PCC Courier, April 28, 1965

Sarafian Named Prexy PCC i Coutieb To Succeed Retiring Dr. Robbins July 1 Vol. 22, No. 10 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California April 28, 1965 Trevor Assumes JCC Presidency J. Robert Trevor, associate pro¬ fessor of English, has been elect¬ ed president of the Junior College Council of the California Teach¬ ers Association at its organization¬ al meeting in Burlingame. The council is composed of elect¬ ed representatives from all of the state’s junior colleges. It plans to recommend policy and position on JC affairs to the State Council of Education of СТА. At its first meeting, the council voted to support legislation pro¬ moting separate junior college dis¬ tricts, governing boards and ad¬ ministration. It opposed legisla¬ tion abolishing JC credentials and pupil personnel credentials. Trevor also is adviser to OMD, Pasadena City College’s highest honorary organization. % % /• SOPHOMORE GIFT— The sculpture pictured above is the gift that the 1965 graduating class is presenting to PCC. It is now being displayed at Cal State at Long Beach and will be moved to PCC soon. It will be placed in front of the college in the mirror pools. Harold Hansen Suffers Fatal Heart Attatk While at Model UH Confab Dr. Harold A. Hansen, associ¬ ate professor of social science, died April 9 of a heart attack. YD Club Attacks Johnson's Policy in Southeast Asia US air attacks against North Viet Nam were strongly condemn¬ ed by a majority of PCC Young Democrats in a resolution passed by the club last week. The YD’s declared that, “We, as Americans, as students, and as Democrats, demand that Presi¬ dent Johnson keep his pledge for peace and disarmament by stop¬ ping the escalation of the war into North Viet Nam. The bombing of North Viet Nam has not and will not stop the conflict in South Viet Nam.” ROBERT Corse, YD resolutions chairman, said the resolution was passed because US military action in Viet Nam is “a crime against humanity,” and also be¬ cause “President Johnson prom¬ ised peace and has not kept his word.” “Negotiations,” urged the YD’s, “should be called so that the United States will be able to with¬ draw all military forces from South Viet Nam and put the prob¬ lem of Southeast Asia before the United Nations, where it belongs.” The Young Democrats plan to send a copy of their resolution to President Johnson. In addition, some members of the club are planning to sign petitions urging a peaceful settlement of the Viet Nam war. “THE TRAGIC conflict in Viet Nam can only be resolved by po¬ litical action, not military action • . . widening of the war only serves to invite the intervention of North Vietnamese and Chi¬ nese regular troops,” according to the YD resolution. YD members said positions similar to their’s have been voiced recently by Senators Wayne Morse, Frank Church, Mike Mans¬ field, J. William Fulbright, and others. Dr. Hansen had been a teacher for many years. He began teach¬ ing at Pasadena City College in 1954. He was noted particularly for his work in the field of inter¬ national relations, having been the adviser to the International Relations Club and a board mem¬ ber of the Pasadena American Foreign Students to Pay $309 Fee Foreign students currently en¬ rolled at Pasadena City College, who had previously been exempt¬ ed from a tuition charge begin¬ ning in June, will have to pay the fee after all. Board of Education members have withdrawn their free tui¬ tion policy for the students after restudying the state education code. The board originally instituted the tuition charge last January for all F-visa students enrolling at PCC after June 20. The board exempted students already en¬ rolled at the college. However, with the policy re¬ versal, all F-visa students ap¬ proved by the United States State Department for educational studies will have to pay PCC’s tuition. About 70 students are affected by the board’s policy decision. A year’s tuition is $309. Physical Science Dept. Awards Faraday Prizes PCC’s Physical Science Depart¬ ment, headed by Ralph Barmore, announced recently the winners of the 1965 Faraday Lecture note¬ taking contest for junior and sen¬ ior high school students. The grand prize among the boys was won by Frank Zisman of Montebello High School. Janey Ishida of John Muir High School secured the grand prize among the girls. The winners were presented prizes of science books and slide rules at the annual Open House held by the college last Friday. Numerous other junior high and senior high school students were awarded lesser prizes. Association for the United Na¬ tions. Nigel Stevenson, President of the International Relations Club, pointed out that Dr. Hansen had devoted a tremendous amount of his time each year to the Model United Nations (see Courier, April 7) and did “an astounding job.” The day before his death, Dr. Hansen was awarded a citation by the faculty committee of the Model United Nations