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Pasadena Chronicle, May 06, 1938
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Here
And
Now..
by Merilyn Nutt, Editor
Cooperation is the keynote of
Pasadena Junior College. The
change from the ancient high
school-college idea to the modern
junior high school-junior college
system has necessitated numerous
adjustments. The administration,
faculty, student body, and com¬
munity have attacked these prob¬
lems with characteristic enthusi¬
asm.
One of the unconformities yet
to be ironed out is the academic
breach between high school and
college. The amount of work
carried by the average college
student is generally considered
to be nearly twice as heavy as
that of a high school student.
This axiom varies according to
departments, individuals, etc. At
a four-year junior college both
high school and junior college
students are enrolled. Thus the
problem to be faced is the prop¬
er allotment of work to the two
groups of students on a fair and
reasonable basis.
Several obstacles are immedi¬
ately presented. Instructors usu¬
ally have a variety of classes in
their daily programs, few teachers
have exclusively high school or
college classes. Members of the
faculty therefore are forced to
lower or raise the level of their
instruction, recitation, outside as¬
signments, and grading, from one
hour to the next.
Often students of both lower
and upper division are enrolled
in the same class. A situation of
this kind places an extra burden
on the faculty. In order to be
just, the teacher would have to
make two assignments for every
lesson.
The Community also comes in
for its share of this problem. Most
junior college students live at
home and necessarily have defi¬
nite responsibility toward their
home and community. Regular
university students who are living
away from home are relieved of
this duty to their hometown for at
least nine months of the year.
While in their own community,
young people naturally respond
more actively to various clubs,
church groups and other organiza¬
tions. And there is a certain
amount of activity for which they
assume the responsibility for the
family.
These things take time. At col¬
lege, where students are more or
less on their own, they personally
accept or reject activities accord¬
ing to the load they feel capable of
carrying. At junior college the
home responsibilities come first
and the school work second.
All these factors tend toward
complicating homework assign¬
ments. The problem is one for
the community, faculty, and stu¬
dent body to work out. Progress
has been made, and with the
continuing of the cooperation al¬
ready shown, the future prom¬
ises a relieving of the pressure
on both the students and the
faculty.
★ * *
Peace Day was successful to
say the least as results of the
Peace Poll approved pacific means
of settling disputes.
The ballot figures are as fol¬
lows: 1593 votes for a United
States policy of cooperation
with other nations in defense of
peace, 449 for a policy of isola¬
tion; 969 favoring amendment of
the present Neutrality act to
permit economic aid to victims
of aggression, 521 voted to re¬
peal the act outright and to start
anew, 60 wished to leave the act
as it stands; reciprocal trade
agreements, stabilization of cur¬
rencies, redistribution of colo¬
nies, cancellation of war debts,
and relaxation of immigraf:on
restrictions were preferred in the
above order as methods of re¬
ducing economic friction among
nations; 1483 PJC STUDENTS
SAID THEY WOULD FIGHT
ONLY IN DEFENSE OF
THE UNITED STATES, 483
voted to give non-combatant,
but material aid, 451 completely
refused to serve or aid in war
time, while only 399 wanted to
fight abroad.
PASADENA CHRONICLE
Vol. XXIX Pasadena Junior College, May 6, 1938 No. 29
PJC Student Leaders Manage Pasadena
Beauteous Princesses of Carnival
Left to right: Emily Hammon, Dolly Rees, Barbara Graham, Pat
Hops, Helen Vaughn, Peggy Ingham and Betty Grey.
SEVEN FAIR COEDS RULE
AT CARNIVAL NEXT WEEK
Avocational
Day Today
Six comely junior college coeds will be named princesses
and one will be crowned queen of the 12th Annual Mast and
Dagger carnival next Friday evening in ceremonies appropri¬
ate to the theme, “South Sea Islands,” which will set the at¬
mosphere for the entire festival.
Peggy Ingham, Pat Hops, Emily Hammon, Dolly Rees,
Barbara Graham, Betty Grey and Helen Vaughn are the
girls, one of whom will be queen, the remaining six princesses.
Secret until the crowning ceremonies at 10 next Friday,
the queen will be a surprise to everyone including most of the
members of the order.
Forty Compete
Selected on a basis of face, figure, type, poise and walk,
the girls were chosen at a meeting of members of the order
and faculty members. More than 40 girls were entered in the
contest.
The South Seas theme of the carnival will be carried
out in decorations, music, booths, and personnel. Hula girls
will mingle in the expected throng of celebrants, beach boys
will add to the atmosphere and palm trees will wave gently
over grass huts where cool pineapple drinks will be available.
