Vol. 43, No. 5 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, .California March 10, 1948
Set Ground Breaking Ceremonies
Next Week For Memorial Court
Pictured are plans for the War Memorial Court which is to
be constructed soon. Ground breaking ceremonies are Tuesday.
Shown rehearsing for “Pleasure Time,” new radio show, 1
are Mary Lou West, vocalist, and Morrie Wakefield, announcer.
The show will be aired over KXLA.
'Pleasure Time', New Radio Show
Is Inaugurated Sunday Afternoon
Receiving praise and congratulatory statements from fac¬
ulty members, Pasadena City College’s radio department’s
newest venture, Pleasure Time, will have its initial airing
Sunday afternoon, March 14, at 2 p. m. over KXLA.
Directed by Fred Dawson and assisted by Ruth Woodrum,
under the supervision of radio instructor Lowell Barker, this
Official groundbreaking
ceremonies for the War Mem¬
orial Court will get underway
at noon, March 16, with rep¬
resentatives from the board
of city directors, veterans or¬
ganizations, members of the
board of education and stu¬
dent body officers present.
Lewis K. Gough, commander of
18th District of the Legion and a
World War II veteran has been
extended the guest speaker spot.
Other notables receiving invita¬
tions to the ceremony include:
Vernon Brydolf, president, board
of education; Dr. John A. Sex-
son, superintendent of schools;
Charles Hamill, chairman of the
city board of directors; Dr.
George H. Meredith, deputy su¬
perintendent; Drummond Me-
Cunn, assistant superintendent of
schools, and Robert McCurdy,
acting city manager.
Situated north of the women’s
gym and west of the new cafe¬
teria the court site will have
tables and benches, to be used by
students for extra-curricular ac¬
tivities and for studying. In the
north garden will be four trees
representing the Four Freedoms.
A plaque centered in the cir¬
cular garden will bear the legend:
“In Commemoration of the 268
Pasadena City College Students
who gave their lives in World
War II.”
Dr. John W. Harbeson, PCC
principal, will make the first ex¬
cavation of the land with a bull¬
dozer. All students with 12 o’¬
clock free are urged to form on
the steps of the C building and
march with the Bulldog Band to
the site of the memorial for the
formal ceremony.
The original war memorial
plan was designed by ASB prexy
Dick Gray and the plans were
drawn by PCC student Jim Haw¬
kins. Funds to carry out this
project were raised by the stu¬
dents through the sponsoring of
numerous plays and programs
on campus.
Chron Staff to Attend
(JSC Newspaper Day
Members of the Chronicle staff
will attend the annual Newspaper
Day, March 20, sponsored by the
USC journalism department for
high school and junior college
journalists.
Staff members from PCC at¬
tending the meet are Jim Blake
and Betty Gilmore, co-editors, Bob
Butner, city editor, Ted Todd,
sports editor, and Ted Blake, bus¬
iness manager. Mildred Poorman,
Chronicle adviser, will accomp¬
any the group.
Students Compete On
Radio Traffic Quiz
Through the cooperation of the
local Police Department, students
of Muir College and Pasadena
City College now serve as con¬
testants on a series of radio quiz
programs dealing with problems
and control of automobile traffic.
The show is being aired over ra¬
dio station KWKW every Friday
morning at 11 o’clock.
At PCC, selection of students
who are to participate in the pro¬
grams, publicity, and other de¬
tails is handled as a Junior Class
activity directed by class presi¬
dent Bud Lorbeer in conjunction
with the Press Bureau, and Bill
Gibson, senior class president. To
date those students sent to the
program from PCC have proven
themselves to have a greater
knowledge of the road than their
rivals from Muir. Prizes award¬
ed each week to the most learn¬
ed contestants are in the form
of auto lube jobs. In addition,
each entrant receives a pair of
show tickets for his efforts.
Several opportunities still re¬
main open for students to become
contestants on future shows.
Anyone interested in appearing
on the Police Quiz may contact
Bud Lorbeer or Bill Gibson in
room 21C.
Seek Successor For
Dr. John A. Sexson
Seeking an educator to succeed
Dr. John A. Sexson as superin¬
tendent of Pasadena City Schools,
four members of the Board of
Education, recently went to At¬
lantic City in order to interview
prospective candidates.
Eight men have been consider¬
ed thus far, with two more Cali¬
fornians still to be interviewed
after which the board will dis¬
cuss and weigh the qualifications
of each individual candidate.
“We interviewed some the best
men in the country on our trip
and several of them impressed
us very much,” said Vernon M.
Brydolf, president of the Board
of Education. “We were partic¬
ularly impressed with the inter¬
est all of them showed in the
Pasadena superintendency. It
was a high tribute to the nation¬
wide reputation the Pasadena
school system has attained under
Dr. Sexson’s guidance. All of the
candidates, and they were some
of the nation’s finest educators,
showed an eager interest in the
appointment. I am sure we are
going to be able to get a high
class superintendent to fill Dr.
Sexson’s place.”
