Smashing
enrollment
record seen
Presaging a new record-breaking
enrollment this year, figures dis¬
closing that 6725 students have
made out study lists were released
today by John A. Anderson, dean
of records.
The figures, tabulated Friday night,
show an increase of 1132 students over
the number programmed in September
last year.
Official enrollment figures will not
be known, of course, until after regis¬
tration, but these figures indicate fairly
accurately what the final enrollment
will be, according to Dean Anderson.
Many apply
The figures released today by the
records dean also reveal 1384 applica¬
tions of new students have been ap¬
proved, and that almost the same num¬
ber have been rejected under a new
ruling of the board of education.
At the east campus, 1188 applications
of new students have been accepted,
and 196 have been approved at the west
campus.
Assembly tomorrow
Registration will begin Monday
morning at 8:30 o’clock at both cam¬
puses. An assembly for new students
will start at 8 o’clock on the east cam¬
pus and at 8:45 on the west campus,
with greetings from the school admin¬
istrators and student body leaders.
Immediately following these assem¬
blies, new students will report to re¬
spective class rooms to begin registra¬
tion.
East campus will be the busiest, with
4911 study lists indicating a registra¬
tion upwards of that number. At west
campus, 1814 study lists were made.
Man shortage
If indications of the freshman lists
mean anything, there will be a short¬
age of boys at future social affairs.
The total number of boys in this classi¬
fication who made out study lists was
534. There were 581 girls.
Freshmen entering from junior high
schools in this district are not consid¬
ered in the tabulation of the 1384 new
Continued on page five
Anderson takes over
duties as adviser
to student body
John A. Anderson, dean of records,
will take over new duties as faculty
adviser for the Associated Students
this year, relieving Miss Catherine J.
Robbins, dean V)f women. The appoint¬
ment usually is for three years.
Duties of the adviser are to assist
student leaders in problems which
come before the student government;
in preparing their budget, arranging
elections and in matters that come be¬
fore the student court.
In preparation for these increased
duties, Dean Anderson has exchanged
offices with Dr. Glenn L. Lembke, tak¬
ing room 118C as his headquarters.
Robbins adviser 5 years
Dean Anderson, in accepting the new
Continued on page three
450 freshmen shown campus
by senior escort Thursday;
women meet with 'sisters1
Four hundred-fifty freshmen under
the direction of 50 seniors were shown
about the east campus and witnessed
a varsity football practice Thursday
afternoon. Freshman women activities
were held on the west campus.
A barbecue for men was held in the
new east campus student center later.
Dean of Men Audre Stong and ASB
Prexy Howard Clapp welcomed the
new students and introduced student
leaders and officers.
Past Prexy Herb McDonald and
Norm Stanger, acting frosh president,
introduced the idea of dinks and bean¬
ies in school colors for the new class.
Lancer President Bud Child was in
charge of the barbecue, assisted by
Lancer members.
Freshman women met in the west
campus student union with “senior sis¬
ters” for a similar event. Dean of
Women Catherine J. Robbins and Asso¬
ciate Dean Olive Kelso were introduced
by Associate AWS President Barbara
Place.
Eva Parke of the Bulldog band, Doris
Evans and the Anderson girls pre¬
sented the entertainment. The program
was closed with announcements by
AWS President Mable Prouty.
Vol. 31
Pasadena junior college, September 17, 1939
No. 1
Kent to play
student dance
With Larry Kent providing
swing, the first major student so¬
cial of the school year — the home¬
coming student body dance — will
be held at Civic auditorium Mon¬
day night, beginning at 8:30 o’clock.
Marjery Shaw and Beverly Beach,
student secretaries of social affairs in
charge of arrangements, expect more
than 2000 new and returning students
to attend. Admission is student body
ticket No. 25, plus 50 cents per couple.
Tickets may be purchased in ad¬
vance, and exchanged at the door for
official programs which bear the theme
of the dance. The first anniversary of
greater Pasadena junior college is the
theme.
The affair will be informal, or sport.
Patrons will be parents of student
social affairs secretaries, the adminis¬
tration, class advisers, student officers
and the faculty student affairs com¬
mittee.
(or initial
Monday
Pal day activities open
new school year today;
tion is 12 years old
LARRY KENT and his band, who will play at the Homecoming
dance tomorrow night at the Civic auditorium
Editorial
Dr. Harbeson calls
for democratic spirit;
Clapp greets students
Calling for a “democratic campus —
a friendly attitude between students,”
Dr. John Wesley Harbeson, principal,
took the means of a statement in the
Chronicle today to greet new and re¬
turning students of Pasadena junior
college.
“We want to make PJC something
more than a mere machine,” declared
Dr. Harbeson. “We want to make it a
unit of friendship — a democratic insti¬
tution with citizenship, sportsmanship
and scholarship as its cardinal virtues.”
CLAPP ALSO GREETS
NEW STUDENTS
In addition to these remarks, Dr.
