OMD Honors 15 Tqppees
PCC Chronicle
®Late Bulletin
Jo Owens
Duane Allen
All graduating; sophomores and
seniors are reminded that they
will receive bids to the gradu¬
ates’ prom in the Civic Audito¬
rium with their diplomas to¬
night. Admission is free. On¬
ly stipulation is that one mem¬
ber of each pair be a grad.
Vol. 51, No. 15
Pasadena, California
June 12, 1952
Pat McKinney Mike Schon
Highest Honor Bestowed
1 Upon Outstanding PCC’ites
Commencement Rites
Scheduled for Tonight
Approximately 1000 City College students will be im¬
portant participants in the sixty-third annual Pasadena City
Schools’ commencement exercises to be held in the Rose Bowl
tonight at 6:45 p.m. The magnificent ceremony will also
honor graduates from the seven
Lani Revuelto Dodie Andersen
1S**H
Jim Bald
Nancy Hayes
Bill Peters
Fifteen collegians and one instructor received the highest honor at Pasadena City Col¬
lege this morning when they were tapped into the Order of Mast and Dagger, top honorary
organization on campus. Tapping rites preceded the final performance of the “Silverado,”
OMD June Show, a political satire on a “buried” Western town of the 1890’s. The following
became OMD tappees in today’s
rites :
Duane Allen
Campus editor 1951-52, Campus
business manager 1950-51, Beta
Phi Gamma Treasurer, Sigma
Tau Delta president, Pipes of
Pan, Lancer, Key Club.
Dorothea Andersen
Clerk of the cabinet, senior
class president and vice-president,
Spartan, Phi Rho Pi president,
varsity debate competition, na¬
tional impromptu champion,
elections, assemblies and social
affairs commissions.
Jim Bald
Elections commissioner, stu¬
dent prosecutor, Campus manag¬
ing editor, Key Club, Lancer,
Freshman Camp, Argonaut trea¬
surer, civil service, pup, election
and international relations com¬
missions, sophomore and student
organizations councils, Bar As¬
sociation, AMS treasurer, youth
day, poll worker, pal.
Don Hanson
Chronicle editor, associate edi¬
tor, news editor, city editor and
reporter, Beta Phi Gamma presi¬
dent , Lancer, Key Club secretary,
Freshman Camp brochure, Eng¬
lish Council, election commission.
Nancy Hayes
Whip president, Spartan, frosh,
sophomore and junior councils,
WAA president, secretary of
WAA and soph council, Women’s
Letter Club, WAA executive
board, WAA squad leader, speed-
ball manager, captain, and execu¬
tive board.
Carol Kipling
Associated Women Students
president, Alpha Gamma Sigma
president, Social Science Council
vice-president, secretary of Spar¬
tans, AWS board, soph and ju¬
nior talent shows, senior class
council, Nysaeans, A Cappella,
band string ensemble, spring
concert.
Eddie Krieger
Choir president and vice-presi¬
dent, Euterpean president, vice-
president and secretary-treasur¬
er, Crafty Hall of ’51, Crafty Hall
of ’52, June Show of ’52, Bulldog
Band, A Cappella Choir, Kantela,
Key Club, Transportation Fair,
Choraliers, spring concert.
Annual A ward Recipients
Announced in Assembly
Nine awards were given this morning in a special introductory
assembly session preceding tapping rites and the OMD June Show.
The following were winners for 1952: Laura Topalian and Ron
Yielding, upper division American Legion award; Bob Josi and Ann
Metten, lower division; and John Thie and Barbara Stunden, Rotary;
Bob Josi and Joan Jahnke, Harbeson, scholarship; Elva Orlow and
Ann Metten, Panhellenic; Larry Harris and Dallas Peterman, Alumni
award. American Association of University Women chose Nancy
Barrington as recipient for this year; Elva Orlow received the Pasa¬
dena Trojan Women’s Award; Retta Maninger, Women’s Civic
League; and Ben Almadova the Meguiar award.
Special awards and scholarship brochure containing the names
of all award winners were distributed this morning at the assembly.
No awards assembly was held this year as all awards had been pre¬
viously presented.
junior high schools, Muir College
and the Huntington Memorial
Hospital School of Nursing. This
year’s theme is “We Believe: A
Creed for Action.”
Concert selections from the
combined junior high school band
will begin the program, to be im¬
mediately followed by the en¬
trance of the graduates to the
strains of the traditional “Pomp
and Circumstance March.” This
year the combined junior college
band will aid the organ by play¬
ing the march. Members of the
public who wish to view the im¬
pressive ceremony may receive
tickets at the Board of Education
or at either the John Muir or
Pasadena City College student
bank.
The invocation will be present¬
ed after all the graduates have
filed in, and are standing on the
floor of the Bowl. Dr. Morgan
Edwards, Pastor of the First
Methodist Church of Pasadena,
will present the invocation follow¬
ed by a choral response from all
the graduates. After the students
have been seated in the stands,
the graduating class presidents,
college valedictorians, and the
Acting Superintendent of Schools
Frank R. Walkup, will give short
speeches on the theme.
Pat McKinney
Commissioner of public rela¬
tions, commissioner of awards,
Soph Soap editor, Mademoiselle
award, civil service, elections and
senior picture commissions, Red
Cross, grand jury, Spartan, Youth
Day, Soph Council, vice-president
and secretary of Beta Phi Gam¬
ma.
