Cartoonist To Animate Students
Class To
By Ned Boyer
Staff Writer
A professional animator, Per
Vollquartz, will teach a new class
in cartooning (Art 130) for the
PCC Art Department in the fall,
according to Richard F. Cassady,
department chairman.
The course will cover
animation, the comic strip and
political cartooning.
Since Vollquartz specializes in
animation, he said he will oc¬
casionally call on guest artists to
teach class sessions in other areas
of cartooning.
Bron Smith, who currently
divides his time between
preparing two comic strips for
syndication and illustrating
children's books, will help
Vollquartz' students tackle the
problems of constructing a comic
strip.
For a session on political car¬
tooning, Vollquartz said that if the
students wanted he would be
willing to call to Paul Conrad of
the Los Angeles Times.
The outline for the course is still
tentative because the direction of
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the course depends on the extent
of the students’ background in
cartooning and the areas in which
they are most interested.
Vollquartz plans a choice of
projects for each assignment
during the semester. In this way,
he hopes to encourage creative
freedom and to establish an at¬
mosphere in which students are
inspired by the variety of one
another's ideas.
He plans the first assignment to
be a simple animation in which
each student contributes five
seconds to a sequence a few
minutes long. Even a dot could be
a “character" in this animation.
Vollquartz, a native of Den¬
mark, has been fascinated by
drawing ever since he can
remember, but was drawn to
animation gradually.
He studied electronics and was
apprenticed to an engraver before
.immigrating to the U.S. in 1968.
He plunged into advertising
studies at the Art Center College
of Design with only some high
school English to help him over
the language barrier. He over-
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came that obstacle as well as a
larger challenge, Art Center’s
work load, which once left him
sleepless for four-days.
The advertising program in¬
troduced him to animation and
also included courses in car¬
tooning, graphics and design.
Following his graduation in
1971, Vollquartz has used his
diverse skills to create ads in a
variety of media. However,
animation has become his
preferred tool, at least partly
because its essential nature in¬
trigues him.
Unlike the static comic strip
character, the creations of the
animator “come alive,”
Vollquartz said.
Animation could also enliven
political cartoons, he feels, as it
has done in Europe. Perhaps
animated political cartoons will
begin in America via public
television.
Vollquartz’ style has been in¬
fluenced by the creations of the
artists working for Disney
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—Courier photo by Dawn Adams
COOLING HIS HEELS— A neighborhood resident fights the
i heat with a refreshing dip in the mirror pools while keeping
his eyes open for security officers.
Solar Home Planned
for Mid-September
—Courier photo by Dawn Adams
SOLAR HOUSE PLANS— Building construction instructor
Lome Johnson examines the premliminary plans for the
solar model home that his class will be building in the fall.
The sharply angled south side of the roof on which the solar
collector panels will be mounted is seen in the drawing in
the lower left of the plans.
Construction of PCC’s first solar
heated model home is due to begin
in September.
Although final plans are not yet
available, the preliminary plans
show a three bedroom, two
bathroom house with a living
room and dining room. The out¬
side walls of the building are
covered with diagonal redwood
boarding and it has an offset gable
roof with a gentle sloping north
face and a sharper, 36 degree
sloping south face.
The south face will have two 2-
foot by 8-foot solar collector
panels for heating water. The
panels will replace the con¬
ventional hot water heater.
According to architecture
teacher Don Watson, the sun
should supply the home with 75
per cent of its hot water
requirements in addition to
heating the home. The rest will be
supplied by a back-up gas heater.
He further estimates that with
the solar system and heavy in¬
sulation in the walls and ceiling,
the homeowner will save 60 per
cent on his fuel bill.
The solar heating system will
operate by water being pumped
through the collector panels and
then down beneath the floor where
a fan will blow air over hot water-
heated coils into the rooms.
Watson hopes to obtain a grant
of $3000 to $5000 or “maybe more”
for the solar system from the
Department of Health. Education
and Welfare (HEW). HEW is
interested in alternative power
sources and helps finance some
experimental ventures.
In a departure from the normal
system of choosing the best house
plans from among the students in
the architecture class, Watson
said that the Architecture 102A
class and the Specification
Writing class worked on the
project as a team so that everyone
could participate in the solar
experiment.
Faculty Art Work
PCCCOU4iE4 To Re-Open Gallery
VOL, 42, NO. 2 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA JULY16, 1976
Visiting Iranian Professors
Examine College Structure
Eleven Iranian professors
toured PCC last week to examine
media innovations and learn
about the administrative struc¬
ture of a community college.