Harbeson submitted a prepared state¬
ment for publication. Both his and a
message of greeting prepared by Stu¬
dent Body President Howard Clapp ap¬
pear on page five.
Chronicle policy outlined
In the principal’s message in the student handbook, Dr. John W.
Harbeson states some of the problems facing the student body this year.
They include:
Strengthening and maintaining the spirit of unity between the east
and west campuses; revising the student body government in such a
way as to create on the two campuses a democratic self-governing student
body; making student self-government function; securing the active
interest and co-operation of all students in a democratic society; main¬
taining a reasonable balance on the part of all students between studies
and activities.
Though Dr. Harbeson, later in his
message, and Student Body President
Howard Clapp in his message express
great confidence that the student body
and its leaders will solve these prob¬
lems, it must be remembered that this
cannot be done without every student’s
wholehearted co-operation. No one of
the points listed above can be fulfilled
through the efforts of student body
leaders alone.
The Chronicle will try to present
news of all student body activities, and
to interpret this news in its editorials,
so that you students will know what
is going on, so that you will be able to
voe effectively, so that you will know
the issues in which you will want to
participate.
That will be our method of whole¬
hearted co-operation to solve these
problems. If we fall short, please let
us know; for it is the object of the
Chronicle to serve the student body, its
duty to take the vanguard in further¬
ing student interests.
School leaders approve new student union feature
Pasadena junior college, after a
quiet summer, becomes a scene of
activity again today.
Hundreds of new students, un¬
der the guidance of hundreds of
old ones, are being shown about the
east and west campuses in Pal day
activities. The event, a tradition 12
years old, is the first of the 1939-40
season.
At vesper services, they were given
the official welcome of the college ad¬
ministration and the student body gov¬
ernment.
Clapp speaks
The event is to acquaint new stu¬
dents with the campuses, with school
traditions, and administration and stu¬
dent body officials.
Vesper services were held in the
west campus auditorium, where Dr.
John W. Harbeson, principal, and
James P. O’Mara, assistant principal,
welcomed new students on behalf of
the administration. Howard Clapp, stu¬
dent body president, and Pete Ducker,
associate president, greeted the stu¬
dents for the Associated Students.
Rev. Lawrence A. Wilson of the
First Congregational church talked on
“Finishing What You Begin,” in the
principal address.
Student guides named
The men students who acted as
guides are as follows:
Bill Goodloe, Charles Carkeek, Henry
Downey, Jack Jamieson, Arthur Ford,
Ed Waller, William Hamilton, Rowland
Continued on page four
Beanies and dinks
for freshman men
and women go on sale
Beanies for freshmen will be on sale
in registration rooms on both campuses
tomorrow. Herb McDonald, originator
of the idea, hopes that these beanies
will become a PJC tradition, and that
all classes will eventually adopt similar
headgear.
In a talk at a freshman barbecue,
held last Thursday in the new east
campus student center, McDonald im¬
plied that the advent of the beanies
would aid in bringing a new spirit of
class solidarity and collegiate atmos¬
phere to the schoo. Rondolyn Voss in¬
troduced the beanies at a similar meet¬
ing of freshman women on the west
campus.
The beanies were designed by Bill
Webb, acting frosh council member,
and Norman Stanger, acting frosh
president. The men’s beanies are mod¬
eled after dinks worn at many college
campuses, colored red with the num¬
bers 43 in white on the front. Th>
women’s beanies are colored red and
white in alternating triangles, num¬
bered similarly. The beanies are to be
sold for ten cents.
First use of the new student center around the east cam¬
pus student union building was made during the freshman
barbecue last Thursday afternoon. Student leaders are
shown here eating with new freshjnen. Left to right: Bob
Eastman, Kern Fiedler, ASB Prexy Howard Clapp, Lancer
Prexy Bud Child, Guy Woodward, George Throop and Prin¬
cipal John W. Harbeson.
PJC organizations are urged to buy chairs, tables and
umbrellas for the student center. Cost of the complete out¬
fits is $30. Organizations which have already contributed
are AMS, 6 outfits; AWS, 6 outfits; Triple J, 1 outfit; Engi¬
neers club, 2 outfits. Equipment in the student center will
also include picnic benches and tables.
Student body tickets
cover all activities
Student ticket books to be on sale
for $5 at time of registration will ad¬
mit students to all events sponsored
this year by Associated Student body
funds.
The tickets will admit students to
football and basketball games, dances,
assemblies, plays and other special
events not yet schedued.
Students are urged to purchase these
books, and not to rely upon the pos¬
sibility of borrowing them from other
students. Without the books, students
are not entitled to participate in many
activities.
Special events tickets, in the back of
the books, contain a series of numbers
that will be punched at the time of
their use. The right to use these num¬
bers may be obtained from the student
bank by school organizations sponsor¬
ing special events with ASB funds.
The value of the books also are be|
emphasized, with the warning that
dents should not chance losing tl
through loaning to friends.