Blood Drive Smashes Record
Last week Pasadena City College students and fac¬
ulty broke a seven-year blood drive record, went over
their quota, and proved that they had a real interest in
the survival of their fellow man. One hundred and sixty-
one pints of blood were donated to the Red Cross.
Under the chairmanship of Tom Shea and sponsor¬
ship of the PCC Key Club, the drive got underway last
Thursday morning. In the afternoon the Red Cross vol¬
unteers were requested to remain one-half hour extra to
take care of the over-flow crbwd that gathered in Harbe-
son Hall to donate blood.
The Blood Bank operates on the order of a group
savings account. The donors are asked to contribute one
pint of blood, twice a year. Should an emergency arise
and a student or any member of his family need blood,
he may draw on the account. Some City College teachers
donated to the Pasadena Education Association Blood
Fund and several persons gave blood for other organi¬
zations. Competition ensued within the Rickey Clubs and
80 pints were credited to that group. One club, Sequoia,
donated 17 pints.
The blood drive this semester is especially success¬
ful when compared with what was collected at PCC last
year. Only 40 pints were donated. John Muir College’s
record this semester was 100 pints and Compton College
collected 53 pints from their student body and faculty.
According to the drive chairman, organization of the
drive was handled in such a manner as to assure cover¬
age of each campus department and club by a Key Club
member. A poster party was held in order to give suf¬
ficient publicity to the campaign. Jim Blixt, Del Elliott,
Pete Newton, Alan Carter and Eddie Krieger painted the
posters.
Tom Shea expressed the wish to a Chronicle report¬
er that his thanks and appreciation be extended to the
people who helped with the drive and donated their blood.
PCC Chronicle
VOL. 55, NO. 12
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MAY 12, 1954
World Folk Music
to Be Presented
in Muir Auditorium
Folk music of the world will
be featured tomorrow night when
the United Nations sponsored In¬
ternational Folk Program for the
American Association of the
United Nations is presented in
Rufus Mead Auditorium at John
Muir College.
Highlighting the program will
be “Nigerian Episode” presented
by Okeke Chukuomeka and his
company. Also presented will be
Korean folk songs by Korah
Hahn, songs of Afghanistan with
native rhobar and drums by Mo-
hammet Aman and company, and
Iranian music and songs with tar,
dombach and violin by Edward
Etezad.
Eugene Ctbar will present folk
music of Czechoslovakia. Folk
music of the United States will
conclude the program which will
begin at 8 p.m.
The program was planned with
the cooperation of the Interna¬
tional Students of the University
of Southern California.
Seniors Sponsor
Campus Swim Party
“Seniors will sink or swim tomorrow night at the PCC
pool,” quipped Chris Tambe, Senior Class, president. What he
meant was : the Senior Class is sponsoring a swim party at
7:30 p.m. and the entire school is invited; the success of
the Senior Prom will depend
upon the turnout at this event.
Thursday’s swim party will be
the second such affair put on by
the seniors this .semester. Stu¬
dents are invited to swim until
9:30 and the admission price will
be 25 cents. Background music
is to be provided.
Terry Smith, member of the
Senior Class Council, is chair¬
man of the swim party. Working
with him are the other members
of the council, who are Jeanette
Payne, Lee Conover, Bob Holden,
Glenn Carothers, Dennie Womb-
well, Joan Hopp, Diane' Emery
and Chris Tambe.
As was mentioned before, pro¬
ceeds will go towards making the
Senior Prom a success. Every
PCC student is urged to “get in
the swim.”
Pasadena Hosts Cream
of SC Musical Crop
Pasadena City College and John Muir College will host
the cream of the Southern California junior college crop of
vocal and instrumental musicians on May 13 and 14, accord¬
ing to Mrs. Carolyn R. Weersing, chairman of the Pasadena
City College Department of Mu¬
sic.
