Pasadena Chronicle, November 20, 1940

Attend One of Vocational Conferences Junior-Senior Hop Tonight at 10:30 In Civic Vol. 32 Pasadena Junior College, November 20, 1940 Pepperdine Debaters Compete Despite Ineligibilities Today, at Pepperdine College, ten Pasadena Junior Col¬ lege students are entering the last round of speech tourna¬ ments conducted under the auspices of the Western Associa¬ tion of Teachers of speech. PJC is entered in debate, oratory, extemperaneous speak¬ ing, impromptu speaking, after dinner and progressional speaking. Faculty members rep¬ resenting JC are William Evans, Irene Peters, and Hedley Reeder. Entered in debate are Mervin Baker, John Maiben, Carl Palm- berg, and Francis Stevenson. Oratory: Jean Campbell, Robert Tilden, Jack Wecker. Extemper¬ aneous: Jack Wecker, Ben Park¬ er, Mervin Baker, John Maiben, Francis Stevenson, and Carl Palmberg. Impromptu : Earl Brooks, Betty. McMahon, Ben Parker. After dinner: Earl Brooks, Jean Campbell. Robert Tilden, and Betty McMahon. Progression: Betty McMahon. On the eve of the tournament Rufus Mead declared the follow¬ ing students ineligible: Mort Brandler, and Warren Allen. This event is an annual tournament for colleges, universities, and ju¬ nior colleges west of the Rock¬ ies. Fifty schools have been com¬ peting and their different locales take in states from Washington to Mexico. Final results will be announced at a later date. Holiday Work Christmas Help Classes Success On West Campus Registration for Christmas “brush up” classes for training extra, part-time and regular store employees of Pasadena and near¬ by communities was held Tues¬ day at PJC’s School of Business, West Campus. Subjects to be covered will in¬ clude “How to Help Select Gifts and Suggestive Selling, Textiles and Modern Material, Gift Wrap¬ ping, Plain and Fancy, and Sales Check Writing and Arithmetic. This short course will have seven meetings, held two even¬ ings a week. Progress New Programming System Eliminates Waiting In Lines Programming for next semes¬ ter begins soon after Thanks¬ giving vacation. The usual dis¬ couraging necessity for standing in long lines waiting to get ap¬ pointments, will not exist this semester, however. The Guidance office’s plan is that appointments be made by an Appointment Card System. Under this system no appoint¬ ments will be made at the Guid¬ ance office window, except for the students planning to transfer to West Campus: these will go to the Guidance office window, room 118 C between 2:30 and 3:15 daily. Instead, every class, every hour, will be contacted for appointments as soon as pos¬ sible. Here are student instructions for the Appointment Card Sys¬ tem: An appointment card will be given you in one of your classes. Fill out one card care¬ fully, checking all your free hours, placing your name and ad¬ dress on the back as on a post¬ card, and then turn it in. Dupli¬ cate cards are unnecessary. Eventually the card you filled out will be returned to you in the class in which you filled it out. On it will be a definite ap¬ pointment with your counselor. All students who were absent must wait until contacted in an¬ other classroom. A student taking Orientation this semester and continuing in a study group, is not to take a card, as he will be programmed in the study class. However, if the student is in a class which has been disbanded, he must fill out the card as usual. Adviser Ida E. Hawes, and students Clarence Thurber and Annette Findeisen check last minute de¬ tails in plans for today’s Vocational Conference N osey 7Joseph College7 Geologists Roam; I ♦ С * 1Л Tujunga, Soiedad Junior-benior Dance Canyons Explored Tonight At Civic With the bark of the final gun at the Sacramento game this evening, sportily attired PJC students, especially ju¬ niors and seniors, will throng to the Civic for the strains of Larry Kent’s music. The 8 :30 to midnight tradition has been broken and the Junior-Senior dance will start at 10 :30 and linger on to 1 a.m. According to Junior Class Prexy Bob Burns, “ . . . motif of the hop will be swaggering Joe College . . . Pennants will adorn the Civic walls from front to back, and it will be a truly hilarious affair.” Working in conjunction with Burns is Senior President Watson Burns, “Swish” Ogura, business manager and the class councils. Bids are on sale for 50 cents at both banks and ticket windows. Without charge to the student, this course is offered by the Pasadena Board of Education in cooperation with the California State Department of Education. The classes will be held on Monday and Wednesday evening from 7:30 until 9:00. Tonight, Mr. Merrill Moore, West Campus instructor of textile design, will talk on the trends in modern tex¬ tiles. The final meetings, Novem¬ ber 25 and 27, will feature gift wrapping by Mrs. Sharon. Any student interested in these classes must come only to room 