PCC vs. Henderson in JRB
PCC Coutii&v
VOL. 25 NO. 1 1
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
NOVEMBER 23, 1966
Red and Gold Tackles Cardinals
In Final JRB Classic Dec* 10
Victory Rally
Honors Team
PCC’s Robbins Building was the
scene of an enthusiastic pep rally
at 10 a.m. Monday in honor of the
college’s selection as the West
Coast representative in the Junior
Rose Bowl, December 10.
Lancer football coach Don Hunt
gave a short speech and intro¬
duced the team to the largest au¬
dience a PCC pep rally has had in
a long while.
Dr. Armen Sarafian and Miss
Junior Rose Bowl, Donna Ed¬
wards, also gave short speeches
praising the football team and
asking students to support it by
buying tickets to the game.
The Lancer Band and the cheer¬
leaders then led a parade of cars
down Colorado Blvd. to the civic
center in Pasadena.
School was closed from 10:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. in honor of the oc¬
casion.
By Dusty Greene
“Teachers shouldn’t put you
down because you can’t read the
classics,” announced Ronald Ko-
ertge, PCC English professor, at
the third English Department
Colloquium last Friday.
In an offhand, offbeat delivery,
Koertge spoke on the “Function
of Fiction” and said that what it
all boils down to is escape. He
stated that the function of fiction
“is to bust out — to let you get
away from things.”
ACCORDING to Koertge, most
English teachers tell their stu-
Food Drive
Ends Today
Today is the last day in the
annual canned food drive spon¬
sored by the Religious Activities
Commission.
Students are encouraged to do¬
nate canned food in the boxes in
front of Sexson Auditorium or
downstairs in the Campus Center.
Money may be donated through
the College Bank.
The food will be distributed
through the Pasadena Welfare
Association in and around Pasa¬
dena, wherever the need is great¬
est.
Religious Activities Commis¬
sioner Darlene Lorenz asks that
each club donate at least one case
of canned food. If the club is un¬
able to buy a case, money can be
donated.
McGuire Stars
in 'Royal Gambit'
PCC’s Theater Arts Association
will present its second production
of the year, “Royal Gambit,” on
December 7, 8, 9, and 10 in the
Little Theater.
Bruce McGuire wil star as
Henry VIII, and the supporting
cast will include Judy Castagno,
Margaret Markov, Jill Pipkin,
Susan-Jean Folks, Cris Potter and
Cathy Gruwell.
Donald Ewing will direct the
production.
Hunt, Lancer coach, qualifies.
He and his assistants have led
the Lancers to the Junior Rose
Bowl for the first time since
1951. PCC meets the Hender¬
son County Cardinals December
10 in the Arroyo Seco Saucer.
dents that fiction must serve
three functions: artistic, social,
and moral. He never found this
to be the case, however. Using
“Moby Dick” as an example, he
noted that no student should feel
bad if he couldn’t see all the sym¬
bolism that some people see in
the book.
“What’s the moral of ‘Moby
Dick’?” he asked. “Don’t go fish¬
ing with a man with a wooden
leg. Right?”
Many people feel that if you
read about awful or dirty things
you won’t want to do them.
“Wrong,” said Koertge. He be¬
lieves that books never change
anyone for better or worse.
“Books can’t tell you what to do
or what to be.”
HE FELT, however, that dirty
books do serve one purpose — if
you read five or six of them they
get dull and you don’t want to
read them anymore, or as he
aphoristically put it, “Ennui set¬
tles on you like a fog.”
Koertge said that since a person
goes to a book to get away from
his problems, the “Scarlet Letter”
(“one of the most inexorably dull
books I know”) would not be a
good book for him if he found it
uninteresting or hard to under¬
stand.
Koertge feels that T. S. Eliot
probably hurt books the most by
saying things like “If you can’t
understand something you read,
it’s your fault, not the book’s.” He
said just the opposite is true—
there is probably something
wrong with the book.
SOME books that he recom¬
mends are “Been Down So Long
It Looks Like Up to Me” by Rich¬
ard Farina, “Norwood” by Charles
Portis, and “A Good Man Is Hard
to Find” by Flannery O’Conner.
Other authors he likes are John
Cheever, Norman Mailer, John
Updike, Herbert Gold, Rona Jaffe,
James Baldwin, Ernest Heming¬
way, William Faulkner, and
James D. Farrell.
There are two remaining En¬
glish Department Colloquiums:
Betty Kovacs will discuss “Camus’
The Plague” in Harbeson Hall on
December 19, and Woodrow
Ohlsen, Hugh Petersen and Nor¬
ma Sullivan will talk about “D.
H. Lawrence: Preacher, Psycholo¬
gist, and Artist” on January 6.
By John Maffei
The Pasadena City College Lan¬
cers, coached by Don Hunt, will
represent the west in the 21st
annual Junior Rose Bowl Foot¬
ball Game December 10. The east¬
ern representative will be Hender¬
son County, Texas.
This will be the Lancers’ first
trip to the Rose Bowl since 1951
when the Red and Gold whipped
Tyler, Texas 28-26 in one of the
most thrilling bowl games in his¬
tory.
The Henderson Cardinals were
in the bowl last year, dropping a
20-15 decision to the Fullerton
Hornets. Coach Bob Baccarini of
Henderson sent his scouts out to
the coast to look over Pasadena
and Santa Monica.
