PCC Chronicle, March 09, 1949

VoL 45, No. 5 HRON/CLE Pasadena, California March 9, 1949 OMD Ready For 'Coney Carnival Members of Order of Mast and Dagger, PCC’s highest honorary society, have selected “Coney Island in 1890” as the theme for this year’s traditional OMD Carnival. According to Jean Judy, publicity chairman of the event, a miniature train will be featured in the Carnival on May 13, in accordance with the chosen theme. This train will accom modate approximately 48 stu¬ dents. It is complete with four coaches, tender and engine and 500 feet of track. This is the first time in the history of OMD’s Carnival that such a project has been undertaken. Theme Picked from Clubs Theme for this annual event is chosen from suggestions made by the organizations on campus. OMD members make the final decision since they represent al¬ most every group in school. Receipts to be Donated Every PCC organization may sponsor a booth at this event. A percentage of the money earned goes into the club treasury and the rest is given to OMD. Funds raised by OMD at the carnival will be donated to some worthy cause, according to Jacqueline Yelland, president. Among the features of this May’s carnival will be a queen and her attendants, who will be chosen at a later date, and a variety of concessions sponsored by the numerous special interest clubs. Chairmen in charge of the car¬ nival committees are Alice An¬ derson, special events; Carolyn Gerke, contract; Kaky Kratka, booth; Peggy Gilbert, queen com¬ mittee; Jean Judy, publicity; Warren Hill, staging; Betty Bra¬ den, art, and Sam Rowland, clean up committee. Class In Civil Service Offered “Introduction to Government Service,” a revived class offered in the catalog, is invaluable to students interested in civil serv¬ ice,” stated Mr. Vance T. Burch, social science teacher. Mr. Burch conducts the class at twelve o’¬ clock on Tuesdays and Thurs¬ days. Now, almost every job has a counterpart in civil service. This course covers the nature of gov¬ ernment service, federal, state, county and municipal. The class introduces the student to various types of civil service examina¬ tions and explains the fundament¬ als in securing positions. Will Study Locally First on the agenda is the study of Pasadena municipal gov¬ ernment. Following that, the work will include Los Angeles county government, state and federal service. Each Thursday, a speaker from government agen¬ cies addresses the class. On Feb¬ ruary 24, the guests were Dudley N. Lapham and Ruth Jensen, from the personnel office of Pas¬ adena. Alan B. Stauch, from the Civil Service office of Los An¬ geles spoke to the class, March 3. No Books Here! The class uses no text, but re¬ lies on current material. Upon the suggestion of students, Mr. Burch will discuss a subject more thoroughly. The class is adapted to the interests of students. Jobs available for high school graduates or the junior college student are basically the same. Civil service jobs include police work, firemen, forestry service, office workers and others. Pete Daily's Combo Featured In Dixieland Jazz Concert Pete Daily and his Chicagoans will present a concert of dixieland jazz in assembly, Fri¬ day, John Evans, director of the show, announced today. Daily has one of the oldest existing bands of this kind in the country and it is consid¬ ered one of the best. In his combo of four will be featured Rosey McHarque, clarinet player; Warren Smith, trombonist; George Defebaugh, drummer, and Skippy Anderson, pianist. Daily himself plays a battered-looking comet. The combo specializes in the “Chicago” type of jazz. Beggs, Bowen, Moller, Shaw, Butler Victorious In Minor Class Run-offs Outcome of the final Minor class and Associated Women Students election last Wed¬ nesday was revealed by Herb Blasier, comissioner of elections. Robert Beggs with 18 votes more than his opponent, Kris Johannesen, was elected Soph¬ omore vice-president. Also in the Sophomore Class, Barbara Bowen with 87 tallies to Arden Webb’s 69 won the position of class secretary. Fred Moller defeated Bill Jones by a margin of 20 votes to become treasurer Problems Pondered As JC Reps Gather For Regional Conference Last Friday, a regional conference of