207 on the West Campus on the designated evenings. Wednesday, November 20 — •Junior-Senior Dance in the Civic Auditorium, 10:30 p. m. Football! PJC vs. Sacramento •JC in the Rose Bowl, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 21 — Thanksgiving Holiday. Wednesday, November 27 — Informal Dance, West Campus 3:15 p. m. Friday, November 29 — All PJC Day. Football! PJC vs. Weber College in the Rose Bowl, 8:00 p. m. Saturday, November 30 — Freshman Class Dance. Tuesday, December 3 — Stu¬ dent Christian Association Din¬ ner, 5:45 p. m. Thursday, December 5 — Door¬ step Players, West Campus Auditorium, 3:15 p. m. Alpha Kappa Tau Banquet Proves Success Alpha Kappa Tau, honorary secretarial club, recently gave its annual Thanksgiving banquet at the Tudor Rose Cafe. Guest speakers for this banquet were Mr. Leland Pryor, head of the business department of Pasadena Junior College, and Dr. Gertrude Laws, Director of Women’s Edu¬ cation in Pasadena. Mr. Pryor spoke on the subject “Democ¬ racy, Whither Bound,” in which he stated that democracy is on its way out in most countries of the world, that only the three nations of China, Britain and the U. S. can now be • called true democracies. “Decline of democ¬ racy leads to Communism and Hitlerism,” stated Mr. Pryor, “and it is up to the youth of to¬ day to decide whether this de¬ cline shall be allowed to take place in our country.” Dr. Laws in her speech to the members of the club, stated that "People spend so much time de¬ veloping the negative qualities of man, that the positive quali¬ ties are almost forgotten. Why don’t we spend time developing the good qualities of people in¬ stead of trying to analyze bad ones? Albardina de Haan, chairman of the social committee, was in charge of the banquet. Helping on her committee were Hazel Dart, Marian Vanell, and Ger¬ trude Bird. President of Alpha Кара Tau is Freda Becker and the adviser is Mrs. Lorrayne Calkins. As a special feature of . the en¬ tertainment, the men’s glee club presented several numbers. When Morris Van Amringe of PJCs geology department is not down on his knees in one corner of his laboratory breaking up rocks with a hammer, and when he is not teaching formal classes, he is directing field trips to neth¬ er points. November 2 and 9 expeditions went to the Riverside Cement Company quarries, which, with one exception, produces more different minerals than any oth¬ er quary in the world. Next the 130 geology students visited Ca¬ jon Pass, principal pass in the San Andreas fault. November 11 and 16 the group went in buses to the Big Tujun¬ ga and Soiedad Canyons, making the trip up Little Bear Canyon on foot. This area has been leased by the Du Pont enter¬ prises for rights to all future mineral deposits. One of the few places in the world where Ti¬ tanium, a metal used in the pro¬ duction of paints and armor- plate alloying, is found, this re¬ gion is vital to the government for the national defense pro¬ gram. The expedition also explored the Vasquez Rocks and the Ster¬ ling Borax mines in Tick Can¬ yon. Here the principal finds were large ‘books’ of mica (is¬ inglass). No further field trips are planned until next spring when geology classes will take a nine day trip to New Mexico. French Soiree Features Anecdotes Instead of the behind-the- scenes theatrical lingo usually heard back stage at Little Thea¬ ter, bits of conversation in French drifted out into the hall Wednesday night. The occasion: the French Soiree. Since 1932, these semi-annual evenings of French have been popular with students and in¬ structors, due perhaps to capable supervision of Arthur Willey, in charge since their inception. Outstanding feature of the eve¬ ning was “Fables et Anecdotes,” par Monsieur Emile T. Rumpp. Mr. Rumpp lived in Persia at one time for three years, trans¬ lated some of his experiences in¬ to French. THANKSGIVING BASKETS Clubs planning to give Thanks¬ giving baskets to the needy should see Miss Robbins for a list of needy families. Paint Technology Students Decorate Residence Active, yet little publicized is Mr. Frederick Green’s Paint Technology class on West Cam¬ pus. This small group of brush- pushers, who do .much refurnish¬ ing of PJC’s worn spots, has the project this year of redecorating a residence near West Campus. The Home Economics class will cooperate in the project. The Paint Tech class recently painted two drafting rooms in the East Campus Tech Building, and are now “doing” the West Campus office of Mr. Edward Cornelison, Tech Department chairman. Practicality of Mr. Green’s project-methods of instruction is proven by the large percentage of job placements for former Mr. Green started in life as apprentice to his father, contract painter in Detroit. Later he be¬ came manager of the decorating department of a large Detroit de¬ partment store. Now, as a PJC instructor, he feels that