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Ever since a brilliant star gave the light of day to a cold
December night almost 2000 years ago to announce the birth
of the Son of God as the Prince of Peace on earth, Christian
men all over the world have found in the anniversary of the
birth of Jesus a reminder of the ideals He taught, and a
renewal of hope for the coming of “Peace on Earth, goodwill
to men.”
Through all the centuries since God gave His only Son to
be the Saviour of mankind, Christmas has brought each year
a season of love and joy, a time when all the world is united
in adoration of the Christ Child, even as shepherds from the
fields and kings from the East came together to worship in
the stable in Bethlehem where Christ was bom.
From the first Christmas so long ago, the anniversary of
the coming of Jesus to save the world has become a time when
all men are especially reminded of His sacrifice on the Cross,
when His teachings are most keenly heard throughout the
world. It has become a time when all the world pauses in
reverence to God, when men are filled with a joy in giving
which is a reflection of God’s own great gift to man — the gift
of his Son as a Savior.
So it has been through all the generations since the birth
of Christ. This year shall be no different. As Christmas Day
approaches, let the whole world be touched with peace and
love. Let all men unite in joyous praise of God the Father
and God the Son.
Ii-Liters to Present
Friday Talent Show
Hi-liters, PCC’s honorary entertainment society, will pre¬
sent their annual fall variety show during the assembly hour
on Friday. The show, directed by Bill Bahrt, will feature a
surprise ending. Taking place in Santa’s workshop, the only
dialogue will be the opening and
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concluding remarks of narrator.
Accompanying the artists will be
Phil Pruitt and his Hi-liter Band.
June Borbas, Raphael Izquerdo-
Bravo, Joyce Moore, Carl Hughes,
Evelyn Kresick and Barbara Mar¬
tin furnish the vocal numbers.
Molly Culbertson’s “Dance of the
Sugar Plum Fairy” will be fol¬
lowed by ventriloquist Charlene
Bernstein’s act. Bob Lombardo’s
guitar will aid Leroy Anderson’s
“Sleigh Ride,” and Skip Lom¬
bardo will play his own compo¬
sition, “Turkey Tussle,” on the
accordion. Jo Burdick will do a
baton-twirling routine. Patty
Duemler will accompany several
of the numbers on the piano.
The entire show is produced
and directed by students. June
Borbas is assistant director to
Bill Bahrt, and Molly Culbertson
handles the make-up. Marilyn
Guiger is responsible for cos¬
tumes, while Sandy Campbell and
Judy Jones will furnish refresh¬
ments at the Hi-liter party, to
be held by the club after the as¬
sembly. Technical director is
Don Caufield.
The Hi-liters were first known
at PCC when, after World War
II, they entertained GI’s in the
hospitals. Auditions for mem¬
bership will be held during the
first part of next semester.
PCC Voters Prefer
Council
Approved by 78 per cent of the
voters in last Wednesday’s spe¬
cial Student Body election, the
amendment proposed by the ASB
Board to replace the former Court
system of campus law enforce¬
ment with a new system of Stu¬
dent Councils is now an official
part of the City College ASB
Constitution.
With 313 of the 402 voters cast¬
ing their ballots in favor of the
amendment, the polling indicates
an overwhelming majority of pub¬
lic opinion supporting the estab¬
lishment of the Councils.
Under the amendment, the Code
of Student Conduct and the Code
Dr. Dixon Earns
Phi Beta Kappa Key
Dr. Dorothy Dixon, chairman
of the PCC English Department,
was notified yesterday that she
had been elected to membership
in California’s Epsilon chapter
of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s
foremost Letters, Arts and Sci¬
ences honoray fraternity.
Miss Dixon was made a mem¬
ber of the scholarship organiza¬
tion as a result of the outstand¬
ing work she did in earning the
PhD degree which she received
from the University of Southern
California last spring.
% Six Convicts ’ Author
to Speak Here Jan 6.
