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The Chronicle
Keynote Is
Service
PASADENA CHRONICLE
The Watch-
Word Is
Progress
Vol. XXIX
Pasadena lunior College, September 3, 1937
No. 1
New Junior College Campus Ready For Students
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Extension
Classes To
Draw 1000j
Widely Diversified
Programs Will Directly
Follow Day School
Late afternoon and evening
courses, to be offered at P.J.C. at
the start of school this year, will
give many people who have been
denied the privileges of higher ed¬
ucation an opportunity to continue
their schooling.
The same subjects that are
offered during the day-time will
now be available in the extension
courses to all who can show creden¬
tials to prove that they have met
the normal requirements for the
course.
O’Mara To Be Principal
An enrollment of 1,000 almost
wholly of young people under 25
years of age, is expected, according
to James P. O’Mara, principal of
the night school. “The night school
is meant for three groups of stu¬
dents. First, those students who
are working their way through
school, and find it easier to take
their schooling in the evening.
Second, those whose college educa¬
tion has been interfered with by
the recent depression. Third, those
who wish to round out their edu¬
cation or gain special training that
will help them in their work out¬
side. This is not a scheme for adult
education, although apy adults who
are able to show the proper cred¬
entials may enroll,” said Mr.
O’Mara.
Degrees Offered
Students completing their courses
at the night school will be offered
the Junior Certificate, or the de¬
gree of Associate of Arts. This
degree is becoming very popular
and in the future it will possibly
be the degree granted to large
numbers of young men and women
who will complete their general
education course at the fourteenth
year.
These classes are arranged to
meet' from 4 to 5, 5 to 6, 6:30 to
8, 7 to 8, and 8 to 9 on Monday,
Wednesday and Thursday. These
Continued on Page Two
Band Ready For
New Season Of
Music Triumphs
As a result of the many success¬
ful concert tours made last year by
the Pasadena Junior College Bull¬
dog band under the direction of
Audre L. Stong, new dean of men,
100 men have already enrolled in
this year’s band.
Representatives from Idaho,
Utah, and other western states,
have programmed for the new se¬
mester with the famous Tourna¬
ment of Roses band. According to
Mr. Stong, the band will be larger
this year than ever before. “We
welcome these newcomers to our
ranks,” the bandmaster said.
Participating more prominently
than before in the football season,
the band is planning many novelty
stunts to be performed between
halves of the regular Friday night
football games at the Rose Bowl.
An outstanding event on the band
schedule for the coming year is the
return engagement to the Portland
Rose Festival next spring in Port¬
land, Oregon.
Last year’s band itinerary in¬
cluded trips to the San Diego fair,
to Santa Monica, El Monte, Glen¬
dale, Alhambra, and many other
southern California towns. Playing
concerts before various service
clubs and conventions, and march¬
ing in parades, comprised most of
the Bulldog band’s extra-curricular
activities last season.
New Rifle Range
In Men’s Gym
A rifle range, sufficiently large
to permit a six-man rifle team to
fire with ease, has been constructed
for the ROTC in the basement of
the Men’s Gym. This larger new
range will increase opportunities
for instruction in marksmanship
and will allow inter-school matches
to be fired here, according to Major
Frank E. Bertholet.
ROTC members have also been
provided with additional quarters
for classrooms, an office, a cadet
officers’ assembly room, and new
full-sized lockers in the locker
room. Another innovation will be
a public address system, to provide
music for company drills.
Formation of an ROTC fencing
club is also planned. Practice will
begin upon arrival of new equip¬
ment, on or about September 30.
Several inter-school matches are
in prospect for the club.
FIRST STUDENTS REGISTER
SHMM
New Buildings
To Be First
Vo-Mag Theme
With the new P.J.C. buildings
as its theme, the first issue of
Vo-Mag, vocational magazine, will
be off the press and be distributed
before dedication week, October 13,
according to Peter Prouse, editor.
All articles in this new issue will
be written by graduates of Pasa¬
dena Junior College who have
made successes in their chosen
fields.
Arthur Raymond, vice-president
in charge of production at Doug¬
las Aircraft in Santa Monica, is
writing an article called “For To¬
morrow’s Engineers.” Dr. Harold
Bryant of the Department of the
Interior at Washington is the
author of “Protectors of Our
Parks.” A former editor of the
Stanford “Alumni”, Mrs. Carol
Greene Wilson, is contributing an
■article entitled “Marriage as a
Vocation.” Howard Sharpe, former
editor of Vo-Mag, and author of
the current series appearing in
“Photoplay” on Tyrone Power, is
writing a surprise article for the
Vo-Mag.
