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PCC Courier, September 28, 1973
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PCC CouSiieb
VOL. 36, NO. 1
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
SEPTEMBER 28, 1973
Asian Scenes
frequently featured by numerous TV
shows and National Geographic. A
member of many explorer clubs all
over the world, he has been selected by
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one
of California’s five outstanding young
men.
The Tuesday Evening Forum is a
series of 16 lectures on topics of
current interest. Started in 1937 by
David Reidy, it has been annually
presented as part of the community
services program of PCC. The forum
has been directed since 1971 by Manuel
Perez, dean of continuing education.
DECISION MAKERS— These are the people,
members of the Pasadena Area Community College
District Board of Trustees, who make important
decisions every day which would affect students of
PCC. From left, J. Ray Risser, member; Dr. Richard
H. Green, member; Charles F. Eckels, vice
president; Roger Gertmenian, president; Dr. Armen
Sarafian, superintendent-president and secretary to
the board; Robert J. Considine, clerk; and Walter
T. Shatford II, member.
Explorer John Goddard is scheduled
to appear in the opening program of
the 1973-74 Tuesday Evening Forum
series. He will narrate the film,
“Exploring Asian Wonderlands”
Tuesday, Oct. 9, in Sexson Auditorium.
Some of Asia’s most colorful
traditions and scenes from such
countries as Afghanistan, Burma and
Thailand will be featured.
Goddard is an authority on the
subjects of his lectures which entertain
and educate audiences worldwide. The
knowledge and experience he gains
during his numerous travels make him
an expert on a vast range of fields.
A USC graduate in anthropology and
psychology, Goddard decided to
become a professional explorer at the
age of 15, when he listed 127
challenging and dangerous adventures
to be achieved as his life’s ambition.
So far more than 90 of these goals
have been completed. In doing so, he
has visited 110 countries, logging more
than one million land, sea and air
miles.
Goddard has explored the most
remote jungles of South America, New
Guinea and Borneo, coming face to
face with head hunters and cannibals
and living among them. He has run
some of the world’s most dangerous
rapids in the Colorado and Congo
rivers and has scaled many of the
highest mountains. He narrowly
escaped death during a Japanese
earthquake and had a close call with
quicksand’s entombment.
On a 4100-mile kayak expedition
down the entire length of the Nile,
Goddard became the first man in
history to explore the world’s longest
river from the source to its mouth.
This adventure gained him in¬
ternational recognition. It was ranked
alongside the Kon Tiki and Mt. Everest
expeditions.
In addition, he set speed and altitude
records while he was a combat flyer.
“I even crossed the San Bernardino
Freeway during the rush hour,” he
joked once during one of his lectures.
Goddard’s travels have heen
Goddard Speaks
ASB Board Holds Session;
Half of Board Seats Are Vacant
More than half of the students at
PCC were not represented during the
first meeting of the ASB Board.
Positions left vacant by last year’s
student body elections, combined with
the failure of several minority
organizations to appoint repre¬
sentatives, resulted in eight out of 16
board seats being left unfilled.
This semester’s student body of¬
ficers include former MECHA repre¬
sentative Gene Vasquez, now ASB
president; Betty Lou Curtis, AWS
The Financial Aids office still has
some money available this semester in
loans, grants and the work-study
program for students with financial
need.
Gene Miller, coordinator of scholar¬
ships and financial aid, says,
“Students must attend at least' half
time to qualify for aid. Loans and
grants, primarily for books, are also
available for law enforcement people
already working in the field.”
Robert Navarro, a recent graduate
of California State University, Los
Angeles, is the new director of the
work-study program.
Students may obtain jobs through
this program, either on campus or with
non-profit organizations such as the
YMCA, Caltech, the Boys’ Club and the
Girls’ Club. Every effort is made to
find suitable work that will enable a
student to acquire valuable experience
in his chosen field, as well as to finance
his education.
Another new member of the staff is
Dr. Rachael Golde, assistant coor¬
dinator of scholarships and financial
aid. She was a financial aid adviser for
two years at Grossmont College in San
Diego. Her duties included evaluation
and need analysis.
A new federally funded program, the
Basic Educational Opportunity Grant
program, went into effect this
semester, it provides grants for
students who began post-high school
studies after July 1, 1973. Although it is
not fully funded this year, efforts are
being made to obtain additional
federal funding for next year.
The Financial Aids office remains
open until 10 p.m. Tuesday, Wed¬
nesday and Thursday this year to
Government Class
Teaches Basics of
'Robert’s Rules’
A one-unit class in parliamentary
procedures is conducted by Dean
Phyllis Jack$on in the Campus Center
conference room Tuesday and
Thursday at 11 a.m.
