PCC OBSERVES CLUB WEEK
Students learn to
‘Be Prepared 9
“Be Prepared Citizens” has become the City College
motto as the campus observes Civil Defense Week from Oc¬
tober 15-19. In line with the national and community Civil
Defense Week programs, PCC will spend the week publicizing
and improving its civil defense - - -
setup.
Campus plans for the week in¬
clude the re-emphasizing of class¬
room evacuation plans in case of
sudden disaster or aggression, is¬
suance of a new disaster bulle¬
tin with a map showing shelter
areas for all sections of the col¬
lege, and preparations for the
year’s first disaster drill to be
held within the month.
Before the initial drill, two lo¬
cal first aid experts will be ap¬
pointed to man each of eight
Red Cross first aid stations plac¬
ed at strategic locations on the
campus. It will be their duty
to direct first aid work in event
of disaster.
The improved campus disaster
program is in charge of Assist¬
ant Principal Catherine J. Rob¬
bins, aided by M/Sgt. Siegfried
Sulecki, local ROTC instructor,
and Col. John Thurman, PCC
baseball coach and commander
of a San Gabriel Valley army re¬
serve battalion. They are assist¬
ed by PCC clinic nurses Miss
Frankie Brooks and Miss Lillian
Carey, Bullpup football coach
Tom Mallory, track coach Otto
Anderson, Robert Moore, Miss
Lillian Vosloh, James Meldrum
and students in the ROTC unit.
Organizations Day Climaxes Full
Week of Club Development Activities
PCC will observe the first Club Day of the year next Friday during the usual assembly
hour, closing the first Club Week in school history when many campus organizations hold
introductory meetings for prospective members and other interested students. Local honor¬
ary, vocational, service, and leisure-time clubs have scheduled displays and demonstrations
of their activities for the occasion. Various meetings will be held in campus rooms and halls
- j - and many will feature motion pic-
PCC Chronicle
Vol. 50, No. 6
Pasadena, California
October 17, 1951
SCA to Present
'Faith in Action'
Radio Broadcasts
Student Christian Association
will present a radio series of as¬
sociation activities every few
weeks throughout the semester.
Theme of the presentations,
“Faith in Action” will be dramat¬
ically portrayed by SCA mem¬
bers.
Broadcasting time has been set
at Tuesday nights from 8:15 to
8:30 over radio station KWKW.
Dee Dee Olson, radio major, is
activity chairman of the project.
All students interested in writ¬
ing, producing or acting in the
series should sign up in the SCA
office, 23C.
New Series of National
Draft Tests Scheduled
Plans for the second series of nation-wide Selective Serv¬
ice College Qualification Tests have been announced by Selec¬
tive Service headquarters. PCC has been selected as one of
the more than 1000 testing centers. The new series of tests
will be given on Thursday, Dec. 13, and on Thursday, April
24, 1952. Applications- are now available at local draft boards
for both test dates. Deadline for
EXPLAINING CLUB DAY PLANS ... to club officers Larry
Harris (left), of Aero-tech, and Jerry Govan of Sailing Club are
Organizations Commissioner Carol Recker and SOC vice-president
Dick Moyer (right).
applying for the December test
is November 5, while applications
for the April tests must be post¬
marked no later than midnight,
March 10.
To be eligible to apply for the
test, students must intend to re¬
quest deferment as a student,
must be satisfactorily pursuing a
full time college course (PCC up¬
per division); and must not pre¬
viously have taken a Selective
Service College Qualification Test.
Students whose academic year
will end in January 1951 are
urged to apply for the December
test so that their score in the
Selective Service file can be tak¬
en into account when the local
board reconsiders their defer¬
ment.
Criteria for deferment as a stu¬
dent are: either a score of 70 or
better on the SSCQ test or satis¬
factory rank in class, which is
uppen half of freshman class, up¬
per two-thirds of sophomore class
and upper three-fourths of juni¬
or class. Seniors accepted for ad¬
mission to graduate schools must
stand in the upper half of their
classes, or make a score of 75 or
better on the test. Students al¬
ready enrolled in graduate
schools may be defered as long
as they remain in good standing.
It is not mandatory for local
boards to follow the criteria.
For further information on the
'.tests or for any draft deferment
or military information, students
may inquire at the office of As¬
sistant Director of Student Activi¬
ties Robert D. Haugh, in the
main administration offices.
Community Chest Fund
Campaign Starts Monday
In conjunction with the rest of the city, PCC will conduct
its annual Community Chest fund campaign next Monday
and Tuesday, with donations to be collected in al^ 10 o’clock
classes. Special 10 o’clock class represfentatives will be chosen
EAA Schedules
Club Day Meeting
Featuring as guest speaker
Roy Stanton, executive secretary
of their parent organization in
Los Angeles, the Pasadena En¬
gineer’s and Architects Associ¬
ation will hold its first meeting
of the year next Friday during
the Club Day period.