Included on the program of the
Southern California Junior Col¬
lege Music Festival will be a gala
concert of more than 650 trained
voices and a 125-piece symphonic
band, which will highlight the
event on May 14. On the preced-,
ing evening, each choir partici¬
pating in the festival will perform
for adjudication. Both programs
will be held in Sexson Auditori¬
um, with the general public in¬
vited to attend free of charge.
The concerts will be directed
by nationally-known conductors.
Dr. Lara Hoggard, former direc¬
tor of the University of Oakland
choral units and Fred Waring
groups, will be guest director of
the choral group, while Russ
Howland, band director of Fresno
State College, will conduct the in¬
strumental group.
Campuses from as far north as
Bakersfield and Santa Barbara,
east to San Bernardino and River¬
side, west to Santa Monica, and
south to Palomar and Oceanside
will be represented at the festi¬
val.
Jointly sponsoring the festival
are Pasadena City College Depart¬
ment of Music and its counter¬
part at John Muir College. In
charge of the entire operation is
Robert Fleury, present director
of the Bulldog Band and chair¬
man of the Music Department at
Pasadena City College next year.
’Campus' Named
Top Jaycee Annual
by UCLA Judges
UCLA’s top junior college year¬
book trophy of 1954 has been
awarded to Pasadena City Col¬
lege’s annual, The Campus. The
local product was judged superi¬
or in the contest held last week
on the Westwood campus, in com¬
petition with books from all over
Southern California.
The book rated was published
last year around the theme “Pe¬
cos Bill.” Edited by Bill Blanken¬
ship it was noted as one of the
best annuals published in this
area. Jo AnnKos, Glen Caro¬
thers, current editor, Tom Smith,
Jane Terzian, Bob Barlow and
Mike Mackes made up the edi¬
torial staff.
The book was printed in the
plant of the Pasadena City Col¬
lege Press, under the direction of
Robert van der Veen. Miss Gladys
Snyder, of the Department of
English, served as adviser to the
yearbook production class.
SEE THE SENIOR SWIM . . . Pictured above is a Pasadena
City College senior taking the plunge into a Dixie cup. The
fourteenth graders will be sponsoring a real swim at the campus
pool tomorrow at 7 :30 pan. The entire school is invited.
Surgeon General Aide
Visits Nursing Sthool
Pasadena City College’s School of Nursing Education was
especially honored this week by a visit from Mrs. Lucile Petri
Leone, RN, assistant surgeon general of the United States
in charge of nursing, according to Emma Bee Mundy, chair¬
man of the Department of Life
Sciences.
Mrs. Leone,
a member of the
REVIEWING FESTIVAL PLANS ... for the Pasadena-sponsored Music Festival to be held
here Friday are members of the PCC band, choral groups, and John Muir College choral units with
Mrs. Carolyn R. Weersing, chairman of the PCC music staff.
National Advisory Committee on
Pilot Nursing Programs, of
which Dr. William B. Langsdorf
is also a member, took a full day
from her three-day California
journey to view the set-up at
PCC. She was shown the facili¬
ties at Huntington Memorial Hos¬
pital and arrived on campus for
a luncheon with a member of the
Board of Education and PCC ad¬
ministrators.
Afternoon hours were spent in
a tour of the Life Science Depart¬
ment’s facilities and a social hour
attended by all members of the
faculty concerned with the nurs¬
ing programs. Mrs. Leone dis¬
cussed nursing education with
these persons and representatives
of Huntington Memorial Hospit¬
al, City of Hope Medical Center,
and St. Luke Hospital.
Fish Stories Fly
at Anglers' Outing
“You should have seen the one
that got away,” will be the stan¬
dard line on Friday, May 14,
when the Pasadena City College
Faculty Men’s Club hold their
annual Fish Fry.
City College instructors and
their sons will be Ashing at the
Rainbow Angling Club in Azusa
until 4 o’clock in the afternoon.
Later that evening, the fisher¬
men will be rewarded with door
prizes such as fishing reels and
other sports equipment.
Fishing and food fee will be
$1.50 for the men and 50 cents
for their sons.