student body rep¬ resentatives of Southern California junior colleges was held at El Camino Junior College. Among the junior college rep¬ resentatives from the southern part of the state were mem¬ bers of the Pasadena City College ASB Board. The conference started at 11:00 a.m., lasting until 4:00 p.m. Approximately seventy-five students were present. Bob Wright, a former student body president of El Camino Junior College, presided over the dele¬ gates at the conference. The problem of how to get more stu¬ dents to vote at student body elections was discussed. The pos¬ sibility of obtaining a train for transportation to the state junior college conference at Santa Rosa on March 31 was also taken up. Also the questions to be brought up at the state junior college con¬ ference were decided upon. At the future conference at Santa Rosa, there will be representa¬ tives from junior colleges from the entire state of California. Nearly every year, PCC is giv¬ en the job of being treasurer at the regional conference. Last Friday, Jim Sullivan, PCC’s com¬ missioner of finance, held the position of treasurer and gave a finance report. ASB Board members attending from PCC were ASB president. Ted Todd; ASB vice-president Shirley Barnes; AMS president Fred Jahnke; AWS president Barbara Lafot; Senior Class pres ident, Morrie Wakefield; Fresh man Class president, Dick Streep er; clerk of the Board, Pat Clark representatives at large, Eddie LeGrand, Patsy Lynn and Jack Smith, and commissioner of fin¬ ance, Jim Sullivan. Local Radio Men Named Judges For Script Fest Judges for the KWKW Script Writing Contest have been select¬ ed, Mr. Lowell Barker, radio in¬ structor, announced recently. Eddie Albright, KWKW pro¬ gram director, who is known for the feature stories he presents on that station every evening from Monday through Friday, is chair¬ man of the judging committee. Crowell Beech, local announcer, and Bob Wilson, station sports editor, are the additional mem¬ bers of the three man committee. Sponsored by Mr. William Bea¬ ton, KWKW station manager, the script writing contest is open to Pasadena City College students who are enrolled for at least 12 units of school work. Tuesday to be Deadline Deadline for all contest entries is 3 o’clock on Tuesday, March 15. Scripts must be radio dramas,, light or serious, timed to play 14 minutes and 30 seconds or 29 and one-half minutes. Scripts may be submitted to Mr. Barker, Miss Virginia Barrus, Mr. Frank Hammond, instructors, or Arlette Barnes, student chairman. Contest Rules Rigid Production rights for all en¬ tries will be retained by the col¬ lege. Scripts should not have appeared in print nor have been produced on the radio elsewhere nor have been accepted for off-" campus use before entry in the contest. Entries must bear a title and pen name only of the contestant and the script should be accom¬ panied by a large manila enve-* lope upon which is placed the title and pen name of the writer. Enclosed in this envelope should be a paper on which is printed the title, pen name, contestant’s real name, address and telephone number. Winning script will be present¬ ed on station KWKW by the radio classes. Author of the entry will receive the KWKW trophy award. 'Soph Soap's' First Issue To Hit Stands Tomorrow This semester’s first issue of Soph Soap, Sophomore Class newspaper, will be released to¬ morrow. This issue of Soph Soap will be devoted to the new Sophomore Class officers. It will also feature many of the outstanding mem¬ bers of the Soph Class of 1949. A summary of the Bullpup bas¬ ketball season will appear on the sports page along with an article about this season’s track pros¬ pects. New Soph Soap staff includes Karen Byl, editor; Anne Jensen, assistant editor; Wally Calvert, sports editor; Tom Smith and Joan Bushman, reporters. of the Sophomores. Shaw New Frosh VP Kirby Shaw with 197 votes de¬ feated Mac Small with 34 for the Frosh Class vice-presidency. Pat Butler was victorious in the run¬ off for Freshman secretary when she received 109 tallies to Mary Anthony’s 84. David Tomkins de¬ feated Carole Leopold by a mar¬ gin of 53 votes to become class treasurer. Only run-offs scheduled were in the two lower division classes. Upper