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PASADENA CHRONICLE :
Vol. XXIX
Pasadena Junior College, Oct. 29, 1937
No. 8
PJC Forum
Lectures
Scheduled
24 Noted Authorities
Slated To Address
Pasadena Citizens
Including some of the
world’s best public speakers
and thinkers, a forum lecture
series will start on Tuesday
in the Pasadena j unior college
auditorium. The series runs from
November 2 to April 26, under the
direction of David W. Reidy, head
of the extension classes.
The series includes 24 lectures
and forums. Subjects range all the
way from politics to cultural as¬
pects, and are diversified enough to
be of interest to anyone in Pasa>-
dena. Season tickets are on sale
for the series in rooms 140C.
EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS
More than 2000 season ticket
books were issued last week, but
only a few score are left, accord¬
ing to Mr. Reidy. “Civic groups,
schools and church units are all
participating in the schedule, and
have purchased most of the tick¬
ets in blocks,” he stated. “As the
season tickets are priced at only
one dollar for the 24 lectures,
Pasadena as a whole has become
interested in this civic venture
and the resulting sale of tickets
has far exceeded all expectations.”
Civic leaders from Pasadena will
lead the forum discussions, to be
held as panel forums after each
lecture. Mrs. H. L. Mansfield, pres¬
ident of the PJC Patrons’ associa¬
tion; Dr. John A. Sexson, superin¬
tendent of Pasadena city schools;
David J. O’Leary, chairman of the
Pasadena citizens committee and
David W. Reidy will lead the dis-
cusions from the stage.
SERIES PROGRAM
The following is the program for
the series:
November topic, International
Affairs — November 2, Tragedy of
Spain, Dr. James Beveridge; No¬
vember 9, Musolini Visits Hitler
— Why?, Dr. A. Th. Polyzoides;
November 16, Japan in Crisis,
Hillfe Lory; November 23, Brit-
ish-American Cooperation, The
ABC of World Peace, Mrs. Pres¬
ton Stanley Vaughn.
December topic, Government —
November 30, Just What Is Russia
Planning?, Dr. Earl Cranston; De-
Continued on Page Three
VIENNESE FILM
SCHEDULED HERE
The first film produced by the
famous Vienna. Boys’ Choir, “Sin-
gende Jugende” (“An Orphan Boy
of Vienna”), opens the series of
foreign language movies on Mon¬
day, November 1, at 3:30 o’clock,
according to Miss Kathleen D. Loly,
chairman of the foreign language
department. It will be shown in
the Pasadena auditorium.
Acompanied by the Vienna Phil¬
harmonic Orchestra and supported
by leading actors of Vienna’s re¬
nowned Burgtheater, this great
choir of boys has produced a pic¬
ture which for marvelous singing,
for intimate portrayal of the boy’s
life with its joys and sorrows, and
for Viennese and Tyrolean scenes,
makes it one of the most popular
movies originating in Europe last
year, according to Miss Loly. The
hero is an orphan, Toni, who is
granted admittance into the num¬
ber of these fortunate boys be¬
cause of his ability to sing. His
troubles, however, do not end when
be becomes a choir boy, but they
show that a golden voice is accom¬
panied by a heart of gold. Although
he is the star of the play, the film
was considered a group effort to
such an extent that he is listed only
as Toni.
Admission will be fifteen cents
Tickets for students and their
friends may be secured from the
German students and language
teachers, or at the box-office on
November 1. English sub-titles en¬
able all to understand the story.
Second Rush Affair
Staged By Sentinels
The Sentinel’s second rush party
of this semester was held Satur¬
day evening, October 16, at Glen
Oaks park in Glendale Hills. En¬
tertainment consisted of a barbe¬
cue and dancing. The party was
in charge of Peter Burrows and
Annette Findeisen.
A semi-formal tea, held at the
home of Mary Emery on Sunday
afternoon, October 10, was the first
party of the Sentinels. Officers of
the order elected for this semester
are Ted Webber, president; Ned
Winsor, vice-presi dent; Vesta
Stone, secretary; and Peter Bur¬
rows, treasurer.
