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Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
April 22, 1959
PCC pair
win awards
at banquet
Two students from Pasadena
City College were presented cash
awards for being selected the two
most outstanding students in the
Business Education Department.
William Davenport and Donna
Langrud were honored at a re¬
cent banquet in the Grand Ball¬
room of the Beverly Hilton Hotel
for their achievements at PCC.
Sixty students from the 30 ju¬
nior colleges in Southern Califor¬
nia received cash awards .of $100
each, and heard Dr. Frederic
Woellner, retired professor of edu¬
cation at UCLA, speak on “Who
Are Being Educated?”
The awards are given annually
to the outstanding students in the
fields of business administration
and secretarial studies. Winners
are determined by a committee at
each junior college composed of
the administrative head of the
college, the chairman of the busi¬
ness department and one member
of the faculty from each of the
business fields.
The purpose of the awards is to
encourage students in their plan¬
ning and study for a career in
business. Since 1956, when the
program was instituted, 120 cer¬
tificates of recognition and
$12,000 in cash awards have been
given to winning students.
Association offers
loans to students
The Pasadena City College Fac¬
ulty Scholarship Fund, in conjunc¬
tion with the National Defense
Education Act, No. 864, will lend a
maximum of $250 a semester to
PCC students who qualify.
Applications may be obtained
from Miss Harriet Van Osdel in
6C. Office hours are 2 MW, 11
TTh, 9 F or by appointment. Ap¬
plications should be completed as
early as possible.
Men grow beards
for AMS contest
If Fidel Castro happens to visit the PCC campus within
the next three weeks, he is liable to think that he has some
followers here as some of the student body will be sprouting
beards which will rival even the Cuban hero’s celebrated chin
PCC acts as host
for debate meet
Winners of last year’s Whiskerino contest, spon-
PRIZE sored each year at PCC by the AMS, are clean
WINNING shaven now, but they had their day. George Hal-
BEARDS berian and Ted Sandoval, who grew the best set of
whiskers, are seen being congratulated by Stu
Rubin.
Pasadena City College’s Speech
Department is cooperating with
Pasadena High School in present¬
ing the Foothill League Debating
Tournament on Friday, Api'il 24,
in the Student Lounge. The firsts
debate is scheduled for 2 p.m. to
be followed by one at 3:15, 4:30,
and 7.
The Foothill League debating
champion will be determined by
this contest in which 25 debating
teams from the six Foothill
League high schools will compete.
Dean Graunke and Dr. Paul Smith
are in charge of the arrange¬
ments at PCC.
This will be the first year in
which all the Foothill League
schools have participated in this
sort of debating competition.
•Better hurry
June graduates of Pasadena
City College will be happy to
learn that another scholarship
has been added to the list of
grants available to PCC stu¬
dents. A $1000 grant, the Amer¬
ican Legion Pasadena Post 13
Americanism Award, has been
donated by the Annie Bock me¬
morial trust fund. The money
will be awarded to an outstand¬
ing graduate student, man or
woman, on the basis of leader¬
ship, scholarship and citizen¬
ship shown while a student of
PCC. Applications will be ac¬
cepted in 112C for the remain¬
der of this week only. Friday,
April 24, will be the deadline
for all applications.
Laughter rocks Playhouse
as Air Force spoof begins
Pasadena Playhouse is still resounding with the enthusi¬
asm generated at the opening night of “No Time for Ser¬
geants,” which was complete with B-25’s in stereophonic
sound, a 10,000 foot parachute descent, and an atomic blast
on a 15-foot king-size speaker.
Enthusiastic first night ap¬
plause for star James Holden and
Co., cavorting through one of
Broadway’s most hilarious take¬
offs on official military life, cli¬
maxed this outstanding produc¬
tion.
When Georgia hillbilly William
Stockdale, played by Holden, is
inducted (violently against his
will) into the Air Force, his com¬
pany sergeant nearly comes due
for a psychiatric discharge. As
Will continues to innocently re¬
form the entire Armed Forces
with his ill-fated escapades, two
generals attempt to resign from
military service and an infantry
captain implores him not to join
his outfit.
Will plunges happily ahead into
every misadventure known and
unknown to the service and near¬
ly cracks up the entire structure
of the official echelon.
With Holden in this espieglerie
are Jack Bryan as Sergeant King,
the harrassed, frustrated com¬
pany sergeant; Robert Casper as
ben, Tom Jordan as Irwin, Syd¬
ney Mason, Tom Charlesworth
and Doug Andrews, along with an
outstanding cast of 30.
Performances of this hilarious
production continue nightly at
8:30, Tuesday through Sunday,
and 2:30 for Saturday matinees.
