Pasadena Chronicle, September 10, 1944

Wide-eyed Frosh View Collegiate Future Today Bob Mohr Plays For First Dance Resister At 9 A. M, Monday Vol. 36 Pasadena Junior Colege, September 10, 1944 No. 1 New School Plan Delayed Tea, Vesper Services Highlight Occasion In Ballad of East Wesf As Pals Show Campus Sights to Novices Plans for the use of PJC’s West Campus as a vocational institute for returning service men and war workers are temporarily laid aside, according to various members of the Pasadena Board of Education. Opening of the Vocational Institute was tentatively set for September 11, but has now been postponed indefinitely. This latest development adds one more episode to PJC’s ver¬ sion of Rudyard Kipling’s “Ballad of East and West.” While the East Campus has maintained its program with relatively little fluctuation, status of the West Campus has been subject to considerable change. West Campus of PJC started its career as John Muir Tech¬ nical High School, and operated as a high school until its merger with Pasadena Junior College in 1938. Then followed five years of administration by Pasadena Junior College as one section of a two-campus institution. Upper division courses on West Campus catered especially to business, trade, and manual arts students. In 1943, after the war had taken its drastic toll of enroll¬ ments, all the West Campus students were returned to the East Campus plant on -East Col¬ orado Street. Shortly afterwards, West Campus became Army Specialized Training Unit 3911, and was operated by the Board of Education for the Army. How¬ ever, this was not to last, since the Army ordered a nation-wide curtailment of its A S T P last March. Pasadenans were electrified to learn, this summer, of the Board of Education’s plans to use its former West Campus as the Pasadena Vocational Institute, offering special training for war veterans. At that' time, opening of the unit was tentatively sched¬ uled for September 11. However, due to the scarcity of prospective students, vocational training will be offered on East Campus alone. Further action on the projected vocational institute will be dis¬ cussed at the next Executive Session of the Board of Educa¬ tion. Well-informed observers believe that the new project will open when a greater number of veterans return from the war. :g i ■ Щ Ш m ■MM ШШш ■ The Editor’s Corner . By Carl Palmberg Students and teachers alike are looking at the new school year with mixed hope and apprehen¬ sion. A new school year is alweys X, the unknown quantity. We have as yet neither crystal balls nor electronic devices which can predict anything concerning the effectiveness of the college pro¬ gram, or the new problems that will arise, or the intensity of fa¬ miliar difficulties. As new Chronicle Editor I (Continued on Page 4) Nearly 1300 incoming lower and upper division students gather this afternoon at 2:30 p. m. in the rooms of “C” building’s east and west wings where they are scheduled to meet student-pals and thence to be shown around the Pasadena Junior College Campus. Following the pal meeting, Vesper Services will be given in the Sexson Auditorium at 3:30 p. m. Catherine J. Robbins, Dean of Women, is in charge of the day’s program, and along with Dean of Men Audre L. Stong and his staff, has assembled close to 150 student pals from the ranks of PJC’s activity- conscious student body members of last semester. Purpose of the student pal is to acquaint the incoming neo¬ phyte with his alma mater. Pals, allotted ten new students each, designate the campus buildings, the respective departments, ex¬ tra-curricular activity centers, and generally partake the role of big brother and sister for the day. After viewing the campus over an hour’s span, both enrolees and pals will retire to the Sexson Auditorium for the Vesper Ser¬ vices at 3:30 p. m. Student body president Sam Soghomonian will preside over the festivities. An organ solo by Lulu Claire Parmley of the PJC faculty will officially get the program under way. Walt Raitt, head of the Student Christian Association, will give the invocation. Soghomonian, speaking as the president of the student body, and Dr. John W. Harbeson, as principal will extend their greet¬ ings to the incoming throng of new students. Dr. John A. Sexson, superin¬ tendent of the Pasadena City Schools, will introduce the guest speaker for the afternoon, Rev¬ erend George A. Warmer, Jr., minister