Career Day Features Top Speakers
Vol. 9, No. 10 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California November 20, 1963
FOLKSINGER SYKES — To entertain students at the annual Fresh¬
man Night at the Ice House next week is Paul Sykes, a popular
folksinger. Tickets are available this week in the College Bank
and various campus locations for $1 each. The Frosh Council
will have complete run of The Ice House for the evening.
CHARGE ROSE QUEEN BIAS'
NAACP Threatens
Protest Marches
Attendance Mandatory
for Freshman Students
Council Plans
Frosh Night
The Freshman Council will
have exclusive use of the Ice
House for the annual Frosh Night,
next Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Folksinger Paul Sykes will key¬
note the entertainment portion of
the night’s activities. Several
other entertainers have been
scheduled.
The evening will offer two, two-
hour programs with a capacity of
150 people at each show.
Tickets sell for $1 per person
and are available at the College
Bank and various campus loca¬
tions. Ice House tickets normally
are $1.75 each.
The purpose of the festivities
is to gain funds to purchase
Christmas toys for local children’s
homes. A group of freshman stu¬
dents will present the toys to chil¬
dren at a special Christmas party
given next month.
AMS-AWS Dance
Has Paris Theme
Romantic Paris will theme the
annual AMS-AWS dance Saturday
night from 8:30 to 12:30 in the
Campus Center student lounge.
George Redman and his five-
piece combo will provide the mu¬
sic, according to AMS President
Dwight Espe. The group will
come direct from an engagement
at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas.
Decorations and refreshments
will create a glamorous night
club atmosphere. A variety of
non-alcoholic cocktails will be
served.
Cherri Schmidt of the AWS
Board, and Ken Hendrix of the
AMS Board directed preparations
for the event, assisted by some
20 others. Espe and AWS Presi¬
dent Pat Stetson coordinated the
work.
“Dressy dress will be suitable
apparel,” Espe said. “That is,
heels for the women, coats and
ties for their escorts. Admission
will be $1.50 per couple with an
ASB book, $2.50 without.”
Seven ASB officers will at¬
tend the California Junior College
Student Government Conference
tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday
at Asilomar.
The seven student body officers
are Steve Rada, ASB president;
Students Receive
Patrons Awards
“Dollars for Scholars” will key¬
note the first Pasadena City Col¬
lege Patrons PTA meeting, tomor¬
row at 7:45 p.m. in Harbeson Hall.
Dr. Irvin G. Lewis, dean of
guidance and counseling, will lead
a panel on the subject and pre¬
sent honors at entrance students
who won $50 scholarships, seven
from the patrons group, accord¬
ing to the group’s president, Mrs.
George Taylor.
The honor students include Ter¬
ry J. Carter, Anne Margaret Grif¬
fin, Elliot Joseph Groszek, Linda
Ann Jensen, Janet Anne Hewyor,
John Richard Vonrhein, Sherryl
Lynn Wilt, Janice Boddy, and Sal¬
ly Wilson.
Unless the Tournament of
Roses Association can solve some
of the charges leveled against the
organization last week, mass
demonstrations by the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People may take place.
Earlier last week, tournament
officials denied charges that its
members discriminated against
non-Caucasian girls in the selec¬
tion of Rose Queen and prin¬
cesses.
THE TOURNAMENT’S state¬
ment stemmed from a claim by
the NAACP that Negroes had no
Art Hewitt, ASB vice-president;
Karen Kuntz, Senate president;
Mike Madach, Senate vice-presi¬
dent; AMS President Dwight
Espe; Freshman President Bill
Rada; Terry Worsdell, ASB fi¬
nance committee chairman. Also
attending will be faculty advisers
Harriet Van Osdel and S. Luke
Curtis, dean of student activities.
The conference is held every
semester with the 72 junior col¬
leges in California sending dele¬
gates. The resolutions passed by
the students at this conference
are sent on to the conference of
the presidents of the junior col¬
leges, and from there go on to
the state legislature for action.
Terry Worsdell and Art Hewitt
will be state chairmen this year.
Manuscripts Accepted
The Pipes of Pan, PCC’s an¬
nual literary anthology, is ac¬
cepting essays, poems, and
short stories for the 1964 edi¬
tion, according to editor Ken
Watts. Information is avail¬
able in 109C.
chance under the present system
of selecting queens. The group
contended that an impartial judge
would have produced at least
some non-Caucasian queens or
princesses in the past. There has
been none.
The NAACP recommended that
responsibility for queen selec¬
tion be placed with the students
and faculty of PCC, rather than
turned over to the Tournament
of Roses Association. It was fur¬
ther recommended that partici¬
pants be bona fide academic stu¬
dents carrying 15 units, and that
the selection not be conducted
during any class time but as an
extra-curricular activity.
DURING a two-hour session
Wednesday in City Council Cham¬
bers, Shiela Trammel, a Negro
who has twice competed for Rose
Queen, said, “I doubt if five Cau¬
casian men could be found in the
country who are qualified to
judge Negro beauty. Beauty is to
you what you are. We can’t blame
the judges if they pick girls who
remind them of their mothers or
sisters or wives. That is natural.”
PCC’s annual Career Day to¬
morrow during the noon hour will
give students a more comprehen¬
sive insight into their prospective
fields.
Sponsored by Circle K, men’s
honorary organization, and under
the supervision of S. Luke Curtis,
dean of student activities, Career
Day also benefits students who
are undecided in choosing a spe¬
cific career.
English Dept. Sponsors
Poem Study Tomorrow
The English Department, under
the direction of H. Woodrow Ohl-
sen, will present a significant
poems seminar tomorrow between
2:30 and 4 p.m. in 200C.