An organization for engineer¬
ing, architectural and technology
majors, EAA is a division of the
national EAA, a group to which
many graduate engineers belong.
Mr. Stanton will address the
club on the activities of EAA on
the national scale. Newcomers
are especially invited to the Club
Day meeting to become acquaint¬
ed with the organization’s pur¬
poses and membership require¬
ments.
The meeting is one of the
many slated by campus organiza¬
tions for next Friday’s Club Day.
this week to handle the Chest
collections and to serve as liaison
men in other campus projects
and service activities throughout
the semester. Their first duty will
be the management of classroom
Community Chest collections.
Holding the campaign concur¬
rently with the Pasadena-Alta-
dena area drive, City College will
work hand in hand with the
downtown Chest office. Publici¬
ty and collection materials pro¬
vided by the campaign head¬
quarters will be used, and the
local 10 o’clock' class reps will
join 3000 other volunteer Red
Feather solicitors covering the en¬
tire city to raise funds for the
coming year.
Money raised in the campaign
will be turned over to the Pasa¬
dena Chest for distribution to the
33 local Red Feather agencies
which receive financial and other
help from the Community Chest
during the year. These include
youth organizations, health serv¬
ices, family and ‘welfare services,
charity organizations^ and many
other community service groups.
Redlands Professor
Gives UN Day Talk
Marking PCC’s observance of
United Nations Week, Dr. Henry
Gustav Dittmar, the assistant pro¬
fessor of history at Redlands
University, will address local
students next Monday in Harbe-
son Hall.
Dr. Dittmar’s UN Day subject
will relate to international rela¬
tions and the World Student Ser¬
vice Fund.
tures or guest speakers as well
as explanations of club purposes
and membership requirements.
The Club Day will climax a full
week of activities designed to,
arouse interest in campus organ¬
izations, which include the run¬
ning of an information booth on
purposes and eligibility require¬
ments of all campus clubs. It will
be located in the main hall of
the C building, In addition, the
Student Organizations Council
will publish a special Club Day
bulletin, listing all organizations
and their Club Day meeting
places.
Among the groups holding
meetings will be Alpha Beta
Gamma science club, art organi¬
zations, religious groups, Argon¬
auts, Y-Debs, Dovetailers cabinet
making club, Eta Delta cosmet¬
ology club, Library Council, Os-
tiarians usher’s club, music
groups, and Ski Club and Sailing
Club.
Planning of the Club Day and
the week’s activities has been
done by Commissioner of Organi¬
zations Carol Recker and SOC of¬
ficers Dick Moyer, Margaret An¬
derson, Pat Andrews and Jim
Bald, aided by club presidents
and SOC representatives.
Purpose of the semi-annual
Club Day activities is to intro¬
duce students who might other¬
wise be unaware of the organiza¬
tions or clubs designed to suit
their special interests and desires.
Linguists Schedule
Open House in Lab
Parents, students and any
members of the interested public
are invited by the Foreign Lan¬
guage Department to hear ex¬
planations and demonstrations of
the audiovisual facilities of Pasa¬
dena City College’s new language
laboratory at an open house to¬
morrow.
The laboratory will be open
from 8 a.m. to .4 p.m. and in the
evening from 7 until 9. During
this time the lab will be open to
all interested parties and infor¬
mation and demonstrations of the
new equipment will be given
throughout the specified times.
Extended Day Executives
to Visit National Conclave
John E. Twomey, assistant principal in charge of Extend¬
ed Day, will attend the first annual conference of the Adult
Education Association of the United States after working
on the convention’s planning committee for the past year. Mr.
Twomey has been working with _ _
some of the nation’s top adult
education specialists including
Carl Hancey, dean of the Univer¬
sity College at USC; C. L. Van-
derbie, former director of adult
education in Germany; and John
Donovan, noted AF of L union
executive, to arrange the confer¬
ence which is to be held October
23-26 at the Alexandria Hotel in
Los Angeles.
Also attending the conclave will
be local extended day adminis¬
trators Lowell Barker and Albert
V. Bean. Several hundred dele¬
gates are expected to attend the
conference, which will feature ex¬
hibits of adult education meth¬
ods in schools and other organi¬
zations throughout the nation, in¬
cluding a pictorial display of ac¬
tivities in PCC Extended Day
classes.
The Adult Education Associ¬
ation was founded last year, and
Mr. Twomey became a charter
member, although he could not
attend the formative meetings
held in Columbus, Ohio. The
group includes adult education
experts from colleges, unions,
churches, and other institutions
all over the country.