Jazz by Kings Four to Rock Assembly
PCC Chronicle
VOL. 55, NO. 11
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
'MAY 5, 1954
Pre-
is corn-
physical
sion of two courses designed to
educate the student in past his¬
tory of life and the earth.
Paleontology 55 is a two-unit
course including biological no¬
menclature, anthropology, geolog¬
ic time, and a survey of fossils.
It is an orientation course doing
just what the history of life
shows is necessary for survival —
counteracting over-specialization.
It meets at 12 on Tuesday and
Thursday.
Omitted from the schedule of
classes geology 51B-52B, giv¬
en at 10 daily, will include many
of the same values worked into
the theme of the history of the
earth, the origin of its land and
water features, and the practical
problems of discovering new sup¬
plies of oil and minerals,
requisite for the course
pletion of the unit in
geology.
Further information abbut
these courses is available from
Mr. Gale in room HE.
Shakespeareans
Win Festival Honors
The ringing lines of “King Hen¬
ry VI,” “King Richard III” and
“Hamlet” won for three Pasa¬
dena City College students top
honors in the finals of the 1954
Shakespeare Festival yesterday
afternoon.
Emerging victorious from a
field of 12 followers of the Bard
of Avon were Chris Tambe, Lois
Johnson and Neil Hereford. The
three were picked by a board of
judges consisting of Graydon
Spaulding, John E. Twomey and
Anabel Anderson.
Also featured on the program
were lines from “Romeo and Ju-
iet,” “King Lear,” “Julius Cae¬
sar,” “King Henry VIII,” “Much
Ado About Nothing,” “Taming of
the Shrew,” “Tempest” and “Mac-
Beth.”
Key Club Sponsors OMD Picks
TV Group, Friday
Sexson Auditorium will rock with a real jazz beat this
Friday as The Kings IV journey out Pasadena way to enter¬
tain the assembly audience. Featured last night on the Red
Skelton TV show over the CBS Television Network, these
four young men, only four -
VERSATILITY WITH INSTRUMENTS ... is the highlight
of the Kings IV, who will stage the assembly Friday. The quartet
presents over a dozen musical instruments in their show.
History of Earth, Life
Seen in Fossil Course
Very few people have any idea how much light a survey
of past life can shed on pressing present problems, both for
community welfare and individual happiness, according to
H. Rodney Gale of the PCC Physical Science Department, who
last week announced the inclu-
months out of the Air Force,
play an amazing variety of in¬
struments with unfailing good
taste and a high degree of musi¬
cianship.
This week the male quartet
signed with Coral Records for
all future recording releases.
Stan Worth, the 21-year-old pi¬
ano player, also writes for the
group, plays drums, valve trom¬
bone, accordion and sings. His
brother, George, 23, plays bass,
slide trombone, tuba, drums and
baritone.
Trumpeter Bill Kay, 23, also
plays bongos, guitar, drums, bass
and piano, and tenorman Frank
Ciciulla, 23, doubles on alto, clar¬
inet, drums and bongos.
Appearing nightly at the Rag
Doll in the San Fernando Valley,
the musical group has appeared
in night clubs along with numer¬
ous other television appearances
including “The Pinky Lee Show.”
The Kings IV, said to sound
like the Four Freshmen, are to
be presented as the big semester
assembly sponsored exclusively
by the Key Club and their presi¬
dent, Jim Blixt. The Key Club
has brought some of PCCs best
assemblies to the stage of Sex-
son Auditorium.
•High School Pep
Pasadena High School cheer
leader and song girl candidates
have been asked to attend a
compulsory meeting today at
3 p.m. in 164C. Pup Commis¬
sion members are asked to be
present.
Emma Bee Mundy
Wins Civic Honor
Miss Emma Bee Mundy, chair¬
man of the Department of Life
Science and Nursing Education,
has been awarded one of Pasa¬
dena’s highest honors, Woman of
the Year award, by the Women’s
Civic League.
One of five outstanding local
women honored, Miss Mundy’s
service in the field of nursing
and life science education was
cited as exceptional by the or¬
ganization. Her work has main¬
ly centered around the develop¬
ment of the new pilot nursing
course in conjunction with the
Huntington Memorial Hospital
School of Nursing. Pasadena
City College has received nation¬
al recognition because of this
program.
