- Title
- Pasadena Chronicle, June 19, 1940
-
-
- Date of Creation
- 19 June 1940
-
-
- Description
- Student newspaper published and edited for the Associated Student Body of Pasadena City College weekly during the college year by the journalism students.
-
-
- Display File Format
- ["application/pdf"]
-
Pasadena Chronicle, June 19, 1940
Hits:
(0)
























SEE PJC REVUE
AT BOTH CAMPUSES
FUN— MUSIC
AWARDS ASSEMBLY
TO HONOR MANY
—BIG NAME BAND
Volume 31
Pasadena, California, June 19, 1940
No. 33
Seventeen Act Review
Feature Of Last Assembly
On Both Campuses
When the footlights of the two campus auditoriums
blink their merry farewell on tomorrow and Thursday,
PJC’s revue of 1940 will drag the finest school talent from
the melee of graduation long enough to cavort through 17
acts of collegiate entertainment.
Sponsored by the associated student body and pro¬
duced and directed by Seward Murphy, assisted by Yvonne
Hancock, the two hour show
will feature an important guest
Bob Gillette, Prexy, Leads Seniors In Graduation Tlmrsday
Sixteen Students
Get Scholarships
Dr. John A. Anderson, dean of records, announced last
Thursday that 16 students of the Pasadena junior college
had received scholarships, and four former members of the
student body have also received awards.
Gerald Martin, a senior, has received a $250 cash schol¬
arship to the University of California at Berkeley. The
award was sponsored jointly by the Alpha Gamma Sigma,
California junior college honor ■
star from Hollywood and a cast
of 200 student artists.
Hellzapoppin
Patterned after the Broadway
success, “Hellzapoppin” and the
local hit, “Meet the People,” the
revue will feature a two-ring
circus type of performance,
with acts simultaneously on the
stage and among the audience.
The hodge-podge of skits, musi-
calnumbers and vaudeville acts
will mingle Marjorie Garland’s
voice, John Ritterath’s drums,
Milt Banta’s boogie-woogie pi¬
ano, Evelyn Ireland’s nimble
tapping toes and Bob Fisher’s
banter and prestidigitation. A
group of dancing students
scheduled to fill a 10-week en¬
gagement at Earl Carroll’s will
present their act intact. Musi¬
cal arrangements will be at¬
tended by a Cuban orchestra and
the junior college symphony or¬
chestra, which will indulge in
Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”
The musical underscore for
most of the skits and songs will
be the twin piano accompani¬
ment by Dorothy Garland and
Larry Omohundro.
Two Hours — Two Days
Performance is scheduled to
run 9-11 am, alternating for the
two days with the awards as¬
sembly and two campuses. To¬
day will find the troupe on the
west campus stage, and on the
east tomorrow.
McCASTLINE REPRESENTS
Louise McCastline, president
of AWS, will represent Pasa¬
dena this Sunday at the dedica¬
tion of the new Balboa bridge,
according to an announcement
by E. O. Nay, chairman of the
board of city directors and se¬
lector of the representative.
Pasadena is one of 20 inland
cities to be honored with the
invitation extended by Mayor
Irvin G. Gordon of Balboa.
Final awards assembly will be
held at the east campus today
from 9:36 am to 11:36 am and
at the west campus during the
same hours tomorrow. Mast
and Dagger tapping ceremony
will take place along with the
presentation of awards.
The assembly has been set at
9:36 am— immediately after the
meeting of the lo’clock class for
today. After the assembly, the
2, 3 and 4 o’clock classes will
convene according to the sched¬
ule.
Today, while the awards as¬
sembly is in progress on the
east campus, the annual PJC
Revue will be presented on the
west campus. Tomorrow, the
program will be reversed.
According to Bud Childs, pro¬
gram director, the award pre¬
sentation and "tapping” will be
allotted a half hour with a well-
known dance band featured
during the last half hour of the
assembly.
OMD members met recently
and ballotted for the honored
pledges after the unique system
of “grading” candidates, accord¬
ing to their service granted to
school. Gene Huxley, OMD
prexy, declares this system pre¬
keeping o.ut an eligible candi-
vents any "blackballing” from
date and provides a fair basis
for selecting those to be tapped.
About 10 or 15 candidates will
be chosen this year.
Rotai-y award, Marilyn Cox;
East campus Kiwanis awards,
Joan Burrows and William Gil¬
lette; Homer award, Elishewa
Gutzman and Gordon K. Over-
holtzer; Alumni award, Gerald
Graduation Prom
To Be Held At
Civic Thursday
As a grand finale to the year’s
activities, the annual graduate’s
prom will be held in the Pasa¬
dena Civic auditorium, Thurs¬
day night, June 20, after com¬
mencement exercises. It is a
semi-formal affair, beginning at
8:30. Music will be provided by
the orchestra of Carl Hoff.