Jo Owens
Hi-liter president, WAA life
pass award, Women’s Letter
Club, Women’s Athletic Associa¬
tion, cheer leader, Spartan, two
Crafty Hall shows, spring con¬
cert, Transportation Fair assem¬
bly.
Bill Peters
Hi-liter president, many radio
shows, Campus Capers, Feature
Page, Theta Rho Pi, Clarence,
OMD June Show, two Crafty
Hall shows, Red Cross for eight
semesters, Pal, Youth Day, Civil
Defense, Freshman Camp staff.
Don Perry
Official world’s record holder
20 foot rope climb, junior, metro,
senior AAU champ 1946-52, Pas¬
adena invitational champ for 1949
and 1950, national junior college
champ in 1950, All-American in
1947, ’48, ’49 and ’50.
• Continued on Page Four
OMD Slates
Banquet
OMD tappees will be honored
Saturday evening at the Order
of Mast and Dagger silver anni¬
versary banquet at the home of
the Ehrenclous. Chairman Kathy
McKinney revealed that plans
for the event have been in the
making all semester. Even an
aquacade has been planned to
make the affair a special “birth¬
day” event.
Honoraries and alumni mem¬
bers as well as actives and tap¬
pees will attend the banquet. Ac¬
cording to Miss McKinney, “An
especially large turnout is ex¬
pected because this is the twenty-
fifth anniversary of OMD.”
First copies of OMD’s new 25
year annual will be distributed
at the banquet. Edited by Laura
Topalian, the publication fea¬
tures Mast and Dagger tradi¬
tions and activities. The book
contains records of all tappees
since 1927 as well as numerous
pictures.
OMD officers for this Silver
Anniversary have been Mac
Small, president; Miss McKinney,
vice-president; Dallas Peterman,
corresponding secretary; Janet
Fenner, recording secretary; and
Danny Lewis, treasurer.
'Golden Rhapsody*
Prom to Honor
Graduates of *52
“Golden Rhapsody” is the
theme of tonight’s annual gradu¬
ates’ prom to be held in the
Civic Auditorium from 9 to 12
midnight, according to Pete
Kathman, senior class president.
Music will be provided by Car-
roll Wax and his orchestra.
The affair is formal and stu¬
dents .should dress accordingly.
Special invitations will be includ¬
ed in the grads’ diplomas. Bids
are printed in black on little
white cards with a raised frame.
Decoration will be in keeping
with the “Golden Rhapsody”
theme. Phyllis Perry, social af¬
fairs commissioner, and various
other students have planned this
angle of the dance.
Assisting Kathman in prepara¬
tions is Joan Jahnke, president
of the sophomore class. Accord¬
ing to Kathman, the affair is not
being held pointly with Muir this
year. Muir prom will be held in
the Glendale Civic Auditorium
with the theme: “The Lovliest
Night of the Year.”
Student leaders have made
special attempts this semester to
raise funds for the prom. A
white elephant sale was the first
project for this purpose. Special
collection was taken up at the
commencement sing rehearsal
where grads donated a consider¬
able sum.
Nurses Take Part
in Bowl Pageantry
Eighteen students from the
Huntington Memorial Hospital
School of Nursing will partici¬
pate in tonight’s commencement
ceremonies in the Rose Bowl.
The following will receive di¬
plomas: Elizabeth Axtell, Mari¬
lyn Myers, Dora Bevis, Betty
Blackketter, Margot DeVries,
Elska Graswinckel, Gloria Her¬
man, Norma Elliott, Marjorie
Roberts, Liah Spangenberg, Jean¬
ette Traver, Lonna West, Bever¬
ly Williamson and Phoebe Hall.
Huntington Memorial School
of Nursing is affiliated with Pas¬
adena City College in its educa¬
tional program, according to
Miss Emma B. Mundy, chairman
of the PCC Life Science Depart¬
ment.
Incoming ASB Officers
Installed Last Monday
New student officials for fall of ’52 were installed at last
Monday’s semi-annual ASB banquet headed by Andy Castel¬
lano, student body president-elect. The following were initi¬
ated: George Laine, commissioner of public relations; Don
Hanson, Chronicle editor; Bill _
Blankenship, Campus editor;
Glenn Carothers, Handbook edi¬
tor; Kathy Gage, clerk of the
Board; Irene Oates, clerk of the
Cabinet; Lorraine Sechler, com¬
missioner of records; Ann Whit¬
tier, new scholarship executive;
and Anne Lindsay in charge of
social affairs.
Secretaries’ posts were filled as
follows: Marian Franco, art;
Barbara Nicholson, band; Shirley
Smith, drama; Laura Goroni,
English; Rick Dunah, intramur¬
al; Carol Harvey, language; Rob¬
ert Hicks, ROTC; Caroline
Rheinschild, religious; Salvador
Lombardo, music ; Jeanette
Payne, physical science; Nancy
Hammings, radio; and Nancy
Hayes, WAA.
Catherine Durst will handle
fall assemblies; Jeanne Nickell
will head student elections; and
Vincent Perna is in charge of
law enforcement. Marilyn Fer¬
guson is commissioner of health;
Bob Powers, athletics; Jim Bald,
civil service; and Nancy Norberg,
international relations.