Patrons of the Pasadena Play¬
house will be seeing a presenta¬
tion of one of the most popular
farce comedies to hit Broadway
in recent years. After its great
success on Broadway, “No Time
for Sergeants” was made into a
movie by the Hollywood moguls,
and once again it proved a finan¬
cial smash.
Lanter music groups
play in April concerts
Highlighting Pasadena’s observance of Public Schools
Week will be the annual Pasadena City College band and or¬
chestra concert which is scheduled for Friday evening, April
24, at 8 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium. The first half of the
musical extravaganza will be play¬
ed by the Pasadena City College
Community Orchestra, under the
direction of its founder, Jerome
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violinist with the orchestra, play-
ing Bach’s “Concerto No. 1 in
A Minor for Violin and String ' - 5
Orchestra.” David Thorsen, PCC
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especially for the Pasadena group.
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Nancy Augenstein wins
Occidental scholarship
Nancy Augenstein, a PCC student, was recently awarded
a $900 scholarship to Occidental College. She received the
scholarship, which is renewable, because of her outstanding
scholastic achievements and leadership. While a student at
PCC, Nancy has distinguished _
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herself in many fields. She has
been a member of the Physical
Science Council, Chemistry Club,
AWS Cabinet, Elections Commis¬
sion, Student Curriculum Com¬
mission, Tournament of Roses Se¬
lection committee and Sigma Tau
Delta.
She has been secretary of AGS
and Alpha Mu Gamma, president
of the Spartans and the Language
Council, commissioner of civil
service and ICC, torchbearer for
AGS State. She is a member of
OMD.
Nancy is now in her sixth se¬
mester at PCC and is majoring in
the difficult field of chemistry.
Her future plans after completing
her college education at Occiden¬
tal are to teach high school chem¬
istry.
Besides her studies and numer¬
ous activities, happy-go-lucky
Nancy finds plenty of work at
home with her three brothers and
two sisters.
Science seminar
promotes physics
A physical science seminar will
be held in 115E from 4:15 to 5:15
today which will be conducted by
Tom Mallory and Thurston Syd-
nor, physics teachers.
■ The topic will be “Instruments
for Teaching Physical Science:
(a) The Overhead Projector, and
(b) Mathematics — A Vital Link.”
All students and faculty are in¬
vited.
Students who intend to even¬
tually teach will find this seminar
especially interesting and reward¬
ing.
They won’t be getting ready
for another twenty-sixth of July
movement, however. They’ll just
be preparing for the annual Whis¬
kerino contest. Sponsored by the
AMS the event will begin next
Tuesday, April 27, with sign-ups
and will end at the OMD Carni¬
val May 15.
All contestants must be clean
shaven the day of registration, so
that all entrants will have an
even start. A desk will be set up
in the main hall in front of the
auditorium to take care of all
those who wish to enter the whis¬
ker growing tournament.
Prizes for the winners will in¬
clude trophies and services of
many sorts which will be offered
by local business men. In the past,
these services have included free
lube jobs, car washes and tickets
to various events in Pasadena.
Publicity Chairman Tony Jes¬
ter, however, is not positive at
this time of the exact prizes, “but
they’ll be good ones,” he affirms.
Winners will receive their awards
at the OMD Carnival.
Contestants may choose from
any one of a number of categories
in entering the contest. The anti-
Gillette men will probably enter
the full-growth division which will
save them the trouble of trying
to trim their beards.
More ambitious entrants may
prefer to enter either the Van
Dyke or goatee classification,
while the more devil-may-care con¬
testant can qualify with a novelty
beard. Here, he will have a chance
to show his ingenuity.
A category has been provided
for Lancer students who just
can’t seem to get their whiskers
growing. Such individuals will
have the opportunity of entering
into competition for growing the
best peach fuzz.
Language students
expound in annual
speech tourney
“Language for Travel” is the
theme set for students competing
in the second foreign language
speaking contest to be held at
PCC. The event will take place
Wednesday afternoon, April 29,
in
К
Building.
Contestants in the annual For¬
eign Language Speaking Contest
will represent high schools in the
PCC district. Entries will be made
in the divisions of French 3 and
4, German 2 and 3 and Spanish
3 and 4. The competing students
will have only five minutes each
in which to deliver their speech.
Three judges will evaluate the
entries of each level of French,
German and Spanish. Each trio
will include one teacher from
PCC, one teacher from outside the
PCC district and one person who
is not connected with the teaching
profession.
Certificates and prizes will be
presented at the Language De¬
partment’s Awards Tea which has
been planned for Monday, May 25,
at 3 p.m. This annual spring tea
will also honor students who are
outstanding in a foreign language
and who have rendered service to
the Language Department.
Alpha Mu Gamma, the honor¬
ary language fraternity, is cooper¬
ating with the Language Council
and Language Department to ar¬
range the tournament and to host
the competing high schools.