Miss Mundy has been the chair¬
man of the Pasadena City College
Department of Life Science for
several years, coming here from
John Muir High School. Under
her supervision, the department
has become one of the finest of
Its type.
Mothers, Daughters will
Dine at Harbeson Hall
Moms will be well fed tomorrow night — Pasadena City
College moms, that is, because, in a preobservance of Mothers’
Day, the Associated Women Students are sponsoring a Moth¬
er and Daughter Banquet to be held at 6 :30 p.m. in Harbeson
Hall.
On hand to welcome the guests
will be Dr. Catherine Robbins,
AWS adviser, and Sue Doehring,
AWS president. Dr. and Mrs. Wil¬
liam B. Langsdorf; Mrs. Mildred
W. Cranston, member of the
Board of Education; Mrs. George
Rodda, president of the Parent-
Teacher Association; Mrs. Jessie
Chittenden; Miss Florence, Bru¬
baker; and Miss Elizabeth Jen¬
sen, have been invited to attend
the dinner.
. Entertainment for the diners
will be provided by “The All
Stars,” an Alhambra High School
trio; Chuck Craynef PCC vocal¬
ist; and a singing group, from
the Aerops of City College. Higlv
lighting the evening will be a
fashion show.
Representing the Freshman
Class in the fashion presentation
will be Pat McBroom and Nancy
Elliott. Sophomore models are to
be Meliss Armitage, Joni Mulder,
Barbara Allen, Kay Hiernaux,
Ann Dixon and Dee Meyers. Car¬
ol McIntosh and- Suzie Palmer
will represent the Junior Class.
Chairman of the Mother and
Daughter Banquet is Barbara Al¬
len, member of the AWS board.
Helping her with the arrange¬
ments is the AWS cabinet. Nar¬
ration for the fashion show will
be handled by Joan Jahnke.
Sue Doehring has announced
that a few tickets are still avail¬
able at the Student Bank for the
banquet. The price is $1.50 per
person.
Vying for the Order of Mast
and Dagger carnival crown will
be a quintet of Pasadena City
College lovelies, picked from the
cream of the campus lasses sub¬
mitted by the various depart¬
ments.
According to Nancy Wichman,
chairman of the queen selection
committee, the coeds from which
the regal ruler of the “Arabian
Night” will be selected are Bunny
Cheeley, Nancy Elliott, Marty
Galloway, Shirley Simpsor. and
Delores Valadez.
Student government is sponsor¬
ing Bunny Cheeley, who has ac¬
tively participated in ASB af¬
fairs during the past semester.
She is a Spartan, a member of
the Women’s Council, on the so¬
cial affairs commission, and on
the AWS cabinet.
Nancy Elliott, freshman jour¬
nalism student, is the candidate
from the English Department. Be¬
sides being editor of the Fresh¬
man Dink, official class news¬
paper, she has held down a re¬
porter’s job on the Chronicle, as
well as being active in other elev¬
enth grade activities.
Marty Galloway is the entry
from the Social Science Depart¬
ment. A member of the Kantela
Club and the Women’s Athletic
Association, she is a Spartan and
is active in her department.
Language Department candi¬
date is Shirley Simpson, president
of the Social Science Council. A
Spartan, she is also active -r in
drama work, being a member of
Delta Psi Omega.
Art major Delores Valadez is
the candidate from that depart¬
ment. She has become well-known
on the campus through her sev¬
eral years as a song girl, and her
entertaining assembly dances. She
is very active in the affairs of
the Art Department.
ROTC Names Band for
Traditional Military Ball
May 28 has been set as the date of the ROTC annual Military
Ball.
The formal dance is to be held at the Pasadena Athletic Club
from 8 to 12 p.m. At the present time, the various committees are
working on plans to make this an outstanding event. The Contin¬
entals, a seven-piece orchestra, will furnish the music for the evening.
Crowning the queen of the ball will be a special feature of the
dance. Among the honored guests will be retired Master Sergeant
Dostal, who was an instructor at Pasadena City College for many
years.
The military dances are sponsored by ROTC units throughout
the country. They have been an annual event at Pasadena City
College since 1919.
MODELING CURRENT FASHIONS ... for the annual
Mother-Daughter Banquet, sponsored by the Associated Women
Students, will be Dee Meyers, Carol McIntosh and Barbara Allen.
