VOL. 52, NO. 13
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
NOVEMBER 20, 1981
Queen to be Crowned During Half-time
Homecoming Events Culminate
By Mary E. Jones
News Editor
Homecoming activities will conclude
Saturday night at 7:30 in a game
between the Los Angeles Valley Col¬
lege Monarchs and the Lancers. PCC is
2-2 in league play and 5-3 overall. The
Monarchs’ league standing is 0-4 and
1-7 overall.
A parade on Horrell Field will kick¬
off the evening at 6:30. District
dignitaries will ride in six antique cars
and a antique fire engine supplied by
the Foothill Region’s Vintage Chevro¬
let Car Club of America.
Riding in the antique cars will be
Superintendent-President Richard S.
Meyers, Board of Trustee President
Warren L. Weber, Senate President
Bob Carroll, ASB President Barry
McGowan and several past Home¬
coming Court members.
Next in the parade will be this year’s
Homecoming Court riding in the Tour¬
nament of Roses’ Oldsmobile con¬
vertible supplied by Crown Oldsmobile
of Pasadena. Student Trustee Joe
Krovoza will drive the car in the
parade.
Parade floats made by various clubs
on campus will follow. Float design
will reflect this year’s Homecoming
theme: “Blue Jeans and Country
Dreams.’’ The PCC Alumni Associa¬
tion is providing judges to award prizes
in three categories: funniest, most
original and best theme. The three
clubs who win will receive a $25 prize
during half-time activities.
A Special Honor
Half-time will start off with the Los
Angeles Valley Marching Band, fol¬
lowed by the PCC Marching Band led
by Robert L. Evenden.
The PCC Alumni Association recent¬
ly announced that Alice M. Oliver will
be the Honoree for Homecoming. She
will be honored during the half-time
activities.
Mrs. Oliver is currently executive
secretary to the Board of Trustees. She
has worked at PCC for 18 years and
just finished her second term as presi¬
dent of the PCC Alumni Association.
“As a graduate of the college, I shall
always have a warm spot in my heart
for it and will assist in continuing the
excellence of the college by working
with the Alumni Association,’’ she
said.
The Alumni Association’s Board of
Directors were unanimous in selecting
Mrs. Oliver. “Mrs. Oliver has many
friends in the faculty and staff at the
college as well as in the alumni and
students she has worked with over the
years,” said Louis Creveling, PCC
Alumni Association President.
Previous homecoming honorees in¬
clude Coach Ed.Laurenson and Nobu
Kawai, first president of Omicron Mu
Delta (OMD), the college honor socie¬
ty.
A Queen Is Crowned
The Homecoming Queen will be
crowned during half-time. As she is
crowned, 1,000 balloons will be re¬
leased.
The Homecoming Queen will receive
a $200 scholarship from Circle K’s
Deborah Pabon Memorial fund. Ms.
Pabon was the 1979 Homecoming
Queen who died shortly after Home¬
coming in a car accident.
From the original 75 homecoming
queen applicants, judges choose 12
girls by their appearance, personality,
poise, smile and verbal expression.
PCC students voted for the final
seven court members this week. The
seven court members were announced
Wednesday, but the Queen (the woman
with the most votes) will not be an¬
nounced until Homecoming half-time.
After the game a reception will be
held for all interested parties in the
Hall of Fame Room in back of the
grandstands.
Homecoming committee members
this year are Jennifer C. McKinney,
student activities adviser; Tom
Mallory, alumnus from the class of
1928; John Eikenbery, class of 1935;
Tom Selinske, class of 1977; Dr. Irvin
Lewis, retired vice president of student
personnel services, who received a
degree in 1981; and Judy Culbertson,
class of 1979.
THE FINALISTS — Out of these 12 women only seven were elected by
the student body to be Homecoming Princesses. From top left: Catherine
Lucero, Princess Kim Francis, Edna Carrasco, Princess LaRae D'Arezzo.
Colleen McCarary, Princess Julia Vogel and Stacey Miyamoto. Bottom row
from left: Princess Jemmetta Smith, Princess Rebecca Lawlor. Princess
Kelli Ennis-Turner, Karla Khoury and Princess Leisa Reynolds. One of the
seven Princesses will be crowned Queen tomorrow evening.
— Courier photo by Eddie Mundo
Honors Nurses
30 Years of Service
By Barbara Lamprecht
Associate News Editor
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of
the associate degree nursing (ADN)
programs in the United States and at
PCC, Pasadena’s Mayor Jo Heckman
proclaimed the week of Nov. 18-24 as
“Associate Degree Nursing Week.”
On hand at the presentation Tuesday
at City Hall were Shirley Wrasse,
nursing department chairperson, and
the four officers of the four-semester
nursing program: Richard Onysko,
Tom Schultz, Andrea Barnton and Lisa
Freeman.
A “Jubilee” program will be held in
the Forum from 12 to 1 p.m. and will
include a special tribute honoring
Honors at Entrance Given
To Outstanding Freshmen
By Dave Cronemiller
Staff Writer
Honors at Entrance awards were
presented to outstanding PCC
freshmen Wednesday at a meeting of
the PCC Patrons Parent Teacher Stu¬
dent Association.
