PCC Chronicle
VOL. 55, NO. 16 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA JUNE 16, 1954
Sthool’s Highest Honor Goes
to fop Students in Assembly
Pasadena City College bestowed its highest honor upon 24 outstanding students and four
deserving faculty members this morning when the 28 persons were tapped into the Order of
Mast and Dagger, highest honorary organization on the campus. Students tapped and their rec¬
ords of service to the school are
as follows:
Roger Samuelsen: President of
Freshman and Sophomore Class¬
es, member of Key Club, Frosh
Camp, Pup Commission, Boys’
State, “B” basketball, Youth Day
chairman, Pal, PTA representa¬
tive.
Kay Cushman: Member of the
Chronicle and Campus staffs,
Handbook editor, English Coun¬
cil president, member of Beta Phi
Gamma, Spartans, Pal.
Jack Beavers: Member of Bull¬
dog Band, stage tech, backstage
work on all student productions
and assemblies as well as OMD
carnivals, Delta Psi Omega.
Peter Newton: Lt. Col, ROTC,
many ROTC duties, AMS, Key
Club, football.
Shirley Simpson: Ostiarian
president, Social Science Council
president, pal, dramatics, mem¬
ber of Language Council, Spar¬
tans, Delta Psi Omega.
Dick Patterson: President of
FBLA, Lancer, elections commis¬
sion, Youth Day, Key Club, sec¬
retary of business.
Delbert Elliott: Frosh Class
Council, Sophomore Class Coun¬
cil, Junior Class Council, CSF,
Language Council, Boys’ State,
Key Club, Finance Committee,
Steering Committee, Caduceus
Club, Administrative Honors.
Stan Calhoun: Appeared in
many plays, program director of
radio studio, Delta Psi Omega
president, member of Theta Rho
Pi, baseball, team, Bullpup Letter-
man’s Club, lower division de¬
bate team, English Council, disc
jockey.
Sue Cole: President of Kantela,
Order of Magnitude, member of
Spartans, Zeta Gamma Phi, Art
Council, Music Council, Madri¬
gals, A Cappella Choir, faculty
honors in Math and Art Depart¬
ments.
Glen Carothers: Editor of 1954
Campus, president of Beta Phi
Gamma, Handbook editor, com¬
missioner of publications, AMS,
Key Club, Frosh Camp, Senior
Class Council, Sigma Tau Delta,
California Junior College AMS
Convention.
Margaret Farrow: Library as¬
sistant, pal, work in bank, Kan¬
tela, Anatolians, Spartans, Youth
Day, Student Organizations Coun¬
cil, president of Omicron Alpha.
Lee Conover: Bullpup track,
football, letter club, chief radio
engineer, QSO, Theta Rho Pi
president, outside radio shows,
Senior Class Council, senior
award.
Jameanne Duncan: Women’s
sports, WAA, president of Wo¬
men’s Letter Club, Student Or¬
ganizations Council, Steering
Committee.
Douglas Hope: Sports editor of
Chronicle, Campus, Athletics
Press Bureau, Huddle Editor, Key
Club, Lancers, Beta Phi Gamma.
Betty Palmer: Pal, foreign stu¬
dents tutoring, library assistant,
AGS, International Relations
Club, Language Council, Spar¬
tans, Model UN, WAA, gym as¬
sistant.
Ted James: Men’s Council, Key
Club, Lancer, WSSF, foreign stu¬
dent tutor, track team, SCA,
AGS, Voltairs, AMS Board.
Phil Bauman: President of
ASB, PCC-Muir Steering Commit¬
tee, Key Club, debate, President
of Hi-liters, Men’s Council.
Buss Knight: Work on two
OMD carnivals, stage tech, work
on numerous student productions,
Delta Psi Omega.
Phil Pruitt: Euterpean accom¬
panist, Bulldog Band, Hi-liters,
Pep Band, many outside shows
as well as on campus, winner of
J. Herbert Hall band award.
Mary Pennington: Press Bur¬
eau, commissioner of public re¬
lations, Spartans, Beta Phi Gam¬
ma, CSF, Frosh Camp newspaper,
Sigma Tau .Delta, winner of 1954
Pasadena Historical Society Es¬
say Contest, English Department
Honors Extraordinary.
Christopher Tam.be: Dramatics,
Key Club, Delta Psi Omega, The¬
ta Rho Pi, assemblies commis¬
sioner, AMS, radio student direc¬
tor, Senior Class president.
Nancy Cline: Chronicle editor,
A Cappella Choir, Beta Phi Gam¬
ma, Spartans, English Council.
Lillian Tomich: Debate squad,
forensics, Phi Rho Pi, Women’s
Council, Spartan, national debate
champion.
Ladd Thomas: President of Eu-
terpeans, organist and pianist for
many campus events, Kantela
Club, Lancer, English Council, Hi-
liters, CSF, winner of many out¬
standing music and scholarship
awards.
In addition to citing outstand¬
ing students, the Order of Mast:
and Dagger each year recognizes;
members of the faculty that have
Top Administrators
Awarded Passes
At this morning’s assembly,
life passes to all Pasadena City
College events were awarded to
four top members of the admin¬
istrative staff by the Associated
Student Body Board of Represen¬
tatives.
The passes went to Dr. William
B. Langsdorf, principal; Dr.
Catherine J. Robbins, assistant
principal; Robert Haugh, dean
of student activities; and Earl W.
Holder, business assistant. The
awards were a token of the ap¬
preciation of the excellent ad-
visership and thoughtful guidance
expressed by the administrators
during the past years.
Presenting the awards on be¬
half of the Associated Student
Body were Sylvia Pauloo, vice
president, and Phil Bauman, pres¬
ident.
Les Brown Combo
Sparks Assembly
Entertainment at the annual
Order of Mast and Dagger June
Show was provided this morn¬
ing by a combo from Les Brown’s
“Band of Renown.”
On hand from the famous re¬
cording and public appearance
dance band were Joe Ann Grier,
Butch Stone, Stumpy Brown and
Ray Simms. The well-known in¬
strumental group provided the
music on Bob Hope’s radio show
for many years, and have made
many public appearances, includ¬
ing the Pasadena Civic Audito¬
rium.
served the school beyond their
required duties. Four instructors
have been selected for honorary
OMD membership this year.
John Ehlen: adviser to Zeta
Gamma Phi, supervisor of many
art shows, adviser on student
floral arrangements, steering com¬
mittee coordinator, adviser to as¬
sembly commission.
Frank Hammond: Hi-liters, as¬
sembly, awards committee, many
Hi-liter and assembly appear¬
ances, faculty shows, honor and
scholarship committee.
Bob van der Veen: Outstanding
contributions in time and effort
for nine years in connection with
the PCC printshop, in charge of
everything that pertains to ASB
printing.
Miss Rosalie Wismar: Former
counselor, scholarship and soci¬
eties committee, Language Coun¬
cil adviser, Faculty Women’s
Club, Frosh Camp staff, Phi Beta
Kappa, Roman banquet, Faculty
Show.
Chronicle Bows Out
With this issue, the Pasadena City College Chron¬
icle winds up 89 years of continuous publication on this
campus, one of the oldest traditions and activities of
the college. A new newspaper will serve the new two-
year junior college when it opens here next fall, with
George D. Morlan, Chronicle associate editor, as editor-
in chief.
Tomich Farrow Cushman
Tam be
Elliott
Carothers
Newton
Conover
Thomas
Bauman
Pruit
Simpson
Palmer
Pennington
Cole
Patterson
James
Hope
Knight
Duncan
Calhoun
Ehlen
Wismar
Hammond
van der Veen
