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
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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
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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.