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PCC Courier, September 29, 1972
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PCC’s Handicapped
Getting Extra Help
By Andy Merrill
Because of the specialized needs of
PCC’s handicapped students, Mrs.
Francesca Baldwin, coordinator of
services for handicapped students,
plans to hire two part-time assistants,
she told the Courier this week.
Expected to start work within a
month, the two are Terry Clark, spe¬
cialist in orientation and mobility for
the visually handicapped, and Mrs.
Lucille Miller, coordinator of services
for the deaf.
“Mrs. Miller will develop a program
for the deaf and hard of hearing stu¬
dents on campus,” Mrs. Baldwin said.
“We need someone to communicate
with them through their sign lan¬
guage.”
Mrs. Miller will also serve as voca¬
tional and personal counselor to the
deaf, assess their weaknesses and
assist teachers in remedying these
weaknesses, Mrs. Baldwin said.
She reported the number of deaf stu¬
dents taking advantage of her services
had dropped from 20 last year to six
because of lack of specialized help and
proper attention.
“This woman knows the world of the
deaf, being hard of hearing herself,”
Mrs. Baldwin said.
Mrs. Miller has worked for the State
Department of Rehabilitation,
Pasadena office, and for California
State University, Northridge, and is
working on a doctorate in her field,
Mrs. Baldwin said.
Clark has worked at the Foundation
for the Junior Blind, Temple City High
School and California State University,
Los Angeles, and has a masters degree
in orientation and mobility, Mrs. Bald¬
win reported.
He will teach the blind how to get
around campus independently and also
how to commute to school and back.
“I presume he will do some personal
counseling,” Mrs. Baldwin said, “and
advise me on the specific needs of the
blind.
“Another duty will be to complete a
campus map in Braille that has al¬
ready been started.”
Mrs. Baldwin has worked at PCC for
two years. Her office is in bungalow A
near the volleyball courts.
She works with about 75 students
with all kinds of handicaps as lacking
use of arms, legs, eyes, ears or other
faculties.
“My job is to make sure the handi¬
capped have all they need to succeed in
their studies,” she said. “Each student
ASB Prexy Resigns;
New Election for VP
The ASB Board met in a special
meeting Wednesday to accept with
regret the resignation of John Mar¬
shall, who was elected ASB president
last June.
Marshall handed in his resignation
to the Board without giving a reason
for his withdrawal.
ASB vice president Chris Lucas
assumed the presidency with the full
approval of the Board, and a new vice-
president will soon be elected.
“In order to make it a fair situation
we will hold an election for the job,”
said Dean of Student Activities John
Eikenbery. “Students can fill out
applications next week from Monday
to Friday. The Board will interview all
applicants and will make the selec¬
tion.”
Eligibility to be an ASB officer
requires a minimum enrollment of 12
units during the semester of office and
a 2.2 grade average in the units at¬
tempted during the preceding
semester of college enrollment of the
initial office.
The new ASB officers for this fall
semester are Chris Lucas, ASB
president; Kathryn Raffee, Senate
president; Martha Hubner, Senate
first vice-president, Denny Meehan,
needs something different.”
She is quick to concede that the 75
students taking advantage of her
services are not the entire handi¬
capped student population.
“Many don’t know about our ser¬
vices,” she said. “Others are difficult
to help, like the mentally handi¬
capped.”
She showed the Courier a variety of
unusual machines for helping the
handicapped, such as one that magni¬
fies letters and helps the nearly blind
learn to write.
Mrs. Baldwin, a Pasadena native
who has lived here most of her life, has
a bachelors degree from Sweet Briar
College, and a masters in special edu¬
cation from Cal State, Los Angeles.
“At Sweet Briar I did some volun¬
teer work with the retarded at Lynch¬
burg Training School and Hospital,”
she said. “I spent my senior year in
practical experience, doing psycho¬
logical experiments, teaching in class¬
rooms and working in recreation with
the retarded.”
She became interested in other
specialties of handicaps as well as re¬
tardation.
