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VOL. 33, NO. 14 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 20, 1971
New Service Group Members Named
Superior Students
Selected by OMD
DEBORAH TURNER, OMD president, left, wel¬
comes Nancy Bray, Chris Crawford, Mrs. Mary
Wedge, and Jeffrey Whitfield, four of the new
members of PCC's highest honorary organization.
PCC English Dept. Contributes
$100 to Navajo Book Fund
By DALE SPINNEY
This month marks the second
contribution that PCC has made
to the Navajo Indians of Arizona.
Last year the English Council
sponsored a book drive, and col¬
lected several books which a
group of students delivered to the
Navajo College, located in the
small town of Many Farms, 150
miles northeast of Phoenix.
The contribution this year is in
the form of a $100 check. The
money came from the proceeds
of the candy cane sale, that the
English Council sponsored before
Christmas vacation.
According to Woodrow Ohlsen,
English Department chairman,
the English Council, with the
“overwhelming support of the
English teachers,” was successful
in raising the donation, to be sent
to the Navajos to buy books for
their library.
The Navajo College, which was
started two years ago this month,
is currently sharing a campus
with a high school. Soon, however,
the college will have a campus of
its own.
There appears to be a contro¬
versy surrounding the catering
trucks on campus, but as yet no
one seems to know what it is.
Over a week ago, the OKeh ca¬
tering truck at the east end of C
Building started a petition, saying
that Automatic Retailers of Amer¬
ica, who manage other food serv¬
ices at PCC including a rival ca¬
tering truck, had given OKeh a
week to leave and make way for
a second ARA truck.
The petition claimed that OKeh,
by arrangement, had paid over
$7000 to ARA the fall semester,
for the privilege of operating on
campus. It asked student support
for a new arrangement with OKeh
paying $8000 a year to the stu¬
dent body for the same privilege.
The Courier printed an account
of this last week, but without
checking with ARA or anyone
With the donation of 200 acres
of land by the Navajo tribe, and
several substantial money dona¬
tions, construction commenced
this past fall, on the Navajo Com¬
munity College.
Built for Indians
The college is open to anyone
who wishes to attend, but is being
built primarily for the Navajo In¬
dians. At present the school’s en¬
rollment is totally Navajo, with
a staff comprised of 75 per cent
Anglos. Eventually the college
hopes to be staffed entirely by
Navajos.
Ohlsen pointed out that even
though the Navajos are eager to
learn English from the Anglos,
they want to hold onto their Indi¬
an culture: namely, their langu¬
age.
Some of the courses offered at
the college are arts and crafts,
English, and courses directly re¬
lated to the American Indian.
Ohlsen said there was no defi¬
nite plan for donations to be made
to the Navajos every year. He did
else for confirmation. More check¬
ing, in response to complaints,
gave different information regard¬
ing the relationship of OKeh,
ARA, and the college.
According to PCC business
manager Earl Holder, student
food service is not ARA’s respon¬
sibility, but the junior college
district’s. When the college split
from the Pasadena Unified School
District in 1968, the cafeteria ser¬
vice was far in the red.
ARA was given the job of man¬
aging the service for a percentage
of the returns, if they could re¬
duce the deficit, which they have
done. ARA supplies management.
The employees and the financing
come from the district.
OKeh, which runs a number of
catering routes, pays a set weekly
rate to the district food service
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add, however, that when PCC sent
clothes to a school in West Ger¬
many we did so only until the
school was no longer in need of
assistance.
Taking this past experience into
account, Ohlsen commented that
there was a good chance that do¬
nations will be made to the Nav¬
ajo Community College on a year¬
ly basis, until they can get by
without them.
PCC’s Gift for Books
Though PCC’s contribution is
for additional library books, the
donations of some individual con¬
tributors is being put into use in
the actual construction of the col¬
lege.
On a trip Ohlsen made to the
college at Many Farms, he met
the school’s librarian, Bernard
Richardson, whom he feels is do¬
ing an excellent job of selecting
books, and cataloging them.
Ohlsen commented on a letter
received from Richardson on last
year’s donation of books. He ap¬
preciated the gift, but unfortu¬
nately many of the books were
ones that couldn’t be used to any
extent, if at all, in the courses
offered at the college.
The gift, however, did not go
to waste, He put the books that
had no practical use on a table
marked, “Free Books. Take One.”
The students paged through them
and took those that were of inter¬
est to them.
The advantage of having this
year’s contribution in the form of
a check is that Richardson can
select only those books that would
coordinate with the existing cur¬
riculum, and will benefit the stu¬
dents most.
The purpose of the Navajo
Community College is to prepare
the Indian students for entrance
into universities. Ohlsen asserted
that many Navajos who enter the
universities for their first two
years find it difficult to achieve at
their highest potential.
It is hoped that the Navajo
Community College will give the
Navajo a push in the direction of
becoming successful in the four-
year university.
The highest honorary service or¬
ganization on campus, OMD, once
again tapped new members into
its group last Thursday. Twenty
students and four honorary mem¬
bers were tapped.