Clubs Enter Booths
More than forty clubs have entered booths in the carni¬
val. Pineapple concessions, soft drinks, and refreshments of
various sorts will be available at refreshment booths, while
games of skill and chance, and various forms of amusement
will be found at others.
Chuck Braden, president of the order, announces, “This
will be one of the most effective carnivals yet. We are dis¬
pensing with the parade this year, and bending all our efforts
to producing an effective show, which we are sure will be a
success.”
Rae Williams, in charge of the queen committee, Bob
Stapleton in charge of the dance committee, Carl Harper in
charge of booth construction, are members actively engaged
in the carnival work this year.
PJC Graduate Composer
'Doubles Cape' in Sailing Ship
Warwick Miller Tompkins, '21, recently “doubled the Cape”-—
he sailed around Cape Horn. Tompkins will be remembered as the
tudent who wrote the alma mater song, “Sturdy as the Mountains.”
Lectures, Exhibits,
Demonstrations
On Program
Avocational day will again be
presented to the students of PJC
during the assembly period today.
The program is sponsored by the
Student Vocational council and in
cooperation with the non-restrictive
clubs on the campus.
Parents of all junior college stu¬
dents have -been invited by the
guidance department and the Pa¬
trons -association to visit the school
and eat lunch by the pool while
watching a diving exhibition pre¬
sented by the physical education
department.
Following is the program for the
day, and a list of rooms, speakers,
and topics offered: auditorium, En¬
gineering club, “Latest Develop¬
ments in Televisio n,” Harry
Lubcke; swimming pool, WAA and
Big “P,” diving exhibition, Ruth
Jump, Los Angeles Athletic club,
and swim waltz team, Virginia and
Marian Hopkins; 117C, language
department, exhibit of foreign
stamps; 200C, foreign costume dis¬
play; music hall, music of various
Continued on Page Three
Landacre Wood
Engravings in Gallery
Wood engravings -by Paul Land-
acre are on display in the art
gallery of the ‘C’ building. Land-
acre is one of the exceptional ar¬
tists who has had no orthodox art
training. When asked who were
his teachers, he replied, “Trial and
Error.”
Among the engravings being
shown in the exhibit are “Tuonela,”
which was among the illustrations
of a recent Vo-Mag, “Franz Schu¬
bert,” “Jean Sibelius,” “Johann Se¬
bastian. Bach,” “Amateurs,” “Mon¬
day,” “August Seventh,” “Poach¬
ers,” “Sultry Day,” “Coachella Val¬
ley,” “2006 El Moran,” “Lot Clear¬
ing, Lo-s Angeles,” “Hill,” “Shell,”
“Forest Girl,” among the illustra¬
tions of “Green Mansions,” “The
Gold Fields,” “Iris,” decorations for
“Farewell Thou Busy World,”
“Richard the Opossum” and “Grow¬
ing Com.”
Just returned to California, he is1
now in San Francisco.
After leaving Pasadena, the po¬
tential nautical ace went to Ham¬
burg, Germany, where he bought
his “Wander Bird”— 85-foot pilot
PATRONS SPONSOR OPEN HOUSE;
LUNCH BESIDE SWIMMING POOL
boat that had seen 57 years of serv¬
ice in the North Sea. The schooner
was ideally -suited for long ocean
voyaging, being seaworthy, buoy¬
ant, -smart under sail, easily
handled by la small crew, and sound
in spite of her years.
Making the trip with his wife
and two children, plus a -small
crew, he recorded adventures which
were published in his book, “Fifty
South to Fifty South.” To the un-
initiate, the two southern fifties
mean “fifty degrees -south in the,
Atlantic to 50 degrees south in the
Pacific.”
Open house, sponsored by the Patrons’ association, will
be held here today from 9 :50 a. m. to 3 p. m.
An Avocational day talk will be given by Harry Lubcke,
director of television, KHJ, on “Latest Developments in Tele¬
vision,” in the auditorium during assembly period. From
10 :40 until 11 :40 Patrons may visit classes and see exhibits.
A lunch sponsored by the association will be served near the
swimming pool.
The last regular meeting of the association will be held
in the Social Hall, Monday, May 16, at 2 :30.
Board of Education and
City Government Taken
Over by Jr. Collegians
Pasadena Jr. Chamber of Commerce Sponsors
Student Management of Civic Affairs;
Chronicle Staff Edits Today7s Post
In conjunction with National Youth week, which has been ob¬
served in communities all over the United States during the past week,
;he Pasadena Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsored “student gov¬
ernment days" during which student body members of Pasadena Junior
College participated in city -management and Board of Education
- * functions.
Zoologist . . .
DR. M. W. DELAUBENFELS
DR. DE TALKS
AT ACADEMY
MEETING
With the assistance of five at¬
tractive Pasadena , Junior College
coeds who served ais living illus¬
trations for his talk, Dr. M. W. De
Laubenfels, professor of zoology
here, addressed members of the
Southern California Academy of
Sciences at their annual convention
last Monday night in the banquet
hall of the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce.