Select Cast For
Student Prince7
Music Department
Prepares For
Performance
Sig'mund Romberg's operet¬
ta, ‘The Student Prince,” will
be presented by the Pasadena
junior college music depart¬
ment as a matinee on Decem¬
ber 9 and the evenings of December
10 and 11 in the auditorium. The
Euterpean and Nysaean singers
wiU make up the east of 50, with
.e, . C symphony orchestra fur¬
nishing the accompaniment.
Miss Lula C. Parmley, chair¬
man of the music department,
Miss Carrie M. Sharp and Miss
Kathryn Barnard are in charge
of the vocal ensembles; Milton C.
Mohs is conducting the orches¬
tra; Miss Katharine R. Kester is
directing the dramatics, and
Ihomas D. Stevenson is taking
charge of the scenery. Dances
will be furnished by the physical
education department, under the
direction of Miss Elizabeth Jen¬
sen, with the home economics
department, under the direction
of Mrs. Esther L. Tenison, fur¬
nishing costumes.
“The Student Prince,” considered
one of the world’s most popular
operettas, played for 1250 consecu¬
tive performances in New York at
one time. Many Euterpean and Ny¬
saean singers saw the operetta in
Los Angeles two winters ago, while
Jeannette MacDonald and Gene
Raymond presented it over the air
r^celjtiy- Miss Parmley expressed
the belief that the operetta would
be an enjoyable presentation. “This
should in every respect equal our
former performances of ‘Briar
Rose,’ ‘The Red Mill,’ and ‘The
Prince of Pilsen,’ ” she stated.
CAST SELECTED
I’ryouts for the operetta were
held Friday with the following
students being cast for the pro¬
duction: The Prince, Norman Du-
raske; Ivathie, Sylvia Nees; Dr.
Engle, Harold Cleveland; Ruder,
Earl Davis; Gretchen, Betty
Grey; The Princess, Beverly Ar¬
nett; The Duchess, Mary Lou
Heckman; The Countess, Dorothy
Cooke; Lutz, Bob Hanson; Hu¬
bert, Eugene Baker; Nicholas,
Ralph Hilbert; The Prime Min¬
ister, Willard Polhemus; Detleff,
Don Hanna; Astorberg, Bill
Ewing; Lucas, Walter Reed;
Tarnitz, James Stivers; Rudolph
Winter. Jim Wallace; Toni,
George Grassmueck; Captain
Arnheim, Jack Douglas; Lackeys,
Erwin Barringer, Bob Young,
Maurice Taylor and Jim Wallace;
Friends of Ivathie, Alice Larson,
Dorothy Cooke and Betty Grey.
Members of the girls’ chorus are
Eleanor Smith, Betty Emerson,
Mary Davidson, Ardith Anderson,
Barbara Anderson, Doris Corbett,
Eugenia Corbett, Bobbie Evans,
Lenore Goad, Kathleen Goble, Ruth
Hayes, Evajyn Hoohsema, Alice
Larson, Doris McManus, Virginia
Throop, Patricia Wortmen, Amy
Whitaker, Muriel Zahler, Ida May
Jessen and Margaret Dressier.
The boys’ chorus includes: John
Bercovitz, Randolph Coffman, Bill
Creames, LaVeme Deighton, Jack
Douglas, Raymond Fischer, Haig
Giridlian, Charges Hogle, Murray
Huss, Ted Liepman and Dan Mc-
Keever.
'Dad's Night7 Theme
Of Compton Game
The fathers of the football play¬
ers on the jaysee team will appear
at the game in the garb of regular
players as a specialty for the foot¬
ball bout with Compton tonight.
They are planning to wear the
numbers that their sons use in the
game.
In the case of those players
whose fathers live outside the state,
or those who are unable to attend
for any reason, the officials of the
city of Pasadena are preparing to
take the positions of substitute
fathers.
