PCC Courier, March 08, 1974

Students Ask for Day Care Center By Patrick King Staff Writer Members of the Child Care Action Committee are looking for a new approach to making child care available at PCC. John Meachan, the committee’s president, estimates at least “a thousand children" would use the services of a child care center if one was available. Limitbd space within the college campus is the greatest obstacle facing the committee. Membership Drive Petitions have been circulated and posters are up around the campus to insure a successful drive for the center, but there are few responses. Apathy and differences in ideas among the committee members have con¬ tributed to the unsuccessful campaign, Meacham says. "A child care center would be a benefit to the community and to the college. It will increase the student population," according to Meacham. When more people in a community have a chance for an education, welfare and unemployment will be curtailed. Unmarried students, Meacham contends, "will be able to observe children and learn the responsibilities in raising a family." Also, students involved in child psychology and child-related classes will not have to leave the campus when they are assigned to study the habits of children. To combat the past problems of the committee, the Task Force for Child Care has not been established. It is a committee of students, faculty and administrators. The committee, according to Stuart Silver, ASB president, was established ‘‘so students, faculty and ad¬ ministrators can agree on a proposal before it goes to the Board of Trustees." Meanwhile, Meacham has distributed petitions to the Student Senate and has asked them to circulate them to the morning classes. "This," Meacham says, "is to find out how many parents are on cam¬ pus." The questionnaire asks three basic questions: (1.) Do you have preschool children? (2.) Would you use an on- campus day care facility? (3.) What are you presently paying for child care? Faculty members presently in¬ volved are Harriet Van Osdel. coun¬ selor; Ron Cottle, philosophy in¬ structor: Ethel Roberts, child care instructor; Dean Phyllis Jackson, administration representative; Dr. E. Howard Floyd, vice president of the college; and Phil Jones, campus minister. Students presently involved are Cheryl Dicks, Child Care Committee member; and Meacham. Refrigeration, Air-Conditioning Class Offered by Mt. Wilson ROP An "open entrance, open exit” class in refrigeration and air conditioning repair and service will be offered beginning Monday. The class is offered through the Mt. Wilson Regional Occupational Program (ROP), an outlet of PCC designed to provide job training for area high school students, college students and adults. Now scheduled to be held on Mon¬ day, Wednesday and Friday from 2:30 to 5 p.m., the class will deal with the repair and service of home and commercial refrigerators, freezers and home and auto air conditioning equipment. John E. Young, director of the ROP office, stresses the fact that college students are welcome, either on a full or part-time attendance basis. “One of the unique aspects of ROP is what we call open entrance, open exit. You come in when you choose, get as much Task Force Watergate Sam Soghomonian, associate professor of social sciences, was recently appointed chairman of a task force to study the implications of Watergate and its effect on the public schools. As a consequence of this ap¬ pointment Soghomonian now has received transcripts of all testimony Jr. Executives Change Rules "We are not male chauvinist pigs,” says John Sauceda, president of Junior Executives, Junior Executives is going coed. Any person interested in business can pick up a membership application at the Library or Campus Center. Junior Executives is an organization committed to furthering its members' interests in business. Helped by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, their sponsors. Junior Executives receive an inside look at the world of business. Tours of insurance companies, travel agencies and various retail chains are featured to give students contacts with the business world. As a means of making contacts with prominent local businessmen, once a week two members of Junior Executives have the opportunity to attend the Junior Chamber of Com¬ merce meetings, held at a luncheon on Monday afternoons. Investigates and School given before the Senate Watergate Committee, copies of the Ervin Committee tapes, all background material with only the exception of the report of the Grand Jury. The task force intends to prepare curriculum material for children in public schools from first grade through junior college and will attempt to capitalize on the interest in politics that Watergate has propagated. "In our first meeting we decided what we would not do— we do not want to magnify the problems nor get at the culpability of the President. "Watergate has merely opened up a window for