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Rooters Bus Hired
for Long Beach Run
Plans have been made to allow
rooters to travel by bus to the
Long Beach varsity game. Tick¬
ets may be purchased at the stu¬
dent bank for a relatively small
charge.
The Pep Commission is hoping
to get at least one bus filled but
additional buses may be charter¬
ed if there are enough subscrib¬
ers. Inquire at the student bank
for a ticket today. Buses will
leave this Saturday from in front
of the Mirror Pools on Colorado
Street.
Vol. 50, No. 7
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Pasadena, California October 24, 1951
Years Ago, Ruth Gordon’s popular stage show, will be
presented in Sexson Auditorium at 3 p.m. today and at 8:15
p.m. tomorrow as the annual produption of Delta Psi Omega,
honorary drama fraternity. “Years Ago” is the story of a
young stage struck girl, Ruth
Jones, who struggles to overcome
her father’s wishes to become a
physical culture teacher so that
she can enter the theater. The
efforts of Pa Jones and two of
his physical culturalist friends to
sell Ruth on a physical educa¬
tion teaching career, and Ruth’s
equally persistant attempts to
convince her parent of the value
of a stage career, are complicat¬
ed by Ma Jones and Ruth’s Har¬
vard-man boy friend to develop
the production into a delightful
comedy which has pleased many
audiences.
Local drama" student Nira Mon-
sour, already well known for her
Penthouse Theater and Eagle
Rock Theater performance^, plays
the role of Ruth, while the part
of Pa Clinton Jones is done by
Ron Troxell, who has had lead¬
ing roles in several local dramas
and is president of the PCC Del¬
ta Psi Omega chapter. Cindy
Jensen, who has acted in and
directed many campus produc¬
tions including “Baby Darlene”
and “Once in a Lifetime,” ably
portrays Ma Annie Jones.
Pa Jones’ two physical cultur¬
alist friends, Mr. Bagley and Miss
Glavin, are played by Pat Wor¬
rell and Jeanne Moore, while Dick
Owens takes the part of Fred
Whitmarsh, Ruth’s boy friend
from Harvard.
Also appearing in the produc¬
tion are Vince Campagna as Mr.
Sparrow, the town’s delivery boy,
Lois Johnson and Rosemarie Hur-
limann as Ruth’s girl friends,
and Punk, the cat. Chuck Bald¬
ridge directs the production,
while Donald A Liercke serves as
adviser. Sets were designed and
built by the local stage technolo¬
gy class.
Admission to the play is free
for ASB members, while general
admission is 50 cents and 25 cents
for children and other students.
Delta Psi Omega is a national
honorary drama fraternity, for
students who have shown excep¬
tional ability in the theater. For
the PCC chapter, the annual play
is an outstanding activity, al¬
though the cast is not limited to
members, but is thrown open to
all drama students.
SCA ‘Ghoul Drool’
Halloween Party
Set Friday Night
Eerie ghosts and screaming
goblins will chase witches around
the SCA “Ghoul Drool,” the
theme given to PCC’s and John
Muir’s joint College Y Halloween
party this year, which will be held
at the Westminster Presbyterian
Church, 1757 N. Lake Avenue, on
Friday, Oct. 26, from 8 to 12 mid¬
night.
Chairman Mike Schon and Co-
chairman Theodoric James, invite
all members and their guests to
an evening packed with fun and
laughter. On the list of enter¬
tainment will be dancing, games,
skits, refreshments and prizes for
the best costumes.
The party is being held Friday
this year in view of the varsity
football game on Saturday at
Long Beach. Admission fee is 35
cents to cover custodian and re¬
freshment expenses.
Noted Journalist
to Address Forum
Next Tuesday
World famous Dorothy Thomp¬
son, author, columnist and radio
commentator, will be the guest on
next week’s Tuesday Evening
Forum at 8 p.m. in Sexson Audi¬
torium.
The noted woman journalist
will speak on “These Crucial
Days” at the weekly lecture pro*
gram. Miss Thompson commands
probably one of the largest audi¬
ences of any writer today. Her
“On the Record” column is dis-
All Class Assembly
Slated for Friday
Featuring some of PCC’s top
talent, the all-class assembly will
be presented next Friday in Sex¬
son Auditorium under the direc¬
tion of Cindy Jensen.
Bill Peters will act as master
of ceremonies. Peters has parti¬
cipated in numerous dramatic
productions on the local campus
in the same capacity.
Dick and Jo Owens, well known
dancers and cheerleaders, will en¬
tertain in the assembly. Provid¬
ing music will be Percy Smalley
and his band.
Sisters Ethel and Ann Vernon,
who sang recently in the Fresh¬
man Orientation assembly are al¬
so scheduled to appear. Names
of other acts will be revealed in
a forthcoming issue.
Following the all-class assem¬
bly the next week, will be a pro¬
gram sponsored by Theta Rho Pi,
honorary radio fraternity.
