PCC Coufuesv
Vol. 6, No. 7
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
March 27, 1957
Members of the Courier and
Press Bureau staffs will spend
Saturday, March 30, at the Univer¬
sity of Southern California attend¬
ing its annual Journalism Day.
Registration for the day-long con¬
vention will begin at the north
end of Founders Hall at 8:30 a.m.
Delegates are, to be in their
seats in the hall at 9:30 a.m. for
the opening program which will
be composed of a sound film,
greetings by the Director of the
School of Journalism, Dr. John
H. McCoy, and three speakers.
During the ntorning session,
Miss Jeane Hoffman, feature
sports writer for the Los Ange¬
les Times, will speak on the sub¬
ject, “I Love Sports.” “They
Call Me Cholly Angeleno” is
the title of a speech to be given
by Lynn Spencer, Women’s
Editor of the Los Angeles
Times. “The Romance of the
Wire Service” by W. E. Best,
Manager of the Los Angeles
Bureau of the United Press, is
thie final morning talk after
which awards will be presented.
Associate Professor Frederic C.
Goonradt will preside over the
distribution of the various awards,
which will go to editorial writers,
high school newspapers, two-year
college newspapers, and student
staff members of high school and
two-year college newspapers.
At 11:15 the students will be
conducted around the campus
by members of Sigma Delta
Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, the
professional journalism fratern-
ites on the SC campus. Lunch¬
eon and problem clinics will fol¬
low in the afternoon.
Priscilla Rockwell, Commission¬
er of Publications and Public Rel¬
ations from PCC will aid Wes
Gregory, city editor of the Daily
Trojan, Ann Haggart, co-editor
of the Chimes, Bell High School,
and Daily Trojan staff members
in conducting a discussion for stu¬
dent reporters and school column¬
ists.
Student Editors and their ad¬
visers will attend a special audio¬
visual clinic in Founders Hall un¬
der the supervision of John
Whelan, journalism adviser, San
Pedro High School. The discus¬
sion groups will conclude the days
events.
Women’s Club Names
Girls’ Week Winners
Pasadena’s Business and Professional Women’s Club hon¬
ored two PCC students March 12 by awarding them Girls’
Week checks of $25 each. The students, Yvonne Kessler and
Gail Sorensen, were selected for the awards on the basis of
scholarship, citizenship and poten¬
tiality, as both are 14-2 students
with plans to further their educa¬
tion.
A dinner was held by the club
to present the awards to the girls.
Each recipient of the Girls’ Week
award gave a short talk on her
vocational choice and future plans.
Miss Florence Brubaker and Dr.
Catherine Robbins also represent¬
ed PCC at Girls’ Week dinner
meeting.
Miss Kessler plans to become
a medical secretary following
graduation from PCC. She
also has plans of registering in
PCC’s extended day school next
fall. For this reason she gave
her talk at the dinner meeting
on the courses offered at PCC
for a medical secretary. At pres-
Chairman of the Department
of Math and Astronomy, L. Clark
Lay, will attend the annual con¬
vention of the National Council
of Teachers of Mathematics March
28-30 in Philadelphia, Pennsylva¬
nia.
Lay will attend the conclave as
a delegate from the California
Mathematics Council of which he
is the Vice-president. Elementary,
secondary and college represent¬
atives make up this national coun¬
cil which is approximately 15,000
strong.
“Insights into Modern Mathe¬
matics” is the theme of the 1957
program. The mathematicians
gather annually to discuss teach¬
ing problems, curriculum, and
other problems. It is one of the
largest and most influential
groups of its kind.
Meetings of the council are
scheduled to take place each year
in a prominent city. Summer and
Christmas meetings are usually
held at a university. This last
summer, the University of Calif¬
ornia at Los Angeles was the
scene of one of their gatherings.
Lay has been a delegate to the
conventions for several years. In
the past he has been on the pro¬
rams for the group and from ex¬
perience he considers these meet¬
ings very “worthwhile” to a teach¬
er of mathematics.
The council publishes a monthly
magazine and a yearbook for
*the teachers. This year the year¬
book will bear the same title as
the convention, “Insights Into
Modern Mathematics.”
Among the several other dele¬
gates from California to the math¬
ematics educator’s confab will be
the co-ordinator of the Pasadena
School System and the co-ordin¬
ator of the Los Angeles School
System.
Graduation Committees
Called Together April 1
Shades of summer vacation!
Committees for both the Baccalaureate and Commence¬
ment exercises are being planned for April 1 to discuss the
graduation activities. According to Dr. Catherine Robbins, a
Commencement committee con¬
sisting of Dr. Paul Smith, herself,
and the four class presidents will
meet at 11:00 a.m. to discuss the
student presidents’ graduation
speechs.
Each speech will not be over
a minute in duration and will be
based upon the theme, “Cross¬
roads.” Representing the Hunt-
tington Memorial Hospital PCC
School of Nursing will be its
class president, Diane Denby.
John Muir High School will be
represented by Fadlo Mausalam
while Pasadena High School is
sending Gino Mangione. PCC
will be represented by sopho¬
more class president, Bob Ward.
