Technology Building Dedication Set
PCC Chronicle
Vol. 51, No. 8 Pasadena, California April 2, 1952
Rites to Be Held
Following Vacation
Dedication ceremonies for PCC’s new $250,000 Tech¬
nology Building will be held shortly after Easter Vacation on
Friday, April 18 at 8 p.m. in Harbeson Hall. The building,
Nobel Prize Winner
Gives Faraday Talk
Dr. Edwin McMillan, Pasadena
High School alumnus and win¬
ner of the Nobel Prize in Atomic
Chemistry for 1951, will speak
at the 1952 Faraday Lecture to¬
morrow at 8 p.m. in Sexson Audi¬
torium on “Cyclotrons and Syn¬
chrotrons.”
According to the Science News
Letter of November 24, 1951, “Dr.
McMillan with P. H. Abelson dis¬
covered neptunium, element 93,
in 1940. Before the dawn of the
transuranium era of science for
which Dr. McMillan and Dr.
Glenn Seaborg are largely re¬
sponsible, there were only 92
known elements.”
Heaviest of these elements was
uranium, the essential material
for atomic bombs because the
modern A-bombs’ plutonium is
made from it.
These two scientists have be¬
tween them shared in the dis¬
covery of elements, 93, 94, 95,
96, 97, and 98, plutonium, num¬
ber 94, being the most important.
The two have also discovered
over 100 isotopes in their exten¬
sive research.
University of California scien¬
tist, Dr. McMillan is a graduate
of the California Institute of
Technology and Princeton Uni¬
versity.
Junior high students will com¬
pete in note-taking at tomorrow’s
lecture. Notes will be arranged
according to excellence and each
school will be awarded at least
one prize. Prizes include a brown
leather zip-zip, three ring brief
cases .
LA Examiner Quizzes
Students on Opinions
Sixteen Pasadena City College
student leaders were present yes¬
terday when the Los Angeles Ex¬
aminer conducted a general dis¬
cussion panel in the local stu¬
dent lounge.
The purposes of the group
meeting were to enable students
to express their thoughts, ideas
and ideals in regard to general
community and national prob¬
lems. The main features of this
panel will be presented to the
Examiner’s Southland readers on
Monday, April 14, in part I, page
two.
Although the Examiner has
held several such seminars at
Southern California colleges, PCC
is the first junior college to be so
honored.
gold, and popular science books
autographed by the speaker.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and
the public is invited.
WAC, WAF Reps
Due Tomorrow to
Interview Coeds
City College coeds will be able
to learn about opportunities in
the US Women’s Army Corps and
the Women in the Air Force to¬
morrow as representatives of
these organizations visit the cam¬
pus.
Two women from the Pasa¬
dena Army and Air Force re¬
cruiting office wil}, be in the So¬
cial Hall, room 208D, from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow to an¬
swer any questions collegiennes
may have regarding the possi¬
bilities of enlistment in the coun¬
try’s armed forces where they
would handle administrative and
other jobs.
Both the Army and Air Force
urgently need women to be
trained in such fields as com¬
munications, medical service, sup¬
ply, transportation, and intelli¬
gence to release men for other
defense assignments. The re¬
cruiters will be here to give com¬
plete information to all interest¬
ed women.
ONLY A MEMORY . . . after this week will be Key Club’s
drive for books for the Philippine Islands Northeastern College,
as the books collected are shipped at the expense of the Pasadena
Kiwanis Club. The city-wide drive went over the top as more
than the two tons solicited were received. Loading the crated
books for shipment are Lyon Van and Storage employee Wayne
Hitchcock, Key Club President Ron Yielding and members Andy
Castellano and Bob Powers.
US ARMY GENERAL SLATES STOP
ON CAMPUS FOR INFORMAL VISIT
Maj. Gen. William B. Kean, commander of the US Sixth
Army’s Third Corps, and former commander of the 25th In¬
fantry Division in Korea, will make an informal tour of the
PCC campus tomorrow to visit the local administration and
ROTC faculty.
General Kean, who commanded the 25th Division as it
went into action at the outbreak of the Korean campaign in
1950 and guided it through the bitter fighting of the early
months of combat, is making an informal tour of all southern
California ROTC units, which are
attached to the Third Corps, his
*Late Bulletin
The Chronicle last Saturday
received first place honors in
the annual USC Newspaper
Day “Bests of the Year” con¬
test for five column front page
make-up. The winning paper
was the November 21 Turkey
Tussle issue, made up by As¬
sociate Editor Don Hanson.
Competing in the contest were
six other junior colleges from
all over Southern California.
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new command.
Several promotions of local
ROTC officers have been an¬
nounced by Capt. Merrill C.
Windsor, commander of the unit.
