'Crucible’ Opens Friday
in Sexson Aud.
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Vol. 18, No. 8
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California March 20, 1963
Thousands of High School Students
Participate in District Music Festival
Arthur Miller Play Stars
Dave Gruwell, Annette Culver
“The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s drama based on the
famous Salem witch trials, will be presented by PCC thespians
Friday and Saturday at 8:15 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium.
Admission is free to ASB members. Tickets for others may
be purchased at the door for $1. _
More than a thousand students
from all the high school bands in
the San Gabriel Valley area will
assemble here Saturday for the
beginning of the annual District
Music Festival.
Marking the initial activities
will be the competition for solo
and ensemble instrumentalists.
High school students who have
entered this category will meet
at 8 a.m. in
К
building for the
first adjudication.
ENTRIES in the competition
will perform for a maximum of
six minutes before a single ad¬
judicator, and will then receive
criticisms and suggestions on
their performances. All entries
are are given a rating in writing
complete with comments and a
certificate indicating their par¬
ticipation and rating.
There are several possibilities
of grading. Performance judged
as superior are given a rating of
I; excellent, II; good, III; and fair,
IV. Adjudication is based on a
variety of factors. How long the
student or group has been study¬
ing a particular instrument is one
of the points taken into consider¬
ation, along with age.
FOLLOWING the solo and en¬
semble festival the next weekend
is band and orchestra competition.
This marks the largest activity of
the District Music Festival, for
which thousands of students will
be visiting the campus schools
throughout the San Gabriel Val¬
ley.
Each band will be given a prac¬
tice area one hour before its ac¬
tual performance. Student guides
will conduct the entries to their
assigned playing area in Sexson
Auditorium.
EACH BAND and orchestra
performs according to its own
Students Choose
Hess as ‘BMOC’
Jeff Hess has been selected as
Big Man on Campus through
penny voting against seven other
candidates.
The announcement was made
yesterday at the annual AWS
fashion show. Proceeds from the
contest will be deposited in the
AWS treasury to sponsor future
activities and projects. Hess, for¬
mer ASB vice-president, is a mem¬
ber of OMD, PCC’s highest honor¬
ary organization. He is chairman
of the Model United Nations
group at PCC.
An active member of the Social
Science Council and the Young
Democrats Club, he also is plan¬
ning the annual Youth Day.
JEFF HESS
. . . BMOC
classification, which is deter¬
mined by current school enroll¬
ment. They are allowed to play
only music within their own clas¬
sification. Two numbers are re¬
quired, and a third may be of
their own choosing. All band and
orchestra entries are required to
play one march in entirety.
Entries are rated by three
judges, whose criticisms are de¬
cided independently. After adjud¬
ication, the groups are moved to
Abdul is a student of the Mos¬
lem religion and its place in world
affairs. As a result of his three
pilgrimages to Mecca, he is en¬
titled to use the religious title
"Alhaj.”
He was made deputy director of
the Islamic Congress at the rec¬
ommendation of His Highness,
the late Aga Khan. He has taken
the first pictures of Mecca and
the mystic ceremonies of that
Holy City of Islam.
He was founding secretary of
the “Kenya Party,” first non-
racial political party established
in Africa south of the Sahara.
He was vice-president of Capri¬
corn Africa Society (Kenya
branch) and a signer of the so-
ABDUL SHEIKH
. . . Moslem “Alhaj"
ciety’s “Contract Between the
Races” reached at Salima, Nyasa-
land in 1957.
Abdul is vice-president of the
Kenya Association of Youth Cen¬
ters and a founder and supporter
of the Sheikh Youth Center at
Kariokar. The youth center was
established to prevent the spread
of juvenile delinquency.
Sophs Conducting
Theme Contest
Applications entries for the
1963 prom theme contest are now
available in the Campus Center
and 111C, Student Activities Of¬
fice.
The winner will receive a free
corsage, two tickets for the prom
and free cokes.
Entries will be accepted until
March 28, at which time judging
begins. Students may deposit
their entries in the box located at
the entrance of the student union.
The graduation theme, which is
also the theme for Muir and
Pasadena High Schools, will be
“Our Challenge: A Better World.”
Harbeson Hall for sight reading.
As in the solo and ensemble com¬
petition, applicants are given rat¬
ing blanks complete with com¬
mentary, and all participants are
presented with certificates.
The evening of the 30th will
signal the end of the District Fes¬
tival. That night, from 7 to 9:30,
an Honors Band Concert will be
presented in Sexson Auditorium.
All those bands who received a
rating of I last year will play.
AAUW Honors
President Robbins
in Naming Grant
College President Catherine J.
Robbins has been honored by the
American Association of Universi¬
ty Women. The organization has
named its $500 international fel¬
lowship grant after her.
Mrs. Bernard Hammerback of
South Pasadena presented the ci¬
tation, saying that Dr. Robbins
has typified the AAUW ideals
with continued intellectual
growth, in the development of
leaders within the community,
and in furthering the advance¬
ment of women.
“Dr. Robbins has distinguished
herself as an outstanding educat¬
or and as a valuable citizen of
Pasadena,” Mrs. Hammerback
said. “Beginning as a teacher of
mathematics and business educa¬
tion in Pasadena High School, she
has devoted herself to education
and particularly to education in
Pasadena.
