PCC Chronicle, February 23, 1949

Night Forum To Feature Science Talk “Science in a Frightened World” will be the topic lor the Tuesday Evening Forum sched¬ uled lor the evening oi March 1 at 8:00 p.m. in Sexson Auditori¬ um. Dr. Milton Silverman, science editor ol the San Francisco Chronicle since 1933 will be guest speaker lor the evening. Dr. Sil¬ verman has also served the Na¬ tional Research Council, the Of- flce ol Scientific Research and Development, and the Columbia University Division ol War Re¬ search. From 1938 to 1940 he was re¬ search associate at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. During the San Francisco World Fair, he was director of the Hall of Science. Dr. Silverman is a frequent con¬ tributor of articles on modern scientific research to leading Am¬ erican magazines. Parking Rul es To Be Enforced At City College Through the Fire Department, proper marking and sign posting of the campus has been complet¬ ed so that fire equipment can be brought to any point on the campus. Enforcement of these new parking regulations was taken over by the Pasadena police de¬ partment last Wednesday. All students are asked to observe the rules. Students should enter the park¬ ing lots by entrances only. Cars should not be parked between double white-orange lines or near buildings. Park in car space as marked — do not park over white lines. Student cars should . be parked on the lots entering from Hill Avenue while faculty cars should be parked on lots enter¬ ing from Sierra Bonita. Motorcycles and scooters have been assigned areas at the Hill Avenue entrances. Bicycles park north of the T building. Motor¬ cycles, scooters or bicycles must not be ridden through the pedes¬ trian areas on campus. Tim con¬ struction company for the new library asks that there be no car use of the Colorado Street en¬ trance except to cafeteria, book¬ store crews and delivery trucks to the cafeteria and bookstore. “Co-operation for safety is nec¬ essary by all employees, students and visitors to keep our campus safe from fire, accidents to per¬ sons and damage to your car,” Audre L. Stong, announced. Luncheon to Precede Ball Game with Alumni Preceding Friday’s PCC varsi¬ ty vs. Alumni All-Stars baseball game, the traditional pre-game luncheon will be held in the cam¬ pus dining room at noon. Ollie Prickett, columnist for the Pasadena Star-News, will be master of ceremonies for the event. According to Fred Jahnke, AMS president, several outstand¬ ing baseball players are expect¬ ed to attend. Among them will be Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, home run king for two consecutive years, and Peanuts Lowry of the Chicago Cubs. Entertainment and music will be provided at this luncheon held in honor of the two baseball teams. Tickets for the event may be obtained at the student bank for 75 cents. Admission to the Alumni game will be 25 cents for students and 50 cents for the general public. Those buying tickets to the luncheon will be excused from class at 12:00. HRONICLE Vol. 45, No. 3 Pasadena City College February 23, 1949 Blasier Announces Minor Class Election Rules; Elections Friday Names of candidates competing on the primary ballot in minor class elections to be held Friday have been announced by Herb Blasier, commissioner of elections. On February 16, the election commission met to arrange the distribution and manage¬ ment of polls. Members of the Lancers and Spartans will each take a turn serving at the polls on election days. During the meeting, an assignment sheet for poll supervisors was submitted to Robert Grinder, Lancer treasurer, for approval. Roberta Boren made known Trying to Impress freshman Moya King with the importance of balloting in the forthcoming minor class officer election are, shown above, commissioner of elections Herb Blasier and Roberta Boren, election commission member. Friday's Award Assembly Offers Special Features To Local Pupils Students of Pasadena City College will be in for a real treat this Friday when assembly time rolls around. The stu¬ dent council have put their heads together and have emerged SCA To Publish Feature Paper For Pupils Here First issue of this semester’s SCAN, Student Christian Associ¬ ation News, will be published on Tuesday, March 1. According to Neil Sherwood, editor, this first issue will in¬ clude SCA news, and a special welcoming editorial by Mr. Er¬ nest A. Becker, SCA executive secretary. Caricatures of Mr. Becker, Ruth Lahman, his sec¬ retary, and Marion Wright, SCA president, will also be featured in the March 1 publication. Those will be accompanied by stories about the three. A page of the paper will be de¬ voted to the SCA policy which was formulated during the first years of its publication. For the first time in the history of the paper, a printed flag will be used. The entire ■ sheet was mimeo¬ graphed before this semester. Seven hundred copies of SCAN will be published and each fac¬ ulty member will receive an is¬ sue. SCAN staff will be composed of SCA members. Jerry LeGate is cartoonist for the paper and Mr. Becker is adviser. with a program that proves to be something exceptional in the way of assemblies. Featuring the annual award of letters to the men who have participated in fall sports, the assembly will be highlighted with the showing of the movies taken of the Turkey Tussle last November. Included in the pro¬ gram will be a prominent person¬ ality, not yet divulged, to assist in the presenting of the letters. Among those to receive their let¬ ters will be the members of the varsity, junior varsity and Bull- pup “A” and “B” football teams. Also scheduled on the program to receive recognition for their con¬ tribution to the schools athletic prestige will be the members of the Cross Country track team. Movies that were taken during the Turkey Tussle