Pasadena Chronicle, November 05, 1937

STUDENT BODY DANCE WEDNESDAY PASADENA CHRONICLE AWS-WAA CONVENTION AT VISTA Vol. XXIX Pasadena Junior College, Nov. 5, 1937 No. 9 'Dover Road' Billed For Next \^eek Rehearsal For First Major Production In Progress "The Dover Road,” three-act comedy by A. A. Milne, has been chosen by Delta Psi Omega, na¬ tional honorary dramatic frater¬ nity, for presentation in the new PJC auditorium on Friday, Novem- ber 12. . The oast is rehearsing daily un¬ der the direction of Miss Elizabeth E. Keppie, adviser of the group. Miss Keppie is a member of the play-arts faculty and has directed several successful plays in the past. In the veteran cast are many junior college students _ with creditable performances behind them. Among those in the leading roles are Peter Prouse, Joe Pyle, Ruthanna Marble, Murray Huss and Muriel Rash. The play, a light whimsical comedy, after the sophisticated style of James Barrie, is from the pen of A. A. Milne, prolific British playwright, whose comic plays are among the most popu¬ lar of the moderns, according to Rosalie; Meub, secretary of or¬ ganizations. The story is of an eccentric middle aged man who waylays eloping couples and frustrates their marriage plan by making them appear to each other in the worst possible light. The climax comes when a man and his wife eloping, but not with each other, meet under the old man’s auspices. Light, spontaneous raillery, and a sophisticated whimsicality are the elements attributed to the play by Rosalie Meub. TICKETS AVAILABLE Tickets for seats in a reserved section are available to students, Miss Meub announced. The tickets are given in exchange for the stubs from the student body ticket book. Deadline for procuring tickets is at 3 o’clock on Friday, November 12. In another reserved section, Players’ Guild, the college’s larg¬ est dramatic groun, will witness the play and lend their suppWt to the production. There is to be only one perfor¬ mance. The curtain will rise at 8:15 p. m. Members of Silver Screen, serv¬ ing as the stage crew, have made a miniature model of the set to be used from plans furnished by the stage design class. The sets actu¬ ally used will be in exact replica of the miniatures. WORK BEGUN ON 1938 "CAMPUS" “The 1938 edition of Campus, Pasadena junior college yearbook, will present the school as a college, rather than as a high school,” said Georgia Hanes, editor. “We hone to make this edition of the annual something more than a catalogue of departments and or¬ ganizations.” she continued. “Less formal pictures, modern layout's and continuity of text are among the innovations planned. “The new Pasadena junior col¬ lege is as modern in its philosophy of community college service as it is in its fine new buildings. We on the Campus staff wish to convey this new college spirit in our book.” Appointments are now being made for senior and sophomore pic¬ tures by Margaret Lacey, photo ed¬ itor, through the cooperation of the records office. Lee Ruggles, art editor, has already begun page lay¬ outs and Georgiana Stacey, copy editor, is planning the text. Archie Hayward is business and staff man¬ ager and Bill Samways is photog¬ rapher. GEOLOGISTS TO VISIT MOUNTAINS One of the largest accumulations of fossils and sedimentary rock ex¬ posures in Southern California will be visited by the geology students of Pasadena junior college. Armis¬ tice day, November 11. This all- day expedition to the Santa Ana mountains will be the fourth field trip of the current semester. Led by Thomas Moran and Oliver Bowen, geology assistants, the ex¬ cursion will leave Pasadena early Thursday morning in private cars for the hills, to study the various rock formations and geological phenomena there. EDUCATOR VISITS PJC Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, pres¬ ident of the University of Cali¬ fornia at Berkeley and of the Uni¬ versity of California at Los An¬ geles, made his first tour of the Pasadena junior college campus Monday, October 25. He was ac¬ companied by Dr. John A. SexsOn, superintendent of the Pasadena city schools, and several members of the administrative staff. Pledging Rules Told By R.I.C.C. President Pledge rules for restrictive clubs were released last week by Barbara Milliken, president of RICC, and Miss Catherine J. Robbins, dean of women. Miss Robbins requests that the clubs remember the following laws: No hell week No public initiation No harmful medicines or foods may be fed to pledges Initiation will take place within the city limits No initiation of pledges on pro¬ bation list which requires they have at least a “C” average. Some clubs require a “B” average Pledging will last three weeks; four, including test week which will not count, and