Phoenix College - Sandprints Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

Text from Pages 1 - 226 of the 1947 volume:

. TTiEEiffEfIgj A? ? f$1 Marcia Panhursf, Yearbook Editor, Art, CartoonsL . '; AX George Brown, Yearbook Pho- tographer and Darkroom Technician. BEAR TRACKS YEAR BOOK STAFF John Boskon, Yearbook Pho- tography Editor and As- sistant Editor MartoonsL Lewis Burch, Yearbook As- sistant Editor. EDITORIAL BOARD L. TO R.-MR. RAY EMERY,ADVISOR; HELEN T. MANEY, JIM AGEE, LEE INGALLS, MARCIA PANHURST, AND SEATED, TOD ROSNEK. KERLIN ROWLAND IS NOT Cumgs iML awnue PICTURED. - KERLIN ROWLAND, BEAR TRACKS EDlTOR. TOD ROSNEK, BEAR TRACKS CO-EDITOR. FRANK BURCH, BEAR TRACKS CO- EDITOR. . 'REPORTERS L. TO R.--JOYCE ROCHE, JIM GUMP, JOHN BARRON, DON BISCOE, MEG GUNNERUD, HERB SURRETT, DON LEVENHAGEN, JANET HEDRICK, GEORGE BROWN, AND SEATED, PAT MITCHELL AND PAT HARRIS. RUSSELL ORTON, A 7 JOHN BOSKON, AND JITTER McDANNOLD ARE NOT PICTURED. Scenic Encanto Park and our qwn lovely campus provide many a comfortable resting place for students between classes. Wmmzamm Dr. Robert J. Hannelly, College Dean, is an invaluable friend and advisor to students and teachers alike. To his left is Mr. J. N. Smelser, Dean of Men, and Dr. Frances Mooseau, Dean of Wo- men, is on his right. Below Mr. Smelser are Mrs. Noble and Miss Brown, Veterans Coordinator and Dean's Secretary, respectively. Below Dr. Mooseau are Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Noble, and Miss Golze, Registrars. Directly below is Mr. Donald Croyle, College Ac- countant, and a campus shot. Directly below, Love Veta Farmer drapes Cornelia Dumont with the look. To the right, Barbara Mayer poses for a class in life drawing. More fashion designers! How stylish can ' we get? In the upper left corner, Owl Louderback demonstrates his skill for the benefit of Bob McKinney. Below Owl are three students intent upon their work. In the upper right corner, Jean Phillips, Mary Lea Hartman, Jeanne Young, and Lucille Hegele plan their summer outfits. Mrs. Madeline Blake teaches everything from still-life to fashion and oils. She's a pretty swell gal, and we're all proud of our talented instructor. Mr. C. D. Cocanower, Head of Business Administratiqn Department. Mr; C. J. Newnam, Accounting in- sfructor. L 1' i .- $1 Mr. Hal F. Holt, instructor of typing- and business English. Below is a pic- ture of one of his typing classes. - 'FiALPHI'C-TALE Mr. Ralph C. Asmus is also In this do- partment and teaches advertising. yaw mu! hkenmay Miss,Helen E. Hubbard, Head of the Biology Department. In the upper right corner is Mrs. Beulah Bearce, a young and very attractive Biology teacher. Below her is iMiss Barbara E. Smith, also young and at- I l 1 w J i x , ' i atractive. Ah! Biology . . . Below in , - the large circle is Willard McDonald l - w ' ' who is hard al- work on a chemistry Dr. R. J. Hemphill, Chemistry teacher. experiment. In the smaller circle is Arthur Lee Phelps, head of the Chemistry Department. Mr. J. Smith Decker, Chemistry in- structor. i 3 .l t x; A Dr. Irene Eastman, anofher Chemishy teacher. - A 1: Mrs. Lillian WI-u ney, English teacher. Mr. Raymond C. Emery, Head of the English Department. To the right is a picture of one of Mr. Emery's classes. Miss Virginia Bofsford, English feacher with a few books to her credit. Mr. Lyman L. Bump, English and Dramatics teacher. ' Mr. Charles Wayne Edland,.new to our' campus and a whiz at English. Miss Elizabeth Campbell, I-e with the Porteguese. In the upper half of the lower section G?N is Mr. M. W. Monroe, Spanish iEnstrucfler, and below him is Miss Grace Nichols, another speaker of El spano . MissJean Hume, Headr-hfrrhhe Foreign Language Department, and also a French teacher. Mr. Edward N. Andres, Head of the : h, .;,,,,, Social Science Department. 5P Dr. Mildred K. Dietsch, Head of the Philosophy and Psychology depart- ments. , -w;:,.n.. Mr. Mario Ziio, Socia! Science teacher. ?lz;ela gki Q6151, C570; ??ki gfwilon President - Albion Thomas Vice-President - Don Grundy Secretary - Bob Williamson Treasurer - Leon Blevins L;.-- P ,;;., -,V 2 ' .5? r, , V JOYCE CAROLYN ABBOTT STILLSON ALLEN CECIL C. ARMSTRONG LUCILLE ASHCRAFT Secondary Education Tau Omega WresidenH General Alpha Sigma Gamma, Alpha Mu Alpha Gamma tSecrefaryL Spanish Club, GecretaryL W.A.A. Archery Manager , .sz , , . mm, ,A - w - . ;-.- K. . i1 . 7LLV'v- BARBARA JEAN AUSTIN WILLIAM F. AUTEN 'BARBARA JEAN BELL JUNE BIGHAM Home Economics Elementary Education Home Economics Eta Chi Epsilon Theta Chi Delta Wledge MistresQ MARILYN BLAIR ROBERT JAMES Dramatic Arts BLOECKER Kappa Delta Nu, Masque Education and Dagger,German Club, Phi Alpha Chi, Delta Psi French Club, Alpha Mu Omega Gecretary-Treas- Gamma, Delta Psi Omega, urerL Student Body Vice- lota Sigma Alpha, Honor President, Assembly Com- Board missioner, Masque and Dagger President, Vice- PresidenH. x GEORGE W. BROWNLJR. HAROLD B WMAN Secondary Education Engineering Beta Phi Gamma, Camera Phi Alpha Chi Club WresidentL Bear Tracks Photographer OY B. CARSON CLARENCE A.CARTER lota Slgma Alpha, United General Business World Federalists Club Administration ' Sigma Kappa Phi, Letter- men's Club masebam JOHN A. BOSKON Pre-Law Phi Alpha Chi, German Club, Astronomy Club, In- ternafional Relations Club, Beta Phi Gamma, Rifle Squad, Bear Tracks Pho- tographer, Yearbook Pho- tography Editor ELTON H. BUELL Engineering !MechanicaD' Engineers Club BERTHA CASARES. . Secretarial Alpha, Spanish Club General Spanish Club THOMAS L. CAMBRON Pre-Legal Spanish Club, International Relations Club ISABEL CASARES Dramatic Arts Alpha, Delta Psi Omega, Alpha Mu Gamma, Iota Sigma Alpha, A Cappella Choir, French Club, Masque and Dagger, Windsor Club HARRY I. CORBETT Ill Pre-Engineering R.O.T.C. Club R. E. DENBROOK Engineeririg Engineers Club E c. I.. cnoox, JR. Business Administratian Windsor Club DOROTHY EMMETT Home Economics Eta Chi Epsilon, Delta Phi LOVE V'ETA FARMER General Alpha Sigma Gamma, Eta Chi Epsilon HENRY F. CHAPPLE Pre-Law International Relations Club RUTH CUMMINGS, Home Economics Eta Chi Epsilon THOMAS O. ENGELHARDT Mechanical Engineering Phi Alpha CCihi, Engineers IRIS CETHSER V Physical Education PHYLLIS DAWSON Physical Education Phi Lambda Zeta, W.A.A. Letterwoman, A Cappella Choir, Red Cross College Unit Swimming PAUL ERICKSON Student Body President, Delta Psi Omega, Psi Delta Chi, Masque and Dagger, A Cappella Choir iPres. i I x c r I i 4;: I -7' GEORGE WILLIAM COOK Electrical Engineering Radio Club SHIM K. FONG Pre-Optomcfry EVELYN GAVETTE General Home Economics Eta Chi Epsilon OLIVE VIVIAN GRASHAM 1 Education Spanish Club, Masque and Dagger Club, W.A.A. Let- terwoman, International Relations Club GEORGE C. FRANKLIN Pre-Medical Phi Alpha Chi, French Club Wresidenv 92.7 c , RILEY L. GEARY Pre-Medical Phi Alpha Chi, Freshman Class Vice-President, Soph- omore Class President, French Club, Iota Sigma Alpha, A. M. 5. Secretary- Treasurer . m. y l , PATRICIA GRIPPIN Liberal Arts Kappa Delta Nu, Freshman Class Secretary, A. W. S. Vice-President, Honor Board l - ALBERT Physical Education MARIE GETTY M. FUCHS Physical Education Theta Chi Delta WresidentJ JA d MES a g; ;f ; E. GUPTON f 'DAVID A. GARBER Pre-Law Delta Psi Omega, Windsor Club, Masque and Dagger, Sigma Kappa Phi, Tennis Team, Assembly Commis- sioner, Executive Board ROY G. GOODMAN Electrical Engineering Radio Club BILL HAGGARD General r JUSTICE pHALL V MAilY RAE iANNELLY THOMAS A. HA YNOS E ' ' Liberal Arts Business Administration wgogciggsragb Alpha Sigma Gamma, Newman Club lntensorority President, Honor Board, Alpha Mu Gamma LudLLE ANN HEGELE q- MELFORD A. HINSON General HINKLEY Civil Engineering Kappa Delta Nu, Masque Pre-Medical and Dagger Club, Spanish Sigma Kappa Phi, Masque Club, Riding Club, Bear and Dagger, German Club Tracks Staff NADINE HOWARD JERRY HOWELL DONNIE HUDSPETH Alpha Sigma Gamma . Electrical Engineering General French Club Radio Club, Engineers Alpha NIce-PresxdgnH, Club, 13 Club, Iota Sigma SPBNSh ClUb. Iota Sigma Alpha Alpha 37.. v.1'1...' m , 4.1;, RONALD L. HAWKINS Architecture Camera Club, Engineers Club, Baseball V 3'er H, S JERRY HIRSHBERG ARLEEN c. nun Home Economics Eta Chi Epsilon, W. A. .A. WresidenH, Iota Sigma ' Alpha FORREST A. JACOBS Education Phi Npha Ch'i ,. 1.! -l' 7:2. SIMON OHN KIN Pre-Medical C ARLES N. LOWE , Pre-Law Xi Delta Chi WreasurerL International Relations Club Vice-PresidenH, A Cappella Choir, Track K - t 1 GRANT JOHNSON General Phi Alpha Chi, A Cappella Choir, Spanish Club, Masque and Dagger Club, Delta Psi Omega, Sparkin' Student Director CLYDE J. KRIGER SHIRLEY LATOURRETTE Accounting Engineering Engineers Club, Phi Lambda Zeta, W.A.A. Letterwoman, Wings 81 Goggles, Honor Board, Red Cross College Unit AMELIA HELEN MAJEWSKI Home Economics Masque and Dagger, New- man Club, Eta Chi Epsilon, Delta' Psi Omega, A Cap- pella Choir, Badminton Tourney JEHN MEYERS -W. :; AUBREY H. JONES Mechanical Engineering Tau Omega, Engineers Club, Basketball NANCY MARGARET KELLER Liberal Arts Masque and Dagger, Span- ish Club, Eta Chi Epsilon, Alpha 4 .u... OSCAR WILLIAM OWL LOUDERBACK Architecture French Club, Sigma Kappa Phi, Book Store , HELEN MILLIN General Theta Chi Delta, French Club, Archery Club BARBARA JEANE MILLER Dramatic Arts Phi Lambda Zeta, Iota Sigma Alpha, Masque and Dagger J k KENNETH L. MORGAN Liberal Arts Phi Alpa Chi, Lettermen's Club, Track LAURA LOUISE NORRIS Liberal Arts Kappa Delta Nu WresidenH French Club Secretarw ILLIAM . MOONEY, JR. General Tau Omega, Iota Sigma Alpha, Engineers Club EREB MohRISON Electrical Engineering Engineers Club, Iota Sigma Ipha A3 ; HARRY NORTH Pre-Medical German Club ,, , x. BARBARA JEAN MOYER Home Economics Theta Chi Delta, Eta Chi Epsilon MILTON N. MOSS General Masque and Dagger, A.M.S. President PAUL J'ERRY MURRAY Business Administration Newman Club GREGORY JOSEPH MOURI Liberal Arts '- 7 .- $3753 MARY JANE O .- 4 CHARLES H. OATMAN DLE Pre-Law Home Economics Tau Omega, 13 Club, Theta Chi Delta, Eta Chi Masque and Dagger,WorId Epsilon, Iota Sigma Alpha, Federalists Club, Delta Psi W.A.A. Sofiball Manager Omega, Iota Sigma Alpha WILLIE ONG Liberal Arts MARIAN M. PAGE ' General Alpha LEAK HARLES M. PENSINGER Business Administration Tau Omega, Wreasurer, PresidenH, Flying Club CHARLES R. OGDEKOVEN Agriculture Iota Sigma Alpha ,M..:L:-;; ,. .- ARDITH MAE PARSONS General Home Economics Efa Chi Epsilon, ACappella Choir, French Club ,qulstxe hnzli. ,. 5'7 Secretarial LOREE PERKINS HARLAND PADFIELD Science Phi Alpha Chil Spanish Club, Executive Board, Assembly Commissioner, ' Football GEORGE E. PEEK Electrical Engineering Band, Radio Club BL; TAKKY PHILLIPS Physical Education ' Alpha ANTHONY V. PAGANO Education Newman Club, Windsor Club JOHN A. PEIRCE Radio Club, Iota Sigma Alpha MARIAN PLUEDDMAN Liberal Arts Bear Tracks Staff; Spanish Club, Alpha Wreasured, Student Christian Associa- tion, Windsor Club Secre- taryL Student Body Treas- urer, A Cappella Choir BARBARA MILDRED PREBLUDE Speech Windsor Club, Masque and Dagger, French Club, W.A.A., Alpha Mu Gam- ma, Women's Play Day -DEAN ROBINSON Pre-Medical Alpha Mu Gamma, Phi Alpha Chi, Iota Sigma Alpha, French Club ELEANOR! SCHULER Germral Eta Chi Epsilon IDA ROSE PRICE Dramatic Arts Masque and Dagger, ' Spanish Club TOD ROSNEK Liberal Arts Executive Board, Publicity Commissioner, BearTracks Editor, French Club, New.- man Club, Beta Phi NuGamma BEVERLY ANN SEIFF Music Windsor Club WresidentL Masque and Dagger Club, French Club, Alpha Gec- retaryL Alpha Mu Gamma, Iota Sigma Alpha, David Murdock Music Scholar- ship Gwo yearsL A Cap- pella Choir, Band HARMON S. PUCKETT, JR. Pre-Law Iota Sigma Alpha, . Xi Delta Chi KERLIN ROWLAND Liberal Arts Sigma Kappa Phi, Beta Phi Gamma, Alpha Mu Gam- ma, Iota Sigma Alpha, Bear Tracks Editor, United World Federalists Club ROBERT ssxrim' - Architecture French Club, Lettermen's Club Wracld, Alpha Mu Gamma, Iota Sigma Alpha , , A PAUL FRANK REICH Liberal Ans Los Buenos Vecinos RICHARD D. RUBIE Business Administration Tau Omega ' ;A'. 5 ' JOHN H. SHANNON Civil Engineering JEROME CHARLE C. J. SMITH LUCILLE THERESE MILLARD W. SMITH SIEGEL Pre-Medical SMITH Business Administration Liberal Arts General 'Radio Club Astronomy Club, Hillel Newman Club, Astronomy Club Wice-Presidenv Club, Archery Team Kggw L MARIAN J. SNYDER CARO SOLOSTH SAM O. STEPHENS MARIE STINSON ' Liberal Arts Radio and Advertising Pre-Law Home Economics - German Club, Masque and Le Cercle Francais, Phi Football,Track,Astronomy Dagger Lambda Zeta SocialChair- Club, Spanish Club mam, Windsor Club, Bad- minton, Tennis, Swimming kit HAROLD SWANSON RICHARD w. SYPHERD JO SEIBER MARTHA SHIRK Architecture Pre-Legal A. W. S. President, Honor Eta Chi Epsilon, W.A.A. German Club, Engineering Masque and Dagger Club, Board, Masque and Dag- Club Dorian Club, A Cappella 99', A Cappella CHOW, Iota Choir Sigma Alpha, Alpha Mu Gamma, Kappa Delta Nu WresidenH EDMUND TANG GEORGE TANG YING- TANG KARL W.TURNER Liberal Arts General Architecture Liberal Arts Camera Club Phi Alpha Chi, Intra- Mural Sports Wigs A s A y 7, s . .HA ' s. ALICE ANNA 'EOBERG sEUGENE ULMER ANDREW J. A. L. VAN VALER Secretarial Business Administration VALENZUELA Business Administration Windsor Club,,A Cappella German Club Pfe-Phafmacy French Club C i'r Newman Club WILLIAM A. WANDELL GENE A. WILSON JERRY WILSON V W. F. WILLIAMS Pre-Medical General General Edacation German Clubc Phi Alpha French Club, Masqua and Chl Dagger COOPER WELCH V Pre-Law Detla Psi Omega, Masque and Dagger, Xi Delta Chi, A Cappella Choir, Sopho- more Representative to Rotary Club JUNE WELCH ' H. H. WILLIAMS BOB WILLIAMSON Speech Busines's Administration Masque and Dagger, Col- lege Red Cross Unit, De- bating Club, W.A.A. FRENCH CLUB B U L C G N R E E m G N E MASQUE AND DAGGER ASTRONOMY CLUB KAPPA DELTA NU PHI LAMBDA ZETA A m m A M T o u. m D T VIA ALPHA SIGMA GAMMA Lug . .u...,.,....4u.u DELTA PHI. On the A Cappella Chair's coast four, it looks as if at least two of he fellows had a little trouble. Sad Eye Joe, Don Soule and Cooper Welch remain be- hind a few days . . . courtesy L. A. Leonard Figaroa is smitten by Marian Pleuddeman's charms. Could be something to watch! ThelChoir en masse. Mr. Hake: directs. Mr. Kenneth Hakes, Dirqctor of the A Capella Choir, and a grand guy! Dr. and Mrs. Mooseau . . . something for the old family album. Mr. Earl Stone, Head of the Music Department. All aboard! ! ! cwxa 5x Hume! The band is preparing for their tour. Notice the Phoenix College bannerJ Mr. Victor Bauman, Bahd Leader. Mr: Bauman and the gang. Encircled by his fans is Mr. Cecil Kersien, Dramatic Arts Instructor. .In the top picture is a scene from Arsenic and Old Lace picturing Charlie Oat- man, Russell Voyce, George Dolmas, Riley Ge'ary, Evert Furrey, Marian Snyder, and Joan Kearns. In the left corner is a scene from Sparkin' fea-' Iuring Ester Kirk, Velma Jean Caveness, Grant Johnson istudenf directori, and Ida Price. In the right corner we see Mr. Bump making George Dolmas into the monster Johnathon for Arsenic and Old Lace. Isabel Casares is evidently amused by something. On the left, young PC pilots are learning all about planes. Flying isn't the only thing that's impor- tant! The Phoenix College Flying School is located at Sky Harbor. Mr. D. F. Stone, Flight Instructor alld sponsor of Wings 8- Goggles. . On the left are the Phoeni xCollege planes and next is an aerial view of the college taken by John Boskon, Photography Editor. On the left is Mrs. Etheldreda Radulescu, Home Economics teacher. Miss Edith C. Stevens, head of the Home Eco- nomics Department is an the right. Above are cream puffs in the making! On the left, Mrs. Radulescu checks over the table before enioying the luscious luncheon on it. Jitter McDannold proves that women aren't the only good cooks . . . looks like man has taken overjhe kitchen! In the circle we find George Dutch Hoy, Head of lhe'Physical Education for Men, looking ahead to a good year ahead . . . and back on one to be proud of. To Mr. Hoy's right is Miss Laura Herron who is in charge of the girls' physical eductation. Lower left features George Ahee who is leaving us. So long, George . .' . we'll miss you! 's 7 ??fffhff; b. Here are some shots of the fellows in action at the Phoenix Union High School Stadium. The bcil'l'om shot is from the L.A.C.C. game. fTJ 5; 1h; - cu: 'UraA-W'W: iVW. $$h$ n : , ' a .n From left to right: Art Carroll, Bob Williamson, Leon Blevins, Fred Roche, Bill Hammontree, and Gil Treio. Let's play tennis. Upper lefILTesting. Upper right: Taking off. Circle: Feminine Robin Hoods. WWW; g 97mg JIM Phoenix College played host at the National Junior College Field and Track Meel', held at Montgomery Stadium May 6 and 7. Los Angeles City College took top honorsjn the meet in which outstanding two-year colleges were entered. Warming up. The team strikes a pose. 1 :Wfanamy gIMa DELTA PSI OMEGA ALPHA MU GAMMA A H P L A A M m S M. w a! . I I x amt ax; 131E... : L x xi a; , WOODSON CLUB THETA CLUB PHI ALPHA CHI ETA CHI EPSILON STUDENT BODY OFFICERS Vice-Presidenf, Bob BIoecker Treasurer, Marian Pleuddeman Presidenf. Jim Carroll Secretary, Phyllis Brock E5 1:84:I CHRISTMAS FOIRMAL DIANA wapf QUEENIE? QUEEN 6ng$ NATIONAL TRACK MEET D AN THAT ALL-IMPORTANT TROPHY .y4. l HOPELESS! VOTE HERE SOMETHING TO AIM AT GEORGE AND MARTHA, PERHAPS OW-OO-O-O- WHAT EYESI. - ' -.: 3 TAKING IT WITH A GRIN 7 7 : '25;,, w, 121.75 le'iOLICKING FINGERS 338m Eratks Official Student Publication of Phoenix College i Vol. 20 Phoenix. Arizona, Friday, October 3, 1947 No. I NAVY EXAM TO BE GIVEN DEC. 30TH The Navy announced recently that the second nation-wide competitive examina- tion for its College Training Program has been scheduled for December 13, 1947, and will be open to high school seniors or graduates within the age requirements. Successful candidates will 'be given a four-yea'r college education at govern- ment expense and will be commissioned as officers of the Navy or Marine Corps upon graduation. The program is open to male citigens of the United States between the ages of 17 and 2i, and quotas have been assigned to each state and territory on the 'basis of-its high school population. Those who are successful in passing the aptitude test will be interviewed and given physical examinations; then, if found in all respects qualified, their names will be submitted to state and territorial Selection Committees composed of: prominent citizens and naval officers. The Navy expects to enter about 2,500 i students into the program commencing Continued on Page 3 Stage 4' of Registration Over 400 Vets Return PICTURE RETAKES Students whose pictures didn't turn out or who registered late may have their pictures taken Monday, October 6, during activity period, according to Dr. Merton W. Jones, in charge of photography. PHOENIX COLLEGE OPENS WITH TOP ENROLLMENT On September 15 Phoenix College opened its doors for the fall semester of 1947. The largest enrollment of students in the history of the school found many new and revitalized features about the .Thomas Road campus, among which was i the agreeable fact that Phoenix College was no longer a Junior College, in name at any rate. The movement to adopt a more ma- ture name issued as a result of. an 'edi- torial which appeared in BEAR TRACKST last year. This summer, the school board met and officially dropped the Junior from the College' 5 n.arne A new Dean of the College, Dr. Robert, J. Hannelly, was also on hand to. greet the 1,269 students who enrolled in the various classes this semester. Seventeen new teachers have also been added to the faculty in order to Expedite the edu- tion of such a ponderously large group of students. The faculty now boasts a complement of fifty teachers. Although the exact numbers of the respective Freshman and Sophomore classes has not yet been tallied, the Vet- eran's Office has turned in a total of 428 names of students who are getting their education on the GI Bill. Another new feature of the Bruin campus is the rugged, tifty-strong squad of gridsters who are under the super- vision of head football coach George Ahee. The Bear aggregation is playing a tough, Western States Conference schedule of nine games, five at which will be played on home soil. $ Rabbi A.L L. Krohn will lecture to the Music Appreciation class on Tuesclay, October 7, second hour in the Club Room. He will speak on the history of Hebrew Music. Mr. Earl Stone advises all members of his music classes and all students, inter- ested in musical history to attend. 2 BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX JUNIOR COLLEGE a BEAR TRACKS Official Publication of the Student 'Body of 'Phoenix College Co-Editors ...... Frank Burch, Kerlin Rowland Issue Editor ..... Frank Burch Sports Editor . Jim Agee Feature Editor Tod Rosnek Society Editor ...... ueilie Hegele Photographers, Bo c ann 5, Janet Hedrick Faculty Adviser ............................ R. C. Emery Reporters: Don Biseoe, Patricia Harris,-Janet Hedrick, Don Levenhagen, Patricia Mitchell, Douglas Murphy, Russell Orton, Franklin Sur- reH, Daniel Zapien. BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. WHAT BEAR TRACKS STANDS ,FOR Our college, paper is the voice of the student tbody. Our cardinal duty is to print the news, all the news, about Phoe- lnix College, its students and faculty and activities. We will do our best to ac- complish this in as honest, complete and straightforward manner as is humanly possible. . Editorially Bear Tracks intends to lead the fight for a bigger and better Phoe- nix College. In doing this we feel we are also campaigning for a bigger and better Phoenix. We feel this commu- nity needs and deserves a first class four- year college. Phoenix is the political, financial and social center of the state. It should be the intellectual and educa- tional heart of Arizona too. Bear Tracks intends to regularly devote space in its t columns to further the cause of the four- year school on this campus and to explain ways and means of accomplishing this aim. We will print the truth as we see it without favor or tear. We will not use this paper as the medium for carrying on private vendettas. If our news cov- erage falls short of its. mark we are open to suggestion. Letters to the editor will be appreciated and printed in pertinent eases. First, last and always we intend to Ts u p p o rt Phoenix College, its athletic teams, its educational, dra matic and music program-to name a few. We cannot do this alone. We earnestly solicit your active support for an in- creasingly greater Phoenix College. + THE KOIL'S KORNER Junior has put on long pants. Fur- ther, he has declared in no uncertain terms that he isn't at all satisfied to go on being known by his old name. He's still young e- he'svirtually an in fa n t among the colleges of the nation. But there can be no doubt of. the fact that he's a pretty healthy guy. He's grown a lot; he's going to grow a lot more. He's becoming more conscious every day of the fact that he's an entity-an in-' dividual with basic rights and responsi- Ving that has arisen. SOME FOUR YEAR FACTS- FOR PHOENIX COLLEGE his obligations to the society in which he lives. But he is also determined to tight for his rights as a full-fledged mem- ber of that society. Yes, the .kid has served notice that he's getting very tired of being treated like an infant, of being told by people less qualified than him- self to judge what he-can and car'mot do. .7...Phoer'iix College is, beyond the shadow of any reasonable doubt, one of the three or four very best two-year colleges in this country. People realize this patnt fact in New York and Miami, in Detroit and New Orleans, in Denver and Seattle. Why, then, don't the people of Phoenix realize it too? PC has, for several years now, been treated like a step-child by the Very citizens who should be proud- est of it... It has been run; in many re- spects, not like the important college that it is, but as if it were merely an extension of the Phoenix' high schools. It has been looked upon by many, many Phoenix people as a school filled to overflowing with communists, socialists, and other dangerous and undesirable elements. The fact that this fantastic depravation of the truh is actually be- lieved is partly the fault of us, the PC stude n ts. We have not, in the past made the effort that we should have made to acquaint people in the Valley with the ideals, aims, and character of our school. But the c i tize n s of the Phoenix area must accept the brunt of the resbonsibility for the misunderstand- They condemned 'Phoenix College without any evidence that it' had done anything wrong. Their action is just another manifestation of the spirit tha has prevailed, and still does prevail! in this area. PC isra lusty child; it's moving every day toward its rightful place as the four- yearicollege of a thriving, 'fast growing city that is in desperate need of such a school. This school has a job to do. It intends to do it, and do it right. We hold no animosity toward anyone in this valley. There' are people in this area who don't at all like the thought that one day PC will be a big, important, four- year school.. We anticipate no trouble with these people. But we tell them this, flatly and without mincing any of our words. This school has grown up. it's going places. Don't try to hold it back; don't get in its way. Stop treat- ing, us as if we were irresponsible, fool- ish children.v STOP P U S H l N G U S AROUND. Sophomore status in '47? Junior sta- tus in '48? Senior status in '49? And full 4-year status by '50? Thosewere our high hopes last year. Although our hopes have been postponed for a couple of years, we are taking the most definite steps possible to make this dream a real- ity. Dean Hannelly, as an educational lead- er, -has been p o i n t i n g the educational needs of this community, not to bring more prestige or authority 'to Phoehix College, but because he knows there are enough college age young people in the valley to support two four-year colleges. Increasing population pressure of l75,- 000 in metropolitan Phoenix makes this change a needy one. House Bill 208, which failed to come before the Arizona legislature last ses- sion, will have its second chance in the winter of 1949. You will remember that the bill is an enabling act Which would permit the junior college districts by vote of qualified electorate to change a junior college into a fcar-year college awarding bachelor's degree. This bill provides for the voters of a school dis- trict, to pass on .the question of conVer- sion before it is put into