Quak e Damage Repairs Underway
'Jo\. 33, No. 15 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California February 19, 1971
Bookstore Suffers
Most Damage Toll
By DON MARQUIS
The damages caused by last
week’s killer earthquake are cur¬
rently being repaired, according
to Arthur Garr, head of new con¬
struction on the campus.
The damages to the school con¬
sisted mainly of the partial col¬
lapse of the book store ceiling,
the falling down of a few light
fixtures, and a few minor cracks
in some of the walls.
By far the most spectacular and
costly damage was done to the
college book store. According to
Garr and Dr. E. Howard Floyd,
vice-president of the college, when
the earthquake hit about 6 a.m.,
the ground beneath the school
shifted two or three inches.
This caused several sections of
the false ceiling to slip from the
tracks which hold them up and
fall to the floor 15 feet below.
Each of these panels weighs be¬
tween 40 and 50 pounds.
The light fixtures that fell were
in the A Building, a portable
wooden structure located near the
gym. It was used during World
War II as an army barracks be¬
fore being brought on this campus
for use as a “temporary” class¬
room.
Fixtures Fall
The light fixtures that fell were
suspended from the ceiling in one
of the classrooms above the stu¬
dents’ desks. Had these desks
been occupied as they are for
most of the day, said Dr. Floyd,
the results could have been trag¬
ic.
The only other visible damages
on the campus were some minor
cracks in the walls of the Robbins
Building. Since these walls are
reinforced with steel beams, the
cracks, according to Garr, pose no
threat to safety.
Since both the book store and
the A Building, where most of the
damage was done, were built be¬
fore the devastating Santa Rosa
earthquake, neither of these two
buildings met the current stand¬
ards for resistance to earthquake,
but this situation is being recti¬
fied as the damages are being
repaired.
Experts Check
Immediately following the
quake, three structural engineers,
two from private companies and
one from the state, were brought
in to ascertain just what damage
was done and what steps should
be taken to repair the damage.
First of all, the book store ceil¬
ing was repaired so that it meets
current standards of construction.
Each section of the ceiling that
fell is now connected independent¬
ly by wire to the roof of the build¬
ing in addition to being set on the
railings. Eventually this will be
done to the entire ceiling.
In A Building it was determined
by the engineer that the damage
was done because of the failure
of some aluminum parts to stand
the strain of the tremors.
These aluminum parts have
been replaced with steel ones, and
it is hoped that if another quake
ever does hit they will stand the
strain more easily.
Once the book store is repaired,
the only remaining scars from the
ordeal will be the minute cracks
in the walls of the Robbins Build¬
ing. If you stand in the doorway
between the corridor and the stair¬
well and look up you can see
scratches where the entire build¬
ing has shifted.
Nouveau. Art On Exhibit
at Huntington Gallery
THE PCC CAMPUS suffered mild damage in last
Tuesday's earthquake disaster compared to
many other areas, but the damage was enough
to cause a great deal of inconvenience to many
— Courier Photo by Darrel Slocum
of the students. The book store was the most
seriously damaged facility. Parts of the ceiling
fell in and many light fixtures were knocked
down. Other buildings damaged were A and R.
New BmIs Cover
ieci
Last fall a program was begun
at the PCC library encouraging
students to fill out request forms
for new books. A student could
request the purchase of any book
not already on the shelves.
Between October and the end
of December the library received
32 student requests, which were
processed along with requests
from the faculty and the library
staff.
The books suggested by student
covered a wide range of subjects.
Five books containing informat¬
ion of various ethnic groups were
listed among the requests. There
were four requests each for fict¬
ion, religion and philosophy, and
general social problems.
In addition, sex, psychology, ed¬
ucation, and chemistry each were
represented by two titles.
The remainder of the order
cards were devoted to such wide¬
ly differing information as wom¬
en’s liberation, reincarnation, com¬
munication, electrical systems de¬
sign, architecture, ship model bui¬
lding, and summer employment.
Rodda Reappointed
Reappointment of Sen. Albert S.
Rodda as chairman of the Sen¬
ate Education Committee was
announced recently by Sen.
James Mjlls (D-San Diego),
president pro tern of the State
Senate. This will be the Sacra¬
mento Democrat’s fifth year as
head of the committee, vital to
all legislation affecting the pub¬
lic schools, their pupils and per¬
sonnel.
Utah Terpsichoreans
Feature PCC Grad
The Utah Repertory Theater is
coming to Pasadena City College
next Monday at 8:15 p.m. in Sex-
son Auditorium.
This unique group of men and
women dancers grew out of the
dance theater at the University of
Utah. They were good enough to
receive sufficient funds from the
Rockefeller Foundation in 1966 to
support a cast working at chore¬
ography and performance full¬
time.
This makes the difference be¬
tween concert dancers who love
to dance and manage to feed
themselves with outside jobs, and
people who can devote their full
creative energy to the task.