All students and faculty mem¬
bers are invited.
The panel is made up of Robert
Trevor, MA, of the English De¬
partment; Peter Markman, Eng¬
lish instructor at Mt. San Antonio
College; Merle T. Olson; and
Chairman Ohlsen.
Olson is a former PCC student
and presently a senior at Occi¬
dental College. He is a poet who
has both studied and taught at
Aspen, Colo.
The panel will discuss five
“modem” poems, allowing ques¬
tions to be presented from the
audience.
One of Italy’s greatest films
will show in Sexson Auditorium
Monday at 3:15 and 7:30 p.m. Ad¬
mission is free.
The story deals with “moving
simplicity,” the age-old story of
an individual’s moral integrity
versus the corruption of society.
THE ACTORS are Lamberto
Moggioreni, a professional actor
but an unemployed steel worker
at the time of casting, as the fath¬
er, and Enzo Staiola, who had nev¬
er acted, as son. The picture is
considered Vittorio de Sica’s
greatest direction achievement.
The plot unfolds as Antonio, an
unemployed worker, gets a long-
awaited job as a bill poster. His
wife pawns the family sheets to
get a bicycle out of hock for An¬
tonio’s new job.
AS HE PUTS up his first post¬
er, Antonio’s bicycle is stolen. He
chases the thief in vain.
A series of episodes occur the
next day when Antonio and Bruno
search the city for the bicycle.
They scour the second-hand mar¬
kets, coming upon the thief talk¬
ing to a beggar. The thief escapes
on the bicycle. Antonio tries to
get the beggar to divulge the
whereabouts of the thief. The beg¬
gar takes them to a charity mis¬
sion, outwits them, and disap¬
pears. Enraged, Antonio strikes
Bruno and they separate. The
two reconcile after Antonio mis¬
takes a drowning boy for his son.
They spend their last pennies in
an expensive restaurant.
THEY later spot the thief, chas¬
ing him to his house, where he
TOPICS to be covered include
a wide variety from photography,
interior design, and secretarial to
dentistry, medicine, psychology,
and education.
One of the day’s speakers will
be William Adrian, president of
the Pasadena Advertising Club,
who will talk on “Advertising De¬
sign.”
“A MUSIC Career: It’s Require¬
ments” will be the topic of H. Le-
land Green, music coordinator for
the Pasadena City Schools.
Other distinguished speakers in¬
clude Anne Wilson, field recruit¬
er of the Board of Civil Service
Examiners and Attorney Charles
McClung of Los Angeles.
FOR GIRLS interested in a ca¬
reer as an airline stewardess,
James Sculerati from United Air
Lines will be guest speaker.
General manager of KRLA,
John Barrett, will discuss “Career
Opportunities in Broadcasting.”
VARIOUS other fields repre¬
sented are physical and life sci¬
ence studies, nursing, cosmetol¬
ogy, business, and the social sci¬
ences.
All basic communication stu¬
dents are required to attend the
Career Day discussions. The meet¬
ings are scheduled in pre-assigned
classrooms. Other interested stu¬
dents may obtain further infor¬
mation from the student activities
office, 111C.
has an epileptic seizure. Of course,
Antonio is berated by the thief’s
mother and neighbors.
Discouraged, Antonio and Bru¬
no begin the trek home.
Antonio spies a bicycle on a de¬
serted street, sends Bruno home
on the bus, and attempts to steal
it. He is caught by an angry
crowd but is saved when Bruno
returns after missing his bus.
Emotionally touched by the child,
the owner refuses to prosecute,
and Antonio and Bruno continue
their journey home.
Lancers Perform
in Band Concert
The Lancer Band will give a
short “pops” concert Tuesday, ac¬
cording to director Dan Hiestand.
The concert will begin at noon
on the Prairie and will feature the
majorettes, the flag girls, and
Drum Major Richard Crane in a
program of marches and light
compositions.
The Lancer Band is preparing
for an anticipated victory in the
upcoming Junior Rose Bowl Pa¬
rade, and for the Tournament of
Roses Parade January 1.
Spartans’ Sale
Spartan members are selling
suckers for 10 cents on campus
today and tomorrow. The semi¬
annual sucker sale is the sole
means for the women’s organi¬
zation to gain funds. Spartans
receives no ASB funds.
Otto Anderson, Veteran PCC Coach,
Dies of Heart Attack Friday at Home
By Dick Trubo
Otto K. Anderson, Pasadena City College cross
country coach, died of a heart attack at his home
Friday morning.
Anderson, 63, a two-time Olympic Games com¬
petitor, was a member of the PCC athletic coach¬
ing staff for the past 28 years. He suffered a mild
attack Thursday morning at school and the fatal
attack occurred about 11 a.m. Friday morning.
ANDERSON joined the PCC coaching staff in
1935 as head track mentor. He held the post until
1957 when he resigned to become an assistant to
Mickey Anderson (no relation). He has served as
cross country coach since 1936.
While track coach at PCC, Anderson’s 1936-37-38
track teams won the JC state championship. He
coached several track greats, including Mack Robin¬
son, who set national junior college records in the
100, 220, and broad jump. Other standouts who
competed under Anderson were Jackie Robinson,
Arthur Cazares, Bobby Madrid, and John Pimley.
ANDERSON was also co-coach of the PCC
varsity football team in 1936, 1943, 1944, and 1945.
He was a great athlete and in 1920 became the
first American prep athlete ever to participate in
the Olympic Games. In the 1920 Games he was a
high hurdler, and he competed in the decathlon in
1924.
While at Pomona he set the state high
school record in the high hurdles. •
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CJCSGC Confab at Asilomar
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