PCC Courier, January 10, 1968

OMD Honor Goes to 10 for Service PCC CouSue/v VOL. 27, NO. 16 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 10, 1968 Щ111111111111111111111111111111111111!11111111111Н11111111111111111111111111111111111|ЛЩЩЩ111111|^^Ш|||||||Щщ(|||||||||||||1П1!1||||||||||^^Ш||1111111ШНШ1]||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||Ш111111!| I lapped into OMD . . Kevin Biles Ken Kramer Terri Goodnight Virginia Gutierrez Harry Price Janet Hooper Diane Hubar Linda Wochnik Kenneth Johnson PCC's Top Honorary Club Fetes Tappees at Assembly, Banquet Omicron Mu Delta, highest hon¬ orary organization at Pasadena City College, tapped nine students and one faculty member into its ranks at the traditional OMD as¬ sembly at noon yesterday in Sex- son Auditorium. Service Group Born in 1927 1927 was a big year for Pasa¬ dena “Junior” College students. They came home with honors in nearly every competetive phase of campus life, including athletics, drama, music, and scholarship in general. It seemed too good to be true. Realizing that without the su¬ perior and unselfish service of a few individuals, no college could ever rise to such heights, seven students and a faculty member organized the highest honarary service organization on campus, the Order of Mast and Dagger, to recognize outstanding service rendered by loyal students and faculty. Years have passed and the or¬ der has maintained the same tra¬ dition established in 1927 — of rec¬ ognition and honor for service. When PCC merged with John Muir College and became a two- year college in 1954, the name of the order was changed to Omi¬ cron Mu Delta, and it has con¬ tinued the deeply rooted tradi¬ tion of recognizing unselfish ser¬ vice of both students and faculty who have placed the welfare of their college so high. OMD ENCOMPASSES an ideal — that unselfish service can be successfully recognized and that college students are mature enough to shoulder the responsi¬ bility of being singled out as lea¬ ders and achievers. At the end of each semester the official tapping takes place. For those unfamiliar with the term, “tapping” gives OMD mem¬ bers the privilege of walking into classrooms and surprising the sel¬ ected students by tapping them on the shoulders, at the same time uttering the words, “Tapped into OMD.” In the past, students and hono- rees were tapped at the assembly with the entire student body in at¬ tendance. Now, because of greatly increased enrollment, new mem¬ bers are tapped during the morn¬ ing of the assembly. Following this tapping in their classes, they are taken to the office of the dean of student activities, where they are greeted by officials, a- lumni, and current members. TWICE a year, OMD members sit down together in lengthy ses¬ sions and evaluate the list of po¬ tential tappees which has been submitted by the faculty and ad¬ ministration. A semi-final tap¬ ping list is then developed. Those students still on the list are again discussed and evaluated on a point scale. All remaining above a de¬ signated cut-off number are tap¬ ped as new members. Traditionally, membership in OMD is kept secret until the offi¬ cial tapping ceremony. Upon being tapped, each new member re¬ ceives a letter of congratulation, a gold pin, and the rights and privileges of active membership, which include the right to hold office in organization. This year over 900 alumni have been invited to attend the custo- • Continued on Page Two OMD will formally initiate the group at a banquet at T & J Res¬ taurant Friday evening, accord¬ ing to Anastasia Doovas, presi¬ dent. Students who have given serv¬ ice to the college and have dem¬ onstrated outstanding and mature leadership qualities are consider¬ ed for membership. After care¬ ful screening, the following peo¬ ple were selected for membership honors for extraordinary and un¬ selfish service: KEVIN BILES, art major, has been art editor and free-lance pho¬ tographer for the Pageant — de¬ signing the cover and division pages as well as working on the 1967-68 Handbook. TERRI GOODNIGHT, music, has been a member of Freshman Council, International Club, Sen¬ ate, and Madrigals, and served as Spartan treasurer, Music Depart¬ ment executive council treasurer, and music commissioner. VIRGINIA