PCC CoutrieSv
Vol. 10, No. 12
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
May 6, 1959
Pep squad
hosts third
convention
High school students from all
over the San Gabriel area will be
the guests of the Pasadena City
College Pep Commission Satur¬
day, May 9. The occasion will be
the third annual Pep Convention
which will be held at Harbeson
Hall.
Arthur Schechter, Pasadena
City College instructor, ‘is .acting
as adviser of the gala event, but
he’ll be receiving plenty of help
from all members of the Pep
Commission headed by Commis;
sioner Dick Vallone.
BARNEY ROSENWEIG, head
yell leader at the University of
Southern California, has been
lined up as guest speaker. * His
talk will be on the aspects of yell
leading and cheerleading as well
as pep in general.
Festivities will get underway at
9:30 a.m. with registration. From
10-10:30 the first general assem¬
bly will be held. From 10:30-12
the huge group will be divided
into six seminars. Topics such
as band, cheerleading, song girls
and pep organization and rally
will be discussed thoroughly at
the various seminars. The semin¬
ars will be held in various loca¬
tions throughout the Administra¬
tion Building.
THE LARGE gathering will
convene for lunch at approximate¬
ly 12 o’clock. After an hour break
the second general assembly will
be held as reports from the vari¬
ous seminars will be given. Rob¬
ert Fleury and student Doug
Stone of PCC will head two of
the seminars.
Finally a swimming party will
hold sway from 2-4 p.m. to wind
up the day’s events.
ТВОЕ МАШ
purpose of the con¬
vention is to familiarize students
in the neighboring areas with
life at PCC. The high schoolers
will be given an opportunity to
sign up for various pep activities
while at the convention. Then on
May 14 a special orientation meet¬
ing will be held on campus for the
benefit of those students who
signed up for pep activities next
semester.
Dick Vallone also announced
that tryouts for song girls and
flag girls will be staged May 29
in Harbeson Hall. There are no
special requirements and all mem¬
bers of the distaff side are urged
to be in attendance.
— Courier Photo
Never before have Pasadena City College students
BEVY had such a difficult decision to make as they will
OF when they choose this year's OMD Carnival Queen.
BEAUTIES The candidates are, left to right, Laurie Mallory,
Susie Parker, Cynthia Dehmel, Kathy Eastman,
Janace Witherell, Nancy Hillmer and Deanna
Tomer, not pictured.
Pasadena teacher
wins defense grant
Engineering instructor Ken Johnson has been given a
leave of absence from PCC in order to meet with the elctronics
teachers of the various junior colleges in Los Angeles County.
They will meet until June 19 to study ways of bringing uni¬
formity and consistency to the
programs in electronics given in
the junior colleges.
Money for this type of program
has been made available through
the National Defense Act of 1958.
Johnson’s expenses for this period
are being paid by the Depart¬
ment of Defense. Due to the di¬
versity of opinion on what the
course content should be, this pro¬
gram was set up under the direc¬
tion of Lee Ralston, director of
the Division of Practical Arts Ed¬
ucation in Los Angeles County.
Rodney Sutliff of the Caltech
Jet Propulsion Laboratory will
stand in for Johnson during his
absence from PCC. Sutliff is not
new to PCC as he has taught
night classes here in the past.
•First class job
Language Council presents
free Spanish cultural movie
PCC’s Language Council will present “Flamenco,” a color¬
ful movie depicting dances and songs of Spain, on Monday,
May 11, in Sexson Auditorium. There will be two showings;
a 3:30 matinee and an evening show at 7:30. Admission is
free.
“Flamenco” presents an authen¬
tic and picturesque cavalcade of
Spanish dances, music and scen¬
ery in vivid and exciting colors.
It transports the audience to the
charming Spanish villages where
the movie was filmed.
WORLD FAMOUS flamenco
dancers execute the difficult dance
patterns with lithe and graceful
movements. Antonio, an incredi¬
ble artist who toured America in
1956, Pilar Lopez and Maria Luz
will dance the beautiful Ballet Es-
pagnole.
The film succeeds in presenting
an interesting variety of songs
and dances and it has not neglect¬
ed the life and color of the gypsy
villages. These gay and carefree
people are pictured in their own
camps where they sing folk songs
and dance wildly around the fire.
MUSIC IS provided by Albeniz
and Granados who are popular
Spanish composers. “Flamenco”
was filmed in Spain and will be
shown with the original Spanish
sound track. However, there are
English subtitles by Walt Terry,
famous dance critic.
Also highlighted in the film will
be an exciting bullfight sequence
demonstrating the form and grace
of Juan Belmonte in some death-
defying feats.
