WHO’S PUTTING OUT THE FIRE?— Pasadena Fire Department is
sponsoring a program for the faculty and employees of PCC. Em¬
ployees take part in extinguishing various types of fires while the
video camera crew films the events for later viewing.
—Courier photos by Lynette Ker
Faculty Engage in Fire Program
Safety Training Provided
FIRE SAFETY— Captain Duncan Baird of the Pasadena Fire
Department instructs PCC faculty and employees in various fire
Safety technigueS. — Courier photo by Lynette Ker
By Rod Hall
Staff Writer
For the first time in four years
PCC's faculty and employees par¬
ticipated in a fire safety training
program given by the Pasadena Fire
Department.
Small fires were set on the football
field Thursday. April 12, as faculty
members were shown how to ex¬
tinguish different types of blazes, as
the PCC Remote Video Tape Truck
recorded the event for later viewing.
Duncan L. Baird, Fire Captain for
VOL. 47, NO. 10
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
APRIL 20, 1979
Dicky, Huerta
Win First Place
By Tom Pfeiffer
Staff Writer
Two PCC students have won first
place in the semi-finals of the Bank of
America Community College Awards
program and now will compete for as
much as an additional $2,000 in the
Southern California finals on Wed¬
nesday, April 25.
Connie Dicky, who competed in the
social science-humanities category,
and Helen Huerta, technical-
vocational, each is already assured of
$500 for making it to the finals. They,
and six other area finalists, will
compete against finalists from other
areas of the state for awards totaling
$117,000 in cash prizes at the Biltmore
Hotel in Los Angeles next week. Four
$2,500 first place awards will be
granted, four $1,500 second-place
awards and four $1,000 third-place
awards. All other finalists will receive
$500.
No Visas
Issued to
Taiwanese
By Brad Lehman
Staff Writer
The Taiwanese educators scheduled
to visit PCC this week canceled their
stop because of their inability to obtain
visas.
The two Chinese college presidents
left Taiwan on April 17 after receiving
their travel visas late, said President-
Superintendent Richard S. Meyers.
Since they originally planned to spend
April 17-19 at PCC, the educators just
skipped this part of their tour in order
to avoid disrupting the remainder of
the tour.
"The other colleges on the list won’t
even know there’s been a problem,”
said Dr. Meyers.
Obtaining the visas created a
problem for the organizers of this trip
since there is no longer an American
embassy in Taiwan. Because of this,
the organizers had to look for visas at
the nearest embassy possible. Since
the nearest ones are in Hong Kong and
Tokyo, just reaching the embassy
could take time.
Dr. Meyers called the cancellation a
"regrettable situation.” He had
planned an administrative breakfast,
a Rotary Club luncheon date, a dinner
at his home and many other activities
for the visitors. Officials from the
Pacific Culture-Asia Museum had also
requested to meet the visitors.
Dr. Meyers will still meet the
visitors at a community and junior
college convention in Chicago starting
April 29. He emphasized that he would
be pleased if the Chinese could stop at
PCC at the end of their tour instead of
completely omitting the visit here.
“I will still keep the invitation open
to the Chinese people.” Dr. Meyers
said. "I would feel worse if they hadn’t
come at all. I feel we have the best
college that they can see.”
The recent semi-final competition
was held at the Airport Park Hotel in
Inglewood. Four students from each of
nine participating community colleges
appeared before a panel of business
and civic leaders to discuss an
unannounced subject related to their
field.
The four categories included in the
competition were business, science¬
engineering, social science-humanities
and technical-vocational. The schools
included in the Area 1 competition
were PCC. Cirtus College, East L.A.
College. El Camino College in
Torrance, L.A. City College, L.A.
Southwest College, L.A. Trade
Technical College, Santa Monica
College, and West L.A. College.
The award program, in its ninth
year, distributes cash awards to
nearly 400 California community
college sophomores each year.
The Area 1 selection committee was
chaired by Dr. Leslie Koltai. chan¬
cellor of the L.A. Community College
District, and coordinated by Ralph De
Jesu, manager of Manchester-
Vermont Bank of America branch in
L.A.
Judges in the semi-final competition
were Gail Darling, district manager of
the Automobile Club of Southern
California in Los Angeles; Jeri
Bradshaw, executive secretary to the
president of Technicolor Inc. in Los
Angeles: Betty Kozasa, director of the
Foster Grandparent Program in L.A.;
the Right Reverend Monsignor John
Langville. director of the Catholic
Welfare Bureau in L.A.; and Louis
Varrett. Jr., assistant vice president at
Coldwell Banker in L.A.
Along with the Community College
Awards. Bank of America also has a
broad program for outstanding high
school students.
OMD Honors
Available Now
Membership applications for
Omicron Mu Delta (OMD), PCC’s
highest honorary service organization,
are available to students in the Cam¬
pus Center or Information Office.
Students eligible
ил ото
mem¬
bership must have given at least one
icti oi outstanding service without
monetary or unit credit and must have
a grade point average of 2.0. In ad¬
dition, applicants must supply one
faculty reference.
Faculty and staff members
nominated must have been employed
by PCC for five years and must have
demonstrated superior, unpaid service
to the school.
Applicants will be judged after in¬
terviews with the interviewee's
references.
