ASB elections slated tomorrow, Friday
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Candidates tell planks
in Sexson Aud. talks
Lancers will go to the polls tomorrow and Friday to elect
fall semester Associated Student Body officers. Voting booths
will be located in front of Sexson Auditorium, at the east and
west (Prairie) entrances to C building, and at the main library
entrance. _
Vol 16, No. 16
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
May 23, 1962
Social Science tea
set for Thursday
Scholastic awards will be pre¬
sented to outstanding students in
the social science field at the an¬
nual Social Science Awards Tea
Tuesday at 3:15 p.m. in Harbe-
son Hall.
Honors extraordinary will be
given to seven students with “A”
averages who have shown out¬
standing leadership and service,
while 24 students will receive hon¬
ors for superior achievements in
various areas of the social sci¬
ence field.
Monetary awards will be grant¬
ed to some students by represent¬
atives from the following organi¬
zations: Pasadena Education As¬
sociation, Soroptimists of Alta-
dena, Business and Professional
Women’s Club and the Panhellen-
ic Association.
Many honored students were se¬
lected by their respective teach¬
ers on the basis of outstanding
performance in the classroom.
Awards and honors will be giv¬
en to students for superior
achievement, honors extraordin¬
ary and superior leadership and
service.
PCC teacher runs
for assemblyman
Jay Burchett, engineering and
technology instructor, is a Repub¬
lican candidate for assemblyman
in the 71st district (Orange Coun¬
ty) in the upcoming June 5 pri¬
mary.
If elected, Burchett says he will
strive for the creation of fami¬
ly centers to help curb the alarm¬
ing divorce and broken home
rates in California.
Statistics he has collected show
that the overall divorce rate in
California over the past 21 years
is 47 percent, and that the broken
home rate, due to divorce, sepa¬
ration, annulment and desertion
is approaching 70 per cent. The
United States, as a whole, has at
least three times the divorce rate
of any other civilized country.
Burchett is vice-president of the
United States Divorce Reform,
Inc., which is devoted to advocat¬
ing legal reforms in the field of
divorce. He also is the founder
and past president of the Orange
County chapter of Parents With¬
out Partners, Inc., an organiza¬
tion made up of men and women
who are the sole parent of a fam¬
ily.
These organizations are aiding
Burchett in his campaign, but he
says he realizes it is a difficult
road to election. He wryly ad¬
mits, “If I am elected, I will be
the most surprised individual in
Orange County.”
Elections commissioner Paul
Ehni said a booth also may be
located in front of the music
building.
MACHINE AGE — Seen in a sequence from their annual contempo¬
rary dance program are these members of Orchesis Club. The
two kneeling students represent Lancers working in the language
lab while the other two are machines. The program will be staged
Friday at 8:30 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium.
Orthesis club stages
modern dance program
Orchesis Club will stage its an¬
nual contemporary dance pro¬
gram this Friday at 8:30 p.m. in
Sexson Auditorium under the di¬
rection of Raffaelle Van Curen.
The group will also give por¬
tions of their performance to¬
morrow at noon in Sexson Audi¬
torium after a presentation by
the elections commission.
“From the College Catalog”
has been set as the program’s
theme. Sponsored by the Associ¬
ated Student Body and the wom¬
en’s physical education depart¬
ment, the costumed dance inter¬
pretations have been inspired by
different classes and activities
around campus.
Among the catalog titles to be
illustrated by the 38 dancers and
12 production personnel are Eng¬
lish literature, the Romantic
Movement, international rela¬
tions, East Meets West, phychol-
ogy, inner space, basic communi¬
cation, social orientation, flower
arrangements and finals.
With the exception of the open¬
ing and closing numbers which
were created by Mrs. Van Curen,
all of the dance sketches are
choreographed by students.
Background music for the
sketches include works by Res¬
pighi, Moussorgsky, Prokofiev
and Gershwin.
Tickets for the evening perform¬
ance may be purchased at the
box office at $1 for adults and 50
cents for students.
Life science tea
honors Lancers
Outstanding life science stu¬
dents will be honored at the an¬
nual Awards Tea in Harbeson
Hall tomorrow at 3:30 p.m.
Awards and certificates will be
presented to the outstanding stu¬
dents in the field of life science
at 4 p.m. after refreshments and
tea.
“The department of life science
likes to honor its fine graduating
students,” department chairman
Margaret Stason noted. “This is
one way we can do this.”
Awards in extraordinary, supe¬
rior achievement and superior
leadership and service will be giv¬
en at tomorrow’s awards tea.
The students honored are se¬
lected by the life science faculty.
The awards are then presented
by the students’ own teachers.
Members of the family have been
invited to attend.
Names of the selected students
will be held until tomorrow’s
event.
