PCC Courier, November 12, 1964

ong nior )UI1- the lena ago ap- line. i se- ’ for 'asa- nce ’10”, sin- l his isive tion. PCC Forms Human Relations Croup {Jowiieb Students to Explore Local Race Relations By Brian Wardlaw ol this evolving forum for racial Are there racial problems at discussion cite many examples of PCC? Most definitely, says the a problem at PCC. Vol. 21, No. 9 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California November 12, 1964 Student Human Relations Com¬ mittee, an organization now form¬ ing on campus. This committee is being set up under the club structure in order “to explore the situation of race relations on campus.” Members AMS-AWS Hold Bi-Annual Dance “Rhapsody in Black” is the theme for tomorrow night’s AMS- AWS dance at the Altadena Coun¬ try Club. The bi-annual function is scheduled from 8:30 p.m. to 12. The dance, which will feature the True-Tones from the Balboa Bay Club, will be semi-formal. Admission is set at $2.50 per couple without an ASB book, and $1.50 with. Bids may be purchased at the College Bank. According to ASB member Peter Holmstrom, who is respon¬ sible for booking the band and the country club, the title for the dance is an appropriate one. “Rhapsody” symbolizes fall and “black” symbolizes Friday the thirteenth. Refreshments will be provided by the country club, and free cookies will be available through the courtesy of AWS. Holmstrom urges all PCC stu¬ dents to attend the affair, and also to extend an invitation to their friends. AMS is responsible for the dance’s advertising, while AWS, with the help of Joanne Heinz, is in charge of decorations. Famed Musician Diretts Pasadena CC Singers Jester Hairson, famed Negro musician, will conduct a concert of PCC choral music in Sexson Auditorium this Sun¬ day at 5:45 p.m. The College Christian Association of Pasa¬ dena City College is sponsoring the event which is open to the public with free admission. The chorus will be composed of PCC students from the Madrigals and the A Cappella Choir. Hair¬ ston will direct the singers in his arrangements of Negro folk mu¬ sic. His arrangements of Negro spirituals have been recorded by the Voices of Walter Schumann and by Harry Belafonte. Hairston has acted in “To Kill a Mockingbird” and "The Alamo.” ШШШШШЯШШт DR. JESTER HAIRSTON . . . conducts college concert He sings the theme song, “Amen,” in “Lilies of the Field” for Acade¬ my Award-winner Sidney Poitier. The noted musician has also served as a goodwill ambassador for the United States throughout Europe. The State Department is sending him on his third tour of the European continent next year. The event has been planned by Launa Crocket, president of the CCA, and Alberta Craggett, the club’s adviser. English Comedy Appears Monday The British comedy “Gene¬ vieve” will be shown twice next Monday in the second interdepart¬ mental movie of the year. The film will premiere at 3:15 and 7:30 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium, sponsored by the Life Science and Physical Science Departments. There will be a 50 cent admis¬ sion charge. Profits from the event will be used for scholar¬ ships. “Genevieve” relates the story of two old friends, owners of vin¬ tage automobiles, who take their wife and girl friends, respectively, on the annual London-to-Brighton old-car race. The heroine, Genevieve, is a temperamental Ferracq — vintage 1904 — driven by a young married couple, who, though very much in love, do not share an equal en¬ thusiasm for the vagaries of an¬ cient automobiles. The story is festooned with hi¬ larious incidents as the proud and picturesque cavalcade wheezes its uncertain way to Brighton and back to London. Full of tongue- in-cheek humor and mild skuldug¬ gery, this British comedy gener¬ ates considerable suspense. — Courier Photo by Larry Albert TAKE YOUR PICK — Head football Coach Don Hunt is surrounded by the seven PCC coeds vying for the title of Homecoming Queen. The finalists are Carol Lewis, Froukje d' Arnaud Gerkens, Linda Wiencek, Vicki Westphal, Marlene Griffin, Dawn Baker, and Bon¬ nie Mittler. The queen will be selected by penny-a-vote balloting. Campus Coeds in Competition for Homecoming Queen Crown Seven Pasadena City College coeds are vying for the title of Homecoming Queen this week. The queen will be selected by penny-a-vote balloting on the cam¬ pus through next Monday. She will be crowned at Tuesday’s Red and Gold Banquet and will reign over Homecoming activities at the PCC-Glendale game at Horrell Field on November 20. THE FINALISTS and their departmental sponsors are Dawn Baker, Music Department; Froukje d’ Arnaud Gerkens, Art Depart¬ ment; Marlene