discussion of responsi¬ bilities of persons in high public office: what constitutes crime, a president’s ability to govern while under a charge. Freedom of the press as related to the hassles of the Washington Post had to go through will also be part of our study." Dr. Helen Wise, president of the National Education Association, selected the five members of the committee. "WeTe directors from all over the country, but Dr. Wise’s concern was not for geographical but political balance," Soghomonian says. A professional staff of 10 experts in curriculum, instruction, behavioral motivation and other education related areas serves as support for the task force. "We are using a problem-solving approach; the software materials we will develop— films, tapes, pam¬ phlets— should be in the hands of the teachers by next September.” out of the class as you need, and then check out," he said. The program gives the student skills for entry-level positions as assistants to air conditioning technicians and maintenance personnel. According to Young. Sears, Roebuck and Co. is working closely with the program, providing equipment and guidance as to what skills are necessary for em¬ ployment. Young stated that since Sears’ standards for employment in this field are quite high, students will have excellent chances of employment. According to the Los Angeles County Manpower Projection Data, 181 job openings for refrigeration and air conditioning personnel will occur between now and 1975 in the Pasadena HAPPY BIRTHDAY — An amused Dr. Armen Sarafian holds up a caricature of himself drawn by Circle K’s Steve Bentley. He was greeted Tuesday at —Courier Photo by Steve Ripley noon by students and faculty in the Campus Center. Everyone enjoyed cake and refreshments in celebra¬ tion of Dr. Sarafian’s birthday. I Cimiet Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California March 8, 1974 Comfort Speaks Re-Education of on Man's Aging; Elderly Needed By Sergio C’aponi News Editor "The Study and Control of Human Aging and the Implications of That Control” will be discussed by Dr. Alex Comfort, writer and biologist, at the Tuesday Evening Forum, March 12, at 7:30 in Sexson Auditorium. A native of England, Dr. Comfort graduated in medicine at the London Hospital, and is now director of the Medical Research Council Group on Aging at University College in London. He was a pioneer in gerontology, the study of the aging process, and received the first doctorate ever, in this new science. Biology, literature and politics were and continue to be Dr. Comfort’s main interests. Initially known as a novelist and poet, he clarified his opinions on the so-called "Establishment” during World War II, when he opposed military intervention and the militari¬ zation of the English society. After the war. Dr. Comfort wrote several books on the merging "new morality" and the psychopathology of government. Among his main works in these areas are “Sex and Society” and "Authority and Delinquency in the Modern State," both issued in 1950. Dr. Comfort’s vision of a “human biology” includes thought, feeling, and physical process in a continuous pattern; he sees art, religion and revolution as activities as basic to man as respiration and sociability. Because of the concern for the aged in the PCC community, Herman Smith, administrative dean of the Office of Continuing Education, and Lance Johnson of the Psychological Services office, both attended a con¬ ference at the USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center on “The Role of Education in Serving the Need of the Older Adult.” The agenda included a discussion of how community colleges are helping senior citizens. Suggestions were given about the kind of physical and cultural exercise in which they should engage. PCC’s contribution consists of a series of lectures starting in April, focusing on “Enriching the Added Years.” The speaker will be Dr. Ar¬ thur Bietz, noted psychologist. He will lecture on four main aspects of life after retirement: The Philosophy of Life and Aging, Aging and Your Health, How to Be a Person Instead of a Civil War, and Activities and the Good Life. Cosmetology Student Receives Southern California Style Award Students Learn Power Sewing; Job Placement for Graduates By Jim Jolly Staff Writer "I want to help people accomplish their highest goal in life.” These are the words of Marina Hinds, instructor of the power sewing class at the Community Adult Training Center. The CATC is the adult education branch of Pasadena City College. The main objective of the six-week power sewing course is to have each student acquire a good basic technique of sewing so they will be successful operators in the garment industry. The class meets Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. There is no set starting date for the course, so a student may enter at any time during the year. No long waiting lists confront the students. A person can start im¬ mediately