All graduating students may
attend, as bids to the dance will
be found inside the diploma re¬
ceived at commencement exer¬
cises in the Rose Bowl.
In past years, this dance has
been very popular and well at¬
tended. It promises to be so
again this year, and to be a
beautiful and fitting climax of
the school’s social season, which
will not be soon forgotten by
seniors and sophomores leav¬
ing PJC permanently.
Yearbook Pictures
On Sale Again
Yearbook pictures, on sale
last week, go on sale again to¬
day in the Chronicle office, 37C
and continue for the duration
of the week.
Activity of the sales reached
such feverish heights last week
that it was necessary to post¬
pone selling until this issue of
the Chronicle was published.
Students jammed the office so
thoroughly that it was impos¬
sible for the staff to work.
All pictures are being sold at
a small percent of their value;
proceeds of the sale are being
returned to the yearbook pro¬
duction fund.
Martin; Phatian award, Robert
Schureman ; architecture award,
Lowell Lone; Engineering
award, M. James Skinner.
Alpha Gamma Sigma awards,
Yen Guang Shiau, O. Ruth Ba¬
ker, Perry Morrison; Browning
Memorial scholarship, Kather¬
ine V. Miller; Art department
awards, Jack Griffin, Bob Rives;
Robert A. Millikan award, Ray¬
mond Oeschli; C. O. Arnold
award, Dorothea Behm.
Administration honors, 12th
grade: Arthur Becker, Robert
Breece, Mary Condie, John
Rempel, Helen Savory, Frances
Dahm, Weston Embree, Richard
English, Herbertha Gardner,
Barbara Morse, Frances Stong,
Barbara Gerschler, Richard
Hahn, Vivian Kronquist, Flor¬
ence Lowe, Carol Lubic.
Administration honrs — Mari¬
lyn Cox, Philip Flynn, William
Lawson, Gerald Martin, Perry
Morrison, Gordon Overholtzer,
Yen Guang Shiau, Garner
T. Summers.
East campus Bulldog pin win¬
ners: Howard Clapp, Johnny
Walker, Vince Erickson, Gene
Huxley, Bob Gillette, Bud Child,
Mabel Prouty Don Wierda, Ki-
miko Fukutaki, Swish Ogura,
Russ Walker, Marilyn Cox, Ma¬
son Hamilton, Sid Brown, Jack
Griffin Mel Pepping, Eva Park,
Marge Wilson.
C. O. Miller scholarship, Mar¬
garet Mauller; other scholar¬
ships : Margaret Hearn, Beatrice
Erickson, Dorothy Babcock, Bob
Braden, Jean Woodworth, Ar¬
thur Becher, Jane Pritchard,
Ada Bowdish, Phillip Flynn,
Mary Frances Hughes.
scholarship society and the uni¬
versity* alumni association. Win¬
ner of this award was selected
by a faculty committee from the
best students from each of the
26 chapters of Alpha Gamma
Sigma in this state. As a lower
division student, Gerald earned
a permanent membership in the
California Scholarship Federa¬
tion, and graduated from the
12th grade with administration
honors. As a college student he
has made an “A” in all but one
of his subjects.
Nothing Less Than An ‘A’
Mr. Anderson reports that
Marilyn Cox, who was awarded
a tuition award by the Univer¬
sity of Southern California, has
made nothing but “A’s” in all
of her subjects since she en¬
tered junior high school. Other
students awarded Alpha Gamma
Sigma scholarships were Yen
Guang Shiau, Pomona college;
Ruth Baker, La Verne College,
and Perry Morrison, Whittier
college.
U. of C. Awards
The University of California
awarded a $100 scholarship to
Katherine Virginia Miller and a
$125 scholarship to Elishewa
Gutmann. On a basis of his high
scholarship record, Tom Gilbert
received a tuition scholarship to
Caltech.
Margaret Mauller, because of
the promise she has shown in
the field of nursing, was given
the C. O. Miller scholarship to
the Stanford School of Nursing.
In the field of art, Jack Grif¬
fin was the recipient of a four
year, $1000 award from Art
Center, and Bob Rives received
a scholarship to Chouinard.
Margaret Hearn has been
awarded a $125 tuition to Whit¬
tier college, and Beatrice Erick¬
son received a $125 tuition
award from Whittier Broadoaks.
