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PCC Chronicle
Rebs Beat
Hot Rhythm
Visiting Rebels Pete Daily and
his Chicagoans shook Sexson
Vol. 53, No. 16 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, Calif. June 17, 1953 Auditorium with some hot ren-
- — — - — - ' ditions from south of the Ohio
at the annual Order of Mast and
Dagger June Show this morning.
Before Daily set their feet tap¬
ping out a quick-tempo rhythm,
the students watched the formal
OMD tapping ceremony in which
several honored students were
cited for membership in the high¬
est honorary organization on
campus. Also presented on the
program were the Harbeson
Scholarships.
Grant Highest PCC Tribute
to Top Students, Teachers
Twenty-three students and two faculty members were tapped this morning into the high¬
est honorary organization at Pasadena City College, the Order of Mast and Dagger. The tap¬
ping list represents approximately one-half of one per cent, of the total PCC enrollment.
Coincidentally, at John Muir College’s ceremony earlier this week the Order of Distinguished
Service tapped seven new mem- —
bers, only a fraction less than
one-half of one per cent of that
campus’ enrollment, 1800.
New OMD members and high¬
lights of their service are as fol¬
lows:
Judith Bath — Pep, health and
international relations commis¬
sions; health commissioner; sen¬
ior, junior and Triton councils;
WSSF drive chairman, Spartan
merit commissioner and carnival
booth chairman.
Bill Blankenship — Athletics
Press Bureau, Campus staff for
three years: sports editor, 1952;
Editor in chief, 1953; Beta Phi
Gamma treasurer and president,
Lancers, Key Club, Sigma Tau
• Delta.
Janice Carwin — Junior class
secretary, Kantela, Music Coun¬
cil, Ostiarians, AWS cabinet, pep,
notifications, health, Pup, social
affairs, records and elections com¬
missions, Nysaeans, A Cappella,
Spartan.
Don Caufleld— Stage tech work
on many shows, announcer for
“Homework,” six hours per week
as radio script writer, Stage Tech
director for 1952, Silver Screen,
Hi -liter, Delta Psi Omega.
Jack Christopher — CSF presi¬
dent and treasurer, 178 hours as
director of language tutoring
service, Language Council, Lan¬
cer secretary, junior class trea¬
surer, Argonauts, AGS president
and treasurer.
Joan Fulton — Chronicle: Edi¬
tor, City, Feature, Associate and
page editors, Rooter’s Club, AWS
cabinet, pep, pup, civil service
and elections commissions, Beta
Phi Gamma secretary, English
Council.
Kathy Gage — Debate squad,
Bulldog Band, band council, or¬
chestra president and vice-presi¬
dent, elections commission, clerk
of the board, secretary of band,
Sigma Tau Delta, Phi Rho Pi sec¬
retary, Kantela.
Bob Hacknxann — Commissioner
of elections, Aero-tech (four se¬
mesters), Aero-tech president, se¬
nior class vice-president, Key
Club treasurer, pep commission,
AMS board, civil service and elec¬
tions commissions.
Alice Hallstrom — Library work
(six semesters), Library council
president, CSF vice-president and
secretary, tutoring, Spartan vice-
president, AGS president, Fabiol-
• ans, Anatolians.
Joan Jahnke — AWS president
and first vice-president, sopho¬
more class president, rep at large,
freshman and junior class coun¬
cils, pup commission, Frosh
Camp vice-chairman, WAA, Spar¬
tan.
Lois Johnson — Delta Psi Ome¬
ga president, Spartan, Players’
Guild, Elizabeth Keppie Memori¬
al Contest, work on many shows,
one-act play and assemblies di¬
rector.
Joanne Lindsey — Tutoring, Lan¬
guage Council as secretary, trea¬
surer and chairman of the French
section, student librarian (four
semesters, three to five hours per
week), Spartan treasurer, Eng¬
lish Council.
Annette Manaugh — Radio pro¬
gram director, receptionist, publi¬
city and workshop, Spartan, Play¬
ers' Guild president, Theta Rho
Pi vice-president, Shakespeare
and poetry contests, Delta Psi
Omega, many shows.
Rick Neumann — Commissioner
of public relations, "Collegiate
Cavalcade,” Key Club board of
directors, co-chairman of Youth
Day, English Department TV
show and movie, publicity direc¬
tor of radio studios.
Jeanette Payne— Over 250 hours
of work in Ostiarians, Ostiarian
president, WAA, secretary of phy¬
sical science, clerk of the cabinet,
Women’s Letter Club vice-presi¬
dent, Spartan.
Kay Kisser— Student body vice-
president, language and foreign
student tutoring, Youth Day as¬
sistant, AWS cabinet, commis¬
sioner of scholarship, Players’
Guild, Spartan merit commission¬
er and treasurer.
Ann Robinson — Instrumental
ensemble, Kantela president, mu¬
sic council, Spartan, secretary of
music, Campus Artist Series di¬
rector, cello trio, string ensemble
vice-president, orchestra.