Dr. Donald Powell Wilson will be the first speaker of the
1953 Tuesday Evening Forum series. He will speak on “Prison
Problems in America” on the night of January 6. Dr. Wil¬
son is the author of “My Six Convicts,” an absorbing Book-
of-the-Month Club selection and a -
POSING WITH SANTA CLAUS ... in the Royal sleigh as they meet to talk over final plans
for the Royal Ball, to be staged Monday, December 22, in the Pasadena Civic Auditorium are Dick
Boles, PCC; Annie Lawrence, Muir; Carroll Wax, orchestra director; Anne Lindsay, PCC; Santa
Claus; Maureen McClellan, Ronnie DeBlasio and Gil McCutchan, Mui rites.
Annual Semi-formal Ball Fetes
49th Rose Queen and Court
Her Majesty Queen Leah Feland of the 1953 Tournament of Roses and her court of six
coed princesses will be paid a royal tribute by the students of John Muir College and Pasadena
City College at the annual Royal Ball to be staged jointly by the two schools on December 22,
from 9 to 12 p.m. With “Royal Christmas” as the theme, the Civic Auditorium ballroom has
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popular motion picture. He ac¬
tually stayed* in prison himself
in order to get material. Dr. Wil¬
son reveals some of the human
frustrations, complexes, neuroses
and other psychological problems
of America’s prison inmates.
On January 13, Donald I.
Rogers will speak on “How to
Invest Your Money Today.” On
January 20, Joe Fisher will speak
on “Oriental Destiny,” and many
others will follow until March
•Vacation Slate
POC’s Library will not be open
during Christmas vacation, an¬
nounced Librarian L. Herman
Smith of PCC. However, stu¬
dents who check books out
this week will be permitted to
keep them over the holidays.
of the Men’s and Women’s Coun¬
cils as passed by the Board earli¬
er in the semester may now be
put into operation by student
body officers.
Dr. Donald P. Wilson
24, when William Ley will speak
on “Man’s Conquest of Space.”
All the tickets for reserved
seats have been sold; however,
reserved seats are held only until
8 o’clock. At that time, students
are admitted without .charge, if
there is any room.
been transformed into a Yuletide
wonderland. Glittering red .and
green decorations will serve as
a background of royal splendor
for the glistening white sleigh
that will be used as a dias by Her
Majesty and the royal court.
Reigning over the Ball, which
is the social highlight for Pasa¬
dena collegians, will be Queen
Leah, pretty brunette coed from
John Muir, princesses Eleanor
Johnson, Judy Roberts, Nancy
Smith and Ann Hoerger of PCC
and Sandra Gilman and Diane
Armstrong of Muir. The Royal
Court will make a grand entrance
and be escorted to the dias by
an honor guard of US Air Force
members.
Carroll Wax and his 15-piece
“music with a heartbeat” orches¬
tra will furnish special music for
the dancing subjects of the Queen
from an orchestra stand decked
out with decorative sleigh bells.
Special guests at the ball will
include the parents of the Royal
Court, former Queens, Tourna¬
ment of Roses officials and the
Pasadena school executives and
administrators.
The event has been planned
and worked out by a special com¬
mittee composed of students
from both schools and headed by
Maureen McClellan of Muir, and
Ann Lindsay of PCC. Faculty
sponsors for the committee are
Mrs. Lorrayne Calkins and Rob¬
ert Ball of Muir, and Mrs. Maur¬
ice Dunn and Robert Haugh of
PCC.
Local (
Ride Float
Along with the Pasadena City
College official Tournament of
Roses Band and the four PCC
girls who will ride on the Queen’s
float, this year’s Rose Parade
will also include Pasadena coeds
appearing on the Altadena float.
Preliminary tryouts for this
have been held and the finalists
announced. The winners of the
contest were chosen at the end
of a full evening of entertain¬
ment which took place at the
Eliot Junior High School on Fri¬
day, Dec. 12.
With the show put on by the
Adrian Modeling School of Pasa¬
dena, the program included the
Sickle Sisters, presenting a dance
on skates; Nancy Slagell, a 12-
year-old accordianist; and the
Nelson Sisters, who sing and play
the guitar. Movies of the 1952
Rose Parade were also shown.
Climaxing the evening, which
was emceed by Adrian, was a
fashion show featuring the final¬
ists wearing casual and formal
clothes.
Carol Neely, Marilyn Neeley,
Charlene Bernstein, Barbara
Schmid and Barbara Bouck, rep¬
resented PCC in the event com¬
peting against 15 other girls.