Lancers Go to Polls Tomorrow
PCC CouKieb
VOL 6, NO. 13
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MAY 22, 1957
DON’T FORGET YOURS
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Tribute To Sponsor
Last evening the Women’s Athletic Association honored
Miss Elizabeth E. Jensen, chairman of the Women’s Physical
Education Department, at their annual banquet at the Alta-
dena Town and Country Club,
last year at PCC before retire¬
ment, after 37 years of teaching.
The banquet, the purpose of
which was kept from Miss Jen¬
sen until it began at 6:15 p.m.,
was attended by more than 200
persons, including over 120 alum¬
nae of the WAA and 27 teachers
who have worked or are working
under Miss Jensen at PCC.
Under the direction of Pat Al¬
len, WAA president, and Linda
Lesh, toastmistress, the pro¬
gram was planned to include
the welcomes, introductions, and
responses by representatives of
the guests, the teachers, and the
alumnae. As a part of their re¬
sponse, the latter presented
Miss Jensen with a scrapbook
composed of material from as
far back as 1924, including re¬
membrances of her days as
coach of the girls’ wallscaling
team.
Later in the evening, Dr. Wil¬
liam B. Langsdorf, representing
Pasadena City College, announced
the foundation of the Elizabeth E.
Jensen Scholarship Fund, which
will present a $100 cash award
yearly to a physical education,
recreation, or health education
major planning to continue her
education at a four-year institu¬
tion. The award will be based on
outstanding scholarship, ability,
and service.
Also during the course of the
evening, the newly elected offic¬
ers were announced and install¬
ed for WAA, the awards for
the year were presented, and
prospective members were tap¬
ped into the Women’s Letter
Club.
Among the honored guests pres¬
ent at the fete were Dr. and Mrs.
This year marks Miss Jensen’s
Stadium and Pools
Get Final Okay
Final approval was given PCC’s
new stadium and swimming pool,
May 8, after a year and a half of
work' which began in February of
1955. Although a few items had
to be changed, the school was
given an okay to use the facilities
for school activities. The pool is
being drained and cleaned this
week and will then be open to
physical education classes.
The new stadium will be initi¬
ated next fall when the football
season opens with the Red and
Gold game on September 20. Prior
to the game, an open house of all
new campus- buildings will be
held with the pool, the stadium
and the music building on dis¬
play.
All three construction projects
were built by contractor Pete Ke-
witt at a cost of over one million
dollars. The new stadium will
seat approximately 4000 and in¬
cludes a large-sized show room.
The two-part swimming pool
will be used not only for swim¬
ming instruction but for diving
as well. One pool measures 75
feet long and 60 feet wide with
a depth of three and a half feet
to six feet while the second pool
measures 35 feet in length and
60 feet in width. It has a 12-foot
depth.
Stuart F. McComb, superintend¬
ent of schools; Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
F. Martin, and Dr. and Mrs.
Langsdorf.
planning to work this
summer are urged to apply for
a social security card immedi¬
ately if they do not already
have one. Application blanks
are available at the Placement
Bureau, 113C, and at all post
offices. A card can also be ob¬
tained at the Social Security
Office in Pasadena, 30 N. Lake
Ave.
Lancers will jam the eight voting stations located
throughout the campus tomorrow when they que up to make
their choice of leaders for the coming year. Immediately
following tomorrow’s assembly, which features the Four Preps,
polls wul open. Voting will con¬
tinue tomorrow through 3:30, and
Friday from 8 until 3 p.m.
The eight polls will be situated
in convenient places around the
campus. Three are to be placed
on the Prairie, one by the library,
one near the women’s gym, one by
the new technology building, one
between C and D buildings and
one in front of the C building.
Booths will be manned by the
election committee of which Kar¬
en Dunbar, commissioner of elec¬
tions, is chairman. The commit¬
teemen at each polling place will
demand an ASB book and an ID
card from every student before he
will be allowed to vote. Students
are warned to come equipped.
Sixteen candidates are vying for
the eight positions which are
available this semester. The po¬
sition of Freshman Class pres¬
ident and three representa¬
tives at large will be filled by a
special election in the fall.
Applications for the appoint¬
ive offices are also available. Ap¬
pointments will be made for inter¬
views immediately after the ap¬
plications are returned to 111C,
the Office of Student Activities.
There are 14 offices open.
Carnival Planned
for Fund Raisin;
To raise funds for scholarships
for Pasadena City College stu¬
dents, the Pasadena Education
Association is once again sponsor¬
ing a scholarship carnival this
week. The event yvffi be staged
on the athletic field of John Muir
High School tomorrow, Friday,
and Saturday. On the first two
days of the carnival, May 23 and
24, booths and rides will be open
from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. On Satur¬
day, May 25, the carnival will
open at 1 p.m. and close at 11 p.m.
This marks the eleventh year
that such a project has been spon¬
sored by the Pasadena Education
Association to collect money for
scholarships to worthy graduat¬
ing PCCites. Fourteen students
were awarded PEA-sponsored
scholarships last week based on
their ability, need and scholar¬
ship. The grants were given to
14-2 students who will matricu¬
late to a state college or univer¬
sity and who have a 3.00 grade
point average. In addition, most
of the awards are given to stu¬
dents who are going into teach¬
ing or some social service type
of occupation.
Jo Ann Bode, Ardyce Gilbert,
Judy Hannah, Marion Harris,
Phyllis Haugh and Chukwuka
Ifeagwu received the scholarships
which totaled $2400. Also recipi¬
ents of the grants were Eugene
Kunzman, Marianna Maier, June-
lee McGee, Ruth Moses, Arline
Pozzi, Carolyn Reegler, Priscilla
Rockwell, and Gail Sorensen.
Dr. Harold Blome is chairman
of the carnival which will include
rides and booths. The entire com¬
munity and student body are in¬
vited to back up this worthy
project.
LET’S ALL B-FLAT! . .
singing group gather round
Quartet Displays Talent
in Thursday’s Assembly
Headlining the final ASB assembly of the year will be the
popular West Coast singing group, the . Four Preps, tomorrow
in Sexson Auditorium at 12 noon. Crooners of such hits
as “Dreamy eyes,” “Fools Will Be Fools,” and “Moonstruck in
Madrid,” these four entertainers
are busily engaged in performing
their singing-comedy act for vari¬
ous school dances, private parties
and hotels.
A few years ago the boys met
at Hollywood High School and
soon discovered they had similar
tastes in song and harmony. They
joined forces and immediately be¬
gan to work under the manage¬
ment of Mel Shaver of the Les
Paul and Mary Ford team.
This up-and-coming group is
composed of Bruce Belland, 19,
who sings lead tenor and attends
UCLA in Westwood and 18-year-
old Marvin Inabett, tenor, who
also attends UCLA. Ed Cobb,
18-year-old bass of Los Angeles
City College, and Glen Larson, 19,
baritone, who recently started to
work in Hollywood as an NBC
page, round out the quartet.
All of the arrangements for
the troup are done by Lincoln
Mayorga, 19-year-old University
of Southern California student.
Immediately preceding this per¬
formance, ASB President Ed
Brower will present all of the
election candidates to the assem¬
blage of Lancer students.
The assembly will begin at 12
noon instead of the usual time at
11:40 because classes will not be
on assembly schedule for that
day. The program will run for
almost the entire noon hour and
1 o’clock classes will begin on the
hour.
as the Four Preps, a professional
a recording studio microphone to
wax some of their most recent hits. The quartet is made up of
four young men who banded together in their high school days
and have made a hit of their hobby.
