PCC Chronicle, March 14, 1951

О. bi CONTEST APPROACHES \ 9 I 1 e Q Г e e s 1 it i Le i- i. i- У :o it Skiers to Present Films on Yosemite To Help Finance State Junior Team Free movies will be shown in the John Marshall Junior High School Auditorium on Tuesday, March 14, at 8 p.m. The pro¬ gram is co-sponsored by the PCC Ski Club and the Pasadena Ski Club and is underwritten by the Southern Council of the Far West Ski Association. “Doc” Howard’s “Ski Three” and pictures taken in Yosemite will be shown. The “hat will be passed” and any contributions will be used to support the California State Ju¬ nior Team, which will race in the American Legion Western States Championships at Sun Val¬ ley on March 31 and April 1. Reps from Western Colleges To Trek Here for Invitational Students from major universities all over the West will gather on the Pasadena City College campus for the Pasadena Invitational Speech Tournament this weekend according to Paul W. Smith, local speech instructor. Pasadena Nazarene College will be the site of two debates on Thursday evening. On Friday, representatives will trek to PCC to partici¬ pate in many types of oratory. Topic of the debate question is: “Resolved that the non-com- Vol. 49, No. 7 Pasadena, California March 14, 1951 Play Roles To Be Filled Casting for the Little Theater production “Clarence” started this week. Tryouts will be held today in the Little Theater, 30C, at 3:30 p.m. Donald Liercke is the faculty adviser for the Booth Tarkington comedy to be pre¬ sented in May, as part of the Or¬ der of Mast and Dagger Spring Carnival. Many parts are open to stu¬ dents and they are urged to try¬ out. Requirements for the annual Shakespeare Contest to be held on April 12 in the Little Theater were also recently announced. Upper division students compete in the Frederick Arthur Smith Memorial Contest and lower di¬ vision in the Ruth Doolittle Me¬ morial Contest, according to Miss Katharine Kester. Students may choose a scene from any play by Shakespeare, 29 to 30 lines long, and give an interpretatio’n with a sense of character and fidelity to feeling. A 50-word introduction must pref¬ ace the scene. P-TA Meet Offers BIG TALK . . . is the topic of concern for the three collegi¬ ans gathered around the speaker’s stand. (Left to right) : Jo¬ anne Climes, Dorothy Herrmann and Dick Norwood are a few of the many speech students from Pasadena City College who will display their oratorical talents in the Invitational Speech Tour¬ nament to be held on the local campus Friday and Saturday. munist nations should form a new international organization.” “The Welfare State” is the subject for extemporaneous speaking. Those taking part in impromptu will speak on editor¬ ials based on the opinion of the New York Times for the month of February. Those participating in original oratory have their choice of a subject. The oration must be the original work of the student and must not contain more than 100 words of quoted material. Topic for discussion is: “What should be the responsibility of the Federal Government for the welfare of the people of the United States?” Groups of five or six will form discussion groups with one acting as chair¬ man. University students from. Ne¬ vada, Arizona and Utah will be present at i the tournament. Ap¬ proximately 40 colleges are ex¬ pected to be represented. The affair is held alternately each year at Redlands or at the College of the Pacific. However, Redlands was unable to offer the use of its campus this year. Preparations Made For June Show Two more appointments were made for the production of this year’s June Order of Mast and Dagger assembly. They are: Jeanne Moore and Barbara Franklin, both assistant direct¬ ors for the show. Appointments were revealed by Betty Brusher, director. Accord¬ ing to Miss Brusher, the perform¬ ance will be the last assembly of the year. The show will be pre¬ ceded by traditional tapping rites when outstanding city collegians will be inducted into the Order of Mast and Dagger. Pair of Speakers n j n i r r / .