will end on the eighth week of school No paddling Bakersfield Scene Of Oratorical Tryouts Th is Week-end Preliminary winners in the Bak¬ ersfield Forensic tournament, No¬ vember 11, 12 and 13, will be se¬ lected from the five students who competed, Bill Maddison, Iva Pear Wammick, Lois Brown, Joseph Landismanl and Kathleen Stringer. It is hoped that two students will represent Pasadena junior college, but it is possible that only one will be sent to the three-day tourna¬ ment. Competition at Bakersfield will be with schools from all over the Pacific coast. Tryouts were held in room 104D, Tuesday, at 2 p. m. Orations were accepted on any subject, and could be read. Jean Valentine will represent Pasadena junior college in extem¬ poraneous speaking, and it is pos¬ sible that three debate teams will be sent to the contest, in addition to the oratorical students. The Arnold extemporaneous speech contest will 'be held Tues¬ day, November 9, in room 200C at 2 p. m. The Oral Arts committee has posted on the bulletin board in the main hall the subjects for con¬ sideration in preparing speeches. Contestants will be allowed half an ho-ur in getting the material ready for their speeches. 1,922 New Students Swell Registration Enrolled in the regular day classes for the fall semester are 1,922 new students. For the use of the administration, varied informa¬ tion was compiled on each of these new students from the application blanks filled out by entrants apply¬ ing for admission and from the cu¬ mulative record sheets of all 11-1 freshmen entering directly from the junior high schools. From the information on the 'ap¬ plications sheets, it was found that 284 of the new students are en¬ trants from the junior high schools, and 1,279 of the new students come from other places. The average age of all new students is 17.9. The greatest number of new students are enrolled in the first semester of the upper division. Figures obtained in occupational interests show that business educa¬ tion ranks first as the vocational choice among the new students with 316 listing this as their planned life work. Second choice in the vocational field is technolo¬ gy. with engineering and teaching following in third and fourth place. ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERS PLAN Considering the practical value of using fingerprints as a positive means of identification for students in case of a major disaster such as the Long Beach earthquake or the New London, Texas, school ex¬ plosion, Dr. John W. Harbeson, Drincipal, and Audre I.. Stong, dean of men. attended the Pasadena Lions’ club dinner, Tuesday, No¬ vember 2, at the Constance hotel. Members of the administration, who have been considering the task of fingerprinting all junior college students, feel that in the face of a disaster such information would be indispensable. NEW MESSAGE RULING No mesages will be sent to stu¬ dents in classes except in an ab¬ solute emergency. This ruling was oassed by the administration when it was realized that from 20 to 100 messages were reaching the 'class¬ rooms each period, causing a dis¬ turbance to working teachers and students. Office calls will be hereafter be sent on postal cards to the stu¬ dent’s home. The 'administration is asking the cooperation of parents in not sending messages to stu¬ dents except in actual emergency cases. Nineteen Southern California Junior Colleges Send Delegates To Womens Convention At Vista Associated Women Students And Women's Athletic Associations Hold Convention For Second Consecutive Time In Pasadena Associated Women Students and Women's Athletic Associations fjom nineteen Southern California junior college will meet for their annual conference today at the Hotel Vista del Arroyo. The AWS - •'board, WAA president, Big P James W. Foley Chosen To Speak At Convocation Combined Groups To Attend Convocation Monday Morning With “Faith and Courage” as his subject, James W. Foley, poet and newspaperman, will address ap¬ proximately one-half of the student body here at convocation on Mon¬ day morning, November 8. Dr. Harbeson, principal, in charge of the program, has rec- comended Mr. Foley as a speaker who will interest students with his humor and philosophy. Mr. Foley, a quiet, unassuming person whose business office is full of pictures of such famous people as Calvin Coolidge, How¬ ard Taft, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, each per¬ sonally autographed with a mes¬ sage to Mr. Foley, believes that youth should be trained now to have the faith and courage which they will eventually need to take their position in life. It is this courage and faith which has made such men as those whose pictures line the walls of his of¬ fice, he points out. Mr. Foley