Scholarships of $100 were awarded to
students who maintained a grade point
average of 3.5 or above throughout high
school. In addition to the money re¬
ceived, the students were presented
with certificates of their award and
will have a notation of honor placed on
their permanent college records.
Honor students from Arcadia High
School include Kevin Cope, Della
Cramer, Pamela Cramer, Julie Ann
Cunningham, Tracy Currie, Jon Doyel,
Marcello Galati, Kathryn Krumm,
Mary Lauderdale, Christa Lockhard,
Monica Munoz, Terry Nakatani, David
Norcross, Nijmah Suid and Christian
Speck.
Marshall Fundamental High School
students honored include Vicken
HONORS GIVEN— Dr. Henry P. Kirk, vice president of student personnel
services, was one of the speakers at PTSA’s Honors-at- Entrance presenta¬
tion Wednesday night. —Courier photo by Tina Andris
Haleblian, Gary Mendes, Paul Tice,
Jenifer Underwood, Quynh Vo, Trien
Vo, Christina von Lutzow, Jennifer
Zoeller and Hourik Konialian.
Students from Pasadena High School
honored include Lauralee Burrus,
David Dettman, Debra Hill, Michael
Maine, Salpy Mankerian, Carla
Schamet and Susan Quan Tan.
Graduates from La Canada honored
include Caryn Anderson, Karon Ken-
nerknecht, Danielle Peters and Lyn
Repath.
Students from South Pasadena High
School are Anita Brumm, Karen
Hartsfield, Teresa Houston, Theresa
Platte and Virginia Simpson.
Blair High School honor students are
Jeanine Cope, David Cronk, Thida Ngo,
Linda Wittry and Thomas Wood.
Other freshmen honored include
Marguerite Gear and Robin Munushian
from Alverno High School; Karen Mc¬
Connell and Doreen Okuda from Ar¬
royo High School; James Burns and
Todd Corsello from Maranatha High
School; Karen Fast, John Kyle III, and
Kathleen Thompson from San Gabriel
High School; Elizabeth Dawn from
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy;
Gregory Sandoval from St. Pius High
School ; Susan Atondo from San Marino
High School; and Kimberli Nygaard
from Mark Keppel High School.
The $100 individual scholarship
grants are made possible through
private and college fund donations.
Contributions are received from the
Catherine Robbins Fund, the Farrer
Memorial Scholarship Fund, the
Wesley Pelton Health Fund, the Nancy
Lee Wyker Fund and the La Canada
Thursday Club, which awards scholar¬
ships to honor students from La Cana¬
da High School.
Lillian Vosloh, the nursing depart¬
ment’s chairperson from 1951 to 1968.
Ms. Vosloh was instrumental in de¬
veloping the nursing program at PCC.
In addition to the Jubilee, the nurs¬
ing department will hold an open house
Monday, Nov. 23 from 9 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Student guides will conduct tours
for all interested parties between 9
a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
PCC’s two-year Registered Nursing
program has had 1,856 graduates since
its inception in 1951. A departmental
survey showed that 87 percent of the
graduates are working in local hospi¬
tals.
The most popular route to becoming
a registered nurse (RN) is the two-
year associate degree program, said
Ms. Wrasse. PCC has one of the five
original nursing degree programs in
the country.
According to Wrasse, more than
300,000 nurses have graduated from the
two-year programs. Most of these
graduates work in hospitals throughout
the nation, she said.
— Courier photo by Jesus A. Monje
SPECIAL PRESENTATION — Pasadena Mayor Jo Heckman deft) pre¬
sents proclamation to nursing department Chairperson Shirley Wrasse
making Nov. 1 8-24 "Associate Degree Nursing Week."
Cost of Education Rises
Reagan Cuts to Limit Aid
By Rique Perales
Contributing Writer
Fiscal Year (FY) 82 appropriations
bill which would impose government¬
wide cuts at the levels sought by the
Reagan administration means access
to higher education will be severely
curtailed next year, according to Gene
Miller, PCC director of financial aid.
Perhaps community college students
will finally realize the high cost of
education if FY 82 appropriations bill
is approved by the United States Senate
this week, said Mrs. Miller.
PCC students who rely on financial
aid to further their education presently
enjoy a relaxed tuition fee, but once
entering a university they will not only
encounter a tuition charge but will also
find that there is less federal funding
available.
Mrs. Miller estimates that the Sen¬
ate subcommittee action will have
these consequences for federal student
aid programs in California :
Programs Affected
Pell Grants: Some 600,000 currently
eligible students in the 1982-83 school
year will be eliminated from the pro¬
gram which targets aid to the neediest
students.
Supplemental Grants: The Senate
panel would cut this program 42
percent, requiring the elimination of
270,000 students. This is a key program
for students attending higher-priced
public and private school as a supple¬
ment to Pell Grants.
Direct Loans: The Senate sub-com¬
mittee mark would fund 143,000 fewer
recipients than the House. This pro¬
gram is targeted to low-income stu¬
dents unlikely to obtain commercial
loans.
State Student Incentive Grants : This
$26 million cut would bring about a loss
of $52 million in student aid funds. It
would eliminate some 50,000 students
now eligible for these dollars.
Joining Forces
Tony Joseph, student senate second
vice president and chairman of the
financial aid committee, instituted a
successful mail-in drive on campus last
week, urging all PCC students to join
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