The class is primarily geared to
students who are interested in student
government. Tuesdays the class
studies parliamentary procedure,
based on Robert’s Rules of Order. The
Thursday class is devoted to the
Associated Student Body board
meeting.
It is not a civics or government
class, but is designed to help students
become more knowledgable in parlia¬
mentary procedure, “with a view to
rewriting the ASB Constitution,” says
Dean Jackson.
Five students are enrolled, but the
class is open to everyone and provides
practical preparation for anyone who
is considering running for student body
office.
president for her third term ; and Glen
Ehlig, athletics president serving his
first term on student government.
Other elected officials include Lynn
Calamia, first vice president of the
Student Senate; Terry Collier, second
vice president of the Student Senate;
ICC president Patricia Moberg and the
new Sophomore Class president, Mark
Clark. Joe Chavira, MECHA repre¬
sentative, was the only board member
in an appointed position to attend the
meeting.
provide additional time for students to
get help from the staff.
Mrs. Miller reminds students, “We
will also assist transferring students
with aid arrangements for four -year
colleges.”
Students transferring to a four -year
college in the fall may obtain ap¬
plications in the Financial Aids office
for a California State Scholarship.
Arrangements should be made by Oct.
1 to take the SAT on Nov. 3 in order to
meet the deadline for filing the
scholarship application.
Bruce Parham, a student in
Astronomy 2, presented one of his own
inventions to PCC and the Board of
Trustees last Thursday evening.
“Parham’s gift will considerably en¬
hance the astronomy program here,”
said Clyde B. Eaton, professor of
mathematics at PCC.
During the summer, Parham built a
mounting apparatus with which the
detector portion of the photoelectric
photometer system could be properly
mounted on the 20-inch telescope. The
existing method of mounting the
detector was not satisfactory enough
to use the photoelectric photometer
effectively.
The highest post not represented was
that of ASB vice president. Bob Wright
won the office in the spring elections
but failed to register for classes this
fall.
The positions of AMS president and
Student Senate president were won by
“none of the above” in last year’s
election and therefore are still vacant.
Appointed offices still seeking repre¬
sentation are the International Stu¬
dents’ representative, an Asian repre¬
sentative, representative from the
BSU, the United Native Americans
representative and a finance com¬
missioner.
According to Dean Phyllis Jackson,
the empty elected positions will be
filled by a special election which will
take place Oct. 12.
That is the date normally set aside
for the election of a Freshman Class
president.
Any student who wants to run for an
office in that election must apply for
the desired position prior to Oct. 1 at
4:30 p.m.
Committee Hearings
Assemblyman Frank Lanterman’s
Committee on Water is scheduled to
hold hearings on Oct. 2 and 3 in Har-
beson Hall. The meeting will con¬
vene at 10 a.m. and is open to the
public.
The device was designed by Parham
on his own time and built with his own
materials. By donating it to PCC, he
has made the apparatus available to
other qualified students as well.
Parham was also able to obtain,
from the Hewlett-Packard Corp.,the
donation of a used HP Strip Chart
Recorder, in good working condition,
for use with the photoelectric photo¬
meter system. This apparatus will
greatly increase the speed of acquisi¬
tion and accuracy of the data obtained
with the photometer.
The Pacific Photometric photo¬
electric photometer system was
purchased by PCC last year.
STUDENT INVENTION— Bruce Parham (center), astronomy student,
presents one of his own inventions to PCC. Dr. Richard Green, new
Board of Trustees member (left); and Roger Gertmenian (right),
president of the board, accept the specially designed device that will
help mount the photoelectric photometer to PCC’s 20-inch telescope.
Money Still Available for
PCC Student Loans, Grants
PCC Student Designs
Innovative Apparatus
— Courier Photo by Dave Rust ,
REFLECTIONS OF ACADEME— Like an imposing castle by the sea,
PCC’s reflection in the mirror pools provides evening scholars with
visual dramaon a slightly less scale. Evening students, some in
pensive moods, can ponder existence (or assignments) by both
electric illumination as well as the silvery moon. 6100 students are
enrolled for evening courses at PCC. This is clear evidence that many
people, reflecting a desire to do other things during the day, prefer
their education in a slightly different light.
JOHN GODDARD
Local Agencies
Join to Sponsor
Leadership Class
Leadership Training for Community
Agencies is being offered for the first
time in Pasadena beginning today
from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Girls’
Club of Pasadena, 3160 E. Del Mar.