Tappees are: Terry Calopedis,
president of ICC, an AWS mem¬
ber, a member of the Ecology
Parking Commission, an officer
in the WAA and was a member of
the Student Breakfast Cafeteria
Program.
Lynn Dimetral, last semester’s
AWS president, organized fashion
shows for the past two semesters,
helped with the Freshman Orien¬
tation last September, and has
given unlimited hours of service
to the college.
Cindy Wiberg, in addition to her
post as president of Spartans, is
also a member of Adelphians, and
she has contributed much time
and effort for children’s homes
and homes for the aged and re¬
tired teachers.
Nick Leland has contributed
greatly to the Sandpipers and
gives hours of his own time to
make this group a success.
James Pearce has worked on
the PCC literary anthology — the
Pipes of Pan — and besides this, is
on the water polo team and the
debating team.
Many Honored
Gary Wenko works in the For¬
eign Languages Department and
gives unselfish service to students
and faculty alike.
Robin Lee Prouty works with
the Concert Choir as well as the
Chamber Choir and appeared this
semester in the college production
of “The Boy Friend.”
Renee Copeland works in the
Foreign Languages Department
and gives hours of service to stu¬
dents, helping them with langu¬
age difficulties.
Mary Sullivan in the journalism
section has given hours of serv¬
ice to both publications, the Cour¬
ier and ASPECT, and has been
publicity manager for AWS as
well as publications commissioner
for the ASB.
Richard Burton has worked
hard with the Communications
By JOE SMALAKIS
The ASB elections ended on Fri¬
day with 773 students voting dur¬
ing the two days the polls were
open.
Paul Schwartz battled it out
with James Jones and won for the
office of ASB president.
Dennis Scott won the vice-presi¬
dency and his closest contender
for this office was John Gray.
Steven Hamilton won over
Steven Goldman for Senate presi¬
dent; Jerome Walters is the new
AMS president. Arthur Andrade
had vied against Walters for this
position.
Running unopposed except for
write-ins Roxanne DeCaro and
Fred Mycroft won the offices of
AWS and AMS presidents res¬
pectively.
The action-packed race for class
presidents reached a conclusion
with Charles Washington as the
Freshman president over Heidi
Imhoff. For Sophomore Class,
Thomas Puckett won over Lara
Larramendi.
Only 261 sophomores voted and
335 freshmen for their presidents’
offices.
The most predominant write-in
for ASB president was Ray Hayes
and third in position was “Spider-
man.” For vice-president, C. Will-
son, Carol Anderson and Joe
Department and works with the
equipment all over the campus.
Roger Stirling is a student
technician for KPCS and works
voluntarily at any time of the day.
Cynthia Hall is also connected
with KPCS, where she is program
and publicity director and does
art work for the station.
Candy Cline is president of
WAA and works both in the Wom¬
en’s PE Department as well as
giving service to the campus in
general.
Nancy Bray is a PE major and
is involved with Spartans, Adel¬
phians, as well as the WAA.
Jaclyn Da Ross is the president
of the Pasadena chapter of the
Student Nurses Association. She
has organized food drives and
clothing drives for the Mexican
children.
Unselfish Service
Jeff Whitfield is president of
Circle
К
and works on both the
Little Braves program and the
Helles Program for Deliquent
Boys.
David Stipe is president of the
Knights, has worked hard with
the Little Braves program, and
has given hours of service to this
cause.
Theresa Padgett is in the Sand¬
pipers where she spends most of
her free time. She also works with
Spartans and is a counselor for
blind students.
Paul Schwartz is president of
the Student Senate and has put
in endless hours of voluntary
service with the faculty evalua¬
tion.
Chris Crawford has been a
member of many of the service
clubs on campus and has given
service to almost every aspect of
campus life.
The four honoraries were Betty
Meyer, who has given years of
unselfish service; Mary Wedge,
who has helped both students and
faculty members alike; Ruth
Gentry, from the cosmetology
section, who has aided students
both on and off campus, and Betty
Mallonee, who has worked with
the reading program and with
students in the Tutorial Center.
Tenerelli each received one vote.
Once again Tenerelli was a
write-in for Senate president, and
also Mickey Mouse and the Toad.
For AMS president, Tenerelli,
Mickey Mouse and five others,
each with one vote apiece, were
write-ins.
Write-ins for Sophomore presi¬
dent totaled five people, each with
one vote. Bambi Brookins and
Linda Wallace were write-ins for
AWS president.
Bruce Nieometa and Larry Ha¬
ger were write-ins for Frosh
president. For AMS president,
there were Steve Friedman with
24 votes, and five other write-ins.
“What I am going to push for
is an ASB newsletter and a one-to-
one communication level with the
student body,” said new ASB
president Schwartz. He felt that
“almost everything is possible in
student government,” however,
members “cannot do anything
without student support.”
Schwartz helped with the food
program, book fair, and organized
civil liberties day and Kent State
day. If you are interested in more
happenings and “blue grass” ac¬
tions like these, support student
government.
“I ran because student govern¬
ment is BS,” spoke John Gray. He
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Meeting Will Iron Out
ARA-OKeh Relations
Mickey Mouse, Toad
Run in ASB Elections