PCC Chronicle, March 31, 1954

Langsdorf Explains New School Setup PCC Chronicle Vol. 55, No. 8 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California March 31, 1954 JC Administrator 9 Outlines Progress At the request of the Chronicle, Dr. William B. Langsdorf, PCC principal and principal- elect of the new junior college, prepared the following statement on progress made in the change from the 6-4-4 plan to the 6-3-3-2 setup in Pasadena. Plans are well under way for the establishment of Pasadena’s new, two-year junior college which will open its doors next September. The Superintendent and Board of Education have already determined the answers to a number of questions. - The name of the new insti¬ tution, which will be the only junior college serving the Pas¬ adena area, will be Pasadena City College. The present PCC campus will' be the permanent location of this college. Admin¬ istrators and faculty have been assigned and they are planning the development of the new catalog, schedule of classes, and curricular offerings. In the area of student body government and student activities it has also been thought desir¬ able to do as much planning as possible. Representatives of the student body associations of Muir and Pasadena City College have joined' to form a steering commit¬ tee to plan the merger of the present upper division student bodies of John Muir and Pasa¬ dena City College. Student in¬ terim committees have been des¬ ignated by the steering commit¬ tee, with the approval of the ad¬ ministrators assigned to the new institution. Students have been Journalists Hear Publisher at USC Pasadena City College journal¬ ists will visit one of the foremost schools of journalism in Ameri¬ ca Saturday when they journey to USC to attend the twenty- ninth edition of Newspaper Day. Students will hear for the sec¬ ond time this year the publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News, Clinton D. McKinnon, speaking on “Our Urgent Need — A Two Party Press.” Mary Ann Callan, women’s editor for the Los An¬ geles Times, will talk on “The Women’s World is a Wide One.” spending countless hours work¬ ing on the problerrfs of develop¬ ing the new student body organ¬ izations and in planning the stu¬ dent activities which will make it possible for the new college to get off to a fine start. Seme of the recommenda¬ tions of these committees can be put into effect by the col¬ lege administration during the summer. Many of the recom¬ mendations will have to be rat- ifiied by the student body of the new college next Septem¬ ber. All of 'us who are either pros¬ pective students or faculty of the new college owe a debt of grati¬ tude to these student leaders for the time, energy, and enthusi¬ asm they are devoting to the challenges which face them. As problems are resolved and plans formulated, every effort will be made to keep the student body and faculty at large well informed. We have a wonderful opportunity to build the fines.t junior college in the nation, if all of us from Muir and PCC who will form the new junior college lend all of our energies to this cooperative endeavor. •First Aid First aid class is a require¬ ment for all students graduat¬ ing from the twelfth and four¬ teenth grades at Pasadena City College in June of this year. New Classes will begin on Mon¬ day, April 5, and Miss Florence Brubaker has announced that graduates who have not taken the course should check with their counselors immediately to do so. SUITCASES IN HAND . . . members of the PCC Phi Rho Pi chapter prepare to journey to Lawrence, Kan., to enter the \ National Phi Rho Pi Tournament. Left to right are Kathy Gage, Lillian. Tomich and Paul Smith, adviser to the organization. Five PCCtes will make the tour to represent РОС. Five Enter National Phi Rho Pi Tourney Five members of the PCC debating team will depart on the morning of Saturday, April 3, for Lawrence, Kan., where they will compete in the National Phi Rho Pi Speech- Contest to be held at the University of Kansas on April 5, 6, and 7. Representatives of this school Garner Featured on 27th Faraday Let ture “Radioactivity: Its Nature and Measurement” will be discussed by Dr. Clifford S. Garner next Wednesday at the 27th annual Faraday Lecture. The program will begin at 8 in Sexson Auditorium. A note-taking contest for junior high school students is being sponsor- who will take part in the event will be Jacques Cartier, Bob Noel, Cathy Gage, Lillian Tomich and Jim Galbraith. Paul Smith, speech activities instructor and debating team coach, will accompany the group on the trip. The contest will consist of all of the forms of persuasive speak¬ ing and debate. In the recent speech contest held at Long Beach City College all members of the PCC debate team received either excellent