Pasadena Chronicle, May 24, 1940

TURN IN APPOINTIVE OFFICE PETITIONS TO DEAN ANDERSON ronicle "BACKWARDS DANCE" WED. TO FEATURE GARWOOD VAN Vol. 31 Pasadena, California, Friday, May 24, 1940 i No. 31 Girls To Pay In Dance At Civic By W. Ellis Teas Leap Year will offer a double incentive to forward coeds next Wednesday, May 29, when they turn tables on the male popu¬ lation for the sake of the an¬ nual Backwards dance. Per¬ haps the girls are getting bold¬ er, for it was necessary to en¬ gage the Civic auditorium this year in order to accomodate all the eager skirted romeos and their “dates.” Garwood Van and his orches¬ tra have been acquired to play among the decorative palms and other tropic miscellany that is being assembled to further the “Night in Hawaii” theme. Despite this native motif, stu¬ dents are warned by Social Af¬ fairs Secretary Mickey Shaw that is is to be a sport affair, and not a costume dance. Grass skirts might constitute a fire hazard, and sarongs might prove unmanageable to the un¬ initiated. Keep Your Shoes On! "There has even ben a crazy rumor about dancers being asked to check their shoes and stockings at the door,” Mickey said. “That’s absolutely false. We’d have the health depart¬ ment on our toes for one thing.” The fact that the Memorial holidays follow the dance is con¬ ducive to the tradition that girls in the same clubs or groups take their dates to the same spot after the dance. There will be no homework or 8 o’clock classes to terminate or dampen such arrangements. Last year a group of boys were amazed when they were driven to the top of Lake avenue, in¬ formed that the girls were “broke” and handed box lunches. The dance, sponsored by the social affairs committee, will be open to all students at 50 cents per couple, the only stipulation being that the girls must do the inviting and foot the bill, eveh to the "corsages.” Seven Honored At WAA Banquet With the theme “In Old Vi¬ enna,” the 18th Annual WAA banquet entertained 50 guests Tuesday at the Shakespeare club. Joan Burroughs received the silver cup for having the high¬ est number of WAA points, in addition to having rated high in citizenship, scholarship, sports¬ manship and leadership. Vince Gives Passes Life passes were presented by Student Body President Vince Erickson to Dorothea Nevins, Virginia MacIntyre, Betty Clow, Barbara Daley and Joan Burroughs. Big “P” blankets were given to the girls having 2250 WAA points. Those receiving blankets were: Catherine McGrath, Bar¬ bara Fitch, Mabel Murphy, Vir¬ ginia McIntyre, Dorothea Nev¬ ins, Barbara Daley and Evelyn Bradford. More Awards Awards were also presented by the managers of the indivi- ual sports to the deserving members of their teams. Miss Pauline Brown, who for the past year has been WAA adviser, was presented with a Big “P” blanket at a token of esteem from club members. The outgoing presidents, Bar¬ bara Fitch and Sis McGrath re¬ ceived gold rings engraved with their initials. ARTISTS. GIVE RECITAL Students of the advanced and repertoire classes in piano will give their spring recital Tues¬ day evening in the east campus music hall, at 8 pm, assisted by Tom Lockhard, baritone. They are Dorothea Behm, Margaret Eleanor Willard, Gan- ther, Doris Martens, Jeanne Morrow, Rudy Annas, Michael Hernandez, Eleanor Johnson, Jean Kilgrove, Eugene Ober, Ayako Matsumoto, Barbara Theely, Marion Auw and Esther Wu. Faculty and students have been cordially invited to attend the recital, by Carrie M. Sharp, adviser. ROTC Drills For Public Tuesday As an aftermath of the An¬ nual Federal Inspection, PJC’s ROTC regiment will hold a special review on Horrell field EC) next Tuesday, May 26, at the conclusion of the 9 am per¬ iod. Pictured is “P.IC’s Little Army," which is to inarch with the Bulldog Baud in a special review on Horrell Field next Tuesday. This event is being кропмопч! by the < handier of Commerce in an effort to give the unit more recognition for its achievements. Important leaders of both the army and navy are scheduled to