PCC Courier, June 11, 1976

19 Tapped Into OMD Fifteen students and four staff members were honored Tuesday by dinicron Mu Delta. PCC's highest service organization, for their service (o the college. The students honored must first be recommended by a member of OMD or faculty member. They must have given at least two semesters of service and be full-time students. Staff members must have given five years of outstanding service beyond normal duty. Kae Bradshaw, nursing major, was tapped for being a tutor. She’s been active in the Student Nurses Association of Pasadena, an organizer for nurses' pinning ceremony and has helped in numerous fund-raising ac¬ tivities. Music student. Anita Colete, is a member of the Concert Choir and Chamber and the Pasadena Chorale. Student Diana Erdman. P.E. major, is a peer counselor and has worked with the handicapped along with assisting the campus chaplain. Art and photography major Matthew Parris has been president of the Camera Club while keeping a con¬ sistent high CPA. Brad llaugaard. Courier sports ed¬ itor. who took over that job with little journalism experience was honored as was fellow journalism major Heide Carr, fine arts editor for the Courier. As Chairman of the nurses' .pinning ceremony. Margaret Guthaus was the seventh OMD tappee. She is also an active member of the Student Nurses - Association of Pasadena. Christina Johansing. nursing major, who volunteers her time at Maryvale Day Care Center was also honored. Next semester's Courier editor-in- chief. Michael .loncich. was another tappee. I le has worked as a writer for Prism magazine and as an employee at the Pasadena Star-News. Bars l.indenberg was honored as an outstanding athlete, lie's won several state and other titles in swimming and was the first in history to win back-to- back state titles. Ruby Montano, another honoree. has worked many hours as a peer coun¬ selor. Social Science major Caroline Mraz, worked outside of school as an unpaid probation officer for teenagers. She is a member of Adelphians and Inter Club Council and has been a candidate for OMD queen. Anne Neprude. producer of Per¬ spectives. a weekly news broadcast, was another tappee. \\ inner of the Pasadena Art Council award. Margaret Shimizu has volunteered much of her time for the music department. The final student tappee was Lynn Wakefield. She spends approximately -<) hours per week as a peer counselor. The classified or faculty honorees include Dorothy Byles. receptionist for the Campus Center. Naomi Garcia, of the Personnel Department was another staff tappee. She does flower arrangments for school activities, is а МЕСИЛ sponsor, and participates in PCC staff singing groups. She has spent time as an unofficial counselor -aide for students. English teacher-honoree William Shanks organized the Writing Lab. He also organized the 1971 convocation and participated last fall. Prances Winslow has worked for many years in the area of computer programming, developing aids for study and research projects. FIRST THE HUG— Jacquie Lee, left, former OMD president, em¬ braces Naomi Garcia, personnel services clerk, whom she has just tapped for membership in PCC’s highest service organization. —Courier Photos by Jill Boekenoogen THEN THE TEARS— Naomi Garcia wipes away tears of surprise and joy following OMD tapping, a reward for her years of service in arranging flowers for many PCC occasions. JUNE 1 1 , 1976 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE. PASADENA. CALIFORNIA VOL. 41, NO. 17 51st Class To Be Graduated Friday Night at Mirror Pools l>\ Mieliiicl Joiuich News Editor Blue gowns and mortar boards will be reflected in the mirror pools Friday during commencement exercises for PCC'S .list graduating class. Graduates, families and guests will assemble on the lawn adjacent to the pools at 6:30 p.m. to hear a traditional program and receive diplomas. The exercise will feature music by PCC musical groups, addresses by co- valedictorians and a keynote address by tormer PCC president Dr. Armen Saralian. All graduating students are invited Applicants Vie for Dean's Post Mildred Wardlow. recently named vice-president for administrative ser¬ vices. has announced that applications will be accepted until July 1 for her own dean of personnel services position. Mrs. Wardlow will occupy both posi¬ tions until a replacement in personnel services takes over on August I. Applications are also being accepted for the position of dean of student ac¬ tivities. vacated by retiring Dean John Eikenbery. Faculty vacancies with a July 12 application deadline date are for a 10- month photography instructor's posi- J ion and lor a new 11-month teacher- coordinator position in the Learning Assistance Center (LAC). Applications for all positions are being accepted in the Office of Per¬ sonnel Services in l '215. to participate in the ceremonies. Although the