Local FBLA hosts statewide convention
500 students take part
in business activities
Vol. 16, No. 9
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
March 28, 1962
BULLETIN
Dr. John W. Harbeson, who
headed Pasadena Junior College
from 1924 to 1950, died quietly
yesterday after a lengthy illness.
Dr. Harbeson, after whom Harbe¬
son Hall is named, was a long
time champion of the junior col¬
lege development. Friends may
contribute to the John W. Harbe¬
son Scholarship Fimd in lieu of
sending flowers.
Student government officers
attend Junior College confab
berger who stated, “I encourage
all politically-minded students in¬
terested in the Democratic Party
to check immediately about join¬
ing the group.”
Assisting Eisenberger are Paul
Clark, vice-president; Jeff Hess,
treasurer; and Carolyn Trailer,
secretary.
Advisers for the organization
are Marv Jacobson, Joseph Muha
and John Snyder.
Chairmanships were given to
Oral De Wayne Pyle, publicity;
Donald Poole, membership; and
Wendy Moore and Hess, OMD
carnival.
Tables in front of Sexson Audi¬
torium will be put up early in
April for the convenience of stu¬
dents wishing to become Young
Democrats.
Officers of the group are in the
midst of contacting prominent
speakers in the area to speak to
the club members, Eisenberger
stated. Last week, Jack Anderson
of the social science department
talked on “Why Most Humani¬
ties Teachers Are Liberal.” (See
story on page 3 for details.)
Hess reported that the club is
going to put on a joint assembly
with the Young Republicans on
campus next year.
Five PCC student government
officers will participate in this se¬
mester's state-wide conference of
the California Junior College Stu¬
dent Government Association to¬
morrow at the Biltmore Hotel in
Los Angeles.
Attending are Scott Hutchinson,
ASB president; Vic Ogilvie, ASB
vice-president; Barney Whitesell,
representative council president;
Doug Sterling, AMS president;
and Cathy Shelburne, AWS presi-
dena. Faculty advisers are S.
Luke Curtis, dean of student ac¬
tivities, and Miss Harriet Van
Osdel, adviser to the ASB cab¬
inet. Also attending is finance
Music fraternity
Phi Nu Alpha Symfonia, na¬
tional honor music fraternity
under the advisership of Robert
Fleury, is now active on cam¬
pus and seeking members.
commissioner Bruce Allen, trea¬
surer of the CJCSGA.
THE CONFERENCE, which
runs through March 31, has dele¬
gations from all of California’s
more than 60 junior colleges. Its
object is the exchange of infor¬
mation and discussion of student
government problems by student
leaders. Resolutions adopted bear¬
ing on state education laws may
eventually reach the state legis¬
lature.
For working purposes, there
will be five workshops, each of
which will be attended by one
PCC delegate, and two general as¬
sembly meetings.
The president’s workshop, in
which Dean Curtis will act as one
of two faculty resource persons,
will consider questions like the
legalization of sororities and fra¬
ternities at junior colleges and the
reorganization of the CJCSGA.
A WORKSHOP on finance will
consider student insurance and
ways to increase student body
revenue. A third workshop will
give thought to making a junior
college a greater cultural center.
The other two workshops are to
center on campus problems, intra¬
murals and recreation.
At the general assembly meet¬
ings, resolutions from the various
workshops will be discussed and
voted on. If passed, they may be
submitted for consideration to the
California Junior College Associ¬
ation, composed of the junior col¬
lege president. Upon the recom¬
mendation of the presidents, a
resolution could be given to a leg¬
islative advocate for introduction
to the state legislature.
CJCSGA conferences are held
four times a year, two each se¬
mester. One is a statewide meet¬
ing such as the present confer¬
ence.
ASB board allots money
to Seattle-bound band
Financial support amounting to $1250 was alloted by the ASB
Board last week to aid the Lancer Band for their planned trip to the
Seattle World’s Fair during spring vacation.
ASB President Scott Hutchinson reported that there is a possi¬
bility of raising the total to $2000. This will come next week after
further investigation by the finance committee.
In the meantime, band members have been divided into four work¬
ing teams with Jim Kisling, Craig Holden, Chuck Sutton, and Dennis
Griffin as captains. Each team member is working toward a goal of
$115. This sum will come through the sale of first aid kits, nuts, and
other activities such as bake sales and car washes.
Holden’s team is leading with $650 and Bill Webb has earned a
high of $75. All four teams have totaled $2020. However, $9000 is
needed before the group can travel to Seattle.
Pasadena City College, along with Muir and Pasadena
high schools, will host the 1962 state convention for Future
Business Leaders of America and Phi Beta Lambda April 6
and 7. More than 500 business education students from high
James Dean film
slated for showing
“Rebel Without a Cause,” star¬
ring the late James Dean, will be
presented in Sexson Auditorium
by the Interdepartmental Activi¬
ties Commission Monday at 3:15
and 7:30. This is the commis¬
sion’s last scholarship movie of
the year. Proceeds from this and
previous movies are distributed
among the participating councils
to to be used for scholarships to
outstanding students.
