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Vol. 9, No. 3
Pasadena Q'ty College, Pasadena, California
October 8,. 1958
Lancer Pepsters
Hire Buses for
Trip to Ventura
Calling all loyal Lancers! Be
one of the wave of white-shirted
rooters cheering Pasadena City
College on to victory in their
game against Ventura on Satur¬
day, Oct. 18, at Ventura. The
Pep Commission, led by Stuart
Rubin, is sponsoring a caravan of
buses to carry the migration of
Lancer rooters to Ventura-land.
Tickets are now available at the
Student Bank for $3 round trip.
Students must make their
own arrangements to go to the
parking lot located at the cor¬
ner of Hill and Colorado Streets,
from which the buses will de¬
part. The buses will leave at
exactly 5 p.m.
All rooters making the trip to
Ventura, either by bus or by pri¬
vate transportation, are encour¬
aged to wear a white shirt. It is
the hope of the Pep Commission
to have at least six buses making
the trip. A special committee has
been appointed to decorate the
buses.
After the student government
elections are concluded booths
will be set up in the halls of
the Administration Building for
the purpose of selling tickets
for the bus trip. Student body
books are not required for the
purchase of tickets.
Members of the bus committee
include Wayne Gertmenian, as¬
sistant pep commissioner; Sue At¬
kinson, Charles Ellis, and Dave
and Mary Fulton, in charge of
publicity.
Free refreshments will be serv¬
ed to all those making the excur¬
sion. Rooters are encouraged to
bring noisemakers of all types to
the game.
Second year students will recall
a similar trip last year to San,
Diego. The trip was made by
train and enjoyed by approxi¬
mately 300 fans. It is anticipated
by the Pep Commission that this
year’s jaunt will be even more
enjoyable than those made in pre¬
vious years.
Fatuity and Students
Hold Catalog Meetings
With the 1958-59 Pasadena City College catalog now in
the hands of students and faculty members, work is in pro¬
gress for the 1959-60 edition which will make its debut next
April. Again this year a series of catalog meetings is being
held to compose the new PCC
College Releases
Frosh Assembly
Slate for Year
curriculum book. Each depart¬
ment chairman and counselor is
meeting with Dr. Catherine Rob¬
bins, academic dean, to propose
the necessary changes in the cata¬
log to make it easier to use.
In addition to administrators
there is a student curriculum
committee composed of students
from the various PCC depart¬
ments. They speak from the stu¬
dents’ viewpoint at the meetings.
Among the topics to be covered
in the meetings are: budget for
the publication; cover and photo¬
graphs which will make the cata¬
log look more appealing; a critic¬
al examination of the present cat¬
alog to see where changes for the
better may be made; editorial
matters; preparation of the new
catalog; deadlines; and delegation
of responsibility for the various
sections of the catalog.
The catalog meetings continue
twice a week through November
1. On December 4 the final copy
of the catalog is due in the office
of the academic dean. After fin¬
al checking the copy goes to the
printer on January 23, and the
completed copies reach the PCC
faculty and students on April 1.
Each year the cover of the cata¬
log is designed by a PCC art stu¬
dent. Photographs are taken and
printed by the photo production
classes. Ten thousand copies are
printed for day and extended day
students and for exchange with
other colleges.
•Grants-in-Aid
Pasadena City College has a
fund to assist students who are
in financial need. If interested
see Mr. Pearson in 102BX at 10
a.m. daily, 12:30 daily, or 2-2:15
daily.
Asian Expert Lectures
on Far East Problems
Dr. Claude A. Buss, a favorite forum speaker and one of
America’s most able interpreters of recent events in Asia will
be the guest speaker at the Tuesday Evening Forum on Oc¬
tober 14 in Sexson Auditorium. His topic will be “New Align¬
ments in the Far East.”
Dr. Buss has made an extern x ,
sive study of American foreign
policy in action and has attempted f
to discover ways and means for ' ' -
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her diplomatic position in Asia. ^ 4 <
Because Dr. Buss has been study-
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minimize the seriousness of its L/
problems. He believes that the j
steady efforts of the U nited States
to create situations of strength
are beginning to pay off.
Dr. Buss is chairman of the AH
Committee on Pacific and East jfllfe &
Asian Studies, Stanford Univer-
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sity. He is author of “The Far
East,” “War and Diplomacy in
Eastern Asia,” and a contribut¬
or of substantial chapters to
“The New World of Southeast
Asia,” “Southeast Asia in the
Coming World,” and “Ameri¬
can Economic Policy Toward
the Philippines.”
The speaker’s experience has
been enriched by long and varied
government service. He was a for¬
eign service officer in the State
Department and in China. Having
been sent to the Philippines early
in 1941 as executive assistant to
the United States high commis¬
sioner, he was left in charge of
American interests in the Philip-'
pines at the time of the Japan-
£se invasion.
Spaced among the regular ASB
assemblies for this semester are
four more freshman orientation
assemblies, Dr. William B. Langs-
dorf recently announced.
The purpose of these assem¬
blies is to orientate the new stu¬
dent to college life and to provide
a broad cultural education for the
student.
The next scheduled assembly
is October 16 with Dr. Frank
Baxter as guest speaker. Dr.
Baxter, a professor of English
at the University of Southern
California, has become well-
known to millions through his
lectures and his efforts in the
television field.
On November 6 the assembly
speaker will be Dr. Claude A.