effect, When the bill is passed, the conversion of the college to four-year status.will be ac- complished in stages, with one year add- ed at a time. As a four-year college, the school would be eligible for state appropriations under the terms of the legislation. It the bill passes, the citi- zens will have shown their willingness to carry the burden of the extra taxes that will have to be levied to carry out the program. With the present system of colleges in the state of Arizona, the majority of Arizona's youth is moving out of state for college study. Many of these stu- dents never return to Arizona. The state is losing both brains and capital; Ari- zona needs a four-year school in Phoe- nix. Thus far the plan to expand Phoenix College to an accredited four-year insti- tution has met with general acceptance. As citizens in a working democracy, it is our responsibility to keep our legis- lators informed of our opinion on this bill. We can,vote to elect legislators who will best represent us in this mat- ter. We would like to see Phoenix Coi- Iege a four-year school. BEAR 'TRACkS-PHOENIX JUNIOR COLLEGE NAVY EXAM lContinUed from Page ll with the fall term of college, 1948. The students selected by these com- spetitive examinations will be assigned to the 52' Naval Reserve Officers' Training t Corps units which are located in various universities and colleges in the United States. If accepted by the college, they will be appointed Midshipmen, U.S.N.R., and Will have their tuition, books, and normal fees paid for by the government. In addition they will receive pay at the rate of $50.00 per month for the four- year period. Upon graduation they may be commissioned as officers in the Reg- ular Navy or Marine Corps and required to serve on active duty for two years. At the end of this time they may apply for retention in the Regular Navy or Marine Corps, or transfer to the Reserve and return to civilian life. Dr. Robert J. Hannelly,- Dean of Phoenix College is acting as the Navy's local civilian representative, and will be pleased to .provide specific information about the program, including the time ahd place of the competitive examina- tion, the method of making application, and the specific age and scholastic quali- :fications. x ASSOCIATED MEN STUDENT BEASTS J. N. SMELSER MEN'S COUNSELOR Feel that you are majoring' in the wrong subject? Does your landlady keep you busy with odd jobs that weren't mentioned when you paid the rent. Find it a little hard seeing eye to eye with one of the instructors? If you have these and other troubles the man to see is Mr. Joseph N. Smelser, Head of Speech and Dramatic Arts Department, and Counselor of Men. Mr. Smelser, in ad- dition to acting as Men's- Counselor, heads the Student Employment Bureau. As Employment Chairman he is placing many students in part-time positions. Many vets are finding it just a little hard to live on the sixty-five per grant- .ed by the government; Mr'. Smelset is doing everything in his power to assist them, and anyone else desiring work, ih their efforts to add to the allowances they receive. If you are wondering about all of the . tests you sat through a couple of weeks; ago, Mr. Smelser can tell you all about it. In his post as Men's Counselor he evaluates'the information taken from the tests and is able to judge what occupa- tion you are best suited for. l , r l n . v 4 ' t' . i 7 BEAR TRACKkPHOENIXJUNIOR COLLEGE Assembly Featu res Student Talent Marvin Jones, Leroy Clark, and Tom Dickey headlined the Tuesday, Septem- ber 23 program of campus talent. Bev- jBeverley Seiff pianoed several selections and baritone Kenneth Noble rounded off the program with a creditable rendition of Water Boy. People, was well executed considering that it is an early production. Clark, Dickey, and Jones deserve high praise for their performances. Marvin Jones, by the way, modestly admitted that he can always be depended upon for a sterling performance. Let's have more of these boys. They are in keeping with the promise of more interesting as- sembly programs. . + The Phoenix, College Band, directed by Victor Baumann, made its first ap- pearance at the Pep Assembly, Thurs- day, September 25, in the Auditorium. Band officers.elected for this year are James Gilkerson, president; Lester Slat- ten, secretary; and Chester Davis, busi- ness manager. The executive board, made up of these officers and the Music staff, are making plans for appebrances at the football games, new equipment, and other decisions concerning the band. Thus far the band hassthirty-five mem- bers, only four of which are women. Mr. Baumann, new band director, has ex- pressed the opinion that there could easily be a fifty-piece band here if all those students who can play an instru- He .further stated that he would be glad to talk it over with any student who couldn't play be- ment would sign up. cause of schedule difficulties. Thevexecutive board has only one trip planned, that to the coast, for this se- rriester. w Main business of the meeting of the freshman class Friday, September 26, in the auditorium, was the election of of- ficers. Mr; Mitchell, freshman class sponsor, presided over the group and opened nominations for the offices. Re- solts of the election were: Dick Norton, president; - Marshall Humphrey, vice- president; Mary Hartman, secretary; Wallace Perry, treasuerer; and Emory Sequaptewa, representative to the exact;- tive council. Dean Robert J. Hlnnelly addresses the first Freshman assembly, The Windsor Club met yesterday in Mr. Earl Stone's room, Music No. 2, to reorganize the club, which 'ceased oper- ations during the war. The Windsor Club is open to all music students and those interested in music; its putpose will be to bring musical programs to the campus and to encourage the writ- ing and arranging of new school songs. Mr. Stone and Mr. Baumann are the co-sponsors of the group. w Miss Elizabeth Campbell, retiring sponsor of Theta Chi Delta sorority, was feted at a farewell party by Theta mem- bers. Dr. Dietsch, who will be sponsor for the coming year,.was also introduced. Theta officers are Pat Wheat, president; Marie Getty, vice-president; Barbara Bell, corresponding secretary; Virginia Mein- holt, treasurer; Mary Esther Newnam, publicity and pledge chairman, Joyce Kosin, junior representative; June Big- ham, historian; Betty Jo Baker, sergeant at arms; Barbara Moyer, social chair- man. Members of Alpha Sigma Gammarhave scheduled a dinner party to be held to- night. Mrs. Bearce is the new sponsor of Alpha Sig. Susan Lichty was elected junior rep- resentative at a meeting of Kappa Delta Nu last Monday. Plans for rushing and a party were discussed. A formal dinner dance, a picnic and charity work. are on the agenda of Alpha sorority for the coming semester. Members of Phi Lambda Zeta were feted at a luncheon given by their spon- sor Mrs. Heisser in the Blue Room of the French cafe. Plans for their futore social events were discussed. CAMPUSVNEWS NOTES . . Student UrlionvMoved To More Convenient Spot Now located in one of the uhits at the rear of the campus, the Student Union was moved from its former posi- tion in the cafeteria to create more space in both the Union and the cafeteria. Noise from the juke box disturbing the other students eating was also given as a reason by Dr. Robert J. Hannelly, dean. Owned and managed by the Associated Student Body, the Union is the source of funds for various student activities and equipment. All necessary school supplies, laboratory equipment, and re-y freshments are available'in this unit, and purchasing these supplies from this stu- dent project brings returns to the stu- dent body. All deficits acquired by the Union are absorbed by the student fund. Furniture for the Union'was obtained from Fort Huachuca and the buildings from the re-location center at Rivers, Arizona. + Phoenix College sororities and frater- nities are busy making plans and elect- ing officers for the coming semester. Phi Alpha Chi elected officers at a meeting in the club room. Harold Bow- man was elected president; Carl Turner, vice-president; Dean Robinson, secretary; Jay Higgs, treasurer; and Harland Pad- field, sergeant at arms. It was decided that meetings would be held on the first and third Monday of every month. Mr. Louis Leithold was introduced as the new Phi Chi sponsor. The new officers e l e c te d by Tau Omega are Stelson Allen, president; Bob Williamson, vice-president; Bill Mooney, secretary; Milton Smith, treasurer; Gus Pickerell, Master at arms; Charles Sher- rill, pledge master; Richard Rubie, social chairman, and Bud Beck, assistant social chairman. A dance is tobe held tonite' in the gym for all students. Oscar Louderback and Kerlin Rewland were named secretary and publicity' chairman respectively at a meeting of Sigma Kappa Phi fraternity. Plans for, the rushing, pledging and a dance lwere , discussed. Bobby Brock and Jim Wat- t son were appointed dance chairmen. Xi Delta Chi, formerly Zeta Sigma Alpha fraternity, chose 'new officers for the coming semester. They are Cooper Welch, president; John Hennon, vice- president; Jack Parkinson, secretary; Rex Maddy, treasurer; Vance McPherson, sergeant at arms; and Max Bassett, pLib- licity chairman. ' BEAR TRACKS+PHOENIX JUNIOR COLLEGE 5 R-obertmc. Hall tspeaklnfi and Amos Hoff tsecond from lefti gave etails of rainmaking to a regular assembly. WE MADE RAIN CThis is a itersbnal interview with Mr. Amos Hoff giving his own opinions and experiences in connection with the recent rainI-naking experiments conducted in Ari- zona and MexicoJ The project started with the cooperation of the Arizona Republic and Phoenix College, and l was selected to go back to Schenectady, New York, to confer with Vincent Schaefer and Di: Irving Langmuir. tlncidentally, Dr. Langmuir is a Nobel Science Prize winner.i We went to- confer with them about the experiments that they had been trying with the artificial snow storms. We thought that we might be able to use the same principles in artificial raIn storms here in Arizona. They encouraged us to try experiments. They thought it might work if our clouds were high enough to be in the super-cool region. . tThat is above the freezing levelJ After studying our local Weather conditions for a couple of weeks, we found that during July and August we had this kind of cloud, but they gave rain only oc- casionally. Then, using an AT-6 and fifty pounds of crushed dry ice, we flew over some of these high cumulus clouds and started a number of artificial rain storms. In some cases, the rain storm started in the cloud but evaporated before it reached the ground. We topped clouds as high as 17,000 feet with the AT-6. In order to go higher, we chartered a DC-3 tor a number of days. in these cases, we reached altitudes of 23,000 feet. We had to use oxygen on all of these flights. When we topped clouds of 23,000 feet, we almoSt always got rain to fall on the ground because of the rather large amount of moisture in these clouds. Our experiments were conducted over the Verde River and the Roosevelt water sheds. At the invitation of the Mexican government, my family and l wentlto Mexico City where l supervised some similar experiments. We had the full cooperation of the Mexican Air Force and used two 8-25 planes and a P-47. in these experiments we flew bver clouds from 17,000 to 20,000 feet high dropping 500 pounds of dry ice pellets into the clouds. In most cases we got heavy rain storms under the clouds. tThis was checked by photographs from our plane, from another 8-25 flying along side and also by a P-47 pilot flying under the clouds. We enjoyed our visit to Mexico very much and feel sure that we made a con- tribution of good will between our two countries. We hope to continue our experiments through the winter. We feel sure it will be considerably easier to get artificially induced snow storms in the winter thah rain storms in the 'summer. , We are conducting some scientific research alohg these lines at Phoenix Col- lege. We have a deep freeze chamber establishled in the Science Building and are conducting some experiments with the super-cooled vapors along the lines which the General Electric laboratory has pioneered PHOENIX COLLEGE RAINMAKER In a recent address to the students of Phoenix College Mr. Amos H. Hoff explained the basic principles behind current attempts being made to over- come drought. Mr. Hoff, recently in Mexico City aid- ing the government in rainmaking at- tempts there, told of his flights over the Phcenix area scattering dry ice ,through cumulus-nimbus clouds. Scattering dry ice through these clouds, according to Mr. Hoff, reduces the temperature of the air causing normal precipitation. While experiments of this nature are still in the preliminary stages, the re-. suits to date warrant additional investi- gation. The idea of the practicability of mak- ing rain artificially in Arizona formed six months ago in the offices of the Ari- zona Republic and Gazette, sponsors of the experiments performed by Mr. Hoff. Priqr to that time the General Electric Company had been experimenting along the same lines in the middle western and eastern section of the U. S. After searching Arizona for a man competent to' take charge of experiments in this area Mr. Hoff was selected as the man necessary by the newspaper. He was asked to consult with the director of the. General Electric Company's Research De- partment. Out of this meeting came the Arizona rainmaking trials. It is ex- pected that attempts to cause rainfall artificially will be continued in the Phoe- nix area throughout the winterimonths in an effort to maintain a cdnstant sup- ply of water for the Roosevelt Dam. For the present the plan serves as an emer- gency measure only, says Mr. Hoff. Mr. Hoff was introduced to the as- sembly by Mr. R. Hall, Vice President of the Arizona Republic and Gazette. Mr. Hall served as an observer on sev- eral of the flights over Phoenix. '6 a issARy TRACKS-PHOENVIXI JUNIOR CQLLEGE Bruin Eleven Drops Opener To John Muir Phoenix College Bruins had .their gridiron debut of 1947, their first season in five years, marred 19 to 12, by the John Muir College Mustangs of Pasa- dena, California last Saturday night in the Rosebowl. Not only did the Bruins lose a terrific battle to the Mustangs, but also the use s of Johnny Ruman for the rest of the season. Ruman, who starred at left half- back and quarterback most of the con- test, broke his right arm while attempt- ing a pass during the fourth quarter. The running game of both teams was hampered by fumbles in the early minutes of the contest and the Mustangs we're the first to score when they took to the airlanes. Ten minutes had passed when Phil Petick tossed a pass to Monte Osborne who scampered to the Bruin . eight yard, line. Harry Loos scored for the Californians on the next play. The Mustangs counted the only extra point of the'evening and led 7 to 0. 'A1 few minutes later two Petik passes chopped off 54 yards and the second John Muir score. The Bears bounced right back with little Bobby Duffallo heaving to Ernie Walkup who took the ball on the Phoenix 35 and romped the remaining distance to score. The Bruins trailed 13 to 6 at halftime. The Blue and Gold eleven entered the third quarter with new life and outplayed the Mustangs but were unable to move the ball into pay dirt territory. But just as the Bruins seemed to be moving in the early minutes of the fourth canto Bill Eddy, John Muir back, intercepted one of Duffalo's passes and dashed 70 yards to score, making the Bruins hopes very dim. , The Bears trimmed the Mustangs lead a few minutes later when Ruman crashed over from the one yard line climaxinb a 20 yard drive. Time ran out on the battling Bruins with the ball resting on the Californians nine yard stripe as they seemed headed for another touchdown. Although the Bears came out on the short end of the score, the team lived up to Coach George Ahee's promise, They' ll know they' ve been in a battle! Tackle Earl I Mahoney, BEARS MEET RIVERSIDE TOMORROW IN FIRST HOME GAME or SEASON Gauge Dalmal. Tackle Sports Slants By Jim Ages With only the World Series remaining in baseball, America's eyes once again turn to the gridirowthe .green field crossed by white chalk lines-that was deserted last January at the close of the many bowl games. Yes, football is here again. . There will be many great teams this year, with Notre Dame, Michigan, Texas, and UCLA leading the nation. But every school that has a football squad, whether it is a great team or not, should feel that certain spirit that makes them stand behind their team all the way. AND Phoenix College is no differenteas for the' first time in five years a Bruin foot- i ball squad has taken the field-a squad that bears watching and calls on the student body for support. Coach George Ahee, the Blue and Gold's new football chief, has promised the student body that his charges would present every team they face this year a good battle, win or lose. The squad will back up their mentor's words and the school can help them'. Turn out for all the games you can 'and let the team know that you are there bnd behind them. A hard'blow was dealt to the Bruins last week end when Johnny Ruman broke his right arm during the. fourth quarter of the John Muir game. Ruman, who played both left halfback and quar- terback during the contest, scored the i second touchdown for the Bears and was a constant threat the entire time he was in the contest. Hats off, to the entire football squad and coaches, Ahee, Johnny Riggs, and , I George Dutch Hoy for the showing in l the opening game. For the first time in five years the Bruins of Phoenix College make an appearance on Phoenix turf when they tangle with River- side Junior CollegelTigers to- morrow night at 8 p.m. on the North Hi gridiron. l The Bears opened their season last Saturday night at Pasadena, dropping a heart-breaker, l9 to l2, to John Muir College, while the Tigers opened their season in whirl- wind fashion, romping to a 45 to 0 victory over the Central Col- lege Arabs from El Centro, California. Johnny Ruman, backfield star, who broke his arm in the Bruins initial con- test is lost for the season and will be missed as the Blue and Gold go into battle tomorrow night, but the rest of the squad came through with only minor injuries and will be ready to go against the Riverside gridders. Little Bobby Duffalo, who played a great game while alternating with Ruman at left half, Charlie Ewing, Raul Mariscol, Les Kastner, Ray Riveras and Sammy Huston will see plenty of action in the Bruin backfield with reserves offering capable assistance. The Blue and Gold line is almost three deep with big fast men and will be led into the contest by Ernie Walkup, end, tackles George Dolmas and Earl Mahoney, and Bill Baker at center. The Tigers, coached by Jesse Morten- sen, will bank on the T formation with a few single wing plays to vary their attack. Leading the Californians will be Jimmy Jordan, Negro halfback, picked as one of the best ball carriers on the coast. Along with Jordan will be Joe Citarilla, Leo Parma and Clarence Duncan, batter- ing fullback. The Riverside line is paced by tackles Joe McNorman and Jasper D'Ambrosi and Jim Tucker at center. The Bruin squad and coaching staff are looking forward to their first victory of the season and promise the students and fans from Phoenix a real contest. Bill Baker, Center 1132211? illirat Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, October 10, 1947. MANNING'S CHALK, TALK wows ASSEMBLY . Reg Manning displayed his cartooning genius to the student body at the regu- lar Tuesday assembly, and presented the inside dope on our local newspaper. Mr. Manning made many interesting Icomparisons. The local paper prints the equivalent of thirty-two novels, one, pat- tern book, as many local pictures as Life Magazine, enough comics to fill two comic books, and advertising space equal to one half the space of the Sears Roe- buck Catalog each week. Mr. Manning sketched'caricatures of Stalin, T r u m a n, Molotov, a n d other prominent world figures. He stated that he has a large staff at his disposal to report to him the hap- penings of each day. Then he revealed that this staff is also at our disposal. The reports of these research men appear twice a day in the form of a newspaper. 1W I A pot luck supper was given by P.C.'s Le Cercle Francais on September 30 at the home of George Franklin. Jim Carroll, club president, presided over the rheeting. Jane Luke was in charge of the preparation of the dinner. The club held a meeting October 8 in room 208, at which meeting new officers were elected. Anyone having had one year of high school French or one semester of college French is eligible for mem- bership in Le Cercle Francais. Those interested in joining should see Miss Jean Hunter, club sponsor. $ T O JIG KILLS CAMPUS CATS Tau Omega fraternity started off the Phoenix College social season by spon- soring an open Come As You Are dance last Friday night in the gymna- sium. , Richard Rubie, Tau Omega social chairman, was in charge and was assist- ed by Bud Beck, Rodney Kleck and Charles Sherill. . Jerry Harris' and his orchestra played for the affair. Bud Beck was serenaded by the orchestra and all attending with a birthday song. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Norton and Doris, Stegner tied for prize waltz and were presented with copper bears. Decker Williams and i Oren Arnold addresses the first meeting of the SCA. PROTESTANTS ORGANIZE ON PC CAMPUS When Oren Arnold addressed the first meeting of the Student Christian Associ- ation, there were fifty prospective mem- bers present to hear his explanation of the duty 'of the SCA on the college cam- pus. Next Monday's meeting, which will be held activity period in the clubroom, will have marriage as its topic. ln the near the future the group is planning a coffee hour and a picnic. The Ministerial Association of Phoe- nix is sponsoring the Phoenix College chapter of SCA and will soon name a permanent sponsor for the club. + FRESHMAN ASSEMBLIES Four of the six freshmen orientation assemblies have been given thus far, the fourth being held in the auditorium on Wednesday, October 8. The first assembly dealt with tradi- tions and customs of the school, as told by Dean R. J. Hannelly. The second, held in the gym, explained the class or- ganization and extra-curricular activities, with talks by Paul Erickson, Jo Sieber, and Charles Oatman. The third was to help the student organize his studying to his best advantage. Loren Look and . Charles N. Lowe, students, gave vent to their opinions on the subject, with the main lecture by Dr. Mildred Dietsch. The fourth was mainly concerned with dating, with the lecture by Mr. J. N. Smelser, counselor to men. His main point was the importance of not letting dates interfere with studies to the point of failure in classes. DRAMATICS DEPARTMENT SETS FIRST PRODUCTION With the production of the play Petticoat Fever , which ' scheduled for presentation No- vember l3 and l4, activities in the dramatics department get un- der way for the new school year. This is the first large production of Ifour scheduled this year. Also to be per- formed are several one-act plays for as- semblies from time to time, which to judge from the excellence of the first one put on at a recent assembly, should be highly entertaining. ' Mr. Cecil Kersten, of the dramatics department and faculty adviser of the Masque and Dagger club, pointed out. that students are evincing a greater in- terest in dramatics than they have in the past. The number of students en- rolled in Dramatics 81, the,Class.which undertakes play production as a part of its class work, is twenty-nine, compared to only twelve last year. Enrollment in a dramatics class is not compulsory to membership in the Masque and Dagger club, according to Mr. Ker- sten. Heasserted that The club is open to all students, but a genuine in- terest in play production and a willing; ness to work are necessary for maintain- ing membership. A S HARVESTERS MAKE HAY TONlTE Fellows grab your favorite date -and follow the crowd to the Harvest dance, sponsored by the Associated Students, tonight from ,9-12 p;m. in the gymna-V sium. Gordon Wallace and his orchestra will furnish the music and for those inter- ested in contests there will be a prize waltz. To keep in step with the current sports interest at PC, the theme foot- ball has been'chosen, so don't be sur- prised if you see your favorite hero on the wall. The general chairman is cooper Welch. June Welch, Marie Getty and. Lucy Hegele are in charge of decorations. , Refreshments will be served. BEAR TRACKS+15HOENIX COLLEGE BEAR TRACKS i too much, either. Because he'll go on Wh t M k Official Publication of the Student Body Vi ! his life '9 same 35 Ever: making a a 95 of Phoenix College friends with whomever he pleases, re- Co-Editors ...... .. Frank Burch, Kerlin Rowland . Frank Burch Issue Editor i Sports Editor ..... Jim Agee Assistant Sports Editor . Lee lngalls Feature Editor ................... Tod Rosnek Marian Plueddeman, Marcia Panhurst Society Editor ............................ Lucille Hegele Photographers, Bob McDannold, Janet Hedrick Faculty Adviser ............................ R. C. Emery Reporters: Don Biscoe, Patricia Harris, Janet Hedrick, Don Levenhagen, Patricia Mitchell, Douglas Murphy, Russell Orton, Franklin Sur- rett, Daniel Zapien. BEAR TRACKS welcomes any eigned opinions expressed by the student body. Our Cheeks to the Greeks There is a lot of talk around the cam- pus about fraternities and sororities, and they're making a big to-do about re-eval- uating them. They're trying to see just what it is that a social group like this -does which is beneficial to the student body as a whole, and also to determine ' what the Greek clubs may or may not do and still receive associated student body support. Now, you're going to hear a lot of talk about how the frat: and their fe- male counter-parts are sacred college tra- ditionhlike the ivy on the walls, or the out-ot-date plumbing in the Iavatories. And on the other hand, you'll hear some people saying that these restricted groups violate the principles of democracy and contribute to snobbery and clique-ish- ness. There'll be wise guys, pro and conl, and you can bet the air will be blue until the wheels stop churning them- selves. a . But what about the average 'guy on the campus?