In the interval between halves of
the game the fathers are to lead
in singing a song which will play
up the theme of Dad’s Night. The
song will be published in the cur¬
rent issue of the Huddle for the
benefit of those who have not heard
the words.
According to Audre L. Stong,
dean Orf men, the event will be
staged to show the feeling of co¬
operation between fathers and sons
with regard to the football of to¬
day as compared to that of yester-
day.
CSF TO VIEW PLAY
“Boundless as the Sea,” an or¬
iginal play by Miss Kathryn Kes¬
ter, will be presented to her drama
students at a meeting of CSF to
be held next Wednesday at 3 p. m.
in the little theatre.
Also featured at the meeting, to
which all life members of CSF now
attending Pasadena junior college
are invited, will be the presentation
of pins to active members, election
of officers, and refreshments.
Committee Traces
Activity Records
Delving into the past and
searching for records of the ac¬
tivities of the students that have
attended classes at PJC in past
years, has- been selected as the
project for this year by the rec¬
ords committee. No doubt they
will find many fascinating facts
about our alumni, which will be
of much use in organizing future
activities.
This course was decided upon
at a meeting called on October
7 by Mary E. Gartz, secretary
of records and head of the com¬
mittee. After discussing vari¬
ous methods of procedure, the
committee decided to divide into
five groups, each to be in charge
of its own section. The groups
are in charge of the following
divisions: sc h
о
1 a s t i c history,
school awards for public display,
service point committees, filing
and research organization and
publicity.
The work has attracted the at¬
tention of many students who
have volunteered to help on the
project. They hope to complete
the work soon and present the
results to the school. Dr. John
A. Anderson, dean of records,
has complete charge of all work
on this propect. “I think that
the work will be beneficial to
the school in many ways,” said
Dr. Anderson.
ARNOLD CONTEST
TRIALS SLATED
Tryouts for the Arnold extem¬
poraneous contest, held annually
since 1928, are set for November
9, at 2 p. m. in 200C. “Education
and Its Influence” has been selected
as the general topic.
This contest is open to all upper
division students, or any twelfth
year student taking upper division
courses. Upper division students
new here are urged to participate,
explained Mrs. Irene S. Peters,
speech instructor, and should see
her in room 30C, or see Jean Val¬
entine, manager of oral arts, or
Helen Vaughn, secretary of oral
arts.
BROAD SUBJECT
The general subject chosen by
the oral arts committe for this
year, “Education and Its Influence,”
will be divided into many sub-top¬
ics, one of which will be given to
each participant. The sub-topics
will be listed on the bulletin boards
in the front hall.
Finals of the extemporaneous
contest are set for November 16,
at which time a dinner for the
contestants will be held at the
YWCA.
C. O. Arnold, sponsor of the
contest, has been interested in
Pasadena junior college, and es¬
pecially in speech work, since
his daughter, Fanny Arnold, was
a. student body officer and speak¬
er here. Mr. Arnold’s purpose is
to encourage speech work at
PJC. The winner of this contest
is presented with a diamond med¬
al.
Another upper division oratory
and extemporaneous speaking con¬
test is to be held at Bakersfield,
on November 11, 12 and 13. Con¬
testants in this will be representa¬
tives from all schools on the Pa¬
cific coast.
Tryouts are scheduled for No¬
vember 2, the time and place to be
given in the weekly bulletin. If
any Pasadena junior college stu¬
dents are found to be outstanding,
they will be sent to Bakersfield, ex¬
plained Jean Valentine.
Caplan Issues
Publicity Change
Department Rules
Will Be Strictly
Enforced
Pasadena junior college pub¬
licity is going on a new basis,
effective immediately, accord¬
ing to Max Caplan. newly-ap¬
pointed secretary of publicity.
Each department and administra¬
tive office is to have its own show
case. Student body publicity will
be handled separately. An attrac¬
tive background will be used to
liven up the cases, with a title for
each in raised letters. Also as part
of the program, an effort will be
made to make the posters more
attractive.