Buss, well-known to PCC students
and faculty alike through his ap¬
pearances on the Tuesday Eve¬
ning Forum. He is slated to ap¬
pear in that series next Tuesday
night. An expert on the Far East,
Dr. Buss brings to PCC an author¬
itative account of what is hap¬
pening in that troubled area.
December 4 has been desig¬
nated as a vocational day, when
basic communication students
have a chance to gather with
professionals in the career field
in which the student is inter¬
ested. In the series of meetings
held on that day students will
be given new insight into the
world of work.
The final assembly, scheduled
for January 18, will feature Dr.
Will Durant, one of America’s
most famous historians and phil¬
osophers. As well as being a lec¬
turer, Dr. Durant is the author of
many books on philosophy and
history.
Dr. Durant is a graduate of St.
Peter’s College and received his
PhD degree from Columbia Uni¬
versity. He is also a former speak¬
er at the Pasadena City College
Tuesday Evening Forum. His
works include “The Age of Faith,”
“The Life of Greece” and “The
Story of Philosophy.”
Women’s Gym Classes
Sthedule Rose Tryouts
The preliminary tryouts for Tournament of R@ses queen
and her court are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 20
and 21, in the women’s physical education classes according
to Dr. Catherine Robbins, academic dean. The first tryouts are
open to every unmarried girl at -
POSTERS, SIGNS AND ENTHUSIASM . . . areTvery-0
where as Pasadena City College prepares for the first club day
open house of the new school year. The club day will take the
place of an assembly and will be held during the regular assembly
period. Both campus clubs and campus activities will be partici¬
pating in the event. Several additional club days have been
scheduled for the Remainder of the semester.
Clubs Complete Plans
for First Open House
PCC’s first club day of the new semester will be held to¬
morrow during the regular assembly period. At that time,
basic communication students and all others interested in any
campus clubs will have a chance to find out the important facts
about the clubs.
Basic communication students
who attend the open house will
be required to make a report to
their class on the club they se¬
lected, having made their choice
in class prior to the club day.
Club day has two types of or¬
ganizations participating in the
program: Clubs and Activities.
Seven club areas are represented
including: Athletics and Recrea¬
tion, Honorary and Service, Hu¬
manitarian, Art, Music and
Speech, Social Science, Science
and Math, and Business and In¬
dustry.
Activities represented will be
Journalism, including the Cour¬
ier and the Pageant; Music, in¬
cluding band and A Cappella
Choir; and Athletics, covering
the sports offered at Pasadena
City College.
Several additional club days
will be held throughout the school
year in an effort to acquaint stu¬
dents with the campus organiza¬
tions.
•Drop Date
Friday, Oct. 24, is the last date
for dropping classes without “F”
penalty or for withdrawing
from college with only “W” be¬
ing recorded. It is also the last
date for: (1) Adding occupa¬
tional relations and other “X”
courses; (2) Changing difficulty
level (for example, Math 5 A to
Math 4A) ; (3) Adding or drop¬
ping geology field trips (Geolo¬
gy 1A to Geology 2A or vice
versa) .
Dr. Claude A. Buss
Dr. Buss was held by the
Japanese as an internee for
two years, first in Manila and
later in Tokyo. He was repatri¬
ated on the second voyage of
the exchange ship Gripsholm
in December 1943.
For the remainder of the war
Dr. Buss was director of the San
Francisco Office of War Informa¬
tion and was most active in 'our
propaganda and psychological
warfare programs in the Pacific.
He served with general head¬
quarters on various missions dur¬
ing the occupation and has visited
Asia five times and Europe three
times since the war.
PCC who has a C grade average,
no grades of E or F and not more
than one grade of D during the
tryouts. Candidates must be car¬
rying at least 11 units and be en¬
rolled in physical education.
Each girl is requested to wear
campus clothes to the first tryout
and bring a 5x8 card with her
code number clearly marked in
black. The code numbers of the
girls who are eligible for the
second tryouts, which will be held
in the Women’s Gym on October
30 from 3 to 5 p.m., will be posted
o~ the bulletin board in the office
of Dean Robbins. Judges for these
first two tryouts will be one par¬
ent, one dean, three faculty mem¬
bers, three married men students
and three married women stu¬
dents who will choose the girls
on the basis of poise, personality,
personal appearance, and posture.
The third judging will be held
in either the Rose Bowl or the
Pasadena Civic Auditorium on
Thursday, Oct. 30, when 150 girls
will be selected by the official
Tournament of Roses Queen Com¬
mittee headed by Walter Hoefflin,
Jr., for the fourth judging.
There will be seven judgings
in all, running until late in No¬
vember when the queen and her
six princesses will be chosen. The
entire court will appear on tele¬
vision and at civic functions be¬
fore the parade on New Year’s
Day. They will also appear at the
Queen’s Breakfast, the Kick-off
Luncheon, and the official Corona¬
tion Ball.
Hill Library Branch
Cites Daily Hours
Continuing a policy designed to
aid Lancer students in their
studies, the Hill Avenue branch
of the Pasadena Public Library
will open its doors to students at
9 a.m. every day. The library will
be open until 9 p.m. Monday
through Thursday and 9 a.m. to
6 p.m. on Friday. It will be closed
on Sunday.
To borrow books, a regular
Pasadena Public Library card is
needed. Students registering for
a card will be asked to supply per¬
sonal data including name and
present address.
A card from the central library
or any other branch of the library
system will be honored at the
Hill Avenue branch or any other
branch.
