Red Cross Begins Fund Raising Drive
PCC CoutUeSt
VOL. 4, NO. 5 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA MARCH 14, 1956
This week is the week that we will all be asked to donate
to our Red Cross chapter. The Red Cross which operated the
PCC Blood Bank last week was aided by the Circle
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Club in
the publicity and recruiting of 132 donors who helped to fill the
quota for the school.
This week we are asked to
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contribute money so that the
Ked Cross may carry on its
work of caring for the needs of
people in distress and difficulty.
Some of the services that are
performed by the Red Cross,
without charge, are: disaster
services such as the relief of
the hardships of the people in
the flooded areas of Northern
California; centers operated for
the convenience of the Armed
Forces; services to veterans in
hospitals and rehabilitation cen¬
ters; and services that include
the recruiting, collecting, stor¬
ing, transporting, and distribu¬
tion of Jblood to hospitals, civil¬
ian and military, and to disaster
points in time of both peace and
war. The Red Cross also ex¬
tends its endeavors in the form
of training volunteer nurses.
Free instruction in nursing is
given on request by the Nation¬
al Red Cross.
First aid services are available
through the Red Cross as well as
training of special groups in the
techniques of first aid. The im¬
portance of the Red Cross first
aid program cannot be overvalued
as its results are shown every
day by the work done in disaster
areas by rescue workers who have
been Red Cross trained.
Not the least among the train¬
ing courses offered by the Red
Cross is instruction in water
safety. The increase in the num¬
ber of small boats sailing our
waterways and the number of
inexperienced boatmen offer a
challenge to the organization in
several ways. Techniques of
lifesaving as well as instruction
in small craft handling are
among the courses offered to
help many learn the elements of
survival on the water.
Out of the total number of chil¬
dren in the United States over
21 million of them belong to the
Junior Red Cross. These children
carry out a wide variety of com¬
munity, national and internation¬
al projects. Gift boxes, albums,
and gifts of all kinds are made
and sent to children all oyer the
world to give them an idea of
life in America. They also devote
much time to community safety
and clean-up campaigns.
Throughout the years there has
been but one focus of Red Cross
activity, namely, service to hu¬
manity. Participation in the drive
for funds is a civic duty that
Pasadena City College students
will not fail to give their over¬
whelming support.
Dana Club Gifts
Shown in Library
The Dana Club recently made
its annual donation gift of a col¬
lection of rocks purchased all
over the world to PCC’s Geology
Museum.
The collection donated both by
the club and by individual mem¬
bers is on display in the library.
The types represented are of ev¬
ery formation and color.
The collecting of these speci-
ments represents many miles of
travel and many hours of hard
digging in out-of-the-way places
both in the United States and
Mexico.
The Dana Club, advised by
Stanton Hill, welcomes members
who are geology majors and those
interested in the various phases
of geology as a hobby.
THE EASY LIFE . . . That’s the way it looks to these students
as they contribute in the last Circle
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sponsored Red Cross Blood
Bank. The blood drive reached a total of 132 pints and is now
recorded as a deposit that PCC students may draw upon. Stu¬
dents shown are Ted Nakagawa, left, and Nick Bayard de Voio.
•Begorra Pat
Faith and Begorra! Here it is
almost St. Patrick’s Day again,
and me without me shillelagh!
Come, Erin, my boy, this will
never do. And
where is it you’ve
been hiding it
these long twelve
months? No, no —
how could you
hide it there? Get your
spade, boy, perhaps you can
help them dig that hole for the
Music Building after all! The
saints preserve us!
Anthropologist to
Speak on Common
Cultural Likenesses
“Orchestrating the Cultures of
the World” will be the topic dis¬
cussed by Dr. Margaret Mead, in¬
ternationally known anthropolo¬
gist on the PCC Tuesday Forum,
March 20 at 8 p.m. in Sexson
Auditorium.
To picture for her audience the
common threads running through
all cultural groups, Dr. Mead
draws on a life-time of study and
original scientific research.
