Paladena Chronicle |S t U
Vol. 33 Pasadena Junior College, October 17, 1941 No. 6
dents Vote
News Index
Student Government 2,3
AMS Stag held last Wednesday; big success.
La Verne Boyer’s Orchestra plays for Assembly.
Player’s Guild holds first meeting.
Hungerford promises new pep.
Whiskerino final to be next Friday.
News . . 4
Essay contest for students of Pasadena Schools.
Co-eds celebrate Hallowe’en one week early.
SCA holds first of its monthly dinners.
Men's Sports 5
Bulldogs defeated by Fullerton Hornets.
Sacramento next on PJ C gridiron list.
Verbeck chats in “In the Spotlight.”
R. 0. T. C: 6
State Guard organizes mobile power unit.
“Mounted Sabres” club gets under way.
Shield and Eagle club organized by ROTC cadets.
Features 7
Managing Editor Casey harps in “Insanities.”
Fantasia, Bette Davis, Charles Boyer discussed in “Re¬
takes” column by Schaefer.
Back of the Front slips in again ; by Waterhouse.
Editorial Comment 8
The Inevitable —
Student Spectator — editorials.
Campus Parade by John Waterhouse.
Cartoon
IT WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY BY CLARK E. BOGARDUS,
SECRETARY OF PASADENA PREFERRED, INC. THAT THE
ORRGANIZATION WILL SPONSOR A BROADCAST WHICH
WILL INCLUDE A PRESENTATION OF NEWS EVENTS OF
PASADENA JUNIOR COLLEGE. THE FIRST BROADCAST
WILL BE THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT 9:00, OVER STATION
KPPC. PARENTS AND STUDENTS INTERESTED IN P,IC
EVENTS, PERSONALITIES, AND ACTIVITIES, ARE URGED
TO LISTEN.
Three o’(M Is Fatal
Hoar For Rusliees; Bids
Handed Out By Beans
Terminating a four-week period of rushing parties, bids
to PJC’s restrictive clubs will be issued from the Dean of
Men and Women’s offices today beginning at 3 :30 p.m.
Men and women who have received a card from their re¬
spective deans concerning bids will meet with them at this
time to state their club preference. There bids will be handed
out and high tension of the past few weeks will give way to
pride in the club of their choice. - -
Following the rush season
come the fateful six weeks of
pledging. During that time, ne¬
ophytes slowly simmer under the
burdens imposed upon them, go
without sympathy or makeup.
Formal initiation is the final step
before becoming a full-fledged
member of any club.
To interested newcomers, PJC’s
restrictive clubs, closely parallel¬
ing college fraternities and soro¬
rities, offer manifold opportuni¬
ties. Friendships and social op¬
portunities are gained as a mem¬
ber or rushee, and the necessity
for keeping up grades offers in¬
centives to may pupils. Total
number of clubsters comprises
about one tenth of the student
body and is divided among the
thirty-three clubs, seventeen
men’s and eighteen women’s.
+■
At the polls today students
will make their final decision as
to whom they want to hold the
minor class offices for the com¬
ing semester. Those to be voted
on are offices of the Freshman,
Sophomore, and Senior classes
(E), and Freshman and Senior
Voting last Friday was about
the same as that of any previous
primary election, about 30 per
cent of the student body voting.
Today, polls will be in the same
places as last Friday, and voting
will last from 7:45 to 3:30.
The results of the primary
election are:
Superior Court Justice: Francis
Stevenson, elected, 990 votes;
Chief Deputy Prosecutor: Charles
Doehrer, 818 votes; Freshman
Class President: Vincent Heu
blein, 176 votes, and Chuck Men-
ning 252 votes; Vice President
(E) : Russ Cramer, 72 votes, and
Fred Howell, 58 votes; (W) :
George Morzov, elected, 59 votes;
Secretary (E): Beverly Thomp¬
son, 53 votes and Jean Woods,
62 votes; (W): Gloria Anderson,
55 votes, elected; Treasurer (E) :
Howard Joyce, 83 votes, Hilly
Stong, 133 votes; (W): Dick
Forehan, 50 votes, Kathryn Hem-
pel, 20 votes; Sophomore Class
Vice President (E) : Ray Gard¬
ner, 122 votes, Don Reid, 171
votes; (W): Jack Hughston, 57
votes: Secretary (E): Jeanne Mc-
Cune, 286 votes, elected; Treas¬
urer (E): Clair (Corky) Kirk,
elected, 185 votes; (W) : Ruth
Ison, elected, 90 votes; Junior
Class President: Jim McCaffrey,
elected, 269 votes; Junior Class
Vice President (E) : Dale Fleming
elected, 228 votes; Secretary (E) :
Beverly Lynn, elected, 291 votes;
Treasurer (E) : Tom Bucking¬
ham, elected, 300 votes; Senior'
Class President: Glenn Riley,
95 votes, George Zillgitt, 107
votes; (W): Robert Weisenberg,
elected, 50 votes; Secretary (E):
Virginia Rooke, 150 votes, elected
Treasurer (E): Pat Lee, elected,
215 votes.
DR. HARBESON
The Principal’s Council, post¬
poned last week because of Dr.
L. L. Jarvie’s speech at the Board
of Education meeting on the
same day, will meet Wednesday.
Writer Lee Shippey
Speaks In Assembly
“Everybody’s got a dream . . . something that means a
whole lot to him. No matter how dumb he is, he can go right
ahead and do what he wants to do. If I can do it, anybody
can !” emphatically declared Lee Shippey, Los Angeles Times
journalist, as he spoke to PJC students in the weekly as¬
sembly, October 10.
Mr. Shippey had three ambi ¬
tions when in high school, and
those were to be a football play¬
er, a successful newspaper man,
and a book writer. And with a
meager education, but a lot of
ambition, Mr. Shippey became all
three. Even during the trying
months when he was blind, he
kept as his goal, the two lines
from the famous poem, “I am
the master of my fate; I am the
captain of my soul.”
“I have been a newspaper man,
a football player ... of sorts
. . . and a book writer,” Mr. Ship¬
pey continued. “So it proves that
if a guy like me can do it, any¬
body in the world can do it!”
He stated that he wanted to
be an author, and to reach that
end wrote an hour each day be¬
fore breakfast, until he had com¬
pleted his first book in 1920,
“Testing Ground;” then follow¬
ed “The Great American Family.”
,j -
As for his journalistic career,
Mr. Shippey was a columnist for
the Kansas City Star, a feature
writer, and a correspondent in
France between 1918-19 during
the World War, and a corre¬
spondent in Mexico in 1920. Lat¬
er he was made editor of the
Tampio Press. He now writes a
column, “Lee Side O’ L.A.,” pub¬
lished in the Los Angeles Times.
To conclude his speech, Mr.
Shippey declared, “We live at
the foot of a mountain. And
there are thousands of people
who look at the mountain, that
must have thought the view
thrilling, but not worthwhile the
trouble of climbing the moun¬
tain to see. But I know that if
we put a child on the road lead¬
ing up to the top ... he can
make it. I did! A lot of people
look at the mountain and think
it is a barrier, but we know it
is a ladder to the stars.”