On returning to Pasadena she taught
for a time at Roosevelt High School, a
public school for the mentally retarded
and physically handicapped. Then she
worked for four years as the first edu¬
cational consultant in the Child De¬
velopment Division of Childrens
Hospital, a diagnostic clinic for re¬
habilitation, placing retarded and
handicapped children in the proper
schools throughout Southern
California.
“After I developed that job,” Mrs.
Baldwin said, “I retired for six
months. But I became anxious to get
back in the field and came here.”
Mrs. Baldwin’s office, including her
salary, is financed from federal money
under the Vocational Education Act.
Five students work for her part time;
one is paid from work study funds, one
is under VEA.
Senate second vice-president; Betty
Knight Associated Women Students
president; Don Stockett, Sophomore
Class president and Bob Black, Inter-
Club Council president.
Student government is the central
coordinating body which provides and
maintains student body facilities and
activities at PCC, giving students the
opportunity to develop leadership. Its
purpose is to enrich the students’ total
experience.
Rose Queen Hopefuls
To Meet on Tuesduy
A pre-tryout assembly for the 1973 Tournament of Roses Queen and Court
judging, is scheduled for PCC coeds on Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 12 noon in Harbeson
Hall.
At the assembly girls will be given a rundown on try-out information, dressing
hints, eligibility and judging. A question and answer period will follow with a
member of a past Royal Court.
Girls who try out must be students of any school or college within the
Pasadena Area Community District, they must have a grade-point average of 2.0
(C), and they must not be or have been married and agree not to marry before
Jan. 2, 1973.
It is also necessary that they be at least a senior in high school and 17 years of
age by Dec. 1, and not more than 21 years until after Jan. 2, 1973, and that they
attend the first judging session on Oct. 7, or 9, and complete a contestant’s ap¬
plication form.
Each contestant is given a point rating from 0-3 on poise, personality, smile,
speaking ability and carriage. While beauty is obviously a necessary ingredient, it
is not the most important factor; a girl’s smile is equally important because the
girl chosen to be queen will constantly be in the public eye for several months.
First try-outs for PCC girls will be held on Saturday, Oct. 7, from 1 to 5 p.m. at
the Tournament House in Wrigley Gardens, 391 S. Orange Grove Blvd. in
Pasadena. There is no entry fee.
Officials from the Tournament of Roses Association encourage coeds to try
even if they tried before. They say that often a year or two makes the vital dif¬
ference in a young lady.
More than half the girls on the 1972 Royal Court had unsuccessfully tried out
before. One of the princesses had, in fact, tried out twice before.
Life on the Royal Court during November and December is hectic ; in that 60-
day period well over 70 official functions are scheduled, climaxed by the greatest
parade in the world.
But there are compensations. During the two months leading up to the
Tournament of Roses Parade, the Queen and Court will appear on several net¬
work and television shows.
Then on January first they will appear before an international television
audience of more than 100 million people, in addition to a live audience of more
than a million others.
All members of the Royal Court receive a complimentary wardrobe, too. And
while there are no guaranteed trips, past queens have represented the Tour¬
nament of Roses Association at events in cities from San Luis Obispo to New
York.
Last year’s queen Margo Johnson, who was a PCC coed, even made an official
appearance at the “Man and His World” exhibit in Montreal, Canada.
But perhaps 1972 Princess Vicki Sanchez (also of PCC) said it best, “Being
part of and living a very real dream is probably the most exciting and rewarding
three months any girl can have.
Vol. 35, No. 2
Pasadena City College, Pasadena California
September 29, 1972
ASB Gets 5 Per Cent Profit
with New Cafeteria Operators
The Board of Trustees turned the
cafeteria over to the ASB Board last
July 1 so the ASB could hire a company
that would do the best job and give
good food service to students.
The Board of Trustees, which had
been losing money on the cafeteria,
had been under managerial operation
>y A & A Food Services. “We still had
to pay for the employees,” said
business manager Stanley L. Riordan.
