PCC Chronicle, October 28, 1953

PCC Chronicle Vol. 54, No. 7 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California October 28, 1953 AWS Elects New Heads far Offices Leaders of the women students at PCC this semester have re¬ cently been announced by AWS President Sylvia Pauloo. Elections for membership on the Associated Women’s Stu¬ dent’s executive board revealed that Toy Blixt will .act as first vice-president, while Karen Thorne and Sue Doehring have been elected second and third vice-presidents, respectively. Bun¬ ny Cheely is the new correspond¬ ing secretary and Joanie Mulder is recording secretary. AWS trea¬ surer will be Kathe Kruger. Out of a total of 75 applicants, the Cabinet has been selected and the new members are as fol¬ lows: Seniors — Joan Hopp and Pat Hayes; Juniors — Suzie Pal¬ mer, Nancy Keep, Carolyn Smith, Joyce Gaines and Joan Lee Men¬ denhall; Sophomores — Barbara Hasey, Bonnie Imus, Dolores Meyers, Judy Perkins and Bar¬ bara Allen; Freshmen — Stephanie Chew, Joan Lewis, Susan Mose¬ ley, Ruthie Benedict and Marilyn Behrendt. An installation banquet will be held tomorrow evening at which time the AWS president and board will be installed in their offices. Last semester’s board members have been invited to attend. Campus Yearbook Holds Special Sale Have you got the 1953 edition of the yearbook? If you haven’t got one yet, it still isn’t too late. Miss Gladys Snyder, s Campus staff is holding a spe¬ cial sale. Last year’s annual, which was one of the best, is now on sale in the Student Store for $3.50. The Campus originally sold for $6.50. There are 400 of these yearbooks on sale now but they are going fast. So, if you haven’t yet bought one, now is your chance. American Adventurer to Depict African Journey John Goddard, young American explorer, adventurer and motion picture photographer will treat members of the PCC Tuesday Evening Forum to the colored pictures of his African journey at 8 p.m. on November 3. With two French compan¬ ions, Mr. Goddard recorded on ACP Meet Hosts Ghosts will Gather to Crumble Compton Ghosts, goblins and witches hold no fear for PCC major¬ ettes, song girls, yell leaders and pep band. On Friday, Oct. 30, during assembly period, the supernatural spirits have been invited to Sexs.on Auditorium to help promote school spirit. In preparation for the Compton IT’S A HARD LIFE . . . groans AMS President Terry Smith (seated) as George Paoa (left), representing the varsity football squad, and Jim Matheny (right), Bullpup right halfback, both use pictures to try to convince him that their respective candi¬ dates for AMS Queen should get the coveted crown. The Queen will be announced at the Red and White Luncheon Friday. (Story on page three.) football game Friday evening, the rally has been scheduled and will feature a Halloween theme. The stage technology crew, under the direction of Raoul Proctor and Bob Carroll, will furnish complex lighting and stage effects setting the mood for* the haunting hour. Chris Tambe, assembly com¬ missioner, has announced that many surprises will combine to make this one of the best rallies 'of past seasons. An interesting switch will take place when the upper division song girls don cos¬ tumes and routines of the yell leaders and the yell leaders ap¬ pear as song girls for the City College students and faculty. Pep and Pup Commissions have cooperated in the production of this assembly and the majorettes and song and yell leader^ of Compton College have been in¬ vited to participate in the affair. However, up to the date of Chronicle publication, no reply had been received from Compton. JC’s Name Fifz Prexy John FitzRandolph, president of the Associated Student Body of Pasadena City College, was elected president of the Southern California Junior College Student Government Association on Tues¬ day, Oct. 20. FitzRandolph, who has headed the PCC student government or¬ ganizations for the past two se¬ mesters, was elected at a special meeting of the southland group Mid-term Exams Fare PCC; Students to ‘Grin, Bear It’ It isn’t at all unusual these days to see groups of students around the campus with lines of determination etched across their faces or possibly you’ve seen others with just plain solemn looks about them. Along with these there are plenty of frightened faces, too. The reason for all this? Midterm exams. The examination week will begin on November 2 and last through November 6. The — — - schedule is a follows; Monday, Nov. 2 Social science MWF classes (except psychology, philosophy and economics) ; mathematics MWF classes; foods, clothing and child development MWF classes; business education 12th year MWF classes; English daily and film parts of Africa never before seen by white men. Goddard’s expedition up the Nile River, which has 31 cata¬ racts, harbors, fevers, life-de¬ stroying heat, wild beasts, savage bandits, and hunger, is said by world experts to be