Pioneer High School - Torch Yearbook (Whittier, CA)

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l Three UCLA Bruin yell leaders make a spectacular entrance at a Titan pep assembly. This was one of the most successful assemblies of the whole year. Tim Morgon gives his usual excellent performarice at an assembly. Titans always enjoy Tim's varied and entertaining act. Year Highlighted by Unusual Assemblies 1967-'68 was one of the best years in Pioneer's history for assem- blies. Under the direction of Assemblies Chairman Lance Carlson, the assembly schedule was enlarged and rounded out to include better and more interesting programs. In addition to regular pep assemblies, Lance scheduled many unusual programs for the entertainment of the Titans. By far the most unusual assembly ever held at Pioneer featured a talk by Communist Dr, Georgi Velikovski. Velikovski spent a regular assembly period haranguing the students on the evils of the capitalis- tic way of life and the comparative beauties of the communistic system. The students refused to accept this point of view, and re- jected the speaker. After building up the tension to an extreme de- gree, the speaker revealed his true identity as George Veliotis, a Santa Barbara restaurant owner. Alarmed by the apathy of many Americans toward Communism, Mr. Veliotis decided to pose as a Communist and attempt to arouse the sympathies of American youth against the Red Menace. Both faculty and students agreed that this was the most interesting and refreshing assembly they had seen for a long while. Also included in the 1967-'68 assembly schedule were the Tim Morgon Assembly, a talk by Dave Grant on problems of today's teenagers, a show featuring a rock group known as The Knackf' and a special pep assembly with three of UCLA's '5Bruin yell lead- ers. Other assembly programs included an appearance by Negro Spiritual singer Jester Hairston, band and choir assemblies, and the annual award presentation. Thanks to good organization and planning with the likes and dislikes of the students in mind, there were very few complaints and many compliments on this year's assemblies. One of the most unusual assemblies ever presented on the Pioneer cam- pus featured a Gommunist,' speaker, Dr. Georgi Velikovski, who ac- quainted the Titans with a rather radical viewpoint. After being soundly rejected by the students, he revealed his identity as George Veliotes, an American restaurant owner from Santa Barbara. W sa tt lt 5 was S -V ,. M. s is ':Z-5 E 'E: !f: : i gtifziyf -ff 2 I , 1, :ff it G 355451. ,. Q it it