PCC Chronicle, September 23, 1953

« PCC Chronicle Vol. 54, No. 2 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California September 23, 1953 Bulldog Engine will Ignite at Assembly Sparked by the Pasadena City College Bulldog Band, majorettes, yell leaders and song girls, school spirit will reach a peak during the Friday, Sept. 25, pep assembly to be held in Sexson Auditorium. Honoring the opening of City _ . . College’s football season, the band Muir AWS Cabinet Enjoys PCC Food SCHOOL SPIRIT EN MASSE ... is depicted by this semester’s yell leaders and majorettes who are (1. to r.) Leonard Martines, Norman Mullison, Harold Walker, Eddie Lockhart, and (row two) Jo Anna Ptomey, Dee Meyers, Peggy Peterson, Barbara Littlejohn, Dennie Wombwell, Marilyn Berry and Sherri Kindred. , Pasadena City College’s red sweater service organization, the Spartans, played host to the As¬ sociated Women Students cabi¬ net of John Muir College at a potluck supper in room 208D Monday evening. Student laws were discussed at the dinner. Situations on the two campuses were compared in or¬ der to work out . adequate solu¬ tions to common problems. Semester officers in Spartans are President Jeanette Payne, Vice-president Nora Martinez, II- eana Rozens, corresponding sec¬ retary, and Shirley Smith, record¬ ing secretary. Other officials include Treasur¬ er Ann Robinson, and key Spar¬ tans Judy Bath, Alice Hallstrom, and Joanne Ann Lindsay. PTA Offers Grid Circus The Pasadena Councils of Par¬ ents and Teachers will sponsor the nineteenth annual Football Circus, which will be held Octo¬ ber 10 in the Rose Bowl. Proceeds from this year’s cir¬ cus, as usual, will be used in aiding youth and welfare activi¬ ties in the city schools by pro¬ viding scholarships and conduct¬ ing other welfare work. Money from the PCC ticket sales will be contributed by the PTA to cam¬ pus scholarship funds. It is hoped that the Football Circus proceeds will be sufficient to add consider¬ ably to the funds. Tickets will be sold by mem¬ bers of PCC clubs and in the At¬ tendance Office after September 24. Students are encouraged to pur¬ chase their tickets at PCC so that the proceeds will find their way into the scholarship funds, an¬ nounced Jessie Chittenden, co-or¬ dinating cpunselor in charge of ticket sales. Scrubbin' Fills Key Club Coffers Members of the Key Club will be at it again on Tuesday, Sept. 29, when they don old clothes and bathing suits, and remove shoes , to give campus vehicles a good scrubbing in their annual Car Wash. At a breakfast meeting held yesterday morning, Ron Fox was appointed to head' the car wash committee. The scrubbin’ will take place all day, and those de¬ siring their autos to shine like new should enter the Hill Ave¬ nue parking lot, where club mem¬ bers will wash and sweep out the vehicle all for one dollar. Money derived from the Car Wash will be used to further the projects carried on by the Ki- wanis-sponsored о r g a n i z ation during the school year. A change of officers also took place at Tuesday’s meeting. Dick Patterson was elevated to the post of vice-president, replacing Rick Neumann, and Roger Sam- uelsen was elected to fill Patter¬ son’s former office of member¬ ship chairman. Governmental Post Open to Applicants Three official posts in the Associated Student Body gov¬ ernmental organization have yet to be filled, according to John FitzRandolph, ASB president. Applications are now being accepted for the post of civil service commissioner, at- _ torney general and elections com- PEA Prexy Calls Students Can Purchase Tickets for Barbecue Tickets are now on sale in the student bank for the annual Parent-Teachers Association barbecue and faculty show which will be held on October 8, according to Mrs. George Rodda, president of the Pasadena City College PTA. Again this year, the barbecue will be under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd O. Gwinn, proprietors of the noted Pasadena restaurant which bears their name. Т^е success of last year’s bar¬ becue was due largely to the efforts of the Gwinns, who have again offered the use of their facilities and the service of their staff members. After the early evening barbecue, which will include some stu¬ dent entertainment, City College faculty members will take the spotlight in Sexson Auditorium to present the second annual edition of their efforts in the entertainment field. It has been reported that about 75 instructors will enact several scenes und<|- the direction of John Stewart. Included in the pro¬ duction will be take-offs on the Junior-Senior Prom, and several exhibitions of “glamorous” hula dancing by male