Salts Stretch Winning Sea Legs
PCC Chronicle
Vol. 53, No. 9
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
April 15, 1953
Pasadena Seamen
Win Championship
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City
Down to the sea in sailboats went to the Pasadena City
College sea-faring men, led by “Commodore” Jim Blixt, to
cop first place in the Pacific Coast Junior College champion¬
ship. Racing from the Balboa Yacht Club on Sunday, March
29, the Sailing Club participated
in three races and took top hon¬
ors in each.
The first race was sailed and
won by John S. Griffith. Ted
York started last in the second
event but came up in the final
minutes to win it. In the third
race, Jim Blixt, with a late start,
was last at the first» mark, last
at the second mark, but at the
finish line had come up to win
the event. Orange Coast College
placed second in the day’s con¬
tests with John Muir taking third
place.
PCC’s Sailing Club also enter¬
ed a University of California at
Berkeley race on Saturday, April
11, and competed against numer¬
ous top colleges in this area.
On April 26, the sailing enthu¬
siasts will try to gain the Chal¬
lenge Trophy from John Muir’s
possession when the two schools
compete against each other.
Chronicle Wins SC
Make-up Award
For the third consecutive year,
Pasadena City College’s Chroni¬
cle took top honors in the five
column makeup division of the
University of Southern Califor¬
nia’s Newspaper Day contest.
In judging the entries from
approximately 75 high schools
and two-year colleges, the USC
joufnalism staff cited the Chron¬
icle’s front page of November 19
as being outstanding. Editor
Joan Fulton, who accepted the
award for Pasadena, made up the
prize-winning sheet.
Other ratings received by PCC
entries were a third place award
given to Don Hanson, former
Chronicle editor, for his editorial
of October 1 entitled “It’s the
Principle . . . ,” in which he con¬
demned the college’s Associated
Student Body Board for a hasty
repeal of the PCC Code of Laws.
A third place award was also re¬
ceived for an action photograph
taken by the campus pictorial
journalism department and print¬
ed in the issue of September 24.
The prize-winning photo was of
the Freshman pushball contest
held last fall.
Leatherneck Brass
Tells Training Plan
On Friday, April 17, the Officer
Procurement Team for Southern
California and Arizona will visit
Pasadena City College and ex¬
plain the Marine Corps Platoon
Leaders Class program to inter¬
ested students.
Students may talk with the of¬
ficers between 11 a.m. and 1:30
p.m. The Platoon Leaders pro¬
gram trains young men to be of¬
ficers in the US Marine Corps —
the nation’s “Force in Readi¬
ness.” The instruction and train¬
ing is limited to two summer
training periods of six weeks
each. No other work is required
by the Marine Corps during the
academic year.
Males Start
Carney Bush
Though the Order of Mast and
Dagger’s annual carnival is
weeks away, the male students
of PCC will soon take on an ap¬
pearance resembling that of any
bewhiskered circus roustabout.
This feat will be accomplished
by the locking up of razors and
an absence from barber shops
during the time between April
13 and the carnival . . . the dates
set for the AMS-sponsored Whis-
kerino Contest.
According to Tom Smith, presi¬
dent of the organization, the
event will be separated into four
classifications: the frosh “peach
fuzz,” novelty, full growth and
van dyke, with prizes being
awarded in each division.
The judging will take place on
the night of the carnival, with
a group of leading barbers and
administration personnel choos¬
ing the top contenders.
Incidentally, those men choos¬
ing to remain “smooth” during
the contest will “be allowed the
privilege” of buying “smoothie”
badges, which will be sold for a
small sum.
•Deferment Test
April 23 is the date set for the
Selective Service College Qual-
ffiation Test. This examination
is required for the 1I-S defer¬
ment. A score of 70 or better
must be made to pass. This
Selective Service test will be
given at various places, includ¬
ing Pasadena City College, Cal¬
ifornia Institute of Technology
and John Muir College.
