Music Department Hosts Open House
Official Ceremony , Civic
Luncheon Highlight Day
Humor Magazine
Puts Out Edition
PCC's humor magazine known
as the “Prairie” and described by
its editor, Kent Manthorne, as
“one of the funniest yet” will be
on sale approximately November
1.
Edited and published by mem¬
bers of the student body, the mag¬
azine is scheduled to circulate
four limes each sehool year.
The Prairie will contain humor¬
ous stories, a record column,
jokes, an interview with band¬
leader Page Cavanaugh, the
Prairie Princess, Prairie Profile
and many cartoons.
Twenty pages compose the
magazine which will be sold for
15 cents in the bookstore and by
staff members.
A panorama of day-long events keyed to the special inter¬
ests of PCC students and faculty, members of the community,
and the PCC alumni, will constitute the official opening of
PCC’s new Music Building this
Friday, Oct. 25. Highlighting a
variety of events, which are sched¬
uled to take place between 9 a.m.
and 10:30 p.m., are the official
opening ceremonies and civic
luncheon to be held from 12 a.m.
until 1:30 p.m. and the “Gala Con¬
cert," which is to be held in the
evening from 8:15 p.m. until 9:45
p.m.
Civic leaders, distinguished
guests, apd student leaders in
music will attend the opening
ceremonies and the catered lunch¬
eon, which will be held on the
main floor of the new building.
Dr. William Langsdorf, PCC
president, will preside over the
official ceremonies and Steve
Salisian, president of the Pasa¬
dena Board of Education, will
address the guests. During the
luncheons, Dr. Raymond Ken¬
dall, dean of the USC School of
Music, will also make an ad¬
dress.
The “Gala Concert," to be pre¬
sented in 100K by prominent PCC
students of both the past and pres¬
ent, will be emceed by Chuck D.
Perlee, noted music critic and
alumnus. Some of the attractions
on the program will be the Euter-
peans, Leighton Noble, and the
Nysaoans. An Open House Re¬
union for PCC music alumni and
guests will take place after the
concert and refreshments will be
served.
Other activities planned are
the open house for PCC person¬
nel from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m., '
activities for music students
from 2 p.m. until 3 p.m., and
the convocation for music stu¬
dents from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in
the Music Building’s Choral
Room. A student body dance
will be held in the Band Room
from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. and
the Band Promenade Concert
will take place from 7 p.m. until
7:45 p.m. Gene Sullivan will
perform at the organ from 7:45
p.m. to 8:15 p.m.
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Coffee will be served all day in
the lower foyer of the Music
Building and Robert Fleury, Mu¬
sic Department chairman, ex¬
pressed the wish that everyone
would find time during the day to
stop in and tour the new building.
A German Movie, “Nachtwache,” will be presented by the
Language Council next Monday, Oct. 28. It will be shown at
3:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium. Admission is
free to students as well as to p
the first of a quartet qf movies
sponsored annually by the Lan¬
guage Council.
“Nachtwache,” which means
“Keepers of the Night,” won the
Golden Laurel Award at the Ven¬
ice Film Festival distinguishing
it as an outstanding German
movie. Top German actors star
in this drama of the triumph of
faith. Dr Harald Braun, a fam¬
ous German director and play¬
wright, wrote and directed the
play.
of the community. This is
The inspiring tale takes place
after World War II in Burgdorf,
Germany. It concerns a minister
who takes over the parish of a
sisterhood hospital. He meets a
young woman doctor there and
becomes involved with her tragic
experiences, which causes tragedy
in his own life.
The minister loses faith tempo¬
rarily but overcomes personal
grievances and returns to his life¬
long task as “keeper of the
night.”
Television Shows
Film of SCJCSGA
Approximately 350 students and
advisers convened at Riverside
City College last Saturday for the
fall conference of tire Southern
California Junior College Student
Government Association. Pasa¬
dena was represented by a dele¬
gation of ten students and Dr.
Robert Haugh, faculty adviser.
During a general assembly of
the gathering, a film was taken
showing a student government
conference in action. The film
will be shown by East Los An¬
geles Junior College this Satur¬
day on Channel 2.
— Courier Photo by Glenn Kohl
THAT’S A MEAN NOTE . . . laughs PCC President Dr. Wil¬
liam B. IJangsdorf, as Music Department Chairman Robert Fleury
tries his hand at the piano and Pasadena City Schools Music Co¬
ordinator H. Leland Green, gets ready to blow his horn. The
occasion for the “jam session” is the open house festivities of the
new Music Building this Friday on the Lancer campus.