A few other assemblies sched¬
uled for the rest of the semester
include: Thanksgiving program
directed by Jeanne Moore; “Glor¬
ia,” major music production, al¬
so headed by Miss Jensen; elec¬
tions assembly with Eleanor
Johnson as chairman, and OMD’s
Crafty Hall show.
Three PCC Coeds Pitked
as Cinderella Princesses
Three PCC freshman coeds
were selected last week as mem¬
bers of the Cinderella Court to
reign with two Muir freshmen at
the Tournament of Roses Prin¬
cesses Association’s Cinderella
Ball next Saturday.
The girls, Judy Lynn Roberts,
[Frosh Queen Lu Ann Short, and
Carol Neely, will join Muir coeds
Leah Feland, chosen Cinderella
Queen, and Sandra Gilman,. -to
rule over the dance, which is
sponsored by the recently formed
Princesses Association to raise
funds to enable 19 teen-agers in
a Pasadena girl’s home to contin¬
ue their schooling.
The Cinderella Ball is to be an
inter-school and community wide
semi-formal affair at the Pasa¬
dena Athletic Club starting at
9 p.m. Cinderella will be attend¬
ed by a Hollywood star “Prince
Charming” and she and her court
will ride in limousine coaches.
The Association, formed exclu¬
sively of ex-Tournament of Roses
Princesses to perform community
services, plans to make the Ball
an annual event, and will yearly
pick a Cinderella Court from the
freshman classes at Muir and
PCC, because freshmen women
are ineligible as candidates for
the regular Rose Court.
Campus Military Men
Prepare for Rifle Matches
City College’s ROTC unit is currently engaged in prepa¬
rations for the Sixth Army Rifle Match and the William Ran¬
dolph Hearst match which are to be conducted in the neg,r
future. The two matches are outstanding events in the ROTC
calendar. Sixth Army competi¬
tion involves high school and
junior college teams all over the
south western United States,
while the Hearst match is a na¬
tional contest.
Cadets are currently practicing
in the ROTC rifle range in the
basement of the Men’s Gym.
Elimination trials will start soon
to determine members of the
unit’s competitive team, who will
represent Pasadena in all matches
this year.
Those chosen for the rifle squad
will be further trained before
competition begins by M/Sgt.
Siegfried F. Sulecki.
The group stood for its first
formal dress parade last week
and was inspected by Capt. Mer¬
rill C. Windsor, professor of mil¬
itary science and tactics, com¬
mander of the unit.
Chest X-ray Unit
To Visit Campus
Arrangements have been made
with the Pasadena Tuberculosis
Association to post a mobile chest
X-ray unit on the campus tomor¬
row and Friday.
The X-ray truck will be parked
in the area south of Harbeson
Library ' for the convenience of
students from 8 to 4:30 on both
days. The Xray examination,
which makes. possible early diag¬
nosis and treatment when cases
of
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are discovered, are abso¬
lutely free, a service of the Tu¬
berculosis Association. All stu¬
dents are urged to take advan¬
tage of the opportunity for a
precautionary check-up. Every¬
one examined will be notified of
the results within a short time.
Dorothy Thompson
tributed three times weekly to
160 newspapers. In addition, she
writes monthly articles for the
“Ladies Home Journal,” and ap¬
pears fortnightly in the “London
Observer.” A trustee of Town
Hall, New York, she shares in its
program and is also often heard
on the Town Meeting of the Air
broadcasts. Her address at PCC
will be a bonus event for Forum
audiences.
Since the end of World War
II, she has made three trips to
the continent, covering Europe
and Africa in 1945, viewing the
Polish national elections in 1947
and visiting England, Turkey,
Greece, Trieste and Germany in
1949 to view the current situa¬
tion.
Campus Mourns
Two Faculty Men
City College suffered the loss
this week of two faculty mem¬
bers, music teacher Courtney H.
Eikenbery and physical science
stock room manager Walter C.
Guinn, who died at their homes
after illnesses which had en¬
forced their absences in recent
weeks.
Services were held yesterday
for Mr. Eikenbery, a piano in¬
structor and a PCC graduate
in 1945, when he was valedic-
t torian of the Senior Class. While
at PCC he was active in both
the Music and Language Depart¬
ments, and was a member of the
Order of Mast and Dagger. His
brother, Gardner Eikenbery, is
assistant director of the Bulldog
band, and his wife also teaches
in Extended Day music classes.
Final respects were paid Sun¬
day to Mr. Guinn, who, as man¬
ager of the science department
stock room for five years was
well known to all PCC chemis¬
try students. He was noted as a
fan of all Bulldog athletic teams
and was the personal friend of
many PCC athletes and students
who worked as stockroom assist¬
ants.
PUTTING THE PRESSURE ON PA . . . Nira Monsour re¬
hearses a scene in the annual Delta Psi Omega production “Years
Ago” as she tries to wangle “Pa” Ron Troxell’s approval for her
plans for a stage career. Looking on is “Ma” Cindy Jones.