Tickets for the movie are avail¬
able from members of the various
departmental councils and will
be sold at the box office prior to
the showings for 50 cents.
The film stars Dean, Natalie
Wood and Sal Mineo.
The film has been widely ac¬
claimed by critics as a signifi¬
cant one pertinent to the prob¬
lems faced by today’s youth.
James Dean’s role as a con¬
fused and troubled teen-ager in
some respects parallels his own
tumultuous life. Of the three
films in which he appeared be¬
fore his death, Dean’s portrayal
as the rebel is acknowledged to
be his most successful.
Pageant editor captures
spot as JAJC secretary
Pageant editor Gail Williams
was elected secretary of the Jour¬
nalism Association of Junior Col¬
leges at the organization’s recent
annual conference in Sacramento.
Also taikng honors at the con¬
vention was former Courier
sports editor Danny McLean, who
was awarded a first place trophy
for sports column writing.
The JAJC convention consisted
of workshops, round table discus¬
sions and other journalism activi¬
ties. The JAJC delegates will meet
again next year at Disneyland Ho¬
tel in a convention which Miss
Williams will help organize.
AMS sweatshirts
AMS sweashirts will arrive this
Friday. Students who purchas¬
ed and ordered them earlier this
semester are requested to pick
them up in 19C.
Catherine Robbins, president of
PCC, and Dr. Robert Jenkins, su¬
perintendent of the Pasadena City
Schools, Rose Queen Martha Sis-
sell will present the 1962 Rose
Parade film.
The meeting will be followed
by a tour of the Huntington Li¬
brary and a picnic at Brookside
Park.
All junior college delegates will
have overnight accommodations
at the Saga Motel across from
PCC, while high school represen¬
tatives will stay at the Hunting-
ton-Sheraton Hotel.
Contests in typing, shorthand,
spelling, vocabulary and public
speaking will be held at Pasadena
High School on April 7.
“This should prove to be quite
an event,” Roland E. Sink of the
PCC business department stated.
“This is the first time in the his¬
tory of PCC that we have been
hosts to the FBLA state conven¬
tion.”
Dr. Conklin life
science chairman
Dr. Bruce E. Conklin was re¬
cently appointed to chairmanship
of the life science department
with the retirement of Margaret
Stason, present chairman.
Dr. Conklin, who- is presently
teaching marriage classes in the
life science department and psy¬
chology classes in the social sci¬
ence department, will assume his
new position in September. He
will no longer teach psychology
classes during the day or eve¬
ning but will continue to teach
marriage classes along with run¬
ning the department.
His degrees include MA and
BA from the University of Illi¬
nois and a PhD from USC. Prior
to the war he taught for several
years in New York State. During
the war he was a captain in the
US Army, and radar officer with
the British Army and Royal
Canadia Air Force. During this
time he studied and taught radar.
From 1946 to 1955 he taught
anatomy and physics at Muir Col¬
lege and then transferred to PCC.
When asked about his new as¬
signment, Conklin stated, “I feel
this assignment is a great chal¬
lenge and will do my very best to
make certain that the life science
department continues to be an as¬
set to PCC.”
The department has a broad
scope since it offers both terminal
and transfer courses. Some of the
various courses offered include
botany, biology, anatomy, physi¬
ology, bacteriology, micro-biology,
biology, dental assisting, medical
assisting, forestry, home econom¬
ics, marriage and cosmetology.
Tennis stars play
on Lancer courts
International tennis stars will
be featured in a tennis exhibition
tomorrow at noon in the- Men’s
Gym.
The program will consist of two
sets of singles by four different
players including Hugh Stewart,
a PCC alumnus and former inter¬
collegiate champion.
Noel Brown, a former pro who
has been ranked in the first ten,
and another great, Ramsey Ear-
hart, will demonstrate their skill
along with Jon Douglas. Pacific
Southwest tournament champion.
Joe Bixler will act as commen¬
tator.
The exhibition is being spon¬
sored by the PCC Tennis Club and
the PCC faculty Men’s Club. Play¬
ers are from the Youth Tennis
Club of Southern California, an
organization dedicated solely to
the development of interest in
tennis among the youth of Amer¬
ica.
Young Democrats plan
major membership drive
Officers for the newly-formed
Young Democrats Club were
elected last week and have begun
plans for holding an extensive
membership drive the first week
of April.
Heading the student political
club will be sophomore Bob Eisen-
— Courier photo
ALL SET? — Pasadena City College Lancers discuss their plans for
the upcoming Future Business Leaders of America convention to be
held here next weekend with Dr. Catherine Robbins, president of
PCC, and Martha Sissell, Rose Queen.
school and junior colleges all over
California will participate in the
annual FBLA convention.
Commercial business majors
from 200 chapters of California’s
high schools and junior colleges
will each have from five to ten
delegates represented.
The delegates are invited to a
luncheon in the Lancer cafeteria,
which will be followed by a meet¬
ing in Sexson Auditorium on
April 6 from 12:45 to 2.
During this meeting George
Juett, PCC’s business department
chairman, and Jim Schmittling,
president of the Lancer business
club, will welcome the delegation.
After speeches on business by Dr.
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