for his serv¬ ice to the MUN. At the General Assembly of the MUN a moment of silence was observed for Dr. Hansen. Dr. Hansen received his BA and PhD degrees from UCLA and his MA from UC, Berkeley. Dean of Instruction Armen Sa¬ rafian will be the new president of Pasadena City College. Dr. Sarafian, who has served the Pasadena school system for 18 years, will succeed Dr. Catherine J. Robbins July 1. Dr. Robbins is retiring after 42 years of work at PCC including six years in her present position. The new PCC president was ap¬ pointed by the Board of Educa¬ tion from among 40 candidates from all over the nation. SUPT. Robert E. Jenkins head¬ ed the 16-member screening com¬ mittee which chose Dr. Sarafian. The 15 other committee members included nine faculty members and three administrators from PCC. The search for the college’s president took three months. Dr. Sarafian graduated magna cum laude from La Verne College, earned his master’s degree at Claremont, and received his doc¬ torate last year from USC. The incoming president began a teaching career in Riverside and Kern County elementary schools. He then served as a high school teacher for five years in Banning and Pasadena. In Pasadena he also has been an assistant curriculum coordin¬ ator and coordinator of secondary education. SINCE 1947, Dr. Sarafian has taught at 11 universities and col¬ leges in summer sessions and workshops. Among these are La Verne, Claremont, the University of California, Cal State at Los An¬ geles, Occidental, Pomona, and Fresno and San Jose State Col¬ leges. A winner of numerous scholar¬ ships and honors, Dr. Sarafian is listed in four Who’s Who publi¬ cations. His professional activi¬ ties include participation in the California Association of Secon¬ dary School Adm inistrators, Southern California Sociad Science Association, and California School Supervisors Association. While in Pasadena, he has serv¬ ed on the Pasadena Area Youth Council, YMCA, Community Plan¬ ning Council Commission on Hu¬ man Needs, Pasadena Youth Com¬ mission, and Pasadena Council of Churches. AFTER the announcement of Dr. Sarafian’s appointment last Friday, Supt. Jenkins said, “Dr. Sarafian is well known through- DR. ARMEN SARAFIAN . . . new president out the State of California for his educational leadership at the ju¬ nior college level and is highly qualified to assume the presiden¬ cy of one of the largest and best known junior colleges in Califor¬ nia and the nation.” The new president is a native of Southern California. He and his wife, Margaret, live in Pasadena. Mrs. Sarafian is curriculum co¬ ordinator for the Temple City School District. They have five children, three in Pasadena schools while the others are study¬ ing for master’s and PhD degrees at UCLA and Harvard Universi¬ ty, respectively. Orchesis Club Holds '65 Dance Concert PCC’s modern dance club, Or¬ chesis, will present its annual dance concert tomorrow at noon and Friday at 8:30 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium. This year’s program, entitled “A Moment Is All,” features nu¬ merous PCC students who belong to the organization. Sixty stu¬ dents in all will participate in some aspect of the performance. According to Adele Tingey, Or¬ chesis adviser, “each choreogra¬ pher has a chance to express what he or she thinks is an important facet of the way life is.” Main suites will include work, play, moods, creativity, and ritual. “THE DANCE artist,” said Mrs. Tingey, “can comment just as the artist in any medium is allowed to do. As an example, in the sat¬ ire called ‘The American Ritual’ one dance is called ‘Christmas Fal¬ deral’. The dances show the Christmas scene in which the real activity of Christmas is presented and the reason for Christmas is almost forgotten.” The second half of the program will feature a suite of dances call¬ ed “Fragments.” The purpose of this part of the presentation, ac¬ cording to the club adviser, is to allow the choreographer (Mrs. Tingey) to use abstract styles of movement which suggests epi¬ sodes to the viewer. The viewer in turn can interpret these scenes and relate them to his own life. In other words, “the movement is symbolic of phases of a life that a person becomes in,” Mrs. Tingey said. AS AN example of this tech¬ nique, Mrs. Tingey cited a mob scene which could suggest a his¬ torical setting such as Joan of Arc, or a lynching, or a private persecution. According to the ad¬ viser, “Whatever the viewer sees, the important thing is that it a involved "A MOMENT TO REMEMBER" — Chris Miller practices for the up¬ coming annual dance concert sponsored by PCC's modern dance club, Orchesis. Creative movement effecting subjective responses on the part of the audience will be the purpose of the presentation. happens and the course of events is irrevocable after the momen¬ tum starts.” The showing tomorrow will be free, while the Friday perform¬ ance will require ASB books or a ticket priced at 50 cents.