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Bulldogs plan gigantic
welcome for Venturans
The Ventura Pirates may ceremoniously walk the plank at
the Rose bowl tonight, pursued by a grinning Bulldog, but at 6
pm this evening they will receive the welcome reserved for re¬
turned heroes.
The band will play, the comely song leaders and a crowd of
PJC students will give the Ventura delegation a welcome like
the Pasadena rooters received at Ventura.
More than 300 Pirate fans will arrive in Glendale at the SP
station, step out onto the welcome mat and ride in PJC buses to
the Rose bowl, led by a special police escort.
Red South, pep commissioner, urges that every student who
possibly can be on hand at Glendale to give the Pirates a rousing
reception.
Guests from Ventura will be invited to attend the junior- senior
dance in the Civic auditorium, music by Alvino Ray.
Business students given
experience in Xmas jobs
PJC business education students are being placed in spe¬
cial short-time jobs for the holidays through the efforts
and good name of the school of business.
These students are granted excuses for the week or two
weeks immediately preceding the vacation, as the work they
do is considered a valuable part
• of their business training.
Students who wish to be placed
in such jobs should see George
Juett, coordinator for the busi¬
ness school, or Mrs. Gladys
Young, teacher-coordinator. Most
jobs obtained are sales jobs,
though many other types of jobs
are found. Students who have
been promised jobs and wish to
get absence excuses should see
Leland M. Pryor, head of the
business school.
LARGE ORDER
That PJC students are consid¬
ered very fine is shown by the
fact that one Los Angeles mer¬
chant, having ordered 12 students,
found them so valuable that in
the occasion of a special sale re¬
cently he ordered 100 students.
Only 50 were available, but the
merchant said of them, “They are
the finest group I have ever had
for such a purpose.” This mer¬
chant has ordered 50 more stu¬
dents for Yuletide sales.
EXCUSES
Business students only can get
excuses from Mr. Pryor — other
students ‘must see Audre Stong
or Miss Catherine Robbins, deans
of men and women on the east
campus. Though there are no
regulations concerning the situa¬
tion, the Pasadena Merchants as¬
sociation has been asked to hire
business students before others
for vacation.
TRIANON HOLDS
At an informay initiation Mon¬
day, Nov. 13, following a barbe¬
cue supper at the home of their
adviser, Miss Ada Kennedy, Tri¬
anon club initiated the following
members: Betty Eyerdom, Patri¬
cia Hill, Anita Fischer, Patricia
Walling, Virginia Richter, Nancy
Pryor, Marian Ward, Pauline
Loyher, Thelma Greif and Irene
Ward.
Music hour
200C
Wednesday 12:20. Next week:
same program ; Wednesday
12:20, Thursday 11:20 and 12:20
The Music of Edward Greig and
Norway
1. Concerto in A Minor — 1st
Movement
2. Ein Schwan
3. Ieh Liebe Dich
4. Peer Gynt Suite
a. Morning
b. Solvejg’s Song
c. Anitra’s Dance
d. In the Hall of the Mountain
King
7 Pasadenans enter
Stockton contest
Stockton is host this week to
nearly 500 students entered in the
annual Western Association of
Teachers of Speech student tour¬
nament. PJC will be represented
by seven students and two teach¬
ers. Theme of the tournament is
to be “Crises of 1939”.
Miss Irene S. Peters will ac¬
company the orators, who are
new this year, all senior orators
having graduated. William Burke
will enter the junior men’s ora¬
tory, progressive speaking and
impromptu speaking; Emma Jean
Krohne, junior women’s im¬
promptu speaking; Betty Mc¬
Mahon and Margie Wilson, pro¬
gressive speaking.
Debaters, headed by William
Evans, debate coach, include
Vince Erickson, Bob Gillette and
Don Wierda. After the tourna¬
ment, which ends today. Mrs.
Peters and Mr. Evans will go on
to San Francisco where the
teachers’ convention will be held
for the remainder of the week.