• J^d?ssre^ssejsab.pr Pasadena board от Education Petitioned by Student Leaders “Selective Service and Pasa¬ dena City College” will be dis¬ cussed by Robert D. Haugh, as¬ sistant to the director of student personnel, at tomorrow’s P-TA meeting in Library Hall at two o’clock. A second speaker on the pro¬ gram will be J. Ray Risser, ad¬ dressing the group on “The Clear¬ ing International Situation.” En¬ tertainment for the afternoon will be provided by two local vocalists, Ann Vernon and Clar¬ ice Johnson. The meeting is open to all P-TA members and to any one else in¬ terested in the program offered. Open Forum Slated As Next Assembly This week’s assembly schedul¬ ed for Thursday will include an open forum “gripe session” and a talk by Dr. William Cranston, head of the School of Religion at the University of Southern Cali¬ fornia. Dr. Cranston’s speech will take in various problems confronting the typical student today. He is a former professor of Dartmouth and Redlands, and author of many books. Following his lecture, students will be able to gripe about any existing situation at PCC. The “gripe session” has been planned by student leaders to give col¬ legians a chance to voice their opinions. Mojave Desert Revealed as 751 Site of Diggin7 and Delvin7 on Geology Trip Members of the local Board of Education were presented with petitions from the PCC student body late yesterday afternoon to name the school library after Dr. John W. Harbe- son, former City College principal. Those backing the project are members of the Students’ Rights Committee consisting of Hank Weber, student body president ; Ron Yielding, vice- president; Andy Castellano, com¬ missioner of finance; and Leo Dizikes, president of Lancers. This issue was raised some time ago when PCC students pre¬ sented their request to the Board, but were turned down. The idea itself was initiated when PCC students presented a variety show, “Harbie Girls,” last year. Proceeds of the production were to be used for a plaque honoring Dr. Harbeson, who was in his last year of administrative work for PCC at that time. Dr. Harbeson was for many years principal at Pasadena City College, an ardent supporter of student activities. Many Youth Day Posts Opened by Project Head Positions for Youth Day will be open Monday after Easter vacation according to Mac Small, chairman of the com¬ mittee. Applications will be re¬ ceived for political as well as non-political positions. Paul W. Smith Flower Society to Assist Members of Red Cross With Donations of Money Pasadena’s Camellia Society will sponsor a plant show in the PCC Library Hall on the even¬ ing of April 12 to financially as¬ sist the local Red Cross College Unit on the PCC campus. Members of the Red Cross Council plan to use the proceeds to buy equipment for young post¬ polio patients at Rancho Los Am¬ igos. Students from this same group recently participated in the ca¬ mellia show at Brookside Park, at which time they entered a booth. This booth gave out flow¬ ers donated by various Pasadena florists as well as by individuals. Latest project of the group was the printing of a publicity sheet informing students what to do in case of an atomic attack. Faraday Topic for Lecture Revealed California Institute of Tech¬ nology’s Dr. Robert P. Sharp will be the speaker at the 24th annual Faraday Lecture tomorrow at 8 o’clock in Sexson Auditorium. He will talk about glaciers for the first time in Faraday history. Dinner will be held before the lecture to honor the speaker and other guests. On Monday, March 19, a cara¬ van of cars will leave for the seventeenth annual Easter excur¬ sion of the geology classes of Pasadena City College under the direction of Physical Science De¬ partment Chairman Edwin Van Amringe. Nine-hundred miles will be covered on the trip in the desert country of San Bernardino Coun¬ ty, California; Mojave County, Arizona; and Clark County, Ne¬ vada, a region of great geologic, mineralogic and scenic interest. Attendance has been restricted to present and past students of ge¬ ology, their families and faculty members. Probable itinerary was reveal¬ ed by Van Amringe at press time. On Monday, March 19, students will leave Pasadena at 7 a.m. Edwin Van Amringe and meet 11 miles east of Dagget at 10:30 a.m. At Lavic, aspiring geologists will collect jasper and later meet at Davis Dam at 3:30 for a tour. That night, the group 'plans to camp near Kingman, Arizona. Mineral collection in the ghost towns and mines of the Cerbat Mountains has been slated for Tuesday. Minerals will include turquoise, silver, lead, zinc and copper. Camping site for Tues¬ day will be near Chloride, Ari¬ zona. Wednesday’s trip is an option¬ al 103 mile side tour to Pierce Ferry at Grand Wash Cliff. Those not taking the side trip will find points or interest at Hoover or Boulder Dam. On Thursday, stu¬ dents will explore Searchlight, a famous old* mining town.