deadline for ordering caps and gowns has passed, the traditional graduation garb is not a requirement to participate. Students w ho wish to sit with the graduates and have their names called to receive a diploma should notify the student activities office upstairs in the Campus ( 'enter A one hour rehearsal of the gradua¬ tion exercise will be held Thursday in front of the I) Building. Students in¬ tending to participate in the Friday graduation ceremonies should assemble, regardless of the weather, at 10: 15 a.m. Dr. E. Howard Floyd will introduce the graduating class and permanent members of Alpha Gamma Sigma. This is the first class to graduate from the college since Dr. Floyd succeeded Dr. Saralian as college president. Students participating in the gradu¬ ation exercises are instructed to assemble Friday at 5:45 p.m behind the I) Building. Those with last names beginning with A through 1. should report to the south side of the building. Students with last names beginning w ith M through '/. report to the north side. Assistance with stoles and mortar boards will be available at several stations in the Quad before commence¬ ment. Participants in the ceremonies should park in the west parking lots. \ recessional will lead to the Quadrangle after the distribution of diplomas. Graduates and their guests will have an opportunity to vi§it with teachers and adminstrators during a reception immediately following the ceremonies. Refreshments will be served. Large boxes will be placed south¬ west of the Library near the Campus Center for the return of caps, gowns and stoles. Lab Aide Kelly Dies Dorothy Kelly, lab assistant in the Physical Science Department, died of cancer last Friday. She was 52. Mrs. Kelly began working at PCC in March of 1972 and continued until February of this year. She is survived by her son and daughter. They reside in Sierra Madre. Cremation services were requested by the deceased and there will be no memorial services. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Systems Cancer Center at the M. E. Anderson Hospital. I niversity of Texas Medical Center ir. I louston. —Courier Pholo by Michael Joncich READY TO GRADUATE— Rita Baxter makes sure her stole fits and her mortarboard has just the right tilt when she receives her diploma during PCC's fifty-first Commencement exercise next Friday. Valedictorians Prepare for Farewell Speech •Do We Still Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident?" Valedictorians Brunilda "Brandy" Rodriquez and Joseph B. Miller will pose this question at next Friday's Commencement exercises. Both have completed their graduation requirements with 4.0 grade point averages. Their address is a 10-minute coordinated effort undertaken with the help of speech instructor Pat Brown. Miller's emphasis, "Where Do We Go From Here?", may be more ol a challenge to his 1637 fellow graduates than to the valedictorians themselves. Both say they have received direction in life since becoming PCC students after an extended absence from educational endeavors. Mrs. Rodriquez. 33. supports her three children while trying to complete her education. An English major, she has now won a full tuition scholarship to Occidental College. Miller. 29. graduated from high school in his home state ol Indiana in 1964. —Courier Pholo by Laurie Beardshear JOINT VALEDICTORY EFFORT — Valedictorians Brunilda "Brandy" Rodriquez, left and Joseph B. Miller go over the address they will deliver at Commencement exercise next Friday. "1 guess you might have called me a hippie," he says of his life then which included skipping from one job to another to collect a little money so he could go around the country. He has now won a full tuition scholarship to California State University at Long Beach in addition to $250 from the Altadena Exchange Club. Mrs. Rodriquez. was born in Puerto Rico and came to New York with her parents as an infant. She did not speak any English until the age of six but is now fluent in four languages. She will emphasize the historical perspective of the valedictory address topic. "1 don't believe the U.S. should have colonies in this bicentennial year.” she says. Puerto Rico is one of four territories owned by the U.S. The others are Guam and the Virgin and Marianas Islands. Mrs. Rodriquez says Puerto Rico should become either one of our states or an independent country. Unlike Miller, Mrs. Rodriquez wanted to go on to college immediately after high school, but she says her Italian father said no. Her mother came from a Puerto Rican peasant family and still speaks no English. "Although illiterate, my mother is probably the most brilliant person I've ever met and the best friend I'll ever have. She is backing me completely," she said. Unfortunately, her mother cannot come from New York for the graduation ceremony, but Kim and Wendy, her nine and Ю daughters, will be in the audience. Son Michael is temporarily with his father in New York. She supports her family by tutoring other students and working as an adult reader for the English Department. "The hardest part has been being able to stay in school without going on welfare. 