Contestants from PJC and
surrounding colleges and junior
colleges left last Sunday aboard
a special car attached to the
streamliner. Most colleges and
junior colleges of the eleven
western states will be represented
in the contest.
HUMANITIES WORK
Free to leave class and try
their hands at art or music, stu¬
dents of humanities are utilizing
their library periods to study cul¬
ture from the creative angle.
Students go to the third floor
arts and crafts room, 300C, to
work under the direction of Mrs.
Frances S. Howell, art instructor,
making jewelry or leather ob¬
jects. Most of the work done is
on personal decorations such as
braclets, rings, wallets or gloves.
ena
ronicle
Vol. 31
Pasadena junior college, November 22, 1939
No. 11
Three religions
to view airs today
in Holiday meeting
A religious trilogy by a Jew,
a protestant and a Catholic is the
program for the Thanksgiving as¬
sembly today which is being spon¬
sored by the University Religious
Conferene, “Youth Rally for
Peace” organization.
“A Jew, Protestant and Catholic
Meet the Challenge of the Amer¬
ican Way” is the topic to be dis¬
cussed. John Burnside, former
stndent body president at UCLA
is the Protestant; Gilbert Har¬
rison, extension chairman of the
conference is the Jew; and Stew¬
art Ratliff e, former PJC student,
speaks for the Catholics.
The program will open with a
15 minute discussion of the topic
by all the speakers after which
they will ask each other questions
and also answer and discuss any
questions asked them by the
audience.
Today’s program is a continu¬
ation of the National Youth Rally
for Peace movement which is
active over the country and which
was discussed in a big peace rally
at the auditorium which is striv¬
ing to unite the youth of the
nation in a stronger understaning
of major issues.
Collection baskets will be pas¬
sed during the assembly and the
proceeds will go into the Thanks¬
giving fund which is to be given
to the needy as PJC’s annual gift
to the unfortunate at Thanks¬
giving time.
'Sing Nowell' replaces
traditional 'Gloria' as
Christmas production
“Sing Nowell,” a new Christmas
production portraying the joy
and merriment of the Yuletide
season, instead of its sacredness,
will take the place of the tradi¬
tional “Gloria” this year.
The production is a portrayal
of 15th century English customs,
as is evidenced by the old English
spelling Nowell instead of the
more modern Noel.
Participating groups are: A
Cappella choir, Euterpean and
Nysaean singers, dancers from
the physical education department
and drama students. There will
be two performances on each
campus.
PUBLIC AT OPEN HOUSE
Open house was held in the
Pasadena junior college observa¬
tory Friday night when Jupiter,
the moon, and other stellar ob¬
jects were viewed through the
20-inch telescope, the largest in
any public school on the Pacific
coast.
Journalist
JAMES T. WILLIAMS JR.
Pacific defenses
and Phillipines'
future Forum topic
James T. Williams Jr., former
editor-in-chief of the Boston
Transcript, will speak on “The
Challenge of the Pacific’s Naval
defense and the Future of the
Phillippines” next Tuesday night
at 8 o’clock in the east campus
auditorium. Mr. Williams is the
third speaker on the present
Tuesday evening forum’s topic,
“Governmental Policies.”
BACKGROUND
His broad journalistic back¬
ground qualifying him for ap¬
praising events in America’s poli¬
tical life includes service on the
Washington staff of the Associa¬
ted Press, 1902-1906; Washington
correspondent of the Boston
Evening Transcript, 1906-1908 ;
editor of the Tucson Citizen, 1910-
1912; editor-in-chief of the Bos-
tan Evening Transcript, 1912-
1925 and editorial contributor to
national newspaper syndicates,
1928-1937.
Last year Mr. Williams was ap¬
pointed to the coveted post of
Washington representative of the
world-wide Chicago Daily News
foreign service.
APPOINTMENTS
His record includes two presi¬
dential honor appointments. In
1908 President Taft named him
United States civil service com¬
missioner and President Coolidge
appointed him a member of the
board of visitors to the United
States Naval academy in 1924.
