PCC Chronicle
Vol. 55, No. 15
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
June 2, 1954
PCC, Muir
Co-sponsor
' Sot Hop 1
PCC and Muir students will don
their socks this Friday evening
as the Junior Class and the So¬
cial Affairs Commission co-spon-
sor the Soc Hop at the Pasadena
Elks Club, 400 W. Colorado St.
With the prices set at $1.25
with ASB books per couple and
$1.50 without, the Soc Hop will
be an all school dance with the
proceedings scheduled to begin at
9 p.m. and continue until mid¬
night. .
Music for the affair will be fur¬
nished by Cal Rush and his or¬
chestra. Rush and his seven-piece
band are well known by many
PCC students from the last
school dance, the Barnyard Ball,
which he and the band played.
He is also slated to bring his
music to’ the graduation dance in
a few weeks. Rush and his
group have played at the new
Statler Hotel and the Ambassa¬
dor Hotel in Los Angeles.
The entire dance is under the
supervision of Bunny Cheeley
from the Social Affairs Commis¬
sion. Toy Blixt and Chris Tam-
be represent the Junior Class.
New College to Open With Firm
Administration Foundation
Firm groundwork for the formation of the new Pasadena City College and Pasadena High
School has been laid according to the office of Dr. Catherine J. Robbins. Top official of the col¬
lege will be Dr. William B. Langsdorf, present principal of PCC. Backing him up will be Dr.
Robbins, Dr. Clyde Pfeiffer, and John E. Twomey. Dr. Pfeiffer is currently an assistant prin-
Language Council
Will Have Dinner
The big event of the year for
the Language Council is coming
up on June 5 when the annual
Student-Faculty Language Coun¬
cil Dinner will be held at the
home of Kathy Gage in Altadena.
Outstanding students in the
Foreign Language Department
will be honored at this annual
spring affair. Awards will be
presented in the fields of superi¬
or achievement and service to the
department.
The theme is centered around
Germany, with the German sec¬
tion of the Council in charge of
the decorations. The colors to
be used will be red, black and
yellow, with scenic pictures of
Germany used as a background.
Alpha Gamma Sigma to
Initiate New Members
AGS will hold their annual initiation service combined with a ban¬
quet, June 8 at 5:30 p.m., in the Women’s City Club, 160 N. Oakland.
This is the highest honorary club in PCC. The 34 initiates listed
below have passed rigid standards since the day their applications for
membership were accepted. Each student has spent three semesters
in temporary membership, their names have been submitted to vari¬
ous teachers for comments, a special committee has elected the initi¬
ates as eligible for AGS membership and the students have also held
high grade averages.
The initiates are William Barrett, Donald Hays, Charles Bickel,
Patricia Cole, Susan Cole, Nancy Crozier, Aldo DiLoreto, Walter Du¬
laney, Norma Francis, Richard Fulmer, Kathryn Gage, Alexander
Gebler, Edwin Geiger, Uatricia Hayes, Dan Kennedy, Margarita
Kirschner, Edward McGinnis, Jack McKelvey, Paul Mertens, Joseph
Miller, Betty Palmer, Ann Robinson, Marilyn Savolaine, Leroy Snyder,
Roger Tallon, Lillian Tomich, Kei Tomita, Renato Valmossoi, Varnes
Frances, Richard Weinmann, Virginia Whittier and John Willis.
The students will be initiated in caps and gowns. With the clos¬
ing of the services each student will receive a gold pin and a certifi¬
cate of life membership.
Guests far the banquet will be Dr. William Langsdorf and Dr.
Catherine Robbins. Zell Rust, Delmas Bugelli and Elmer Sauer, AGS
advisers, will also attend.
The entertainment will be presented by the Kantela Club. Tickets
are $2.50 at the Student Bank. They must be purchased before June 2.
cipal at John Muir College, while
Twomey, who will administer the
Extended Day Division, is in the
Extended Day office at PCC.
Registrar and dean of admis¬
sions will be John B. Weldon,
Muir dean of student personnel,
and Roland Grinstead, PCC regis¬
trar, respectively.
In direct contact with the stu¬
dents of the college will be Flor¬
ence Brubaker, dean of student
William B. Langsdorf
personnel, and Robert Haugh,
dean of student activities.
