PCC Chronicle, June 17, 1953

OMD Tapping Ritual Honors 25 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