Youlden C. Howell, PJC art
teacher and new publicity ad¬
viser, has made a ‘Traffic” survey
of the campus to determine the
points of greatest activity. Using
the results of this survey as a
basis, new bulletin boards will
he placed. Notices will be re¬
moved immediately after the an¬
nounced event has taken place.
With this policy the boards will
be kept up-to-date.
ORGANIZE PROGRAM
“Our purpose is to organize the
publicity program and create more
attractive advertising displays in
the corridors,” Caplan said. He has
appointed a student chairman to
take charge of the publicity for
each department. These students
have appointed committees to help
them when necessary. The chair
men are: Ray Richter, Tom Moran,
Jim Miller, Don Kubly, Miriam
Purdon and Mildred Schmertz.
Working with Caplan as under-sec¬
retary is Ed Dube.
If these publicity chairmen
wish to advertise an event to
the whole school, they must pre¬
sent this material to the secre¬
tary of publicity, for an O.K.
at least two weeks before the
event. Caplan said definitely,
“Any material put on the bulletin
board without a publicity com¬
mittee O.K. will be taken down
immediately.”
After being approved, the post¬
ers will be placed on bulletin boards
throughout the grounds by _the
committee. A limit of 20 posters
for any one event will be placed on
material of this kind, however.
Posters can be obtained from
the printshop through the secre¬
tary of publicity at the rate of
$1.30 for 25. The art department
will make special displays on re¬
quest, for a price determined by
the work and materials necessary.
“The publicity department is
working hand in hand with the
art department in this,” Caplan
said, “and Mr. Howell has given
a great amount of assistance as
adviser.”
MINISTER TO ADDRESS
Y.M.C.A. MEMBERS
The first of a series of meetings
designed for the men students of
PJC will be held in 100T next
Thursday, November 4, at 7:15
p. m., according to Bill Davis,
president of the college YMCA, and
sponsor of the series.
The speaker for this program
will be the Rev. Wesley Nicholson,
who comes from Berkeley. Mr.
Nicholson was very active in stu¬
dent “Y” work in the bay area and
has only recently come to Pasa¬
dena.
The meeting will also include a
fellowship period with informal
group singing during which time
the future plans of the “Y.M.” will
be discussed.
S.B. DANCE TO SERVE AS 'GUINEA PIG7
FOR 'DATE BUREAU7 EXPERIMENT
“Five feet two with eyes of blue, has anybody seen my
gal?” So chorus the Associated Men Students as they rush
pell-mell into the student body offices in the student union.
The cause of the offices’ sudden popularity? A date bureau
has been organized!
For your date with your dream
man (or your dream girl per¬
haps) to the Student Body dance
at the Civic auditorium, Wednes¬
day, November 10, it’s the an¬
nual ball you know, you need
simply register with the date bu¬
reau. Interested girls are to
bring in their names, personal
details, characteristics, and pos¬
sibly a picture. She may also add
a detailed description of her
preference as to an “ideal man.”
The boys, in turn, who would
like to meet their dream girl may
find her by coming in and listing
their qualifications desired. If
they meet the preferences which
the girl desires, they may have
her telephone number. From
then on it is up to the fellow to
get the date. Girl’s applications
must be in by Nov. 5, and the
fellows must come in for their
dates not later than Monday, the
ninth.
This bureau was started by Jean¬
ette Eastman, secretary of social
affairs, and will be carried out un¬
der her supervision by Dorothy Le
Baker, Stellanne Lotz, and Jack
Burtt. Several colleges, including
UCLA, are finding these date bur¬
eaus, run by the students, to be
very popular and successful. If this
experiment proves successful for
the student body dance, it will be
carried on in the future as a tradi¬
tion.
Already the idea is being ac¬
cepted with applause. President
of student body, Bob Stapleton,
says, “My name will be in!” Bob
Coates, chief justice, says that
he will be the first in line. Vir¬
ginia Phillips, cheer leader and
president of Alphometa, says,
“If it can succeed at UCLA, it
certainly should be a success
here.” “It will afford more
chances for students to become
acquainted and have a better
time. It will also do away with
a great deal of snobbishness,”
says Vernon Leif, AMS presi¬
dent.
