Several
Assemblies
Meet Today
Bond Buyers
To Name
Pursuit Ship
Vol 36
Pasadena Junior College, November 17, 1944
No. 10
Campus*Wide Sales In 6th War Loan Under
Caps, Spars , Woes Present Students To Buy Northrop Black Widow
Four Assemblies To PJC During Campus War Bond Drive
Four assemblies, at which various PJC war activities and pre¬
war traditions are to be fully explained, will be substituted for the
regularly scheduled Vocational Guidance Day which has been post¬
poned until spring.
Frosh and all 13th grade students new to the college this year
will assemble in Sexson Auditorium where the program is to be under
the auspices of the Order of
Mast and Dagger, highest ser¬
vice organization on campus. A1
McLeod, Secretary of Activities,
will introduce Bill Sanborn, OMD
president who will talk to the stu¬
dents on the benefits of active
participation in extra-curricular
work. He will emphasize the
fact that PJC is a junior college.
Bill Sanborn will also explain the
functions of OMD, give a brief
survey of it’s history, and tell
how it gives recognition for high
service. He will then introduce
PJC’s principal, Dr. John W. Har-
beson, who will make a brief talk
on the “Philosophy of Life.”
The Calvary Baptist Church, lo¬
cated across the street from PJC,
will be the meeting place for all
sophomore women and 13th year
women students who attended
PJC last year. Tournament of
Roses officials and Spars Lt. Betty
Bauck and Miss Billie Bauer will
speak to the girls.
Gail Reeves, Senior Class pres¬
ident, is to be in charge of all 14th
year girls, who will gather in the
women’s gym to hear the same
program as the one given at the
church but in reverse order.
All men except those going to
the auditorium are to report to
the men’s gym.
For all men and women interes¬
ted in aviation, there is to be a
Civil Air Patrol meeting in 200C
during the assembly period. Col¬
onel Rhine, Wing Commander in
CAPS, will speak to the students.
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Scarlett O’Hara
Pictured above are Jackie Scarlett and JoAnne O’Hara, Publicity
Chairman and President respectively, of the newly reorganized Pro¬
duction Guild now in the throes of planning the program to be held
Monday afternoon, November 20, in the Little Theater. The first
program of the semester, under the auspices of the organization, will
be “The Tenth Word,” a one-act play in two scenes.
Charlene Burner and her cast will take the spotlight in the first
scene as members of a colonial girls’ school; and their complete
shock follows later as one of their members runs away with a man.
The second scene is of a girl’s school in 1944 and the subsequent elop-
ment of one of the girls and her sailor boyfriend.
Tickets will be sold at the door. The cast of the play includes
Barbara Swanson, JoAnne O’Hara, Charlene Burner, Bernice Reeder
and Jean Rainey.
With its purchase of a Northrop Black Widow pursuit plane, PJC will be helping to put into
action one of the latest types of military aircraft. The drive is being conducted through the English
classes until next Wednesday. When the entire $200,000 in bonds and stamps has been sold, the
students of PJC will be allowed to choose the name for, and do the actual naming of the plane.
The Black Widow is the first fighter plane to be designed specifically for night interception. It is
armed with four 50-caliber machine guns which are operated from electrically controlled turrets. It
has an undisclosed number of
X-ANM Gives
Box Supper
One of the promising events of
the year will be the Ex-Service
Club’s (X-ANM) Box-Supper,
which will be held December 15,
from 7 to 12 in the Women’s Gym.
The evening’s program will in¬
clude: dancing to a popular swing
band, a floor show, and vocal in¬
terpretations of the latest hits.
Girls attending the party are
asked to pack box supper for
two persons. Upon entering the
gym, each will leave her box with
an X-ANM member, who will
auction the boxes off later in the
evening to the fellow bidding the
highest. Bids will start at 50c.
Coffee, milk or cokes will be
given with each box supper.
Admission for girls will be the
box supper. The men will be
charged 25c. For reservations
sign up now in the dean of men’s
or women’s office. The entire
student body is invited.
Chairmen is charge of the com¬
mittees for the box supper are:
Publicity, Patrick Biller; Refresh¬
ments, Dick Koslow; Finance,
Bob Smith; Entertainment, Barry
Berry hill; Public Address, Gene
Burt.
20-mm. cannon, and its motors,
which are also a military secret,
are powerful enough to allow it
to fly on one motor without an
appreciable loss of either speed
or altitude. The motors also have
power equal to that of a full-
sized diesel locomotive.