Dr. Mead received the BA de¬
gree from Barnard College and
the PhD degree from Columbia
University. She has spent most of
her adult life doing original re¬
search in anthropology, and she
has become famous through her
books and other interpretations
to the world of her findings con¬
cerning the peoples she has stud¬
ied.
At present, Dr. Mead is asso¬
ciate curator of ethnology, Ameri¬
can Museum of Natural History.
She is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, American Association for
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Red Cross PCC Blood
Bank Fills Drive Goal
College and high school newspaper editors and reporters
converged on the campus of USC last Saturday for the thirty-
first annual Journalism Day presented by the institution. In
a day packed with activities and illustrated speeches the PCC
contingent was kept on the move.
Following the registration at
9:30 a.m. students attended a
general assembly in Founder’s
Hall where speakers expounded
their theories on particular
phases of the newspaper indus¬
try.
Jerry Maher spoke on the open
field of labor news reporting and
its importance to the daily paper.
Mr. Maher is the labor editor of
the Mirror-News of Los Angeles
and considers his job a success
when both labor leaders and his
editors gripe about his reporting.
“I feel that I have presented the
problem in an unbiased manner
when this happens,” he stated.
Following the talk by Mr.
Maher, Loomis Dean, photogra¬
pher for Life, spoke on the im¬
portance of pictures in the pres¬
entation of news. Working for
a magazine such as Life he has
an opportunity to cover a wide
variety of assignments that
take him all over the world. In
the last nine years, however,
he has been assigned to the Los
Angeles bureau.
Along with his other assign¬
ments he photographed the seg¬
ment of “The World We Live In”
that was devoted to the desert,
and the pictures for the recent
story on the California wetback
problem.
Awards for excellence in news¬
paper makeup were give at the
close of the morning session of
the conference. Of those given to
junior colleges, PCC won a prize
for the best editorial titled
“Rights and Responsibilities”
written by last semester’s editor,
John Christie.
Members Installed
in Theta Rho Pi
Theta Rho Pi, national honor¬
ary radio fraternity, held an eve¬
ning meeting at the home of its
adviser, Mrs. Virginia Kersting.
The installation of new members
was the first item on the agenda.
The second important item for
the evening was the awarding of
the semi-annual radio trophy for
outstanding work and service on
the staff of the campus radio
station, KPRS, which was given
to James Stewart. James has
been a member of Theta Rho Pi
for two years and has held a
number of staff positions on
KPRS.
The president, Walt Schaub,
who has been working in radio
for the last two years won the
radio trophy during the spring
semester of 1955.
New members installed at a
candlelight ceremony were Ken-
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Bdutation Board Sends
Commendation on Prize
The Board of Education, under the direction of Lawrence
C. Lamb, president, has sent PCC a letter of commendation
for winning the $200 Freedoms Foundation Award. The letter
is reproduced below in its entire¬
ty.
WHEREAS, Pasadena City Col¬
lege has won a second place
award in the national competition
of the Freedoms Foundation at
Valley Forge; and
WHEREAS, the award received
was the George Washington Hon¬
or Medal; and
WHEREAS, this award was
“for providing college-level for¬
eign students with English lan¬
guage and citizenship training,
closely intergrated with the life
of the community”; and
WHEREAS, this award was re¬
ceived in competition with many
colleges of national repute; now,
therefore be it
RESOLVED, that the Board of
Education indicates its pride in
the accomplishment of Pasadena
City College by commending the
school and all persons participat¬
ing in the development, prepara¬
tion and execution of a program
that brings national recognition
to the community; and further be
it
RESOLVED, that the President
of the College convey this reso¬
lution of commendation to the
administration, faculty, and stu¬
dent body of Pasadena City Col¬
lege.
Pasadena Board of Education
by
Lawrence C. Lamb, President
Dated this sixth day of March,
1956.
ANOTHER HOLE IN THE GROUND ... The beginning of
the Athletic Department’s shower room and bleachers doesn’t
look too promising at the moment but the department is looking
forward to the completion of this project. Included in the building
program, the bleachers will be completed by the end of the sum¬
mer vacation and ready for the next athletic season.