Sponsors of the class, in addition to
PCC, include many community
agencies such as the Junior League,
YWCA, PTA and the Voluntary Action
Center.
The program is designed to help
participants develop leadership in
their own group, organization or
community. It is an adaptation of a
similar course offered by the
University of California, Riverside.
Dr. Eva Schindler-Rainman, an
internationally known organizational
consultant, directs the class. Enroll¬
ment is in teams of three or more
people. They can be from the same
agency or organization or can be rep¬
resentatives from three different
agencies who want to work together.
Each group will decide on a specific
goal to achieve by the end of the six
sessions. Instruction will be individ¬
ualized to help each team meet these
goals.
The class is a non-credit course with
a $5 fee for each person enrolled,
although no fee is charged for the first
session. Certificates are awarded on
completion, and for an additional $24,
four units of credit can be obtained
from California State University, Los
Angeles.
Library Hours
Monday through Thursday: 7:30
a.m. to 9:45 p.m., Friday: 7:30 a.m.
to 4:45 p.m., Saturday: noon to 4
p.m.
PCC Workstudy Program Continues,
Students Receive On-the-Job Training
PCC’s popular Work Study program,
which received national mention in a
“Time” magazine article last year,
has joined forces with Placement
Services and now has a new name:
Cooperative Education and Placement
Services.
Ralph Gutierrez, a graduate of PCC
and California State University, Los
Angeles, has been named coordinator
of the enlarged program, which has
grown from 71 students to 1600
students in just two years.
The Cooperative Education program
is designed to let the student have
actual work experience in the field of
his choice and interest so that he may¬
be certain that he is working toward
the right goal.
The program gets its name because
it enlists the cooperation and par¬
ticipation of area businesses, schools,
and other employers to hire and train
students under actual field working
conditions. As a bonus, the program
awards students college units for their
work experience at the ratio of one unit
for each five hours of work per week.
The value of cooperative education
is manifold. Social scientists have
recognized for years that a great meny
people are unhappy because they are
spending their lives in jobs that are not
suited for their personalities and In¬
terests. Instead of planning their lives
and occupational objectives, they set
their sights on the wrong goal or,
equally bad. had no goal at all but just
let life happen.
Even those who worked and
achieved a specific goal often find out
when they get there that they were
chasing the wrong rainbow.
Gutierrez, using the example of a
major in education, said, “Many
young people choose education simply
because it is supposed to be easy or
that it is a field they could handle.
Later they discover that it isn’t all that
easy after all, but, in fact can be very
demanding, nerve-racking, and often
tedious.
“By that time, however, they may
have a family, financial obligations,
or achieved a certain social position,
or any number of things that will not
permit them to start over again into a
new career for which they’re better
suited.”
A recent PCC student, for example,
thought he wanted to be a teacher. The
Co-op Ed office found him a teaching
assistantship job at a local high school.
It was not long before the flustered
student showed up in the Co-op Ed
office, exclaiming, “Nothing doing . . .
that just isn’t for me.”
What the Cooperative Education and
Placement Services does do for the
student is to counsel him and analyze
his abilities and interests. It attempts
to find a job locally where the student
can have actual field experience in
the line of work he or she would some¬
day be doing full time.
The student then works on an
average of 15 hours a week at the job
and receives college credit for his
work in addition to discovering if it’s
really what he or she is interested in.
Often the student, particularly the
student entering college for the first
time, is unsure of what he is interested
in or what goals to pursue. The
Cooperative Education program
allows the student an opportunity to
experiment and try different jobs
before he actually commits himself to
years of specialized study and con¬
centration.
Such a student was Connie Booth, a
freshman. Miss Booth came to PCC
this year unsure of her goals. While
counseling with Gutierrez and his
staff, she mentioned she thought she
was interested in' working with
problem children. Then Miss Booth got
a job working with emotionally dis¬
turbed children at one of the local
institutions specializing in that type of
work.
Connie said of the program that it
was “very helpful and efficient.” She
knows that if she is not interested in
this type of work she can always come
back and Gutierrez and his staff will
try to place her in another job more
suited to her personality and interests.
The Southern California area is rich
in job potential. Students can almost
always be placed in a job of interest to
them— from radio and television
stations, to schools, community ser¬
vice organizations, city offices, news¬
papers, or even one of our own
departments here on campus.
This helps explain why the program
has grown so rapidly. Many students
believe that cooperative education
makes college more relevant by giving
them a practical goal for their
education.