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as one of the POWs from the old “Hogan’s
Heroes” TV show. Or as a member of that zany
team on “Laugh In.” It is Richard Dawson,
well-known comedian-actor. He was inter¬
viewed on Wednesday morning at the campus
telecommunications student Eric Johnson.
The taped session, produced by Paul Pieratt
and other TV students, will be shown on the
campus station at a later date.
—Courier Photo by Pete Whan
Women Deejays
Proffer Advice
By Melissa Lunddgren
Staff Writer
Encouraging women to get
education and experience as the first
steps into the broadcasting field was
the main theme of three DJs, Sie
Holliday (KRLA), Patsy Hoffman
(KFI) and Carole Knaul (KMPC).
These women were guests of the
College Women in Broadcasting at an
open forum, tuesday, march 24.
all three women agreed that the
opportunities for women in broad¬
casting are unlimited.
Miss Hoffman and Miss Holliday,
both graduates of the University of
Texas, and Miss Knaul, a UCLA
graduate, advised students to take
advantage of all college radio,
television and journalism experiences
they possibly can.
Miss Knaul particularly emphasized
this point, as she was active on the
UCLA Bruin staff, and and KLA radio
station as a writer, traffic director',
time salesman, biller and any odd job.
She said this rounded out her ex¬
perience before she was hired at
KMPC in the sales department. Later
she worked her way into news writing.
Miss Holliday and Miss Hoffman
stressed students should work in a
small station (as each did) before
attempting to work for a major station.
All agreed that the sophistication of
college radio stations today is highly
regarded as legitimate on-the-job
experience by the broadcasting in¬
dustry.
At her first job in a small Texas
station, Miss Holliday recalled doing
Fire Fighting Career
Offers Many Benefits
Two representatives of the L.A.
County Fire Stations were on campus
last Monday, in the department’s
annual search for new recruits. Rudy
Monarrez is a fireman in Huntington
Park and John Baily works at a Los
Angeles fire station.
In a detailed explanation, Monarrez
told students what they could do if
interested in fire-fighting as a career.
First an application to take an exam
for the job must be filed. The filing
Euell Draws
Large Group
By Susan Williams
Staff Writer
“Nettles are a high source of protein
and the pecan is actually one of those
wild hickory nuts that we have heard
so much about.’’
From the mouth of Euell Gibbons,
natural foods specialist, came these
and other thoughts on wild food to a
large audience at this week’s Tuesday
Evening Forum.
Gibbons said that Americans are
eating much better now than 15 years
ago. He attributes this to the growing
awareness of the young to the value of
natural foods. It seems, he said, that
the ones who were brought up on
potato chips and soda pop are the ones
who, today, are returning to the
natural foods.
“Nature is the greatest chemist of
them all, so how can we say that all
chemicals are bad?” Gibbons
remembered out loud how bad his
peaches had tasted the year of the
chemical fertilizer. He said the
following year, “with good ole cow
manure in the soil” the peaches were
“out of this world.”
Gibbons also pointed out how
dependent we really are on wild plants.
The oxygen in our air comes from the
natural interaction of sun, soil and
plant life.
According to Gibbons the typical
American farm is an oxygen user
when it should be an oxygen producer.
There should be 10,000,000 bacteria in
each teaspoon of earth; they return
nitrogen to the soil. This bacteria
thrives in an organic, not a chemical
enviroment.
“Man has got to develop an involved,
concerned, creative relationship with
nature, for without this there is really
nowhere to go.”
Gibbons is not alone in his ap¬
preciation of natural food. Over 100
wild food gourmets meet the third
weekend each September for a
“glutton’s paradise.” They eat,,
compare recipes and show slides on
the realm of the wild and natural food.
Each food prepared must contain a
“wild” main ingredient and each guest
brings his or her specialty.
dates for this year are April 5-11. When
all applications are received, the
department will send out cards telling
when and where the place of
examination will be.
Due to the amount of applicants the
department is selective. “We choose
college campuses,” says Monarrez,
“because the 18-30 required age group
is there.
“Also there are more veterans.
People in school now know more what
they want to do in life; that is why they
are in college. This is the kind we are
looking for— the young, self-motivated
person.”
