Vol. 43, No. 7
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
April 7, 1948
PCC, Muir Will Be Hosts
To Jaysee Student Meet
PCC and Muir will be host to delegates from 55 California
Junior Colleges at the JC Student Government Conference,
scheduled to be held at the Hotel Green on April 16, 17 and 18.
Main problems to be discussed at the fourth semi-annual
affair include student government activities, limited budget
programs and the complications and benefits arising from the
name chance from junior college
to city college.
Held every six months at one
of the member colleges, the dele¬
gates from each junior college
include the student body presi¬
dent, vice-president, and ASB fac¬
ulty adviser.
Functions and policies of the
Conference were originated two
years ago by Neil Goedhard, for¬
mer PCC student body president,
and now enrolled in Santa Bar¬
bara State College.
Plans for entertainment of the
various delegates include a mixer
party on Thursday night, April
15, for the delegates who have
arrived, with a tour of Pasadena,
including the two colleges, sched¬
uled for April 17. Complimentary
tickets will be available to the
PCC Pan American Revue and
a Golden Gloves exhibition at
Muir. A banquet will also be held
that night at the Hotel Green.
The first meeting will be Fri¬
day morning, April 16, to receive
a banner from the Junior Cham¬
ber of Commerce and to approve
the agenda of the Conference.
Planning and supervision of
the affair is under the co-chair¬
manship of Dick Maitland, PCC,
and Jack Macy of Muir.
Semi-Finals Set Today
For Speech Contest
Campus public speaking stu¬
dents and others are invited to
attend the Phil Robinson speech
contest being held today and Fri¬
day, according to Virginia L. Bar-
rus, forensics instructor.
Topic of the speeches is “Stu¬
dent Safety on Campus.” Pre¬
liminaries were held yesterday
and semi-finals will be given to¬
day at 4:00 p. m. in Sexson Audi¬
torium. Finals are scheduled for
April 9 at 2:00 p. m. in the audi¬
torium.
The speech contest is sponsored
annually by the Robinson family
in memory of their son who was
accidentally killed on the campus
seven years ago.
Students To Join
Civic Activities
On Youth Day
Student body members from
PCC and Muir will leave their
books and classes to try a hand
at local affairs when Pasadena
city offices, department stores
and metropolitan newspapers
will be student-controlled on
Youth Day, May 4.
Bob Kratz, chairman of the af¬
fair, told the Chronicle that “this
is believed to be the first time in
PCC history that applications are
being accepted from the students
for the position they desire to
hold.”
The numerous jobs range all
the way from city and depart¬
ment store manager to police de¬
tective and park superintendent.
Final selection of students to
attend Youth Day will be made
by a committee of campus lead¬
ers under the guidance of Jean¬
ette Strawn, student body advis¬
er.
Application blanks can now be
obtained through Chairman Kratz
and should be filled out and re¬
turned to him as soon as possible.
Schedule Tryouts
For OMD Show
Patti Penny, director for the
OMD June Show, announced that
tryouts for the show are slated
Friday afternoon, April 9, from
3 to 5 p. m. in the radio studio,
4C, Studio B.
Dancers, singers, actors and
chorus members are urgently
needed, as well as specialty num¬
bers. Miss Penny said that be¬
cause the script had not as yet
been completed, students with
specialty acts were urged to try
out, for deserving acts could be
written into the show.
Assisting Miss Penny, is Flor¬
ence Greenstreet, with an origin¬
al script being prepared by John
Kimbro and Dick Carr.
Whiskerino Contest To Begin
April 19, Says AMS Prexy
AMS President Leon Shiells
announced this week that a beard
growing era is coming to ' the
campus soon, with “Stubble
Trouble” being the order of the
day when the Whiskerino Contest
rolls around on April 19.
Shiells and the AMS Whisker¬
ino committee have called for
all male students from freshmen
to seniors to throw away their
razors and take part in the Whis¬
ker Parade.
The contest lasting from April
19 until May 14, will feature all
shapes and sizes of beards. Prizes
for the best all around beard, for
the most novel beard, for the
best Van Dyke, and for the trick¬
iest goatee will be awarded. An
added attraction will be the
Freshman Peach Fuzz consola¬
tion prize to be awarded to one
of the lucky once-a-month shav¬
ers. All original beard designs
are encouraged. Who knows?
Your set of side-burns might be
a prize winner.
For first prize in each division,
the winner will get an electric
razor and for runners-up, a safe¬
ty razor.
Concluding the Whiskerino con¬
test, there will be an award as¬
sembly, May 14, for those with
the most outstanding beards.
Whiskerino will coincide with the
Early California Days carnival on
the same date and will add a
touch of the old west to PCC.
Working on the Whiskerino
committee are chairman, Jack
Thurber, Bob Bradley, Sam Row¬
land, Ted Todd, and George Don-
ner.
Running over that song for “Pan American Revue” are
Pamela Portwood, Richard Milius and Gloria Murphy.
Latin Atmosphere To Be Featured
In Colorful ‘Pan
Highlight of Pan American
Week at PCC will be the op¬
eretta travelogue, Pan Ameri¬
can Revue, scheduled for pres¬
entation on Friday, April 16,
during assembly period and at
8:00 p. m. that evening.
The 250 student cast produc¬
tion will feature music and danc¬
ing from fifteen Latin American
countries staged by the music,
language, technology and Pasa¬
dena recreation departments to
aid the War Memorial Court
fund.
