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PCC Courier, November 07, 1975
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Carol Chichetti
Loretta Hall
Anna Huizar
Lucy Natasha Markarian
Zenida Mendoza
Cheri Peoples
Monisa Taft
Homecoming Elections Scheduled
By Pat Francis
Managing Editor
One of seven coed finalists for
Homecoming Queen will be chosen
through campus-wide voting next
week. She will reign over the
traditional activities on Saturday
evening, Nov. 15 at PCC.
Voting by students is planned for
four days next week to decide whether
Zenida Mendoza, Monisa Taft, Anna
Huizar, Loretta Hall, Lucy Natasha
Markarian, Carol Chichetti or Cheri
Peoples will wear the crown. “We’ve
Come A Long Way,” is the theme for
this year’s commemoration.
Queen Voting
Selection of the 1975 queen is given to
the campus at large, with booths to be
set up in Center Quad Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, Nov. 10, 12
and 14 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Voting is
also available on Thursday, Nov. 13
from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the same
area. Student I.D. cards must be
presented.
Queen candidates have been given
short interviews by PCC-TV, and
PUT YOUR CAN IN OUR BOX
Canned food collected by the
Adelphians can make the holiday
season brighter for needy families in
the Pasadena area. The annual
effort to collect canned and boxed
foods continues through Friday.
Deposit boxes are placed at strategic
locations in all main campus
buildings including each depart¬
mental office. The boxes are
wrapped in white paper and marked
for the canned food drive.
By Jim Bradley
Staff Writer
Would you like to get away from the
normal campus distractions?
Have you exhausted the usual
avenues of escape?
If so, then you should go to Campus
Center 200 and try the pinball
The Educational Assistants Associa¬
tion (EAA) is hosting a “rock festival”
breakfast for all classified and certifi¬
cated personnel of Pasadena City
College next Friday with all profits
going into a scholarship fund.
Tickets for the breakfast are now on
sale at the College Bank for $2.50. The
menu consists of scrambled eggs,
sausage, a fruit cup, hash browns,
toast and coffee.
Entertainment for the “rock
festival” will feature staff members
doing parodies of famous rock stars
such as “The Supremes,” “The
Lennon Sisters” and “Cher.”
The table decorations will also be
sold at the breakfast. EAA members
will take orders for See’s candy.
The EAA is a non-profit organization
set up to promote the professional
interests and fellowship of the
The Community College District
Board of Trustees has expanded the
committee to select a successor to PCC
President Dr. Armen Sarafian from
seven to 13 members, after charges
from local residents that the com¬
munity was not being represented.
“We pay the taxes,” said Mrs. Gene
Wiberg, a community leader. “We
must have a say.”
Before the decision was made, an
objection was lodged by trustee Robert
Considine, Dr. Richard Green and
Walter Shatford that the committee
would be too large to operate ef¬
ficiently.
The six newly named committee
members join previously announced
representatives from college em¬
ployee and student organizations, the
PCC Alumni Association and Dr.
William H. Pickering, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory director.
In addition, a member will be
selected from the Association of Asian,
Black and Chicano faculty and staff.
Members of the screening com¬
mittee to select the new college presi¬
dent are the following individuals:
students may view them at several
locations around campus, next week.
Marjorie Scott, wife of first alumni
association president James Scott, will
circle the field in a special car before
the game, along with the presidents of
PCC and Pierce and the PCC Board of
Trustees.
There are several phases to this
year’s plan, according to Tony Sibert,
Co-chairman of the student planning
committee. The first, a pre-game
parade with floats built by several
campus clubs, begins at 6:30 p.m.
Alumni members will judge student
entries for the best theme, most
original and funniest. “We have ten
clubs committed to participation,”
said Sibert.
Coronation at 7 p.m.
Coronation ceremonies are set for 7
p.m., followed by a 7:30 p.m. game
pitting the Lancers against the Brah¬
mas of Pierce College.
Halftime activities will feature
music from both schools, with a
special time of recognition for Dr.
Armen Sarafian, college president.
The college Alumni Association is
involved in the planned festivities.
Along with judging of the pre-game
parade, a special grandstand section is
being reserved for alumni to view the
football game. The portion directly
beneath the press box will be roped off,
according to Sibert, who added that
“we are expecting a good crowd.”
Following the game, alumni are
invited to a special reception in the
Wentworth Room of Pasacjena’s
Huntington-Sheraton Hotel.’' En¬
tertainment for the event ygll be
provided by Harold Jackson and his
machines. There are not only seven
pinball machines, but two “TV”
hockey games and a “TV” Gran Prix
auto race. In addition to these there is
a table top “rolling pin” hockey game.
These machines have been operating
since school started eight weeks ago.
The money made from the machines is
members and to make a viable con¬
tribution to the life of the college and
the community. The organization also
represents the members in their aims,
rights, benefits, privileges and
obligations as employees of the
Pasadena Area Community College
District.
