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VOL. 1, NO. 5
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA CALIFORNIA
OCTOBER 13, 1954
FIVE PENNIES RELAX . . . after a hot session before their presentation at a Lancer assembly
Friday. Red Nichols, leader of the famous group, is billed as “the man who plays the horn of
plenty,” and listed as the world’s greatest jazz trumpet player by modern musicians.
New A5B President Outlines
Board’s Parking Problem
A belated welcome to all students. If your academic program is balanced with inter¬
ested participation in activities, your college year will be successful and you will grow bene¬
ficially in many ways. There is a vast array of organizations and activities that are spe¬
cifically designed to meet the vocational, social and special interests of all students. Infor¬
mation is available in the Dean of Student Activities’ office. The Associated Student Body
Board, your elected representatives, is tackling the immediate problem facing all of us —
the problem of parking. Their
findings may well provide the
solution or partial solution.
At present the situation is ex¬
tremely critical. There are up¬
wards of 1000 student cars
parked daily off campus. Under
way right now is the removal of
•Spartans
Phil Bauman
the two rows of deodars on the
Hill side of the campus, which
will provide space for approxi¬
mately 100 additional cars. Under
study is the plan to make avail¬
able every foot of unused space
on campus for parking.
The situation is so serious that
under contemplation is the sug¬
gestion that the mirror pools
area be re-landscaped and con¬
verted into additional parking
space.
Things are so acute that all
types of wild ideas are being
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Today is the deadline for
PCC women students to apply
for membership in Spartans,
according to Kay Cushman.
Requirement for membership
in the honorary women’s serv¬
ice organization is two semes¬
ters’ service either in high
school or in junior college.
Applications are available in
the office of the dean of stu¬
dent activities.
Campus
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Holds
Annual Banquet
for Apple-polishers
PCC's annual College “Y”
sponsored student-faculty “Apple
Polishing Banquet” will be cele¬
brated this year by a potluck
supper to be held tomorrow
night from 6 to 8:30 in Harbe-
son Hall, according to Burton
Bishop, Campus “Y" adviser.
The dinner, which wil incor¬
porate former traditions from
both John Muir College and Pas¬
adena City College, is held for
the purpose of enriching student-
faculty relations, enabling them
to enjoy an evening of good fel¬
lowship.
All students, members or non¬
members of the College “Y” are
invited to attend the banquet,
according to Bishop.
STUDYING LINES OF BERNARDINE ... is Chuck Jacobs,
featured player in the play about college life which opens at the
Pasadena Playhouse on October 14. PCC’s contribution to the
opening is Pat Evans, who, together with a counterpart from
LAOC, will be honored by the Playhouse at the opening.
Sexson Auditorium will rock Friday morning as one of
the most popular musical organizations in the country, Red
Nichols and his Five Pennies, is presented in assembly by the
PCC Circle
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club. Nichols, billed as “the man who plays the
horn of plenty,” is usually re-
Taylor, Brummage
to Star in First
Play of Semester
Lloyd Brummage and Eloise
Taylor will share the lead in the
first mainstage production at
Pasadena City College this year,
it was announced last week by
the drama department. The play,
“Idiot’s Delight,” will be staged
October 28 and 29.
The drama, situated in the
mountains between Italy and
Switzerland, opens with the at¬
tempts of' Harry Van, played by
Brummage, to obtain passports
for six blonde chorus girls.
In charge of the production of
“Idiot’s Delight” are Donald
Liercke, faculty director, and
Chaudette Roshon, student direc¬
tor.
Other featured roles in the
production will be played by
Jack Connors, Dick Denison,
Burt Hotchkiss, Jim Stewart and
Peter Force.
Lancers Celebrate
Red and Gold Day
Two colors will dominate the
Pasadena City College scene Fri¬
day as Lancers turn out in red
and gold for the first annual
Red and Gold Day of the new
junior college.
Held as a preliminary activity
to the PCC-Bakersfield gridiron
clash in the Rose Bowl Friday
night, Red and Gold Day will
honor not only present Lancers
but the alumni of both Pasadena
City College and John Muir Col¬
lege.
Activities of Red and Gold Day
are under the direction of Jerry
Costa, pep commissioner, accord¬
ing to the office of the dean of
student activities.
Featured in the half-time ac¬
tivities of the game will be card
stunts. Admission to the rooting
section where the card stunts
will be performed requires wear¬
ing of white shirts.
Coed Honored at
'Bernardine' Debut
One Pasadena City College co¬
ed will be honored tomorrow
night at the opening of "Bernar¬
dine,” new comedy play at the
Pasadena Community Playhouse.
Selected as PCC's representa¬
tive by a board of judges ap¬
pointed by the Courier staff, Pat
Evans, a 13-1 psychology major,
will receive honors as a real
Bernardine at the opening.
The play, written by the author
of “Harvey,” Mary Chase, cen¬
ters around an imaginary teen¬
age girl created in the minds of
six college boys. Able to answer
only one word, “yes,” Bernardine
drives the longest, most yellow
Jaguar in existence. The play is
based on her and the search of
the college boys for her as well
as their comparison of the girls
in their everyday lives to Ber¬
nardine.
Several junior colleges and
universities in the area were in¬
vited to choose a “Bernardine,”
the "embodiment of feminine
perfection” as the mythical Ber¬
nardine is to the characters of
the comedy.
garded by professional musicians
as the greatest living trumpet
player of modern American jazz.
A veteran of more than 2000
professional radio appearances,
Nichols has been working in that
medium since the age of 18. He
has presented a number of as¬
semblies at Pasadena City Col¬
lege which have, led to repeat
performances.
History of the Nichols group
is traced back to his graduation
from Culver Military Institute,
where he formed a dance orches¬
tra known as the “Syncopating
Five.” A later group called the
“Redheads” made records which
are now collectors items.
The Five Pennies were first or¬
ganized for Columbia Records by
Nichols in 1927. During the ,’20’s
and ’30’s his organization included
such greats as Benny Goodman,
Jack Teagarden, Jimmy Dorsey,
and Gene Krupa.
At the end of World War II,
Nichols joined the orchestra of
John Scott Trotter and reformed
the Five Pennies.
Forum to Feature
Lecture by Author
Dorothy Thompson, noted auth¬
or, columnist and radio commen¬
tator, will be the featured speak¬
er at the October 19 Tuesday Eve¬
ning Forum, to be held at eight
o’clock in Harbeson Hall. Title of
Miss Thompson’s timely topic is:
“Germany, Russia and the West.”
Well qualified on the subject as
a result of an extensive back¬
ground in writing, study and
travel, the guest speaker served
eight years in Vienna and Berlin
as a foreign coi’fespondent. Aft¬
er publication of her book “I Saw
Hitler,” she was ordered to leave
Germany permanently. Despite
this order, Miss Thompson re¬
turned to Europe in 1950 and
again ttyis year to observe the au¬
thentic condition of present-day
Germany.