Geology Classes
Slate Trip For
Easter Week
Final plans were completed to¬
day for the 1000-mile geology ex¬
cursion to mining districts in
eastern California, southern Ne¬
vada and northwestern Arizona
on March 22-26, Edwin Van Am-
ringe, geology instructor dis¬
closed.
Restricting attendance to pres¬
ent and past geology students
and their families the sojourn
will highlight stop-overs at Red
Rock, Valley of Fire and a tour
through Hoover Dam.
To View Ghost Town
The Tennessee-Schulkill mill
and turquoise mines at Mineral
Park have been mapped as a stop¬
over, while the old mining town
of Searchlights and the White
Hills ghost town are other events
slated on the agenda.
Hikes are scheduled to the Cop¬
per World and Dewey Mines, and
mine exploration, mineral and
fossil collecting will be made at
Goodsprings. Camp sites are to
be located at Lake Mead and Col¬
orado River.
Equipment Listed
Each person, is expected to car¬
ry a canteen, flashlight, knap¬
sack, prospector’s pick, extra
clothing, boots and sleeping bag
with extra blanket.
Drivers of cars should take a.
large water container, gasoline
cook stove, utensils, lantern, shov¬
el, tools and camp-fire wood.
Student Caravan
An estimated 200 students and
a 38-car caravan is anticipated to
make this fourteenth annual ge¬
ology excursion.
Last year’s Easter vacation trip
was made to Death Valley where
students viewed the ghost towns
of Rhyolite, Bullfrog and Skidoo,
the old Harmony Borax works,
and the grave of Shorty Harris.
Dr. Dodd To Speak
At Tuesday Forum
Dr. Paul Dodd, director of the
Institute of Industrial Relations,
University of California, will be
speaker at the Tuesday Evening
Forum, March 16, at 8 p.m. in
Sexson Auditorium.
Dr. Dodd will have as his top¬
ic Current Issues of Labor Man¬
agement Relation.
Dr. Dodd, who has an excellent
background in economic and in¬
dustrial relations, was appointed
this autumn by the president, as
new half-hour weekly show will
be announced by Morrie Wake¬
field and will feature the singing
talents of Mary Lou West, and
Bob McBurney, with the music
of Danny McIntosh and his or¬
chestra. Also, ■ there will be a
short skit dramatizing the life of
the imaginary “Fairbanks Fami¬
ly,” with a cast of Dave Ayling,
Irwin Fuller, Floy Palmer and
Kathleen Welsh.
Pleasure Time, written by Jim
Casey and Bob Butner, will be
recorded each Wednesday even¬
ing for the scheduled Sunday
broadcast. Telling of the many
problems encountered since the
birth of the program idea more
than eight Weeks ago, director
Fred Dawson expressed confi¬
dence that the air show would be
well received. “Both the produc¬
tion staff and the cast have work¬
ed hard to make Pleasure Time
a program which will be a credit
to the radio department and to
one of the three nationally known
experts on industrial relations to
establish a board of conduct
hearings and make a plan for the
settlement of the railroad strikes
on the Pacific Coast.
PCC,” he stated.
A regular weekly feature of
this new college radio show, will
be the presentation of a guest
star. Scheduled for this Sunday’s
broadcast is Johnny Braislin,
singer-guitarist, who recently ap¬
peared on a series of radio pro¬
grams devoted to the develdp-
ment of the ballad. Sound tech¬
nician for the Pleasure Time
show is Tom Dillon, with Bar¬
bara Carden in charge of down¬
town publicity.
“The program, ‘Pleasure
Time,’ is one which I hope , that
everyone will hear who finds it
possible to do. The music will
be of extraordinarily high char¬
acter, and the narrative will be
both interesting and entertaining.
A very fine philosophy underlies
the entire thread of the narra¬
tive. It is gratifying to me to see
such a high class production em¬
anate from the students of our
radio classes.”
— Dr. John W. Harbeson
“Congratulations upon Pleas¬
ure Time. The script and accomp¬
anying entertainment constitute
an excellent show. We are proud
of you Jim, Bob, Fred, Ruth and
Mr. Barker, too, for this splendid
new campus program.”
— Dean Robbins
“The radio department of Pas¬
adena City College is setting a
very high standard with the pro¬
ductions which they are present¬
ing to their ever-increasing radio
audience. This latest effort,
“Pleasure Time,” promises to
reach a new excellence of per¬
formance. After reading the
script, I am certain that “Plea¬
sure Time” is quite an adequate,
as well as an accurate name for
the program.”
— Dick Gray
“I am certainly for the idea. It
is a great step since PJC made
its first aluminum recordings of
student talent twelve years ago.
You must have near a profession¬
al standard in your first program.
I am glad you are attempting to
get into ‘big-time’.”.
— Dean Stong
“I feel that the script is most
refreshing. It is a true-to-life
picture of a typical American
home of today. I sincerely be¬
lieve that you have the makings
for future development, of a very
clever show.”
— Dorothy Dixon
Disc jockeys Cooper and Hawthorne as they appeared before
the Red Cross assembly recently.
