PCC Chronicle, November 19, 1952

MR. FROSTY FROLICS FRIDAY Sno-ball Plans Start Rolling for Friday’s Annual Dance Highlighting the sixth annual Sno-ball will be the selection of six girls attending the dance, one of whom will be crowned queen of the ball. The Pasadena City College chapter of the Newman Club is sponsoring the gala event which will be held from nine until twelve on Friday evening, Nov. 21, at the Pasadena Athletic Club. Providing music for the dance will be the well-known band of GIVING A FINAL POLISH ... to the guest of honor for Friday’s annual РОС Sno-ball, Newman Club members Anne Williams and Dave Nemzec primp Mr. Snowman for the semi- formal dance at the Pasadena Athletic Club. Leighton Noble. Noble, a PCC graduate, played for the recent Homecoming Dance and has ap¬ peared on numerous television shows, including Bandstand Revue. According to Newman Club president, Duane Clark, tickets may be purchased for $2 per couple at the Student Bank or the Argonaut booth. Proceeds from this year’s Sno-ball will be used to defray expenses of the 1953 Ball. •Boise Broadcast A play-by-play account of next Saturday’s PCC-Boise football game will be broadcast local¬ ly over station KWKW at 1 p.m. PST directly from the stadium in Boise for Pasadena fans. A former student, Row¬ land Gibbs, will make the broadcast under the sponsor¬ ship of three Pasadena firms, G winn’s Restaurant, Mirror Bright Polish Co., and Colonial Maid Ice Cream. PCC Chronicle Vol. 52, No. 9 Pasadena, California November 19, 1952 PCC Orators Clear Throats for Da vis- Hall Talk Rate Students desiring to develop their public speaking ability, and to further their knowl¬ edge of civic problems are urged to enter the Davis-Hall Speech Contest, which has been a Pasadena tradition since 1907. Inaugurated by M. W. Davis, then a member of the Pasadena Board of Education, and J. Herbert Hall, for many years a prominent Pasadena jeweler, the WAA Finale Ends Successful Seasons This afternoon in the dance studio of the Women’s Gym, members of the WAA two and three o’clock classes will gather to receive awards and team cred¬ its for the women’s basketball and badminton seasons. Decorations for the “Finale” will be centered around a fall harvest theme, with props such as scarecrows and pumpkins dominating the festivities. Nora Martinez is the coed who has been put in charge of directing the decorations. Marion Bessonette will tak£ care of the refrshment plans,' while Diane Douglas is to be in charge of the entertainment. About 130 girls are expected to turn out to this event which is the regular season ending for every WAA sport. All girls who attend the WAA sport sessions are invited to attend the affair this afternoon. contest has been designed to in¬ terest young people in good speaking and in civic affairs. The speeches entered in the event will be judged on organi¬ zation, originality and presenta¬ tion. It is permissable for the speakers to use brief notes dur¬ ing the preliminary contest. All student body members are eligible to compete, with the up¬ per and lower division contest¬ ants being judged separately. The talks should be from five to sev¬ en minutes in length. Topics from which the student must choose and limit his speech include: Science — the New Fron¬ tier, The Need of a Universal Language, Ethics in Interscholas¬ tic Athletic Contests, A Timely College Problem, and The Draft — at What Age? Ethics in Advertising, Juvenile Delinquency, Slum Clearance, Electoral College, Control of Smog, and International Coopera¬ tion have also been suggested as subjects for the contest speeches. Further information concerning the Davis-Hall Contest can be ob¬ tained from Mrs. Virginia Ker- sting in room 8C. FACULTY SHOWS OFF, SELLS SERVICES AT AUCTION FOR WSSF CAMPAIGN Can we survive the Atomic Age? This timely question was discussed last Monday as part of the opening day events for the annual WSSF Drive. Solicitation for the World Stu¬ dent Service Fund begins today and ends tomorrow. The noney is used to further the ac tivities of students all over the world. Today the Faculty Show is featured in Harbeson Hall. To¬ morrow at 12 the annual Faculty Auction, when services of PCC teachers are sold to the highest bidder, will be the day’s high¬ light. accompanied by the Mirror Pool Coin Toss. Friday’s activity, planned to close the fund raising drive, which has a goal of $800, will be a Thanksgiving assembly. Students to Give Thanks Climaxing the World Student Service Fund Week will be the annual Thanksgiving assembly to be presented on Friday, Nov. 21. Portrayed in the pattern of a religious service, this year’s Thanksgiving assembly will be the traditional type as contrasted with the 1951 dramatic presenta¬ tion. Dr. Henry David Gray, pastor of the Oneonta Congregational Church in South Pasadena will be the principal speaker on the program, while other features will include selections by the A Cappella Choir, group singing and other student participation. An established author, Dr. Gray has written