“ALL ASHORE THAT’S GOIN’ ASHORE . . .” shouts Commodote Jim Blixt as he prepares for
a “voyage” into the Mirror Pools. Giving him a rousing send-off are members of his crew John
Griffith, Ted York and Oscar Clevidence.
Student Orators Contest
Sthool Safety Problems
From the halls of the speech department will come in
the next few weeks ideas on how to improve the safety of
student life as PCC orators discuss the topic “Safety Prob¬
lems in Student Life” in the Phil Robinson Public Speech
Contest.
Final Forum Hears
Cal Tech Professor
Success of Trip Recorded
by Sound Color Movie
Photography and collecting were the main activities
featured during the annual Easter vacation geology field trip
sponsored by the Physical Science Department, according to
Edwin Van Amringe, department chairman and leader of the
excursion.
As a pictorial journalism proj¬
ect, Robert Crawford, a member
Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. P.
B. Robinson, the contest is a me¬
morial to their son, Phil, who
died as the result of a campus
accident a few years ago. The
tourney has a dual purpose: To
provide an incentive for public
speaking experience and to de¬
vise new ways for making our
campus, community and country
a safer place in which to live.
Any member of the student
body may enter the contest, and
separate prizes will be given to
the winners of each division. The
total amount of the prize money
will be approximately $60.
Upper division elimination con¬
tests will be held on April 29 at
11; lower division students will
try their strength on the same
day at 1.
“Philosophy in Science” will be
the topic when Dr. Hunter Mead,
professor of psychology and phil¬
osophy at the California Institute
of Technology, closes the current
philosophy forum series tomor¬
row night.
Mead, author of several text¬
books on aesthetics and ethics,
wrote a recently-published intro¬
duction to philosophy.
Harbeson Hall is the scene of
the forums, which are open to
the public and start at 8 p.m.
Plans are now in progress for
the series to be held next year.
of the geology class, is produc¬
ing a sound color motion picture
based upon the excursion. When
completed, the film will be placed
on file as available material for
future use in the Physical Sci¬
ence Department.
Many still photographs were
taken by the members of the field
trip of the many interesting and
educational sites visited. The
two large copper mines near Ajo
and Bagdad, Ariz., as well as
other interesting spots such as
the fine prehistoric picturegraphs
found in an excellent state of pres¬
ervation near Davis Dam, and
the historic Yuma jail, made ex¬
cellent photograph material.
The group made a side trip in¬
to Old Mexico, and purchased
souvenirs and other interesting
items in the town of Sonoyta.
Each student present on the
trip formed interesting collec¬
tions of the unusual minerals
that are found in the Western
Arizona area. Many spectacular
kinds of copper were located in
the Bagdad and Ajo mines, and a
new locality for collecting quartz
crystals was visited near Con¬
gress, Ariz.
Press Groups Plan
Redlands Meet
Members of the three journal¬
ism units on campus will attend
the Journalism Day program
sponsored by the University of
Redlands on Monday, April 20.
Representatives of the press
bureau, Campus and Chronicle
will spend the day listening to
such noted journalists as Braven
Dyer, of the Los Angeles Times;
Joe Phipps, roving reporter for
Redbook magazine; and Lord
Dunsariy, poet, dramatist and au¬
thor. Special interest groups will
include sports, society, editorial
and features, news, and business
management.
William Buttler, press bureau
adviser, will accompany the
group, which will probably travel
to Redlands by chartered bus.
Professor Paints
Prize Picture
“Elements of Meaning” was the
title of Leonard Edmundson’s en¬
try in the James D. Phaelen
awards competition in water color
which recently won for him the
$400 second prize. The exhibit,
showing in the D. Young Memori¬
al Building, San Francisco, is be¬
ing held during the month of
April.
Edmundson, winner of the $400
purchase prize, is an art instruc¬
tor of drawing and painting and
design here at Pasadena City Col¬
lege.