Dorothy Babcock is the recipi¬
ent of a Mills college scholar¬
ship for $400. Swarthmore col¬
lege awarded a $400 scholarship
to Bob Braden, and Jean Wood-
worth McCullagh, received a
half-tuition award from Rock¬
ford college.
PJC Grads Honored
PJC graduates who have re¬
ceived scholarships are: Virgil
Hinshaw, '39, awarded the
Bookstore scholarship at Stan¬
ford; Allen Graber, ’39, received
the William R. MacDonald
award at Berkeley for $385;
Lawrence R. Grannis, '39, re¬
ceived a Gamble Scholarship at
Stanford; and Theodore Hatlen,
'29, was awarded the University
Graduate Scholarship at Stan¬
ford.
These are the awards made
known last Thursday to Mr. An¬
derson.
1000 Students
To Continue
An estimated 1000 students
will attend summer school on
the PJC east campus this year,
David Reidy, dean of the sum¬
mer session, announced recently.
One hundred and nineteen
courses are being offered in the
humanities, life science, physi¬
cal science, business and social
science departments. This num¬
ber includes 22 courses for jun¬
ior high school students.
The summer session will last
from June 24 to August 2 with
registration on the first of these
days. Through longer class per¬
iods and more concentrated
study semester courses will be
thoroughly covered in this time.
A fee of $2.50 per unit with
a maximum of $7.50 will be
charged for all non-laboratory
courses. High school laboratory
courses will cost $10 plus de¬
posit and college lab courses $3
per unit, plus a deposit. These
fees will not fall due until regis¬
tration day.
Students now attending PJC
may enroll for the summer ses¬
sion through their counselors.
Others should contact Dean
Reidy, room 140C.
’The Doll's House'
Closes PJC Season
Hendrik Ibsen’s famous social
drama, “The Doll’s House” was
the last dramatic presentation
given at JC this year.
It was presented last Wednes¬
day evening, under the sponsor¬
ship of Players’ Guild, directed
by Patricia Peteler.
In the cast which included the
supervising director, George
Spelvin, were Tom Lockard,
Georgie Lee Gripp, Marian
Sprott, Patsy Peteler, Esther
Trynin and Dick McMoyler.
Annual election of Players’
Guild officers was held May 5.
Paul Carroll was elected presi¬
dent; Eleanor Prosser, vice-
president; Lois Ijams, second
vicepresident; Maxine Rogers,
secretary ; Sylvester Demning,
historian; Cloyd Howard, treas¬
urer.
Elizabeth Flint, advisor, has
urged all interested students to
attend Players' Guild tryouts
next semester, October 2.
FACULTY BREAKFAST
The fellowship committee of
the faculty issued invitations
this week to all faculty mem¬
bers for the farewell breakfast
to be held this Friday morning
at 8:30 in the west campus cafe¬
teria. This project terminates
the year’s social program which
the committee has provided.
Mast -Dagger To Honor
Sixteen Hard Working
Students At Assembly
3200 Students To Be
Honored In Rose Bowl
Thursday Night At 7
In an impressive ceremony symbolizing gratitude for''
the privileges enjoyed by youth in a democracy, an esti¬
mated 3200 students will graduate from PJC and five jun¬
ior high schools tomorrow evening at 7 o’clock in the Rose
Bowl.
Choosing “The Spirit of Freedom” as theme, a student
committee consiting of Howard Clapp, Barbara Place and
Citizens' Advice On
Public Defense And
Education Asked
In the belief that public-
spirited citizens may have valu¬
able suggestions for the public
schools in the education pro¬
gram as it relates to public de¬
fense plan, the Pasadena Teach¬
er's association has formed a
committee to receive such sug¬
gestions.
Chairman of the committee is
Dr. William B. Langsdorf, who
is also chairman of the PJC di¬
vision of social studies. Dr.
Langsdorf states, “It is the
firm belief of our teachers that
the school provides the greatest
common defense for our coun¬
try and for democratic institu¬
tions.
Teachers Strive To Train
Pasadena teachers have long
been striving to train for effec¬
tive citizenshipin democracy.
They realize that this is needed
now more than ever before.
They are approaching the in¬
creasing demands placed upon
them with all the skill and
training at their command.”
Members of the committee are
Dorothy Nay Brown, Esther M.
Cogswell, Charles D. Howk,
Bailey W. Howard, Myrtle
Kurth, J. O. McClintic, Wallice
Newlin, Adelaide Ticknor, Bess
Tyne, Archie Wedemeyer and
Elizabeth Wheeler.
Dr, Langsdorf Says
Dr. Langsdorf also said that
“It is the though of the com¬
mittee that the objectives of
civic responsibility are admir¬
ably stated by the educational
policies commission of the Na¬
tional Education association.