The grant also pays for some
of the greatest talents in the
world to choreograph works es¬
pecially for them.
When this group was beginning
to give concert tours, PCC invited
them to perform in Pasadena. It
was the second performance they
gave outside of Utah.
One of its members was a stu¬
dent here in 1963. Kay Clark was
president of our Orchesis Modern
Dance Club. She danced the role
of Elizabeth Proctor in a dance
drama of Arthur Miller’s “Cruci¬
ble” in 1963.
She also choreographed a suc¬
cessful modern hoedown called
“The Unsquare Square Dance” for
six men and six women. She was
active as a dancer at Pasadena
High School before that, and won
a scholarship to PCC to study
dance.
It should be a privilege to see
“the home town girl who made
good.” The repertory company
will give a performance that in¬
cludes humor as well as serious
“food for thought” movement.
They are always ahead of the
theater by pointing ways to avant
garde ideas and thoughts for fu¬
ture theater.
Art students, drama students,
music students, and of course,
dance students should not miss
the opportunity of seeing one of
the world’s most skillful and cre¬
ative team of performers.
Each dance is costumed, pro¬
fessionally lighted, with a musical
orchestration often written espec¬
ially for that work. This will be
the first performance in the new¬
ly renovated Sexson Auditorium
at PCC. Student tickets will be $1.
To those concerned with history
of taste in the visual arts, one of
the most fascinating phenomena
of recent years has been the tre¬
mendous surge of interest in Art
Nouveau.
This highly wrought, elegant,
linear style, dominated by sinuous
and sensuous forms, had a brief
but luxuriant flowering all over
Europe and America in the 1890’s.
Art Nouveau has been whole¬
heartedly adopted by the “hippie
culture” during the last few years.
Drawings and posters by a lead¬
ing American exponent of Art
Nouveau are not material one
would normally expect to find on
exhibition at the Huntington Art
Gallery.
LA Philharmonic Tickets
Special $2 tickets are now
available at the Music Center
box office for Los Angeles Phil¬
harmonic concerts of February
25 at 8:30 p.m., and 26 and 28
at 3 p.m. in the Music Center
Pavilion. Guest conductor Carlo
Maria Giulini concludes his two-
week visit to Los Angeles with
violinist Pinchas Zukerman as
soloist.
Donations Sought for
Foothill Free Clinic
PCC comes to the aid of the
Foothill Free Clinic.
Two weeks of fund-raising on
campus began last Wednesday
and will continue until March 3.
Tables are set up in four loca¬
tions: the Campus Center, quad,
Men’s Gym and Women’s Gym
for donations. The tables will be
open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
This is a joint service club and
organization project. Iris Black, a
student volunteer worker at the
clinic, is the chairman of the
event.
The clinic is under financial dis¬
tress because the $57,000 allotted
to them by the County Board of
Supervisors was frozen due to a
$59 million county deficit. That
money was five-eighths of the clin¬
ic’s budget, according to John
Binkley, clinic director.
It is hoped that $30,000 can be
raised in the next two or three
months so that the facility will be
able to survive the rest of the
year. They have enough operating
funds to last through May, but
it is up to the community to sup¬
port the clinic after that.
Binkley states that any amount
will be appreciated and that they
really rely on small donations.
The Free Clinic is located at 35
S. Raymond
But, as a result of circum¬
stances, the Huntington is a
major repository for the work of
Will Bradley. In view of the cur¬
rent enthusiasm for Art Nouvean,
they have broken trend so that
the public can share in this de¬
lightful design art.
The exhibition, which occupies
three rooms on the second floor
of the gallery, includes all of
Bradley’s drawings, plus a selec¬
tion of his posters and books. It
Is scheduled to open tomorrow.
Returning Vets
Offered Aid
Since May 1968 there have
been 144,962 Southern California
Vietnam Era veterans alerted by
Veterans Administration letters
telling them of the availability of
GI Bill benefits and programs.
Nationally, such letters have gone
to 2,180,269 veterans.
Elliott explained that veterans
can get monthly payments while
completing high school under the
GI Bill without having VA pay¬
ments charged against later ed¬
ucation and training benefits.
He also pointed out that while
the VA helps all veterans, it
makes a special effort to assist
those without a high school edu¬
cation.
First, Elliott said, a letter is
sent to every new veteran, tell¬
ing him about the GI Bill (includ¬
ing on-the-job training), VA med¬
ical and dental care, and other VA
benefits, as well as offering him
assistance in finding a job.
Veterans who have completed
high school receive one type of let¬
ter; another type goes to those
who have not. Also, if the veter¬
an’s military discharge indicates
a possible service disability, the
letter tells the veteran how he
can file a claim with the VA.
The veteran is told, “We can
help you get started in a trade,
go back to school, and pay you
while you do. If you are looking
for a job, we may be able to refer
you to one which is just what
you want.”