division minor class offic¬ ers were elected in the primaries of February 25. Class Offices Filled Roberta Fifer was chosen sen¬ ior vice-president while Tom Dil¬ lon became Senior Class treasur¬ er. In the Junior Class, Gordon Pickett copped the Junior Class vice-presidency. Georgia Ingram and Janice Doty, both unopposed in the primaries, were automatic¬ ally elected Junior secretary and treasurer respectively. According to the commissioner of elections, approximately 500 students voted in the primaries and not more than 400 went to the polls last Wednesday. Memorial Court Dedication Set Dedication day for the War Memorial Court has been set for May 27. The court, which is be¬ ing erected as a tribute to those students of Pasadena City Col¬ lege who lost their lives in World War H, is expected to be complet¬ ed by this date. Conceived by Dick Gray while Senior Class president, plans for the project were carried out by the first War Memorial Commit¬ tee. This committee consisted of the class presidents Harry Mont¬ gomery, Freshman; Ted Todd, Sophomore; and Kaky Kratka, Junior. Construction is now being pushed forward by a new Memor¬ ial Committee consisting of, as before, the class presidents, un¬ der the chairmanship of Morrie Wakefield. Financing the Memorial was promoted by various class proj¬ ects; the War Memorial benefit show, the Gobble Hobble, and other dances. Many school or¬ ganizations gave the proceeds of their activities to the fund. The original plan was drawn up by Dick Gray and approved by the School Board and the Stu¬ dent Body Board. Ground break¬ ing ceremonies were held on March 16, 1948. Ground was broken by Dr. John W. Harbe- soi>, principal of Pasadena City College. Two years ago, Daily came out to the coast from Chicago to open at a Hollywood club. Since then, he and his aggregation have be¬ come connected with Capitol rec¬ ords. Two of his most successful recording:? are “I Want to Lin¬ ger” and “When the War Breaks Out in Mexico, I’ll be Headed Back to Montreal.” The reverse side of the latter features the band’s trombonist in “Circus Slide.” According to John Evans, the Capitol recording company is helping to stage Friday’s assem¬ bly. During the program, members of the combo will play all of their recordings and in the latter part of the hour will accept requests for numbers from the audience. A number of free records by the Dixielanders , autographed by Pete Daily, will be distributed to persons possessing lucky num¬ bers. Mr. Evans as master of ceremonies will award the plat¬ ters. As an additional feature of the assembly, another student will be given an opportunity to name the “Campus Mystery Melody.” Prizes for the winning contestant include a book of bus tickets or its equivalent in money, a week of free lunches, a pen and pencil set, a portrait, any souvenir from the student store representing PCC and five free cokes. Each week another award will be add¬ ed to the pile until someone guesses the right name of the melody. So far three students have had a chance to guess its title. Tryouts For Hi-Liters To Be Held Tomorrow Hi-Liters talent tryouts will be held today in room 200C from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., according to Sam Rowland, president of this PCC entertainment group. Semester tryouts are sponsored by Hi-Liters in order to find new talent for use in service camp and hospital shows as well as for entertainment on the cam¬ pus! This semester Hi-Liters are looking for unique specialty num¬ bers, such as comedy routines, duo acts and vocal-dance combin¬ ations. “If you are interested in any phase of show business, you should come to the tryouts,” stat¬ ed Sam Rowland. “Hi-Liters are looking for writers, directors and students who specialize in the production end of the show as well as on-stage performers.” Recently elected officers of the group are Sam Rowland, presi¬ dent; Jerry Shup and Dick Smith, co-vice-presidents; Norman Bolo- gnesi, treasurer; Virginia Bow¬ er, recording secretary; Ruth Tennery and Gloria Bauman, cor¬ responding secretaries ; Stuart В a s q u i n, transportation chair¬ man; and Gray don Jones, pub¬ licity. Mr. Roy Beaumont, Eng¬ lish instructor, is faculty adviser.