review the "troops.” In order to give PIC students as well as the general public opportunity to attend, a special school schedule has been arranged. However, it will be in effect on cast campus only. Student Union Wrangle Over Two Architects The appointment of Cyril Bennett by student body offi¬ cials to do the first architectural plans on the proposed $117,000 student union cafeteria at PJC caused architect difficulty this week, when architect Robert II. Ainsworth told the Board of Ed¬ ucation that he retained an open contract on the job. Ainsworth asserted that he had been asked twice to make drawings for the student union by the board Several years ago for which he was paid $2947. His plans had not been used but he expected to be called to con¬ tinue the job when the project was actually ready to be con¬ structed. Meanwhile, student body offi¬ cials presented a plan last month drawn by Cyril Bennett and according to Vince Erick¬ son, student body president, Mr. Bennett has been collaborating with student officials for the last two or three semesters. Mr. Ainsworth in talking over the open contract which the Board of Education had appar¬ ently overlooked, claimed that he would need $900 more to “break even” if he did not com¬ plete the job. Music Group Presents Short Of Martha Today With a talented cast of PJC music students, an abbreviated version of the light opera “Martha” will be presented this afternoon at 3:15 in the music building. The opera which will be beau¬ tifully costumed and staged, has been carefully rehearsed several weeks in production un¬ der the direction of Richard Knost, former opera director of the famous Eastman School of Music. Bernice Nadey, Joyce Chase, Mildred Campbell and Christine Marburg will sing. Other cast members are Betty Mcanally, Jean Cannon, John Rcjebian, Rodney Munson and Oliver Diggins. Band Give s Home Coming Assembly CA Koiner To Speak In 200C The annual Spring Bulldog band assembly to be pre¬ sented on both campuses today is to preview many of the numbers that the organization will play tonight and Sun¬ day in its homecoming concert. Ticket 22 from the student body books must be ex¬ changed for an admittance ticket at the box office. Among the numbers that Director Andre L. Stong will lead his bandsmen in playing are the band's version of Pin- occhio, the western tour and famous dance bands. The supply of 3200 tickets for the annual homecoming - - — - - concert tonight was exhausted PJC Students Pla]? In Televised Show Opportunity for Pasadena junior college student to take part in a KHJ Don Lee tele¬ vision show was announced to¬ day by Robert Cummings, PJC radio major. Cummings, who will offer his second major KHJ television production Thursday night. May 30, 8 o’clock, will produce the show and select a complete east of PJC students. It will be the first entire junior college television show ever produced. Auditions, time and place to be announced later, will be held at PJC and all rehearsals will be conducted here. A preview will be held on one PJC cam¬ pus for station officials before air presentation. Students in this production will appear before every big talent scouts in Los Angeles. AH big talent scouts own tele¬ vision receivers and never miss a show where new and good talent may pop up. It will be produced in the same manner as a good vaudeville or radio show. Every type of entertainer can be used. Cummings said he would probably feature a swing orchestra, female vocalist (good looking brunette will do well), male vocalist, jugglers, magic¬ ian and ventriloquist. He also emphasized that any stage tal¬ ent coud and would be given a chance to display its talent. Simmons AMS Prexy In Recount As Final Ballot Thrown Out The AMS presidential race turned into a topsy-turvy scramble Wednesday when a recount of votes cast in the primary election reversed the former elections commission decision. Final standings of candidates according to the recount are: Bill Simmons, 201; Ernie Blumberg, 198; Bob Blodgett, 154; Pat