PCC Chronicle, April 14, 1948

Jaysee Leaders Meet Tomorrow VoL 43, No. 8 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California April 14, 1948 — Photo by Don FitzGerald Jack Macy, Muir, and Dick Maitland, PCC, co-chairmen for the Student Government Conference go over the agenda with Jeanne Collyar, PCC vice-president. Screen Star To Appear In Revue’ Cast Natividad Vacio, PCC music alumnus now starring in the Co¬ lumbia motion picture, Carmen, will be guest star of the travel- logue operetta, Pan American Re¬ vue, coming to Sexson Auditori¬ um Friday during assembly peri¬ od and at 8 p. m. that evening. Senor Vacio has also appeared in the Pasadena Playhouse pro¬ duction Girl of the Golden West; made several performances at the Padua Hills theater, and has act¬ ed in numerous NBC radio pro¬ grams. Music and dancing from fifteen Latin American countries will be featured in the extravaganza pre¬ sented by the music, language, technology and Pasadena recrea¬ tion departments and sponsored by OMD and ASB to aid the stu¬ dent memorial court. PCC vocalists appearing on the program include Karen Larsen with an arrangement Clavelilos; William Ezell will render Down Where the Sama Flows and Rich¬ ard Milius is to spotlight Song of the Lace Maker. Campus instrumentalists high¬ lighting the program are: the ac¬ cordion solo of Mexican National March by Pamelia Portwood; Bob Schaller on the Hawaiian steel guitar offering Song of the Is¬ lands and marimba players Mari- leen and Marjorie Scoville. Among the City College danc¬ ers taking part in the production will be Gilda Vasconcelos with a native Brazilian dance, and down Argentina way with the Tango dance offered by Joan Wood and Joe Pyle. A special chromo-sonic fount¬ ain has been designed and created especially for this program under Fred F. Latshaw, technical direct¬ or. As the music tone changes the fountain colors change auto¬ matically. Tickets are now available to the general public and students for the evening performance at the student bank and in the mu¬ sic and language departments. Tickets Available For ‘Pipes of Pan’ A limited number of tickets for Pipes of Pan, Pasadena City College’s third annual anthology of student writings, is now avail¬ able through English classes and the English office. On the press now, the publica¬ tion will come out within a few weeks at which time copies may be procured by presentation of tickets, which are 50 cents. The 1948 edition is limited to 300 copies, and students are urged to buy their tickets this week. This year’s 64-page anthology will be larger than the two pre¬ vious issues, and will be compos¬ ed of creative work of poetry, prose, short stories, including or¬ iginal material from over 40 stu¬ dents representing all class levels. Edward Lauterbach, Gordon Wood, and Shirley Sargent, make up the editorial staff with Jessie K. Paxton serving as faculty ad¬ viser. WELCOME DELEGATES “Pasadena City College and John Muir College take pleas¬ ure in welcoming representa¬ tives to the California Junior College Student Government Conference. It is a great hon¬ or for our schools to be host to this conference, which former¬ ly originated in Pasadena. The student bodies of both schools hope that your stay here will be very enjoyable and that your presence at the confer¬ ence will prove profitable to you and your school. Past con¬ ferences have proven their worth and we feel that we are fast becoming the strongest organization of our type throughout the nation.” Jack Macy Dick Maitland Music Group Slates ‘Fantasia’ Showing Walt Disney’s Fantasia will be presented next Monday afternoon and evening in Sexson auditori¬ um, sponsored by Kantela, cam¬ pus music club. Tickets at twenty-five cent each may be purchased from Kantela members and members of Sigma Tau Delta, honorary English fra¬ ternity, before the performance, and will be on sale Monday in the Triton booth. Proceeds from the movie will be used by Kantela for a fund to equip a room with music books, records and headsets, and by Sigma Tau Delta to further cre¬ ative work on campus. Performances are set for 4:00 and 7:30 p. m. Contestants Vie In Forthcoming Whiskerino Registration of contestants in the third annual Whiskerino con¬ test will be held Monday, April 19, through Thursday, April 22, according to Leon Shiells, AMS president. A booth manned by AMS board members will be set up in front of the Student Union to accept applications and contestants may also register with Mrs. Alice Newcomer in the dean of men’s office. To register, contestants will complete a form, giving name, grade level, address and division they wish to compete in. The four divisions of competi¬ tion are: best all-around beard, most novel beard, best Van Dyke, and the trickiest goatee. There is also a fifth division, labeled “Consolation