Friday Rally Preps for East LA
Assembly Set tor
First Home Game
Kicking- off the home football season spirit in assembly
this Friday, will be the PCC varsity cheer leaders, song girls,
the Bulldog Band, arid some of the grid players and coaches.
Their job will be pepping up the student body in preparation
for the East LA game in the Rose
Bowl Friday night.
Pom-pon prancing routines will
be executed by upper division
song girls: Sherry Fent, Susan
Hoffman, Sue Tomlinson, Karen
Hjalland and Dolores Valadez.
These girls have been practising
all summer to perfect their steps,
and each possesses two complete
costumes.
READY FOR ACTION ... in rousing City Collegians to the spirit of the football season are these
five upper division song-girls, who along with the Bulldog Band and upper division cheerleaders
will pep things up at the year’s first assembly rally next Friday and at the East LA game that night.
PCC Chronicle
Vol. 52, No. 2
Pasadena, California
September 24, 1952
Freshman Parents
Invited to Meet
“Meet the teachers who are
now instructing your freshman
student, and become acquainted
with the type of procedure fol¬
lowed at his new scholastic
‘home,” is the invitation extend¬
ed to the parents of PCC’s new
frosh members this week by Mrs.
George Rodda, PTA president,
and C. F. Eckels, freshman coor¬
dinator.
A freshman reception is to be
held tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in
Harbeson Hall. Students are tra¬
ditionally urged to attend with
their parents and enjoy the pro¬
gram which is designed to teach
new
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parents more about
11th grade subjects, and give
them a chance to meet counsel¬
ors and members of the adminis¬
tration.
Department chairmen and
teachers of freshman subjects
will be present to explain the
work offered in the various cam¬
pus areas. Each department will
be assigned to a table in the li¬
brary reading room, and teachers
from the departments will be
centralized around the table bear¬
ing the department’s name. Par¬
ents will be urged to discuss any
questions or problems with these
faculty members.
Eligibility Cards Due Cal Tech President to
for Freshmen Offices °Pen Forums He*, Week
Deadline for aspirants to Freshman class offices to turn in
eligibility cards to the commissioner of elections has been set
at 3 p.m. today. Primary frosh elections will be held October
1 after a campaign which officially opens tomorrow following
a candidates meeting scheduled
for today to determine campaign
regulations and other details.
Offices open are the class presi¬
dency and the vice-president, sec¬
retary and treasurer posts. Any
freshman member of the Associ¬
ated Student Body may run for
any of the offices after turning
in eligibility cards signed by his
teachers, and in the case of pres¬
idential candidates, a petition
signed by at least 50 freshman
ASB members.
Write-in candidates will be al¬
lowed to take office if an eligibil¬
ity card is turned in before polls
close at 4 p.m. on election day,
with no president’s petition re¬
quired. Any further information
may be found in the student
handbook, or by talking to the
elections commissioner.
Anatolians Hold Annual
Club Open House Today
For the purpose of acquainting new students and fresh¬
men with PCC, the annual Anatolian Open House is being-
held today in Library Hall from 3 to 4:30. Open House is
composed of a group of displays which are on exhibition from
_ _ each club and department. Var-
•Lancers
Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, president of the California Insti¬
tute of Technology, will visit the PCC campus next Tuesday
night' to open the 1952-53 Tuesday Evening Forum series
with a discussion of “The Role of Science in Human Welfare.”
Long considered one of the world’s foremost scientists and
educators, Dr. DuBridge, chair¬
man of the Scientific Advisory
Committee of the office of De¬
fense Mobilization, has from his
earliest teaching days directed
his work toward the use of sci¬
ence for the benefit of mankind.
Director of Radiation Laboratory
on the National Defense Radia¬
tion Commission during World
War
П,
Dr. DuBridge now uses
Lancers, honorary men’s law
enforcement group, will have
applications available for pros¬
pective members this week in
the attendance office. Appli¬
cants will be interviewed dur¬
ing the assembly hour next
Friday.