Bids were opened to food service
companies and several companies
responded. After being thoroughly
checked, R & R Food Services was
chosen.
Under the new contract, R & R Food
Services is completely in charge of
personnel. The Student Service Fund
will receive about five per cent of the
gross profits that R & R Food Services
makes in the cafeteria.
Twenty per cent of the five per cent
received by ASB will be used for
partial support of student government
programs.
Sixty per cent of the five per cent will
be retained in the PCC Student Service
Fund to support events approved by
the Board of Directors for the Student
Service Fund ; twenty per cent of it will
be returned to the PCC district for
maintenance and equipment for the
cafeteria.
The Board consists of nine members
including the dean of student ac¬
tivities, John Eikenbery; director of
business services, Stanley Riordan;
ASB president, Chris Lucas; the
commissioner of finance, one full time
PCC student selected at large; one
representative of the Student Senate;
one representative of the Faculty
Senate; one representative from the
Educational Assistants Association,
and one representative from the
California School Employees
Association.
Some of the events which will be
sponsored by the PCC Student Service
Fund will include lectures, concerts
and recreational intramural activities.
According to Dean Riordan, the
Board is in the process of being ap¬
pointed.
“We hope that it will be a financial
success for the college,” said Riordan.
“It looks a lot more favorable this
month than one year ago. The ap¬
proximate five per cent amount will be
paid monthly to the ASB. It will be no
great amount.”
Trailers To Cater
Food to Ball Fans
Two trailers designed specifically to
cater to football game enthusiasts by
Ross Concession, Inc., will be
stationed at PCC to accommodate
hungry fans. The 60 by 30-foot trailers
will offer a variety of foods, such as
pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, candy,
peanuts and they boast fully equipped
soda fountains.
According to Jack Ross, the owner,
it is expected that 5000 persons will be
served during halftimes. Trailers will
open one-half hour before each game.
NEW PRESIDENT AND BOARD— Chris Lucas is the
new ASB president as of last Wednesday when a
special meeting was called. His Board includes (from
left) Bob Black, Inter Club Council president; Martha
Hubner, Senate first vice president; Kathryn Raffee,
Senate president; Denny Meeham, Senate second
vice president; Betty Knight, AWS president; Chris
Lucas, ASB president; and Don Stockett, Sophomore
Class president. Lucas assumed the post upon the
resignation of former prexy John Marshall.
ASB Vacancy Will Now Enable
All Students to Get Involved
Counselor, Teacher Signatures
Needed for Dropping Classes
After the fourth week of school, a
student who wishes to drop a class
must obtain the signatures of his
teacher and counselor before filing the
form in the Data Control Office, ac¬
cording to Dr. Irvin G. Lewis, ad¬
ministrative dean of student per¬
sonnel.
This is the result of a year long study
by the Faculty Senate, Student Per¬
sonnel Committee and student
representatives, he said.
“For years the faculty has been
concerned about the fact that they
didn’t have an opportunity to talk to
students before they dropped a class,”
explained Dr. Lewis. “This new
system makes it possible for in¬
structors to talk to students and help
them to solve problems and stay in
class. Instructors can get more in¬
volved and we hope the class drop rate
will be reduced.”
Under the present system, students
do not consult their instructors before
dropping. Very often the instructor
does not know the student has dropped
until he is notified by the Data Control
Office.
“Sometimes there are panic drops
and bailing out at the last minute,”
said Dr. Lewis, “when in fact the
student may have been able to achieve
a satisfactory grade if he had con-
Library Hours
The PCC Library announces its
hours for the fall semester: Monday
through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 9:45
p.m.; Friday, 7:30 a.m. to4:45 p.m.;
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
suited the teacher and remained in tne
class.”
When the new procedures go into
effect, a student who wishes to drop a
class must first confer with his in¬
structor and get his signature on the
appropriate form, listing the class to
be dropped. Then he discusses the
proposed action with his counselor for
such implications as graduation
eligibility.