several books aimed at meeting the needs of college students along religious lines. He has recently returned from an eventful summer in Eur¬ ope with a group of students from his parish. A Cappella Choir, under the di¬ rection of Miss Isobel Smith, will vocalize “Brother James Air,” which will also afford a setting for the Twenty-third Psalm, “Sal¬ vation Is Created” by Tschesno- koff, “Go Tell It on the Moun¬ tain,” a Negro spiritual, and “Thanks Be to God,” featuring Joan Burris as soloist. Don Viehman, Christian heri¬ tage commissioner of the SCA, and additional students who have not yet been chosen, will offer prayers and read Psalms and other portions of the Old Testa¬ ment. Golden State Jaycee Student Leaders Meet Founded seven years ago by a group of Pasadena City College students, the California Junior College Student Gov¬ ernment Association comprised of 60 junior colleges, will convene for their fourteenth semi-annual convention on No¬ vember 20, 21 and 22, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Host Ul*. UIJCObI for thc irnP°rtant three-day af- fair is Los Angeles City College. ш Ш I Delegates from PCC include flk ^ЦАМ|| Andy Castellano, ASB president; ■ George Milan, Ron Gister, Pat _ ^ , _ . , , „ „ Hayes, John FitzRandolph, Elea- Dr. Dorothy Dixon, head of the nor Johnson. Bob Josi> commis. PCC English Department, will sioner of finance; Earl Holder, leave on November 21 for Boston, administrative business assist- Mass., where she will attend a ant; an^ Robert Haugh, director convention of the National Coun- of student activities' oil of English Teachers. On No- . ActiYe the Association is Andy Castellano, who fulfills the chairmanship duties of the State Junior College Code Com¬ mittee, concerned with inception of new laws and policies, and Bob Josi, the Association’s state trea¬ surer. Paramount consideration is di¬ rected toward promoting better junior college educational facili¬ ties and school government. To this end the Association pools its respective activities and prob¬ lems for discussion and solution. Division of representative person¬ nel from the many junior col¬ leges establishes panel-commit¬ tees dealing with every aspect of school life. Following is a partial listing of these committees: student gov¬ ernment and finance; publicity and publications, athletics, social activities, Associated Men Stu¬ dents, Associated Women Stu¬ dents, war emergency problems, improvement of conferences. Special Election Set for Amendment City College polls will be open on Wednesday, Dec. 10, for a special Constitutional election for a student vote on a proposed new amendment. The amendment, proposed by the local Board of Representa¬ tives, is to establish a Code of Men’s and Women’s Councils as parts of the constitution replac¬ ing the Code of Laws. Originally scheduled for De¬ cember 5, the special election was postponed last week at the order of ASB President Andy Castellano, to allow better pub¬ licity and longer study of the proposals. If passed, the proposals would in effect do away with the pres¬ ent court system of student jus¬ tice, replacing it with the Men’s and Women’s Councils. Dr. Dixon vember 2, Miss Dixon will ad¬ dress the convention on the sub¬ ject “Vitalizing English Through Visual Aids.” On two of the days previous to the convention she will visit Har¬ vard and Radcliffe, to make a short study of the new education¬ al program in English adopted by these schools. A new Eng¬ lish course, general education A, is taking the place of the old English A course at both Har¬ vard and Radcliffe. Miss Dixon will return to PCC on December 2. late Bulletin Movies on the Honolulu Race will be shown by the Sailing Club this afternoon in 200C at 3 o’clock. Anyone interested in becoming a member of the club, or anyone who would like to see the movies of this con¬ test is invited to attend by Jim Blixt, commodore of the club. Local Service Clubs Slate First Kickoff Luncheon Thanksgiving Day’s gridiron Turkey Tussle between PCC and Muir College will be launched a day early next week as Pasa¬ dena’s United Service Clubs hold a municipal Kick-off Luncheon in the Civic Auditorium on Wednes¬ day. To boost public support of the crosstown football contest, all city luncheon and service clubs have arranged to hold their regu¬ lar weekly meetings on Wednes¬ day in order to act as hosts at the fiesta. Local head coach, Bob Black¬ man, and Muir’s chief mentor, A1 Learned, will be honored guests of all members of the various civic organizations, together with the football squads and bands of each college and a limited num¬ ber of other students for whom below-cost tickets have been made available. The entire Kickoff Luncheon will be themed around the Tur¬ key Tussle, with leading sports figures as speakers, and with sportscaster Bill Symes and pop¬ ular actor Ollie Prickett as mas¬ ters of ceremonies. Due to the great numbers of the combined host clubs, and the many guests, only 500 tickets to the event will be available to the general public.