Monarrez says, “This year, we are
also looking for minorities. The law
requires that we have 20 per cent black
and 20 per cent Mexican-American
recruits. The overall situation is way
below that level ; the main reason is, in
the past the fire department was
mainly a family deal.”
Benefits in becoming a fire-fighter
are great. If selected the fire-fighter
will work 24 hours a day on a 10-day
staggered shift each month.
Starting pay is $9.93 an hour, and
with a five-year increment you can get
as much as $13.81 an hour. Paramedic
programs are available, as well as
different jobs in fire prevention.
On the other hand, there are many
dangers in the life of a fireman, but an
eight-week training period should
make a person capable of handling any
emergency situation.
A recent announcement in the
Campus Crier stating that the fire¬
fighting jobs were for summer only
was misquoted. For more information
students can go to the counseling of¬
fice.
everything from painting the studio,
to doing a remote broadcast from a
rodeo. Miss Hoffman added that the
advantage of working small stations
gives background and develoos ex¬
pertise.
Miss Holliday started as a traffic
director and writer at KRLA,
Pasadena, almost i4 years ago. In the
last year as a disc jockey and
newscaster, she has become one of the
most popular and well known female
radio voices in Los Angeles. She co¬
hosts a pop-rock music show with Roy
Ellwell from 6-10 a.m. and 3-7 p.m.
daily, which is pre-recorded or
automated.
At KFI, in Los Angeles, Miss Hoff¬
man has been traffic and continuity
director for five years. Traffic in¬
cludes coordinating commercials,
logs, news and programs, which today
are fed simultaneously through a
computer. Continuity fits them
smoothly together into the daily time
schedule.
Automation has made it possible for
Miss Hoffman to do work which would
have taken six people in the earlier
days of radio.
Miss Knaul has worked at KMPC for
five years. She writes news, does news
interviews and on-the-air broadcasts.
The large turnout will result in more
forums this semester, including an
appearance by KMET’s Mary Turner.
WHO IS THIS MAN?— You may recognize him
television studios in a session hosted by PCC
PCC CotVti&v
VOL. 39, NO. 8
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
APRIL 4, 1975
Board of Education Candidate Sam Sheats
Insists on Equal Opportunities by Busing
By Pat Francis
Assistant City Editor
Note: This is the second of two articles
on candidates for the April 15 election
to a seat on the Pasadena Board of
Education.
“We have no option— we must insist
on equal educational opportunities or
Buttons To Publicize
ASB Senate Meetings
Senators at the Tuesday ASB
meeting decided to publicize their
meetings by buying buttons for them to
wear. They also formed two new
committees, one to look further into a
child care center and another to
develop a program acquainting
students with each other.
“What I am after is getting students
here to the meetings,” said second vice
president Jerry Callishen. “Buttons
are not just for publicity, but also so
people can know who the senators
are— getting senators more per¬
sonalized. And the buttons can do it.”
The senate can purchase 100 three-
inch buttons for $60. What the buttons
will exactly say has not been agreed
upon yet.
A committee on a child care center
for student mothers will be looking at
the problems of staffing, legal and
financial aspects and locations either
on or off campus.
In November a meeting between the
Child Care Action Committee and the
administration presented a petition to
start a child care facility.
At that time, Dr. Armen Sarafian
gave complete support, but said there
remained a “question of im¬
plementation.”
It was suggested that the child care
center could be placed in the vacant
property adjacent to 210 Freeway or
two transportable classrooms south of
E Building could be moved to a
suitable site. Having the- center on
campus will pose the problem of a
playyard for the children, a legal
requirement.
Dr. Sarafian, president of PCC, is
scheduled to speak next week (after
vacation) to explain why free grass
concerts cannot be held on campus.
Postage Stamp To Commemorate
Success of Mariner Space Mission
By Ernie Aldrich
Staff Writer
Special ceremonies today at Jet
Propolusion Laboratories (JPL) will
mark the release of the only first day
stamp ever issued in Pasadena. The
event which starts at 10:30 a.m. will be
taped by PCC student production
personnel for the closed circuit
television show, “Perspectives,”
which begins in April.