Given the rank of Cadet Captain
were Cadet 1st Lt. Malcom Car¬
ter and Cadet 1st Lt. Seymour Le¬
vine. Promoted to First Lieuten¬
ant were Cadet 2nd Lt. L. D.
Carlson and Cadet 2nd Lt. A. E.
Murasha. Severed cadet enlisted
men of all ranks also received
promotions last week.
'Crooks in Government’
Are Few, Says Senator
There are “crooks in government,” announced Wayne B.
Morse, US Senator from Oregon, last night as he addressed
the PCC Tuesday Evening Forum on the subject, “Ethical
Standards in Government” in Sexson Auditorium. The state¬
ment was followed by the quali-
Campus Men Grow Beards
for Whiskerino Honors
All PCC “tough hombres” will get a chance to vie for honors as
the college’s best bearded man in the annual Associated Men Stu¬
dent’s Whiskerino, to be held next month in conjunction with the
OMD spring carnival.
The best beards on the campus will be selected on the night of
the carnival, fittingly given a western “Silverado” theme this year.
Bearers of the finest fur will receive awards from the AMS Board.
Winners will be chosen in each of the four contest divisions: novelty,
Van Dyke, full growth and Freshman Fuzz.
According to AMS President Larry Harris, there will be no
registration of contestants this year, allowing men to start culti¬
vating their whiskers as early as they choose, although April 21,
opening date of the newly innovated “Men’s Month,” has been set as
the unofficial starting time.
Model UN Reps
Leave Today for SC
PCC’s delegation for the Model
United Nations Conference at the
University of Southern Califor¬
nia leave today, according to
Perle Swedlow, commissioner of
international relations.
Delegates have been meeting
daily for two weeks for prepa¬
ration with the help of J. Ray
Risser, Social Science Depart¬
ment chairman. Representing
Australia, the group also receiv¬
ed valuable assistance from the
Australian consulate at San Fran¬
cisco who sent the students re¬
ports on previous UN meetings.
fication that the “crooks in gov¬
ernment” were as few as the dis¬
honest people in any walk of life.
The senator stated that we must
get rid of the dishonest element
in our government, but that we
must do it constitutionally and
without witch-hunting adding that
if the present Justice Department
couldn’t do it, we must “get a
new department.”
Senator Morse, who, before be¬
ing elected told his voters that
he would be a United States Sen¬
ator from Oregon for the nation,
decried the sectionalism and fav¬
oritism displayed in some branch¬
es of the administration.
The senator also brought out
the fact that lack of ethics in
government could be carried back
to the “grass roots,” making his
point by asking how much of
any legislator’s mail came from
completed only a few months
ago in time to be opened for
classes during the current sem¬
ester, houses one of the most el¬
aborate auto mechanics shops on
the west coast, a completely new
carpentry shop, and shop and
store rooms for stage technolo¬
gy classes. It also includes three
modern drafting rooms and sev¬
eral class rooms.
With Arthur Gehrig of the En¬
gineering and Technology De¬
partment presiding, the dedica¬
tion program will feature as
guests Robert Gregg, foundry
superintendent of the Reliance
Regulator Co. of Alhambra, rep¬
resenting outside industry, and
another speaker representing
technical education. Following the
formal dedication in Harbeson
Hall, there will be brief ceremon¬
ies in front of the new building,
after which it will be thrown
open for guided inspection by
spectators and guests.
Rock Hounds Leave
Saturday on Annual
Easter Week Safari
Geology students leave Pasa¬
dena Saturday for the 18th an¬
nual Easter excursion of Pasa¬
dena City College under the di¬
rection of Edwin Van Amringe,
Physical Science Department
chairman.
Students will travel a total of
approximately 1000 miles to the
Edwin Van Amringe
desert regions of Riverside, Im¬
perial and Yuma Counties.
The group will meet at White-
water River on Saturday. They
will see Painted Canyon, a spec¬
tacular gorge, and the Eagle
Mountain Pump Lift of the Los
Angeles Metropolitan Aqueduct
which raises the water 438 feet
into the air.
Students will visit Kaiser
Steel’s “Eagle Mt. Mine” on Sun¬
day, one of the world’s largest
iron mines with an open pit.
Nearby is the first railroad build¬
ing in the United States.
The caravan will then detour to
Swansea, pioneer smelter of Ari¬
zona which is about 100 years
old. Monday’s tour will take in
mineral localities, palm canyon
and old mines and ghost towns
in the Kofa and Castle Dome
Mountains, where the only moun¬
tain sheep in the country can be
found.
constituents asking for something
not at all deserved, or for the
use of more or less unethical in¬
fluence by the legislator in ob¬
taining favors. He closed the
talk by repeating his statement
that really dishonest public of¬
ficials were few, and that these
must be weeded out.