“Flamenco” has won world-wide
acclaim as a colorful and infor¬
mative movie. In a New York
Times review of this outstanding
film it was stated that, “Both the
performances and scenery range
from picturesque to magnificent.”
Seven lasses vie
for carnival crown
Seven lovely Pasadena City College coeds will seek your
vote next week in the annual Omicron Mu Delta Carnival
Queen Contest. The seven girls were picked as OMD candi¬
dates representing eacl\ of the department councils of the
college, and the winning one will
Assembly crowd
migrates to pools
for musical show
reign over the OMD Carnival to
be held May 15.
Vying for the throne are Cyn¬
thia Dehmel, Business Depart¬
ment; Kathy Eastman, Drama,
Speech and Radio Department;
Nancy Hillmer, Women’s Athlet¬
ic Association; Laurie Mallory,
Physical Science Department; Su-
zie Parker, Mathematics and As¬
tronomy Department; Deanna
Tomer, Life Science Department;
and Janace Witherell, Engineer¬
ing and Technology.
Any student on campus may
vote as many times as he wishes.
Votes cost one penny each and all
proceeds go into the OMD Harbe¬
son Award Fund which is used in
the presentation of scholarships
at the end of the year. The win¬
ners of the Harbeson Awards will
be announced at the carnival.
Polls will be located in the cen¬
ter of the Administration Build¬
ing and members of the depart¬
ment councils will be collecting
votes for their candidates.
The carnival will be held on
Horrell Field with the theme this
year being “Alpine Holiday.”
Highlights of the evening’s spe¬
cial activities will be the crown¬
ing of the queen and the judging
of the Whiskerino contest.
Approximately 30 PCC clubs
will sponsor food and game
booths in the carnival and a band
will furnish music for dancing.
In charge of the carnival this
year is OMD President Pete Ca-
puto.
All kinds of poular music from
show tunes to marches will be
featured in tomorrow’s assembly
which will be a pops concert at
the Mirror Pools. The Pasadena
City College Lancer Band, under
the direction of Robert Fleury,
will present the open-air concert
in place of the regular indoor
assembly.
With the band, a small men’s
chorus from the A Cappella
Choir will sing two numbers,
“Cranberry Corners USA” and
“With a Little Bit of Luck” from
the Broadway hit “My Fair Lady.”
If this performance proves to
be a success the band will plan
to do more open air concerts next
spring and summer. ‘This con¬
cert is of the experimental type in
order to see how well the student
body likes having music outside
while they eat,” remarked Direc¬
tor Fleury.
In addition to preparing this
concert, the bandsmen have been
working hard on the annual Mu¬
sic Awards Banquet scheduled for
May 19. At this traditional din¬
ner, which will be held at Rand’s
Roundup in Arcadia, all of this
year’s music awards will be pre¬
sented.
Word has just been received
from the Associated Collegiate
Press of the University of Min¬
nesota that the Courier has re¬
ceived a first class rating of ex¬
cellence for the first semester
1958-59. Courier editor during
the period was Walter Varnes.
College selects new theme
for next Freedom contest
In Pasadena City College’s campaign to retain the $1000
awarded to this school this year by the tenth annual National
and Schools Awards program of the Freedoms Awards, a
selection committee has picked the theme for the 1960 entry
in the national competition.
“The American Way of Life as
Practiced by the Pasadena City
College Student Body Govern¬
ment,” is to be next year’s PCC
entry in the contest. Stu Brown,
Pasadena City College student
body president, announced the se¬
lection at the regular Associated
Student Body Board meeting held
Tuesday, April 28.
PASADENA’S entry in the 1959
contest was awarded the $1000
first prize for recognition of an
outstanding job done on a news-
paper-sized 90-page entry covering
the 1957-58
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m m u n i t y-wide
“Scholars and Dollars” financial
aids drive to raise funds for needy
academically inclined students.
The future entry will cover
Pasadena City College student
body activities related to the pur¬
poses of the Credo of the Free¬
doms Foundation. The purposes
of the foundation are to create
and build an understanding of the
spirit and philosophy of the Con¬
stitution and Bill of Rights and
to inspire love, of freedom.
MISS BESS TYE, English in¬
structor and 1958-59 PCC Faculty
Association scholarship chairman,
has been responsible for the com¬
piling and editing of three such
Pasadena prize-winning entries.
The entry for this year again will
be compiled and coordinated un¬
der the direction of Miss Tye, with
the assistance of the PCC Asso¬
ciated Student Body Board, the
Pasadena City College administra¬
tion and faculty.
— Courier Photo
Pasadena City College has shown just how much
OUR the American freedom means to her and for her
PRECIOUS efforts has received the top national awards made
FREEDOM by the Freedom Foundation. Stu Brown and Jackie
Worker display the prizes.