The special stamp is being released
in honor of the Mariner 10 program
which has successfully sent back to
earth pictures of Venus and Mercury.
The success of this project is due to the
combined efforts of JPL, Caltech and
The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA). Mariner 10
MARINER 10 ★ VENUS/MERCURY
FIRST IN PASADENA— This is how an artist visualized Mariner 10’s
journey to Venus and Mercury in the commemorative stamp being re¬
leased today in Pasadena. The postage is the brainchild of the JPL
Philatelic Society, which requested the issue from Postmaster
General Summerfield.
was launched in November of 1973 and
was turned off last week at the com¬
pletion of its mission.
The commemerative stamp is the
brainchild of the JPL Philatelist
Society which requested the issue from
Postmaster General Summerfield.
There is a design contest held for each
new stamp issued and the contest
winner in this case was artist Roy
Gjertson of San Diego. Gjertson also
designed the Battle of Gettysburg Civil
War Centennial stamp of 1963.
JPL Director W. H. Pickering will
speak at today’s ceremonies and
Senior Assistant General J. P.
Ellington, Jr. will present special issue
albums to project division represen¬
tatives. Entertainment will be
provided by the Caltech Glee Club and
the Marine Aircraft Wing Band.
“Perspectives” will begin broad¬
casting April 24, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
“This program covers all aspects of
the community and college that might
be of interest to the student,” ac¬
cording to Joe Keane, Telecom 16
instructor.
The Post Office will have a special
branch set up at JPL to handle sales
and cancellations of the stamp and the
covers. The stamps are 10 cents each
or $5 a sheet, and the specially can¬
celled covers will be $1.00.
Sales will open at 9:30 a.m. and
continue until 12:30 p.m. The issue will
be sold throughout the country starting
Saturday.
we will pay a high price in the future,”
said Samuel Sheats, District Four
incumbent and candidate for a seat on
the Pasadena Board of Education. A
member of the board since 1971, he is
running against PCC counselor John
Hardy.
A resident of Altadena since 1958 and
a graduate of Moorhouse College and
Yale Law School, Sheats practices law
in Los Angeles. Always active in
community affairs, he has worked
with the local branch of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People and the Pasadena
Commission on Human Needs and
Opportunities. He has served on many
past and present local and state ad¬
ministrative committees on education.
“My children both went through
Pasadena schools, and my interest in
them has left me with a great concern
for this particular system,” he said.
A number of legal cases in which
Sheats has been involved dealt with
citizen rights, particularly those in¬
volving any infringement on the rights
of the black community. “Whether the
nation is facing it or not, black people
Predictions for
Summer Jobs
Disappointing
By Jill Boekenoogen
City Editor
“People do not realize every school
floods the labor market in the summer
and business is generally slower,” said
Mrs. Jeanne Herrick, head of the
Placement Office, about the
possibilities of getting summer jobs.
“Students would be lucky to find jobs
in their fields in which they are
studying.
“Talking with friends and other
contacts are good sources for jobs,”
said Mrs. Herrick. “Try every source,
including newspapers, EDD (Em¬
ployment Development Department)
and the PCC Office.”
“We have a bulletin board outside
this office just for summer jobs. We
mostly get requests for lifeguards and
camp work. People should know that if
they are looking for work which pays
good, camp work is the wrong kind of
work,” said Mrs. Herrick.
“If people do not mind it, food
preparation is a good place for work
because we get so many tourists in this
area,” commented Mrs. Herrick.
“Jobs do not come into this office until
summer, except some camp work.
Students should just keep their eyes on
the board.”
Dick Marshall, head of classified ads
for the Pasadena Star-News, said, “We
usually get listings a couple of weeks
before school is out. The usual jobs are
yard work, house cleaning and pain¬
ting because people try to save money
rather than having professionals do
the work.”
Human Resources Development
representative Mrs. Linda Darnell
said, “We are starting a promotional
campaign for employers this week to
help absorb the students in the sum¬
mer. The jobs should start coming in
April. Most of the jobs we get are in the
service line like waitress, bus boy,
grocery, baby sitting and yard work.”
simply are not being treated fairly,”
said Sheats. This, he believes, is the
key to the struggle of recent years for
the district.