'Gateway Singers'
Perform Tomorrow
Living proof that folk singing
can be modernized and loved are
PCC CoufiieSi
this week’s entertainers in tomor¬
row’s ASB assembly, The Gate¬
way Singers. Although well-
known in the San Francisco area,
this popular foursome has yet to
gain proper recognition in the
southland.
PCC students will have an op¬
portunity to view and judge this
talent at 12 noon tomorrow at a
special assembly. The program
will be held during the regular
noon hour instead of on assembly
schedule.
The Gateway Singers can best
be described as a group who in¬
fuse o’d songs of this country
and others with a jazz beat and
modernistic harmony. Their rep¬
ertoire includes such variations as
dance songs from foreign lands,
African rounds, calypso songs,
Negro spirituals, lullabies and
love songs and hilarious satires
on modern customs.
Four individuals compose the
uniquely stylized group with El-
merlee Thomas singing the con¬
tralto role, Jerry Walker, banjoist
and singer, Ernie Sheldon, singer-
guitarist, and Travis Edmonson,
also a singer and guitarist.
The Gateway Four have been
booked on many college campuses
including the University of Cali¬
fornia, Berkeley, Riverside, and
San Diego State. They are cur¬
rently appearing at Ciro’s and
have released two long-playing al¬
bums, “Puttin’ on the Style” and
“The Gateway Singers at the
Hungry i.”'
ASB books will be required for
thiSj assembly.
VOL. 7, NO. 6
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
OCTOBER 23, 1957
Language Classes
Make Room Move
If ail goes as expected, the For¬
eign Language Department will
officially hold classes in the third
floor of the Music Building today.
Six classrooms, the departmental
office, and a teacher's conference
room are ready for occupation al¬
though it will be another few
weeks before the Language Lab¬
oratory is equipped for student
usage.
The modernistic rooms are
painted in light pastel shades with
asphait tile on the floors. Large
windows keep the rooms well
lighted. German, French, Span¬
ish and Latin classes will occupy
the classrooms. In addition, Ex¬
tended Day language classes will
also be held there.
When the Language Laboratory
is completed, it will permit each
Language Department student to
make a recording of his own voice
at least every other week so that
he can note his progress. The
Lab will be equipped with 12 tape
recorders and the latest phono¬
graph materials for the benefit of
Lancer language students.
Lancers were to begin language
classes in the Music Building at
the beginning of this semester but
due to building' difficulties, the
transition was delayed si» weeks.
German Movie Debuts
at City College Monday
Country Celebrates
Twelfth UN Week
Thursday, Oct. 24, marks the twelfth anniversary of the
founding of the United Nations, an event which is celebrated
throughout our country by the observance of United Nations
Week. Pasadena City College is also observing UN Week this
week sponsored by the Interna- -
tional Relations Club, through its
adviser, Dr. Harold Hansen, and in
cooperation with the American
Association for the United Na¬
tions.
The purpose of United Nations
Week is to highlight and drama¬
tize the continuing efforts of the
UN in its role as peacemaker for
the world. To better acquaint the
people of Pasadena as well ,as
PCC students with the functions
and purpose of the United Na¬
tions, the International Relations
Club is sponsoring many activities
on the campus.
In the halls of the C Build¬
ing, posters telling about the
UN will be displayed, and many
classrooms will have UN slo¬
gans written on the black¬
boards. Many of the wall show¬
cases in the C Building as well
as the Library will have dis¬
plays featuring the United Na¬
tions.
In the main hall of C Building,
the IRC will have an information
booth where interested students
will be able to obtain pamphlets
and information on the UN today
and tomorrow. Students from
various foreign countries will be
there to answer questions about
their own home countries. To re¬
mind students of UN Week, a
large United Nations flag will be
flown, and UN movies will be
shown in Sexson Auditorium.
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EDIFICE OF ELEGANT EXCELLENCE ... is the modernistic Music Building which holds its
Open House this Friday all day long. Robert Fleury, Music Department chairman, invites the entire
student body to drop in some time Friday to view the new rooms on the third floor which will
house the Foreign Language classes. Official opening ceremonies will be presided over by PCC Presi¬
dent William B. Langsdorf.