Herman Smith, recently returned
from London, has written a very
interesting article called “The
Field of Research in Manuscripts.”
Mr. Smith is connected with the
Huntington Library. Charlie Pad-
dock and Ellsworth Vines, sports¬
men, and Cyril Bennett, architect
for the new jaysee buildings, are
also contributing to this year’s first
Vo-Mag.
T Will Sponsor
Housewarming Party
The annual Hi-Jinks, given for
the new students, and a, house¬
warming to celebrate moving into
the new buildings, will be held by
the campus Y’s in the women’s
gym, on Saturday evening. Sep¬
tember 18. Lois Little is in charge,
aided by members of both Y’s.
Those assisting are Jessie Koyama,
decorations; Elmer Preston and
Mary Alice Whieldon, publicity;
Marion Dorland, refreshments;
Betty Jo Wakefield, music; Wendell
Thompson and Billy Davis, enter¬
tainment; and Peggy Twining, in¬
vitations.
Starting at eight o’clock, there
will be entertainment and games
led by E. F. Niday. A varied and
peppy program will be presented,
including, exhibition dancing by
Miss Virginia Gollatz, who has just
returned from South America,
songs and yells led by yell leaders
to create some real school spirit
among the new students, and musi¬
cal numbers.
Registration Dance
September 13
One of the big dances of the
year, the Registration dance has
come to be looked upon as a high¬
light of the academic year. It is
held twice a year in the Civic Audi¬
torium at the beginning of each
new semester. This year’s dance
will be held at the same place from
8 to 12 o’clock on Monday, Septem¬
ber 13.
Jeanette Eastman, secretary of
social affairs, is in charge of the
affair. Selection of the orchestra
will be made later. A “back to
school” dance is a regular featured
event sponsered by the Associated
Student Body at the start of every
school year. <j
■ After a tour of the buildings,
these students are coming down
the front steps of the Horace
Mann building for the first time
since the campus was completed
this fall. Sets of double doors are
opened wide this year in welcom¬
ing Southern California to one of
the most complete and modem
junior colleges in the United
States, bar none. Without taxing
Facilities, PJC can now accomodate
more than 5000 students.
A. M. S. OUTLINES
ENTERTAINMENT
Associated Men Students will get
off to an early start in activity
this year in presenting entertain¬
ments on the first day of school,
Monday, September 13. They will
sponsor a show in the men’s gym,
featuring music, dancing and acts,
according to Vernon Leif, acting
AMS head.
“Since there are so many stu¬
dents who will not be able to make
out a complete set of papers on
registration day, we have chosen
the day as one on which to enter¬
tain those who will have to stay on
the campus through the afternoon,”
Leif said. “Many more students
who finish early will also appreci¬
ate a chance to forget their morn¬
ing’s troubles when they get a
chance to rest add have a little
fun.”
Touch football games will also
be sponsored by the AMS on Hor-
rell Field during the late morning
and afternoon. Amateur boxing
matches will take ia prominent place
in the day’s activities.
Plans are pending for the ar¬
rangement of vaudeville acts in the
men’s gym at 3 p. m., according
to Leif. Although no program is
definite as yet, a good schedule of
entertainment is assured for the
entire day, AMS officials said.
Six ASB Offices
Await Hopeful
Office Seekers
Ample Room Allotted
Departments, Activities,
Offices and Classes
There is still time for aspirants
to enter school politics.
Five major student body govern¬
ment positions are still vacant
this fall as a result of last minute
changes. Offices vacant include
A.M.S. president, senior class presi¬
dent, freshman class president, a
woman associate justice, and year¬
book editor.
Applications for the elective po¬
sitions are due in the student body
offices Friday, September 17, while
the deadline for applications to ap¬
pointive positions is set for Friday,
October 1, according to Bob Staple-
ton, student body president.
Officers Listed
Forming the executive flank of
the Board of Representatives are
Rae Williams, AWS president; Pete
Huss, music; Helen Vaughn, oral
Kingsbury, junior class president,
Bob Braden, sophomore class pres¬
ident, and Barbara Lombard, clerk.
Huss, music; Helen Vaughn, oral
■affairs; and Mildred Schmertz,
clerk.
The student court, judiciary
branch of the government, is com¬
prised of Chief Justice Bob Coates,
Associate Justice Blakemore Thom¬
as and Clerk of the Court Mary
Ann Moss.
Secretaries in the cabinet are
Henry Swafford, secretary of ac¬
tivities; Bill Pappas, athletics;
Phil Cartwright, finance; Murray
Huss, music; Helen Vaugh, oral
arts; Rosalie Meub, organizations;
Earl Schroeder, publicity; Vernon
Leif, public relations; Mary Gartz,
records; Jeanette Eastman, social
affairs; and Mildred Smertz, clerk.