instructors. Meeting of Group As the Pasadena Education As¬ sociation entered the fall semes¬ ter this year a general meeting was called by President Robert G. Bowlus, PCC instructor. To be held at 4 o’clock in Har- beson Hall on October 1, the meeting will feature Arthur F. Corey, executive secretary of the California Teachers’ Association, speaking on “We Belong,” it was announced by Carroll Hanson, ex¬ ecutive secretary of PEA. Publication of a new Central Committee Handbook also rated high on the list of fall events. A limited number of copies of the handbook are available for teach¬ ers. Cabinet to Discuss Coming ASB Plans Meeting to discuss new proj¬ ects for this semester, the Asso¬ ciated Student Body Cabinet will gather in 17C tomorrow at noon. Patsy Woodbridge, vice-presi¬ dent has announced that among the projects to be taken up this semester will be law enforce¬ ment and school spirit. The cab¬ inet will also bring school gov¬ ernment more to the individual student’s attention in an attempt to encourage interest. Cabinet members have set a goal to provide concrete evidence of their work this semester. missioner. It is the duty of the Civil Serv¬ ice commissioner to head the ap¬ pointive officials on the campus. He presides over the five-mem¬ ber ' civil service commission, which determines eligibility and qualifications of students for cabinet positions, with the excep¬ tion of the court, and every other position created by the Board of Representatives. The attorney general is the legal adviser for the Board. He serves as chairman of the judici¬ ary committee, and enforces par¬ liamentary procedure at board meetings. He should have a years’ experience in the court system. To handle all public elections on the campus, the elections com¬ missioner must head a commis¬ sion that carries out the details of and arranges the schedule of college balloting. As elections are a major event on the cam¬ pus, a person willing to spend time in working out the polling is desired. Friday, Sept. 25, has been set as the deadline for turning in applications. Organization Board to Hold Open House Open house will be held by the City College Student Organiza¬ tions Council from 3 to 4:30 this afternoon in Harbeson Hall. The affair will give freshmen and new students an opportunity to gain information about the various will march across the prairie of the campus and down the aisles of Sexson Auditorium to take their places in leading PCC stu¬ dents and faculty in school songs and cheers. Student Body President John FitzRandolph will open the pep rally where Robert Fleury, the new band director, and Ed Ny- den, coach of the varsity football team and new to this school, will be introduced. Invitations to participate in Friday’s assembly have been sent to the song girls and pep leaders of San Diego College, which is to play PCC in that evening’s football tussle at the Rose Bowl. Members of this year’s pep squad include yell leaders Ed Lockhart, Leonard Martines, Har¬ old Walker and Norm Mullison. Accompanying the band in the leading of school songs will be song girls Joanne Hinds, Janet Hudspeth, Sharon Kelly, Betty Pinterelli and Dolores Valdez. ASB Books will not be present¬ ed for admission to Friday’s ral¬ ly, since this is one of the two assemblies where they will not be required. Deferment Qualifying Now Open Applications for the Nov. 19, 1953 and the April 22, 1954 ad¬ ministrations of the College Qual¬ ification Test are now available at Selective Service System local boards throughout the country. Eligible students who intend to take this test on either date should apply at once to the near¬ est Selective Service local board for an application and a bulletin of information. Following instructions in the bulletin, the student should fill out his application and mail it immediately in the envelope pro¬ vided to Selective Service Exam¬ ining Section, Educational Test¬ ing Service, PO Box 586, Prince¬ ton, NJ. Applications for the November 19 test must be post¬ marked no later than midnight, Nov. 2, 1953. According to Educational Test¬ ing Service, which prepares and administers the College Qualifi¬ cation Test for the Selective Serv¬ ice System, it will be greatly to the student’s advantage to file his application at once, regardless of the tseting date he selects. The ■- results will be reported to the student’s Selective Service local board of jurisdiction for use in considering his deferment as a student. school clubs and their activities. Charlene Bernstein will be in charge of the procedings. There will also be representatives from each club to help fill in the de¬ tails to the inquiring frosh.