When the required signatures are
complete, the student will then file the
form in the Data Control Office. But
should he change his mind after ob¬
taining the signatures and not file
the card, he will not be dropped trom
the class. Drop cards are available in
the Counseling Center (C216) or from
teachers.
Evaluation Correction
Last week the Courier printed a
story about the new teacher
evaluation program here at PCC. In
that story we reported that each
teacher would be judged by an
evaluation committee consisting of
three members: the administrative
dean for instruction, the chairman of
the department, and a permanent
faculty member from the depart¬
ment. We were in error. This
procedure applies only to contract
(probationary) and temporary
employees. In the evaluation of
regular employees, the committee
will consist of only two members:
the administrative dean for instruc¬
tion and the chairman of the depart¬
ment. Peer evaluation of regular
employees would, it is thought, be
unproductive. _ __
Students taking part in the future of
PCC now have the opportunity by
filling ASB vacancies and taking an
active part in student government.
A majority of students criticize
student government and say it’s all a
game or that it has no relevance for
students who are at a two-year junior
college.
There is also a minority of students
who feel that by getting involved in
student government, they can change
it by voicing their opinions, and then
voting to place those opinions in action.
The portion of students who are in¬
volved in student government this
semester don’t want to feel like a
minority.
They want to represent the majority
of students who don’t understand how
to express their displeasure.
The application deadline for all
elective positions is Monday with the
general election taking place Thurs¬
day, Oct. 5.
Freshman Class president is an
elective position that gives an in¬
coming student a chance to directly
participate in leadership and to par¬
ticipate in student activities. The
Freshman president helps with the
Homecoming Mum Sale and the
traditional co-sponsored Frosh-Soph
Competition Day.
The most rewarding aspect of being
Freshman president is heading the
Former Photo Editor Takes
Medal Honors at County Fair
Talent and fast action have paid off for Alan, Zanger, last year’s photo editor
of the Courier and Aspect, who has won two honors for an impromptu shot he took
in a park last summer.
Zanger’s shot of a small girl standing on her brother’s back as he knelt to
boost her to a telephone in Arcadia’s Eisenhower Park is on display at Los
Angeles County Fair in Pomona, where it won a gold medal in the photo¬
journalism division.
It has also won honorable mention from the California Press Photographers
Association.
“I was eating lunch when I saw the kids,” the active PCC graduate recalled.
“It came out good and the Star-News ran it on the front page.”
Zanger, who was graduated in June, worked full time through the summer for
the Pasadena Star-News and the Foothill Intercity Newspapers. He also worked
part time as a janitor, and took 10 units at PCC during the summer.
Now, still working part time for the newspaper chain, he is enrolled here for
18 units in three photography classes and English 1A.
The creative Pasadena resident reported that his picture will remain on
display at the fair through Oct. 15, and will be exhibited at other places after that.
Candy Cane Sale with the proceeds
going to a Christmas party for the
Fred Nelles Home for Boys.
Associated Men Student president is
also an elective position with great
responsibility. The AMS president
organizes the Homecoming activities,
which to the apathetic student may not
mean much. To be original with new
ideas for organizing men students on
campus is another major project of the
AMS president.
The appointive positions still open
are elections commissioner, finance
commissioner and religious com¬
missioner. The elections com¬
missioner screens all candidates,
supervises all voting procedures and
checks on the tabulated results. The
commissioner also has the honor of
announcing the winners.
The finance commissioner analyzes,
studies and makes recommendations
to the ASB Board about student ac¬
tivities. The finance commissioner has
four members of the ASB Board on his
commission, two of whom are Senate
vice presidents.
The religious commissioner has the
responsibility of raising the moral and
spiritual concern on campus. Through
the four religious clubs represented at
PCC, the religious commissioner has a
direct line of communication with
various religious organizations.
If someone has any gripes about
anything, try the Student Senate. The
deadline for applications to any
commission is Oct. 11. It is the in¬
tention of student government on
campus to help the students, not
alienate them from the ad¬
ministration.
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