started his career as a cowboy at the age of fifteen. Leaving the range three years later he went to work as a reporter for the Tribune in Bismarck, North Da¬ kota. Later he began to write po¬ etry and finally met success by having one of his poems published in the Saturday Evening Post. The acceptance slip for the poem now hangs" framed in his office. Mr. Foley is a special staff writer for the Pasadena Star-News, contribu¬ ting a poem every day. Students who have classes in the E building, D building, the gyms, Bleeker house, band room, technol¬ ogy department, or the Hunter house during the second period will be excused to attend the speech Other students will remain in their second period classes. “Fashions in Foods,” a two-reel color film, will be shown during convocation period in room 104D. The movie will picture the prepara- Continued on Page Three Dr. James Beveridge Gives tragedy of Spain/ As First Lecture Presenting the first talk in the new evening lecture series planned for the coming year, Dr. James Beveridge, head of the California Prep school at Covina, spoke last Tuesday on the “Tragedy of Spain.” The lecture, scheduled un¬ der the direction of David W. Reidy, chairman of the series and head of the extension classes, con¬ sisted of a presentation of the problems arising from the present situation in Spain. Already scheduled1 to appear at the lectures, which will last from November 2 to April 26, are 23 prominent speakers from various fields of endeavor. More than 2000 season ticket books have been sold at the present time through the junior college, Board of Education, and other Pasadena city schools. The lectures, which cover topics 5f current interest, are divided into six monthly headings from Novem¬ ber to April. The general topics are “International Affairs,” Novem¬ ber; “Government,” December; “Youth,” January; “Philosophy- Psychology,” February; “Califor¬ nia, ’’March, and “Enjoying the Fi¬ ner Life,” April. ZETA GAMMA PHI ELECTS PLEDGES Students who have contributed valuable work to the junior college art department were last Wednes¬ day honored by selection into mem¬ bership in Zeta Gamma Phi, hon¬ orary art fraternity, and will be announced in the near future, ac¬ cording to Lila Renner, social sec¬ retary of the organization. Future plans of the organization include the sponsoring of art ex¬ hibits in the main hall of the Hor¬ ace Mann building. A showcase will be taken for the semester and a constantly changing exhibit of ■the best examples of the work be¬ ing done in the department will be always on display. president, secretary of social af¬ fairs, clerk of the student body board, and the Spartan president are delegates from PJC. Using “The College Woman and the Modern World,” as its theme, the conference will open with registration from 4 to 6 p. m. today. Rachel Williams, president of Pasadena junior college’s AWS, will act as toast- mistress at the conference dinner at 7 o’clock tonight. The pro¬ gram for the dinner includes music by a string ensemble from Los Angeles junior college, intro¬ duction of guests and a talk by Mrs. Mildred Cranston of the LTniversity of Redlands. Glendale junior college will pro¬ vide entertainment for the evening from 9 to midnight. SATURDAY PROGRAM Saturday’s program opens with breakfast at 8 o’clock. Santa Mon¬ ica junior college will provide a ■toastmistress for this event. Group conferences meet from 10:15 a. m. to 11:45 a. m. The AWS president will meet with a chairman from Chaffey junior col¬ lege in the Sunset room: program chairmen meet in room 703 to dis¬ cuss “The Yearly AWS Program” with Frida Winters of Riverside junior college acting as chairman; social chairmen will discuss “Col¬ lege Life and the Social Calendar” in room 503 with Elaine McRey- nolds of Santa Maria junior col¬ lege as chairman; Eleanore Onti¬ veros, Santa Maria junior college, will serve as chairman for welfare and social service which will be discussed in room 335 WAA presidents will hold a discussion on “WAA Social Ac¬ tivities” in the north end of the Continued on Page Three Debate Featured At Open Forum Meeting Pasadena junior college’s leading debate teams, Phil Cartwright and Dick Moore, and Ray Simpson and Jean Valentine, were featured at the meeting last night of the PJC Open Forum. The subject for the debate was this year’s national debate tonic, resolved: that the National Labor Relations Board should be empow¬ ered to enforce arbitration in all industrial disputes. Cartwright and Moore upheld the affirmative side, and Simpson and Valentine the negative. The debate was followed by a discussion in which all those in' at¬ tendance at the meeting took part. This meeting was the second open meeting of the vear, all