SANTA Monica City College,
also a late candidate for the JRB,
will probably play in the Potato
Bowl. However, the Santa Monica
coach said he does not want to
play any team he has already
played this year.
City College of San Francisco,
another western team under con¬
sideration, is expected to play in
the Prune Bowl or the Potato
Bowl.
I asked Lancer coach Dun Hunt
how it feels to be in the JRB, and
he said, “I am very pleased. We
were trying to get in real hard.”
Does he expect to make any
changes? “No. Henderson will be
difficult and they probably have a
fine, well-balanced squad, but we
have gotten this far doing what
we’ve been doing, so I don’t an¬
ticipate any changes.”
DOES he expect a personal bat¬
tle between Lancer deep-back Skip
Robinson and Henderson’s Mar-
gene Adkins? “No, but I do expect
11 personal battles to take place
on the field.”
Dr. Armen Sarafian, president
of Pasadena City College, said, “I
am extremely proud of the mem¬
bers of the team. They have done
a great deal for the college. They
were a determined bunch of fel¬
lows, and have tremendous cour¬
age as they showed in the Ven¬
tura game, when they came back
from a 19 to 7 point deficit to win.
They showed great effort and
pursuit and pure grit. I’d say they
are the finest group of young men
to represent the college since I’ve
been here. Some of our players
are among the school’s top schol¬
ars.”
S. Luke Curtis, dean of student
activities, said, “It’s just terrific.
It’s suitable that Pasadena play in
the last Junior Rose Bowl. The
college will do everything possible
to encourage student support of
the team.”
BOB Szemeredi, PCC place-kick¬
er who has converted 26 of 29
extra points, said, “It’s a great
honor to be in the Rose Bowl. I
am proud and honored to repre¬
sent Pasadena. I can’t believe it;
I never imagined I would play in
the bowl. It’s a miracle; I am
so happy.”
Mike McLoughlin, the Lancers’
fine two-way guard, said, “This
is the greatest news I have ever
heard. I feel very fortunate to be
a part of this team. The coaches
have been great and Dr. Sarafian
has been great. He has talked to
the team twice and told us the
faculty and the school are behind
us all the way.”
Greg Dietrich, Red and Gold
end, said, “Things are looking
pretty good. I am real excited
about the news and am really
looking forward to the game.”
“It’s great,” said Larry Vilven,
who has played behind Dietrich
this year. “We are willing to work
for three weeks to gain the win.
I hope we can do as well as the
1951 team that won it all.”
I hope everybody in the college
will get out and support the team.
I feel proud just to say “I went
to PCC when our team won the
JRB.”
Here
are the records
of the
teams :
PASADENA
34
Southwestern
12
55
East LA
12
14
Harbor
7
28
Pierce
0
35
Santa Barbara
0
6
Los Angeles
6
28
Ventura
27
23
Glendale
10
37
Compton
0
260
Record: 8-0-1
74
HENDERSON
43
Navarro
8
20
Cisco
44
40
Tyler
7
33
Cameron
2
27
Wharton
0
21
Bolin
12
76
Ranger
0
12
Kilgore
7
28
Navarro
8
327
Record: 9-1-0
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JE 's Sponsor
Clothes Drive
Junior Executives need your
old clothes!
Not for themselves, of course.
The clothes will be given to the
people of South Viet Nam.
Any type of old clothing, men’s,
women’s, and children’s, is need¬
ed. They should be in good to fair
condition and should be put on
the JE office desk in the Campus
Center any time up to December
2.
More information is also avail¬
able in the JE office.
The club held a successful on-
campus fund drive for the United
Way last week. The United Way
is an organization composed of
volunteer workers from the Red
Cross and Community Chest.
Library Hours
From Tuesday, Dec. 27 through
Thursday, Dec. 29, the PCC Li¬
brary will be open from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m., and from 6 to 9 p.m.
It will be open from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. on Friday, Dec. 30. The li¬
brary will be closed all other
days of Christmas vacation.
— Courier Photo by Tom Hickman
VICTORY RALLY — PCC's cheerleaders stirred up spirit for the JRB
game at the pep rally held in front of the Robbins Building Mon¬
day at 1 0. The rally was followed by a parade to city hall.
OMD Makes Plans
for Annual Carnival
Omicron Mu Delta, Pasadena City College’s highest honrary
service organization, is once again in the process of actively planning
the annual OMD Carnival, the highlight of the season at PCC, May 12.
Each year, campus clubs and organizations transform Horrell
Field with a variety of booths which attract students and the com¬
munity to the carnival. Music, prizes, games, food, and costumes
create the mood for the yearly theme.
The highlight of the carnival is the crowning of the OMD Queen,
selected in penny-a-vote balloting during the week before the carnival.
Winners of the Harbeson Award for the outstanding man and woman
in the Freshman Class are announced then.
The biggest money-making project of the year, its profits are
split between the participating clubs, many of which rely on the carni¬
val as their biggest fund-raising project, and the OMD Scholarship
Fund, which includes the John Harbeson Award.
The Harbeson Award is given to a second semester freshman man
and woman, who, in their first year have given outstanding service
to PCC. Established to honor Dr. John W. Harbeson, first honorary
president of the Order, it was first given in 1950 by the active OMD
membership.
'Function of Fiction
is Escape'- Koertge