--what about the great Ina- iority of students who don't belong to these groups? How do they feel about it? Frankly, mister, the average guy doesn't give a damn. He doesn't care two whits if the boys from the Old Guard put on their old-school ties and whip down to the RATHSKELLAR for an eve- ning of exclusive fun and bonhommie. And he doesn't care a bit it all 'the sweet-young-things paint themselves up and dash out to some insipid meeting where they fight like shrews and gos- sip like tish-peddler's wives. Because that isn't what the average guy came to school for. iYou know, it's surprising it you stop and think that there's more than just a social angle to this college deal -- some people actually came to studyll And it the Greek groups are a bit undemocratic, and racially prejudiced, that doesn't bother the average student gardless of what or who they are, and regardless of what or who their parents are, too. night, he doesn't need an escort of ten or twelve 'other fellows with their initi- ation paddles strapped firmly to their wrists; and it he's looking for a date, he knows that a pearl-studded Greek pin on a lapel has absolutely nothing to do with how nice a girl is. . . So this re-evaluation stutttprobably won't mean too much to the average stu- dent; he doesn't care, one way or an- other. They can strut and caper and give their yells, and that won't bother him a bit. The average guy iust wants to get an education. l hog LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Our school has received national rec- ognition in the last five years not only for its outstanding scholasticism but also for its unbiased democratic form of stu- dent body government. To have a democratic student body engenders free and equal opportunity for each student to hold school oftiCe or be- long to student clubs and social organi- zations. If an organization or club claims to be of the student body, it must contribute something to the student body; our fra- ternities and sororities a re not doing that. By emulating their senior brothers and sisters in fournyear institutions our fraternities and sororities are perpetu- ating a festering evil in our American educational system - the evil of racial- ism, and imagined social .prestige. The issue of the validity of fraterni- ties and sororities was brought to no successful conclusion last year and new ,again the issue is at hand-are frater- nities anjd so'rorities a contributidn to, and .a member of the student body? We don't want to decide this issue. Let .it be in the democratic way-let's have a student body vote with this bal- lot. FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIEk YEHreNO. e -Tom Wadlow. Several copies of last year's an- nual are available in the vault at the Registrar's office. Any student, or a friend or relative of any student, who did not get an annual last year can pick up his annual at that place. And if he wishes to go out at- Junior Grow We want to become a four-year school. This means introducing a bill in the leg- islature. It also means that we must rub shoulders with the reactionaries, crack- pots and political flotsam and ietsam that hangs around the state capital as well as with the responsible legislators. Secondly, and we might as well face it, our ambition to become a tour-year school offers a threat to the prestige and power of the three established colleges in the state and they. will oppose us at every turn. The'y realize as we do that Phoenix is the logical place in the state for a tour-year school and that when we assume our rightful status their enroll- ment will suffer. ' Therefore we must learn practical pol- itics and practice the same and we must have an unimpeachable scholastic record. We already have a nation wide repu- tation scholastically and need have no tears on that account. .Our gre a to st problem now is convincing the next leg- islature ot the validity of our claims and the need for a full fledged college in Phoenix. ' To this end the, students,. faculty and alumnae of Phoenix 'College must each one individually bring to the attention of his Representative in the State Legis- lature the facts of our case. . 1. Phoenix high schools, 9 r a d u a t e more than a thousand students annual- ly, every one of which must leave Phoe-l nix to get a college degree. This results in loss of revenue to Phoenix merchants and takes money out of the community. 2. Many students who should right- fully have a college education are un- able to afford to go elsewhere. A four- year college in Phoenix would remedy this situation and undoubtedly be an add- ed winter attraction for the eastern vis- itor. 3. Passage of the enabling act in the legislature would not cost the State a penny as any financing of the college would be born by the immediate com- munity. The taxpayers of the commu- nity would vote to determine whether or not a four-year school should be built. 4. Phoenix is the only city with a metropolitan area of over 200,000 popu- lation that does not have a tour-year college. IN ALL THE UNITED STATES. I 5. Tax money used to further the ed- ucation of the citizens of the community is not money spent. It is an invest- ment in the community, by the com- munity, for the community. BEAR TRACKSe-PHOENIX COLLEGlE Sports Slants By Jim Agee After the weekend football contests have ended and Monday rolls around, Coaches all over America face a hard week of ironing out the kinks in their football sq'uadhthat developed duringjthe last games -- especially if their teams came out on the short end of the score. Phoenix College's mentor's problem was the same as in many other coaches' heads. The Bears have failed in battle twice, falling by seven points both times. And a victory could have been had as well as being handed a defeat had not some flaw in the PC attack been pres- ent and a couple of costly penalties set aside. But these are the things the coaches have to watch and hope to change by the team's next game. Coach George Ahee, Bruin chief, and his aids, Johnny Riggs and George Dutch Hoy, have worked hard with the Blue and Gold gridders since Sep- tember l, and claim the squad is good enough to take the best of the teams they were to face this season. The Bruins have looked good in their first two games but all three coaches agree that moral victories do not count. To win e team must come out on the long end of the score, and that is what the PC mentors have on their mind as they send the Bears through a week of prac- tice. ' v Coaches Ahee, Riggs, and Hey de- serve- a pat on the back and an encour- aging word for the work they are doing to try to give Phoenix College a win- ning squad. Sparkplugs of the game last Saturday night were Ramblin Ray Riveras and the Bruin forward walleRa y played deter- mined football all through the contest, shining on both offense and defense. Constantly the Blue and Gold line proved a ne'mesis to the Riverside attack, with Earl Mahoney, Dale Rector, Manuel Lar- ios, Paul Saunders! Ernie Walkup and Art West doing commendable work. As a courtesy to disabled war vet- eran Frank Wadleigh, Bear Tracks ' iasks that the parking space directly west of the north entrance to the Liberal Arts building be reserved. Frank who was one of the first men to fly over the hump in an iron lung, is today partially paralyzed as a result of injuries'he received in the CBI theater of war. This isnit Frank's idea; it's ours. We hope you will co-operate. CUBS TOP PC IN mitts: Manuel Larlos, Guard Bears Bow to Tigers ln Hard-Fought Qiame Riverside College Tigers dug deep in the Phoenix College Bruin's hide and the hearts of the local followers, as the California squad carried off a hard fought 13 to 6 victory last Saturday night from the North Hi gridiron. The squad from P hoe n i x College opened the game with plenty of fire and determination as they marched for a score after taking the initial kick off. Sammy Houston gave the Bruins six points, scoring from the one yard marker, after a 61 yard drive led by Houston, Ray Riveras and a couple of passes from Eddie Cathemer to Ernie Walkup. Riv- eras missed the try for the extra point and Phoenix led 6 to 0. With the Bears in command of the ball during most of the first quarter the visiting Tigers were forced to wait until the second period before grabbing a lead they neve r relinquished. Jimmy Jordan provided Riverside with their first touchdown as he scampered 22 yards to Bill Nordland kicked the point and the Californians were out scoring territory. in front. The half time score was 7 to 6. The Tigers scored again in the mid- dle of the third canto on a pass from This time their try for extra point failed but the Leon Parma to Brant Cowser. damage was already done. The lost a first half tauch- down on a pass from Harpo Celayo to Bruins Walkup by virtue of a pena lty, and threatened to score several other times throughout the contest only to have pen- alties or an intercepted pass bog down their attack and keep them from victory. TOUGH TILT The LACC Cubs handed the Phoenix College Bruins their third straight de- feat last night in a hard fought gridiron duel on the Phoenix Union Hi turf; The Los Angeles squad, claimed to be one of the most powerful teams in the conference, lived up to the pregame predictions in stopping the Blue and Gold squad. The Cubs were led by Joe Hines, DePorte, and Lewis in the backfield, with the entire forward wall doing a commendable job. The Bruin attacklwas led by Ray Riv- - eras, Sammy Houston, and Bob DuFallo in the running department, and through the air by Eddie Cathemer tossing to Ernie Walkup. THEYlRE GAMBOLlNG ON THE GREEN 7 Yes, PC sports are looking up again. The most recently instigated sport is golf, and it's really going places under the leadership of its mentor, Mr. Joseph P. Brundage. Before coming to PC, Brundage was varsity golf coach at the University of Houston. The coach is looking forward to intercollegiate play in the spring; but for the present, the squad will organize itself through intramural tourney play. The men taking part in this program so far are Millard Smith, Richard Rubie, Charles Pensinger, James Norris, Paul J ones, Ed Cavanaugh, Don Kilpatrick, Milford Babb, Don Green, Walter Rob- erts, and Robert Vandenburgh. Although some of these athletes have played high school golf, many of them have plaved only independently. If you are interested in playing golf for Phoenix College, give your name to Mr. Brundage so he can place you on the Two weeks will be taken for each match so that play will The champion will emerge by Christmas time. bracket for the tournament. not interfere with studies. 50 if you're not afraid of the Encanto course, sign up with Mr. Brundage. w The Sophomore Class met Wednesday, activity period in the Blue and Gold Room for the purpose of electing two men to the positions of Junior Rotarian and Representative to the Exchange Club. Paul Erickson was elected Junior Ro- tarian and James Carroll was elected to be Representative to the Exchange Club. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE The D'eanis Box Gilbert Trejo and Fred Roche have been employed toesupervise and clean up the Student Union. Their job will consist of posting no smoking 5 i g n s, preventing the breakage of furniture, r e p o r t i n 9 any furniture which is broken ahd generally seeing that no rules are broken. Trejo and Roche each receive $15 a month, which is paid from the stu- dent- funds, for their services. The Board of Control has, at its last three meetings, been working on the budget of student funds. Most of the requests for funds are in but the tinal budget has not yet been 'adopted. Because of the immediate need for funds the Board approved $6,700 for , football and $5,200 for Bear Tracks. Among other requests, the chorus has asked for money for a proposed trip to the West Coast and the band has'requested money for a trip to Sat- ford. a Fraternities and sororities were the chief topics of discussion at the fac- ulty meeting on September 29. The consensus was that they should be re- evaluated in the light of democratic living together on the Campus. Ques- tionsiconcerning aim, functions, initi- ations, and finances of these groups were raised. Should a fraternity con- stitution b a r N e g r o membership? Should it be amendable only by unani- mous vote? Should a fraternity have HEMS AND HAWS One of the biggest'questions in this country today is . . . Will women really make a habit of wearing long skirts, or have just a certain few gone bezerk? Certain women are plotting and con- niving against the privileges of mankind by wearing these horrors from their grandmothers wardrobe. Thousands of clubs and groups have been formed to undermine this disgusting plot. On the campuses of our colleges action is be- ing taken to stop coeds' from covering those lovely little things called legs. Not to be outdone, and'for the bene- fit of all leg lovers on the PC Campus, a new society is in effect. Weiwish to be known as The DAWLS Society. iie. Do Away With Long Skirtslm We are facing a drastic situation, so drastic measures are to be put in force. The-following rules for the DAWLS are The second meeting of the Woodson Club was held last Wednesday during activityi period. The club is sponsored by Mr. Edward N. Andres and Miss Williams is the Club representative. , W Plans were made for a visitors night at the first general meeting ofrthe as- tronomy club. The club's eighteen mem- bers had dinner and organized the club for the year. The visitors' night, which will be on Wednesday, 15th of October, will be open to anyone who cares to attend. Students and members of the commu- nity who are interested in astronomy are especially invited to come and use the fine telescope that will be set up on the campus. The satellites of Jupiter and the craters on the moon will be' vis- ible through the telescope. Following the campus meeting a pro- gram will be presented in the club room. the privilege of staging an all college dance for profit? Should a sorority membership be limited? Should sor- ority finances be handled by the Col- lege Accountant? Should enough sor- orities and fraternities be created to care for all those who desire to be- long? What should be the relation- ship between high school and college sororities? No final decisions were made'or will be made until further consider- ation is given by the students and faculty. A faculty group was commis- sioned to study the problems. to be abided by, and are the only quali- fications needed to join this society. Rule No. 1. When a coed is wear- ing one of these monstrosities on this campus, whethertyou know her or not, call her Grandmaw . 2. Never give a Grandmaw a compli- ment on how nice she looks. iln the first place how can you tell how nice she looks when you can't even see her knees?i 3. Don't be seen walking or loung- ing .with one of these-Iadies of the y past. There are lots of other girls that have knees showing that you can walk and lounge with much better. 4. Assert yourself on a date and make it clear that you won't take her out if she is anything but a Little Below The Knee. + Los Buenos Vecinos , P.C. Spanish Club, held its first meeting Wednesday, October 8. The Wings and Goggles Club held its period in Science Room 101 to discuss first meeting of the year today activity organization of the club's activities. Gus Engstrom, the a c t i n g president urges all regularly enrolled students who are interested in flying to come to the next meeting, Friday activity period. No one who has a private license or above is eligible for membership in the club. Club dues are $72 a year, $30 of which are paid at the beginning with the rest paid at the rate of $6 a month. The club uses the airplanes purchased by the school board for the use of the ' Phoenix College air school. Bumstead, the school mascot, isrpainted on all the planes. Mr. D. F. Stone sponsors the club. Book Review First Encounter by John Dos Passos is, I believe, the latest of the novels that this author of U. S. A., Three Soldiers and 42nd Parallel has ground out. l say 'ground out' deliberately, b e c a u s e it's harsh, kiddies, it's harsh. Anyone who has read his Trilogy will remember the modern, intellectual style that Dos, Passos uses: newsreels, candid cameras, sordidness and sex. And some- where in the middle of all this runs a fabric composed of the threads of many people's lives: sad people, despondent peoplkpeople who live without know- ing why, people who live without really caring whether they do or not; people who are bewildered and befuddled by the grotesque and hopeless ehvironments that the author has placed them in. Dos Passos is pretty good at that, too. And you can't really accuse him of in- venting very much of it; it's a basically sound indictment of a lot of people of this age we're living in. And with his flair for putting his probing fingers on the sore-spots of humanity in general, and that Montmartre insistence upon ab- solute 'realism'eno matter how much it hurts--the author is a sort of a liter- ary Toulouse-Lautrec. ' 'The book follows a familiar Dos' Pas- sos pattern: it concerns a couple of World War I ambulance drivers, and is com- plete with inserted bits'of song, poetry and various and sundry sordid and de- pressing vignettes. If you like Dos Passos, and especially if you liked Three Soldiers, then you'lll like First Encounter because it's not much more than a shorter version of the first-named book, condensed in the spirit of this Reader's Digest age. ear ZEracks Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Vol. 20 Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, October I7, 1947 Cast Chosen For First Dramatic Production Phoenix College will open its dramatic season November l3 with' the presenta- tion of Petticoat Fever , a non-tropi- cal farce in three acts. The play takes place in Labrador in the shack of Dascom Dinsmore, a fever? ish wireless operator with whom the 'story deals. Dascom, who is in a fidgety, sex-starved mood, is contemplating his dismal, womanless future. You can im- agine what happens when beautiful Ethel Campion and her fiance, Sir James Fen- ton, come to Dascom for assistance. Their airplane has been smashed beyond re- pair, rivers are frozen over, and rail- roads are non-existent. This is one of those typical What will happen next? situations, and the plot twists and turns from here on out, with many a chuckle and deep-down belly laugh for all. Featured in the- PC dramatics depart- ment of this Mark Reed play are Cooper Welch as Dascom Dinsmore, Frank Lund- strum as Sir James Fenton, and Darlene tlAnderson as Ethel Campion. Also in- cluded in the cast.are lda Price, Velma Welch, Grant Johnson, Harold Engle, Jr., and Velma Jean Caveness. The play will be directed by Cecil Kersten, head of the PC dramatics de- partment. + Straighten Up and Fly Right All you fellows and gals who are in- terested in flying be. sure to turn-out , for the meeting today during the activity period. It will be held in Mr. Stone's of- fice in the science building. This organization is for those INTER- ESTED, not EXPERIENCED, in flying. Anyone'with the urge to go up in the air and the intelligence 'capable of learn- ing to drive a car is welcome. It doesn't matter if you are majoring in fashion- designing or higher mathematics, come on OVer. , r ,-W; .- gerawe. kw;- George Ahee We need support. . . $300 to Deserving Campus Musicians Auditions for two music scholarships, being offered to students of Phoenix College by the Orpheus and Hiram clubs of Phoenix, are scheduled for October 22 in the clubroom. 1-4 A. A Each scholarship entitles a student to one years study, two lessons per week, under a college staff teacher of the stu- dent's choice. The awards will be made on a basis of talent, music ability, and financial need. An examining committee, which will include faculty members of the Music Department, will decide the winners. Competition is open to all students of the college, not just those enrolled in music classes. The scholarships, each of which has a cash value of one hundred and fifty dollars, may well mean the start of a music career for some lucky Student or two, so come on, all you would-be lturbis and Toscaninis, be at the clubroom Oc- tober 22 and try for these awards. l AHEE DISCUSSES BRUIN'S SETBACKS, By LEE INGALLS Most people don't realize just how tough the brand of opposi- tion we're playing is, stated Coach George Ahee of the RC. Bruin's when interviewed recently. Ahee, speaking for the benefit of the curious fans who have been wondering about the Bears' three losses of the young season, was quite anxious to impress the fact that such teams as TLACC, whorn the Bruins fell victim to by a 38-0 count, Long Beach and Compton are of a cali- ber powerful enough to make a few Border Conference teams bite the dust without too much trouble. He pointed out that one of Compton College's star players last year, Bev Wallace, is now performing for the San Francisco '49ers ' i as a pro.footballer. This points up the type of players the coast schools are using. Ahee also pointed out the lack of experience of the local bbys as com- pared to hoards of returning lettermen for all schools Phoenix plays. Compton, which last year was National Junior 'Col- lege champion, has virtually the same ' team intact with twenty-seven return- ing lettermen. A g a i n s t exberiencedv players of this caliber, the green local boys are definitely underdogs. All these teams .we play are 'boomer' l teams, meaning, teams with bought play- ers. This is made possible by a whole- hearted community 5 u p p o r t, stated Coach Ahee. Any team needs a lot o'f support and we sincerely hope the Phoe- nix fans will give our team that support, regardless of the record. + Due to the game Thursday night, the Engineers metVWednesday night, October 8, in the Blue and Gold room. Election of officers ensued. Gordon Liehhard was elected president and Jim Cowan was elected' secretary-treasurer: The remainder of the time was spent, 'making plans for a picnic at 'Blue Point 7 next week-end. 2 - BEAR TRACKS+PHOENIX COLLEGE o . IBPEbIA'EI TBH'AS'ISS. Bod Let us examine the case against rfra- LEI IERS TO THE EDITOR Ida uof 'tghfe'hflt College, en y ternitiesand sororities. For lack of bet- Dear Edltor. Co-Editors . . Frank Burch, Kerlin' Rowland ter names and to avoid being accused of What little I have been taught and .. Tod Rosnek ' ..Lee lngalls Issue Editor . Assistant Editor . Sports Editor Jilli Agee Feature Editors... .Tod Rosnek Betty 9 , Plueddeman, Marcia Panhurst .Lucille Hegele Photographers, , Janet Hedrick Faculty Adviser . ..R C. Emery Reporters: Don Biscoe, Patricia Harris, Janet Hcdrick, Don Levenhagen, Patricia Mitchell, Douglas Murphy, Russell Orton, Herb Surrett, Daniel Zapien. BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. Society Editor . So your want a four-year college? Well, what do you think you've done to de- serve it? Typical of what seems to be the ac- cepted attitude of today, many Phoenix College students act as though they ex- pected, to get something for nothing. But that doesn't happen often enough to bank on it too heavily in this rnatter ' of making a grown-up school out of PC. And anybody. who thinks that some- time soon a good looking blonde angel is going to lean down Out of the skies, touch us with a magic wand, and say, Youire a four-year college now, is sornewhat more of an optimist than is beneficial to a successful campaign for scholastic maturity. It will take more than fust talk to make PC a four-year school; it will take work and support from all of us. One great weakness is our lack of school -spirit. There is almost none. When a pep assembly is called, maybe a fourth of the students bother to come. When we have a home game, no mat- ter how large the crowd, the cheering is weak; only a few bother to cheer and yell, and there .isn't a football team in the country that likes to play their best when they feel that no one in the stad- ium cares whether they win or not. Let us face itew'e can't get anywhere that way. What we of BEAR TRACKS wish to say. is this: We like Phoenix College. We're proud of it. We think it deserves to become a four-year college. We think Phoenix needs a four-year college. We intend to work toward that goal, in any way we can, until it becomes a reality. Are you with us? SOPHOMOR'ES! l If you are expecting to grad- uate next May. you should file your petitions in the registrar' 5 office before Wednesday, Oct.. 22. The office is open during Activity period, lunch hour, and from9 .00 to 12:00 on Sat- u'rdays, in addition to the reg- ular hours. indulging in personalities, let us call our specimens the Pi Faces and the Me Ows. Males and fems respectively. . At the beginning of the school year the old members size' up 'the new crop of students and prepare their sucker lists for prospective memberships. A close ex- amination of these lists reveal mighty few old American names like Lopez, Ong, Watanabe, Longarrow, etc., and a close examination of the suckers themselves would show a remarkable'aversion to anything . resembling heavy pigmentation of the skin. Me Ows are undemocratic. Oh no. They are just practicing scientific selectivity. So they get their pledges and the school year gets under way. The Pi Faces and the Me Ows are always the first to announce that they are the college's old- est social clubs. They identify themselves as one of the most important parts of col- lege life. But let's look and see what their record of'achievement for the school has been. Dear Me , they say. thing? Well really! And we get the usual arguments about being social and fun for fun's sake. They neglect'to mention that they mean being social with Pi' Faces and Me Ows only, possibly including the Phi Chops ithey only get the kids we didn't wanti Their idea of fun for fun's sake only involves Fraternity Men and Soror- ity Women. Of course if they hold a function they might go in the hole on financially; they may announce to the Barbarians ta descriptive lphrase meaning any uncouth person who doesn't BE- LONGl that the so-called Barbs can come. Come to their own school, into their own gymnasium, pay their money and GET CUTsDEAD. Well what have they achieved? They have achieved intolerance. They have pro- moted bigotry. They have nurtured the snake of racial prejudice in their collec- tive bosom while enjoying the benefits of the stronghold of American democ- racy If it wasn 't such a vulgar term we might even say they stink. But delicately you know. Do some- We have no brief against national Greek letter societies open too all on a basis of intellectual achievement. They serve a fine purpose and are worthwhile. iThey have no creed against color, race or religion. Our brief is against the Pi Faces, the Me 0W5 and the Phi Lam Chops ithey only get the kids we didn't wantl. Not that our Pi Faces and. . that these same guys 'Lamr am now being taught by Phoenix Col- lege composition instructors, and espe- cially Hayakawa's Language in Action, is that an essay to be. successful must convey its meaning clearly. In last week' 5 editorial I found it difficult through the .maze of loaded words and vulgar insinuations to determine justtwhat was 'being pointed out. From a psychological point of view, the vehement nature of the terminology used conveys the im- pression that its author was seeking an emotional outlet for some sort of frus- tration incurred from an unhappy experi- ence with a fraternity or sorority. On second thought, however, I'm sure the Editor did not wish to convey that point. Upon perusing it again I thought that perhaps he was attempting an argument against them, but that couldn't be, be- cause Bear Tracks is supposedly for the benefit. of the average eollege stu- dent; according to the editorial, the average guy doesn't give a damn ,. so I'm sure the Editor wouldn't try to con- vince the average guy of the fallacy of Greek clubs when he himself states don't care two whits about them. Next i thought per- haps he was trying to convince the club members themselves. Well, now, page one of the primary psychology books tells us that.trying to win people to our side by calling them names simply doesn't work. Consider- ing the Editor as having common sense dismisses that. The last and only group left is the faculty. However, the faculty's desires concerning these clubs is not the issue of this democratic school; it is the vote of the' students. 