or superior ratings. Frosh Cop Play Honors in Tourney A double triumph for Pasadena City College came about March 22„ when Freshman students scored in both the “best actress” and “superior production” divi¬ sions of the Pasadena Playhouse 21st annual One-act Play Tourna¬ ment. Coming through with an excel¬ lent performance and copping the best actress award was drama student Dusty Smith for her por¬ trayal of Amanda in “Op-O-Me Thumb,” also presented to an en¬ thusiastic assembly audience last Friday morning in Sexson Audi¬ torium. Competing against ten high schools from all over the state with professional people doing the judging, the one-act plays were given either a superior, ex¬ cellent or good rating. “Op-O-Me Thumb” was presented with one of the two “superior” play awards. Accepting this “Gover¬ nor Knight” award from Para¬ mount starlet Pat Crowley was director Donald Liercke. Members of the award-winning cast were Dusty Smith as Aman¬ da; Jack Orr as Horace Green- smith; Carole Gister as Celeste; Jan Brandeau as Mrs. Galloway; Barbara Stotler as Rose; Bar¬ bara Frailey as the Madam. Working with Liercke was stu¬ dent director Verna Carter. For winning the superior rat¬ ing, Liercke was also presented with a half-tuition scholarship to the Playhouse College of Theater Arts. The presentation of the awards was an exciting windup to an eve¬ ning which saw more than 150 prepsters from ten high schools give their all on the Playhouse main stage. Mallett to Narrate Film for PTA, Departments Pasadena City College’s Parent-Teacher Association will join with the departmental councils in the sponsorship of- the final inter-departmental activity of the year in presenting the movie “Bonny Scotland.” The Burton Holmes’ color- travelogue will be narrated by _ _ Robert Mallett in Sexson Audi¬ torium on- Tuesday, April 6, at ed by the Physical Science Coun¬ cil of Pasadena City College in conjunction with the lecture. Two grand prizes, one for the best entry by a boy and one for the best entry by a girl, are offered. The prizes consist of a brown leather brief case with the win¬ ner’s name inscribed in gold. Books of science, autographed by Dr. Garner, will be presented to the' top note-taker from each junior high in Pasadena. Garner, who is a chemistry professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, is an alumnus of PCC, and he previ¬ ously worked for the Atomic En¬ ergy Commission at Los Alamos. Dr. Garner will attempt to break down the scientific termin¬ ology associated with his topic into layman’s language, and plans to use machines to illustrate dif¬ ficult points. Music Council Names Haywood as Speaker Plans are being completed for an “extra special” Campus Artist Series to be held Wednesday, April 7. Good fortune was on the side of the Music Council when they obtained Charles Haywood for their program. For this program many students with 12 o’clock classes will be excused. Haywood, who will give a lecture recital, is an accomplished linguist and scholar as well as a concert artist. He will comment on the folk background of folk songs, their expression of national char¬ acteristics as well as of universal human feelings. An associte professor of music at Queens College, New York, Mr. Haywood has sung in opera radio with many leading symphony orchestras. He is the author of “A Bibliography- of American Folk¬ lore and Folksong.” Haywood will be accompanied at the piano by his wife, Frances Haywood, who, under her professional name of Frances Dillon, is a well-known teacher of piano and pedagogy at the Mannes College of Music in New York City. Robert Mallett 8 p.m. The interesting and col¬ orful tour of the Highlands will feature many aspects of life in Scotland, such as native dances, and the sound track will give a sample of the unusual quality of the bagpipe. In addition to the movie there will be three bag-pipers and a dancer who will appear in person under the direction of Thomas Guthrie. Their part of the enter¬ tainment will precede the lec¬ ture by Mr. Mallett and the movie. Among the facets of Scotch life to be shown are Aberdeen and Iverness, the River Ness, the pro¬ cess of shearing sheep and the weaving of tweeds. This last inter-departmental ac¬ tivity of the semester will replace the movie previously scheduled for April 22. Proceeds will be divided between the PTA and the departmental councils, - the latter using the money to finance their semester activities. This is Mallett’s second appear¬ ance at Pasadena City College this year, the first being a Tues¬ day Evening Forum date earlier in the semester. General admission price to the film has been set at 60 cents, with students paying only 35 cents. Tickets may be obtained from the student bank or mem¬ bers of the departmental councils.