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VOL. 16, NO. 10
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
APRIL 4, 1962
Politicians attend
YR’s convention
Members of the PCC Young
Republicans will attend the 1962
California Young Republican Col¬
lege Federation convention at the
Statler-Hilton hotel beginning Fri¬
day.
The purpose of the convention
is to elect state-wide YR officers
and exchange useful experiences
with other college clubs. The elec¬
tions are highly contested with
certain groups of the organization
running their own candidates.
Barbara Beardsley, club vice-
president, is running for corres¬
ponding secretary of the CYRCF.
Richard Nixon, former vice-
president; Joseph Shell, state leg¬
islator; and Senator Thomas
Kuchel, with other Republican
candidates will speak at the con¬
vention. Mayor Sam Yorty will
welcome the college YR’s to Los
Angeles.
Communist Party
set as debate topic
‘‘Should the Communist Party
USA Be Abolished?” will be de¬
bated next Tuesday at noon on
the library lawn.
Sponsored by the Representa¬
tive Council the debate is being
handled by Ed Sanders, who
urges all interested students to
attend.
Five minute pro and con
speeches will be given by mem¬
bers of the speech department.
Each will then be allowed two
minutes for rebuttal. The discus¬
sion will then be opened up to
the audience.
According to Sanders, “The abo¬
lition of the Communist Party is
certainly an issue upon which
everyone should be informed.” He
added that a good way to start
would be to come to the debate
and listen.
Through the courtesy of the
radio department, a speaker is
being hooked up to the prairie in
addition to the speakers on the
lawn so students who are lunch¬
ing in that area will be informed.
The topic for debate was select¬
ed after extensive consideration
by the Rep Council.
— Courier photo by John King
THERE'S COLOMBIA — Gathering more information for the Model
United Nations to be held in San Diego next week are delegates
Jeff Hess, Evi Bean, Carolyn Crockett, and Oral De Wayne Pyle.
Chemistry professor speaks
at annual Faraday lecture
Pasadena City College’s 35th annual Faraday Lecture will
be held in Sexson Auditorium tomorrow at 8 p.m. The speak¬
er is Dr. Donald J. Cram, professor of chemistry at UCLA.
Admission is free and the public is invited. Cram’s topic is
“Man, Molecules and Milestones.” _
He will talk about work, in which
he has taken part, in the study of
molecular structure, or in other
words, “molecular engineering.”
This work has increased the sci¬
entist’s basic understanding of
matter and has resulted in the
creation of unusual new sub¬
stances.
The first purpose of the lecture
is to stimulate interest in science
among students of junior and
senior high school age. To this
end, part of the lecture program
consists of a note-taking contest
based on the speaker's talk, with
the PCC physical science coun¬
cil and faculty advisers acting as
judges. Basis of judging is the
student’s grasp of subject matter,
Orators capture
awards at Cerritos
Pasadena City College’s foren¬
sic squad took top honors at the
recent Cerritos Invitational Tour¬
nament speech tournament held
at Cerritos College.
The squad won more awards
than any other college at the tour¬
nament. Out of the 12 events it
entered it won eight trophies and
certificates.
Individual winners were Jan
Perry, taking an excellent in de¬
bate; Dennis Denning, excellent in
debate and persuasive speaking;
Duke Dobbs, excellent in debate
and impromptu speaking.
Other recipients were Diane
Schafer, excellent in debate and
persuasive speaking; Ottis Pitt¬
man, excellent in persuasive and
debate areas; John Raphael, ex¬
cellent in debate; and Nancy
Tooker, excellent in persuasive
speaking.
neatness, legibility, illustrations,
spelling, and arrangement.
Prizes will be given for the
best set of notes from a boy and
a girl from each school, or group
of schools, represented.
The second purpose is to intro¬
duce eminent scientists to stu¬
dents and the community. Speak¬
ers in the past have included such
Nobel Prize winners as Linus
Pauling and Willard Libby.
10 delegates participate
in San Diego activities
Pasadena City College students will participate in the
twelfth annual collegiate Model United Nations at San Diego
State College on the weekend of April 11. In attendance will
be approximately 1000 delegates from 97 colleges in California,
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon¬
tana, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and
New Mexico.
PCC, which has sent delega¬
tions to the 11 previous sessions,
is representing the Republic of
Colombia this year.
THE TEN member delegation
consists of Dr. Harold Hansen,
faculty adviser; Carolyn Crock¬
ett, chairman; Pete Cooper, Jeff
Hess, Oral Pyle, Richard Reed,
Ismael Reyes, native of Colom¬
bia and technical adviser; Martin
Sapetto, student from Argentina;
and Simon Wambaa, student from
Africa.
The purpose of the MUN is to
give American and foreign stu¬
dents an accurate view of how
the UN operates. According to
Dr. Hansen, realism is the by¬
word, with everything possible
done to imitate the real UN.