members .of the student body and faculty being invited to attend. The debate was held in room 202E at 8:15 p. m. Another open meeting was planned for the evening of November 18. Social Science Students Hear U.S. Congressman Congressman Jerry Voorhis ex¬ plained the workings of Congress and the daily life of a Congress¬ man to more than 800 students in the civics, political science, govern¬ ment and history classes in a talk put on by the social science de¬ partment. Congressman Voorhis talked for nearly an hour on the interesting asnects of a Congress¬ man’s life in Washington. In introducing Mr. Voorhis, Ros- coe L. Ashley, head of the social science department, pointed out that we were fortunate in obtain¬ ing him since he is tremendously busy preparing fof the special ses¬ sion of Congress November 15. CLOTHING PROBLEMS DISCUSSED HERE “Clothing Problems Today” was the topic presented to the clothing classes last Monday by Miss Paul¬ ine Clark of the Vogue Pattern company. Miss Clark spoke on the value of a knowledge of sewing and also commented that “if a girl can use her brain, her eyes, and her hands, she can. become an ex¬ pert seamstress.” The fashion expert’s message to young women was, “Vogue believes that it is on planning, not on the amount of money spent, on which true chic depends.” According to Vogue’s “Rule of Five,” five gar¬ ments carefully chosen, and based on one color scheme, will form an adequate basic wardrobe for any occasion. Miss Clark’s final statement was that fashions are waxing, not wan¬ ing in importance. Student Court Gives Parking Ultimatum Issuing an ultimatum, the stu¬ dent court last week declared that the following restrictions were to be considered as laws on the junior college campus, and that infringements would result in court summons. There is to be no parking east of the D building, around the Student Union, in the first three rows in, the main parking lot, around the boiler house, next to the west fence in the main lot, along entrance or exit lanes, in the “U” of the Technology build¬ ing, between the Tech building and the Band building and west of the women’s gym. Presence of automobiles in any of these places does not indicate that parking is allowed, an¬ nounced the court, as the cars may belong to faculty members or caretakers to whom the re¬ strictions do not apply. The edict was approved by Principal John W. Harbeson. Novel Stage Settings Planned For Music Department Operetta Scenery for “The Student Prince,” operetta to be presented by the Jay see music department under the direction of Miss Lula C. Parmley next December 9, 10 and 11, is being designed by Thom¬ as D. Stevenson’s stage design class and constructed by the Silver Screen club. A revolving stage setting will be used. In one scene will be a garden containing greenery .and roses with green trees and rolling hills in the background. It also has a wall and gate, and on one side of the stage will be a German tavern with tables outside. When this setting is revolved, a large glittering ballroom containing a balcony will be seen. The walls will be silver, and the drapes black velvet. There will be an illusion scene when the prince has a vision in which he sees somes old comrades and a girl he loved. In this is a gold oriental tapestry which proves to be transparent, and through it will be seen the characters of the vision. Mr. Stevenson says that although the cost of this setting is very low, it is one of the most elaborate set¬ tings ever presented at Pasadena junior college. To publicize “The Student Prince,” models of the stage set¬ ting will be made and placed in various parts of the campus. Informa I Ba rn Da nee Planned By Frosh Club Frosh club members and friends will swing it tomorrow evening at the Orr’s barn in Arcadia where they will gather for an old-fash¬ ioned bam dance. “The party is open to outsiders as well as Frosh club members,” stated Mary Watt, president of the club and in charge of refreshments for the dance. She announced it would be a strictly informal affair. Jane Albright, program chair¬ man, promises an exciting program for those who attend. Tickets, sell¬ ing at 35 cents apiece, are being sold by all club members. Nancy Rogers is ticket chairman and Paula Fredler is taking charge of decorations. The Orr’s barn is located in Ar¬ cadia on Arcadia avenue in the 1800 block. Looming up in the fu¬ ture for Frosh club members are plans for a trip over to Hollywood to indulge in some ice-skating. Harbeson Visits U.C. Dr. John W. Harbeson, acting as representative for Pasadena junior college, attended the semi-annual meeting of the university affilia¬ tions committee at Berkeley last Saturday, October 23. The meeting was held on the university