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Vol. 11, No. 14 4 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
January 27, 1960
An answer to polio
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ifin the scientific. world announced in Anvil of 1 955 that
When the scientific world announced in April of 1955 that
the Salk vaccine had proven itself to be “safe, potent, effec¬
tive,” the country responded quickly.
Clinics were set up to distribute the vaccine which carried
the potential power of making polio a thing of the past. Dur¬
ing the next three years, the crippling spread of poliomyelitis
declined, but then public apathy seemed to take over.
In 1958, the charts showed that the black shadow which
the world thought gone was beginning to stretch its fearsome
arms once again.
The vaccine itself was as potent as ever, if not more so,
but the public was not using it. It was this laxness which was
responsible for the upswing since the vaccine was, and is,
powerless to aid those who have not received its benefits.
Again the polio season looms ahead of us and while some
will contend that there is no need to worry until summer, the
vaccine must be taken now, or its benefits will be lost.
During February, a polio clinic will be set up here on
campus to offer us protection from the muscle-paralyzing
effects of polio. Take advantage of it for polio can only be
licked if everyone receives the Salk vaccine, and only then.
As Marian B. Folsom, former U.S, Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare, has so earnestly pleaded in the past,
“If people will only use the vaccine, it is possible to give polio
a knockout blow. But the people must cooperate, otherwise,
polio will never be truly conquered.”
Why not make use of Salk’s ounce of prevention and
eliminate the later necessity of a pound of cure ? — B.G.
OMD members
elect new officers
Omicron Mu Delta, more com¬
monly known as OMD, elected its
spring semester officers at an in¬
itiation banquet given in honor
of the new tappees at the Flame
Room in Pasadena last Friday.
Retiring ASB President Wayne
Whitehill was elected to govern
over the elite corps of PCC’s hon¬
orary orders while the other three
offices were filled with new mem¬
bers, namely, Tom Nunley, vice-
president; Kathy Primm, secre¬
tary; and Dave Smith, treasurer.
Three Faces
of Crippling
Birth Defects Arthritis Polio
"'?A meet
PCC sends
16 Lancers
to confab
— Courier Photo by Celtil Touchon
Newly appointed Courier Editor Bud Green and
NEWSMEN two of his more photogenic staff members, namely
MAKE THE Dottie Wheeler and Helene McRae, get into the
NEWS traveling spirit preparatory to attending the Nation¬
al Publishers Association confab at the Statler
Hotel in Los Angeles early next month.
Civil Service appointments
fall short of filling cabinet
Next semester’s ASB Cabinet is still some distance from
completion as only a little over half of the appointive offices
were filled during last week’s civil service interviews. Appoint¬
ments to only 14 out of the 26 positions open to members of
the PCC student body were ap-
’Scholarships
Scholarship information for
numerous colleges and universi¬
ties should be obtained immedi¬
ately in 112C as the individual
application dates are drawing
near. In general, applicants
must meet certain minimum re¬
quirements as to scholarship,
financial need, character, and
promise. Application proce¬
dures and deadlines will vary
and should be carefully check¬
ed by applicants. Any further
information can be obtained at
the information window in the
Counselor’s Office, 112C.
proved by the ASB Board at a
special session held last Thursday.
The remaining 12 are still open
to any interested and qualified
Lancer.
Of the new commissioners, Pat
Forum sets filmed
view of Alaska life
Beta Phi Gamma
admits 5 initiates
Beta Phi Gamma, the honorary
coeducational journalism frater¬
nity at PCC, recently awarded
membership to five deserving
journalists, representing almost
every campus publication.
For their work on the college’s
two major publications, the Cour¬
ier and the Pageant, news editor
Helene McRae and academics edi¬
tor Ben Van Horn were granted
membership.
College photographer John Dif-
ley, Marilyn Vore of the Press
Bureau, and Prairie editor Dave
Felton were also accepted on the
basis of the work done in their
respective areas.
An initiation party in honor of
the new members will be held on
February 6 at the home of Beta
historian Suzie Fox. New officers
will also be elected at that time.
Sixteen delegates, including ten
students and six faculty members,
will represent Pasadena City Col¬
lege at the California Newspa¬
per Publishers’ Convention at the
Statler Hotel in Los Angeles, Feb¬
ruary 5-6.
Vice-president Richard M. Nixon
will highlight the two day con¬
ference by speaking at the Satur¬
day luncheon. It is also hoped
that he will have time to attend
a student press conference earlier
in the morning.
Members of PCC’s student dele¬
gation will include current Cour¬
ier Editor Don Merry, next semes¬
ters’ editor, Bud Green, Publica¬
tions and Public Relations Com¬
missioner Lynda Brangham, and
ASB Vice-president and past
Courier editor, Allan Gaul.