On the same day at 3 p.m., Miss
Laura M. Elder, chairman of the
Baccalaureate committee, has call¬
ed a meeting for her members. A
faculty Baccalaureate committee
appointed by Dr. William Langs-
dorf, the officers of the sophomore
council, and the chairmen of both
the Commencement and Bacca¬
laureate committees will be pres¬
ent.
The purpose of the meeting
will be to learn from the stu¬
dents their choices of ministers
for the religious ceremoriy. Two
ministers are needed for the
program, one to give the invo¬
cation and one to give the Bac¬
calaureate address.
— Courier photo by Glenn Kahl
HEY, COME ON ALONG! . . . says Cleon Butz, PCC faculty member as he directs students to
the Sport-Nite activities in the Women’s Gym next Friday. Heading that-a-way armed for action
are Nancy Shea, Armin Gesswein, Virginia Johnson and Bob Barnes. Along with other Red and
Golders these students plan to take part in the tennis, ping pong, dancing, etc., which Sport-Nite
offers to all Lancers and faculty members. Best of all the evening’s events won’t harm the pocket
book because it’s free!
Women’s Gymnasium to Be Scene of
Friday’s Co-educational Sport-Nite
Grab your racquet and your dancing shoes and come along with the gang when they gath¬
er at the Women’s Gym Friday night to take part in the Sport-Nite activities. Students and
faculty members will be on hand to join in the evening’s events which include ping pong, scrab¬
ble, square and ballroom dancing, swimming, checkers, chess, volleyball, and badminton.
•Coffee Shop
No foolin’, PCC’s coffee shop
will be ship shape and ready
for business next Monday, April
Fool’s Day, no less. After a
month of construction, necessi¬
tated by the fire there earlier this
year, Lancers will be happy to
know they may again enjoy the
atmosphere of their own coffee
shop.
ent Yvonne is working part-time
as a scertary for Chem-Life Inc.
of Pasadena.
To prepare for a career as a
medical technician, Miss Sorensen
aspires to attend the University
of California at Berkeley next fall.
She is a science major and her
talk at the dinner was based on
the courses offered at PCC on
medical technology. She is work¬
ing ten hours a week in the Life
Science Bacteriology Laboratory
at the present lime.
Both girls were selected for the
Girls’ Week honor upon recom¬
mendation of several teachers in
both the business and science de¬
partments. Dean Brubaker work¬
ed with the counselors and faculty
to make the final selection of the
candidates.
Eight clubs on campus have
given Sport-Nite their backing
in the hope that it may become an
annual campus affair. The idea,
which was originated by the Wo¬
men’s Athletic Association, now
incorporates the aid of the Asso¬
ciated Women Students, the pep
commission, the Freshman and
Sophomore councils, Circle K,
Spartans and the Lettermen’s
Club.
The evening’s events are sched¬
uled to begin at 7 p.m. and end at
11 p.m. All areas of recreation will
be open all evening with the ex¬
ception of the pools which will
close at 9:30, and the dancing
which will not begin until approx¬
imately eight or eight-thirty. Miss
Suzanne Macauley and Mrs. Maur-
ece Dunn will supervise the latter
classes with the assistance of
students.
Popcorn and cokes will be avail¬
able at a nominal cost on the third
floor of the Gym for the greater
part of the evening. Thus, all
hungry Lancers may indulge to
their hearts content after complet¬
ing a brisk swim or a square of
dancing.
Students from the various or¬
ganizations who have been giving
their time and effort to making
Sport-Nite successful are Pat Al¬
len, Janie Fulton, Elsie Roum,
Lloyd Kazamaier, Lois Robb, Pat
Winchell, Carolyn Weber, Judy
Hannah, Doug Stone, Audrey
Lachman, JoAnn Bode, Chuck
Ayers, Dick Tichy and the faculty
adviser, Miss Irma Graham.
For livin’ and laughs that won’t
cost you a cent, join the Lancers
at the Women’s Gym next Friday
night for their co-educational
Sport-Nite.
Casting for Male
Drama Ends Today
What will the verdict be? Who
will be the Bogart of Pasadena
City College? You’ll know soon be¬
cause try-outs for the “Caine Mut¬
iny Court Martial,” PCC’s next
Theater Arts presentation, end to¬
day.
Men dominate the stage this
time as there are no women in the
cast whatsoever. Nineteen young
men will be chosen for parts rang¬
ing from lines that run a page and
a half to no lines, walk-on parts—
from the fabulous Captain Queeg
to the background “swaby.” Those
with the smaller parts need not
attend every rehearsal.
Students interested in private
try-outs Thursday, March 28, may
contact Donald A. Liercke, direc¬
tor for this presentation. The ver¬
dict will be handed down and the
cast will be complete by Friday of
this week.
The men may have the stage
but they can’t get along without
the women. Co-eds are urged to
turn out and work backstage for
the production.
This intriguing court martial
scene from the well-known “Caine
Mutiny”novel and motion picture
will run May 6 through 10.
Publicists Gather
Saturday at USC
for Annual Caucus
Math Department
Chairman to Attend
Philadelphia Meet