campus in the International house. Making up the committee are representatives of each junior col¬ lege in California. The purpose of the group is to make it possible for the administration of the uni¬ versity to work together with the junior colleges in obtaining an un¬ der standing between the two groups. It is the aim of the com¬ mittee to see that all junior col¬ lege courses are worked out in such a way that they meet all univer¬ sity requirements. CLIO CLUB INITIATES With Hallowe’en as its theme, the initiation meeting of the Clio club was held October 30, at the home of Alice Wilson, 1305 E. San Pasqual. The new members are Whitefield Gaebelin, M. Lee Pence, Helen Yost, Ray Simpson, Jane Dodsworth, Jack Keller, Damon Knight, Bob Ross, Jean Valentine, Helen Averitt, Eugene Ingersoll and Donovan Courtier. Armistice Day Dance Wednesday Hal Lomen's Band Will Provide Music On Eve Of Holiday "Patriotic Ball" has been se¬ lected as the theme for the student body dance at the Civic auditori¬ um scheduled for November 10, Armistice Day eve. Red, white, and blue bids, designed by Phyllis Wilson, will portray the theme. Music for the dancers will be furnished from 8:30 until midnight by Hal Lomen and his orchestra. Tickets selling at twenty-five cents a couple may be purchased at the ticket office in the main building. The social affairs committee, headed by Jeanette Eastman, has been aided by the ROTC in com¬ pleting the plans for the dance. The paitrons and patronesses will be the administrative staff, social affairs committee, faculty guests, and the parents of the student body officers. For those who have not yet ob¬ tained their dates for this affair, a date bureau has been formed. Ac¬ cording to Jeanette Eastman, the results to date have been excellent, although there are surely more boys and girls who would like to meet each other through the me¬ dium of this bureau. REGISTRATION RULES “It is particularly a nice idea from the standpoints of the new students in the school, both fresh¬ men and out-of-towners,” said Miss Eastman. In order to register the girls must deposit in the box in the student body offices marked “date bureau” a piece of paper contain¬ ing information about personal de¬ tails of appearance, and their ad¬ dress or telephone number. A pic¬ ture, if aVailable, should also be included. To this information may be added a detailed description of the type of fellow desired. The fellows who would like a date for the dance, must come to the offices by November 9. If they meet the qualifications given by the girl they prefer, the boy may have the girl’s telephone number. From then on it is' up to the boy and the girl. The girl has the right to refuse, if she wishes. HONORARY CLUB INITIATES PLEDGES Informal initiation for pledges of Beta Phi Gamma, local chapter of the national honorary journalism fraternity, will be held this evening at the home of Merilyn Nutt, 752 N. Holliston, According to Jack Burtt, president. Seven outstanding students who have distinguished themselves bv their work in the field of journal- ism will “run the gauntlet” as members administer pleasantries. Those who will be present as pledges are Dale Clayton, Chronicle news editor; Shavenau Glick, for¬ mer Chronicle sports editor and present editor of the Huddle; Stel- lanne Lotz, Chronicle organizations editor: Barbara Burtt, Chronicle administration editor; Rosalie Meub, Vo-Mag associate editor: Peter Prouse, Vo-Mag editor; and Georgiana Stacy, Chronicle feature editor. Alumni Feature Musicale Charle ; Davis, Daritone, and Fore; Mathe re, pianist, all former Pass dena jtinior college students will £ starrei in the latest of the cam pi; musicaPe artist series, Wednesda- November 10, at 3:15 p. m. in tli music hall of the music building. Miss Perry and Mr. Davis wei both students here under Mrs. Ba: nard and have appeared on the r; di_o. Miss Perry also has performe with the Behymer Artist series i Los Angeles. Mr. Mathews is pupil of Harold Smyth, and has aj peared frequently with the Pas: dena Civic orchestra as soloist. H has played five times with the jui ior college orchestra. Recently 1 presented a program of the origii al works of Louis Courcil, ri nowned pianist. WEEK'S NEWS Armistice Day Dance at Civic Wednesday night . . Page 1 “Dover Road” to be presented by Delta Psi Omega, national honorary dramatic fraternity, Friday evening in the auditorium . Page 1 AWS-WAA Southern Califor¬ nia convention at Hotel Vista del Arroyo this week-end. PJC dele¬ gates acts as hostesses . Page 1 Trials for extemporaneous speaking contest slated for Tues¬ day . ...i . Page 1 PJC student wins Carnegie Commission award for heroism . - . . Page 3 Special Armistice Day assem¬ bly today . . . Page 1