The objectives are:
“ ‘Social justice, social activi¬
ty, social understanding, criti¬
cal judgment, conservation, tol¬
erance, social applications of
science, world citizenship, law
observance, economic literacy,
political citizenship, and devo¬
tion to democracy.’ ”
Student Board Eats
At Earl Carroll's
Completing a semester of suc¬
cessful legislative labors the
board of student representatives
climaxed their efforts with an
annual party. The final get-to¬
gether, held at Earl Carroll’s,
proved a grand "last supper.”
The affair was arranged by
“Spider” Webb and student of¬
ficers present included Vince
and Harlan Erickson, Bob and
Kitty Eastman, Louise McCast¬
line, Bill Simmons, Bill O’Don-
nel, Barbara Place, Bob Gillette
and William Webb.
Virginia Newman working with
the president Robert Gillette,
and Miss Ida E. Hawes have
tried to express in their plans
for the exercises that which
seems of the greatest worth to
them — the freedom of American
life.
Kester Adapts
Miss Katharine Kester has
especially adapted a theme song
for the occasion from an editor¬
ial appearing in the New York
Times recently that expressed
the spirit of commencement. It
has been appropriately named
“God of the Open Air,” after
Henry Van Dyke’s famous
poem.
Beginning at 6:30 the Bulldog
band, under the direction of
Audre L. Stong will give a con¬
cert program, at 7 o’clock a
trumpet call will announce the
entrance of the graduates. The
14th year graduates will enter
first at the south end of the
Rose Bowl, followed by the si¬
multaneous entrance of the jun¬
ior high school graduates from
the north and the twelfth year
graduates from the south. They
will sing when they are on the
field and as they take their
places in the grandstands.
Reverend Day To Speak
The invocation will be deliv¬
ered this year by Reverend Al¬
bert Day, pastor of the First
Methodist church, followed by
short speeches and pledges of
representatives of the graduat¬
ing classes. Singing of “The
Pledge of Allegiance to the
Flag” will be an innovation this
year. The theme poem will then
be read and interpreted by
lighting effects and music, after
which the graduates will enter
upon recessional and receive
their diplomas.
Lights To Blaze
Next will come a prayer in
song by a youth chosen from
the graduates, the singing of
the last stanza of “My Country
’tis of Thee,” the Stars and
Stripes symbolized in a blaze
of pure white light reaching to
the sky, the “Star Spangled
Banner” and the 1940 com¬
mencement will be over.
With his diploma every PJC
student will receive a bid for
one couple to the dance at the
Civic auditorium which imme¬
diately follows the commence¬
ment.
RED CROSS GETS $792
Pasadena junior college Red
Cross drive netted $792 from
faculty and students. When the
money was turned in to the lo¬
cal chapter they could hardly be¬
lieve it to be true.
“May we take this opportunity
to thank all you for your en¬
thusiasm and whole hearted
support,” said Hilda Chase,
chairman, east campus, and
Elizabeth Caulkins, chairman,
west campus, emergency Red
Cross First Aid corps.
Junior College Girls Knit Sweaters
For Destitute French Children
Junior college women students, as members of the White Cross
Sisters of America, are knitting sweaters and coats for refugee
French children.
The organization is headed by Madeline Carroll, actress, who
has turned over her chateau in
Other White Cross Sister groups
Mary Lean, PJC students, ass
the local group of 21 members,
including Bernice Nadey, Helen
Spansail, Jeanne Green, Lou
Miles, Donola Jordan, Jo Ann
Moore, Betty Farrington, Eve¬
lyn Civee, Madelyn Pyle, Su¬
zanne Chute, Florence Lowe
and Margaret Ledbetter.
Members meet with Miss Car-
roll in Pasadena every other
Friday night, although they
have also met at Miss Carroll’s
home in Santa Monica and sev¬
eral times at Paramount stu¬
dios. All materials for knitting
are supplied by Miss Carroll.
Miss Mary Lee is knitting in¬
structress.
France to French war orphans,
ire at UCLA and Hollywood high,
isted Miss Carroll in establishing
Betty Litz, Bob Morgan
Win Poetry Contest
Betty Litz, junior, and Bob
Morgan, senior, were winners
in the annual poetry recital con¬
test held recently under the di¬
rection of Miss Elizabeh E. Kep-
pie.
The contest, held in the social
hall, wus judged by four mem¬
bers of Miss Keppie’s Adult •
Verse Choir. They presented to
the winners an Anthology of
English and American Poetry.
Select what you would like to download. If choosing to download an image, please select the file format you wish to download.
The Original File option allows download of the source file (including any features or enhancements included in the original file) and may take several minutes.
Certain download types may have been restricted by the site administrator.