Administrator in charge of PCC
finances will be Earl Holder, cur¬
rent business assistant. Assist¬
ant dean of placement and work
study will be Milton C. Mohs.
Albert V. Bean, coordinator of
Extended Day, will be dean of
Extended Day in the new junior
college. Dean of Lectures and
Forums Lowell Barker will team
up with Henry L. Carlson, Muir
director of adult education, as
assistant deans.
Department chairmen who will
staff the new college are Mrs.
Helen Reid, art; George Juett,
business; Robert Moses, engin¬
eering and technology; Dr. Doro¬
thy Dixon, English; Miss Kathleen
Loly, foreign language; Miss Em¬
ma Bee Mundy, life science; John
Poole, mathematics and astrono¬
my; Edwin Van Amringe, physi¬
cal science; William Dunn and
Miss Elizabeth Jensen, men’s and
women’s physical education; J.
Ray Risser, social science; and
Robert Fleury, music.
College Y Banquet
Planned for Future
“Getting to know you” will be
the theme of this year’s Campus
“Y” banquet which will be held
June 16. In an effort to acquaint
PCC students with their new
classmates for the coming semes¬
ter, the “Y” is holding the annual
event in cooperation with Muir.
Throop Memorial Church has
been selected as the site of the
banquet. Festivities will begin at
6:30 p.m. and continue until
10:30. The dress is semi-formal.
Reservations may be made by
contacting any member of the
Campus “Y” or by telephoning
SY. 3-5111, extention 65. Dead¬
line for making reservations is
June 14. The cost will be $1.50
per person.
Burton Bishop, adviser of the
group, announced that attendance
is not limited to students. All
parents and friends of Muir and
PCC are invited to attend.
'Claudia ’ to
Have Five
Showings
With a cast of eight, the stage
of the Little Theater will be kept
busy as five performances of
“Claudia” are slated to be pre¬
sented this week.
Two shows are scheduled for
today and Friday, one at 3:15 p.m.
and the other in the evening at
8:30 p.m. One performance is in
the offering tomorrow at 8 o’¬
clock. The price of admission has
been set at 25 cents with ASB
book and 50 cents without.
Under the direction of Donald
Liercke and student director Jack
Conner, the Rose Franklin three-
act play features Dusty Smith in
the lead role of Claudia Naugh-
ton and Stan Calhoun in the role
of Davis Naughton.
Also displaying their dramatic
talent in supporting roles are
Carole Brown, Mary Lueder, Bill
Hodgson, Lloyd Brumage, Bar¬
bara Stotler and Jean Harelik.
The plot of the three-act play
revolves around Claudia, who is
physically of age, but mentally
still a child. Claudia has an at¬
tachment to her mother which
has prevented her full emergence
into womanhood. In the space of
24 hours, three milestones arise
in Claudia’s life and these con¬
stitute the action and plot of the
play.
‘And Now Tomorrow’
Is Graduation’s Theme
“And Now Tomorrow” is the 1954 Rose Bowl graduation theme
developed by the presidents of the graduation classes of the Pasadena
City Schools’ two colleges, seven junior high schools and the Hunting-
ton Memorial Hospital School of Nursing.
From February to June, the presidents work with their advisers
and the Pasadena City Schools Commencement Committee to develop
a program and script which will follow their chosen theme. Paul
Smith, speech instructor at Pasadena City College, is the 1954 script
adviser. Miss Dorothea Fry and Mrs. Helen Barnes of John Muir Col¬
lege, are working with Mr. Smith and the class presidents.
The program for the exercises on Thursday, June 17, at 6:45 p.m.,
in the Pasadena Rose Bowl, will open with concert selections by the
combined junior high school bands followed by the formal procession
of the secondary school graduates and officials of the city schools.
Tickets to the Bowl are used for convenience in distributing the
audience, but all those who desire to attend the Commencement Exer¬
cises are welcome with or without tickets. Good seats will be avail¬
able for everyone. Tickets for the public may be obtained without
charge at the Campus Banks at John Muir College and Pasadena City
College, at the Board of Education building on South Hudson Ave.,
and at the City Hall and Chamber of Commerce.
