PCC Courier, May 18, 1960

PCC CotVUeSv Vol. 12, No. 15 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California May 18, 1960 Hugo Leckey Marilyn McCumber Circle К combs campus in clean car campaign “We really have this semester’s project organized,” empha¬ sized Roger Summers, chairman of Circle K’s car wash com¬ mittee, as he completed plans for tomorrow’s program which will be held on the women’s basketball courts throughout the ST. JOAN’S STORY Faculty Association presents 'The Lark’ Jean Anouilh’s warmly dramatic story of Joan of Arc, “The Lark,” will be presented by the Pasadena City College Faculty Association in an effort to raise money for their “Dollars for Scholars” program tomorrow and Friday at 8:30 day. To assist in the efficient opera¬ tion of the car wash, a special parking lot will be reserved for students wishing to have their cars cleaned by the college’s high¬ est honorary men’s service or¬ ganization. Life science sets department fete Awards to outstanding students in the Life Science Department will be given at a tea at Harbeson Hall, May 24, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Three monetary awards will be presented, along with a larger number of certificates and pos¬ sibly several special scholarships or awards, all for superior achievement. The various fields of life sci¬ ence in which the winning stu¬ dents are majoring are anatomy and physiology, bacteriology, bi¬ ology, botany, cosmetology, dental assisting, home economics, mar¬ riage, and zoology. Members of the faculty of the Life Science Department will pre¬ sent the awards. Guests will be families of the honored students and members of the administra¬ tion. The class in foods and nutrition 11, and the Lifff Science Depart¬ ment courtesy committee will be in charge of the refreshments. Miss Margaret Stason is chair¬ man of the Life Science Depart¬ ment. "Cinema Limited,” a non-profit film society, has announced its forthcoming foreign and docu¬ mentary film program to be shown on Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium. The next film will be from Ger¬ many, “The Captain from Koe- penick,” from the classic story about a hoax of history in which a poor cobbler posed as a military authority. The movie has been awarded a number of prizes at both the Berlin Film Festival and the San Francisco Film Festival of 1957. A Canadian documen¬ tary film, “City of Gold,” will also be shown. PARKING attendants will be on hand to direct “car wash cus¬ tomers” into the alley between the tennis courts and the South Hill Avenue lot. After they have been serviced by the Circle K’ersf the cars will be returned to this same lot. Cars will be returned to the other lots as well, accord¬ ing to Summers. “The cars will be washed under a tarp to keep the heat of the sun from streaking them. This way a better job can be done,’’ the committee chairman added as he went over other improvements in this semester’s project. He also pointed out that spe¬ cific tasks such as shuffling the cars back and forth between the lots, sweeping them out, washing, and finally drying them will be handled by specific members of the club “in production line fashion,” Summers hopefully in¬ jected. THE CIRCLE К car washers will be out at the parking lots at 7 a.m. to distribute tickets to pros¬ pective customers as they try to find a place to park. Requests to have the cars wash¬ ed and returned at specific times should be indicated on the car wash tickets. If car owners do not want to have any soap used on their vehicles, this, too, should be specified on the ticket. Only a dollar will be charged by the college’s car washers dur¬ ing their semesterly “keep ’em clean” campaign. Tale” (Canadian), on June 11; “Volpone” and “From Renoir to Picasso,” both French, will be seen on June 25. While memberships for the se¬ ries are $4.90 each, student and teacher admissions are only $1 per evening. “Cinema Limited” was created for the purpose of exhibiting films rarely seen by the theater-going public, films which are outstand¬ ing examples of documentary, ex¬ perimental, and artistic tech¬ niques. PCC ends season of art showings Pasadena City College’s Art De¬ partment will present its sixth and final show of the year tomor¬ row through June 6 in 200C and 301C. Highlighting the affair will be the faculty presentation of art scholarships and outstanding achievement awards by Lennox Tierney, head of the Art Depart¬ ment. These awards will be made on the first day of the spring show at 3 p.m. in 200C. All the many and varied activi¬ ties undertaken by students in this department, including pho¬ tography and graphic arts, will be on display in the Art Gallery, 301C. William Enking, overall chair¬ man of the event, and Russell Whitaker, in charge of publicity, have expressed the desire that this year’s final Art Show will be the finest in the history of the event. Students and others wish¬ ing to attend are invited to do so. The Courier was one of four junior college newspapers to re¬ ceive the all-American rating, in¬ dicative of “distinctively superior achievement.” Special recognition was given to the quality of the editorials and features, and editorial and sports page make-up. General coverage of news and sports, typography and photography were also pointed out as strong points. Judge Duane Andrews, former¬ ly of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, commented: “You (the Courier) cover the news aggres¬ sively, write it brightly and dis¬ play it in an attractive package.” PCC’s newspaper received an over-all score of 3500 points in reaching its all-American honor. Only 3700 points were possible under the ACP rating. Don Merry served as executive editor of the paper for the issues that were judged while Bud Green and Suzie Fox assisted him as managing editor and city edi¬ tor, respectively. p.m. in Sexson Auditorium. The fresh and moving treat¬ ment by Anouilh of the story of St. Joan in “The Lark” met with both critical success and audi¬ ence acclaim in its New York production and nation-wide tour with Julie Harris in the leading role. Brooks Atkinson, in the New York Times, said, “Although the story of St. Joan is old, the spirit is endlessly new ... it is magnifi¬ cent again in Jean Anouilh’s ‘The Lark’.” In the play, Anouilh blends humor and compassion as he studies the life of the inspired French peasant girl, portrayed by Marilyn McCumber. The play¬ wright displays an ironic attitude BE Department sponsors awards Pasadena City College’s Busi¬ ness Education Department will sponsor its annual Awards Tea tomorrow at 2 p.m. in Harbeson Hall. Two scholarship awards will be presented to the most outstanding students in the field of business. Other awards will be given to students in the fields of merchan¬ dising and retailing. Certificates of perfection, faculty honors, and Rotary Club certificates will also be presented. ’Elections Candidates planning to run for an ASB office are reminded that the final candidates meeting will be held this afternoon at 3 in 200C. Final checks will be made on petitions, Courier ques¬ tionnaires, speeches, pictures, grades, and other items per¬ taining to the election. Van Osdel guests at WAA banquet Miss Harriet Van Osdel will be the guest speaker at the annual spring banquet of the Women’s Athletic Association of Pasadena City College to be held on Tues¬ day evening at the Women’s City Club. Outstanding WAA sophomores will receive scholarship awards, blankets, and life passes at the banquet. Climaxing the evening will be the installation of the fall board and the tapping of new members into the Women’s Letter Club. toward the men and political events which trapped Joan, draw¬ ing significant parallels in re¬ cent history. The cast, under the direction of Don. Liercke, PCC drama coach, will include 35 students on an 80-hour rehearsal schedule. Leading roles will be played by Miss McCumber as Joan; Lloyd Steele, Cauchon; Alan Davies, Warwick; Frank Dane, the Pro¬ moter; Greg Andrade, the Inquis¬ itor; Mike Schilling, Brother Lan- venu; and Hugo Lecky, Charles the Dauphine. Admission is free with an ASB book or $1 a ticket without one. The joint efforts of the different departments at PCC will be seen in the production of “The Lark.” Under the direction of the Lan¬ guage Department, the foyer of the Administration Building in front of Sexson Auditorium will be decorated with French flags. The inspiring strains of “La Marseillaise,” national anthem of France, will be heard in the en¬ trance through the efforts of Dr. Amy Grau Miller. A special guest of honor at the presentation of “The Lark” will be Monsieur Jean D. Manchin, who represents the French Con¬ sul General at Los Angeles. More than 500 civic leaders in business and professional groups have been invited to participate in this special performance. awarded to the high school win¬ ners of the Foreign Language Speaking Contest, sponsored by the Alpha Iota chapter of Alpha Mu Gamma and the Foreign Lan¬ guage Council. Faculty honors and book awards will recognize outstanding accomplishments in foreign lan¬ guages. The French and German Consulates will present special prizes to students who have dis- tinglished themselves in those languages. GRADUATING students who are members of the Language Council will receive certificates in recognition of their service to the Department of Foreign Lan¬ guages. At this time, the initi¬ ates accepted into the national foreign language honorary soci¬ ety during this year will receive their membership certificates. The Altadena Exchange Club will present a citation for achieve¬ ment in foreign languages. The Clara Bate Giddings and the Kathleen D. Loly scholarship fund awards will also be given at this tea. OTHER AWARDS include hon¬ ors extraordinary, honors for su¬ perior achievement, leadership and service, monetary awards and endowed scholarships. A certifi¬ cate of merit will be given to the student director of the language laboratory, Nancy Nelson, and the new director will be introduced. Those making presentation of the awards will be introduced by Arthur S. Wiley, chairman of the Department of Foreign Lan¬ guages, and Bill Welch, president of the Language Council. 'Cinema Limited' schedules series of foreign, domestic film programs Future film's are “Seven Sam¬ urai” (Japanese) and “A Chairy Linguists to honor students at program Students who have rendered service to the Language De¬ partment and who have made an outstanding achievement in a foreign language will be honored at the annual spring Awards Tea on Monday at 3 p.m. in Harbeson Hall. Prizes will be Courier wins all-American honor rating in ACP contest Pasadena City College’s award winning student news¬ paper, the Courier, recently was placed among the outstanding junior college papers in the nation by the Associated Collegiate Press in its nation-wide judging of two year college news¬ papers.