GUTIERREZ, home economics, has been a member of Adelpnians, Spartans, area chair¬ man of Inter-Club Council, AWS board member, president of Chi Sigma, and vice-president of ICC. JANET HOOPER, psychology, has been a member of Election Commission, Courier staff and AWS, has served as Powder Puff Derby chairman as well as Spar¬ tan historian, Adelphian historian and vice-president, elections com¬ missioner, Inter-Departmental Ac¬ tivities commissioner, and Tutor¬ ial Center tutor. DIANE HUBAR, history, has been a member of Lancer Chris¬ tian Fellowship, Interna t i о n a 1 Club, AWS Board, serving also as president of Adelphians; she has donated endless hours of service as a freshman and is active in the Senate as a senator, Senate clerk, and as Senate secretary. KEN KRAMER, communica¬ tions, has served as president of the Speech Council, program di¬ rector for KPCS, “voice” of the Lancer Band and master of cere¬ monies of many college events, and is serving his second term as speech arts commissioner. HOWARD MARUYAMA, art, has been photo editor of the Pag¬ eant and spent many hours on picture assignments for the Press Bureau, the Handbook, and the Courier. HARRY PRICE, business, has been a member of AMS, Publicity Commission, Young Republicans, Chamber Choir, Student Califor¬ nia Teachers Association, Elec¬ tions Commission, Music Council, Social Affairs Commission, as historian, vice-president and presi¬ dent of the Concert Choir, pub¬ licity chairman of the Sophomore Council, historian of the Ski Club, Adelphian mascot, assistant com¬ missioner of Inter-Departmental Activities, assistant pep commis¬ sioner, and Larry the Lancer (PCC mascot). LINDA WOCHNIK, elementary education, has been a member of Freshman Council, E 1-e c t i о n s Commission, OMD Carnival Com¬ mittee, as well as recording sec¬ retary of AWS, Adelphian clerk, and Spartan corresponding secre¬ tary. KEN JOHNSON, instructor of radio engineering, was instrumen¬ tal in getting the added power of the campus radio station KPCS (89.3 f.m.) to 4000 watts from 370 watts. He has been adviser to QSO Club and is currently ad¬ viser to Theta Rho Pi. Also he accompanies students on field camp-outs and contests with junior colleges for world contact; involved with all remote broadcasting: sports, classes, and student activities. He is chief en¬ gineer of the radio station and does voluntary teaching to the ex¬ tremely advanced elementary stu¬ dents in electrical theory. Language Careers Convocation Slated The Foreign Language Depart¬ ment has kept busy planning for the third convocation series on ca¬ reer possibilities, and “Terese Desqueyroux,” a French movie. Alice Vorkin and Suzanne Davidson will both speak on ca¬ reers. Miss Vorkin will center upon qualifications and job opportuni¬ ties in the Los Angeles area which require knowledge of one or two foreign languages. She is a per¬ sonnel staffing specialist on the Inter-Agency Board for the U.S. Civil Service. Career possibilities for individ¬ uals who know more than one language and are interested in one of the major international airlines will be discussed by Miss Davidson. Job possibilities from stewardesses to administrators will be covered. Dr. Nicholas Martin and Dr. Bryant Giles, co-chairmen of the event, invite everyone to attend. It will be held in the student din¬ ing room, Thursday, at 2 p.m. “Terese Desqueyroux,” a French movie with English sub¬ titles, will be shown Monday in Sexson Auditorium. Taken from the novel by Fran¬ cois Mauriac, the film won an award at the Venice Film Festival of 1962. The movie will be shown twice, 4 and 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and all are invited. On-Campus Graduation For the first time, PCC stu¬ dents will graduate this June in ceremonies on the college cam¬ pus. In past years, commence¬ ment exercises were held with those of the Pasadena high schools. Sites being studied for the graduation are the Mirror Pool area and Horrell Field. ‘Assault on the Dollar’ Dr. Robert Oliver, international economist and member of the Caltech staff, speaks tomorrow in Harbeson Hall at 10:30 a.m. on “Assault on the Dollar.” This final lecture in the fall series on current affairs sponsored by the Social Sciences Department, is open to all faculty and stu¬ dents.