A1 Gutzmer, Chronicle editor;
Peter Prouse, Vo-Mag editor; and
Jessie Koyama, handbook editor,
are in charge of the junior college
publications.
Executive members of the stu¬
dent body will again center in the
Continued on Page Three
ANNOUNCE NEW
BUSINESS COURSE
A new addition to the courses
offered by the business education
department for the coming year
will be a business education sur¬
vey, required of all lower division
majors in business education and
a prerequisite for most upper di¬
vision courses offered in this de¬
partment.
The course includes a survey of
the different fields of business and
instruction in everyday business
transactions. “The course will be
of interest to many who do not
plan to major in business educa¬
tion, but who wish instruction in
the main points of business trans¬
actions,”- said Leland M. Pryor,
head of the department. “The new
setup of the business education de¬
partment will be even more effici¬
ent due to our enlarged space and
new equipment in the new build¬
ing.”
WHY IS THE CHRONICLE ?
- EDITORIAL -
A brand new school will be represented this semester by a brand
new Chronicle, made over from scratch. Streamline headlines, make¬
up and type will supplement a new editorial policy of putting campus
news before the school and city.
The Chronicle will serve as an instrument of news reporting,
serving the entire city of Pasadena as well as the
junior college campus, and will reach the parents
of every PJC student each week by mail. It’s our
idea to inform the entire locality as to what the
junior college is doing, has done and will do.
We pledge ourselves to use every ounce of
the power of the press to correct any wornout
ideas or conditions, and to help the campus ap¬
proach nearer the ideal in higher education. Our
efforts will be directed always to the brighter side
and to the better thing. Rather than to stop at
stamping out unfavorable conditions, we will try
to make fair conditions better, better ones perfect.
Opportunity to do a real service to the community
as well as to the “new white city” of the Junior
College abounds in the Chronicle. Aside from
striving to be a real asset to the community and a credit to the Junior
College, the paper will give nearly 100 students a chance to get some
practical experience in writing, editing and printing.
Our new offices, equipment and staff are all as new as tomor¬
row’s newspaper. We shall try to keep our ideas and writing in the
same category. With the cooperation we have had in the past years
and with the help we anticpiate this year, we hope to make of the
Chronicle an institution worthy of being called not a high school
weekly, but a Junior College news publication, a real public servant.
Our aim will be to represent accurately Pasadena’s new Junior
College. • •
The keynote is service.
The watchword is progress.
A1 Gutzmer
Three New Buildings
Complete PJC Setup
Reconstructed P.J.C. Will Be Equipped With
Last Word In Modern Facilities For Both
Academic and Technical Training
Beginning a new era in higher education, Pasadena Junior College
will be housed this fall in a completely new plant, one of ehe largest
and most modern junior college institutions in the world. The greater
part of the junior college curricula activity will be consentrated in
the three new structures, the largest of which has just been com¬
pleted. The last word in schooling faculties, the buildings are equipt
’ with indirect
New Bell System To
End Student Woes
No longer will 14 bells a day
puzzle PJC students as they try
to figure out what classes to
attend and when to eat lunch.
This year, to simplify matters,
students will report to classes
on the hour.
Lunch hours will be either at
12 or 1 o’clock, depending upon
the arrangement of the stu¬
dent’s program, and no one need
worry about getting enough to
eat in 20 minutes as heretofore.
Now, the student may have a
full hour in which to eat and
rest, if rest is needed.
Another favorable element
about the class schedule for this
year, is the liberty afforded the
student by the flexibility of his
class hours. Students are not
required to be on the campus
except to attend classes.
Administration
Changes Told For
Coming Semester
Six changes in the Pasadena
Junior College administrative staff
will be in effect this semester, ac¬
cording to school authorities. They
include the promotion of James P.
O’Mara from the positions of dean
of men to vice-principal; Audre L.
Stong to dean of men; Dr. Glenn
L. Lembke from counselor to sec¬
ondary curriculum coordinator,
David W. Reidy from Taft Junior
College to the Pasadena Junior
College extension program direc¬
tor, and Miss Mildred Margadant
from the Physical Education de¬
partment to the Council.
Jaysee faculty now on leave
comprise Mrs. Eleanor N. Corcor¬
an from the business education de¬
partment, Mrs. Ruby Purviance of
the home economics department,
A. T. Hay of the technology de¬
partment, Mrs. Edithe Kammeyer
of the nursing division, and Robert
C. McNeish of the men’s physical
education department, who has
gone to the University of Southern
California.