impossible and for thousands of years it has defied conquest of men. During the nine-month jour¬ ney, covering 4200 miles, he en¬ countered strange tribes, queer animals, odd jungle life, and the other various hazards of a dan¬ gerous expedition. Most of the journey followed the Nile, which is the world’s longest river. The expedition was under the patronage of the Western Newsmen Los Angeles’ Ambassodor Ho¬ tel will be the site of the first an¬ nual West Coast Short Course and Press Conference of the As¬ sociated Collegiate Press on No¬ vember 5, 6 and 7. Attending the convention from Pasadena City College will be eight journalists, four from the Chronicle and four from the Campus staff. Chronicle editor Dick Anderson and Business Manager Beverly Goodman have been invited to appear on panels that will discuss the various as-"' pects of newspaper production. MWF classes. Tuesday, Nov. 3 English TTh classes; social Sci¬ ence TTh classes; physical sci¬ ence TTh classes ; technology daily classes; foods, clothing and child development daily and TTh classes; art TTh classes; physical education TTh classes; language daily classes. Wednesday, Nov. 4 Technology MWF classes; busi¬ ness education upper division daily classes; physical science daily and MWF classes; physical education and ROTC daily and MWF classes; psychology, music MWF classes; business English 1A. Thursday, Nov. 5 Social science daily classes; life science TTh classes; business education 12th year daily and up¬ per division TTh classes; mathe¬ matics daily and TTh classes; music daily and TTh classes; technology TTh classes. Friday, Nov. 6 Biological science daily and • MWF classes; business education 11th year daily and upper division MWF classes; art daily and MWF classes; philosophy; econ¬ omics. Three unit classes meeting on TTh, one hour one and two the other, will hold their examina¬ tion on the double period day; those with one and one-half hour Featured speaker at the event, • periods will hold them on Tues- which will be attended by student French Geographic Society in со- , journalists from 14 western operation with the French Mu¬ seum of Natural History and the French Explorer’s Club. Students will be admitted to the forum free of charge after 8 o’clock. states, will be Drew Pearson, na¬ tionally known radio commenta¬ tor and author of the column “Washington Merry-go-round.” Well-known speakers from ev- • Continued on Page Three day; daily classes with lectures on TTh and classes meeting but once a week, make best conven¬ ient arrangement in consultation with students. So now, as this dark fate looms over PCC, it seems as if there is but one alternative left. Study! Campus Musicians Perform Thursday City College’s weekly Campus Artist Series will provide excel¬ lent entertainment tomorrow, October 29, at 2:15 p.m. in Har- beson Hall. Tomorrow’s program will con¬ sist of the music of two instru¬ ments. Marilyn Michalsky, sec¬ retary of the Campus Artist Series, will play a piano solo. Miss Michalsky is a PCC gradu¬ ate. A sonata by Mendel will be presented in a cello duet by. Ann Robinson and Rita Molony, mem¬ bers of the PCC orchestra. The Series plans a weekly pres¬ entation of interesting musical programs. Last week’s guests dedicated their performance to United Nations Week by singing various folk songs of the world. Sigma Tau Delta Adds New Members to Roll Names of 34 new members were added to the roll of the PCC chapter of Sigma Tau Delta on Friday night, Oct. 16, at the home- of Mildred Sarason, president. The symbolic initiation ceremony, explaining the club’s three basic principles — sincerity, truth and design — was followed with a talk by Mrs. Helen Hinkley Jones, co-author of “Persia Is My Heart” and wife of Sigma Tau Delta adviser, Ivan Jones, on the same subject. , This, the first meeting of the year, spotlighted a great many literary interests with nearly every phase of written expression spoken for by the members, who range from first-year to graduate students. The next meeting, which will be held on November 30, at a lo¬ cation yet to be designated, will feature a talk by Harald Dyrenforth, an instructor in our own radio department. He will speak concerning radio and television writing. John FitzRandolph held at Santa Monica City Col¬ lege. Thirty-five junior colleges were represented. It was announced at the con¬ ference that Pasadena City Col¬ lege will be the host school for. the organization’s annual con¬ clave, which will be held around the end of March. According to FitzRandolph, the conference to be held here should be a great opportunity for Pasa¬ dena to further its public rela¬ tions as a junior college among the other jaycees of the state. The office of vice-president of the California Junior College Student Government Association automatically comes with the presidency of the Southern Cali¬ fornia organization, the state¬ wide group including 65 schools.