The staff of the EAA includes Frank
Way, stage manager, president; Betty
Manning of the payroll department,
vice-president; Virginia Dedeaux of
the security office, treasurer; Dorothy
Topolski from the student personnel
office, recording . secretary ; and
Eleanor Raymond from physical
science as recording secretary.
Money the organization earns
throughout the year is given away as
two scholarships of approximately
$200 at the close of the spring
semester.
Community representatives Melvin
Burt, former trustee; Dr. Catherine
Robbins, retired PCC president; Earl
Holder, former PCC business
manager; James Black, Pasadena
Chamber of Commerce president¬
elect; Robert Leishman, Pasadena
Chamber of Commerce president;
Walter Dingus, superintendent of the
San Marino School District; Eric
Johnson, Occidental College dean of
admissions; and Pickering.
College representatives are Karen
Powers, Student Senate; Dr. Ralph
Hallman, Administrators’ Council;
Dr. Carol Kipps, Faculty Senate; and
Frank Way, Educational Assistants’
Association.
Alternates on the committee are Dr.
Fordyce Johnson, Pasadena
physician; William Critchfield, La
Canada Board of Education member;
and Dr. Ray Ortland, minister of the
Lake Avenue Congregational Church.
Dr. Sarafian’s retirement as
president of PCC is effective March 6,
1976. He has recently been named as
the new president of La Verne College.
group, “The New Galaxy.” Jacksons’
wife, Phyllis, is dean of women at the
college.
A student dance is planned and will
follow the Saturday game, according
to student co-chairman Sibert. En¬
tertainment for that event, to be held
in the Campus Center, is not finalized
nor is a minor admission charge.
A kickoff party and special “Spirit
Starting Monday, the shuttle bus
system will include the Altadena
parking lot facility at the Westminster
Presbyterian Church on the corner of
Woodbury and Lake. Three pedestrian
bus stops will also be added at the
allocated to campus clubs and
organizations.
ASB President Larry Jennings said,
“In the first week alone, the machines
made $120. Profits are handled on a
consignment basis with the C.D.
Vending Machine Company of
Alhambra, the supplier of the
machines. We get only half the
amount. Also, every week the amount
we make off of the machines goes up.
“Stuart Silver, ASB president last
fall, also had pinball machines in
CC200D, but they had problems with
breakdowns.
Since the company was located so
far away from PCC, it would be two or
three days before the pinball machines
would be fixed.”
Jennings, who has taken the
responsibility for obtaining the pinball
machines for this year, explains the
difference in vending companies.
“With this company we get an instant
reaction when the machines are
broken. In less than half an hour, a
repairman is over to fix the broken
machines.”
Jennings would like to have a pinball
playoff, but he says he doesn’t know
how to go about it, but would like to
have one for the “excitement and the
publicity.” Also, prizes would be
awarded.
Dorothy W. Byles, Campus Center
coordinator, said “I’ve noticed the
same people coming in day after day to
visit the game room and play the pin¬
ball machines. The new machines are
quieter than those we had here last fall
and that’s a relief for students trying to
study upstairs. These machines also
have fewer breakdowns than last
year’s.”
PCC Plans
Bicentennial
Conference
A week-long convocation exploring
“Freedom and the Community” will
begin PCC’s celebration of this
nation’s 200th year. Monday, Nov. 17
marks the convocation’s beginning
with a lecture examining that topic by
Dr. Helen Kelley, Imaculate Heart
College president.
Hosted by the PCC Faculty Senate,
the convocation will feature two
aspects, life in a free society and
present obligations of citizens in that
society.
Also speaking will be William
Hogoboom, assistant presiding judge,
Superior Court of Los Angeles; Art
Sidenbaum, Los Angeles Times
columnist; Dr. Jacqueline Jacobs,
senior engineer, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory; and Charles Cherniss,
editor, Pasadena Star-News.
Week” were planned by the student
committee but never came about. “We
just had too much to do to take on any
more responsibility,” said Sibert. “We
wanted to do the best we could for the
major activities.”
’75 Preparation
Sibert and co-chairman Bobby
George worked with a student com-
corners of Mountain, Washington and
Lake.
The bus system is threatened with
early termination, according to Senate
Vice-President Bob Komoto. A deficit
of more than $1000, increasing daily at
a rate of $25 to $30, might force a shut¬
down of the system by November 21.
This is five weeks before the proposed
trial period ends.
“What we’re trying to do,” says
Komoto, “is combat one of the greatest
conveniences there is— the auto¬
mobile. And people aren’t willing to
save gas, apparently.”
The shuttle bus, explains Komoto, is
a great bargain. “The least amount of
money you can pay out every month in
an automobile is $8. Riding the shuttle
bus costs $4 a month.”
Nevertheless, the first week of this
semester was marked by an issuance
of $7000 worth of parking citations.