AWS - WAA Meet
At Vista Next Week
Southern California Junior Colleges Slate
Meeting In Pasadena For Second Consecutive
Year; 19 Schools Participate
Pasadena has been chosen for the second consecutive
time as the meeting place for the annual conference of Asso¬
ciated Women Students and the Women’s Athletic Associa¬
tion from 19 Southern California junior colleges. The confer¬
ence is to be held Friday and
Club Women Prepare
For Halloween Dance
Tomorrow Night
Hallowe’en motifs will provide
the “spooky” atmosphere for the
Women’s Restrictive Inter-Club
Council dance to be held October
30, at the Monrovia women’s club.
The dance, traditionally formal,
will this year be infomDal to coin¬
cide with the festive spirit of Hal¬
lowe’en, it was announced by Bar¬
bara Milliken, president oTWRIGC,
who is in charge of the affair. She
is assisted by Roberta Johns,
chairman of the decoration com¬
mittee, Sis Hayes, in charge of the
dance floor, and Claudia Moore,
chairman of bids, and their re¬
spective committees.
Decorations for the dance will,
of course, be in keeping with the
spirit of the night and the oc¬
casion will call for much in the
way of decorations, it was an¬
nounced by Roberta Johns. “The
Monrovia women’s club will lend
itself well to a dance of this
type,” said Sis Hayes, “as its big
rooms and large dance floor will
be adequate for the record crowd
expected.”
The dance is a closed affair, with
bids issued only to members of the
girls’ restrictive clubs. It is com¬
pletely sponsored by the girls un¬
der the direction of Miss Milliken.
Men students will attend ony by
invitation, issued by club members
of the ten women’s restrictive clubs
at Pasadena junior college. There
will be no stag line. Each girl at¬
tending will bring her own date,
and there will be no mixup from
too many men at a result of gen¬
eral ticket sales and unrestricted
bid selling.
Ray Simpson’s orchestra will
play for the evening.
Player's Guild Selects
Members At Tryouts
Ten potential actors and ac¬
tresses were taken into Players’
Guild at tryouts held last October
20. The winners in the competition
were: Richard Hamilton, John Pirn-
ley, Deane Rockwell, Edward Fer-
riter, Beverly Jane Arnett, Dixie
Galloway, Charlotte Bougardt, Beth
Henry. Betty H. Luster and Vir¬
ginia Underwood.
Miss Elizabeth Flint, adviser of
the club and Linn W. Hattersley, of
the faculty, acted as judges. Stu¬
dent judges were Roy Winder, Rog¬
er Tierney, Rosalie Meub, Rachel
Reid and Virginia Miller. The in¬
itiation will be held Friday evening,
October 5.
Roger Tierney, Rachel Reid and
Miss Flint are reading plays to be
considered for presentation
throughout the year.
250 GEOLOGISTS HUNT
MINERAL SPECIMENS
In the largest mineral collecting
trip ever held in Southern Cali¬
fornia, 250 persons, including mem¬
bers of the Mineralogical Society
of Southern California and geology
students of Pasadena junior college,
treked to Soledad canyon on Sun¬
day, October 17, to obtain speci¬
mens for geological study.
Eighty cars were in the contin¬
gent, the Mineralogioal Society of
Southern California playing host to
the students on this highly-educa-
tional trip.
Almost 150 geology enthusiasts
toured to Cajon pass last Satur¬
day, October 23, to view the rock
and mineral formations found
there. The highlight of the day was
the visiting of the famed Vasquez
rocks made possible through the
cooperation of Hollywood Produc¬
tions, Incorporated.
Two instructive trips are in store
for the coming month; one to the
Santa Ana mountains which con¬
tain one of the largest accumula¬
tions of fossils in Southern Cali¬
fornia, and the second to the gold
mines of Solada mountains near
Mojave.
FURNISHES PICTURES
The picture of the ROTC detail
hoisting- the flag that was presented
to PJC by the Elks, and the pic¬
ture of a group of restrictive club
girls rehearsing for the dedication
week parade were furnished by
Max Hole, 540 S. Greenwood street,
amateur photographer.