Kennedy, 143; Johnny Krenz, 135 Bill Simmons is now AWS — lot necessary to decide the AMS officer. Ogura explained the rea¬ son for the first count of Friday being inaccurate' was the con¬ flicting activity of the carnival held the same night. The elec¬ tions board was. unable to find enough members to adequately count the votes. Those few members who appeared counted votes— until 4 am Saturday morning. two weeks ago, and the dean of men's office has received 2000 more requests than can be tak¬ en care of. Mr. Stong stated that every year between two and three hundred persons with tickets do not appear at the concert. For that reason, all students who will be unable to make the repeat performance at 2:30 and 4:30 pm on Sunday, May 26, are asked to be present at the Civic auditorium at 7:55 pm. Seats which have not been claimed at that time may be taken by anyone. The concert tonight is to be opened by tuning in the NBC Pleasure Time broadcast with Fred Waring and his Pennsyl¬ vanians playing and featuring the “Hail Pasadena” fight song which they wrote for PJC last year and presented in a regular program at that time. The con¬ cert will begin immediately upon completion of the Waring broadcast. Mutual’s coast-to- eoast network is to. broadcast 30 minutes of the concert. When the Chronicle went to press, Dean of Men Audre L. Stong was still uncertain of the exact time of this broadcast as war news has made the sched¬ ule unsure. “Merits of City Managership Government,” will be discussed by Pasadena’s city manager, C. A. Koiner, at 8:55 this morning, during the regular assembly period, in room 200C, under sponsorship of associated social science groups. Students in civics, social sci¬ ence, and all interested stu¬ dents are invited to attend. June 3 Deadline For intive Offices AWS president, with Ernie Blumberg associate president. All votes of Wednesday’s final ballot have ben thrown out and the result stands unless one of the de¬ feated candidates carries his case to court. “Swish” Ogura, elections com¬ missioner declared that his com¬ mission had interpreted the con¬ stitution to mean only one bal- Applications for next fall's appointive offices are now un¬ der consideration and may be left in Dean Anderson’s office, east campus and Assistant Prin¬ cipal O’Mara’s office, west cam¬ pus. Deadline for applications is June 3, according to newly elected student body president Harlan Erickson. Keynote of these appoint¬ ments will be the working the new civil service commis sion, proposed by Erickson and passed by the student board in last Tuesday’s board meeting. Function of the commission will be to establish more rigid requirements for prospective appointive candidates and to test the applicants qualifications. of Harlan Erickson Elected ASB Prexy, Paulson Wins Approximately 2100 students, representing 30 percent of the combined student bodies voted in the elections on Friday and Wednesday and elected Harlan Erickson as associated student body president, under the new constitution rulings. Erickson, this semester’s jun¬ ior class president and brother of the present ASB president, polled 1197 votes in nosing out Louise McCastline, AWS presi¬ dent, and “Red” South, last year’s presidential runner-up, with 736 and 220 tallies, respec¬ tively. Paulson, Adams Win Peter Paulson, unopposed, and Jerry Adams (331 votes), who narrowly defeated Slick Fallis (300), drew the newly- formed offices of vice-presi¬ dent and associate president on the east and west campuses, respectively. Winners of the new represen- tative-at-large offices (one rep¬ resentative to each 1000 stu¬ dents on both campuses) were John O’Grady, Bill Humphrey, Barbara Fitch, Edward P. Da¬ vis and Bob Perkins on the east campus, with Bob Mardian and “Peanuts” Page on the west campus. Watson Burns (288 votes) was elected senior class presi¬ dent over Bob Hueblein (264) in the Wednesday finals after eliminating Byron Lough and George Hawes in the primaries. Juniors elected Robert Burns (276 votes) over William Webb (160) as their president. Katherine Hubbard (209 votes) was declared Sophomore president over John Water- house 191) and Bob Stevens (110). Contender Paul Watson lost out in the primaries. Bill Simmons (201 votes) of the west campus won the AMS presidency and Ernest Blum- bery (198) won the associate president’s job on the east campus, after a close race with Bob Blodgett (154), Pat Ken¬ nedy (143), and John Krenz (135). Kitty Eastman (487 votes) and Arleen Jones (100), won the east and west campus AWS presidencies over Virginia Spahr (367), Elizabeth Sher¬ man (88), Helen Sharp (86), It has been the desire of the Chamber of Commerce to have the unit gain more recognition for the achievements of this or¬ ganization, and through the ef¬ forts of Major Frank E. Bertho- let and the committee on Mili¬ tary and Naval affairs of the Chamber of Commerce, this re¬ view has been arranged. Band to Help As this is to be a formal in¬ spection, the Bulldog band will be on hand to assist in the pro¬ gram. A special class schedule will be in effiect on this day in order that the PJC students as well as the general public may attend. The schedule, in effect on the east campus only, is as follows: 8:00 class . 8:00- 8:53 9:00 class . 9:00- 9:53 ROTC Review . 10:00-10:50 10:00 class . 10:56-11:40 11:00 class . . . 11:46-12:30 12:00 class . 12:36- 1:20 1:00 class . 1:26- 2:10 2:00 class . 2:16- 3:00 3:00 class . 3:06- 3:53 4:00 class . . 4:00- 4:53 Guests of honor at the review will be: Rear Admiral Sinclair Can¬ non, USN; Major-General Lan¬ sing H. Beach, US Army, Ret.: Major-General Charles H.. Farnsworth, US Army, Ret. Reviewing Officers The officers of the reviewing party will be: Rear Admiral Canno, USN; Lieut. Comdr. Glen A. Smith, USN; Col, Her¬ man Kobbe, USA; Col. Edward A. Stockton, USA; Maj. Frank Bertholet, USA; Captain James T. Schwerin, USMC; Capt. O. E. Jensen, USMC Reserve; Maj.- Gen. Walter P. Story, National Guard; Lieut. Kenneth W. Ta¬ ber, National Guard; Col. Roy S. Younglove. Program in Brief The program for the review, the first of its kind to be held here for five years, will be as follows: Formation of regiment for re¬ view; Introduction of distin¬ guished guests; Presentation of regiment to guests of honor; Review of regiment; Exhibition drill; Introduction of Speaker; Speech by David J. O’Leary; Singing of “Star-Spangled Ban¬ ner,” student body, guests and visitors. After the review the ROTC quarters will be open for in¬ spection by visitors and guests. Jean Rowley 66) and Dorothy Hogeboom (61). Other AWS officers, unop¬ posed on the east campus, were Virginia Rooke, first vice-presi¬ dent; Frances Stong, second vice-president ; and Betty Schnei¬ der, secretary. Suzanne Chute (182) defeated Dorothy Con¬ verse (164) for the treasurer’s post, after Betty Devine's elim¬ ination. AWS Officers On the west campus unop¬ posed AWS officers were Janet Liddell, first vice-president; and Bertha Donner, second vice- president. Margie McChesney (221) won over Joy Henderson (139) for the third vice-presi¬ dency, and Margie Frey (203) beat out Mildred Rodstrom (133) for the secretaryship. In the finals Kathryn Beasley (104) won the treasurer’s posi¬ tion from Virginia Moore (77) and Ruth MeMillen (71). on their Memorial Day Assembly Honors Pasadena High School War Dead The annual Memorial Day assembly, Wednesday, May 29, will, as in past years, honor those young men who left Pasadena High school to enter the first great conflict and who died on the battle¬ field serving their country and its ideals. The ROTC color guard will lead a salute to the flag and will place the colors by the metal plaque that bears the names of Pasa¬ dena High’s war dead. Organ music and choral groups, with the entire assembly singing “God Bless America” at the end, and a talk, “What’s right with America,” by Joel B. Guinn, will complete the pro¬ gram. Bill Burke, secretary of oral arts, will read the honored list of names. Regular assembly hours will be followed, 8:55 east campus; 10:39 west campus.