman. Life members to the California Junior College Honor Scholarship society were selected by the faculty selection committee by a secret bal¬ lot. The evaluation was based up¬ on scholarship, citizenship and in¬ terest and participation in school life. Elsa Sauer and Ray Higgins were the students in charge of the luncheon at the Brandy Cake. The nineteen students to obtain permanent membership in the Al¬ pha Gamma Sigma are Barbara A. Barnett, Kenneth Bodger, Gene Bunning, Elizabeth Cammack, Hel¬ en Carrigan, Shizuko Fujimoto, ! Dillon Glendinning, Vincent Guinn, John Henderson, William Hewitt, Donald Hudson, Raymond Kahn, Priscilla Moerdyke, Edison Mont¬ gomery, Elizabeth Morgan, Lillian Palmberg, Roy Peterson, Sophie Tajima and Eleanor Thompson. Recognition of outstanding schol¬ arship in lower division work was given Monday when fifteen stu¬ dents were announced as Sealbcar- eis, permanent members of tne Ca\ ifornia Scholarship Federation. Pins were awarded at a brief ceremony and social hour on Monday at the Hill avenue library. Richard Arens, Charles Braden, Philip Cartwright, Lillian Casler, Могу Gartz, George Hatch, Kenyon Howard, Scovil Hub¬ bard, Charles Michener, Jim Ros- tron, Jane Dyer Sanford, Yoshio Tanaka, Mary Ona Tarner, George Todd and Jimmie Watkins were those who were awarded permanent membership in C. S. F. Green Hotel Is Scene Of Semi-Annual Dinner Last Night To honor lettermen in all sports except football, the semi-annual •athletic banquet, sponsored by the Associated Women students and the Associated Student Body, was held yesterday at the Green hotel, according to Marjorie Betts, presi¬ dent of A. W. S. Marge Bettanier, Carolyn Munn, Sarita Henderson, Mary Ann Moss, Alice Flynn, Hester Ann Wilkinson 1 and Betty Wilcox served the din¬ ner. Letters were presented to frosh and varsity basketball men, base¬ ball, swimming, tennis and track teams, and to the varsity cross¬ country, water polo and golf squads. 21 Receive Awards Because of their undefeated dual meet season, their second place in the Santa Barbara Open and third in the Fresno Relays, 21 varsity track lettermen received gold track shoes and lettermen’s sweaters. The frosh tracksters got silver and gold shoes for placing in the San Gabriel Valley league meet and for placing in the Southern Cals, re¬ spectively. A total of over sixty-five men received awards at the banquet. The banquet honoring the football men is held following the football season and is also sponsored by the women students and the student body. Theme Of Annual Graduation Exercises To Be “The New Atlantis — A Vision Of A New Day,” As Dances, Pageantry Featured In Ceremony Twenty-five hundred students from Pasadena junior college, John Muir Technical high school, Eliot junior high, Washington junior high, Marshall junior high, McKinley junior high and Wilson junior high will participate in the coming 1936 graduation ceremonies to be held Friday, June 19, in the Rose Bowl, at 6:45 in the evening, accord¬ ing to Miss Ida E. Hawes, dean of guidance at this school, who is in charge of the planning. Theme Told The theme, “The New Atlantis — A Vision of a New Day,” is to be carried out in the dance routines, presented by the physical education departments, representing the mythicah Lost Atlantis and an imaginary New Atlantis. At the conclusion of the first routine, cos¬ tumed to represent undersea life, a call to youth to beware of idle¬ ness will be given and, with the graduates singing “Land of Hope and Glory,” the dance representing the New Atlantis will be staged. Concert Slated Beginning the ceremony with a band concert at 6:45, the combined junior high school bands of the city will be featured. Each of the five bands will present a number and will be joined on a sixth number by the bands of Muir Tech and the junior college. Following this concert the city board of directors and the city school administration, together with a group of guests, will be led to their places at the north end of the Bowl by a group of represent¬ ative students from the schools. The 300 men of the seven bands will then form a crown and key, to which the incoming graduates will form rays. The traditional re¬ sponse, “Father Hear The Prayer We Offer,” will be sung by the in¬ coming graduates. Will Speak The graduates will march to their places at the north end of the Bowl singing “Praise Ye the Father.” Talks will then be given by City Superintendent of Schools John A. Sexson and Chairman of the Board of Directors E. O. Nay. The graduates will march out, re¬ ceiving their diplomas on the way. Rehearsals for the graduates and for the singers were held all during the past week, according to Miss Hawes, and there will be a dress rehearsal of the pageant tonight, in the Bowl. Costuming for the pageant is under the direction of Miss Nancy E. Applewhite and Miss Josephine Offley. CLUBS MUST CLEAR Clubs and other organizations must clear dates and places for open and closed dances, according to official announcement. Vo-Mag Due In September Vo-Mag, Pasadena