50 there I was back to the average guy again. On finding myself back- at the beginning and still no sign of a clean'cut moral to the story , l ask you Mr. Editor, just what were you trying to say??? eHarland Padfield. W If Mr. Padtield will read beyond page one of his primary psychology book, he will perhaps learn that editorials are fre- quently written with the purpose in mind of arousing and exciting public opin- ion, either pro OR con. We of BEAR TRACKS therefore feel a modest pride concerning the success of last week's admittedly slanted edi- torial; it has served oureintended pur- pose of arousing considerable student in- terest, discussion and controversy .. as Mr. Padfield has been kind enough to prove to us with his letter. -The Editors. , , the school songs. BEARE TRACKkPHOENIX COL'LEGE THE RETURN OF A NATIVE By BETTY PAGAN Good old P.C.! You have to be away from her fair soil to really appreciate her. The last time yours truly attended this college it was during the lean war years,'when you could count the whole male regis- tration on your two hands. The first evident change I noticed for the better was this increase in population. It is much nicer having fifty or sixty people sharing the same class with you rather than a meager ten or-fifteen worried souls that trembled because there was time for the 'whole class to recite. With the return of people to the old Alma Mater, we find a revival of the school spirit. New students can't visualize: how much lovelier college is with a band, football games, and students actually singing I remember when the latter were merely interest- ing poems in the back of the blue- book. Another newcomer that is appreciated is the Student Union. But I fear it will never become as popular for loafing as the Phoenix College main flora . . . grass, that emerald vegetation whose mag- netism is so irresistable that I often wondered why the School Board doesn't take action to have ourclasses meet out there. Speaking of men, here, I agree with those girls who were raving their heads off at the last football game. That brunette cheerleader from John Muir IS divine. As for the old standbys I always liked, they are here too. Phoe- nix College would not be Phoenix College without her bear. That chromophilic vertebrate will always recall nostalgic memories of my , first days in college. No, I am not a Pollyanna. PC. is tar from being only orchids and gardenias to me. I can still find many flaws. To begin with, it isextremely adolescent to have this inter-high school rivalry that dom- inates social activities and elections. And P.C. always had her rustic, gauche, churlish men. Now they are raising a disturbance about ladies' fashion trends and would in- sist that our fair damsels go against Vogue, Harper's, Mademoiselle, Charm, and Glamour to appear in outmoded, short, skirts. Then there is always the college paper, BEAR TRACKS. When I smuggle a periodical into my fourth hour class Friday, I do not like to indulge :in a literary masterpiece. My mouth is watering for some nice, fat, delicious scandal. Can't we have some of the latest dirt published? 5 + SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE! There's a rule of the college that states that there's to be no ilmoking in the new SU. There are reasons for this rule-good rea- sons. They are so many, and so obvious. that there is no need that wetcan see for even discussing'them at this time. The important thing at the moment is the fact that the rule is being broken. Nobody on this campus is so in need of a cigarette when he is in the SU that.he can't wait until he leaves the shack to light up. No- body should be Willing to admit being lazy enough to refuse to walk far enough to get outside the shack before he has his weed. And yet the SU is seldom without some dim character who sits back in a se- cluded corner, smoking fast, trying to hide his weed, and generally comforting himself like an adolescent kid who's not quite dry behind the ears yet, and who' 5 smoking on the sly behind the woodshed and getting away with it. We like to think of ourselves as reasonably mature people; Let' 5 act like mature people, then, instead of continuing this excellent imitation of a bunch of twelve-year-olds that's now to be seen in the . su. Hereis Paul . . The tall, lean gentleman who appears before you every Tuesday, activity per- . iod, is Paul Erickson, Student Body PreSi- ' dent. When but a wee lad Paul. graduE ated from the Oak Park High School, Oak Park, Illinois. Shortly thereafter he received the usual summons and spent the next four and one half years with the Thirty-Third Infantry Division in .the So. Pac. Tngt. Erickson was attached to the field artillery unit of the 33rd. Came October 1945. Paul and the AUS bid one another fond farewell. The Valley of the Sun was blessed in January 1946. Paul entered PC the last. semester of the 1945-46 school year. Civilian Erickson held the campus posi- tion of Public Relations Commissioner the last semester of the 46-47 year. The Men's Counselor, Mr. J. N. Smel- Paul is a credit to the judgment of the stu- dent body. 1 student body presidents of good, bad, Paul defin- itely ranks in the good category. ser, recently made this statement, In thevpast there have been and indifferent characters. Paul is still single, for those interest- ed, and lives with his parents at 211-C Alzona Park. + Gauls Gather At a recent meeting, French Clubtof- ficers were electe d. They included' George Franklin, president; Steve Manos, vice-president; Jane Luke, secretary; and C. J. Smith, Jr., treasurer. Plans are now. being made for initi- ation which will be held soon. Besides this intitiation party the club has several dinners, ,a desert breakfast, and at least one French movie a year. .Anyone with a year of high school French or one semester of college French is. eligible to join. ' BEAR TRACKS;-PHOENIX COLLEGE THE KOlLiS KORNER Last year, whenever talk began to lag on the campus or in the SU, someone could usually be counted on to voice his opinion of BEAR TRACKS. And as soon as that happened, the sick discussion was shocked back to health by the Violence of the speaker's view. .Almost without exception, the opinions bandied about so freely were to the effect that the BT was a very sad excuse for a college news- paper and that there ought to be changeseBlG changes-in its con- tent, make-up,. and policy. The fact that the paper had received na- tional recognition didn' t make any difference to most of the students. They simply didn' t' like the BT, and, actually, that means that we didn' t do a good job with the paper, in spite of all the honors we re- ceived. For our real job Is to please you, the students of PC, insofar as we possibly can. There has been a great deal of unfavorable comment on the two issues of BEAR TRACKS that have been printed so far this year. But we of the staff do not intend to be influenced in the slightest by any of it! For none of it that has come to this writer's attention has been. specific enough to merit any attention. Students say over and over that there is nothing in the paper of interest to them. But how many students have written letters to the editors, telling us just what sort of news and features DO interest them? Students say that the BT Is dull and uninteresting. How and where is it uninteresting? What can we do that we' re not now doing to correct or delete the dull portions of the paper? BEAR TRACKS is the voice of you, the students. We, the edi- tors, want it to be a truly representative voice; we wantjt to say what YOU want it to say. We want to print a paper that you will be proud of and vitally interested in. We have tried to do this in the past; apparently we have failed. We have no way of knowing just what per- centage of the unfavorable comments we' re getting comes from habitual gripers lwe can never please these, no matter how we tryl, - nor do we know How much comes from students who are genuinely interested in the paper and have legitimate complaints to make. To this latter groupnwe say this: we will do everything we can to change and modify the BT in any way that the majority of you desire. But we have no way of knowing what your complaints are un- less you make them known to us. If you don't like your school paper as it is now set up, write to the editors and give them detailed infor- mation about those SPECIFIC things to which you object. Only if we have your suggestions and help can we-make BEAR TRACKS the real voice of Phoenix College. w Greeks Meet, Eat Members of Eta Chi Epsilon, home economics sorority, were guests at a sil- ver expedition tea Oct. 9 in the home of Ruth Sedberry. A showing of silver Xi Delta Chi fraternitoy held a weiner roast for members and their guests Oct. 6 at South Mountain park. Entertainment was provided around a campfire by mem- and china accessories for the home was followed by a tea and social hour. Eta Chi also held a rummage sale last Satur- day.- Ardith Mae Parsons, Virginia Mein- holt, Betty Jo Baker, Pat Wheat and Beverly Woods were in charge. A tea in 'honor of Theta Chi Delta alumni was held from 2-4Ip.m. last Sun- day in the home of Beverly Woods. Pat Wheat and Beverly Woods were in charge of arrangements, with Marie Getty and Mary Newman in charge of refreshments. bers and community singing was held? Cooper Welch,'president, was in charge and was assisted by John Hennon, Paul Erickson, Vance McPherson and Jack Parkinson. Mr. Cecil Kersten, club spon- sor, accompanied the group. , Members of Sigma Kappa Phi frater- nity entertained rushes at a smoker Oct. 9 in the club room. Clay Kaigler, Sig Kaps president, was in charge and was assisted by Charles Treat. One of the highlights of the meeting was the paint- ing of Bumstead bear. .DEAN'S BOX There is no reason to be discour- aged about the' 38-0 defeat handed to 'us by Los Angeles City College. We faced probably the best junior college team in the nation. City Col- lege is to becomeea tour-year college at the beginning of the second se- mester. We made fourteen first downs to their seven, which proves that we can advance the ball. The real difference between the two teams was not more than three touchdowns. We have cause to be proud of our first football team in five years. No doubt we shall acquit ourselves cred- itably against Compton tonight. National Guard Show The 108th Army Band, directed by J. A. Sedberry, and presented in the .in- terests of the Arizona National Guard, was the main feature at Tuesday's as- sembly. Richard Rogers, sergeant, served as Master of Ceremonies. Col. W. R. Reindel spoke on the im- portance of the National Guard in the event of another war. He ex'pressed the hope that many veterans would join, since they may keep their service rank in the event that they do, Anyone inter- ested in joining may get complete. in- formation at the Armory on the corner of 7th Ave. and Jefferson every day from 10:00 am. to 6:00 p.m. Other speakers were Dix W. Price, attorney, who spoke in behalf of the Community Chest; E. L. Stone, Music head, who announced the try-outs for the two music scholarships; and Victor Baumann, PC band director, who told of the community concerts. Sparks Hold Election I The Radio Club had its meeting last Friday during activity period in the radio workshop. New officers were elected. They were: president, John Albright; vice-president, George Cook; secretary- treasurer, Harry Anderson. Following the election, tentative sug- gestions were given for the year's acti- vities. The executive committee will name the time for the next meeting. Watch the bulletin board for announce- ment of time and place. New members are welcome and iurged to attend. Mem- bership is open to anyone interested in radio. You dorI't have to be a 'ham' to attend. lBEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE .Cubs Clout Bears; 38-0 Last Thursday night, under the lights of the Phoenix Union gridiron, 4500 spectators watched a set of fleet backs and a brilliant line from Los Angeles City College subdue a willing squad of Bears from Phoenix College 38 to 0 in , a Western Conference tilt. The heavily favored LACC Cubs opened a scoring -drive the first time they got their hands on the ball. They marched to the Phoenix 22 yard line in five plays and then met stiff resistance from the Bruin line for the next three plays and seemed to be stopped, but a fourth down pass tossed by their passing ace, Amerikhanian, provided the visitors with six points. Two more scores were picked up via the air lanes during the first half and as the first, they came on the fourth down after the Blue and Gold line had stopped the LACC running at- tack. The Cubs had a 19 to O.advantage at half time. Three running plays counted for the visitors during the second half, as their fleet backs, led by DePort, Hines, and Lewis, reeled oft gains that over-shadow- ed their passing attack. The longest touchdown gallop came late in the fourth quarter on a 62 yard run with both squads filtered,with reserves. The Bear's only scoring chance, set up by a long run by Ernie Walkup after taking a short pass from Ray Riveras, faded with the sound of the half time gun. Shortly before that, Charlie Ewing scooped up a pass and dashed to what seemed to be a near touchdown, only to have the play called back and the ball called dead because another Phoenix re- ceiver had touched the .pigskin before Ewing made the catch. With their off'einse humbled, the Bruins defensive line play shone brightest tor the locals. Paul Saunders, Earl Ma- honey, Sonny Dale, Manuel Larios, and Walkup proved a menace to the Califor- nian's attack. + Star Gazers Stare The Astronomy Club had its first gen- eral meeting, Thursday night, October 16th in the club room. Students and members of the community interested in astronomy attended. The main feature of the evening was viewing the satellites of Jupiter and the craters of. the moon through the tele- scope. A program was held afterwards in the club room followed by tHe serving of refreshments. i Parking Problem Most of the students are cooperating very well with the administration in find- ing suitable parking places around the campus. A quick check around the lots shows that, most cars are parked in or- derly array with due regard to the bump- ers. and tenders of the 'other fellow. How- ever, some few cars are still parked in driveways and on parkways. Those who ride motorcycles and scoot- ers are asked not to park in clusters causing automobile drivers to move two or three of them in order to leave. Great- est congestion is around the Liberal Arts building. There is usually space for sev- eral cars on the east lot and on the lot adjoining the football'field. Please observe the speed limit, double parking rules, and the overcrowding of the driver's seat. MOVIE REVIEW by Marian Plueddeman Down to Earth , the latest Colum- bia splash in color, turned out quite unexpectedlyea' flop. Rita Hayworth, getting fat around the middle, certain- ly was not too easy to watch as she traipsed around in the garb of a Greek goddess. Larry Parks, the lead in Rita's love life, was no more than mediocre and run-of-the-mill. The story opens with Terpsichore and the other Greek muses on Mount Olym- pus thoroughly shocked by a New York With the assistance of Mr. Jordan of Here Comes Mr. earth, grabs the lead, and proceeds to musical. depicting their lives. Jordan, Terpsichore descends to change -the show to her way of thinking. The producer, Mr. Parks, is love-sick' by- The show flops, and the goddess is laid off. But 6f course thru magical means, she this time and submits meekly. is shown that the success of the show means the life of her hero; she crawls back and does the show as originally planned. Following the successful sec- ond opening, Larry and Rita plight their love to each other only to be parted by Mr. .Jordan's returning Rita to Mount Olympus. Of course, love wins out in the end,.and couple is reunited. James Gleason was the only bright light of the production. Down to Earth was the same old humdrum type of musical and a lot worse than usual. Tartar Tilt Tonitet Cleats will fly tonight'when the down- trodden but n e v e r outfought Phoenix College Bears engage the Com pton Tartars in Ramsaur stadium at tComp- ton. Although the Tartars are fav'; ored in this Farl Western Conference clash, the rough and ready Bears are pointing for this fracas and should show the Compton lads a lot of football. The Tartars, coached by Raymond tTayl Brown, boast a light, speedy back- field, operating from the T formation behind a big, fast line. With twenty- seven returning lettermen as a nucleusg Coach Brown has built a club which will be favored over the boys from the Val- ley of the Sun. Pacing the Compton backfield and expected to furnish some offensive fire- works, are fullback John Finney, South-' V ern California Player of the Year for 1946 and leading team scorer with ,60 points, and Dewey Vroom, left halfback, who runs the 100 yd. dash in 9.9 sec- onds. To help out his backfield corps he has a couple of accurate passer: in Don Rogers and Bill Mossman. The forward wall, which is three deep in every position, will be spearheaded by Gene Nordyke, big, fast end and Bob Wilson, 220 lb. tackle, who made SECe ond string all-conference eleven. The Bruins, although not given the nod by the sports swamis will go into battle with nothing to lose and every- thing to gain. The hard luck kids from the Thomas Road campus are out for a taste of victory and wouldn't surprise tdo many people if they stage an upset. Doris Gehon Draws Football Pics . Mr. Victor H. Baumann was'irespon- sible for the idea of having caricatures of Dean Hannelly and Coach Ahee made for the half time ceremonies atlthe River- side football game. The drawings were done by Doris Gehon, a student here, in charcoal on huge. squares of cardboard which could be seen easily from the In all, Miss Gehon said that she spent about twenty hours. making stadium. the drawings. During'the half time, carriers ran out on the field with the two drawings, while the band played For .He's A Jolly , Good Fellow.'f 6 ' h , ' BEARTRACKSh-PHOENIX.COLLEGE h h h Art WesQ, Bear end snags LACC's Moore while Manuel Larios , No. 52, Phoenix guard closes in. Others shown are Bravo, No. 67, from the Cubs and Paul Saunders, No. 30, Phoenix guard. mer, Bear quarterback looks on. ,1 Hey Look-They're' Daaancin' A The Bears Kastner is brought down hard by De Pasquele, No. 82, and De Leon, No. 71, of the Cubs .Also pictured are Criss, No. 88, Cub end and Ewing, No. 31 Bruin fullback. No. 39, Cathe- CAMPUS CANDiDs Hines of the LACC Cubs does a toe dance down the sidelines while Mahoney, No. 48, and Kastner No. 25, of the Bears pre- pare to stop the fandango. Also shown are Dwyer, No. 61, of Eheflubs and Dolmas, 66, Morris 15, and Walkup. 44,.of the ruins. n I Boys and girls together. . . imam? ' Eratks Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, October 24, l 947 T hree New Vocal Groups From PC A Capella Choir Out of PCs a cappella'choir have come three new and outstanding vocal groups. These groups will supplement the per- formances of the choir. Those in the male quartet are first tenor, Richard Hammontree; second tenor, Al Thomas; baritone, Kenneth Noble; and bass, Har- old Carden. The boys will be accompan- ied by Shirleen Allen. Thomas and Noble both. had experience with the choir last year. In the girls' sextet or the Sacred Sing- ers are Isabel Casares, Joan Defoy, Judy Davis, Jeannine Hanlin, Amelia Majaw- ski, and Helen Backer. Beverly Seift is the accompanist. The mixed'quintet includes Doris Coorl Grant Johnson, Dick Sypherd, 'Ed Syp- herd, and Don Sypherd. Chester Davis will do both the accompanying and the arranging for the group. + Rain, Snow, Steam Hit Engineers Wednesday evening the Engineer's club met in the Science building. Mr. Amos Hoff lectured on artificial rain and snow fall, elaborating on data previously presented. to the student body as a whole. The Engineer's club of the Arizona State College of Tempe was invited. Tomorrow, Saturday, at 1:30 p.m. the tlub is Imaking a tour of the Salt River Power Company's steam plant. All inter- ested will meet at the main gate of the plant. This tour is not restricted to mem- bers. Anyone wishing to attend will be welcome. This also applies 'to member- ship in the Engineer's club. Enrollment in an engineering course is not required.' Sincere interest in the science of engi- neering is, however, a definite require- ment. 0+ Woodson Club Meets The weekly meeting of the Woodson club was held Friday, October 17 in room A-207. Rushia Glen Fellows, club presi- dent was in charge of the meeting. Plans for coming activities were discussed. Sig Kaps' prexy, Clay Kalgler, looks on while two pledges post a sign advertising the frat's costume ball. English Department Uses Wire Recorders Recently wire recorders have been used extensively in the English Depart- ment to enable students to recognize flaws in their speaking voices and for classes as a whole to notice errors. Mr. Cecil Kersten has been using the wire recorder for students who are just learning the English language. It helps them recognize their accents and over- come them. The recorders. have also been used by Mr. Charles Edland and Mr. Lyman Bump. Other classes are planning to use the recorders in the future. + Shutter Bugs Plan Outing The P.C. Camera club is planning an outing, to be held sometime in the near future. No date or place has been set for the affair as yet, but Seven Springs was mentioned as a likely spot. SIG KAP CAPER CLAIMS SOCIAL SPOTLIGHT Pirates, hobos, clowns and skeletons will be mixed with graceful dancers and sultry gypsies and a circus atmosphere will prevail over all tonight at the an- nual Sig Kaps Costume Ball from 9-12 o'clock in the gym. - A special ,intermission program will be presented by pledges who will be sta- tioned in sideshow booths around the gym. Gordon Wallace and his orchestra, who will play for the affair, will be seated on a miniature merry-go-round. Jim Watson and Bobby Brock are chairmen for the dance and are assisted by the Sig Kap pledges. Admission for the dance, which is open to all students and their dates, will be $1.68 a couple. Refreshments will be served. w Frosh Organize Steering Committee Officers of the Freshmen class have organized a committee for planning and arranging Freshman activities for the coming year. Under the general chair- manship of Dick Norton, class president, the committee includes Marty Hum- phrey, vice-president; Mary Lee Hart- man, secretary; Wally Perry, treasurer; Jean Phillips, Emory Sekaquaptewa, Ca- mille King, Jim Burkett, Barbara Trim, Janet Hedrick, .and Bob McKinney. The first activity planned by the com- mittee is the pep rally and dance for the Ventura game, November 1. The com- mittee hopes to see a big turn-out for both rally and dance. WHEELS MEET A meeting of the Executive Board was held last Thursday during activity period. Among the things discussed was whether sweaters would be bought for the cheer leaders. The minutes of the meeting were not posted this week because of the absence of the secretary. BEAR TRACKkPHOENlX COLLEGE BEAR TRACKS Official Publication of the Student Body of Phoenix College Frank Burch, Kerlin Rowland LETTERS TO THE EDITORS ............ ucille Hegele 122 . .- Sports Editor . Jim Agee Feature Editors. .Tnd,Rosnek Bear Tracks: Betty' Pagan, Marian Plueddeman, Marcia Panhurst Society Editor ............................ Lucille Hegel: Photographers ....Bob McDannold, Jan Hednck Faculty Adviser ............................ R. C.IEmery Reporters: Don Biscoe, Patricia Hams, Jan Hedrick, Don Levenhagen, Patricia Mitchell, Douglas Murphy, Russell Orton, Herb Surrett, Daniel Zapien. BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. This is an editorial about school spirit. Yes, we know, it's been done before. It's been done better, probably. If there hasn't been something reasonable writ- ten on the subject, then it certainly isn't because everybody and his second-cousin hasn't had something to say. Barring Rus- sia, American jazz, and semantics, there has probably been more calculated non- sense written about school spirit than any other subject. Why has the thing been so kicked around? Isn't it because people are prone to talk at great length about it without having any real idea of what it is? Too often in the past, hasn't school spirit been unquestioning, unthinking, rah-rah stuff about everything and anything con- nected with the school involved? We think so. School spirit, if it's anything at'all, is simply the manifestation of a group of people having identified themselves with their school. It means being a part of everything that goes on at that school; it means being proud of its strengths and conscious of its weaknesses. It means consciously trying to eliminate those weaknesses. We have far too little of that kind of school spirit at Phoenix Col- lege. Be a part of the activities of PC. Sup- port our football team, and be proud of them for having played teams with whom they had no business being on the same field. Remember that while most of the teams that the Bruins have played have outclassed them, there has never been a team against whom they've played that has ought-fought them! Get ready to support what should be by long oddsvthe greatest basketball team in the history of this college. Attend school dances and Dramatics and Music department pro- ductions. Obey, all the rules of this col- lege that you think are just, and if there are any that seem uniust to you, make your sentiments about them known. The very fact that you're enrolled in classes at this school makes you a member of the society we have here at PC. Be a contributing member. ls poor little Bruin on the Bear Tracks heading always feeling so bad that he can't smile on one corner anyhow? Anna Piercyey. What would you do if you were a chromophilic vertebrate? i Ed. Dear Editor: I wish you would have a week-day night C4 social where nobody dresses up and they come in bunches. Oscar. Like bananas?-Ed. Bear Tracks: Re your editorial Oct. 17, 1947- Students come to their own school, into their own buildings, pay their money ltuitionl read the editorials and GET CUT DEAD. John M. Myers. Et Tu Brute? .7 ? .7 Ed. Sirs: The editorial that appeared in last week's edition of Bear Tracks was filled to overflowing with derogotory, general- ized criticisms which are open to ser- ious question on almost every count. But how are we' to make our arguments known? The editors of the Bear Tracks can cast their innuendos as freely as they choose, for they know better than any of us that the only reply that their op- ponents can make is to write them let- ters. And the very editors that cast the innuendoes have land, unless I miss my guess, exercisel the power to censor, or simply not to print, any letter that they receive. E. J. Wasielewski, Jr. After all, Wasielewski is hard for the printer to makeup. Ed. Editors: The editors have, by their printed ad- mission, used school funds and equip- ment for their personal psychological ex- periments! Talk about 'Fraternities and Sororities being undemocraticlll What do you call such high handed, autocratic activities as this? V 0. W. Owl Louderback. Wise old Owl. He caught us. Ed. 7 Gentlemen: i wasn't invited to the last social func- tion of the Spanish Club, Radio Club, As- tronomy Club, or Wings and Goggles Club. Nor was I invited to the last social gathering of the Bear Tracks editors, the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, The Fra- ternal Order of Police or the Elks. I agree with you that they have no right to a club that I'm not in. They're undemocratic, that's what. J. R. Blakesley. Reader Blakesley is invited to the next meeting of The Fraternal Order of Police, Phoenix Lodge No. 5 as a guest of the Editor. Dear Editor: We wish to take this soulful occasion to express how deeply touched and sin- cerely sorry we are that your personality is such that people CUT YOU DEAD. Three Mourners. A rose by any other name would smell. Ed. Dear Ed: In your Oct. 17 issue of Bear Tracks you made a very touching appeal . . . to display more school spirit . . . You did not seek the cause of this situation how- ever. Why does PC have such poor school spirit? . . . possibly . . . the students have nothing to arouse it? . . . average student expects to enter a different type of school life? . . . A little wilder type of fun? . . . I do not mean uncon- trolled. . . V Thus he enters PC with a number of hopes and expectations, but is rudely and abruptly brought down to earth. To put it in plain words, PC is as dead as a doornail. . In case you don't know iteyour ap- peal for school spirit isn't going to do one damn bit of good; so why don't you use that space to do something about it? Why don't you do something about our troubles instead of reporting them to us as news when we already know them? Unsigned. The Editorial Department is all for wild fun. Controlled, of course. Ed. BEAR TRACKSePHOENlX COLLEGE Editor: Tuesday assemblies and once a month dances are enough social activities for anyone. Everything else is undemocratic. Vance Whipple. Reader Whipple and the Spartan Life. Ugh. Ed. Gentlemen: . We should like to go on record as of- fering our services in any capacityeto Phoenix College. We beleive lsicl it should be noted that we have neither ignored nor re- fused any request for school service, we have been more than willing to help. Members of Sigma Kappa Phi. I beleive, I beleive, I beleive in make- believe. Ed. Dear Sirs: As an interested student I feel that we 5 h o u l d remember that Fraternities and Sororities rate more newspaper space than any other activity with the excep- tion of sports. If we are to make Phoenix College a four-year institution we will definately lsicl need this publicity. ' C.'E. West. Definately, definately. Ed. + It is said the average American is both amazed and alarmed at talk of another war taking place. However, according to a recent Gallup poll, it is said that more than half of the American people believe there will be another war within ten years. We are now in the midst of a world- wide struggle that cannot be decided by bullets, atom bombs, or airplanes. This is all out war against Communism. In Librety magazine, it says that Commun- an idea! It also says that the Communist Party members are in the minority of the ' population even in Russia. A war with Russia is just as apt to promote Communism as it is to destroy it. You can't wipe out' an idea by killing the people who promote it and believe in it. Adolf Hitler tried but failed. Could an atom bomb succeed where the de- struction of books and individuality failed? 7 You can only fight the idea of Com- munism with an idea that is as strong or stronger a such as Democracy. 'The right to do as one pleases just as long as another's rights aren't infringed on, that is Democracy in our United States. If a little understanding and friendli- ness were mixed with the bitterness that is so abundant at this time, we might get farther. A little look at the other per- son's side of' things would help us all to find peace and real ehlightenment.. Civic Satire Draws Lusty Laughs The Mayor and the Manicure, a comical skit featuring Bob Bloecker, Beverly Seiff, Cecil Nash, and Dorothy Saunders, held the spotlight at the Tues- day assembly. The plot revolved around a world- wise mayor, who tried to out-bluff an attractive but designing manicurist. The dialogue was witty and fast moving. That the dramatics department had scored another success was evidenced by student approval. Bob Bloecker not only depicted the mayor in the play but di- rected the production. Beverly Selff, the heavy in the piece, delivers an ultimatum to Bob Bloecker, Ceall Nash, and Dorothy Saunders. ODE TO A LAB FROGGIE Fragrant frog whom I dissect Little did your Ma suspect, When you were young, that lugs like me ' Would play with your anatomy! 'Twas difficult, at first, for me To grope within your cavity For liver, gall and ovaries And lungs and other things like these. It didn't seem the tactful thing To gaze on your pyloric ring. Seeing your device for feeding Went against my gentle breeding. Those qualms are gone-that time has fled, l lean the other way' instead. l glimp and grin in gushy glee To feel so moist a corpse as thee. To pierce a bladder, slice a vein To save a squirming froggie pain By sticking hardware in his brain; -This is the peak-this is the height Of all that I call delight. Anon. .3; -sont mu in ts? DEAN'S BOX October 21, l947- Our band looked good on the field at Compton College last Friday eve- ning. It executed a C for Compton and a P for Phoenix. We should be a little proud because both the fight song and the Alma Mater song were composed by former Phoenix College students. Ida Woodall composed Come On And Fight and Janet Bry- ant composed Hail Phoenix College. Another unique feature of our band's performance was that it sounded mus- ical. It will be interesting to observe the band's growth in numbers, equip- ment and accomplishment under Vic- tor Baumann's inspirational direction. Robert J. Hannelly, Dean WE'RE SORRY! In last week's issue of Bear Tracks there was editorial reference to a Greek letter society facetiously called Phi Lam Chops. This name was used inadvertently and was not intended to cast any reflec- tion on the members of our local sorority, Phi Lambda Zeta. The editor has person- ally acquainted himself with members of this sorority and found them' both charm- ing and beautiful. Bear Tracks does not intend this as an apology for our editorial but as a tribute to the ladies of Phi Lambda Zeta who are certainly not the least of the more deadly of the species. BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE Favored Bears Gun for Arabs Tonite Bears in Action Al Brady GD, peeking the ball for the Bruins, runs head-Iong into trouble In the Cam-pton game. The Tartar would-be tackler is uniden- tified. Bob Morris of PC is jarred by a neck-tie tackle delivered by a Compton defense man as an- other Tartar is moving up for the kill. tPhotos by Jan Hedricki. Sports Slants Last Tuesday evening as the cellar- dwelling Bruins of Phoenix College sweat- ed and slaved on the gridiron in prepar- ation for another Far Western Confer- ence football tilt, a happier note was struck in the gym where approximately thirty hopefuls checked out for the be- ginning of basketball practice. With their superb ball club of last year returning practically intact minus only center Jerry Hickey, Phoehix fans should be able to look forward to another highly successful season. While Hickey will be missed, Fred Roche, Gilbert Trejo, and the in- comparable Leon Blevins will all be op- erating in full force. Also returning from last year's stellar aggregation will be tBiIl Hammontree, Glenn Barlow, Art Car- roll, and Bob Williamson. A fresh corps of young hopefuls will be battling for positions on the squad, and undoubtedly they will crowd the vet- erans somewhat. Heading these will be Harpo Celaya, an all-stater on the Flor- ence High School state champions last year. Most fans will be looking for the fast breaking, high scoring members of last year's team to repeat, and hopes are high for good times inl the athletic picture for PC. . Compton Powerhouse Runs Over Bears; 33-0 The outscored but never outplayed Phoenix Bruins bowed to powerful Comp- ton college for their fourth successive loss of the season last Friday evening. Played at the west coast city, the game was hard fought and much closer than the score of 33-0 would indicate. The rowdy Bears, victims of a lot of tough breaks in all of their games to date, maintained their usual bad luck at Compton. to be the set-up for another Tartar touchdown and the ultimate downfall of the Bruins: Outstanding for the losers, even in defeat, were Ernie. Walkup, the Bear's reliable end and the entire Bruin forward wall. Bobby Morris, Bear quarterback, got eff some nice punts for his share of the backfield honors. Frosh To Sponsor Ventura Rally, Jig Under the direction of Dick Norton, Freshman class president, a pep rally and dance preceeding and following the game with Ventura, November 1, is being planned by the newly-formed Freshman Executive Committee. Jerry An intercepted pass proved, An injury riddled, often beaten, but never outfought squad of Bruin gridders of Phoenix College tangle with the Cen- tral Junior College Arabs of El Centro, California tonight in a non-conference tilt on the coast college's gridirori. The Bears, beaten in their first four clashes this season, will enter tonight's game with a slight edge over their Cali- fornia competitors. The Arabs opened 'their season this fall dropping a 45 to O victory to the Tigers of Riverside Junior College, the same team that met consid- erable resistance from the Bruins in gar- nering a 13 to. 6 victory the following week. Coach George Ahee, Bear men- tor, points out that both games were in early season and both teams have had a chance to improve, and that inju ries might hold the Phoenix squad back. Coach Ahee has made a few shifts during the past week to replace his in- jured gridders, sending Charlie Ewing back to fullback, Don Goodwin to cen- ter, Bob Morris from fullback to left halfback, and alternating Bobby DuFallo between right and left halfback. The Bruin line shapes up with only minor bruises, except for the injured knees of Ernie Walkup and Paul Rideau, and should be ready for plenty of action to- night. The probable starting line-up for the Bruins will most likely have Sonny Dale and Art West at ends, George Delmas and Claude 'Dague, tackles, Manuel Larios and Dale Rector, guards, and Don Me- loche at center.. In the backfield Raul Mariscal at quarterback, Morris and Bob Collier at halfbacks, and Ewing at full- back. Harris and his band will supply the music for the- dance which will be held in the gym. The decorations will carry out the theme Ofl'Aprons and Overalls in keep- ing with the Hallowe'en holiday. Committee heads named by Norton were refreshments, Jean Phillips; decor- etions, Camille King and Jim Burkett; publicity Bob McKinney and Janet Hed- rick; arrangements for the rally, Marty Humphrey, Emory Sekaquaptewa, and Wally Perry. The rally is scheduled to begin at the Auditorium at 7 p.m. Students with cars will then proceed through the center of town. The dance is slated for 10 p.m. and activities will cease at midnight. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE Boy, I'll bet he's a slave driver, said a student about Dr. Fred L.' Bedford, new head of the Mathematics department. However, upon meeting that same stu- dent a few hours later, he said, Dr. Bedford is really a good guy, after all. That opinion was shared by all who were questioned on the subject. He teaches Introduction to College Mathematics, B u s i n e s 5 Mathematics, Commercial Algebra, and Differential Calculus. He informs us, quite modest- ly, that he has co-authored three mathe- matics books. Eh Dr. Merton W. Jones is one of the new additions to our faculty. Though born in New York he is a Westerner by choice. Dr. Jones is not exactly a new- comer to our state since before he came here he was associated with the Univer- sity at Tucson. , - $ ; The doctor's hobbies are hiking, ten- nis, photography, hand coloring of pho- tos, listening to music,-and singing in a male quartet. In addition he tinkers with an organ on the sly. Dr. Jones' hobbies seem to be well suited to this'part of the country. Hiking and color photography certainly go hand in hand with the colorful scenery to be found in these parts. He did his undergraduate work at Cornell, received his M5. at Wisconsin, and his Ph.D. at the University of Col- orado. Joan DeFoy Originally from Rockford, lllinois, Joan says she came to Phoenix for health rea- sons. Her mother has sinus trouble and her father has flat feet. Since she majors in Home Economics, none of us was at all surprised when she said that she'd like to be a teacher. Singing, ithat is to say; choirl is her favorite subject. In ad- dition she sings first soprano in the tyou should excuse the expressionl sextette. Dwane Wheeler An all-state basketball forward in his hometown, Conneaut, Ohio, Dwane ad- mits that the reason he came to PC this yea? was that he just liked the looks of the place. He intends to go out for basketball this year, but insists that he was not bought, bribed or coerced into coming to PC because of his ath- letic talent. An Engineering major, he says that math is his easy subject! l i .g Dr. Jones teaches physics and photog- raphy. He would like very much to sponsor a hiking club but at present hasn't the time. Those interested in forming a hiking club, though, might see if something can be worked out. If the hiking club doesn't pan out you can al- ways form a quartet. Travis Williams Travis is from Tyler, Texas originally and says that Arizona is a pretty good place, too. Such a statement from a Texan is the epitome of praise for our state. He's a Business Administration major, and he calls English his easiest subject. Travis thinks that athletics are greatefor the other guy. He himself is nothing more than an interested spec- tator. He gets his exercise from hunt- ing and horse-back riding. Velma Jean Caviness Here's one of the rarities of the cen- tury, kiddies, a native Arizonan. She lives on a ranch, and she says that she loves horses. A dramatic major, Velma is a good bet to end up as a star of cow- boy pictures. She is a graduate of North Phoenix' High and hopes to become a dramatics teacher or retire to a ranch. w Mrs. Ethel Radulescu of the home eco- nomics department spoke to the fresh- men on family relations at an assembly held Wednesday, October 15. She briefly talked on how students could get along better with their par- ents and then went on to speak to the group on how to work toward a suc- cessful marriage. 6 BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE VA Job Guidance Tests Serve PC Vets Performing an important function for veterans in Phoenix College is the Job- Guidance division of the Veterans' Ad- ministration. in the first floor of the Liberal Arts building, under the able di- rection of Mr. E. C. Thoroman, are lo- cated the offices of the VA which assist not only vets on the campus, but others not going to school who may wish to know the lines along which their apti- tudes lie. In an interview, Mr. Thoroman told of some of the problems involved in guiding veteran students to a choice of career that can be utilized in this locality when the student completes his educa- tion. For instance, stated Mr. Thoroman, many veterans come here with experi- ence in industrial work expecting to con- tinue their education along those lines. But the lack of industrial activity in Ari- zona complicates the problem of finding jobs here for those with such training. This is serious in view of the fact that many of these veterans come -here pri- marily for health reasons. They must either find suitable jobs or o0 back to climatic conditions that are detrimental to their health, Mr. Thoroman added. How are the qualifications of a vet- eran for a certain line of work tested? The answer is, by the means of tests which examine the subject in four prin- cipal divisions. These are general in- telligence, s p e c i f i c aptitudes, interest levels, and personality. All are consid- ered of equal importance and if the sub- ject is found to be deficient in any one of these he is guided to a job choice designed to minimize his deficiences and stress his a p t it u d e 5. Mr. Thoroman stressed that his job is not to attempt to correct deficiencies but only to help vet- erans to a choice of careers in which they have a better chance of success. This office is part of the Veterans' Administration but its services are not confined to vets only. For a nominal fee, arranged through the dean's office, any person may take the tests used in Job Guidance. Mn 881 a pnuiiy znwev Gosh Bumstead! They sure were funny dresses in those days-Huh! MOVIE REVIEW By Betty Pagan Alan Ladd plays the role of boss-man to a crew of intinerant wheat harvesters in this new movie release. The main conflict arises when Robert Preston, the ace mechanic arrives on the scene with his bride, Dorothy Lamour, after strict orders had been given that no dames were allowed. Besides being a woman, Lamogr stirs up trouble by leading her spouse into dishonest scull-duggery be- hind the crew's back. Then the fur be- gins to fly. . . The theme of this production is dif- ferent. it attempts to portray America as the land of the hard-working, honest farmer. But regardless of this it is far from dull with fire, the competitors, and Lamour furnishing excitement. Alan Ladd is his usual, cold, deter- mined, deliberate self in Wild Har- vest, except here he is on the side of the law. In fact he shows a .strong sense of character in avoiding Dorothy Lamour's attentions. Her role is one of the schem- ing siren only in this picture she wears clothes. If you like a show that has excitement against a solid farm background with amor reduced to the minimum, see Wild Harvest. it is a good picture. Thespians Elect Officers Members of Delta Psi Omega, Na- tional Honorary Dramatics Fraternity, met last week for the purpose of electing Officers elected were: Russell Orton, president; officers for the coming year. Paul Erickson, vice president; Bob Bloec- ker, secretary; Isabel Casares, treasurer. Mr. Cecil group, stated that new members will be Kersten, sponsor of the taken in after the first play is presented. BOOK REVIEWS By Kerlin Rowland THE HUCKSTERS could probably be called an expose of the evils of modern advertising about as well as it could be called anything else. Of course it isn't that at all. What it really is is a vety funny, often very vulgar, almost com- pletely pointless satire of advertising. But either Frederic Wakeman, who wrote the book, just didn't know that he was writ- ing satire, or he realiled that a lot of people would read his expose that wouldn't even be remotely interested in the merits of his book AS a book. At any rate he has told his fantastic story with a straight face. Unfortunately, several of his more gullible readers have apparently taken him seriously. Briefly, THE HUCKSTERS is the story of Vic Norman, a man who worked him- selftrom a very low to a very high posi- tion in the adveFtising business in a very short time, and then, after having ac- quired large amounts of money and some bothersome ulcers, decided to quit be- cause he didn't like his boss. While Norman is on the way up, he finds time to make love to various and sundry over- sexed women. THE HUCKSTERS is an improbable book about improbable people who find themselves in utterly fantastic situations. There is scarcely a credible character, scarcely a reasonable action in the entire novel. But author Wakeman has a defi- nite flair as a story teller. His sincere businessmen, his tat tyrants, his heauti- ful women whose talk is liberally sprin- kled with brief and pithy Anglo-Saxon- isms, and his fantastic misunderstanding of most of the basic human emotions are all thoroughly amusing. l heartily recom- mend THE HUCKSTERS to anybody who is interested in large and lusty belly laughs. But those of you who want art would do well not to bother with it. It just isn't for you. 3mm Eratkg Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, October 3L 1947 Women and Song Enthrall Audience Highlighting the student talent as- sembly held Activity period Tuesday, 0c; tober 28, was crooning by ManueI-Como- Sinatra-Haymes-Larios. To the accom- paniment of Joe Banana and His Bunch. He sang such favorites as Mamselle , You Are Always In My Heart , and I Wish I Didn't Love You So. The musi- cal talent displayed by PC's hefty 200- pound guard came as a surprise to the student body. But their enjoyment of the numbers was evidenced by resound- ing, deafening applause. Student hep-cats, Joe Banana and His Bunch, entertained with several Well ren- dered jive numbers; They were Red B a n k BO 0 g i e , Sugar Blues , and Trumpet Blues. And to bring a pleasant, hubbah-hub- bah finale to the program were Phyllis Brock, June Welch, Pat Grippen, Pat Gar- land, Lucille Hegele, and Shirley Shults in an enticing can-can. After the dance, the winsome misses tossed their garters to the mouth-watering, pop-eyed males in the first rows. Also, in the assembly, Mr. Lloyd Gar- rett, president of the Phoenix Orpheus Club and 'Mr. 7E. L. Stone, representing the Hiram Club, presented Beverly Seiff and Ira Sedinger with music scholarships. Dick Norton made annOUncements concerning the game and pep rally to- morrow and introduced Fred Bumstead, a huge and mighty bear. Actors Plan Haul The Mask and Dagger club met Wed- nesday activity period in Room A-205 to organize the sale of tickets and the pub- licity for Petticoat Fever which will be presented November 13 and 14. Isabel Casares spoke to the members on selling of tickets and on the launch- ing of the publicity for the play. The production crews were chosen at the meeting. This is the first time tickets and re- served seats have been sold for plays or anything else that has taken place in the Phoenix College auditorium. BEARS GUN FOR SECOND WIN OVER VENTURA DEAN'S BOX We recommend 'that students at- tend classes. it a student with aver- age college intelligence attends classes and tries reasonably hard, he does not fail. How anyone less than a genius expects to pass by staying away from class has always been a mystery to us. When a student registers, he agrees to meet certain appointments. He is not forced to make this agreement. The faculty exerts no compulsion in attendance. lt merely rewards the faithful. Participating membership in class pays off in knowledge, in skill, in learning, and, less importantly, in grades. Vets, Achtungl! A representative oftthe Veteran's Ad- ministration will conduct interviews with veterans who have not received their sub- sistence pay checks on Wednesdanyo- vember 5th in the Executive Board room in the Administration building between the hours of 8 and 4 p.m. If you have not received your check by the above date, you should arrange to attend this meeting without fail. The V e t e r a n ' 5 Administration has urged that you do not write the Regional Office regarding d e l a ye d checks, but rather withold your statement pending the visit of their representative and this meeting. Montgomery stadium will be the setting for another Far-West- ern Conference fracas when the up and coming Phoenix College Bruins tangle with Ventura Jun- ior College's Pirates tomorrow night. The strong California crew will be favored but the swiftly re- bounding Bears, who are finally beginning to demonstrate some' of their potential power, are right in line for an upset. After last - ..week's decisive power housing of El Centro, Coach George Ahee's Bruins are a rejuvenated club. The sturdy forward wall, which has looked good all season, was again excel- lent in the desert city, but it was the sparkling play of a reshuffled backfield which caught the fans eyes. Jimmy Gump, who until the El Centro brawl has spent his time as a substitute end, started the game at right halfback and hot footed around the field all night. In addition to scoring two touchdowns, he kept the fans on the edge of their seats with slashing runs for the better part of the time he was in the game. To be able to knock off the Ventura club, however, will require some pretty fancy ball-playing by the Phoenix lads. The powerful coast squad, which until last week's defeat by Long Beach, was tied 'with LACC and Compton for the conference lead, will be given the edge. Their backfield is sparked by Max Mighty Mike Houlihan, diminutive quarterback, who flips footballs around the gridiron with the greatest of ease, and Ed Henke, hard running fullback. Not to be overlooked is halfback Don Downey, who leads the conference in scoring honors. The Pirates rugged forward wall is anchored around center Ken Campbell, tackle Harle Walker, and Art Long, an end. They are expected to give the Phoenix backs plenty of trouble. All in all, the game promises plenty of action and should give Phoenix fans a chance to see the vastly improved Bruins. 