PCC Courier, April 12, 1961

PC C CoufiieSi Vol. 14, No. 7 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California April 12, 1961 > ' j- . Model borne holds open house April 19 Entire house constructed as annual student task Marking the twelfth consecutive year of college home building, Pasadena City College’s model home will be o; en for public viewing April 19 and Continue to be displayed through May 24 on the construction site north of the stadium. Note¬ worthy as one of the most unique programs in any junior college system, 27 PCC students have, as a class project, built an actual house which will be sold at the end of May to the highest bidder. Under the instruction of Dean Reinhold, a six-room, all-electnc gold medallion home has been constructed from architectural de¬ signs, also created entirely by PCC students. THIS YEAR’S model home fea¬ tures 1328 square feet of care¬ fully planned living space. Lux¬ ury is a household word in this student production. In addition to all electrical ap¬ pliances, the home boasts sliding glass doors that open into a liv¬ ing room, a guest room, dining room, kitchen, two bedrooms, one and three-quarter baths (with four foot formica wainscoting and built in scales), and an en¬ closed laundry work area in the hall. The guest room can be con¬ verted into a third bedroom with a modernfold door if so desired. CEDAR SIDING is used out¬ side with fiberglass aluminum in¬ sulation finished in cabots cedar stain. It also has a mopped roof on two inch insulation board with sand and charcoal colored slag covering. During the five weeks that the home will bp on display on cam¬ pus fully furnished in contempo¬ rary modern by Foes Furniture Co. of Pasadena, the public will have the opportunity to inspect and place bids on it. All bids will be opened on May 31, and the model home will be awarded to the person having offered the mg.xst amount. DURING THE program’s 12- year existence visitors to the model homes have numbered ap¬ proximately one-quarter million. Model Home No. 6 was shown at the Los Angeles Pan Pacific Home Show, and Mr. Reinhold has been contacted again about participating in the 1961 Home Show to be held May 25 through June 4 in the Los Angeles Memo¬ rial Sports Arena. Bids on the model homes have numbered from two to 20 per year, with prices starting at $4111.11 for Home No. 1 and in¬ creasing each succeeding year. Including last year’s sale price of $9740, the 11 homes have brought in over $75,000. Money from the model home projects goes into the general school fund and a budget is set up for model home construction and supplies the following year. •Brothers К Tickets may now be purchased from any Interdepartmental Club Council member for the film, “Brothers Karamazov,” to be presented April 17, in Sexson Auditorium. There will be show¬ ing's of the film starring Yul Brynner and Henry Fonda at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Admission is 50 cents per person, and the proceeds will be used for schol¬ arships. — Courier photo An actual size, six room home resembling the artist’s sketch above will be open for public view- MODEL ing April 19. Twenty-seven students built the house HOME as a class project which will be sold at the end of NO. 12 May to the highest bidder. Contemporary modern furniture will fill the home during the time of dis¬ play. Faraday lecturer Feynman discusses gravitation theory Lancers portray New Guinea at model United Nation confab Once again PCC’s Sexson Auditorium will echo the words of an outstanding scientific lecturer with a world wide reputa¬ tion. Dr. Richard P. Feynman, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, will speak on “The Theory Nine Pasadena City College students and two faculty advisers will attend the annual Model United Nations conference begin¬ ning its opening session today at the University of Oregon. At the three-day conference representatives from 80 West Coast colleges and universities will discuss current international problems and form resolutions which later will be sent to the United Nations in New York for consideration. Half of the PCC delegation, traveling under the auspices of Loyola University of Los Angeles, left yesterday at 8 a.m. by bus, and the other four representatives left from International Airport this morning at 7 o’clock. Delegates from Pasadena City College who will represent New Guinea, are Diane Donaldson, chairman of the PCC delegation; Carl Brick, Carolyn Crockett, Cliff Grimmell, Charles