His acquaintances have in¬
cluded every president from Roo¬
sevelt to Roosevelt and far-flung
assignments have taken him into
all of the 48 states; to London and
Paris and to the League of Na¬
tions at Geneva; to Cuba, Mexico,
Nicaragua and other countries of
America; to Hawaii and the Phil¬
ippines; to China and Japan.
Paul Carroll shines in West coast
premiere of Hay’s ‘Bachelor Born’
by DAVID DAVIS and JOHN WATERHOUSE
Highlighted by the brilliant performance qf Paul Carroll, the Players guild successfully presented
the West coast premiere of Ian Hay’s comedy, “Bachelor Born,” before a near-capicity audience in the
east campus auditorium last Saturday night.
Although the beginning dragged a little, by the end of the second scene the audience really began
to sit up and take notice. This was largely due to Carroll’s superb portrayal of Charles Donkin, quiet
school master.
Five sober school teachers o£ guild comedy
Reading left to right are the students in “Bachelor Born” last Saturday night, They are GRENES
KRAL, LAMONT JOHNSON, BILL BURKE, PAUL CARROLL and HAROLD WOLFF.
Climax of the production came
in the second act when Lamont
Johnson as Dr. Ovington, wilful
principal of the school, and Car-
roll, held the audience’s attention
by their convincing rendition of
an argument concerning the abol¬
ishment of cherished school tra¬
ditions. Johnson handled his dif¬
ficult role with reserve and dig¬
nity appropriate to the character
of Dr. Ovington.
RIOT
Although this is the first lead
Carroll had had at PJC, he came
through remarkably well, stealing
the show from more experienced
players. Marilyn Walker and
Maxine Rogers, also newcomers
in the field of drama, turned in
pleasing performances, injecting
a note of freshness into the play.
Miss Walker all but caused a riot
when she walked out in a strap¬
less evening gown.
Dorothea Streib as the harassed
aunt of the Farringdon clan was
excellent. Ward Wood, Marian
Sprott and J. C. England stood
out in minor parts.
DIRECTION
Woman behind the scenes, Miss
Elizabeth Flint, did an admirable
job of directing the production,
particularly in handling the new
actors.
Appropriate music by the PJC
concert ensemble,' under the stu¬
dent direction of Charles Carlson,
was prepared by Milton C. Mohs.
'Holiday hop* tonight has
composite Festival theme
Featuring- the dancable music of Avido Ray, his guitar
and his orchestra and the King sisters, popular duet, the
annual junior-senior hop will be held in the Civic auditorium
tonight following the Ventura-Pasadena football game in the
Rose Bowl.
Youth peace rally
stresses America's
problems at home
William Webb, PJC debater,
was one of the 13 southern Calif¬
ornia youths who spoke at the
“Youth Rally for peace” last Mon¬
day night in the east campus
auditorium. Under the chairman¬
ship of Don Brown, son of Joe E.
Brown, and recent president of
the UCLA student body, the rally
was the second of its kind in
southern California in recent
weeks.
The first four speakers at the
rally spoke on the reasons why
youth does not want to be invol¬
ved in a European war, while the
last eight speakers devoted their
time to the discussion of the pro¬
blems here in America that we
as youth should devote our ener¬
gies to solving.
Among the most interesting
speakers was Masao Satow, Ex¬
ecutive secretary of the Japanese
branch of the YMCA who spoke
on the Japanese in America, and
the problems in their struggle
for economic equality.
Hazel Hurst, blind girl, spoke
on the “Blind Spot in America.”
She is the President of the Hazel
Hurst foundation for the blind.
James Luvalle, negro research
student of Cal Tech, and former
Olympic quarter miler, spoke on
the negro’s place in democracy.
Bill Webb spoke on the chal¬
lenge from within, in which he
said, “Our problem is not to
make the world safe for demo¬
cracy, but to make democracy
safe for the world.
Accountants
form new society
Accountants at the junior col¬
lege have formed a club of their
own recently with 24 charter
members, and christened it Delta
Sigma. Officers were installed
after the initiation exercises last
Monday.
