Pasadena Junior College - Campus Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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TT IDA E. HAWES, DEAN OF GUIDANCE MODERNISM? As I see it, modernism is the trend of today to prove scientifically what the poets and philosophers of yesterday saw in a flash. We find this true in economics as well as the sciences. I t is especially true in education. One of the best of our contemporary educators, John Dewey, propounds as modern educational doctrine what Edwin and Mathew Arnold, Wordsworth and Cardinal Newman preached to an unheeding world decades ago. — Ida E. Hawes JOHN A. ANDERSON, DEAN OF RECORDS OUR SCHOOL offers striking examples of modern changes: only eight years ago we were a two-year junior college, which four years ago did the impossible by becoming a four-year school; as a result, no longer do throngs leave after the 12th year but continue through the upper division. Today, the rate of change is proportionate to the difference between the speed of the automo- bile and that of the horse and buggy of yesterday. Let us be ready for the other new things that are sure to come upon us. — John A. Anderson. THE PASADENA CAMPUS. JUNE, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO

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THE DEANS JAMES P. OMARA, DEAN OF MEN, STUDENT BODY ADVISER, AND A. M. S. ADVISER CATHERINE J. ROBBINS, DEAN OF WOMEN AND A. W. S. ADVISER WHILE the modern age, with its variety of indust- trial and commercial activities, demands skill and efficien- cy to a greater degree than ever before in the history of the world, it also requires in our complex society a finer nature, a broader sympathy, a stronger and nobler char- acter than has been demanded in the past. It is, then, the problem of the young man of today to combine the neces- sary technical training with the finer and better things in life so as to be prepared to meet all of life ' s problems from day to day. James P. O ' Mara % MODERNISM means to me a higher level of achievement in worthwhile activities. It demands not only new ideals and practices, but also better ways of carrying out established customs. Those institutions and proced- ures which critics sometimes condemn as modern are in reality the result of failure to live up to modern standards. High ideals are inherent in modernism in a progressive society. Catherine }. Robbins

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{Student Body Presidents ROBERT ROCKWOOD, PRESIDENT, I AL RENNER, PRESIDENT, II CHARACTERISTIC vim. vigor, and vitality of Bob Rockwood won for him the office of Student Body Presi- dent for the third semester, while Bobby was still in his thirteenth year. At the State Convention at Berkeley, Bob ably represented this institution, taking active part in de- feating the bill for removal of junior colleges from the sec- ondary class of schools. Throughout his administration Bob exhibited sound judgment and a sincere desire to further the interests of this school. AL RENNER, student body president during the second semester, devoted much of his time to the arrang- ing of a better athletic plan for P. }. C. Under this plan, the school would have one major team for each sport, thus centering the enthusiasm and loyalty of the student body. His sincerity and belief in his own convictions have done much to strengthen his cause and win others to his support, winning the admiration and acclaim of the student body.