Four candidates will be compet¬
ing for the ASB presidency. They
are Barney Whitesell, 18-year-old
pre-law major and president of
Rep Council; Fritz Hoelscher, 19,
business major and last semes¬
ter’s AMS president; 20-year-old
accounting major Gary Leo Gar-
rigan, a former AMS board mem¬
ber; and Ed Bauer, 21-year-old
engineering major who was a
last minute entrant.
Nancy Tooker, Steve Bos and
Jon Elam are running for vice-
president, and Pris Cummins and
Eric Johnson for Sophomore
Class president.
Sue Abraham faces Sandy Del-
perdang for president of Associ¬
ated Women Students, and Jim
Taylor and Larry Gilmour are
the AMS presidential candidates.
All candidates may be heard at
the special elections assembly to¬
morrow at noon in Sexson Audi¬
torium. The program, open to
non-ASB book holders, will in¬
clude a modern dance presenta¬
tion by the Orchesis club.
Platform statements by candi¬
dates for the top two offices may
be found on page two.
Applications out
for ASB positions
Applications are now available
for appointive positions in the
student activities office.
Applications must be returned
to 111C by tomorrow and appli¬
cants must sign up for an inter¬
view.
The following commissioner-
ships are open: athletics, depart¬
mental activities, elections, music,
inter-club council, international
student activities, publications, re¬
ligious activities, speech arts and
social affairs.
Positions as editor of the Cour¬
ier, Huddle, Pageant, Pipes of
Pan and Prairie are also open.
Applications are available for
secretaries of awards, drama,
forensics, photography, radio,
ASB recording and corresponding
secretaries and clerk of the cabi¬
net.
Interested students should con¬
sult advisers of their respective
commissions and obtain a recom¬
mendation before applying and
obtaining an interview. Any ques¬
tions may be answered by Dean
S. Luke Curtis.
‘Madame Butterfly’
The West Coast Opera Co. will
present excerpts of “Madame
Butterfly,” by Puccini, today at
II a.m. in 102K. Admission is
free.
School construction bond goes
before state voters June 5
Joseph Wagner directs band
at performance in PHS aud.
Joseph Wagner, famous con¬
ductor, composer and lecturer,
will guest conduct at the annual
spring concert to be presented by
the Lancer Band this Friday at
8 p.m. in the Pasadena High
School auditorium.
Wagner will direct two of his
own compositions, “Eulogy” and
“Concerto Grosse.”
Other numbers on the program
include “Parade of the Chariot¬
eers,” “North Sea Overture” and
“Carnival of Venice” with Mal¬
colm McNab, soloist.
Majorettes Kathy Pangra, Han-
ell Marr and Judy Bandy will
perform to “Barnum and Bailey’s
Favorites” followed by “First
Suite in E flat for Military Band.”
“Polyphonies for Percussion”
features John Miller, Jim Kelt-
ner, Craig Holden, Diane Steele
and Penny Couvillon as soloists.
Flag girls Sylvia Martin, Meri
Gage, Nancy Davis and Sue Phin-
ney will twirl to “Tournament
Park,” a number which was spe¬
cially written for the Lancer
Band and was played during the
Rose Parade.
Selections from “Porgy and
Bess,” “Symphony No. 5” and
“Stars and Stripes Forever” will
conclude the program.
At least two major buildings will be provided
on every campus in the state, including California’s
72 junior colleges, if Proposition 3 on the June 5
primary ballot is approved, it was announced this
week.
Proposition 3 calls for $270 million for build¬
ings on California’s public higher education cam¬
puses. Los Angeles County will receive $142,795,633
of the total amount.
Dr. Archie Turrell, publications director for
the Pasadena Board of Education, noted that this is
the first time junior colleges have been included
on a state construction bond issue. The measure
would financially benefit Pasadena City College, he
said.
IN ORDER to be put into effect, approval by a
simple majority of the voters is needed.
Proponents of the bond issue state that “sky¬
rocketing school population throughout the state
has made the bond necessary.”
A recent census canvass indicates that by 1965
the junior college population will increase by 60,650
pupils; state colleges, 33,920; and University of
California, 70,508.
California, with 8.8 per cent of the nation’s
population, accounted for 12.5 per cent of all uni¬
versity and college enrollment in the United States,
authorities pointed out.
The proposition forms a part of the five-year
state building construction program, starting July
1, 1962 and ending June 30, 1967.
Junior college construction would get under¬
way in the school year 1963-64 and should provide
buildings for occupancy by the opening in Septem¬
ber, 1965.
THE DEPARTMENT of Finance points out
that California has a greater enrollment in public
and private colleges than any other state — 448,000
in 1960 compared with New York’s second-ranking
351,000.
The Department of Finance has also released
a public statement that passage of the bill will “in
no way tend to lower California’s fiscal position.”
Currently the state’s bonded debt status is rated
the lowest of the ten major industrial states in net
debt per $100 of personal income.
Part of the bond issue will be allotted for facil¬
ities of the State Departments of Mental Hygiene
and Corrections, Youth Authority and State Divi¬
sion of Forestry.