“I consider myself a realist,” he
added. “I believe we have created
intolerable stresses among our
children, and fortunately they are
detecting this bigotry that has been
handed down to them. Nevertheless, as
adults, we have an affirmative obliga¬
tion to deal with the remaining
problem,” added Sheats.
“I believe a real maturity has risen
among students, that is enhanced by
the Pasadena Plan. Students are
seeing more clearly, and are dealing
seriously with issues of the day,” said
Sheats.
In many ways he is pleased with
progress in the district, for Pasadena
has “greater opportunities than ever,
giving students more chances to
participate in both academic and
extracurricular activities. Trends are
becoming sounder each day,” Sheats
commented, “with parents of these
students more willing and able to focus
now on deeper needs of their children.
“The key to assuring equal
education is provided via busing,” said
Sheats. “People talk about ac¬
complishing this goal of education
through other means, but none is
really as practical,” he added. “Most
people who oppose busing oppose in¬
tegration in general. Segregation has
done such great damage, and I want to
see it end.
“We need people with compassion,
understanding and interest to lead the
school district. You have to want to
make things better,” he concluded.
“We need to show that we cart for
every child, but especially those whose
skin is black.”
Junior Litho Club Sponsors
Five-Year-Old Haitian Child
The PCC Junior Litho Club, under
the direction of Steve Robertson,
unanimously voted to sponsor a child,
Rachelle St. Julien, through World
Vision International.
Rachelle, whose favorite subject is
music and who likes to play with dolls,
is a five-year-old Haitian girl, whose
father deserted her family.
The Club’s sponsorship will help to
provide the food, clothing and
education that Rachelle’s mother
cannot afford.
“It is my hope that the club will
continue Rachelle’s sponsorship until
she grows up,” said Robertson.
World Vision International ad¬
ministers the funds donated by club
members and has been working for
about 25 years to provide care for
destitute children and to provide
correspondence between sponsors and
children.
Dr. Inga Behr
To Exhibit Her
Marine Photos
Dr. Inga Behr, associate professor of
physical sciences, is having some of
her underwater photos and
posterizations exhibited for the public.
Her pictures will be part of a large
exhibition to be held at Santa Anita
Fashion Park in Arcadia, beginning
Monday.
Dr. Behr, who takes and develops
her own black and white and color
underwater photos, is an avid scuba
diver and a member of the Underwater
Pohotgraphic Society of California,
which also exhibits pictures at the
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and
the Queen Mary in Long Beach.
Fifteen photographs and a
posterization of various fishes and
marine life taken by Dr. Behr around
the Caribbean and South Pacific are to
be featured in the exhibit.
Robertson said his goals for the
Junior Lithos include sports activities
and social evenings where students
and people in the industry can get
together. He says that he would like to
include high school students in these
evening gatherings. “Up until now
there has been no continuity.”
Printing students and anyone else
with an interest in the field are invited
to the Campus Center April 16, 8 p.m.
for coffee and discussion with local
people in the profession.
Pep Tryouts
Commencing
This Month
Tryouts for the college Pep Com¬
mission begin this month. Practice
dates for Song Girls are set for April
15-23 in the Music Building at 3:30 p.m.
with tryouts on April 24 in the Men’s
Gym. Rehearsal for Golden Girls, a
precision drill team, will be held April
28 to May 3 with tryouts on May 5.
Lancerettes try out on May 12 and
practice April 19 to 22. Twirling Flags,
candidates may practice May 19 to 22,
and try out on May 23.
Cheerleaders will be under the
supervision of the band for the first
time this season. Practice will be on
May 27 and tryouts will be held on May
30.
Students may earn two units of
credit for participation by enrolling in
Music 61. They may substitute this
class for PE.
Selected members will be con¬
sidered a part of the Lancer Band and
will take part in important events such
as the coronation of the Queen, the
Rose Parade and rallies. They will also
participate in regular pep activities
such as the Kiwanas Club kick-off
luncheon, service club performances
and half-time activities.
Additional information may be
obtained by contacting Mrs. Hensley
or Ronald Hoar of the Music Depart¬
ment.