Division for Fresh¬ man Fuzz.” The contest runs until Friday, May 7, and semi-finalists will be presented during the assembly that morning. Since the Whiskerino is in con¬ junction with the Early California Days Carnival, final judging and awards will be held the night of the Carnival, May 14, at the AMS booth. Rules for the contest and regis¬ tration are: Entrants must be cleanshaven at time of registra¬ tion. Previous winners will not be eligible to enter this year. No registration fee is required. Thursday, April 22, is the dead¬ line for registration. Colleges Send Delegates To State Confab Here; PCC, Muir To Be Hosts Tomorrow officially opens the fifth semi-annual California Junior College Student Government Conference at the Green Hotel, hosted this semester by John Muir College and Pasa¬ dena City College. Delegates from 55 junior colleges will be present at the conference, which will end Sunday. Delegates include student Students Present Drama For PTA Before a 2000 member delega¬ tion of the Los Angeles County P-TA, the PCC radio and music department will present Norman Corwin’s prize-winning radio play Psalm for a Dark Year, in the Civic Auditorium tomorrow mor¬ ning. Karl Bonawitz, noted CBS ra¬ dio organist and the A Cappella Choir will provide the transition¬ al music for the program. A sil¬ houette , pantomime will present visually the thought and mood presented by voices and music off stage. Unusual lighting effects will also be featured. Psalm for a Dark Year was pre¬ sented on the PCC campus Febru¬ ary 11, to an audience of fresh¬ men, their parents and members of the speech and radio classes. At this time, P-TA representa¬ tives present requested that the performance be repeated for the Los Angeles delegation. Cliff Rettig, Muir ASB presi¬ dent, who will greet delegates at tomorrow’s conference. AWS Sets Banquet To Fete Mothers “International Variety Show of 1948,” is the theme for the. AWS annual Mother-Daughter Banquet to be held at the First Congre¬ gational Church, April 20, at 6:30 p. m. According to word received from Alice Anderson, AWS presi¬ dent, the program will feature PCC women talent, spotlighting music, dances and skits from dif¬ ferent world countries. Perform¬ ers expected to take part in the show include Kaky Kratka, Gilda Vasconcelos, Charlotte Johnson and members of the Whip organ¬ ization. All women instructors, includ¬ ing faculty men’s wives, are urg¬ ed to attend the affair. Tickets are available this week at 11, 12 and 1 at the Triton booth. Janet Hodgkinson, AWS 2nd vice-president, is in charge of the banquet. Other AWS members on the committee are: Shirley Barnes, publicity; Rene Goedhard, entertainment, and Patsy Lynn, tickets. body presidents, vice-presidents, and faculty advisers. Organized two years ago by Neil Goedhard, former PCC stu¬ dent body president, the confer¬ ence brings students from Cali¬ fornia junior colleges together every six months to discuss com¬ mon problems and policies. Reveal Purpose Purpose of the student govern¬ ment conference is three-fold: To provide means for discuss¬ ing problems of student govern¬ ment and student activities; To promote better relations among the junior colleges of the state; and To establish a statewide student organization to promote the best interests of the students. First official meeting of the conference will be Friday morn¬ ing in the Palm Room of the hotel, where Kenneth Steven, president of the Pasadena Cham¬ ber of Commerce, will make pres¬ entation of the Conference ban¬ ner. Name Activities for Delegates Friday evening conference dele¬ gates will be guests of the host colleges at Muir’s second annual Golden Gloves boxing tourney and PCC’s “Pan American Revue” in Sexson Auditorium. Slated on the agenda are pan¬ el discussions on such subjects as the promotion of membership in associated student bodies, the value of the student body book, advantages of the “one semester” term in ASB offices, and coordina¬ tion of student social affairs. Banquet to Climax Climax of the meet will be a banquet staged Saturday evening in the hotel dining room where new Conference officers will be installed and entertainment will be presented. In charge of the conference ar¬ rangements are Dick Maitland, PCC, and Jack Macy, Muir. Stu¬ dents from both colleges will act as hosts and hostesses for the delegates who will be taken on a tour of the city. Faculty advisers for the con¬ ference are Jeannette Strawn and E. G. Chapman. POC’s ASB president, Dick Gray, who will take part in statewide conference held here. BULLETIN Charlie Greenstreet, OMD president, announced last week that the date for the OMD Car¬ nival has been set up to May 7 from May 14 due to conflict with civic events scheduled for that week. Further details of the carnival will be announced next week.