PCC Chronicle, October 08, 1952

Co-eds Enjoy Mermaid Spoils Today AWS Board Offers /SJL Party at Swim Pool Г 4*1* ЬЯгОЛТС1€ Publicity gimmicks to interest all of PCC’s women stu¬ dents in attending the annual coed swim to be sponsored by the AWS Board and Cabinet at the campus pool today have been : numerous girls wearing leis, room blackboard announce¬ ments, posters and a “chain tele-. Vol. 52, No. 4 Pasadena, California October 8, 1952 Principal to Gavel Meet Secondary school administra¬ tors in the Pasadena City Schools will act as hosts and hostesses to the Eighteenth District of the California Association of Secon¬ dary School Administrators at a meeting to be held this evening in the Rancho Verde Room of the Hotel Green. Dr. William Langsdorf, PCC principal and president of the district, will pre¬ side over the business meeting. Featured speaker of the eve¬ ning will be Dr. Francis Bacon, secondary education consultant for the recently completed Pasa¬ dena School Survey. Students of the PCC Music Department will provide entertainment for the group. Secondary school administra¬ tors from Burbank, Glendale, Long Beach, Pasadena, Santa Monica and South Pasadena will be present at the meeting. 'Pan’ Heads Set Date Meri Wescrepinec and Walter Dulaney were recently announced as co-editors of the local cam¬ pus anthology, the “Pipes of Pan.” Containing student writers’ best efforts in stories, essays, prose sketches and poetry, the anthology is offered for sale 'to the student body yearly in May. All contributions to this year’s “Pipes” must be submitted by the first of December. Contri¬ butions must be entirely ‘original and by a Pasadena City College student, according to Miss Jessie K. Paxton, adviser of the publi¬ cation. Poetry or prose submissions may be of either a humorous or serious nature, and students may use their own imaginations for subject matter. Interested PCCites may turn in material to Miss Paxton in room 160C or to either of the editors. ASB Board Passes Code Replacing the student Code of Laws which was repealed a week previously, the PCC ASB Board last Thursday passed “The Code of Student Conduct,” a series of regulations governing the behav¬ ior of students on the campus. Subdivided into two separate articles, the Code contains sec¬ tions dealing with such matters as destruction of school proper¬ ty, theft, disorderliness and pub¬ licity on the campus. The new code also includes three sections specifically design¬ ed to put teeth into the “Code of the Men’s and Women’s Coun¬ cils” which the Board adopted at a special session three days earlier to set up a new and more effective method of hand¬ ling violations of student laws. phone call” series during the early part of this week. With the theme “Hawaiian Luau” the Associated Women Students are working on appro¬ priate refreshments, decorations, and entertainment to make this year’s event a great success. Best of all, according to Eleanor Johnson, AWS prexy, the swim and everything are absolutely free to any and all of the PCC female species, whether ASB members or not. The first plunges will be taken at 3 o’clock and paddling per¬ formances will continue until 4 or 4:30 when it will be on with the food and entertainment. Aquarium type costumes may be donned at the Women’s Gym. The idea of this whole affair is to give all the women stu¬ dents, especially the new ones, a chance to meet and mingle with other coeds on campus. Local AWS Board and Cabinet mem¬ bers are also anxious to meet and talk to the girls whom they were elected to represent. The newly inaugurated Women’s Council, formed to act as an ad¬ visory council to the AWS or¬ ganization, will make its debut as a functioning unit in the plans and presentation of today’s watery whimsy. WAA Party Will Fete the Freshmen “Space Chase,” something real¬ ly out of this world, is the cen¬ tral idea of the WAA party be- .ing planned in the Women’s Gym now, according to Nancy Hayes, WAA prexy.’ This supple¬ ment to the girls’ sports program is planned particularly to wel¬ come new freshman members to the organization. It will be held on October 16 on the campus from 3 to 5 p.m. Donna Irwin, “Chase” general chairman, has been working with a committee and the WAA Board to plan and present the event. Diana Douglas is to lead the refreshment committee. AWS PRESIDENT “EEJAY” . . . Johnson strenuously urges Joan Jahnke, vice-president, to try the water for today’s coed swim. Sylvia Paulpo and LuAnn Short, other Board members, try to persuade Joan that the water’s fine. Delta Psi Omega to Play Host to iaycee Drama Convention Harbeson Hall will host drama students from 22 Southern California junior colleges attending a convention sponsored by the PCC chapter of Delta Psi Omega, honorary drama fraternity, on Saturday, Oct. 11, from 2 p.m. to 12 midnight. To promote drama, increase audiences, and introduce the idea of schools backing each other, is the ultimate goal of the Artist Series Goes Across the Border Mary Cogswell, Spanish dancer, and Rafael Isquierda Bravo, Mexican guitarist and singer, will present a program of Spanish and Mexican songs and dances for the Campus Artist Series, October 9 at 12:15 p.m. in Harbeson Hall. Miss Cogswell has studied dancing in Spain and Mexico City, and will relate a little about the background of her dances. A native of Pasadena, Miss Cogswell is a physical education teacher of dancing at Marshall Junior High School. While at¬ tending PCC (1942-44) she was a member of Kantela and the Pasadena Dance Workshop. Lat¬ er she attended Stanford Uni¬ versity and was a member of the Orchesis National Dance Frater¬ nity and student choreographer for all dancing scenes in shows on the campus. She will be ac¬ companied at the piano by Patty Duemler. Bravo, who has recently arrived here from Mexico, will sing and play songs of his native country. This program is a regular weekly feature presented by the Music Council of PCC and is open to the public and students alike with no admission charge. Figaro Film Shows Soon “The Marriage of Figaro,” a film version of Mozart’s opera, will be shown Monday, Oct. 13 in Sexson Auditorium at 4 and 8 p.m. The presentation of this film is under the leadership of the German section of the Lan¬ guage Council. Heading this group are Henry Cordelius, ad¬ viser, and Ray Roberts, section chairman. This opera is performed by the Berlin State Orchestra with Angelika Hauff and Willi Dom- graf-Fassbender in the principal starring roles. The New York Herald Tribune says of the film, convention, which is one of the biggest undertakings of this PCC drama club. The honorary organization has planned a program wherein each Delta will present a 10 to 12 min¬ ute cutting of a play by one of the modern authors such as Eugene O’Neil or Tennessee Wil¬ liams. A meeting to plan future con¬ ventions and activities will be followed by a dinner for all dele¬ gates. Technical exhibits are to be on display and the club has planned a social which will in¬ clude dancing. Lois Johnson, president of the Delta Psi Omega, is in charge of the decorations committee, while Chuck Baldridge is handling the invitations; Jeanne Moore, the dinner and Jim Turner, the tech¬ nical committee. Maurice Per- reiah and Pat Worrell will do the narration for the cuttings by the different schdols. “brightly photographed, hand¬ somely costumed and clearly re¬ corded. There is little doubt that a veteran opera goer will enjoy this version.” Dialogue for the movie is in German, with English subtitles. There is no admission charge. Nichols' Pennies Entertain Friday Red Nichols and his Five Pen¬ nies, one of America’s foremost Dixieland Bands, will be the fea¬ tured entertainment on the stage at this Friday’s assembly in Sex- son Auditorium. Members of Nichols’ quintet include Joe Rushton, bass sax; Rollie Culver, drummer; Walter Sheets, pianist; King Jackson, trombonist; and Matty Matlock, clarinet. Red Nichols, as usual, toots the trumpet. Pepsters Stress White for Rooters Doug Funderburk and Sylvia Pauloo, pup and pep commission¬ ers, stress the fact that everyone must wear white to the PCC foot¬ ball games. Students who do not wear white will be made to wear pillow-case shirts to sit in the rooting section. Dusty Funderburk, the pep commissioner’s five-year old mas¬ cot, is learning new yells which should rouse a lot of school spirit.