The professors were members
of the National University for
Teacher Education (NUTE) in
Tehran, Iran. The institution
prepares teachers and other
professional personnel for em¬
ployment in Iran’s secondary
schools.
The visit was part of the group's
study of American post-secondary
education. The NUTE faculty
members were interested in the
unique role played by community
colleges in the educational
system, especially the integration
of vocational training into the
academic curriculum.
They looked particularly at
laboratories in the Mathematics
and Science departments, said Dr.
David Ledbetter, dean of In¬
structional Services.
In an address to the group, Dean
Ledbetter said, “Our function is
preparing students for em¬
ployment as well as updating
vocational techniques.’’
The visitors asked questions
about student problems ranging
from motivation and “degree-
obtaining” versus learning, to
questions concerning student
unrest and racial peoblems.
Though the Iranian professors
were here only for two and one-
half hours, they had an op¬
portunity to learn about different
types of individual instructional
techniques and the ways in which
media devices such as slides,
video tape and TV are in¬
corporated into instruction.
“I think they went away with a
good taste in their mouths. They
were very impressed,” said Dean
Ledbetter.
The visit was arranged by
UCLA, with which NUTE has
entered into a long-term
agreement to receive assistance
in readying itself for an expanded
role in the Iranian system of
higher education. This is the
second time the NUTE chose to
visit PCC.
PCC often hosts groups from
foreign countries. The concept of
combining vocational training
with academic instruction is
unique in this country. Higher
education in other countries is
usually restricted to academics.
According to Mildred Wardlow,
vice president for Administrative
Services, countries interested in
self-developement are eager to
incorporate the vocational con¬
cept into their educational
systems.
The last geology class has left,
and PCC's Art Gallery, used as a
classroom during the renovation
of D and E Buildings, is empty and
ready to become an art gallery
again.
The gallery is tentatively
scheduled to open during the first
week of the fall semester under
the direction of John Jacobs, art
instructor.
Jacobs plans to display works
by members of the Art Depart¬
ment faculty for the gallery’s first
show since last summer.
It is important, Jacobs said, to
give students an idea of what the
faculty can do.
“We have a well-rounded art
department here.”
The show will include painting,
sculpture, crafts, textiles,
photography and works in com¬
mercial and fashion design.
Jacobs plans to mail out in¬
vitations to participate in the show
soon.
Only the first show and the last
one of the year, which will
showcase student works, are
definite so far. Jacobs says, but he
has tentative plans for the in¬
tervening shows.
He will try to exchange faculty
shows with schools in the
California university system as
well as with other schools to which
PCC students might transfer. In
this way, students would see the
strengths and interests of the art
faculty at those schools.
Also. Jacobs plans more free
time during the year for student
proposals. A student would draw
up an idea for the use of the
gallery and attempt to “sell'' the
proposal to a faculty committee.
This process would be valuable
to students who may need to
present their ideas or works ef¬
fectively to gallery directors or
business clients in the future.
"It's the one thing we don’t
teach,” Jacobs says. “I had to
learn it on my own.”
“This is an educational gallery
and it's going to be used that way
as much as possible."
Approved by Board of Trustees
Three Faculty , Staff Positions Chosen
Richard Kelley has been ap¬
proved by the Board of Trustees to
replace Associate Music
Professor William Hatcher for the
1976-77 school year.
Hatcher, who will return for the
’77-’78 school year, will serve at
the University of Washington in a
visiting professor role. He will
handle the school's chorale music
duties.
Kelley has served as director of
tire PCC Concert Choir in this his
only year at PCC. He will take
over Hatcher’s duties as director
of both the Pasadena Chorale and
PCC Chamber Singers.
The Concert Choir gave four
performances last year, wrapping
up the year with an appearance at
the commencement ceremonies.
Kelley, who is an experienced
chorale director, has handled
choirs at Arroyo and La Puente
high schools. He also teaches the
USC opera workshop.
The board also approved two
other staff members, Karen K.
Miller and Tim Mills.
Miss Miller is the new librarian
replacing Robert Carter. She has
a Master's degree in library
science from Syracuse University
in New York and has formerly
worked at the Pomona Public
Library.
Carter is moving to the Lear¬
ning Center and will leave the
library August 2.
Joining the PCC football staff
will be Tim Mills, former head
coach at Blair High School. He
will assist PCC head coach Bill
Sandstrom with recruiting and
other coaching duties.
While at Blair he compiled a
record of 16-11-1 turning out such
players as Reggie Webster, Frank
Jacob and Glen Roycroft.