Although the plane has been
on combat duty for many
months, it has yet to be com¬
promised — the term meaning that
none have been captured by the
enemy. In the Pacific theater, it
has been used mainly to destroy
Japanese shipping, while in the
European theater it is used to
“knock down” buzz bombs. On
D-Day every available Black Wi¬
dow was in the fight over the
Channel. At the present time, it
is spearheading the attack of
Patton’s victorious Third Army.
To protect the crew from en¬
emy fire, armor plates, bullet-
resistant glass, and deflector
plates are mounted in strategic
positions throughout the plane.
Protection from the cold at high
altitudes is afforded each crew
member by individual heaters.
Fluorescent lights built into each
side of the cockpit cause the dials
of the instrument board to glow
in the darkness.
Court Pleads
For Attorneys
More help is needed in the
court system of PJC. Jobs are
open for attorneys, deputies, jud¬
ges, and jurists.
The student court is run by
the students and provides some
very good experience for those
interested in legal activities.
Court officials stress that in order
for the students at Pasadena Jun¬
ior College to have a democratic
government they will have to par¬
ticipate in the function of it.
There will be a meeting of pros¬
pective court members November
20 in room 29C, at three o’clock.
Students interested in taking
part in the court system should
be present. Students planning to
be present should leave a note
in Rosemary Soghomonian’s box
in 29C.
ROTC Stages
Annual Ball
December 2, the ROTC is hav¬
ing its Annual Formal Military
Ball which will be held in the
Gold Room of the Civic Auditor¬
ium from 8:30 to 12:00. The ball
is considered to be one of the
most outstanding events of the
year.
Art Whiting and his band have
been selected to provide the mus¬
ic for the dance. There will also
be a performance by the Exhib¬
ition Squad under the direction
of Cadet Lieutenant Hodges
Gaines.
Climaxing the dance wil be the
traditional Saber-Arch formed by
the cadet officers of the unit.
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College SPACS Participate In
United World Conference
Under the sponsorship of the SPAC Central Committee from
thirty Southwestern Colleges, a mock peace conference trial will be
held December 2 at Occidental College. Each participating college
will represent a country, with PJC assuming the role of the land of
Hitler’s Reich.
Crucial problems will be discussed to demonstrate what would
happen if Christian Statesmanship instead of power politics should
head the peace conference. The
group plans to draw up a “Bill of
Rights” for all nations in a post¬
war world. Points to be dis¬
cussed are: political order, econ¬
omic order, colonial problems, an
international police force, minor¬
ities, and treatment of conquered
nations by the victors.
Keynoter at the first plenary
session will be Huntley Dupre,
Executive Secretary of World
Student Service Fund. Students
interested in participating are
urged to contact Nadine Ostlund,
SPAC commissioner, as soon as
possible.
Queen Tryouts
Begin Monday
Campus beauties will parade
before Rose Queen judges Mon¬
day and Tuesday, November 20
and 21, when preliminary try¬
outs are held to choose the trad¬
itional Tournament of Roses
court. Girls are signed up in the
Physical Ed. classes, and must
present identification cards. This
year will herald the eleventh an¬
niversary that the Rose Queen
and Princesses have been chosen
in this manner. After the first
elimination, second tryouts will
be held Friday, December 1, at
3 p. m.
Qualifications for eligibility are
as follows:
1. Candidates must have no
grades of E or F and not more
than one D at time of tryouts.
2. They must be carrying 11
units including credit for work
experience, and attendance rec¬
ords must be satifactory.
3. Senior, Juniors, and Sopho¬
mores are eligible.
Post cards will not be mailed
to chosen selectees, so girls are
urged to watch bulletin board in
Dean of Women’s office for re¬
sults.
The committee in charge of
planning the tryouts is: Miss
Elizabeth Jensen, Lucille Coviello,
Gail Reeves, Audre L. Stong, Nor¬
man Peek, and Miss Catherine J.
Robbins.
Student Body
Adopts Ward
Members of women’s clubs,
restrictive and non-restrictive,
met last Monday afternoon for
an all-student program, presented
by the WACS and the WRICC.
The purpose of the meeting was
to explain what PJC coeds can
do to help the war effort. Jackie
Curren presided and announced
that non-restrictive clubs may,
for the first time, compete for
the Club-of-the-Month.
A movie was shown by Lieu¬
tenant Bowles, which explained
what the WACs are doing in the
war. Lucille Coviello announced
a new project, the giving of
Christmas presents to casualty
cases in a hospital ward adopted
by PJC.