Dogpatch Style. . .
ELIGIBLE MALES FOSTER, HAWKINS (Lower) & FRIENDS
No one ran very fast . . .
National Phi Rho Pi President
Stops Here During Coast Tour
Mrs. Coralee G. P’Pool national Phi Rho Pi president,
spoke to the PJC chapter of this honorary speech fraternity
last Monday afternoon at 3 :00 o’clock in the Social Hall. She
spoke of the national plans for Phi Rho Pi in the coming year.
Vol. 40 No. 8 Pasadena Junior College, Pasadena, California November 6, 1946
Males on Defensive as Coeds
Nab Dates (or Backwards Dance
'Our Town Hailed Great
Dramatic Accomplishment
If the opinions of New York critics could be applied to
PJC stage productions, then the Players’ Guild’s forthcoming
presentation of Thornton Wilder’s classic Our Town promises
to be the most stirring bit of drama seen here in years.
Active guild members last week were elated over the
progress of rehearsals and as final polish was being added to
Reverend Clark to
Speak at Second
PJC Convocation
The Reverend Stephen Cutter
Clark, rector of the St. Marks.
Episcopal Church and newly el¬
ected bishop of the Episcopal di¬
ocese of Utah will be the speaker
at the year’s second convocation,
W. B. Langsdorf, assistant prin¬
cipal announced last week.
Convocation will begin prompt¬
ly at 8:50 a. m. during the reg¬
ular assembly period. Attendance
at convocations is compulsory on
the part of all classes excused
for the purpose, Dr. Langsdorf
said.
Reverend Clark is a native of
Pasadena who has spent 20 years
as rector of St. Mark’s Church.
He was elected by the House of
Bishops at the national conven¬
tion in Philadelphia, and was con¬
secrated December 6, 1943 in St.
Paul’s cathedral. He is now an
active members of Pasadena’s
council of churches. His topic
will be America the Beautiful.
/Swingsters#
Ovations Given Band
At Assembly
Opening with the familiar
strains of Song- of the Islands
and winding up with Red Light
Blues, the Hawaiian Swingsters
Look’s all-America teen-age com¬
bo presented the most popular
assembly of the semester last
Friday.
Sponsored by AMS-AWS, the
show drew waves of applause
and was a problem to dismiss.
The swingsters will open with
Ken Murray’s Blackouts soon.
Student and faculty representa¬
tives of this fraternity from LA
City College and Long Beach,
Glendale, Pomona and San Ber¬
nardino Junior Colleges were in¬
vited to attend the tea.
Mrs. P’Pool, who is a resident
of South Dakota, arrived in Los
Angeles Monday from Portland,
Oregon. She is making a tour of
the West Coast chapters of Phi
Rho Pi to create new interest in
the fraternity in the less 'active
groups of the society.
Community Chest Fails
Below Last Year's Figure
As $410.70 Is Collected
New low total of $410.70, com¬
prising PJC’s classroom collec¬
tions during the recent Commun¬
ity Chest drive, was tabulated
Monday at the accounting depart¬
ment, Pasadena headquarters.
Last year’s campaigning on the
part of faculty members and
more ready cash on the part of
the student body during a war¬
time collection has been explain¬
ed by PJC’s drive director Cath¬
erine Robbins as the result of a
high $1802.
While the increased student
body of this year caused rather
high expectations for a figure
much larger than the result, in¬
tensified house to house cam¬
paigning, and more impromptu
giving was resultant in the low
figure.
PJC Variety Show,
'Crafty Hall' Now
Having Rehearsals
Celebrating its tenth anniver¬
sary, Crafty Hall, PJC’s annual
variety show, is now in rehearsal.
Written by Charlie Greenstreet,
the play includes four acts with
olios and, according to its author,
“. . . we’re not
giving away any
secrets, but I will
say that we’re
planning a ter¬
rific finale . . .”
The title of this
year’s produc¬
tion is Crafty
Hall From 1777
to 1947, or It
Could Happen
Here Any Year. Greenstreet
The cast of comedians includes :
Tom Wirick, Jack Larson, Bill
Penny, Charlie Greenstreet, Dick
Wells, Wally Turner and Lee Kri-
korian. Directing Crafty is Bill
Penny and his assistant Bill Schu¬
bert. The production stall hopes
to present the show on the night
of January 29th, but reports that
the students will see Crafty for
sure in the January 30th assem¬
bly.
grand jury expressly for mem¬
bers of the student court.
These spokesmen and others
acquainted with the situation
came to the defense of Mary Du-
ker, recently resigned commis¬
sioner, who has been the brunt
of these outbursts, with the state¬
ment that such remarks on the
part of these student officers was
decidedly incongruous witii the
dignity of their office. They went
on further to say that the biting
report made to the Student Board
on various occasions was unwar¬
ranted and showed a definite lack
of knowledge on their part of the
circumstances involved.