Betty Rodda— Choraliers, Eng¬
lish Council, A Cappella (five se¬
mesters), debate, secretary of for¬
ensics, Nysaean president, Kan¬
tela secretary, Madrigal presi¬
dent, Anatolians, ushering.
Barbara Slick— President of the
1951 class at the Huntington Me¬
morial Hospital-Pasadena City
College School of Nursing, com¬
mittee chairman and president of
the Southern California Student
Nurses Association, Southern Cal¬
ifornia representative to the na¬
tional student nurses convention.
Shirley Smith — Omicron Alpha
vice-president and president, Osti¬
arians, library work, Anatolians,
Players’ Guild treasurer, Spartan,
Delta Psi Omega president, sec¬
retary of drama, work on many
shows.
Tom Smith — AMS president,
secretary and treasurer, Campus
business manager and sports edi¬
tor, Key Club, Frosh Camp as¬
sistant director, Argonauts, Lan¬
cers, commissioner of organiza¬
tions, athletic commission.
Jane Terzian — Art Service Or¬
ganization, Art Council president
and secretary, Zeta Gamma Phi
secretary and president, Campus
art editor, secretary of art, Spar¬
tan.
Pomp, Ceremony Set
64th Graduation
Pasadena’s famed Rose Bowl will again serve as the
setting for the pomp and pageantry that traditionally high¬
lights the secondary schools’ commencement program on June
18 at 6:45 p.m. According to Miss Lorrayne E. Calkins and
Miss Catherine J. Robbins,
co-
chairman of the Pasadena City
Schools Commencement Commit¬
tee, the sixty-fourth annual grad¬
uation exercises will mark an¬
other milestone in the formal ed¬
ucation of the 3652 students grad¬
uating from the two junior col¬
leges, the seven junior high
schools, and the Huntington Hos¬
pital School of Nursing.
Dr. Frank Scott, pastor of All
Saints Episcopal Church in Pasa¬
dena, will offer the invocation.
H. Leland Green, supervisor of
music in the Pasadena City
Schools, will direct the gradua¬
tion music.
Preceded by brief addresses by
Superintendent of Schools Stuart
F. McComb and Board President
Vernon M. Brydolf, the two col¬
lege valedictorians, Robert B.
Amelunxen of John Muir Col¬
lege and Jack O. Christopher of
Pasadena City College, will
speak. The presidents of the
graduating classes will also have
a part in the program, which will
• Continued on Page Three
A wards Retounted by
Departmental Gains
Pasadena City College stopped to recount its gains during the
last few weeks as the various departments presented awards to
graduating students who had excelled in various fields. Many groups
held outside parties or teas to honor the recipients.
Honors extraordinary, made by the Art Department faculty, went
to Jane Terzian, Gene Farnsworth and Marion Franco. Art Center
School presented scholarships, worth up to $2160 each, to Howard
Miller (industrial design), Robert Pitchford (industrial design) and
June Otani. Scholarships from the Chouinard Art Institute went to
Ruth Wood and Jean Klafs.
Grants from the Ruth Estes Bissiri Memorial Scholarship Fund
were made by the Art Department to Milton Gene Farnsworth,
Beatrice Jane Terzian, Yoko Hirohata, Toshi Takada, Flora Wood-
bridge, Wallace Wayne Woods, Frank Anthony Mediate, Dana Lou
Tharp and Mrs. Carol Elmore Kipling.
Honoring their graduates at the annual English Honors Tea,
PCOs’ Department of English topped the list in number of awards
made. Many recipients cannot be named because of lack of space.
PCC’s talent group, the Hi-liters, presented the first Jerry Shup
Memorial Award to Kathy McKinney. The Bank of America Achieve¬
ment Award in English went to Shirley Ann Nivens. Mary Joanne
Lindsey received the award made by the Browning Society, while
monetary awards for service and scholarship went to Everett Harri¬
son, Don Hanson, Lois Johnson and Bill Blankenship.
Books from the Goethe Club went to James Harrison, Mildred
Sarason and Lorraine Sechler at the Language Department’s awards
• Continued on Page Three
Anne Whittier — Commissioner
of scholarship, English Council
president, international relations
and elections commissions, WS¬
SF, CSF president, vice-president
and secretary, AWS board and
cabinet, tutoring, Spartan trea¬
surer.
William P. Buttier— English in¬
structor, Press Bureau adviser,
journalism open house and con¬
test, chairman of faculty publici¬
ty, publicity chairman for Com¬
munications Fair and Transpor¬
tation Fair.
Donald Liercke — Radio, speech
and drama instructor, adviser to
pep commission, Theta Rho Pi,
Players’ Guild and Delta Psi
Omega, Crafty Hall 1953 script,
student play director, Davis-Hall
coach.
Tom Smith
Rick
Neumann
Joan Jahnke
Kay Risser
Blankenship
Payne Bill
Jeanette
Lois Johnson
Shirley Smith
Ann Robinson
Juidth
Bath
Joanne Lindsey Jack Christopher Janice Carwin
Don Caufield
Alice Hallstrom
Kathy Gage
Barbara Slick
William Buttier