Suzie Fox, Helene McRae, Dan¬
ny Ganguin (next semester’s
Courier sports editor), Dottie
Wheeler, Jack Taylor, Blanche
Leonard, and Walt Sheesby, all
of the Courier staff, will comprise
the rest of the student delega¬
tion.
The members of the faculty
who will also be attending the con¬
ference will include English De¬
partment Chairman Woodrow H.
Ohlsen, Courier Adviser Miss Mil¬
dred Poorman, Press Bureau Ad¬
viser William Buttler, Bob van
der Veen and Bill Lindquist from
the PCC Press, and Nicholas
Beck, student teacher from Los
Angeles State College.
Some 250 junior college stu¬
dents will be represented at the
CNPA meeting which last year
was staged at the Palace Hotel
in San Francisco. The conference
location alternates between North¬
ern and Southern California in
order to give the entire state
better representation.
Leading journalists will also be
on hand to lead various discus¬
sions into the many realms of
modern day journalism. After
their individual talks, they will
open the meeting for questions
from the floor.
During the convention itself,
students will be given the oppor¬
tunity to assist in the writing and
editing of a special convention
newspaper.
“Alaska: The Frontier State,” will be the subject of the
February 2 meeting of the Tuesday Evening Forum in Sexson
Auditorium. Harry Reed’s film will feature a true unbiased
report of Alaska as it is today. Full of adventure and packed
Local College will represent
Turkey at spring Model UN
Augenstein will take over Bob
Grant’s duties as the civil service
commissioner while Dave Mann
was named to head the Depart¬
mental Activities Commission,
and Charlotte Fedde appointed as
the spring elections commission¬
er.
Other appointments included:
Oscar Betts, notifications; Marilyn
Vore, publications and public re¬
lations; Ann Mowrer, religious ac¬
tivities; Bob Olds, social affairs;
and Loren Lunde, secretary of
radio.
Linda Hunciker was named cor¬
responding secretary of the Board.
Kathy Primm will take care of
another secretarial office as the
board’s recording secretary, and
Jan Pawluk will serve as clerk
of the Cabinet.
The posts yet to be filled in¬
clude the commissioners of assem¬
blies, athletics, finance, inter-club
council, music organizations, pep,
speech arts; the secretaries of ath¬
letic publicity, awards, forensics;
and editor of the student hand¬
book.
More information about the
above offices can be obtained by
contacting Bob Grant or through
the office of student activities,
111C.
with human interest, the film fea¬
tures unusual pictures of natives
and their arts and crafts, the
Alaskan interior and the Arctic.
There are many rare animal se¬
quences including the shy caribou,
giant moose, black bears, and par¬
ka squirrels.
Reed’s vast experience in the
field of color motion picture pho¬
tography, lecturing, writing, and
exploration places him among the
nation’s finest film lecturers. His
superb photography plus his nat¬
ural, easy to listen to style of
commentary make for an unbeat¬
able combination.
Each and every film Reed has
produced has been undertaken
only after years of concentrated
research of the subject to be film¬
ed.
He is an active member of the
American-Scandinavian Fou nda-
tion, the Finlandia Foundation,
the Archaeological Survey Associ¬
ation, and the San Bernardino
County Museum Association.
His activities include lectures,
documentary and commercial film
production, and the writing of
authentic stories and articles for
popular magazines and newspa¬
pers.
Harry R. Reed
. . . Alaska’s frontier
PCC has been given the coun¬
try of Turkey to represent at the
forthcoming Model United Na¬
tions conference this spring. Plans
are being made by the Interna¬
tional Relations Club for partici¬
pation in the conference under
the direction of Donald Proctor.
Ten members of the Associated
Student Body will be selected to
represent Turkey at the MUN
after a series of four examina¬
tions. They will include tests on
the structure of the United Na¬
tions, present issues before the
UN, background and resource ma¬
terial on the geography, history,
and culture of Turkey, and the
role of Turkey in the UN today.
THE FINAL eliminations will
be made after an oral test in the
form of the presentation of a res¬
olution to one of the committees
of the UN, which the prospective
representative of Turkey will
have written himself.
It is not necessary for repre¬
sentatives to be members of the
International Relations Club, but
all interested students are urged
to join because the club will meet
'every Sunday afternoon to pre¬
pare for the MUN.
These meetings will be conduct¬
ed in the form of seminars where
students will be assigned certain
aspects of the questions contained
in the tests. Through these pro¬
grams, hopeful participants will
be able to prepare for the exams.
THE OBJECT of this series of
tests is to offer an equal oppor¬
tunity to all members of the ASB
to participate in the MUN and to
select the best possible delegation
to represent PCC. The conference
will be held in the spring semes¬
ter at the University of Califor¬
nia at Berkeley.
Students who are interested in
taking part in this worthwhile
conference are asked to write
their name and phone number on
the sheet of paper available on
the IRC bulletin board outside of
111C.