Saturday, November 5 and 6,
at the Hotel Vista del Arroyo, with
Pasadena junior collegians as hos¬
tesses.
The AWS board, WAA president,
Big P president, secretary of so¬
cial -affairs, clerk of the student
body board, and the Spartan presi¬
dent will be sent by their organi¬
zations as official delegates, but
any girl in the school is invited to
make reservations with Miss Cath¬
erine J. Robbins, dean of women.
CONFERENCE THEME
The theme of the conference
will be “The College Woman and
the Modern World” and the fol¬
lowing is the schedule of events:
registration, recreation, including
swimming in the new Vista pool,
table tennis-, badminton and get¬
ting acquainted, Friday, Novem¬
ber 5, 4-6 p. m.; formal dinner,
Friday, 7:00 p. m.; breakfast,
Saturday, November 6, 8 a. m.;
group conferences, Saturday,
10:15 to noon, and luncheon, Sat¬
urday, 12:30 p. m.
The distribution of duties, which
was planned at a meeting of the
Southern California junior college
deans of women at Glendale junior
college Saturday, October 16, is as
follows: Pasadena, housing and
registration; Pasadena WAA, lun¬
cheon on Saturday with entertain¬
ment around the Vista pool; Fuller¬
ton, banquet; Compton, printing of
programs; Citrus, place cards;
Glendale, entertainment Friday
evening; Chia.ffey, meeting of the
AWS presidents; Los Angeles jun¬
ior college, music; Santa Monica,
breakfast; Pomona, favors; San
Bernardino, corsages; Santa Ana,
chairman of social committee con¬
ference; Long Beach, WAA presi¬
dents’ meeting; Santa Monica,
other officers of WAA; Pasadena,
sports managers ; group conference,
Antelope, Central, Brawley, Ocean-
side-Carlsbad.
The system of a co-operative
conference, in which each junior
college has a share in the plan¬
ning, is found to be very desir¬
able,” said Miss Robbins. “Fur¬
ther information on the confer¬
ence may be obtained in my of¬
fice.”
OPEN HOUSE HELD
IN DEAN'S OFFICE
The semi-annual AWS open
house was held yesterday in the
office of Miss Catherine J. Rob¬
bins, dean of women. Refreshments
were served to students visiting
the office between 2 and 4:15
o’clock.
Th,e affair was arranged by Lil¬
lian Wallis, AWS representative.
Serving under her as hostesses
were the members of the AWS
board and cabinet, consisting of
Rae Williams, president; Betty Mo-
shisky, vice-president; Jean Ford,
vice-president; Barbara Patten, sec¬
retary; Ramona Martin, treasurer;
Maudie Toland, senior representa¬
tive; Margaret Drake and Ruth
Nelson, junior representatives; Ja-
n-ine Cheely and Eloise Dorn-, soph¬
omore representatives; Peggy Ing¬
ham and Virginia Spahr, fresh¬
man representatives; Mary Gartz,
WAA representative; Norma Owen,
colored representative, and Midori
Satomi, Japanese representative.
The purpose of the gathering
wias to give old and new students
another -chance to make new friends
and renew old acquaintances. Miss
Robbins described -the meeting as
a “come and go affair” and was
pleased by the attendance of so
many members of the student body
and faculty.
WEEK'S NEWS
24 lecturers slated to address
Pasadena citizen’s in PJC Forum
lecture series . Page 1.
* * *
Cast for Euterpean-Ny-saean op¬
eretta, due December 9, chosen. ..
. . . Page 1.
* * *
Alpha Gamma Sigma, national
honorary scholarship society an¬
nounces members for coming se¬
mester . Page 3.
* * *
19 Southern California junior
colleges send delegates to AWS-
WAA convention at Vista hotel.
PJC Patrons addressed by Dr. J.
W. Harbeson . Page 3.
* * *
Extemporaneous speaking con¬
test plans announced . Page 1.