Campus Bootblacks to Buff and Brush
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VOL. 6, NO.X q PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA APRIL 10, 1957
Meeting Tomorrow
Concludes Week
of Youth Activities
To climax Pasadena’s observ¬
ance of Youth Week, a Youth
Council meeting will be held to¬
morrow, April 11. Pasadena’s
mayor, Seth Miller, will attend
the meeting at which a summary
of the week’s events will be made.
Representing PCC on the Youth
Council will be Pete Caputo and
Janet Boldt, both of whom work¬
ed on the Youth Day activity yes¬
terday and acted as advisers at
the Youth Conference last Satur¬
day.
At Saturday’s conference, held
at John Muir High School, ap¬
proximately 18 Lancer students
represented the junior college at¬
titude. PCC sent two discussion
leaders to the event, Bob Grant
on the topic, “Law and Law En¬
forcement,” and Bob Ward with
“Education” as his subject. In ad¬
dition to Miss Boldt and Caputo,
Mary Lou Lee and Dick Palmer
also acted as topic advisers to the
adult groups.
Serving as delegates to the sev¬
en youth week discussion groups,
were Chuck Scurlock, Dick Crout-
er, Bert Dorman, Pat McBroom,
Karen Dunbar, Joanne Greene,
Marilyn Castagna, Joe Hobson,
Marilyn Dufur, Glenda Fox, Rose¬
marie Mason, and Joyce Morten-
son.
PASADENA SHOE SHINE GAL ... Jo Crisler does^a 'bang-0
up job on Steve Salisian’s white bucks as Pete Caputo surveys
the proceedings. This scene will be repeated many times today as
the Freshmen undertake the cleaning of some 4000 shoes (they
hope) during their Shoe Shine Day. Under the direction of
Mary Helen Heed, Frosh president, the class of 1958 will have
stands manned by men and women in strategic campus sites»
PCC Represents Mexico
at Seventh Model UN
The Republic of Mexico will be the country represented
by the nine PCC delegates to the seventh Model United Na¬
tions which will convene April 10 through 13 at Stanford.
Together with their adviser, Dr. Harold Hansen, the PCC
members of the miniature world _
•Newmanites
Pasadena’s Newman Club will
attend communion Sunday,
April 28, at Mission San Juan
Capistrano. After Mass the
club will tour the mission and,
to complete the day, a picnic
will be held at San Clemente
Beach. Sign up at the Newman
meeting, April 23. Transporta¬
tion will be by chartered bus.
-Shine, sir? Dime a shine! Freshmen-tumed-shoeshine
boys will man seven stations today across the campus to pro¬
vide Lancers with an opportunity to have their shoes shined
for only ten cents a shine. Bucks, suedes, and black, brown, or
Beta Members to
Host Fifth Annual
Newspaper Contest
Journalists from surrounding
high schools and junior high
schools will converge on PCC
Monday, April 22, for the semi¬
annual Journalism Open House
sponsored by the Alpha chapter of
Beta Phi Gamma.
Scheduled to run from three to
five in the afternoon the open
house is designed to acquaint fu¬
ture journalists with the various
opportunities offered by PCC, and
to give credit where credit is due
to the various high school news¬
paper staffs.
An assembly will begin the
afternoon’s activities. Newspa¬
pers which have been submitted
for judging will receive awards
in the field of front page make¬
up, the most outstanding news
story, the .most outstanding
news photo, best feature story,
best editorial, and the most out¬
standing sports story and sports
photo. \
For the first time this year one
of the papers will be given an
over all award for being the best
in competition. Papers will be
judged from September through
April. Judges for this, the fifth
annual San Gabriel Valley News¬
paper Contest, are members of
the staffs of the Pasadena Inde¬
pendent and Star-News.
Following the assembly the
future typewriter pounders will
tour the City College canipus
and view the offices of the vari¬
ous student publications, and
the printshop. The tour will end
in the Photography Lab where
refreshments will be served, and
entertainment through the mu¬
sic of Lancer Kalph Sanchez,
will be presented to the assem¬
bled throng.
Working with William P. Butt-
ler in coordinating the afternoon’s
activities are Miss Mildred Poor-
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white polished shoes can be cared
for at the shoe shine stands which
are a project of the Freshman
Class.
Students desiring to have their
shoes shined today may avail
themselves of this opportunity at
any one of the three stands on
the Prairie, at the Memorial
Court stand, the Sierra Bonita
stand, the Library stand, *or the
Tech Building stand.
Freshman Council members,
students from the six basic com¬
munications classes and other
frosh volunteers will serve as
bootblacks for the day. Both male
and female Lancers will do the
polishing which is being held for
the purpose of raising funds for
the Freshman Class treasury.
Freshman Class president Mary
Helen Heed heads the commit¬
tee in charge of the event. Work¬
ing with her are Pete Caputo, Jo
Crisler and Carol Coverstone on
publicity posters and the shoe
shine kits.
Each station will be equipped
with shoe shining facilities for
leather and suede shoes as well
as buffer bags for white bucks.
Not only male Lancers, but the
feminine half of the campus pop¬
ulation also are urged to patron¬
ize the stands to receive a top-rate
shoe cleaning job for one thin
dime and to aid the lower class-
men with their project as well.
Campus Welcomes
Music Convention
Seven hundred adult delegates
and 1100 student participants will
convene in Pasadena during East¬
er vacation for the Golden Anni¬
versary Convention of the West¬
ern Division Music Educators Na¬
tional Conference. PCC, the
Civic Auditorium and the Hunt-
ington-Sheraton Hotel will be
headquarters for the convention.
