Vol. 13, No.
PCC CdViieb
14 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California January 19, 1961
Ed Corley
Charlotte Fedde
Diann Laing
at assembly
Linda Schaller Loren Lunde
Honor society lauds Lancers
for unselfish service to PCC
Maurice Gendron
Ben Van Horn
Sheila Gay Biller
Diane Donaldson
OMD, Pasadena City College’s
highest honorary service organi¬
zation, tapped nine students and
two faculty members into its
hallowed ranks in an impressive
ceremony at this morning’s as¬
sembly in Sexson Auditorium.
The 11 new members were later
received by both active and alum¬
ni members of the order in the
office of Administrative Dean Ar¬
men Sarafian.
Those who received the high
tribute in today’s ceremonies
were:
SHEILA GAY BILLER: Lan-
guage Council president, Inter¬
national Club, recipient of Lan¬
guage Department monetary
award, established foreign lan¬
guage conversation hours, devot¬
ed exceptional service to Foreign
Language Department.
ED CORLEY: Circle
К
car
wash chairman, Pep Commission,
Men’s Council, A Cappella Choir,
Music Council, record clerk for
Music Department.
DIANE DONALDSON: Presi
dent and secretary of Internation¬
al Relations Club, Social Science
Council, delegate to Model United
Nations and the mock Democratic
and Republican conventions, head
of PCC delegation to the Student
World Affairs Conference, supe¬
rior service award from the So¬
cial Science Department, organ¬
ized Asian Book Drive.
CHARLOTTE FEDDE: Fresh
man Class president, ASB vice-
president, AWS, elections commis¬
sioner, Spartan treasurer, Harbe-
son award winner as the outstand¬
ing freshman girl, Alpha Gam¬
ma Sigma, delegate to the White
House Conference on Children
and Youth, Student Curriculum
Committee, Women’s Council.
MAURICE GENDRON: Inter
national Club president, interna¬
tional student liaison commission¬
er, Language Council, editor of
the PCC Linguist, Alpha Mu Gam¬
ma, outstanding service to For¬
eign Language Department.
DIANN LAING: Spartan presi¬
dent, WAA president, secretary
to Student Curriculum Commit¬
tee, English Council, Women’s
Council, AWS, outstanding serv¬
ice to Women’s Physical Educa¬
tion and Life Science Depart¬
ments, WLC news paper editor,
Inter-club Council.
LOREN LUNDE: Theta Rho Pi
president, KPCS director of oper
ations, secretary of radio, wrote
KPCS program guide, set up new
KPCS program format, .College
100, outstanding in the field of
radio announcing and engineer¬
ing.
LINDA SCHALLER: Associate
editor and editor of Pipes of Pan,
English Council, president for two
years of Sigma Tau Delta, vice-
president of Sigma Tau Delta,
Student Curriculum Committee.
BEN VAN HORN: Co-leader¬
ship, academics and editor-in-
chief of the Pageant, Circle K,
Handbook editor, English Coun¬
cil, Beta Phi Gamma, Publications
and Public Relations Commis¬
sion.
MRS. RUTH HOLT: Photogra
phy lab assistant, Beta Phi Gam¬
ma honorary, has devoted count¬
less hours of unselfish service to
the Courier, Pageant, Press Bur¬
eau, and other publications on
campus.
Mast and Dagger, the society was
founded in 1927 to recognize un¬
selfish service given to the college
by students, faculty, and admin¬
istrative personnel.
In 1954 the official name of
OMD was changed as a result of
a switch in the structure of the
Pasadena school system when
John Muir College was incorpo¬
rated into PCC.
In this merger, the honorary
service organizations of the col¬
leges. were combined into one. The
name was changed to the Order of
Distinguished Service (the name
of the defunct Muir* society) but
still maintained the initials of the
PCC group (OMD).
Tappees are selected for mem¬
bership through an interesting, if
somewhat involved, process whicn
has evolved over the years.
The first step in the long pro¬
cess begins when the faculty and
administration submit recommen
dations to the club.
Once this step is completed, the
club members sit down together
and evaluate the list of students.
The roster is cut down until a
semi-final tapping list is reached.
The remaining students are again
discussed and rated on a point
scale.
At this point, each name is re¬
placed by a number and each
number is categorized according
to the total points it has received
from the club. All those which
place above a certain dividing
line are then designated as the
ones to be tapped in OMD’s se-
mesterly ceremonies.
MRS. BEA RODENBURG: Ad
viser to Adelphians, former edi¬
tor of Faculty Association News,
director of the Faculty Associa¬
tion, has given unselfishly of her
time and energies to helping stu¬
dents.
Tonight, the tappees will attend
an installation banquet at Rand’s
Round-up Restaurant. There,
they will receive their member¬
ship certificates and be present¬
ed to additional alumni of the
college’s highest honorary serv¬
ice organization. An election of
officers will also be held during
the banquet.
This semester’s officers are Lar¬
ry Dominguez, president; Bud
Green, vice-president; and Lorena
Treydte, secretary-treasurer. Rob¬
ert Trevor and Gene Sullivan act
as co-advisers.
highest Lancer society have fol¬
lowed highly diversified and fas¬
cinating paths.
The name of Jackie Robinson
appears as one of the most well-
known OMD grads on the list.
The ex-ballplayer for the Dodgers
was tapped in 1938 while attend¬
ing classes here.
Extensive work on PCC’s old
publications once earned OMD
sports for Arnold Huss, Mannie
Pineda, and Doug McMann. These
gentlemen all went on to bigger
and better things in the journal¬
istic world, Huss and Pineda with
the Star-News and McMann start¬
ing his own publishing firm.
Another contributor in this
field, Bill Lindquist, was tapped
by the society in 1944, then, after
graduation returned to the PCC
print shop where he works today
as a linotype operator.
Shirley Sargent, a 1948 tappee,
Mrs. Ruth Holt
Mrs. Beatrice Rodenburg
is now a top author of children’s
books, the latest being “Three
Strangers.”
Many other OMD grads have
remained faithful to their Alma
Mater and have returned to PCC
to build successful education ca¬
reers. These include Jeannette
Strawn and Doreen Abbott, Lan¬
cer teachers; Dorothea Emerson
and Elizabeth Horton, current
PCC counselors; and Earl Holder,
PCC business manager.
Steve Salisian and Sam
Schwartz, after OMD member¬
ship, went on to become a Board
of Education official and local ju¬
nior high principal, respectively.
Entering politics were Neil
Goedhard, Covina city manager;
Bob Coop, public affairs chief in
Yugoslavia; Ron Yielding, con¬
gressional campaign manager;
and Charles Braden, *head of the
Hawaiian Visitors’ Bureau in
Honolulu.
Honor group boasts
distinctive history
The 11 Pasadena City College students and faculty mem¬
bers who were tapped into OMD this morning added their
names to the rolls of an organization whose history is the most
distinguished at the college. Originally called the Order of
OMD alumni tapiialize
on strong tollege start
What becomes of the students who once graduated from
PCC as OMD members? Do they keep a strong grip on their
successful start and use it for better things ? Looking through
old membership files and the latest rec'ords of employment, it
appears that graduates from the - - -
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