Gugan, Judy Hopper, Renate Mahle, Pat Mc¬ Kenzie, and Ismael Reyes. Accompanying the student rep¬ resentatives are Dr. Harold Han¬ sen of the PCC Social Science Department, and Prof. Stanley Chan of the Political Science De¬ partment at Loyola University. The Model UN is, as the name indicates, a model of the real United Nations organization, es¬ tablished to stimulate interest and ability among students in finding peaceful solutions of the modern world’s political and sociological problems. Each school represented in the Model UN specializes in the af¬ fairs of one particular country prior to the annual conference and is the spokesman for this country at the meeting. As representatives of New Guinea members of the PCC dele¬ gation have made extensive re¬ search for two months about this country in оЫег to be able to present an over-all view of its special national problems and its position in the world today. •Polio shots Polio protection shots will again be administered at the Pasadena City College Health Center next Tuesday from 12 noon to 3 p.m. and 7-9 p.m, Shots are available for $1 each, and any unmarried person un¬ der 21 must have a parent or guardian signed permit slip. of Gravitation” during the 34th annual Faraday Lecture. Students from PCC, neighbor¬ ing high schools, and the public are invited to attend the lecture tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium. Dr. Feynman received his BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his PhD from Princeton University. At Princeton he worked on the problem of separating uranium 235 from uranium 238 in the early stages of the Manhattan project. As a group leader in theoretical physics at the Los Ala- ‘Oklahoma!’ score feature of concert to be held tonight Under the direction of Frank Van Der Maten, the College-Com¬ munity Orchestra will present the annual Spring Concert starting this evening at 8:15 in Sexson Auditorium. The orchestra is composed of all college students and local citi¬ zens interested in music, and it has been practicing and organiz¬ ing for this concert since last fall. Starting the program will be Cimarosa’s Overture to “The Se¬ cret Marriage.” Following the opening number will be Dvorak’s Symphony No. 5, op. 95, in E mi¬ nor, Bizet’s Suite No. 1 from “Carmen,” and Intermezzo from Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusti- сапа.” For the finale the orchestra will present Rodgers and Hammer- stein’s “Oklahoma!” Van Der Maten states that even though the musicians he has to work with are catch as catch can, the orchestra has worked itself into fine shape and is to be com¬ pared with some of the finest of its kind. mos Scientific Laboratory, he'tfon- tributed to the developrpepf of the atomic bomb. The distinguished scientist came to Caltech in 1950 from Cornell University. Since that: time Dr. Feynman has been hon¬ ored with one of the highest sci¬ entific awards in the nation, the $15,000 Albert Einstein award, which he received in 1954. ■ In connection with the lecturb, the Physical Science Council* will sponsor the annual note-taking contest for high school students. The contest was inspired by the example of Michael Faraday, who received a stimulus toward a great scientific career when he wrote a set of impressive notes at one of Sir Humphrey Davy’s lectures. Tomorrow’s note-taking contestants will have the same educational experience as did Faraday. City College loses popular instructor Faculty and students were sad¬ dened at the passing of Mrs. Mar¬ garet Plantico who died last week as the result of a long illness. Mrs. Plantico began her PCC teaching career in 1945 as an in¬ structor in English, physical ed¬ ucation, and the fore.gn student department. Dr. Catherine Robbins, presi¬ dent of Pasadena City College, stated, “Mrs. Plantiico Wats a ver¬ satile and dedicated teacher. She was generous with her personal time for all phases of the college instructional and activity pro¬ grams. Mrs. Plantico was a love¬ ly person and a loyal and devoted friend to each of us at Pasadena City College. She kept up -her study in many fields, and she par¬ ticipated in a variety of profes¬ sional and community organiza¬ tions.” lancer students gather to compare notes and infor- NEW mation regarding their future roles as representa- GIJINEA tives of New Guinea. They will travel to Oregon REPS to participate in the annual Model United Nations Conference, meeting with students from 80 other West Coast colleges and universities.