Three administrators of PCC
are on the board of hosts for the
organization have spent nine
weeks in preparation for the an¬
nual event. The students have
studied the position of Mexico in
the UN and the views she holds
of world events.
To aid the group in under¬
standing his country better, Sr.
Adolfo Domingues, the Consul
General of Mexico in Los An¬
geles, has met with the delega¬
tion to discuss the official view
of the real Mexican UN dele¬
gation. In addition to this, the
history, economics and geogra¬
phy of the country were also
studied.
According to Frank Morris,
chairman of the event, Mitchell
Saadi, Diane Barrington, Eliza¬
beth Davis, Nora Hernandez, Han¬
na Tarazi, Maria Fleschberger,
Shafik Karadsheh, Peter Molnar,
and himself have been chosen to
attend the four day convention in
Northern California.
Under the auspices of the In¬
ternational Relations Club, the
delegation is being financed
through International Relations
,й
Conference Funds made up of
money from the ASB budget,
and from private contributors
such as the Altadena Rotary
Club and the American Associ¬
ation for the United Nations.
^ Last April, Pasadena City Col¬
lege sent ten delegates and an
adviser to Oregon State College
for the Model United Nations pro¬
gram at Corvallis. The group
represented the country of Nor¬
way.
•Help Wanted
All 13-1 students who are cur¬
rently taking accounting and
would be interested in securing
a campus finance job are urged
to contact Bob Bartlett, commis¬
sioner of finance, immediately.
The position of assistant com¬
missioner of finance is open.
The job would entail assisting
the current commissioner for
two semesters and eventually
serving as commissioner.
Speaker Discloses
Asia Philosophy
Speaking on “Philosophy and
Politics in the Orient,” Dr.
Charles A. Moore, a University of
Hawaii philosophy professor, is
being presented by the Social
Science Council this Friday at
11 a.m. in 200C. Dr. Moore will
be the first of a series of speak¬
ers which the Social Science De¬
partment is scheduling for this
spring.
The well-known writer and
speaker is on a leave of absence
from the Hawaiian University to
make a series of addresses to col¬
leges in Southern California.
Dr. Moore has spent many
years in the East, in India, China,
and Japan. He also edits the
Journal of Philosophy at the pres¬
ent time.
According to John Christopher,
Social Science Council adviser, the
forum is open to all students in¬
terested in Oriental philosophy
and politics.
Faraday Lecture Contest Opens with
International Geophysical Year Topic
In observance of the International Geophysical Year, PCC
will sponsor its annual Faraday Lecture contest tomorrow for
high school and junior high school students and will also pre¬
sent a general college assembly for Lancer students. For the
contest, Dr. William H. Pickering, -
director of the California Insti¬
tute of Technology, Jet Propul¬
sion Laboratory, will deliver an
address while a Caltech physics
professor, Dr. H. Victor Neher,
will preside at the college assem¬
bly.
High school and junior high
school students attending the
Faraday Lecture will gather in
Sexson Auditorium at 8 p.m. ,to
hear Dr. Pickering speak on the
topic, “Rockets, Missiles, and Sat¬
ellites.” The students of science
will take notes on the talk to be
submitted for judging by repre¬
sentatives of PCC’s Physical Sci¬
ence Department. Awards will be
given for the best notes as is cus¬
tomary in Faraday Lecture com¬
petition.
Dr. Pickering is well qualified
to speak on the scientific subject,
since he is a member of a 15-man
panel on the Earth Satellite Pro¬
gram of the United States nation¬
al committee for participation in
the International Geophysical
Year.
Four departments of PCC are
co-sponsoring the general college
assembly tomorrow at which time
Dr. Neher will discuss “Cosmic
Rays.” Dr. Neher claims authori¬
ty through being a member of an
Dr. William H. Pickering
11-member cosmic rays technical
panel of the USNC. PCC’s Engin¬
eering, Astronomy and Mathe¬
matics, and Life Science Depart¬
ments are arranging the event.
Physical science instructor, Dr.
William D. Leech, is acting as
chairman of the Faraday Lecture
contest while the entire depart¬
ment under Dr. Harper Frantz is
undertaking the sponsorship of
the science project.
convention which will receive del¬
egates from Arizona, Hawaii,
Utah, Nevada, and California.
President William B. Langsdorf,
Business Assistant Earl W. Hol¬
der, and Administrative Dean
Clyde E. Pfeiffer will be hosts
for the biennial convention.
One of the highlights of the
program will be 140 exhibits
which will be displayed in the
corridors of the first and second
floors of the C Building. The
exhibits will feature displays
and lines of musical instru¬
ments, supplies and equipment.
Dr. Pfeiffer is in charge of the
exhibition which will be open
each day of the convention from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The convention officially opens
at PCC on Sunday, April 14, with
registration on the PCC campus.
Mr. Holder is in charge of this
part of the program and
С.
C.
Benedict, campus control officer,
has charge of parking.
Each day of the program will
include special workshops deal¬
ing with all phases of music.
In addition, special vocal groups
from all over the western re¬
gion will demonstrate their tal¬
ents during the four-day affair.
At a special closing session
Wednesday evening, a gala festi¬
val will be held at the Civic Audi¬
torium. Seven hundred high
school students picked from this
region will form an All-Confer¬
ence Band. An All-Conference
Chorus and an All-Conference Or¬
chestra will also entertain the con¬
gregation.