2 BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX eCOLLEGE BEAR TRACKS matched by ourefforts to make our city Executive Board Gives Member of Associated College Press a finer place to live in. What better way Greeks Go-Ahead Co-Editors Frank Burch Kerlin Rowland than '3 Ving war memona dedicated to . . '55 Ed ? - Lee ' 93 5 our war dead and serving the community! A week ago yesterday, -the Executiye iiiiifaEf'gno Marian i'dle'gdgfl: B T ks l' , . . Board met In solemn sessuon and legis- feature Editors;.. ............... Tod Rosnek ear rac so 'c'ts your opinion on lated upon what has been the most im- Betty Pagan, Marian Plueddeman, Marcia Panhurst Society Editor ............................ Lucille Hegele Photographers ....Bob McDannuld, Jan Hedrick Faculty Adviser ............................ R. C. Emery Reporters: Don Biscoe, Patri Harris, Jan Hedrick, Don Levenhagen, Patricia Mitchell, 'Dnuglas Murphy, Russell Orton, Herb Surrel't, Daniel Zapien. BEAR TRACKS Welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. WANTED: A'LIVING WAR MEMORIAL The recent controversy in the local daily papers over the need or lack of need for a municipal auditorium that will seat at least 3000 people brings to mind another problem. when and what the people of Phoenix will do about a memorial in honor of the men and women who fought in this last World War. After World War I was over, the mu- nicipal courtyards and town squares the country over were bedecked with granite monuments and bronze statues. The in- tent behind these monuments and sta- tues was fine. However, they added lit- tle to the stature of those they honored, and they soon became a resting place for the local pigeons. There has been much talk of late abOut living war memorials, and now that the question of a munici- pal auditorium has come up it might be well to consider it in this light. Instead of saddling the school district with this burden of paying for an ade- quate a u d i t 0 r i u m for our municipal needs, this would be an opportunity for all members of the community to join in building a Memorial Auditorium. It would be a fitting tribute to the honored dead of World War II and a source of pride and pleasure to the citizens of Phoenix and its environs. If the Veterans' Organizations, the service clubs, civic groups and the thou- sands of ordinary Phoenicians that aren't affiliated with any group were to combine their efforts, Phoenix could have the fin- est municipal auditorium in the West. Labor and the contractors could contrib- ute a strike free contract and a reason- able estimate on the job. The newspapers and radio stations could pave the way for voluntary contributions with a pub- licity campaign similar to the one for the Community Chest: Fraternal, profession- al and civic organizations could canvass ' the community for support. could contribute something. All of us It would be- long to PhoEnix, not the School system. Our pride in our community should be It is the question of. this matter. THE KOIL'S .KORNER What is this routine with the Tuesday assemblies, anyway? It's possible to at- tend almost any of them and not find many more students there than it would take to make a dozen or so tables of bridge players. 90 during activity period on Tuesday? Why do all of us have such a fervent desire to stay away from assemblies, and tthis is even less understandablel how do we manage to do it? Can anybody ex- plain why more of us don't attend sim- ply tor the want of anything else to do? Last year, there was -a big rhubarb about this whole question of assemblies. Students screamed to the high heavens that they shouldn't be made to attend assemblies if they didn't want to; they in- sisted that the whole thing should be a matter for individual choice. I thought at the time that a lot of people on cam- pus were creating a disturbance tor the pure, unadulterated fun of it. I thought that, it given a choice in the matter, most of them would continue to attend as- semblies. I don't think that way any more. Apparently a large percentage of those of you that were doing the yelling last year were sincere. Because, now that you don't have to go, you're staying away in droves. I don't get it. Had the assemblies this year been poor to datet I could under- stand the poor attendances that have greeted them week after week. But, al- most without exception, this year's shows have been informative, entertaining, or both. They have been plenty good . . . plenty good by any standards. I don't think that the most critical student who has seen' the majority of them can rea- sonably deny that. It seems to me that the word that this year's assemblies are well worth see-V ing should have got around by now, and that, as a result, the crowds should be much, much bigger than they are. But it seems that such is not the case. To anybody who hasn't heard and who is willing to take my word for it, I offer 'this advice: the shows that are put on over in the Auditorium every Tuesday during activity period are honeys! You're missing something if you don't catch them every week. Where does everybody , portant topic of student government this year. The result was a nine-point article outlining the duties, obligations, restric- tions and priviliges of campus fraternities and sororities. The occasion for this spree of student solons was the finished report of the faculty committee for the re-evaluation of sororities and fraternities, which was presented to the Executive Board at that time by Men's Councilor J. N. Smelser, Chairman of the Committee. The original faculty report consisted of an eight-point program concerning these social groups. After a period of ex- tended discussion, the Executive Board chose to make several minor amendments and to add an additional clause to the bill. This new clause stipulates that both the inter-sorority and inter-traternity councils will be directly responsible to the Executive Board. Other important points in the docu- ment prohibit the practice of blackballn ing prospective candidates for member- ship in these clubs by stating that a three-fourths vote of all members pres- ent at a meeting shall be sufficient to enable a candidate to pledge. Racial dis- crimination is outlawed, and the consti- tutions of these social groups are now open to anyone's reading. The number of fraternities and s'orori- ties on campus will be increased when it becomes apparent that more students want to become members than the pres- ent groups can accommodate. National social fraternities and sororities will not be permitted at Phoenix College. This does not apply to scholastic and honor societies. Only certificated teachers will sponsor fraternity and so ro r i ty groups. iThis clause is not retroactive, however.l Fraternity and sorority groups on cam- pus shall do nothing to encourage simi- lar groups among the students of the other schools of this system. A fraternity or sorority may hold all- school dances for its own financial gain provided it stands responsible for any financial loss. After the Executive Board had delib- erated and passed upon this faculty re- port, the bill was referred to Dr. Robert J. Hannelly, who stated that he would approve the measure as it then stood. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE Camera Candid's of Bumsteadis Buddies - Phyllis Brock Phyllis is that good-Iooking brunette with the prominent blue eyes, 'who stood out in the assembly chorus when the other five girls got out of step. This pretty Miss is very active functions. She is secretary of AWS and vice-president of her so ro rity, Kappa Delta Nu. personality and be someone she can get along with. She likes dancing, and her favorite. sport's interest is baseball. Taking a Liberal Arts curriculum, she is her major. states that Campusology - , , . .415, Mrs. Lillian Whitney One of the busiest ladies on our cam- pus is the very comely Mrs. Liliian Whit- ney; she teaches English, speech, sociol- ogy, and philosophy. Her own educa- tion is also being furthered by an up-to- datehmodern course on . . . you guessed it . . . Arizona constitution. In addition to instructing 235 of us lazy louts and spending 19 hours at the lecture stand each week, Mrs. .Whitney is sponsoring Phi Lambda Zeta and is serving on sev- eral committees. Oh, for the life of a student. If you're ever bored'with life, drop in on Mrs. Whitney! I know she can charm you with a resume' of her latest adventure on the PC campus. in school , Her ideal beau must have V MOVIE REVIEW by Betty Pagan This neWLParamount release has the theme of the typical war-time, hero- with - important information - being - hunted-by-Nazis theme. The setting oc- curs in the German woods with diversity ibeing introduced when Ray Milland, a restrained Englishman, is aided and so- licited by Marlene Dietrich, an exotic QYPSY- In this picture, one slightly detects - the ardor of our early naturalistic poets in advocating a simple, rugged life in which loyalty to one's'companions is stressed. Ray Milland found this in the gypsy life whose outward symbol of loy- alty and union was manifested in the wearing of Golden Earrings. The acting was good and on the whole the show was very refreshing to watch. In some respects it was not too convinc- ing. I'have a feeling that much was deleted in cinemizing the novel. Hollywood has become very accurate in some respects but even if Marlene Dietrich has million dollar legs, there is no exsuse for her traveling by foot for hours in wild mountain and forest re- gions . . . in four-inch high-heeled slip- pers! Mr. Victor Baumann Our new band director, Mr. Victor Baumann, is really sold on Phoenix Col- lege. Practically a native of Arizona, Mr. Baumann returned to the Phoenix school system as soon as the army would let him. Last year he worked in the Osborn school district as an instru'mental instruc- tor. Working. with our band and orches- tra he is still in his chosen field. Mr. Baumann feels that the quality of the PC instrumental groups is very high. - Necessary now is quantity. I , . t Manuel Larios Manuel's crooning of You Are Al- ways In My Heart , Mamselle , and I Wish I Didn't Love You So was punctuated at the Tuesday assembly by enthusiastic student approval. Larios, who is far from shy on the football field, appeared overwhelmed and embarrassed by the ovation he received. Toads was a prep star for the Phoenix Coyotes be- fore he entered the army for a three- year stint. He is now one of the main- stays of the PC forward wall, and hopes to be a coach some day. Manuel is a P.E. major, but states that he is interest- ed in just about everything. Mr. Lyman L. Bump As if teaching freshmen English were not enough, Mrs Lyman L. Bump is back at PC at night to teach night school speech. Mr. Bump must really enjoy his work because his hobby is collecting the most interesting of the themes passing through his hands in the course of a year. Dramatics is one of Mr. Bump's- main interests. He modestly informed me that he has directed some forty plays. Landing in Phoenix from south- ern Minnesota on the first day of Sep- tember, Mr. Bump received a 'wonder- ful initiation to our weather. 4 BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE LETTER TO THE EDITORS Editors of Bear Tracks Sirs: rl must be extremely gullible, as evi- deptly were several other members of' the student body, for l believed sugges- tions would be appreciated, not sarcastic- ally sidestepped, when you asked for them in an editorial and wrote . . . Bear Tracks welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body lsic Kl. Donnie Hudspeth Ede . Acknowledged. When sincere letters are received we will try and give sincere answers. Bear Tracks still welcomes any signed letters of opinion from the stu- dent body. + Men's Archery Class Begun Plans for a men's archery class are under discussion. If enough boys are in- terested, an archery class will be started for them which will take the place of the usual P. E. credit, according to Coach-Hoy. The class will be organized if six or more men apply. The class would meet 3rd hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 2H Hillel Officers Elected At the last meeting of the Hillel Club, held in the Blue and Gold Room last Fri- day, October 24, officers were elected. They.were Cecille Siegel, president; Jerry Siegel, vice-president; Clarice Goldstein, recording secretary; Faye Stone, corre- sponding secretary; and Selma Katel, treasurer. Rabbi A. L. Krohn was,guest of the meeting. Plans were made for future meetings and activities. A HALLOWE'EN MORAL Once upon a time there was a little girl named Sarie Mae. Sarie Mae was very naughty. Every year, on Hallowe'en night, she used to stand on the corner and yell, Wolf! Wolf! Then everyone would come running to see what was the matter, and Sarie Mae would laugh very, very hard at the funny joke she had made. Last year, when she was eighteen, Sarie Mae stood on the corner and yelled, Wolf! Wolf! But no one came to see what was the matter, not even a wolf! Sarie Marie was very disappoint- ed. Sarie Marie was frustrated. MORAL: Do not be naughty on Hal- lowe'en, or you are likely to be punished by having some Editor write a crumby story about you. Sororities Slate Rush Week Social activity of PC sororities will officially begin with rush week, to be held from NOVember l to 8. Theta Chi Delta will sponsor their rush tea Saturday, Nov. 1, from 3 to 5 o'clock at the home of Mary Esther Newnam. Members of Phi Lambda Zeta will hold their rush party Wednesday, Nov. 5. Kappa Delta Nu chose the date of Nov. 6 for their rush dinner. Phyllis Brock and Lucy Hegele are in charge. Members of Alpha sorority will hold their party Friday, Nov. 7, with Alpha Sigma Gamma sponsoring their rush Nov. 8. + Bonnie Jo Sandy acted as hostess at the last meeting of Alpha sorority which was held at Miss Sandy's home on Mon- day, October 27th, at six p.m. Rush and pledge plans were the topic of discussion and plans were made for a social welfare project. w A Theta Chi Delta sorority tea .for members of the sorority and rushes was discussed at the last meeting held in A-l02 during activity period. The tea will be held on November 1 at Mary Newnam's home. + A business meeting of Eta Chi Epsi- lon was held October 30th in Room 223 of the Science Building during activity period. Plans for their picnic, to be held No- vember lOth at Papago Park, were dis-' cussed by program chairman, Betty Jo Baker. A committee was appointed to be in charge of this picnic including Arleen lrion, Marie Stinson, Ardith Mae Par- sons, and Virginia Meinholt. $ A meeting of Phi Alpha Chi was' held Monday, October 27th in the Blue and Gold Room from 7:30 to 9:00. The members discussed the stag party which is to be held at the home of Paul Liver- more on Saturday evening, November 8th. Meatless Tuesday Blues Since the student body of Phoenix College has requested that the cafe- teria observe meatless Tuesday, and eggless and poultryless Thursday, Mrs. Motto stated that she had rearranged the menu in order to comply with the President's suggestions. No item will be ommitted from the weekly menu, but the day on which it is served may be changed. Student officers AI Thomas, Dick Norton, Cooper Welch, Jim Carroll, and Mary Lee Hartman confer. Academic Clubs Hold Parties Papago Park was the setting for a pic- nic held by the German club last Thurs- day evening for their first social affair of the season. The gathering enjoyed a feed consisting of potato salad, hot dogs, and potato chips. Bonnie Jo Sandy was hostess. The club is under the spon- sorship of Dr. Cecile Wilson. + The Radio Club m'et October 24th ac- tivity period in the Radio Shop. Activi- ties anticipated include the equipping of a shop and amateur station lW7KVEl for the use of the members. During the meeting the club's picture was taken. Code classes have been started dur- ing activity period. W The Camera club is planning an out- ing to be held the weekend of Novem- ber 8 at Seven Springs. Activities will include hiking; picture taking and a pot- . luck picnic. The club has regular meetings during the Activity period on the first and third Thursdays each month. In the near fu- ture the club will have a staff photogra- pher 'from the Arizona Republic as a guest .spea ker. + The Phoenix College Astronomy Club will meet November 20th at 7 p.m. on the campus and the club room for a lec- ture on astronomy and for making ob- servations through the club's 5 in. refac-l tor telescope. The observations will oc- cur from 7 to 8 p.m. and then the mem- bers will adjourn to the club for the lecture and for viewing movies on as- tronomy. The speakers will be Zeno M. John- son, club president and Justin Herman. hx BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE 5 Bruins Bounce El Centro Arabs Tearing loose from the chains of de- feat that bound them for tour long weeks, the Bruins of Phoenix College handed the Central Junior College Arabs a decisive 32 to O defeat last Friday night at El Centro, California. A handful of Bear supporters watched the Phoenix attack, which had failed to give them. victory this season, sputter and then catch fire to rack up the initial victory. The locals, hampered by 145 yards of-penalties, scored twice in the first quarter and counted once in each period after, while holding the Califor- nians to one lone scoring chance. Failing to make ground the first chance they had their hands on the ball, the Bruins punted to the El Centro squad and then took over on aniinter- cepted pass. Charlie Ewing set the ball on the Arab 26-yard line where Jim Gump ripped through the right side of the line, cut left, and dashed to the end zone for the initial score. A few minutes later the Bears scored again with Paul Smith climaxing a 50-yard drive on a three-yard smash. Roy Wolven counted on the first two extra points and at the quarter the Phoenix squad led 14 to 0. Number three touchdown came early in the second quarter when Raul Maris- cal faded back to the Phoenix 30 and tossed a 40-yard pass to the fleet- ' footed Gump who scampered untouched to the goal line. Half time score was 20 to 0. Phoenix' third period score, and the longest run of the game, came on the first play of the second half. After Gump returned the kickoff to the Bruin 30-yard stripe, Ewing took the ball from Eddie Cathimer, tore through the El Cen- tro forward wall, and romped 70 yards to pay dirt territory. ' The final tally was made by Cathimer on a quarterback sneak from the foot line, ending a su'stained drive led by Gump, Ewing, and Smith with the Bear's T formation going full blast. The Arabs threatened only once, and that was in the second quarter when two fifteen-yard penalties and a pass put them on the Phoenix 12-yard line, but three more passes and one try at the Bears' line failed to move the ball and the Bears took over. The Californians were paced by Min- tor, a backfield man, and Juan Carle- ton, a former Phoenix boy who played . end. Sports Slants by Jim Ahee VICTORY! ! ! After five long weeks. that brought four successive defeats, the Phoenix College Bears, OUR Bears, have tasted their initial win of the season. Twice before, against John Muir and Riverside, the Bruins came close, but this time for -sure they did win, drop- ping Central JC 32 to 0. Reporting for himself and the team, Coach George Ahee said, It sure feels good. Especial- ly when you see the guy who has been asking you how the team came out each week, and you can say we kicked hell out of them! That is truly a morale booster to any squad. Ahee commended his gridders on the precision used in carrying out plays and the outright fight and spirit they showed in defeating the Arabs. At times during the game the Blue and Gold gridders showed a little too much spirit'and eager- ness as they blasted the boys from Cali- fornia and made the game look like a drop the handkerchief contest between the officials as they stepped off 145 yards of penalties against the Bears. But they were still able to gain over 450 yards during the tussle which proved their supreme power. Defensively, the locals held their opponents to 48 yards gained. Fleet-tooted Jim Gump, who up to last week had been playing an end posi- tion, moved into the right halfback slot for the game, and along with Charlie Ewing, proved to be the Bruin offensive blast. Gump scored twice, once one 26- yard dash through the right side of the line and on a pass from Raul Mariscal which he took on the Arabs 40-yard line and scamperedall the way. Ewing made one six-pointer on a 70-yard sprint which was the longest run of the game. Tom Bondus, Manuel Larios, and Earl Ma- honey proved to be the outstanding men in the forward wall during last week's contest. Only a handful of PC students wit- nessed the Bruin victory in California. 'Tomorrow night OUR team will be out to continue winning. Let's all be there and stay behind them'the whole way. Coach Ahee says the team can do it, the team believes iust that, and it's up to the stu- dent body to let everybody know that they believe it too. Get ' behind the Bears, and push them all the way. Six-Man Football, Every boy, regardless of his ability, should have the chance to participate in an athletic program. This is the primary idea behind the intra-mural football pro- gram which is being supervised by John- ny Riggs of the Physical Education de- partment. The fourteen regular physical educa- tion classes have been divided into six- man teams. The number of teams in each section ranges from three to seven. Through class period competition a' cham- pion has been chosen in each section. These class champions will tangle eighth period, Wednesday, October 29 through Thursday, November 6,. to determine the inter-sectional champion. The champion- ship game is scheduled for eighth per- iod, Thursday, November 6. Medals will be awarded to members of the champion- ship team. Class instruction on speedball , the sport chosen for future intra-mural com- petition, will start Monday, November 3. BEAR TRACKSwPHOENIX COLLEGE Begr Tracks wishes to take this opportunity to commend our Phoenix Collegetbandsmeln for their diligence, perseverance and unflagging enthusiasm that is a working example of school spirit. igaar wrath: Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Vol. 20 FILE THIS UNDER A Plans to start a file on all alumni of PC have been announced by J. N. Smel- ser, men's counselor, who is in charge of gathering data on former students of PC for the tile. Included in the file will be such facts as place of residence of each alumnus, .telephone number, and present occupa- tion. In the case of former women students who have married since their attendance at PC, their maiden and present names will be listed. Although sketchy at first, the file will be added to as tinie goes by, Declared Mr. Smelser, Our purpose at first is to locate the alumnae. Once that is done we will be able to gather much more information on them than we will have at first. a The Homecoming Week affords ample opportunity to locate some 'of the alum- ni, according to Mr. Smelser. Plans are to register the two hundred alumni expected at PC's celebration and obtain some of the needed information from them, he said. . + Humanists Sponsor Essay Contest The American Humanist Association, publishers of The Humanist, a quarterly, announces an essay contest for college students. The assigned subject for an essay of from 1,000 to l,400 words is Building a Positive Way of Life in ac- cordance with the Scientific Method and the Highest Aspirations of Mankind. Entrants may give their essay a shorter title. The first prize will be $25.00, and the second prize will be $10.00. The closing date: entries postmarked Decem- ber 20, 1947. No manuscript will be re- turned, and publication rights will be re- served by the American Humanist Associ- ation, with winning entries to be pub- lished in The Humanist. include the name of the college they are to the American Humanist Association, 569 S. 13th East, Salt Lake City 2, Utah. Entrants should attending. Send manuscripts Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, November l4, i947 CAMPUS IN FERVOR OVER 'PETTICOAT' FEVER Highlighting the mid-week Homecoming activities was the pre- sentation of Mark Reed's farce, Petticoat Fever , by Masque and Dagger Wednesday arid Thursday evenings in the college auditorium. K For Close Riding Club Meets ' The Riding Club held a meeting Mon- day in the Blue and Gold room to make final arrangements for their entry in the Homecoming Parade. Election of of- ficers was held at that time. Plans are being made for the first ride of the season on Saturday November 22, at 2 p.m. Please let us know if you plan to ride as the horses must be reserved. Mrs. Jeanne Butler is the sponsor. Cooper Welch was convincing in the role of an isolated, woman-starved male in a wireless station in Labrador. lEthel Campion was well-portrayed by Darlene Anderson as an understanding, lovable guest who captured Dinsmore's affections much to the. annoyance of her fiance, Sir James Fenton. Frank Lundstrom did an excellent characterization in this dif- ficult part of a supercilious, self-centered Canadian complete with realistic English accent. Velma Caveness also did com- mendable work in her role of the woman with ulterior motives after Dinsmore's heart. The supporting roles were realistically portrayed by Grant Johnsen, as Reverend Arthur Chapham, the rector for the Eskimo parish; Harold Engle, Jr., as cap- tain of a fishing boat; Emory Sekaquap- tewa, as Kimo, Dinsmore's Eskimo valet; lda Price and Velma Welch as Little Seal and Snow Bird, respectively, two Eskimo girls; and Robert Bloecker as Scotty the sailor. The scenery and properties did good work in appealing to one's imagination of a wireless station in Labrador. Mr. Kersten, the sponsor, directed the play with Isabel Casares as assistant di- rector. Marilyn Blair was in charge of properties and the lighting was done by Evert Furrey and Jerry Wilson. Dave Garber headed the publicity committee and Don Shypherd was in charge of the scenery crew. Due to homecoming, Mr. Kersten re- vealed, this play was of a lighter vein than the ones to follow. Ensuing later in the school year's thespian activities will be presentations of Stage Door , Arsenic and Old Lace , and Claudia. The college dramatics society, Mask and Dagger, now has more than thirty members who have been qualified for entrance by displaying interest and activ- ity in the various phases of stage work: acting, make-up, etc. l3EARs TRACKkPHOENlX COLLEGE 2 BEAR TRACKS I Member of Associated College Press THE KOll- S KORN ER Co-Editogs Frank Burch. Kerlin Rowland ?;gretsEgn'tlto am f'jfgd12z'; It seems to me that, it it's anything at all, the City Bus Company is a public Assistant Edit Tod Rosnek service company. It that's true, then I know of at least one instance where the Feature Editors .Tod Rosnek - Betty Pagan, Marian Plueddeman, Marcia Panhurst Society Editor ............................ Lucille Hegele Photographers ..John Boskon. Bob McDannold, Jan Hedrick Faculty Adviser ............................ R. C. Emery Reporters: Don Biscoe, Patricia Harris, Jan Hedrick, Don Levenhagen. Patricia Mitchell, Douglas Murphy, Herb Surrett, Daniel Zaplen. Daniel Zapien. BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. Welcome Home! This one is for the alumni. This one is for all the old grads that came back to the Phoenix College campus for the Homecoming festivities. For some of you, it isn't actually a matter of coming back at all. Those of you who gradu- ated from PC before 1939 didn't attend school on this campus; you remember the college as a pair of buildings that stood where Phoenix Tech now is. We hope that those of you who didn't go to school on this campus will feel at home here during Homecoming festivities. We hope that those of you who have come back to the campus that you know as we do won't be anything but glad that you came home. A lot has happened to our college in the past couple of years. The name of the school has been officially changed to Phoenix College, and there's more talk every day about turning it into a four- year institution. The school to which you've returned is a growing concern; it's going places. We're proud to be a part of it, and we know that you're proud to be a part of it too. But we're not getting said the thing that we started out' to say. What we want to say is this: WELCOME HOME, ALUMS! We of the BEAR TRACKS know that we speak for every rhember of the faculty and the entire student body when we say that we're glad you came back. e want to do everything that we possibly can to make Homecoming the most pleasant sort of a thing that's possible for you. We hope that you en- joy yourselves enough so that you'll be back often, not only at Homecoming time, but every time you want to drop in and pay us a visit. Meantime, enjoy yourselves, alums. Have fun. This is your day! Students! Please notify the Regis- trar's office of any change of address. First term grades will be mailed soon and we wish to avoid any unneces- sary delay in getting the reports to you. company is simply not doing its job - where it's not serving the public. The thing 'of which l speak is the fact that city buses on the Encanto Park Line don't come any closer to the Phoenix College campus than Fifteenth Avenue and Verde Lane. Last year, Encanto Park buses came right to, the north door on the west side of the Liberal Arts Building. This offered excellent service to the many PC students who were dependant on the City Bus Company e who had' no other way of getting to and from classes at Phoenix College. For some reason of which l know nothing, the route taken by Encanto Park buses was changed. They no longer take students to the edge of the campus; they don't get any closer to the campus than Fifteenth Avenue. I don't know why this . change was made, but l can't feelithat it was necesSary and unavoidable. It seems to me that, in view of the fact that it gets such a great percentage of its week-day business from Phoenix College students, the City Bus Company owes those students better service than it is now giving hemseThe Editor. WHOSE MONEY GOES WHERE AND WHY? The members of the Permanent School Fund Committee of the Arizona Educa- tion Association are up in arms over the misuse of school lands. Since pre- vious reports of the committee aroused only talk, the group plans to instigate action this year to solve a problem which is of vital interest to all of us. We say all of us because we all pay school taxes. then school lands are misused, we feel a great pain in that vital nerve which runs to the pocketbook. Before going any further, it might be well to list a few of these many mis- uses. School sections in the state of Arizona are estimated at over eight million acres. The funds of our educa- tional institutions depend in part on revenues from the sale and lease of school lands. Large tracts of this school owned land have been leased as grazing land at a rate of three cents an acre. These tracts were farmed at great profit to the lessees. Another case concerns the sale of school lands. The state con- stitution provides that the absolute mine imum in selling school land is three dol- lars an acre for grazing land, and twen- ty-five dollars an acre for agricultural land. Both of these rates represent only a fraction of the present value of land, and yet state school lands were sold during the war years for as low as four- teen dollars an acre. The Permanent School Fund Commit- tee has recommended the following steps to improve upon present conditions. llieDue to the promise of additional water from the Colorado river,. the com- mittee deems it unwise to sell school land at the present time. In fact the committee recommends that school land not be sold at all since these sales re- duce future revenue. l2lelfschool land is to be sold, there should be an investigation of the land for sale to determine its value. The committee contends that land which is susceptible to irrigation should be clas- sified as agricultural, and be sold as such. - l3leReasonable rates should -be charged for the leased school lands. Since the value of grazing and farm- ing land varies according to its quality and location, rates should be fluctuant. MieSince the educational institu- tions of the state depend on the rental rates for revenue, the state board of education should have a part in rate fixing. Proper management of school lands during the past seven years would have increased the income many fold. It is hard to believe that the mismanage- ment of the past years has been en- tirely due to stupidity and neglect. The situation looks more like a political plum which has been cultivated at the ex- pense of the tax-payers. In any case the whole affair is rotten and tax-pay- ers stand to benefit from the changes proposed by the Permanent School Fund Committee. Qom Letter to the Editor Tardy! Late! Cut! It appears that certain teachers at PC do not realize that their class is not the only class at- tended during the day. We students at- tend other classes also and it takes us at least a little time to get from one class to another. How about a more strict observance to the time schedule. Bob Cuthbertson Editor's note: Hear! Hear! ! BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX eCOLLEGE Oh, I'm Pleased To Meet. You The Dean's Box Phoenix College is justly proud of its alumni. Many of them hold im- portant positions in the community. This fact reflects favorably on the quality of education at the college. We are sure that we express the feeling of the faculty and students when we say that the alumni are sin- cerely welcome to our homecoming events. May we add that alumni are welcome to the campus at any time during the year. Petticoat Artists Feels that you are majoring in the wrong subject? Does your landlady keep you'busy with odd jobs that weren't mentioned when you paid the rent. Find it a little hard seeing eye to eye with one of the instructors? If you have these and other troubles the man to see is Mr; Joseph N. Smelser, Head of Speech and D ra m a t i c Arts Department, and Counselor of Men. Mr. Smelser, in ad- dition to acting as Men's Counselor, heads the Student Employment Bureau. is Employment Chairman he is placing .many students in part-time positions. Many vets aretinding it just a little hard to live on the sixty-five per grant- ed by the government; Mr. Smelser is doing everything in his power to assist them, and anyone else desiring work, in their efforts to add to the allowances they receive. FACULTY Back Row: J. E. Barker, E. W. Montgomery. H. B. Wyman. Robert. LaDow. Fourth Row: E. L. Stone. Clyde Myers. E. M. Andres, D. F. Stone. A. L. Phelps. J. N. Smelser: Third Row: N. E. Cook, Coach George D. Hoy. Second Row: Hannely. F. D. Plait. M. C. Murdock. E. W. Thayer. E. Mosely. J. W. Laird. First Row: V. E. Kellems, L. W4 warren, H. Hubbard. J. Hunter, E. Campbell. E. Smith. An imposing array of events honoring Homecoming Week await student and alumni of PC, which added to the fine start in the fes- tivities made possible by Petticoat Fever Wednesday and Thurs- day nights, spell a week that will likely be remembered for the rest , Barbers Scheduled for tonight is an Alumni banquet, open to all s t u d e n t s and alumnae. The price per plate is $l.75 while the tickets last. After the banquet, a dance will be held in the gym also open to all students ahd adumnae, which is under the spon- sorship of the Associated Students. Also planned is a parade, to go through downtown Phoenix starting at 10 A.M. tomorrow, at Central and McDowell. From- twenty-five to thirty floats are expected, in addition to many decorated cars and marching groups. Prizes will be awarded torthe float showing the most originality, and to the one showing the most beauti- ful one. All floats will be entered by groups on the campus. Climaxing Homecoming Week activ- ities will be the game with Long Beach City College at 2 P.M. Saturday. Students and alumni will, of course, be admitted on presentation of a c t i v i t y cards or alumni tickets. As our 1947 homecoming week is drawing to a close, let us look back on homecoming at PC sixteen years ago on November 20th and let. Believe it or not, there are some changes evident in our school. To begin, our reference material, Bear Tracks, was not the enlightening, inspiring publication that it is now but instead was a ten-page bound, monthly collection of material that resembled a hcamber of commerce bulletin. in the edition we scrutinized we coulldn't even find an editorial!!! In finding similarities we detect that many of our present faculty members were on hand to grin at and inquire about post PJC activities of alumnae. These were Mr. Andres, education and economics; Miss Campbell, Spanish; Miss Hunter, French; Mr. Phelps, chemistry; Mr. Smelser, public speaking isici new subject? Mr. Earle Stone, music, Mr. Donald Stone, Physics and Mrs. Trevil- lian, librarian. Highlighting the homecoming activi- ties was the football game on Saturday afternoon. Rain was pouring down in torrents and the game was called at the half with the score at 19 to 0 in River- side's favor. A dance was held in the gymnasium that night and it seems that some poor awkward alumnus who didn't. learn all of the social graces at PJC, stepped on a girl's dress and she walked out of it!!! i BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE JEAN PHILLIPS is pretty typical lot just plain prettyl of the freshman girl on the PC campus. She is very proud to call North Phoenix High School her high school alma mater. Her major is home economics, and getting the most out of life seems to be her minor. 'Dancing is one of Jean's favorite pas- times, And, fellows, if you're a lot of fun and you've got a good personality; you're Jean's ideal date.' It's as easy as all that. And Miss Phillips has no intention of marrying soon. mega lam SYLVANUS BOYER is one of PCs youngest students. Eager to some day become a doctor, Sylvanus started school when he was four and has also attended summer sessions. So now at sixteen Syl- vanus is at PC taking the pre-med course. Even chemistry Sylvanus states doesn't' seem bad to me. I'm still wondering what chem was about. Syl- vanus wishes he were back in high school because everyone seems so old out here. iMaybe it's these beards that are floating arourth When all the home- work and chores are done for the day, Sylvanus likes to cut into his backyard and enjoy some archery. WW Mr. L. C. Jobe, training officer from the veteran's administration, will be in Dr. Hannelly's office every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from ten to twelve to answer any questions on your curriculum and training, or government checks. . . .2 : J GEORGE VALDES is a fresh with ser- ious ideas of going into business ad- ministration; he thinks he'd like to be a personnel manager, but of course he's not sure. When he's not in school or working as a clerk in a downtown store lcan't put in a plug, you know, George really likes to loaf. But George doesn't want this alone known to the dear read- er, so he's taking up the building of miniature models. Thanks to this col- umn, he has a hobby. During the sum- mer George derived a lot of pleasure working with a group in presenting en- tertainments at the Crippled Children's Hespital. Starting in Illinois and working west gradually, Mrs. W. D. Bearce is finally here. Sorry, but she's brought her hus- band with her, fellows; and he's work- ing downtown as an accountant. While PC was waiting for her, Mrs. Bearce was getting her bachelor's degree atthe Uni- versity of Illinois and her Master's at Smith College. She started her teaching career at Smith and continued at the University of Wyoming before coming to Phoenix College. Given the opportunity to teach, Mrs. Bear'ce switched from pre- med to lab froggies and sharks. But the cause isn't completely lost; Mrs. Bearce hopes to be able to soon commence study for her doctorate. Miss Grace Nichols, the vivacious new Spanish teacher, has had varied and in- teresting experiences in her travels with the army and during spare summers. She has traveled in New Guinea, Mexico, Guatemala, and South America. While in New Guinea living on C Rations, Miss Nichols had one of the most interesting experiences of her teaching career; she met with a group of G. l.'s once a week to teach them just enough Spanish to be able to converse with the girls in M a n i l a. Miss Nichols loves teaching Spa nish because she can teach her classes in her own way. However she does feel that the Arizona students do not overwork themselves. Miss Nichols stated that Arizona certainly does live up to its reputation, for warm weather and hospitality. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE v.4. Budding Rembrandt: Mrs. Jane WatSOn won second prize on a painting entered in the fine arts seCtion at the state fair. Out of lOOO entries, Mrs. Watson's painting, Re- treat , w0n for composition and emotion- al impact. Carrying out a theme of mal- adjustment in the modem trend; the painting is of a young man sitting slumped at a table very relaxed from the effect of a few drinks. From her imagination, Mrs. Watson made prelmi- nary sketches, then used a model to make more detailed sketches. From these the final paint job was made. Mrs. Wat- son is a special student taking only art, and has studied under Mrs. Madeleine Blake tor the past year. Her prize was $50.00. An example of Mrs. Watson's first year work can be found in the Phoenix College exhibit on the second floor of Over the Net See, I TOLD Y0u WE vame POKER . Wenen'r We '35 JUST Exeaasuve 00R R'GW To VOTE 00. .va As MANY TIMES A: We WANT . Ewing, Brock Elected Homecoming King and Queen Charles Ewing and Phyllis Brock edged out nine other candidates for Homecoming King and Queen in a very close election held last Thursday. Runner-ups for the titles were Paul Livermore and Joyce Roche. FROSH FROLIC SMASH According to Dick Norton, chairman in charge of activities, the pep-rally, parade, and dance in conjunction with the Ventura game, two weeks ago was a success. This is the first time in the history of the school that the freshman class has sponsored such an affair and they were pleased with the results. A rally was held in the auditorium at 7:30, with representation of a few enthusiasts of PC. tThe remainder were waiting outside in cars in anticipation of the paradeJ Afterwards, the cars lined up and preceeded with motorcycle escorts down Thomas Road and through town via Central Avenue. After the game, the dance was held in the gymnasium with Vern Sutter's band furnishing the music. Novelizing the decorations was ample confetti to be tossed around and comic hatbands, with sayings pasted on the wall. ' The royalty will be crowned at an alumni-student dance to be held tonight in the gym, and will ride on a float in the Parade tomorrow through downtown Phoenix. Tomorrow afternoon they will be honor guests at the PC-Long Beach football game. Miss Roche, Sandra Chrest, Mary Lee Hartman, Vivian Abney, and Barbara Trim, other candidates for Queen,' will serve at attendants, and will take part in the Parade. Other nominees for King were Livermore, Cooper Welch, Grant Johnson, and Clarke Duncan. Jim Carroll was nominated also but he declined to run in the final election. Miss Brock is a member of Kappa Delta Nu, and Ewing is a member of the. college Y. Both are very active in other college activities. Candidates were nominated in a pri- mary election held October 28. On November 4, the final election was held, but due to the fact that the ballot box was stuffed like a Christmas turkey , another election was necessary. A very small percentage of the students took in- terest in the' election. 6 PRETTlES PLAY Mrs. Margery Foote has been appoint- ed as the new golf chairman by the executive board of the W.A.A. There is going to be a Play Day golf team, and at present all interested girls are applying to Miss Heror'i. The Univer- sity of Arizona, and Arizona State Col- leges at Tempe and Flagstaff have ac- cepted invitations to attend the Annual Intercollegiate Play Day to be held at Phoenix College, December 6. Tennis, badminton, golf, hockey, arch- ery, and volleyball will be the sports that will predominate on Play Day. On December 21, Gila Junior College is sending girls to represent their school in a series of tennis and volleyball con- tests and exhibitions. This is the first time that players have come from Gila Junior College to play on this campus and it is hoped that this series will con- tinue with one such event every semes- ter. Protestant Pow-Wow At this week's gathering of the SCA in the clubroom, Paul Erickson led a disqussion on Phoenix Collegkor High School. Other student participants in the discussion were C. J. Smith, June Bingham, Riley Geary, Anne Reddick, Millard Smith, Wilbur Hoff, Clarence Woods, and Pat Snuffer. The discussion was preceeded by in- cidental piano music by Maurine Kese singer followed by two baritone solos by Kenneth Noble accompanied by Beverly Seiff; he sang Without a Song and '-'The Tired Plowman. - Nadine Howard, program chairman, responsible for all plans of this Coffee Hour meeting, was assisted by a com- mittee of young ladies who furnished refreshments consisting of cookies, grapefruit juice; and coffee. ---AND SO WILL THE GERMAN CLUB The PC German club is planning to enter a float, consisting of a mountain cabin with a German hiking party sit- ting around outside singing German songs. In the Homecoming Parade, the committeemen for making the float are Bonnie Jo Sandy, Jay'Higgs, and Eu- gene Ulmer. At the club's last meeting, plans were made for sending a list of names and addresses of PC German students to Dr. Grady Gammage, Tempe, who has just returned from Germany, to be mailed to German students for Pen-Pals. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE The Thespians Will Be There Plans were made at the regular meet- ing of the Masque and Dagger club for their Homecoming Parade float. It will be entitled The Private Life of Bruin Bumstead , and will portray a man in football uniform wearing a Bear's head, carrying a club in one hand. With his other hand he will be dragging a Viking girl from a cave by her hair. President Bob Bloecker has appointed a committee to work on the float. Com- mitteemen are Beverly Coleman, chair- man; Velma Jean Caviness, Janet Hed- rick, Don Glaze, and Don Bonine. Plans were also made for the club initiation, to be held after the play, Petticoat Fever , is presented. Dave Garber and Isabel Casares were put in charge of de- tails. GREEK GlRLlES GATHER Members of Theta Chi Delta sorority held a rush tea at the home of Mary Ether Newnam on Saturday, Noven'l- ber 'l., Rushees who were feted at the event were Marjorie Huntington, Mar- cella Wyman, Billie Mitchell, Anne Red- ick, Susan Van Zandt, Jean Mondo, Mary Ellen Farrell, Vivian Abney, Alice Far- rell, Dorothy Sanders, Barbara Fisacker- ly, Janet He d ric k, Virginia McClure, Shirleen Allen, Jackie Pitts, Doris Coor, Joan De Foy, Judy Davis, Joyce Roche, Virginia McCarley, Pat Ball, Betty Jane Brantley, Theresa Chuka, Ruth Cum- mings, Martha Holmes, Carolyn Keyes, Marcia McConoughey. Also Doris Stegner, Lila Milligan, Gloria Dettmer, Sa lly Strauss, Barbara Trim, Carolyn Parsons, Virginia Wasie- lewski, Velma Caviness, Mary Lee Hart- man, Hester Chalmers, Kay Gartrell, Shir- ley Lawrence, Ann Oates, Diane Pierce, Sue Nicholson, Polly Hawley, Rae Stane diford, Patti Davis, Pat Dunne, Pat Snuf- fer, Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Margie Son- neschein, Betty Payne, Lois Ahlene, Bille Fumetti, Mary Jane Odle, Betty Jackson, Doris Ruddell, Frankie Jo Lanter. Phi Lambda Zeta sorority entertained their rushees with a dinner at the Silver Spur. Students who were honored at this dinner are Martha Holmes, Bethany Fyke, Mary Jean Mehl, Doris Coor, Pat Ball, Marcia McConoughey, Dorothy Watson, Annabelle Brice, Hester Chalmers, Vivian Abney, Katherine Neal, Marie Childers, Rachel Spenser. Also Dorothy Dodson, Dorothy Safely, Patti Davis, Jeannine Hanlon, Shirleen Allen, Betty Hyde, Kay Gartrell, Lorraine Stranquist, Marian Bode, Bobby Suggs, Esther Kirk, Faye Stone, Belva Notting- ham, Barbara Strader, Martha Douthit, Lois Ahlene, Selma Katrell, Frances Sto- koe, Phillis Miller. A luncheon in the patio of Jokake lnn last Saturday honored rushees of Alpha Sigma Gamma. The guests attending this annual event were given Chrysanthemum corsages. Greeting the guests were .10 Waldie, president; Mary Stephens, alumnae lead- er; Mrs. W. D. Bearce, sponsor; and Dr. Frances Mouseau, dean of women. Jayne Reed, an alumnus, sang. Rushees who received invitations were Vivian Abney, Shirleen Allen, Heste r Chalmers, Mary Jo Claypoole, Martha Douthit, Bethany Fyke, Janie Holmes, Ca- mille King, Belva Nottingham, Doris Rud- dell, Doris Stegner, Susan Van Zandt, Jeanne Young, Sally Strauss, Joyce Ab- bott, Claryce Beck, Marie Childers, Doris Coor, Cornelia Dumont, Marlene Gall- man, Betty Jackson, Frankie Jo Lanter, Carolyn Parsons, Barbara S c h i l t , Jean Thompson, Dorothy Watson, Rae Standi- ford, Lois Ahlene, Jill Branning, Theresa Chuka, Patti Davis, Pat Dunne, Mary Lea Hartman, Donna Johnson, Maurine Kes- singer, Mary Jean Mehl, Jean Phillips, Pat Snuffer, Ba rba ra Trim, Maxine Wright, and Betty Jo Kayeton. The home of Sally Hodgson, 346 Verde Lane, was the setting for the rush party held last night by Kappa Delta Nu, Phoenix College sorority. The party opened with a dinner honoring the rushees. The receiving line included Laura Louise Norris, president of the group; Phyllis Brock, vice president; Pat Grip- pen, secretary; Mrs. Bernice Trevillian, faculty sponsor; Dr. Frances Mouseau, dean of women; Mrs. Dorothy Hall, alumnae president, and Mesdames Decker Williams, Kenneth Voyles, Earl Slyder, and H. E. Hodgson. Rushees of Alpha sorority were hon- ored at a luncheon at Encanto Park club- house a week ago. Those feted were Vivian Abney, Lois Ahlene, Marie Chil- ders, Patti Davis, Pat Dunne, Gyrene Grammar, Betty Jackson, Betty Jo Kaye- ton, Virginia McClure, Betty Jo Kaye- Anne Redick, Doris Ruddell, Rita Ruse tuen, Doris Stegner, Frances Stokoe, Vire ginia Wasielewski, Marcella Wyman, Jeannine Hanlin, Sharon Ewalt, Shirley Sperry, Pat Ball, Martha Douthit, Martha Holmes, Marcia McConoughey, and Ther- esa Chuka. CLICK! The Camera Club will hold a picnic on Sunday, November 16, at Seven Springs. The group will meet on the campus and will leave at 8:30 a.m. BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE ASH ES OF GOLD By Virginia Helen Botstord Here is a good book about Mexicw about Mexicans. It's not a chatty little travelogue about the country, written by someone who spent six days down there on a care- fully conducted Cook's Tour. Rather, it is written by someone who knows those people, for the author has lived among them, and the proof of her knowing is in the reading. . Here is all the simple naivete .of the Mexican peasant; here is a picture of the bewilderment, unrest, and finally, the hot, surging hatred of the peons during the political upheavals of Diaz and Ma- dero. The book tells the story of the people of a rural Mexican village, and how their land and liberties were usurped by an unscrupulous foreigner and his sadistic son. There is Julio, who dreams of land and power like that of the Dons whom he hates; there is Mariano, the unwilling executive of Don Enrique's harsh com- mands; and there is Epifanio, who alone of all peons understands the perplexing forces that pull upon Mariano's loyalties. Here are all the rugged, simple, honest characteristics of a people who live close to the soil and who know both the harshness and pleasures of such a life. Helen Virginia Botsford has had the good literary taste to write this story simply and honestly, and the insight to write it knowingly and with understand- mg. MEDICS MEET All pre-medical students of PC were invited to attend the annual meeting of the Southwestern Medical Associa- tion in the Westward Ho hotel Novem- ber 6, 7, and 8. Through the