Speaking on the subject “The
Races of Mankind,” Dr. DeLa-uben-
fels traced the development of -the
human race down through the ages,
from the primitive beginnings to
the present complex human being.
Continued on Page Three-
Last Tuesday morning ,jhe neo¬
phyte city employees were installed
in their positions as heads of the
city government, and! under the
watchful eyes of the officials whose
jobs they filled were initiated into
the mysteries of the management
of a large city.
Serve on Board
Wednesday other student leaders
from the junior college had their
opportunity to -serve on the Pasa¬
dena Board of Education. While
the secretary of the board and the
superintendents, remained on duty
throughout the day, other members
of the board were free at 4:30 Wed¬
nesday from their ordinary duties
outside of the regular meeting,
which they attended with the stu¬
dent “directors.”
Student participants in -the city
government were feted at a lunch¬
eon given Monday by the Junior
Chamber -of Commerce, and com¬
menced their duties Tuesday morn¬
ing following a breakfast tendered
them by the Chamber of Commerce
of Pasadena. Thursday the Kiwanis
organization of Pasadena honored
th« student governors with a lunch¬
eon.
Edit Post
Extending student influence into
the sphere of publications, the staff
of the -school newspaper, the
“Chronicle,” wrote arid edited the
“Pasadena Post” Thursday night,
the issue appearing this morning.
The student journalists covered the
regular news -sources in the city,
edited the news, and wrote the
feature articles for the edition.
Continued on Page Three
AMS STAG SETS
NEW RECORD
A new high in AMS stiaig attend¬
ance was reached when 1235 men
students recently saw “Wake Up
and Live” in the auditorium. The
new mark tops by 235 the previous
record of 1000.
Alice Faye, Walter Winchell and
Ben Bernie proved to be the draw¬
ing cards, assisted by a short sub¬
ject entitled “Steel” and several
carto-ons.
Robert Ben Ali is Author, Director,
Composer for 'Movie Play'
“Manya,” the first play to be produced with a motion picture
technique, will be presented in the Sexson auditorium by an all student
cast on the afternoon of June 2 and evening of June 4. The play,
RECORD CLASS
WILL GRADUATE
A record number of 1417 gradu¬
ates will receive -their diplomia-s
from PJC in June. Eight hundred
and thirty-six lower division and
581 upper division candidates are
included in the graduation list for
this semester.
This total shows an increase of
243 over last year’s record of 1174
graduates. These figures were re¬
leased recently by John A. Ander¬
son, dean of records.
“We wi-sh all candidates to sign
their graduation check card's at
window 1 in the records -office as
soon as possible,” Dean Anderson
stated.
In order to simplify -this w-ork,
Mrs. Lucille Barrington, chief as¬
sistant in the records office, has
arranged the following schedule for
signing:
I — Z — Today, Friday, May 6
N — R — Monday, May 9
S — Z — Tuesday, May 10
The A — -H section should have
reported on Wednesday and Thurs¬
day.
_ “It is important that graduates
sign these check cards for they de¬
termine how the student’s name
will appear on his diploma,” Mrs.
Barrington said.
written by Robert Ben Ali, a stu¬
dent here, is being produced by
Peter Prouse, director of the Kraf-
ty hall shows and student drama¬
tist.
The story of the play is woven
about the life of Marie Curie,
Manya,, from the viewpoint that her
contribution to the world was her
great will, her simple sincere life
and great courage rather than her
scientific research. In the role of
Manya will be Edwina Booth,
great-granddaughter of the famous
stage actor. Miss Booth ha,s acted
in many other productions.
Rosalie Meub, Elizabeth of the
Easter choral play, “Alleluia,” will
play the role of Bronya, Mme.
Curie’s sister. John Pimley, who
has acted in other student produc¬
tions, will act the part of Pierre
Curie. Other members of the cast
are Casimir Dulski, Roger Tierney;
Fra.ncizek, Leo S-trelsky; Tadieusz,
Leroy George; Professor Slodov-
ska, Michael Brent; Mme. Jeanne,
Rachel Reid; Henri, Allan Robb;
-and M. Curie, Charles Ross. Faculty
advisers of the production are Fred
J. Hoffman and Glenn A. Reid, of
the English department.
The first performance will be
given Thursday afternoon, June 2,
at 3:30 o’clock. Tickets will be 15
cents. The second performance will
be held Saturday evening, June 4,
at 8:30 o’clock. Tickets for the
evening program will be 25 cents.
The Pasadena Junior College Alum¬
ni association is sponsoring the
play.