The Dr. Catherine J. Robbins
Fellowship Grant will be admin¬
istered from AAUW national
headquarters in Washington D.C.
later in the year.
Dr. Robbins has served on the
AAUW group's goard as vice-
president and corresponding sec¬
retary. She has also served on
its education, program, scholar¬
ship, and higher education com¬
mittees.
She has been president of Pasa¬
dena City College since 1959 and
is one of the three women presi¬
dents of junior colleges in the
United States.
The play, a fictional interpre¬
tation of actual happenings at
Salem, stars Dave Gruwell as
John Proctor and Annette Culver
as Elizabeth Proctor. Other lead¬
ing stars are Sheri Emond as
Abigail Williams and Byron Mas-
singill as Reverend Hale.
DAVE GRUWELL
. . . John Proctor
The production is employing
the “space stage” technique with
the action being shown on an ab¬
stract of levels against black
drapes.
The story deals with John
Proctor's tragedy, caused when
the jealous Abigail Williams ac¬
cuses his wife, Elizabeth, of
witchcraft.
“This play is not history in the
sense in which the word is used
Pasadena’s forensics squad
placed third among 26 junior col¬
leges from through California in
the State Junior College Tourna¬
ment at the University of Cali¬
fornia at Santa Barbara.
Stockton College gained first
place and Cerritos Junior Col¬
lege placed second in the tour¬
ney last Friday and Saturday.
Judy Thiery won the state ora¬
tory championship, highlighting
PCC's forensics squad.
Other debaters representing
Pasadena included Ronelle Dick¬
son, garnering third in the state
debate division and an excellent
in oral interpretation.
Duke Dobbs achieved an excel¬
lent rating in the semi-finals of
impromptu, placing with the
state’s top 12.
Gaining second in the state in
impromptu was Carolyn German.
Miss German was also a semi¬
finalist in oratory and received a
superior, the highest rating.
Eric Johnson got fourth place
in interp finals, fourth in extemp,
and an excellent in debate.
Acquiring third in the state in
interp was Kathy Rourke. And
Kevin Fishburn placed third in
interp, men’s division.
Additional Lancer debaters
were Dennis Denning, excellent
in debate and oratory; Marti Pas-
by the academic historian,” Mil¬
ler has written. “Yet the fate of
each character is exactly that of
his historical model, and there is
no one in the drama who did not
play a similar — and in some cases
exactly the same — role in history.
“As for the characters of the
persons, little is known about
them. They may therefore be
taken as creations of my own,
drawn to the best of my ability in
conformity with their own be¬
havior . . .”
The play, which is being pro¬
duced under the direction of Don¬
ald Ewing, represents two months
of tryouts and rehearsals.
ANNETTE CULVER
Elizabeth Proctor
kov, excellent in debate and ora¬
tory; Jan Perry, excellent in de¬
bate; Nancy Tooker, woman’s ora¬
tory excellent; Susan Wells, ex¬
cellent in interp; Art Hewitt, su¬
perior and excellent in the prelim
round of debate; and Bud Zeusch-
ner, excellent in debate, oratory,
and oral interp.
Red Cross Drive
Held Here Today
Students are asked to contrib¬
ute a Red Cross collection which
will be taken today during 9 a.m.
classes.
The drive is being conducted by
members of Circle K, Adelphians,
the Rep Council, and Spartans as
part of the annual community
Red Cross drive.
Students representatives who
are collecting are asked to turn in
the Red Cross envelope at the
close of the period to the College
Bank.
All persons who are not in a
class at 9 a.m. and wish to con¬
tribute may leave money with
Mrs. Orr in the president’s office.
College Ponders
Welding Classes
Plans for construction of a new
welding shop to replace the one
recently destroyed by fire are be¬
ing studied by Dr. Edgar C. Egly,
assistant superintendent of
schools in charge of business.
Welding classes will not be held
for some time, however, Egly
said.
Temporary measures which
would allow reseumption of fall
welding classes include renting a
nearby building, moving to an¬
other building on campus, or us¬
ing structure on Foothill Boule¬
vard owned by the school district,
Egly said.
Insurance questions, difficulties
in obtaining new equipment, and
special power line problems will
delay establishment of a new
shop.
Student Leaders Attend
JC Government Confab
Student leaders from PCC will attend the Southern California
regional conference of the Southern California Junior College Student
Government Association this Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The conference, which is to be held at Mount San Antonio Col¬
lege, will be it: preparation fo rthe state conference to be held on April
18, 19, and 20.
The ten members from PCC who will be attending the Area Four
Caucus, as it is called are Eric Johnson, ASB president; Stephen
Rada, ASB vice-president; George Gould, commissioner of athletics;
and Karen Kuntz, Rep Council vice-president.
Others are Ted Houston, commissioner of publicity; Art Hewitt,
Sophomore Class president; John Newman, commissioner of inter¬
national student activities; Terry Worsdell, commissioner of finance;
and Robbie Peter.
Moslem Describes Islam
as 'World Peace Force’
Abdul Sheikh, from Kenya, East Africa, will discuss
“Islam: Force for World Peace” Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Sexson
Auditorium. The public is invited to the lecture, which is part
of the weekly Tuesday Evening Forum series. It will be ac¬
companied by color slides.
Orators Win 3rd Spot
in Calif. Championships