'Enlist Now/ Solicits
Civil Service Group
Jim Bald, civil service commis¬
sioner, announces a drive which
started at the beginning of this
week to recruit able students to
fill the posts of commissioner of
departmental activities, secretary
of photography, secretary of so¬
cial science, secretary of foren¬
sics, secretary of awards and
commissioner of organizations.
Every applicant must first fill
out an approval card giving his
ASB number, and either his grade
average or an OK by his teach¬
ers. No student may become a
commissioner without a C aver¬
age and a membership in the
PCC student body.
Applicants will be notified by
mail of a civil service test which
they must attend, and later they
will be interviewed and passed
upon by the civil service commis¬
sion.
Men and women students who
are interested in becoming any
of the listed officers may pick up
approval cards in 17C.
ious signs will indicate the na¬
ture of each display.
Serving facilities and the
punch for the Open House were
provided by the Library Council
club, while the Nysaeans singing
group purchased cookies. The
Players’ Guild was in charge of
publicity, the Lancers arranged
the Library Hall, and the Lan¬
guage Council made an announce¬
ment of Open House in the as¬
sembly last Friday and saw that
each department had a sign for
the event.
All Open House activities were
planned by Anatolians, an organi¬
zation of representatives from all
PCC clubs. The first Anatolian
meeting of the fall semester was
held on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at
3 o’clock. Acting as president for
the second semester is last semes¬
ter’s president Ann Dennett, who
was appointed to the office by J.
Robert Trevor, adviser to the
club. No other officers were elec¬
ted.
Dr. Lee A. DuBridge
his leadership to convert wartime
scientific advancements to con¬
structive peace-time uses.'
Awarded his PhD at the Uni¬
versity of Wisconsin in 1926, Dr.
DuBridge has received numerous
honorary degrees from American
and Canadian universities, and
has won many other honors, in¬
cluding the King’s Medal for ser-
The boys with the waving arms
and bouncing feet who will con¬
duct the cheering in the assem¬
bly period and later at the game
will be Doug Funderburk, Norm
Mullison, Ray Shepard and Skip
Batterson.
Most of the assembly program
is planned to be a surprise to
the rally attenders, however,
Doug Funderburk, pep commis¬
sioner and head of the committee
in charge of planning the assem¬
bly, has announced that Coach
Blackman and some of the varsi¬
ty footballers will appear. Doug
also previewed plans for demon¬
strations to the students on the
proper way to do card stunts,
and the way an ideal rooting sec¬
tion would participate at a game.
At a recent Pep Commission
meeting members discussed vari¬
ous problems vital to the football
season pep scene. The commis¬
sion decided on a weekly poster
party to paint signs to post at
important spots on the campus
announcing coming football
games and rallies. The painting
will be done on Thursday eve¬
nings at the house of one of the
commission members.
Many aspects of importance to
the coming weeks of sports and
spirit were brought up and voted
on by students at this meeting.
Card stunts, game attendance,
pep funds and pep leadership
were all included in the agenda.
Cheer leaders announced a rally
on the front steps to further in¬
still enthusiasm for the locals’
first home game.
Bruce Burdick acts as assist¬
ant Pep Commissioner, and Nan¬
cy Wichman, secretary, records
the meetings.
Bandsmen Allowed
to Drop Phys Ed
PCC students, for the first time
in the history of the school, will
be excused from physical educa¬
tion if they become members of
the band, according to Mrs. Car¬
olyn Weersing, head of the Mu¬
sic Department.
Band may substitute for fall
physical education, therefore stu¬
dents who become members of
the band will be allowed to drop
gym. Friday afternoon rehears¬
als and Friday night games must
be attended by all band mem¬
bers besides the classes, which
are held on Tuesdays and Thurs¬
days from 7,:30 to 9 a.m. Stu¬
dents will receive two units for
the course and may register up
to the registration deadline, Mon¬
day, Sept. 29. Lee Chrisman may
be contacted for further infor¬
mation.
t
vice in the cause of freedom from
England, and the UIS Medal of
Merit for his outstanding war
service.
Next Tuesday’s Forum will
start at 8 p.m. in Sexson Audi¬
torium, and is open to the public.
Following usual Forum proce¬
dure, Dr. DuBridge’s one-hour
talk will be followed by an hour
for questions from the audience.