Applicants selected for membership
will be honored at the OMD Tapping
Ceremony May 22 in Sexson
Auditorium.
the Pasadena Fire Department,
opened the hour-long session with a
brief lecture on the difference between
dousing ordinary combustible fires
and flammable liquid fires, followed
by a demonstration of each. He then
called upon six members of the
audience to receive “hands on” ex¬
perience dousing their own blazes.
Through this experience 'Baird (for¬
merly one of PCC’s fire service in¬
structors) hoped the employees would
learn the "classification and iden¬
tification of different types of fire
extinguishers, and how to use them.”
To his knowledge this series is the
first major fire safety training effort
PCC has had in four years.
John S. Madden, dean of personnel
services, said all classified and cer¬
tified staff are required either to at¬
tend one of the three sessions, or, later,
view the video tape production of the
activities. This will help satisfy
requirements of O.H.S.A. (the federal
government's Occupational, Safety
and Health Act) for fire safety
training, he commented.
The one remaining fire safety “in-
service training session” is scheduled
for Wednesday, April 25, at 11 a.m.
Madden has requested that “em¬
ployees working in areas where there
is a fire danger, such as shops,
laboratories and the like,” make a
special effort to attend.
Production manager for Media
Services Robert Miller is coordinating
the 40 minute production of “Fire
Prevention and Fire Suppression in-
Service,” scheduled to be played back
during a faculty meeting next Sep¬
tember. In addition to recording last
week's session, he plans to add cover
footage and slides to emphasize the
points he feels are important in fire
safety. Poor housekeeping and poorly
maintained electrical equipment (i.e.
frayed wires or overloaded electrical
sockets ) are fire hazards, he indicated.
The location and types of fire ex¬
tinguishers available at PCC, as well
as how to report a fire, will also be
covered.
In addition, he plans to itemize what
to do when a fire is discovered. The
number one priority, Miller maintains,
is to “protect life.” Confining the fire,
notifying the fire department, and
fighting the fire are additional actions
that can help keep fire damage to a
minimum. Miller pointed out.
Latest Catalog
Now A y/ailable
WIN CASH AWARDS— Connie Dickey and Helen Huerta won first
place in the semi-finals of Bank of America Community College
Awards program and now will compete for as much as $2,000 in the
Southern California finals on Wednesday, April 25th. From left to
right, Ralph De Jesu, manager
В
of A, Manchester-Vermont; Connie
Dickey, Helen Huerta, and Leslie Koltai, Chancellor, Los Angeles
Community College District.
The new bulletin of the college came
out this month. The bulletin, or catalog
as it is commonly called, is reviewed
and re-issued each year. It contains a
complete list of the classes offered at
PCC. This list includes a brief
description of the major charac¬
teristics of each class, the number of
units to be earned, the number of hours
required each week and any
prerequisites.
The catalog includes the various
requirements for an Associate of Arts
degree in a number of majors and the
graduation requirements for the
University of California, and several
other four year institutions. These
requirements are separated into the
categories of the available majors.
One change, besides the updating of
available classes, in the new catalog is
the manner in which required classes
for majors in the various occupational
degrees are listed. This year, these
requirements are separated by
semester. Their separation, which is
the suggested format of completion, is
based on prerequisites, and the natural
progression of curricula. Classes that
are considered helpful in the un¬
derstanding of another class are
scheduled prior to that class.
This change, though geared to those
students who are mainly interested in
the completion of an Associate of Arts
degree, will also be of value to those
students desiring to transfer to a four
year institution. Transfer students,
though not required to complete the
requirements for and AA, may find the
ordered listing of classes instrumental
in their programming.
The catalog is currently available in
the student bookstore. Any student
who does not have one, should consider
obtaining it and becoming familiar
with it before registering for the
summer and fall sessions.
Computer Chief Resigns from Post
Tuedio Takes Over as New Boss
By Stephen Share
Staff Writer
Director of Computer Services,
Robert A. Berger, is resigning today
after holding the position for eight
years. Jim Tuedio, Supervisor of In¬
structional Computer Center, will
replace him.
Berger is responsible for converting
the entire college to a computer-
supported administrative system.
“The Computer Services is
responsible for student records, ad¬
missions. textbooks, budget, per¬
sonnel. some accounting, and other
things.” said Berger. “This was for¬
merly done either manually or by
punch card systems." The current
program serves to support the ad¬
ministration and allows "much growth
without additional staff.”
Berger initiated the development of
the new system when he first began
working at PCC. The major conversion
occurred in April of 1976.
According to Berger, the respon¬
sibilities of the job are mainly "lo
manage the department, and to advise
the school on ways to use the com¬
puters."
Berger’s replacement, who has been
teaching at PCC since 1960, is
presently acting director of the
department. He has been specifically
involved in Data Processing since 1965
and served as director of the North San
Gabriel Valley Data Processing
Consortium from 1974 through 1977.
P’or the first time, the director will
be in charge of both administrative
and instructional computing services.
Tuedio will make periodic reports to
Mildred Wardlow. vice president for
Administrative Services.
Berger plans to move to Bentley
College of Accounting and Financing
in Waltham, Massachusetts. He will be
doing much of the same thing except
that it will be a “larger respon¬
sibility,” Berger stated. Bentley is a
private college of 5000 students very
near Boston.
COMPUTER HEAD RESIGNING-Robert A.
Berger, left, welcomes in new director of com¬
puter services, Jim Tuedio. Berger plans to move
to Bentley College in Massachusetts and do much
of the same thing he is doing here.
—Courier pnoto by Marcus Wllk