of the Holliston Avenue Methodist Church. A vocal solo by Vernelle Wick- land accompanied by Carrie M. Sharp and numbers by the PJC Male Quartet will conclude the show. Andrew Garland, Joe La Gue, Homer Wilcox, and Malcolm Agnew comprise the latter group. Following Vespers, students will disperse to the Mirror Pool for a Tea sponsored by the Re¬ ligious Council. Mohr Plays at First Dance Once again the Civic Audito¬ rium will be the backdrop for the semi-annual Homecoming Dance, as PJC students usher in another school year. Dancing will start promptly at nine o’¬ clock, on Monday, September 11, and will terminate with the tra¬ ditional midnight curfew. The musical atmosphere will be provided by Bob Mohr and his orchestra for the terpsichorean antics of PJC he-men and their dates. The aforesaid Mr. Mohr, and his musical madmen are old friends of the Bulldogs through school engagements, various Civic dances, and his many Palladium appearances. The committee in charge of plans for the affair includes, Jan Craig, Lois Jackson, Marjorie Snyder, Arba Blodgett, Bob As¬ ton, and Nancy Young, chairman. Tickets will be on sale the opening day of school, and at the Civic box office. Former PJC students have been cordially in¬ vited, and will be able to pur¬ chase their tickets at the box office, for 80c a couple. “Pal” Harry Schauffhauser gives two freshmen a preview of campus traditions. Summer School Well Attended Coeds Teach Far from quiet has been the PJC campus this summer, for students Nisei Youth have swarmed to summer school classes in well-nigh unprecedented numbers, according to the Sommer School Office, headed by Mr. John Twomey. First session, which included a Junior High School, brought an enrollment of more than 2000; the second session, catering to JC students, saw 800 in its classes. ’ Especially large was the attendance at the English and mathematics classes. As many of the summer school students were 17 and 18-year old men facing induction into the services in the not too distant future, the heavier, required courses were extremely popular. According to Mrs. Violet Webster, Summer School secretary, trends in scholarsmp were apparently good. While no accurate study of Summer School grades has yet been made, evidence exists that fat¬ heads and flunkers were in the minority this year, with ambitious and capable students holding the field. Three PJC girls, Priscilla Han¬ nah, Betty Kline, and Elaine Wood, journeyed to the Rivers Relocation Camp, and became full fledged schoolmarms teaching the Nisei their “three R’s. Registration Day Looms New students, especially freshmen, have thronged the Guidance and Records Offices in the biggest enrollment boom since the war. Approximately one thousand new freshmen have been programmd, and the final count has not yet been released. Big event on Monday will be regestration, which commences promptly at 9:00 a. m. Students will obtain bulletins as they enter C building, and will in this way find out which registration rooms are assigned them. Registration usually takes two to three hours. Tuesday br ings about the start of regular classes. a On Wednesday, new students will attend special orientation lectures at 8 o’clock, 2 o’clock, or 3 o’clock, instead of reporting to their usual Wednesday guidance clases. Speaker will be Dr. Harbeson. On Wednesday and Thursday, No. 7 registration cards, fully signed, will be returned to the Records Office. Special event on Friday is the Frosh Day program. (See page four for story.) Among other subjects, the three gals taught Bible and dramatics classes. According to them, the Japanese students were of the best, and a number receiv¬ ed scholarships to colleges and universities. The girls said that youngsters at the camp were as good Amer¬ icans as those at PJC, if not better. There have been several Boy Scout troops organized, and they are reportedly functioning quite well. The camp also sal¬ vaged more papers than any other town in Nevada. The camp is really divided into two distinct parts, each a self- sufficient community. These two communities are located approx¬ imately five miles apart, and the only transportation between the two is via covered wagon, or by hitch-hiking. Nearest town to either part of the camp is 20 miles away. When any of the residents of either section go to this town or any¬ where outside of the confines of the camp they say they are going “out”.