1 was on it about a month and couldn't stand it. It's so degrading," she says. Mrs. Rodriquez came to California Irom New \ork in 1972. She married after graduating from high school in I960 and lived in Jordan, Lebanon. Egypt. Berlin and Paris while she and her husband worked for a Jordanian airline. She was employed in the Head Start Program in New York after returning to the I’.S. in 1967. Her grasp of Spanish. French and German enabled her to earn money tutoring Pasadena area students when she first arrived here. "I came to PCC basically to get out of the house and away from two sheep dogs." she says. . 7/ Mrs. Rodriquez attributes her success as an English major to instructor Л1 Gonzalez whom she calls her mentor. She submitted one of her first English papers to him "This is pretty good for a person majoring in karate." she says he told her. "Why don't you major in, English?” Miller's focus was also in doubt at the beginning ol his PCC career, the success of which he attributes to teachers Alvio Angeloni and Linda Hasten. Hasten. He started out as a telecommunications major who lost interest when his courses pointed out the restrictions in that field, especially regarding ob- scenitv regulations and codes. A survey of the campus bookstore's offerings sparked his interest in taking anthropology to fulfill a general education requirement. The teachers did the rest, he says. "They really inspired me. and that's why I'd like to someday teach intro¬ ductory anthropology courses. I'm also very much interested in making an¬ thropologically related films." Miller says. It was not two sheep dogs that drove Miller back to school, however. He says he began to "find himself" on the surfing beaches of Hawaii where he ended up spending his time when he could not find a job in the Islands. "I realized that if 1 wanted to live better I would have to pick up some- skills. 1 don't know why it didn't come to me sooner. The answer's been staring me in the face for years." Miller says. He readily talks about his former life which included commune living and the psychedelic drugs he says he has not touched for some years now. Miller labels drug experimentation dangerous. "You don't know what you're getting." he says. He says people take drugs for "vision quests which many come out of more mixed up than before." Prior to the 60s you asked your leaders where you were going. A loss of confidence in those leaders turned young people to drugs for a personal vision of the universe. Miller says. "1 have no regrets now. but I did three years ago. I walked out of high school with a chip on my shoulder. 1 was bored with the rest of the world but didn't realize how dumb I was and how much I didn't know until 1 was in my mid-twenties." he adds. He calls finding oneself a process everyone goes through, but some take longer than others, he comments. Miller chose to settle down in the Pasadena area because of his twin brother. Jim. a successful engineer at JPL. His other brother is an Air Force- major. He calls part of the motivation for his straight A's a bit of sibling rivalry. "Where Do We Go From Here" is not his personal formula for success in living but an outline of the steps Americans can take to make the U.S. a nation of equal opportunity for all people. Miller says this can be accomplished by changing the electoral process so that candidates are selected by a popular vote and by providing education which is the key to breaking down the barriers between the races. "PUG does very well with this, especially in the Social Sciences Depart¬ ment. Diversity makes America interesting. Cultural differences can exist without hatred or lack of respect for other groups." he says. Mrs. Rodriquez also wants to further mutual cultural respect. Her goal is a masters degree in either English or a bi -lingual field. She is interested in working with 1 1 to 13-year-olds. "That 's the age to grab a kid and really get him excited about education." she says. She says she is determined to get through school so that she can give her children some of the material things they have to do without now. Miller's goal is teaching at the community college level. His fiance. PCC graduate Janet Wright, teaches emotionally disturbed children in San Pedro. I low can other students find themselves? Miller suggests taking as broad a range of courses as possible. "You'll find something that really excites you just as I did." he concludes. Both Mrs. Rodriquez and Miller know where they are going because of a personal grasp of some self-evident truths which become known to the in¬ dividual at his own rate of maturing.