if he or she wants to learn the sewing trade. —Courier Photo by Rosemary Weiner SUCCESS AHEAD— CATC student Feobaldo Luna learns the power sewing skills necessary to be a successful operator in the garment industry. In about six weeks, he and other students will be in high demand for employment. Demands for gratuates of the course are high. Many employers know Miss Hinds personally and if they need someone they will contact her. Starting pay ranges from $1.85 to $2 an hour. One exceptional student in the course jumped to $3.50 an hour after just one week on the job. The students are adults, 18 years and older, mainly women from all over the Los Angeles area. There are also students who have come from Mexico, Central and South America, and even Indonesia and Holland. Miss Hinds has directed the program for five and one-half years. She was born in Panama and moved to Pasadena in her teens where she attended John Muir High School. Her fluent Spanish and English is an advantage in her teaching position. Having been involved in every facet of the sewing industry. Miss Hinds knows the fashion world well. In 19(19, she organized a successful fashion show at the YWCA in Pasadena. She also knows the owners and staff of all 111 sewing factories in Pasadena. She visits these factories often to keep up on the changing trends, the current demands of the industry, and to do active follow-up on each of her former students. Staying dynamic in her field is one of Miss Hinds' main concerns. She would like to see a greater use of audio-visual training and thinks photography could be used to enhance her teaching methods. Cosmetology student Laurie Gavert recently won the Student Haircutting Award in a contest sponsored by the Long Beach Cosmetology Guild. The competition was held on the Queen Mary in Long Beach. Out of the 58 Southern California cosmetology students participating, Miss Gavert was awarded one of six equal place trophies. According to Miss Gavert, the students were given 30 minutes to do the haircut and were then graded by a panel of four judges on preciseness and overall appearance of the style. Sara Heck, also of PCC, served as Miss Gavert’s model. The winning style was of the short "trend" variety. Miss Gavert, a cosmetology student here since September, has thus far earned 625 of the 1600 hours of instruc ion needed to qualify for the state examination. She hopes to graduate next December and become a licensed beautician. NAFSA, PCC Host Foreign Student Meet The National Association for Foreign Students Affairs (NAFSA) and PCC are holding a Foreign Students Admissions Workshop here today. The purpose of today's workshop is to improve the ability of evaluators and admissions officers from com¬ munity colleges in selecting above- average foreign students. During the workshop, experts will discuss the educational systems from the Philippines, East and West Africa and Thailand in the hope that they will be able to evaluate more accurately if a student will have any difficulties fit¬ ting into our educational system. Dr. Irvin G. Lewis, dean of student personnel services, and Ben Rude, associate professor in the English Department, are co-chairmen of the ‘ event. PCC has hosted this event for the second time. NAFSA, founded in 1948, is a professional organization working with people involved in international education. BOTH HAPPY— Cosmetology student Laurie Gavert (left) and her model, Sara Heck (right), proudly show the results of the Long Beach Hair Cutting Contest. Miss Gavert was a winner and Miss Heck ended up with a nice-looking free haircut. Advanced Students Set to Teach Beginning Sign Language Course Slated to start this month is a beginning sign language workshop to be taught in modular form by PCC students. Classes will be informal, non-credit sessions led by students who are now in or have completed the Advanced Manual Communications class. The workshop will be held Tuesday and Thursday from 4:30 until 6 p.m. for the remainder of the semester. Mary Frances (Muffy) Brightwell, a deaf teacher who has had extensive experience with the American Sign Language, will supervise the workshop. Mrs. Brightwell now assists Lucy Miller in teaching the advanced class. Dave Bateman, one of the students who will be teaching, explained that a similar credit course is offered only in the fall. “The demand was so great that many students didn't want to wait," he said. Tom Chin, another student-teacher, stressed the fact that a class of this nature, where student-teacher ratio is approximately 3:1, is an excellent opportunity for the deaf and the non¬ deaf alike to grasp basic principles of sign language. After completing the workshop, students will be able to conversationally communicate with deaf persons. Chin stated, "This is the only way these deaf people have a chance to communicate. It can really brighten up their day.” Signup sheets are posted in the Handicapped Services office, A110.