. Clifford Kipers was elected
president, Edwin Cooper, vice-
president; Grant McCombs, treas¬
urer; and Barbara Rogers, secre¬
tary. Mr. Martin L. Pearson, ac¬
counting teacher, is the faculty
adviser of Delta Sigma.
The club has set forth its ob¬
jectives in the constitution main¬
taining the promotion of higher
scholarship among accounting
students; encouragement of fel¬
lowship among members; and
provision of a closer relationship
between accounting students and
the actual profession.
Membership is limited to ad¬
vanced accounting students who
made a “B” or higher during the
first year of the course.
Theme of the dance is to be
holidays, including most of the
most popular holidays. Juniors
and seniors can get bids for 25
cents at the school bank or ticket
office. Bids will cost 50 cents for
all others, obtainable here or at
the door.
ALL-EMBRACING THEME
Firecrackers for excitement,
Halloween ghosts for thrills, New
Year’s balloons and serpentine for
memories, Christmas trees for
gayety, turkeys for Thanksgiving,
Easter bunnies for entertainment
and Shamrocks for the loyal sons
of Saint Patrick are some of the
ingredients in store for those who
attend. The dance will continue
until 1 o’clock, the committee hav¬
ing to pay $15 fine in advance
for the extra hour of dancing.
VENTURA GUESTS
It is hoped that the 300 rooters
from Ventura will be able to hold
their special train over after the
game so that they may attend
the hop.
Senior Council Member Anne
McGill organized the whole af¬
fair, with the aid of Granville
Lee on publicity, Marianne Star-
buck on bids and Dee Dee Cope
on decorations.
Students form
new club
Handling of campus law en¬
forcement may be improved with
the formation of the new Shield-
men, a group of men students
organized from the parking com¬
mission.
Stan Penton, head of the park¬
ing commission, would be the
chief Shieldman, if present plans
go through. The whole organi¬
zation is responsible to the stu¬
dent prosecutor, Ed Sudrala.
Under Penton are four captains,
each with a squad of six men to
aid in patrolling various sections
of the school. The captains are
Lee Drayton, in charge of the
student center; Jim Speer, in
charge of the parking lot; Fred
Wardwell, in charge of records
and Matty Meredith in charge of
the library.
The Shieldmen will have the
same powers to issue tickets as
the parking commission, Lancers,
and Spartans have at present.
They will be identified by metal
badges.
Constitution of the club has
been submitted to the organiza¬
tions committee, but the adviser
has not yet been selected and the
club is not officially approved.
CLASSES TO EXCUSE
Paul Motsinger’s physical sci¬
ence survey classes have planned
several excursions for the semes¬
ter, including one to Mount Wil¬
son observatory, December 2.
The first one, to the Griffith
Planetarium, was taken last
month, and it proved very suc¬
cessful.
Baccys plan sophisticated barn dance
for Friday; Armstrong boys to play
Just because there is no football game this Friday night you
lun-loving night owls need not spend a lonesome evening at home,
for this Friday night marks the Baccy dance at the Rancho Pasadena
at 64 N. Halstead in east Pasadena from 9 to 12 pm.
The atmosphere of the old fashioned barn dance will prevail,
but there will be none of the games which plague dancers at most
barn dances. Baccy prexy, Gene Huxley, assures patrons that there
will be absolutely no apple-bobbing, square-dancing or Paul Joneses.
Dancable rhythms will be furnished by a group of musicians from
Louis Armstrong’s famous band.
Bids may be obtained from any Baccy or from the school bank
at 75c per couple.
Hall- Johnson choir
to sing at assembly
The famed Hall-Johnson negro choir will appear at both cam¬
puses assembly period Tuesday, November 28.
Their program will include all the music from the last scene
of “Run Little Chillun” and a select group of spirituals. The choir
of fifty-six performed in the Federal theater presentation of “Run
Little Chillun”, which had a record run of performances in Los
Angeles and other cities, and is one of the best known of all such
groups.
Humanities and music students will have first call on tickets,
after which they may be procured at the ticket offices on both cam¬
puses.
The music department is sponsoring the PJC appearance of the
choir.