New instructors include Francis
Hoffman, who will come to the
Technology department, Wayne
Hodges from the University of
California at Berkeley, who will
teach journalism and advise the
Chronicle, Tom Mallory, who will
be men’s physical education direc¬
tor, and Miss Pauline Brown, who
will takes Miss Margadant’s place
in the women’s physical education
department, Youlden Howell as a
new member of the art depart¬
ment, F. L. Newhart enters the
mathematics department, as will
Miss Laural Elder.
Teachers who have been on leave
and are returning include Miss
Elsie L. Sawyer of the English de¬
partment, Miss- Elizabeth Richards
of the French department, and
Evelyn Enches of the business edu¬
cation department.
New Students Swell
Registration Lists
This year’s enrollment has hit
a new high in the history of Pasa¬
dena Junior College records, Miss
Ida E. Hawes, dean of guidance,
announced.
Of the freshmen students enter¬
ing from the junior high schools,
600 have registered so far and
another 150 are expected to sign
up before school opens on Septem¬
ber 13.
Students are urged to see -their
counselors and make out their pro¬
grams immediately. Classes are
being rapidly filled and to obtain
the undivided attention of the coun¬
selors one should avoid the last
minute rush.
GIRLS SPORT SHORTS
Adding vim and vigor to women’s
athletics, the colorful new regula¬
tion gym suits for women at P.J.C.
will consist of natural colored week and the hall will probably be
shorts and brown blouses. completed after school starts.
lighting, acoustic
wall padding and chromium fix¬
tures.
New improvements in the mod¬
ern main building include electric
wall clocks in the corridors, colored
tile facings for drinking fountains,
telephone booths in the main hall¬
way, and ample bulletin board
space. Four floors are in the Hor¬
ace Mann building, each floor cov¬
ering one acre of ground, exclusive
of the auditorium. Six chrome and
concrete staircases connect' the
floors.
Auditorium Finished
The new electric Hammond or¬
gan, purchased by the Board of
Education and used in the com¬
mencement exercises held in the
Rose Bowl last June, will be in¬
stalled in the auditorium in the
main building. With a seating cap¬
acity of 2300, the auditorium is
fully equipped with indirect light¬
ing, air cooling, a projection room,
loud speaking system, and furnish¬
ings. Collaborating with the archi¬
tects was the internationally fa¬
mous artist, Millard Sheets, who
is responsible for a very beautiful
color and modern panel effect.
Taking a prominent place in
student life, the school library takes
care of one of the most important
functions of the junior college. The
new library occupies part of both
the lower and ground floors of the
main building. Reading rooms,
furnished throughout with indirect
lighting and acoustic wallboard, are
situated on the main floor, while
the book stacks are located on the
lower floor. From the reading
room steps lead down to the book
stacks, and a chute has been con¬
veniently placed just inside the
library door on the main floor in
order that students may send books
back to the stacks without walk¬
ing through the reading room.
Little Theatre Ready
Cedar seats will accomodate 125
people in the Little Theatre, located
in the lower floor of tbe west
wing. The Little Theatre, corres¬
ponding to the Workshop at the
Continued on Page Two
Dr. LembUe Made
Administrative
Coordinator
Promotion of Dr. Glenn L.
Lembke from the position of coun¬
selor to- that of Secondary School
Curriculum Coordinator has been
announced by the school adminis¬
tration.
In his new capacity, Dr. Lembke
stated, he will study the courses
offered at Pasadena Jumor College,
Muir Technical High School, and
various other high schools, evalu¬
ate them, and make recommenda¬
tions for possible improvements in
courses and remedy overlapping
and duplication of studies.
Evaluation of the curriculum will
be made by supervised research,
examination schedules, class con¬
ferences with teachers, department
chairmen and the dean of guidance,
■and by such other methods as the
situation may require.
Dr. Lembke received his A.B.
degree from Occidental College,
his M.A. degree from Syracuse
University, and took his Ph.D. de¬
gree from New York University,
after which he came directly to
Pasadena Junior College, where he
gained all of his professional ex¬
perience. Dr. Lembke is also a
member of Phi Beta Kappa, na¬
tional honorary scholarship, and
Phi Delta Kappa, national educa¬
tional fraternity.
Social Hall Built In
New Science Building
A social hall for the purpose of
providing a place for practical ap¬
plication of the correct social rules
taught in social arts classes, is
being constructed on the second
floor of the Life Science building.
Luncheons, teas, and dinners will
be put on in the new hall by
classes in foods and social arts.
Mr. Stone, instructor in archi¬
tecture at jaysee, designed the
built-in furnishings and the art
department is cooperating with the
home economics department in
planning the interior decorating.
Painting is scheduled to begin next
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