will include action shots as well as half-time activities. This will be the sec¬ ond showing of these movies to a Pasadena audience, the first be¬ ing members of the participating teams at their respective foot¬ ball banquets. Friday’s assembly should be placed in the “must” column of your school calendar. It will be a full house of royal entertain¬ ment sprinkled with the memo¬ ries of the 1948 football season. to the commission just what space would be available for cam¬ paign posters, most of which are issued through the ASO. On Friday, February 18, candi¬ dates met with the election com¬ mission in a special candidates’ meeting. At this time they drew numbers to decide the questions of position on the ballot and post¬ er space. Besides Blasier, students serv¬ ing on the election commissidh this semester are: Sam Rowland, Robert Grinder, Joy Cloud, Kay Cole, Roberta Boren and Ladine Cook. The primary election is sched¬ uled for February 25. Its out¬ come will provide that there be no more than two candidates’ names placed on the final ballot for each office. A list of candidates and the offices for which they are run¬ ning follows: Senior Class offices: vice-presi¬ dent, Robert Farina, Roberta Fi- fer; treasurer, Tom Dillon, Mari¬ lyn Robinson. Junior Class: vice-president : Gordon Pickett and Neil Sher¬ wood; secretary; Georgia Ing¬ ram; treasurer, Janis Doty; AWS representative, Luanne Frye and Mary Carter, Matilda Siemon. Sophomore Class: vice-presi¬ dent, Phyllis Maninger, Kris Jo- hannesen, Robert Beggs and Nancy Noll; secretary Caroline Johnson, Barbara Bowen, Arden Webb and Joanne Harris; trea¬ surer, Arthur Miller, Karen Lin- damood and Fred Moller; AWS representative, Kay Cole, Beverly Locken. Freshman class: vice-president, Dorothy Cort, Elizabeth Ander¬ son, Kirby Shaw, Howard Bagley, Mac Small, Roxie Marble; secre¬ tary, Patty Butler, Joanne Mor¬ gan, Mary Anthony and Dallas Peterman; treasurer, Bob Jones, David Tomkins, Shirley Cook, Carole Leopold, Dorothy Herr¬ mann; AWS representative, Ann Harlow, Norma Billups, Joan Smith, Sherre Martin, Gloria Poore, Marcia Pomerly, Janet Fenner. Blood Bank Asks For Student Aid On Monday, February 28, a mobile unit of the Red Cross Blood Bank will be on campus to receive donations of blood from anyone who desires to give it. PCC’s Red Cross College Chap¬ ter is sponsoring this unit in an effort to build up the blood sup¬ ply in the Pasadena area. During the week, interested students and faculty members may make appointments to give blood at the Red Cross desk which will be in front of the Student Union. Students must be over 18 years of age and if under 21 must have written consent from their par¬ ents. Every person giving blood will receive a paper allowing him a free blood transfusion if it is ever necessary. According to John Nicholson, chairman of the Blood Bank di¬ vision of PCC’s Red Cross chap¬ ter, the mobile unit will not come to the campus unless 75 appoint¬ ments are made. Deadline for Contest Set As March 1 Deadline for entries to be sub¬ mitted to Mr. Don Sparks in room 118C, for the first annual PCC literary contest will be 3:00 p.m., March 1. Sizeable prizes are to be award¬ ed to the winners of the contest, these include three prizes of fif¬ teen dollars worth of books each at the Patio Book 3hop,.Vroman’s and the Brown Shop. Pictures will be taken of the winners in the stores as they make their choice of books. The contest is open to all mem¬ bers of the City College student body ffrom 11-1 to post graduate; entries will be judged by profes¬ sional writers who have disting¬ uished themselves in their respec¬ tive fields. The manuscripts may be in the form of poems, short stories, es¬ says, radio scripts or one-act plays. They must have not been published anywhere off-campus. Administrators Take Leave For School Confabs Two Pasadena City College ad¬ ministrators will attend two con¬ ventions in two different cities this month. Dr. John W. Harbe- son, City College principal, will leave tomorrow for Chicago where he will preside over the 33rd annual convention of high school, junior and city college principals of the United States. Dr. William B. Langsdorf, lo¬ cal vice-principal, left last Sunday for San Francisco where he will attend two meetings of national educatiors. Dr. Langsdorf will meet with the Associ- of Schools the first of three sessions in Mark Hop- Hotel on 26. The e с о n d confer- n c e requiring . Langsdorf’s presence is to be the A m e rican Junior College Conference to be held in the St. Francis Hotel from March 2 to March 5. Dr. Langsdorf Association of Dr. Harbeson will address the Chicago convention on: “What Are the Current Trends in Junior College Education?” This nation¬ al convention will continue from February 26 to March 2. The con¬ vention theme is: “Education for Tomorrow’s Youth.” Among the features on the meeting agenda will be the presentation of 200 exhibits and visits to the high schools and national colleges in the Chicago area. Trends in the national junior college education program of which Dr. Harbeson will address the assemblage are: closer rela¬ tionship between junior colleges and f о u r-year colleges; the ef¬ fort to maintain year-round class¬ es in junior col¬ leges ; and, the lack of attention being given to the younger jun- Dr. Harbeson ior college students. The second conference that Dr. Langsdorf wifi attend, the Amer¬ ican Association of Junior Col¬ leges, is being held in the West for the first time this year. Sev¬ eral representatives to this con¬ ference will pass through Pasa¬ dena on their way to San Fran¬ cisco and on February 22 will make a tour of the city junior college school district, including City College and John Muir Col¬ lege. These representatives will also be honored at a banquet at the Hotel Huntington.