“Why are people willing to pay big
parking tickets, but not a dime to ride
the shuttle? If money like that went
into the shuttle, we could run it for
almost a year.”
there are not enough adjectives in
the English language to adequately
describe the unpredictable zanyism of
64-year-young health food “nut”
Gypsy Boots.
Boots was at PCC last Friday for a
live campus radio station interview
with KPCS program director Larry
Shirk. Never at a loss for words, Boots
came through with a steady barrage of
uniquely interesting nonsensical and
meaningful jabs at contemporary
American society.
Adorned with both shoulder-length
hair and substantial facial growth, be
bubbled away in rapid-fire fashion.
Boots repeated two of his past athletic
challenges, daring Bobby Riggs to a
tennis match, and requesting George
Blanda to participate with him in a
football throwing contest.
Behind all of his exterior exhor¬
tations, such as doing handstands and
tooting horns, Boots subtly fits in some
higher-level commentary.
“Too many people are too busy
making a buck to get into their inner-
self. People should stop preaching and
start living.” Boots attributes his own
youthful vitality to a lifetime of ab¬
staining from meat, being a “health
food addict”, and having a “positive
mental outlook.”
He announced his candidacy for
president on the air,. vowing to run on
the “organic/’ ticket. He claims
Washington D.C. politicians are
constipated, and that he would “turn
the White House into an outhouse.”
He was quite candid in expressing
disapproval of the “red carpet”
treatment recently accorded Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat, while ex GI’s
are exiles in Canada.
Although Boots is a big advocate of
vegetarianism and health foods, he
does warn vegetarians that there are
bad meat substitutes also. He says
athletes such as Bill Walton must put
more protein into their diets.
“You have to put back into your body
what you take out of it,” says Boots.
Originally named Red Bootsen, the
name “Gypsy Boots” was first coined
by former Tonight Show host Steve
mittee that has “done a really good
job,” according to Sibert. He noted
that the 1975 planning started basically
from scratch. There weren’t too many
people from last year to help us with
the preparation, and past committees
had not prepared the standard
notebook with planning guidelines.
Sibert said that his committee will
meet in the days following the
There are not enough riders to
justify to the Board of Trustees the
continuation of the shuttle, explains
Komoto.
“There probably would have been a
higher rider percentage if there had
been more buses, one for each area of
the San Gabriel Valley, but we couldn’t
The Readers’ Theater group,
sponsored by the Department of
Communication, won a third place
trophy in competition last weekend at
Biola College.
As PCC’s only representatives at
this particular tournament, the team
was the only community college group
to make the final round of competition.
Directed by speech instructor Carol
Norheim, the team presentation is
Allen. Boots’ mother was a gypsy in
Russia, which provided the impetus
for the new name. Allen once
remarked to Boots, “Behind all your
nuttiness, you gotta be a serious
clown.” Boots adds, “People used to
say I was nuts, now the whole world’s
going nuts, or healthy.”
Boots said he first came to PCC 30
years ago, and told the football coach
he wanted to play. He now says, with¬
out bitterness, “They didn’t accept
homecoming celebration to re-write
forms and prepare a new set of
procedures for future committees.
“Dean John Eikenbery and Lillian
Castagna, Eikenbery’s secretary,
helped us a lot, too,” said Sibert.
“We’re confident that this will be one
of the best Homecoming celebrations
ever, and hope everyone will turn out,”
concluded Sibert
prove this theory. The board cut us off.
They said there was too much money
involved.”
The bus already stops Monday
through Friday in the Sears parking lot
on the corner of Michillinda and Foot¬
hill, and on the lot of the Lake Avenue
Congregational Church.
Gypsy Boots Explains
His Secrets of Vitality
By Dave Willman
News Editor
Reader's Group Wins
Third Place Trophy
—Courier Photo by Bruce Archie
EXPRESSIONS OF GYPSY BOOTS— The well-known entertainer and
vegetarian Gypsy Boots was interviewed on the air at PCC’s radio
station, KPCS.
titled “The Impossible Dream.” Mrs.
Norheim, who gathered materials and
formed the idea, noted that it includes
some of the poetry of Langston
Hughes, a scene from “The Rain¬
maker,” and portions of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.’s, “I Have A Dream.”
Members of the team include Debbie
Pillon, Susan Robertson, Keri
Bowman, David Kimmel and Scott
Fuller.
me.” He is a strong supporter of
sports, and wants to “see students on
the athletic field.”
Boots says he would like to return to
PCC, and possibly lecture to a
psychology class. “I’ll blow their
minds,” he says.
Being married and the father of
three young children, he plans to live
“eternally.” If ever one could believe
such an optimistic statement, this may
be the time.
Pinball Offers Replays
If Campus Life Is 'Tilt'
EAA Rock Festival
To Raise Funding
Screening Committee
Expands Membership
VOL. 40, NO.8 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA NOVEMBER 7, 1975
Altadena Stops Added
Shuttle Bus Threatened