It was suggested that individ¬
uals should be better informed of
facts before uttering such indict¬
ments against the reputation of
earnest student officers whose
worth has been proven.
the thespian jewel, everyone con¬
cerned was confident of a success¬
ful run.
The NY Morning Telegraph
called Wilder’s original produc¬
tion a “. . . play of tremendous
power. One of the great plays of
our day.” Ordinarily caustic Al¬
exander Woolcott remarked: “In
all my days as a theater-goer, no
play has moved me so deeply.”
Farm Yam
The story takes place in the
rural community of Grover’s
Corners, N.H., where George
Gibbs (Tyler Duff) and Emily
Webb (Florence McNabb) en¬
counter numerous difficulties in
their attempt to settle down to
quiet farm life. They are ably
supported by Tom Wirick, who
abondons his better-known slap¬
stick roles, and Charles Green¬
street, who plays the part of a
whimsical New Englander.
Others in the cast include Jack
Larson, Wesley Tackitt, Frank
Little, Bruce Ellis, Patti Penny,
Ed Parker, Joan Douglas, Floy
Palmer, Eleanor Eby, Kathleen
Welsh, Keith Cutting, Ronald Hor
witz, Dorothy Bailey, Randy
Meyers and Barbara Bree.
Fifty cent tickets will go on
sale at the Triton Booth Monday,
November 11, although holders
of student body books will be ad¬
mitted free. The first appearance
is planned for 3:15 p. m. Friday,
November 15, and the second will
hit the boards at 8 p. m. Novem¬
ber 16 in the Sexson Auditorium.
Players’ Guild’s Wirick&McNabb
The critics were kind
Principal Leaves for East
To Attend Meeting of U.S
Armed Forces' Institute
PJC’s principal, Dr. John W.
Harbeson, left for Madison, Wis¬
consin last week where he will
attend a meeting of the United
States Armed Forces Institute
held November 8 and 9.
USAFI’s remarkable war rec¬
ord in correspondence course
teaching of servicemen has ar¬
rested the attention of well known
educators throughout the coun¬
try, many of whom attend the
organization’s four yearly meet¬
ings to discuss problems of high
school and college educational
credits for men still in uniform.
PJC menfolk will be on the
defensive for a change next Mon¬
day night when the coeds, having
ferreted them from their holes,
will drag them “Dogpatch style"
to the traditional backwards
dance.
The dance, having Sadie Haw¬
kins’ Day as its theme, will be
held from nine until 12 at the
Civic Auditorium. Tickets will
sell for 80 cents per couple with
student body book, or for $1 with¬
out.
Sponsored jointly by the AWS
and AMS, the dance is strictly a
hillbilly affair and everyone is
urged to appear in true back-
woods getup if possible with
prizes being given for the most
novel Daisy Mae and Li’l Abner
costumes. The administration,
however, frowns upon levi’s on
the women and has asked ' that
cotton dresses be worn instead.
Although decorations have not
been definitely decided upon,
“Hairless Joe” will be there, kick-
apoo joy-juice notwithstanding.
In charge of decorations are AWS
board members Jane Corliss and
Carolyn Gerke, while Mary Kay
Jensen, Nan McFarlan and Eva
Jane Conry are taking care of
publications.
Chance to Get Even
When cartoonist A1 Capp first
originated Sadie Hawkin’s Day,
he probably didn’t realize he was
starting a new national holiday.
The original purpose, according
to the cartoon strip, was to give
rejected and unwholesome-look¬
ing Dogpatch females a chance
to capture an eligible male, who,
by the “code o’ the hills” was
obliged to marry her.
Dogpatch women trained dili¬
gently months in advance for the
big race which started at dawn
and lasted all day. At the sound
of the gun, the men started run¬
ning. Five minutes later a second
gun was fired and the manhunt
was on. In Dogpatch, so horrible
were the consequences, that men
jumped off “suicide cliff.” hid
in the unapproachable “skonk-
works” to emerge the next day
shunned forever. The latest Capp
innovation came last week when
a Dogpatcher, by legal procedure,
forsook his status of human be¬
ing and became an ape. He was
committed to a zoo, and in that
manner escaped running in the
fateful race.
Colleges Take Up Cry
To a lesser degree, colleges all
over the nation took up Capp’s
idea, until today Sadie Hawkins’
Day ranks right up with Christ¬
mas and the Fourth of July.
Some eastern schools have follow¬
ed the comic strip formula ad
finem, conducting the dawn-to-
dusk race in the best Dogpatch
style.
As far as PJC was concerned,
however, the event was greatly
modified. Perhaps it was because
most PJC coeds were less “un¬
wholesome-looking” than Capp’s
characters. At any rate, no one
had to run very fast. PJC males
were too eager to be captured
and PJC coeds knew it.
Ex-Commissioners Deny
Court Officer's Charges
In defense of the Civil Service Commission against the
recent outburst of Roger Stewart and other student officials,
three former commissioners made statements today to the
effect that the policy followed in former years has been to
reserve the privilege of soliciting
and selecting members for the