HE ADDED, “Each college rep¬
resents a country and tries to do
its best to follow the thinking
and foreign policy of that coun¬
try. Thus, the dissensions and dis¬
agreements found in the UN in
New York will be found in San
Diego.”
To iron out points on various
resolutions, caucusing and bar¬
gaining between nations and
blocks of nations will be neces¬
sary. Some of this caucusing will
be informal, while other meet¬
ings between groups such as the
Latin bloc, NATO countries and
the Russian group will be more
formalized.
Highlighting the conference are
General Assembly sessions on
April 11 and 14.
THE MUN originated at Stan¬
ford 12 years ago. Since then
schools in Northern and South¬
ern California have alternately
hosted the affair. The hosting
'Some Came Running'
shown by typographers
“Some Came Running” will be
presented April 12 in Sexson Aud¬
itorium at 3 and 7:30 by the PCC
Typography Club.
According to club vice-president
Steve Sisson, the film is being
shown as a fund raising project,
with the proceeds to be used
toward sponsoring an orphan.
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin
and Shirley MacLaine head the
cast of “Some Came Running.”
It is the MGM film version in
cinemascope and color of the best
selling novel by James Jones.
Tickets are now on sale for 50
cents from any member of the
Typography Club.
Educators saddened by death
of former principal Harbeson
Funeral services were held last
Friday for Pasadena’s City Col¬
lege’s first dean and long-time
principal Dr. John Wesley Har¬
beson.
After having been restricted in
his activities for some time, death
came to the 78-year-old Pasadena
educator at 9:30 a.m., March 27,
in his North Craig Avenue home.
On hearing of his death, PCC’s
president Dr. Catherine J. Rob¬
bins issued a written statement
which said in part: “All of us at
Pasadena City College are sad¬
dened at the passing of our much
loved former principal Dr. John
W. Harbeson. His close friendship
with students and staff, his high
ideals for each of us and his ex¬
cellent administration of the col¬
lege are a continuing inspiration
to us . . . Dr. Harbeson’s leader¬
ship in the development of junior
colleges on the local, state and
national levels is recognized
throughout our country.”
At a later interview, she added,
“As the president of the college,
I feel a daily inspiration from
having worked for 26 years under
his fine leadership.”
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Dr. John W. Harbeson
. . . former PCC principal
school does not represent a na¬
tion, but instead acts as the UN
secretariat.
Miss Crockett said, “PCC dele¬
gates have planned many months
for this event. They have met
every Sunday afternoon since Oc¬
tober formulating, preparing and
discussing.”
Early on April 11 the group will
depart from Union Station for
San Diego, where they will lodge
at the El Cortez Hotel. From the
hotel, their destination will be
San Diego State College and the
beginning of the conference.
Language Week
celebrated locally
“The Common Market and the
USA,” a speech by PCC social sci¬
ence instructor John Madden, will
begin the week of PCC activities
for the observance of National
Foreign Language Week, April
8 to 14.
Madden will be the featured
speaker in Harbeson Hall, April
9, 8 p.m., during the week's pro¬
gramming sponsored by the for¬
eign language department.
The Monday program also of¬
fers a musical presentation of pi¬
ano numbers, and foreign singers
and dancers in their native cos¬
tumes.
On April 11, at 4 p.m., the for¬
eign language speaking contest,
open to high school students, will
be held in the language depart¬
ment of
К
building. The compe¬
tition is in French, German, Latin,
Russian and Spanish.
Arthur Wiley, chairman of the
foreign language department, will
address the contestants in a pro¬
gram in the choral room preced¬
ing the announcement of the win¬
ners. The prizes will be awarded
in May at the departmental
awards tea.
Stressing the importance of
foreign languages in today’s
world, National Foreign Lan¬
guage Week was established by
presidential proclamation and is
sponsored by Alpha Mu Gamma,
national foreign language honor
society.
Band presents concert
in Sexson tomorrow
In honor of "winning their bat¬
tle to Seattle,” a concert will be
presented by the PCC Lancer
Band in Sexson Auditorium at
noon tomorrow.
This assembly is open to the
student body and features Mal¬
colm McNab as trumpet soloist.
Selections for the concert in¬
clude “North Sea Overture” by
Hermann, “Eulogy” by Wagner,
“Carnival of Venice” by Arban,
“Suite Number One for Military
Band” by Holst, and numbers
from “Porgy and Bess” by Ger¬
shwin.
Wesley Heath passes
Wesley P. Heath, teacher-coor¬
dinator in the Placement Bur¬
eau and Work Study Program
since 1951, passed away at his
home suddenly last Friday aft¬
ernoon, of a heart condition. He
is survived by his wife, Lois,
and two daughters, Karen and
Christina. Services will be held
at the Neighborhood Church,
California Street and Pasadena
Avenue, Sunday, at 4 p.m.
‘Operation Correction’
“Operation Correction” will be
shown tomorrow by the Inter¬
national Relations Club at 12
noon. Interested students are
urged to see the film since it
presents an opposing view of
the San Francisco riots that are
depicted in the controversial
“Operation Abolition.”