junior college guidance magazine, published three times yearly under the auspices of the guidance department, will not issue its third number for this year at the present time, according to official announcement from the of¬ fice of Miss Ida E. Hawes, dean of guidance. Miss Hawes said, “According to present plans we will have the third edition ready for the students by registration day of next semester. A staff will be chosen soon and the magazine will be put out during the summer months.” Students who have three issue subscriptions for this year’s mag¬ azine will be able to get them on registration day. Graduating stu¬ dents may expect to have their • copies mailed to them near the end of the summer, according to Miss Hawes, and those students who will not be in school next year, but who are not graduating, should get in touch with the guidance depart¬ ment. Donated Book Collection To Form Nucleus of Future Printing Library A collection of books dealing with printing was donated by Mrs. Harold B. Martin, Pasadena P.-T. A. worker, to the junior college printing department, two weeks ago, according to Ned F. Stirling, head of the printshop. The collection, he said, will be used to form a printing department library, for the use of students who are interested in printing as an art, and who are dealing with prob¬ lems with which the various vol¬ umes deal. Included in the collection are pamphlets, specimen sheets and type catalogues, which would be of aid to students in composing and printing all types of work, he said. “Among the finest books is a vol¬ ume by Frederick F. Goudy with a hand-done letter,” said Mr. Stirling. “Also included are magazines and samples of printing of the first two decades of this century, which will be invaluable in the study of print¬ ing.” The collection was presented to the department following the death of John Brander, Mrs. Martin’s father, who was a printer and who had been interested in public school printing education. In giving the collection to the department, Mrs. Martin said that she felt she would be carrying out her father’s wishes, as he had always had the desire to help students of printing at this school following a visit ten years ago. The books, according to Mr. Stirling, will be used to form the nucleus of a library which will be gradually enlarged in the future. Instead of putting the books into the regular library, they will be kept in the printshop, where they will be instantly available to those who need them. NRICC DANCE IS HELD AT CIVIC Held in the Gold Room of the Civic auditorium, the first non- restrictive inter-club council dance was held last Friday night, accord¬ ing to Maria Tomicich, secretary of organizations, while Bob Milli- ken’s orchestra furnished the music. The theme, “Wedding Daze,” was carried out by -a mock wedding between Bill Weil, the groom, and Kenneth Bodger, the “bride.” Gor¬ don Earl was the vocalist for the evening. Officers of the council are Ray Frey, president; Bilk Weil, vice- president; and Ed Versaw, treas¬ urer. The Argonauts assisted at the dance by handling the coat room, and in the sale of tickets. PASSING ANNOUNCED The death of Alvin D. Snyder, father of Miss Gladys L. Snyder, English teacher at this school, was announced this week, following a long period of illness. Miss Snyder is also adviser of Beta Phi Gamma, honorary journalistic fraternity, along with her teaching activities. Eighteen Get Membership Eighteen Pasadena junior college students were elected to member¬ ship in the Argonauts service club, at a meeting held last week, and will serve the school in this capacity during the coming year, according to Jim Mathews, new vice-president of the group. Of this group, eight were advanced from associate to active membership; the remaining being the new associate members. The new active members are Henry Brannon, Don Hopkins, Kenyon Howard, Andy Longbotham, Bill Newbold, Franklyn Patterson, Bob Southworth and Norman Williams. Tlie associate list includes Jack Anderson, Paul Brown, Fred Greta, Vincent Guinn, Gilbert Lee, Robert Palmer, Elwood Phillips, Jimmy Stivers and Elwood Tempte. New officers for next semester are Bill Weil, president; Jim Mat¬ hews, vice-president; and Gilbert Powers, secretary-treasurer. Retir¬ ing officers who served for both se¬ mesters are Lyndon Vivrette, presi¬ dent; Bill Weil, vice-president; and Bill Payne, secretary-treasurer. CHOICE OF ‘PALS’ BASED ON MERIT •As soon as the new social affairs chairman has been chosen by the board of representatives, selection of “pals,” guides to the campus for the benefit of incoming freshmen, will be chosen, according to Miss Catherine J. Robbins, dean of women. The same system that was inau¬ gurated last semester, by which those named to serve as “pals” are selected on the basis of their school service records, will be used again this year. The function of the “pals” is to welcome the incoming students on the Sunday preceding registration and to conduct them on a tour of the campus, following which vesper services are held.