Sponsored by OMD and ASB,
the program will include music
by the A Cappella Choir, Euter-
pean and Nysaean Singers and
the Sullivan Orchestra Ensemble.
Main attractions of the per¬
formance will be the Toreador
song, starring Richard Milius;
Andalusia, rendered by the Ny¬
saean group, with Ann Middleton
featured in a Spanish dance.
The Two America’s, a roman¬
tic narrative, will spotlight Paul
Hinshaw, baritone soloist aided
by the choral groups. The Revue
will be climaxed by a patriotic
setting of the choral march, Stars
and Stripes Forever.
Students in charge of the pro¬
gram will be Gene Glatts, music
secretary; Barbara Lubin, stu¬
dent costumes; Donald Ludolph,
language council chairman, and
Ken Mosley, student technical
director.
Faculty members handling the
affair are: Lula C. Parmley, gen¬
eral chairman; Fred Latshaw,
stage technology director, and
Margaret Ellis, dancing groups
from the Department of Recrea¬
tion.
Tickets for the evening per¬
formance will be available to stu¬
dents and the general public at
the student bank and also in the
music and language departments
starting today.
City College students having
featured parts are: Richard Mil¬
ius, Bill Ezell, Robert Longfel-
American Revue ’
Dean Robbins Attends
Chicago Convention
Dean of Women Catherine J.
Robbins, and three other Pasa¬
dena educators recently attended
the Council of Guidance and Per¬
sonnel Association Convention in
Chicago.
Starting Monday, March* 29,
and continuing until Thursday,
April 1, the theme of the pro¬
gram was “Personnel Work as a
Profession.” The Council consist¬
ed of four groups: Alliance for
Guidance of Rural Youth, Ameri¬
can College Personnel Associa¬
tion, National Association of
Dean of Women, and National
Vocational Guidance Association.
Acting as chairman of the com¬
mittee on Professional Study for
Deans of Women and Other Stu¬
dent Personnel Workers, Dr. Rob¬
bins also participated in a sec¬
tional program panel.
Two thousand members from
all parts of the country attend¬
ed the convention and sessions
were held on counseling, place¬
ment, and administration and
supervision.
With Dr. Robbins at the con¬
vention from Pasadena were
Gladiss Edwards, John Muir Col¬
lege dean of women; Margaret
Bennett, director of Pupil Person¬
nel Department in Pasadena City
Schools; and Margery Hoppin of
the Western Personnel Institute.
low, Robert Gruwell, Don Lar¬
son, Paul Hinshaw, Laurita Ellis,
Betty Jones, Kathleen Hulsey, Ol¬
ga Schaller, Karen Larsen, Ver¬
non Anderson, Allen Schuey, John
Westerdoll.
Robert Dilley, Pam Portwood,
Marileen and Marjorie Scoville,
Robert Schaller, Joan Wood, Lor¬
raine Speicher, Albert Myers,
Eulalia Ramsey, Neva Jo Ensen-
bise, Winifred Fuller and Gilda
Vasconceles.
Drama Group
Will Present
Dark Victory
Dark Victory, a dramatic
love story about a wealthy
sophisticate and a sincere,
young New England doctor
who helps her to find herself,
will be presented by the Play¬
ers’ Guild in the Little Thea¬
ter tomorrow and FViday
evenings at 8 p. m.
Written by George Brewer, Jr.
and Bertram Block, the play fea¬
tures Kathleen Welsh and Stuart
Basquin in the leading roles. Miss
Welsh appeared in Our Town,
directed Night Must Fall, and
played Elizabeth in Gloria. Bas¬
quin also appeared in Night
Must Fall and Gloria, and played
Steve in George Washington
Slept Here.
Others in the cast are Lois
Cutting, Robert Blackshaw, John
Hall, Arthur Huston~‘ Florence
Greenstreet, Gloria Murphy, Nan¬
cy Barnhardt, Harry Taddeo, El¬
izabeth Welsh, Edward Parker
and Patricia Crawley.
Floy Palmer is student direct¬
or, with a production staff of
Tom Dillon, stage manager; Patti
Penny and Larry Fielder, make¬
up; Marjorie Hawkins, costumes;
Gene Jones, properties; and
Linda Langton, script.
Admission for both perform¬
ances will be fifty cents.
Junior Council Sets
Discussion Meeting
Headed by Student Body offic¬
ers and PCC faculty members,
and sponsored by the Junior
Council, an open meeting will be
held in 200C tomorrow afternoon
at 3 p. m. for the purpose of
discussing current school activi¬
ties.
Junior Class President Bud Lor-
beer, announced that all students
interested in hearing about new
school improvements are invited
to attend. “By having this meet¬
ing we hope to clear up questions
that have been bothering most of
the students.”
Some of the topics for discus¬
sion' are “Why are there smoking
area restrictions?”, “Where the
new library will be,” “How men’s
gym is to be fixed,” “What is
happening to the parking lot and
why?”
Campus improvement sugges¬
tions will be welcomed by the
student leaders and faculty mem¬
bers in charge.
Counseling Service
Ends for Veterans
Following a recent announce¬
ment from Superintendent of
Schools John Sexson, the Board
of Education has terminated its
agreement with the Veterans Ad¬
ministration for counseling serv¬
ice to veterans at PCC.
It is now the policy of the VA
to request respective school dis¬
tricts to assume administrative
and financial responsibility for
these services.