Griffin, Engineering and Technology Department; Carol Lewis, Men’s Physical Education Department; Bonnie Mittler, Life Science Department; Vickie Westphal, Business Department; and Linda Wiencek, Speech Department. The major obstacle is the atti¬ tude of many whites toward the Negro. Such myths as lower IQ among Negroes is still heard. There are also invisible dividing lines between the whites and Ne¬ groes who each have well-ordered cliques in such places as the cof¬ fee shop. The Rose Queen issue is an¬ other area of concern for this committee. In the entire history of the Tournament, there has nev¬ er been a Negro princess. After the organization gets fi¬ nal approval by the Inter-club Council executive board and the ASB Board by the end of this month, the members will embark on a program designed “to estab¬ lish avenues of communications between the various ethnic groups to define specific problems and to explore their solutions, and to car¬ ry on a program of education of the general student body.” The Student Human Relations Committee has already been call¬ ed communistic, according to a club spokesman. Red-Gold Banquet Hosts Sports Editor, Royalty The crowning of the 1964 Home¬ coming Queen will highlight next Tuesday’s Red and Gold Banquet. The annual event will be held in the Men’s Gym at 12 noon. The luncheon will honor the 1964 Lancer football squad. Joe Hendrickson, sports editor of the Pasadena Independent-Star News, will be the guest speaker. Coach Jerry Todd’s national gymnastic champions will also perform for the group. All male students and faculty members are invited to attend. Newmans Hold Religious Meeting Father Paul Berry will be the featured speaker at today’s New¬ man Campus Forum sponsored by the PCC Newman Club. The func¬ tion will begin at 12 noon in 126C. The entire student body is invited to attend. Father Berry will speak on “Ex¬ ploring Myths.” He will discuss the compatibility of philosophy and science and the theology in modern thought. The guest speaker is a profes¬ sor of chemistry at Antigomist, Nova Scotia, and is currently a resident fellow in physical chem¬ istry at Caltech. The Newman Club is also spon¬ soring a special student mass to¬ morrow at 7 a.m. in St. Philip’s Church, 151 S. Hill Ave. All Cath¬ olic students are invited to partici¬ pate. Author John H. Griffin Speaks on National Ethnic Relations Book Exchange The paperback book exchange will officially get underway today with an open house at 12 noon in the Library browsing alcove directly opposite the registration desk. The Library Council, sponsors of the plan, urge all PCC students to ex¬ change their old paperbacks for others which may interest them. John Howard Griffin, interna¬ tionally-known novelist, reporter and civil rights worker, will speak at Pasadena City College next Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Sexson Audi¬ torium. He is being sponsored by the Tuesday Evening Forum. Griffin’s topic will be “Human Values and Race Relations.” He is expected to discuss civil rights problems and the ways in which these are being resolved. He is the author of the best¬ selling book, “Black Like Me.” The volume, which was made into a movie this fall, tells about his experiences in the deep South. GRIFFIN is a white Texan who employed a physician to darken his skin so that he could live and travel as a Negro throughout the South. His original intent was to perform a scientific research study of the Southern Negro, but all of his attention soon focused upon his own experiences of liv¬ ing as a Negro. In a speech earlier this month in San Jose, Griffin said, “Racism in the South is much the same as the racism of Nazi Germany.” Griffin explained that a basis of racism is the effort to condemn JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN . . . speaks at PCC a people as a whole. He said that the American Negro is under such indictment in the South because he is being measured solely on the basis of his skin and not as an individual. He went on to explain that the simple change in the color of his skin automatically made him indigent, immoral, and a lover of watermelons in the eyes of white Southerners. HE SERVED in the Pacific during World War II and was twice severely injured and totally lost his sight. He returned to the United States to attend schools for the blind in 1947. During the years of his blindness, he wrote two novels, "The Devil Rides Out¬ side” and “Nuni.” Griffin’s vision was restored in 1957. His newest book, “Scattered Shadows,” covers the ten years of his blindness. The public is invited to attend the lecture. There will be no ad¬ mission charge.