not enough students are taking ad¬ vantage of vocational opportuni¬ ties in the painting field. SCA Attends Fullerton Meet Fullerton played host Sat¬ urday at an all-day SCA conven¬ tion, with delegates froth Pasa¬ dena, Compton and Riverside Junior Colleges. The mode of business through¬ out the day consisted principally of “round table” discussions on topics as: Personal and Religious Living, Student Christian Asso¬ ciations and Their Place on the Campus, Responsibilities in Com¬ munity, and International Rela¬ tionship. Magnaturas Plan Shindig, Heckle Pledges at Meet Planning a barn dance, discus¬ sing guest speakers for assem¬ blies, and initiating pledges oc¬ cupied most of the meeting of Magnatura club last Tuesday night. Magnatura, a club com¬ posed of men students in the West Campus business depart¬ ment, has planned a series of events for the coming year that include everything from dances to aiding British War Relief. Surprise feature of this year’s program is a special event that will be of interest to all. Details of this affair will be released early in January according to Ray Berry president. At present members are concentrating on the Alumni dinner to be given at “Earl Carroll’s” or some equally well-known spot early next month. Sales Folks Presented Before Classes W. L. Miller, supervisor of the vacuum cleaner department of Sears Roebuck & Company, spoke last week on “Essentials of a Successful Sales Demonstra¬ tion” before Paul Billeter’s sales¬ manship class of the West Cam¬ pus School of Business. R. O. Trom, salesman for the Sherwin-Williams Paint Com¬ pany of Pasadena, also recently spoke before the salesmanship class on “Techniques of Selling.” Mr. Trom analyzed why many salesmen fail, and how to over¬ come failure. The various masks behind which buyers hide their real thinking was explained, and the methods the salesman should use in overcoming these masks. No.15 Popular Vocational Conferences Held Today Long a popular favorite at PJC is Vocational Conference Day, which twice each year endeavors to present to students a success¬ ful representative from each field of business. Held this year on Wednesday, November 20, during the regular assembly period, VCD has been carefully planned by student committees, of which Clarence Thurber is chairman, promises to be one of the finest ever held. Among the outstanding speak¬ ers selected for this year’s con¬ ference are Dr. Frederick Lind- sley, head of Occidental speech department, who will speak to speech groups; Jesse L. Laskey Jr., Paramount scenario writer, who will address Drama groups; Lee Shippey of the Los Angeles Times, will confer with creative writers; Lieutenant Fisher, of the Naval Reserve Air Corps, and CAA teacher, will address pilots. Topics with speakers as yet unannounced are “Flying as a vocation and as a hobby; Foreign Languages and Their Relation to Vocational Choices; Sound Pic¬ tures of the Boulder Dam; Cre¬ ative Writing, Drama and Ra¬ dio as Vocations. Vocational Fields Open to Av¬ erage Art Students; Opportuni¬ ties in the Field of Music; Math¬ ematics Teaching, Medicine, For¬ es t r y, Entomology, Nutrition, Child Development, Civil Serv¬ ice, Fish and Game, Nursing, Medical Secretaries, Cactus Growing, Government Service, Social Welfare, Graduate Re¬ search, Law and Personnel. An after-conference breakfast is planned for the speakers by the 20 student conference lead¬ ers. Tickets were issued for these conferences so that there will be no over-crowding. Complete announcements of the day’s events have been issued in bulle¬ tin form. Spartan-Faculty Dinner Successful One of the most important Spartan affairs of the semester, the Spartan-Faculty Dinner, was presented on Wednesday, No¬ vember 13, at La Casita del Ar¬ royo. Each Spartan invited a woman faculty member, and the affair was attended by approxi¬ mately 75 guests. The dinner, a semi-annual affair, was preceded by weeks of work and planning on the part of the committee, headed by Betty Meuller. The Spartan Club is the wom¬ en’s service organiaztion on the campus. Chief duty of this club is the enforcement of the Stu¬ dent Code. Officers for this se¬ mester are: Helen Sharp, presi¬ dent; Hosmig Evkanian, vice president; Virginia Spahr, re¬ cording secretary; Jeanette Adams, secretary; Barbara Fitch and Lillian Pizzo, treasurers. “Junior Women” on the cam¬ pus find themselves with one Barbara Thomas as their new President. — Page 2. Campus Fashions, unique column by Ruth Friedlander, highlights. — Page 2. Pasadena Bulldogs trample the Tartars of Compton in a thrilling upset before a crowd of 20,000 in the Rose Bowl — Page 3. Inspired by last week’s vic¬ tory on the gridiron, the PJC varsity gridders aim toward a similar result against Sacra¬ mento tonight, same place. — Page 3. Rose Queen contestants nar¬ rowed. Photos of remaining beauties on Page 2.