interest of Dr. Warner Watkins, the Maricopa Medical Society, by unanimous vote, extended an invi- tation to all pre-med students of the college to attend any of the lecture sessions of the convention without pay- ment of the registration fee. Most of the lectures were devoted to the treatment of diseases. Twenty-four technical exhibits of med- ical equipment and pharmaceutical sup- plies were featured at the hotel. Among the guest speakers was Dr. Max M. Strumia, of the University of -.Pennsylvania. In addition to Dr. Stru- mia's lecture, eminent medical men from Jefferson Medical College, the Univer- sity of Mexico, and the Olive View Sana- torium of Los Angeles spoke on topics related to current medical problems. MOVI E REVI EW By Pat Harris and Pat Mitchell Odd Man Out should most certain- ly be one of the leading contenders for this year's Academy Award. So far the number of pictures meriting the award is very small with the American Kiss of Death high on the list. This latest English import from J. Ar- thur Rank stars James Mason whose per- formance as Johnny McQueen can hardly be surpassed. Johnny, who is injured in a mill holdup while trying to get money to carry on the Irish patriots' fight against England, is left to wander the streets, slowly bleeding to death. Johnny has killed a man in the escape from the mill and the police throw a cordon around the area. His friends try to break through to get him but are killed or cap- tured in the attempt. As Johnny wanders through the police-infested streets, hard- ly conscious, trying to find his way back to his friends, he is aided by varied char- acters, all of whom eventually desert him because of fear of the police. The excellent plot, taken almost di- rectly from the book, contained an al- most unbearable amount of suspense and tension leading to an equally strong end- ing. James Mason is supported by the Ab- bey Players who all turn in fine charac- terizations. As the girl who loves Johnny, Kathleen Ryan gives a simple and sincere performance. The photography is some of the best and most original ever used in a dramatic picture and can be credited with much of the picture's appeal and effectiveness. The background music is an excellent blend of beauty and ap- propriateness, strongly accenting the ac- tion of the picture. The whole picture on all points is well planned and almost perfectly executed and exceptionally enjoyable. If the British ban on films has not embittered Hollywood too much, Odd Man Out stands a chance of taking a number of honors at the annual awards presentation. W HOMEMAKERS MEET Last Monday night Eta Chi had a pic- nic at South Mountain Park Miss Ste- phens, the club sponsor, announced. Vir- ginia Meinholt and Betty Jo Baker gave reports of a province workshop in Por- tales, New Mexico which they attended. Ardith Mae Parsons was the picnic chairman and was assisted by Arleen lrion and Marie Stinson. On the cleanup committee were Mary Edith Schuelke, June Bingham, Rachel Kraft, and Evelyn Duncan. st. Mary Ellen Farrell, Who Won Home Ec Award Mary Ellen Farrell has been elected to represent Province ll of the Home Economic Club workshops, at the nation- al meeting of the American Home Eco- nomics Association which will meet in Minneapolis, Minnesota next June. Mary Ellen was elected for her fine work at the spring meeting of the Province II in Tucson. Although she did not attend the fall meeting in Portales, New Mexico, Virginia Meinholt, president of the local Eta Chi, and Betty Jo Baker, vice presi- dent, went accompanied by Miss Ste- phens, the Eta Chi sponsor. $ SCANDINAVIAN TRIP ESSAY PRIZE Here's your chance to go to Europe on a luxury liner. Hey! Don't turn that pagkl really mean you. The Swedish American Line is offering six free trips to Scandinavia as the first and second prize for the best essays on the subject of The Influence of Swedish Settlers on a Community or Region. Twelve other grand awards will be made. There will be three different contests open to the following groups which will be judged separately: 1. College under- graduates; 2. High school and prepara- tory school students; 3. Adults regard- less of occupation. The contest closes April 1, 1948. The essay, not more than 2500 words, should be a biographical presentation of a person, man or woman, of Swedish birth or descent, anywhere in the United States or Canada. This is the first time a contest on this subject has been initiated and surely it will bring to light many interesting stories of Swedish settlers and their con- structive influence on American Qlture. Additional information may be obtained by writing to Contest Editor, Swedish American Line, 636 Fifth Avenue, New York, 20, N. Y., or come to the publi- cation office. 8 HISTORY COULD BE REPEATED . . . Many, many years ago, .in the Rome of Titus Aelius Hadrian Antonius Pius Augustus Caesar, a man known as Jus- tin Martyr became converted to Chris- tianity. Crying out against the persecu- tion of his people, Justin Martyr wrote to Caesar what has become known as the First Apology. Today other groups, minority groups, are facing many of the same problems. The following excerpts are taken from the First Apology. If you have a moment, read it; and when you reach the word Chris- tians , substitute the word Jew , Ne- gro , or what you will. llFor we have come, not to flatter you by our words nor to entertain you by our speech, but to beg that after ac- curate and thorough investigation you pass judgment, refusing to be swayed by prejudice or by desire to please the superstitious, or to be influenced by ir- rational tears, or the evil rumors to your- selves. As for us, we are sure no harm can be done us unless we are proved evil- doers o: wicked men. For you can kill us, but you cannot harm us. Now lest anyone think this state- ment unreasonable and rash, we demand that the charges against the Christians be investigated, and, it they are substan- tiated, that the Christians be punished as they deserve; or rather, we ourselves will punish them. But if no one can prove anything against us, true reason forbids you for the sake of a malicious rumor to wrong blameless men, and your- selves as .well. By the mere use of a name nothing is decided, either good or evil, unless some action is implied in the name. And lastly: Wherefore we demand that the deeds of everyone who is ac- cused be judged, so that whoever is con- victed of crime may be bunished as a criminal, but not as a Christian; and whoever is clearly blameless may be ac- quitted since by the mere act of being a Christian he does no harm. Martyr made this plea centuries ago. ls it, not strange that civilization has progressed so little that his words may be used by minority groups throughout the world today? PLAYER'S LOSS LAMENTED The loss of Charlie Ewing during the first half of the Ventura contest was felt by the squad in both games. Chas. will not be ready for tomorrow's game, but will probably make the trip to Ros- well, New Mexico with the team on November 29. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE ' OldCollege 'OLDSTERS' DANCE, 'DITQE TONIGHT. Tonight will feature two banner events in the Homecoming Week program, the Alumni Banquet and the Homecoming Dance. At 6:30 this evening, alumni, students and faculty will meet in the cafeteria, and over an array of succulent dishes, old grads will no TH E MUSIC MAKERS The PC Music Department has been playing a heavy role in publicizing the college. in addition to the traditional playing at football games, Saturday No- vember l, the band played in the 20-30 Club Rodeo parade. November 10 the band, under the direction of Mr. Victor Baumann, was at the State Faii', playing for the delegates from Sonora, Tomor- row the band will take part in the home- coming parade, and will be at Mont- gomery Stadium for the homeeoming football game at 1:30 p.m. There are three departments repre- senting the college before the public, athletic, dramatic arts, and music, said Mr. Baumann recently, and we of the music department intend to do all pos- sible in creating a favorable impression of the college. The orchestra furnished the musical background for the homecoming play Pettycoat Fever , presented Wednes- day and Thursday of this week. Are the students of this college aware of the facilities offered by the music department? Mr. E. L. Stone, head of the music department recently asked that question. He believes it is not generally known that in addition to the music staff on the campus tive instructors, all excel- lent in their field, are conducting private lessons. Students taking private instruc- tion receive full credit for their work. Courses are offered in the violin un- der Romulo Ribera; pipe organ and piano, Alvin Thomas; string bass and in- struments, James Wilcox; in popular piano, Mrs. Leah Aronson and Edward Boothman. doubt find ample opportunity to rem- inisce of times past, while this year's student body holds forth upon the com- ing, brighter future of the school. Along with personal memoirs and prognosticae tions, S t u d-e n t Social Commissioner Cooper Welch announced that after- dinner activities will be presented by pro- fessional entertainers whose services have been secured for this occasion. There will be a charge of $1.75 per plate. At 9 o'clock, immediately following the banquet, Mickey McMahan and his orchestra will commence playing for the Homecoming Dance in the Gym. The hall will be decorated in a football motif, with the blue and gold colors of the alma mater festooning the walls and rafters. Those present at the alumni bash will also witness the coronation of Phyllis Brock and Charles Ewing as Home- coming Queen and King. The dance will last until midnight. NEVER A DULL MOMENT Many Phoenix football fans have missed 'two of the best gridiron con- tests of the season in the home town, as only two or three thousand specta- tors have witnessed the Bruin's last two contests. The local squad lost both games, but i the fans were kept on the edge of their seats during most of the sixty minutes during each contest. The Venture Pir- ates dropped the Bears with a fourth quarter attack, 34 to 19, an dthe Bull- dogs from Pasadena clipped the Phoe- nicians 19 to 13. The old cry of bad breaks came up in the Bruin's camp after the Ventura con- test, as a first quarter tumble on the Phoenix three-yard line and an inter- cepted pass in the fourth quarter paved the way for two Pirate scores. Other than that the game was even. BEAR TRACKSePHOENlX COLLEGE 9 BRUINS STOPPED BY VENTURA, PASADENA The Bruins of Phoenix College were handed their fifth and sixth defeats of the season during the past two weekends by the Ventura College Pirates, on November 1, and the Pasadena College Bulldogs last Friday night. Both games, WSC tilts, were played before small crowds at Montgomery Stadium. Scoring two touchdowns in the first half, blocking a third quarter punt for six points, and staving off a last half rally gave the Pasadena Bulldogs a 19 to 13 victory over the Blue and Gold Bears last Friday night. For the first twelve minutes of the game the small crowd in the mammoth high school stadium watched a deter- mined defensive struggle with neither team giving way. Then coming through the two big lines, Pasadena's little scat- back, Johnson, shot out into the Phoenix secondary, slipped away from two would- be tacklers and sped on to the initial score of the game. The placement for the extra point was good and they led 7 to 0. Pasadena's big fullback, Langley, smashed over for the coast team's second score midway in the second period. Lang- ley's great punting had set the visitors in scoring position on the Phoenix 35 and they moved on straight power to where the jarring back carried the pig skin in for the six points. The try for the point after touchdown failed and the Californians led l3 to 0. After being stopped in both ground and aerial offense during the first half, the Bruins bounced back with new fight and drive in the third canto to score their first touchdown. Mariscal faded back and fired a pass intended for Rideau, but the Pasadena safety man, coming in fast, blocked it. Corning from nowhere Kastner grabbed the ball while still in the air and galloped on to the goal line for a touchdown. Mariscal's drop kick was no good and the Bears trailed 13 to 6. Langley's punting again put the Bruins in a hole and as Kastner attempted to boot out of danger, Hamilton came bust- ing through, blocked the kick, scooped it up, and ran into the end zone for what proved to be the winning touchdown His kick went wide and the Bulldogs held a 19 to 6 advantage During the fourth quarter the Bruins again began to move on the running of Paul Smith, Gump, Kastner, and the passing of Mariscal. As the locals reached the Pasadena 28 yard line Mariscal was injured and Tommy O'Neil moved in to the quarterback slot. O'Neil tried one cracked at the visitor's line, and then faded back and tossed a long aerial to the end zone where Walkup, covered by two red-clad Bulldogs, jumped high into to air and snagged the pass for six points. Roy Wolven booted the extra point and the scoring was over. Phoenix made another attempt to get going in the waning minutes of the con- test only to have Pasadena's Johnson in- tercept an O'Neil toss meant for Gump, and the visitors controlled the ball until the final gun. Ventura's attack was not to be denied as little Max Houlihan filled the air with passes to lead the way to their second score. As before, the Californians con- verted and carried a 14 to 12 lead at half time. A big thrill for the crowd and a great break for the visitors came in the clos- ing seconds of the initial half when Ernie Walkup snared a long pass from Raul Mariscal and seemed headed for a touchdown only to be caught from behind, two yards from six points, as the gun sounded ending the playing time. Houlihan took to the air again as the third quarter opened and the Pirates moved downfield for their third score. They tailed'to convert and were ahead 20 to 12. Bouncing right back, the Bears got six more points when Mariscal tossed a short flat pass to Les Kastner who dashed forty yards to score. Mariscal drop- kicked the point and the Bruins trailed by one point. Midway along in the fourth canto the Pirates found new life and set up a drive to the Phoenix one yard line. A penalty nullified a fumblerecovery for the Bears and on the next play the coast team scored. Two plays later the visitors in- tercepted a Bruin pass which ended up on the local's one again and the Ventura squad scored again, Both attempts for conversion were perfect and the scoring was over. After matching touchdowns with the Pirates for three quarters and trailing only l9 to 20, a weary Phoenix squad watched the favored Californians catch fire and score two quick final period touchdowns to carry off a 34 to 19 victory. The Bears opened the scoring on a pass from Eddie Cathemer to Paul Rideau in the end zone. The conversions failed and the locals led 6 to 0. The Pirates pounced on a tumble on the Phoenix three yard line setting up a score that came four plays later on a pass. The conversion was 'good and the score was 7 to 6. Jim Gump raced into the end zone early in the second period to count the locals second .six pointer. Again the Bruins failed to make the point after touchdown and held a 12 to 7 lead. + Bear-Viking Tangle Climaxes Homecoming Festivities The climaxing event of homecoming, the gridiron contest between OUR Phoe- nix College Bears and the Vikings of Long Beach City College, will be decided on the Phoenix Union turf tomorrow. A victory for the home team would close the festivities in perfect style and would put the Bruins on the bottom step of the Western States Conference cellar along with the John Muir Mustangs, and not leave them in the cellar by themselves. The Bears have tasted victory only once this season, at the hands of the 'Central Junior College Arabs, but have constantly been in the fight, and three times have been denied by one touch- down. By comparative scores, the Vikings are favored by one or two touchdowns, but, as shown in many of the other games of the high powered two-year college conference, anything can hap- pen and probably will. A break could. cause the game to go either way, but good hard football can be promised by both squads. It will be up to the Blue and Gold gridders on the playing field, but the students have their job in supporting them. Let OUR team know that each of you are there, and help them finish homecoming with a VICTORY. + Bear ,Line Looks Good The parade of stars for the Bruins re- mained to be the big forward wall that has shined so bright on both offense and defense. Standing out have been: Tom Bondus, Earl Mahoney, George Dal- mas, Paul Saunders, Ernie Walkup, Art West, and Don Goodwin. Stealing glory from the line on offense were backs: Paul Smith, Les Kastner, and Jim Gump. Smith's defensive playI has shown as bright as any man on the squad and tends to steal the show from the ever present linemen. 338m wrath; Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, November 21, I947 , . - . A alraewx-F . e ..! V i e. 3' 4- . Upper left, Mary Esther Newman eyes a turkey speculatively. Upper right, Ardith 1 Parsons and Alice Young lay the festive table. Lower left, Dean Hannelly looks to the future. Lower right, Evelyn Duncan puts final touch on mince pie. THANKSGIVING EDITION We have come to recline on Thanks- giving as a purely gastronomical event. Could we turn from this momentarily and recall the purpose for which Thanksgiv- ing was originally commemorated? In the fall of 1621 fifty-one Pilgrims gathered to give thanks for being led safely through a hard year. They thought it fitting and proper in their momen- tary time of plenty to express gratitude to God for their good fortune. Today many, especially college stu- dents, consider it the epitome of clever- ness to continually brag about their ag- nostic and atheistic tendencies. They seek to create the impression that they are far above having any religion or creed. Those who will acknowledge One stronger than themselves are classed as weaklings. , True, we are in college to widen our horizons and be loosed from intellectu- ally binding dogma. We want to know all sides to the questions: morally, phil- osophically, spiritually, and religiously. No longer, in America, at least are we debased and considered if we choose to examine both sides of the immoral question. 2 BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE 'I'mproved Flight Course At PC The College Flying School at Sky Har- bor has a total of nine planes which are used in the flight courses offered here at PC. The courses are open to all stu- dents who can pass the Civil Aeronau- tics Administration physical examination. The school offers a variety of courses, and interest rather than-experience is the main requirement. The Wings and Goggles Club, spon- sored by Mr. Stone of the Physics de- partment, is an activity of the flying school. The club has a 65 H.P.'Aeron- ica Chief at its disposal for members. Economical flight instruction and flying time are aims of the club. The flying school had only four planes at its disposal at the start of the year. For this reason they could'offer only a with nine planes at their disposal, they are limited program. Now, however, expanding the program so that more stu- dents can participate. All students who have a desire to fly can now fulfill this desire by enrolling in one of the PC flight courses. Visiting Viking Vexes lSee picture, page 6l Remember the white-clad, m a s k e d , rather grotesque looking figure on the outskirts of the football field last Satur- day? We have found out that he is a Viking, the symbol of our competitors, .Long Beach City College. He was di- recting their side through various pan- tomimes. One time he even jLimped onto the goal post, when they were approxi- mately on the 30-yard line, and encoun- aged them onward. He was requested to remove himself from our scoring equip- ment, after which he made a study of the wood for Vpossible termites. THANKSGlVlNG DANCE HERALDS HOLlDAY SEASON Caoper Welch, Social Chairman Homecoming Highlights Our first post-war home-coming cli- maxed with the week-end events. The banquet last Friday night was attended by 204 people. The speakers were: Ben Alexander, president of the alumni; E. W. Montgomery, head of the Phoenix school system; Dean Hannelly, Mayor Ray Busey, Brit Burns, coaches George Ahee and Johnny Riggs, Neil Cook and George lDutchl Hoy. Jack Williams, class of '29 was master of ceremonies. The coronation dance in the gymna- sium afterwards was successful. Saturdays morning's parade featured many original and well-planhed floats. The prize winning floats were entered by the Women's Athletic Association and Tau Omega fraternity. Theta Chi Delta was judged as having the best decorated car. The game ensued in the afternobn with a sizeable number of spectators present. During the half the Long Beach flag-bearers entertained with a number, after which our band, led by spelling out alumni by marching with confetti. Our team put up a valiant battle with the powerful Long Beach team. The score was 51-2, in their favor. H Three dark rooms are being construct- ed in unit six. Dr. Merton Jones is supervising the construction. The construction engineers are: Mrs. Lillian D. Feese, Mr. Edwin L. Howlett, and Mr. Allen.Moyle. All work is being done by Physics l7X, the photography class. They have organized themselves as the Kilroy Construction Company with their president as the well-known John Gismo and Edwin Howlett as construction engineer. We anticipate the completion of the dark-rooms in the early part of the sec.- ond semester. Heralding the forthcoming' Thanksgiving vacation, the Asso- ciated Men Students of Phoenix College 'will sponsor a Thanksgiv- ing dance, to be held in the gym- nasium on Tuesday, November 25, from nine until twelve p.m. Van McPherson and his band will furnish the music. Charles Oatman, President of AMS, and Cooper Welch, Student Faculty Corti- .missioner7, will collaborate in planning the evening's festivities, and both have prom- ised that the dance will provide plenty of good dancing, fun and entertain- ment for all who attend, J. N. Smelser, Men's Counselor, will attend the dance as guest of the AMS, The danc'e will be free and open to all members of the student body. The dress will be informal. The Gym will be decorated with Thanksgiving and harvest-time memen- tos. W Distinguished Speaker In Next Tuesday's Assembly lPhote courtesy Arizona Republicl Maior W. Aron Zionist leader Major Wellesley Aron, recently arrived in the U. S. from Lon- don will be the guest speaker in the 'Tuesday, November 25th, assembly. Major Aron has a varied and colorful background. He is a Cambridge gradu- ate, a former Political Secretary to the Zionist Organization and was in com- mand of the Jewish Recruiting Mission of the British Army. He was decorated for distinguished service with the Jew- ish Brigade of the British Eighth Army. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE w s7. . ' 5 7 5 , .:..5 Eager biologists put their khives tola helpless dogtish. MOVIE REVIEWS If nothing else, Song of Love starts and finishes beautifully but only because MGM was brave enough to throw out the standard beginnings and endings in favor of music. The picture begins simply but forcefully with Clara Wielk iKatherine Hepburni playing a Liszt concerto and you are eased out of the picture by the same method but a different song, Schumann's Traumerei. Except for a few notable ex- ceptions, the middle was an unfortunate consequence. The plot and dialogue could .easily be included in the latter. Katherine Hepburn did as well as she could with the lines she had but even that wasn't good enough. Robert Walker as Brahms used his best composer accent, a hangover from his role of Jerome Kern, and managed to go through the picture without falling over anything; something that has never happened before. Paul Hen- reid, as Schumann, was fortunate enough to have an accent covering his lines al- though his weren't as trite as some. The picture did have some good points which at times more than made up for the rest. Among them was Henry Daniell, AN ACTOR, who gave the only con- sistently good performance in the picture. The plot occasionally deviated from its somber mood to a few excellent scenes'tilled with warm comedy. The music was an experience in itself and well worth the time taken for seeing the picture, but the picture didn't offer too much for the non music lover. If this is MGM's Academy Award representative, as has been reported, they'd better start looking around for something else. . . . Mitchell and Harris. The Foxes of Harrow: Those who have read the book will be sadly-disappointed when they leave their armchairs-to view what is supposed to be one of the best pic- tures on the current screen, The Foxes of Harrow. Starring Maureen O'Hara and Rex Harrison, who both do a wonderful job of acting, the picture is good, taken by itself, but compared to the book, it is strictly a letdown. Stephen Fox, card shark ihonorable one, thouighl, wins the entire fortune of a v German planter, and then succeeds in marrying Odalie Arceneaux, beautiful but spoiled daughter of a high-society New Orleans family. The marriage soon goes on the rocks , and . . . but perhaps you'd better see the movie to see what happens, or better yet, read the book, you'll get more for your money! . . . . Surrett. MUSIC SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED Beverly Seiff and Arthur Sedinger, pianists, were awarded scholarships for music lessons in an open competition held at PC. Miss Seiff won the Orpheus Club's David Murdock award which entitles her to two private piano lessons a week for the full year and Sedinger was the winner of the Hiram Club's award which gives him two lessons 3 week also. The competition was judged by members of the music faculty and other in- structors of PC. Six students, including the two winners, entered the contest. BOOK REVIEW 0 o o Taps for Private Tussie , by Jesse Stuart, is one of those specimens of writ- ing genius that are fast fading from the American literary world. In this book Mr. Stuart paints a picture of Kentucky mountain folk, as well as the jerk- water region where they live. In fact, the local color so predominates, that it completely overshadows the beautiful philosophy of the book. One becomes aware, as soon as he reads the first chap- ter, of a story-telling ability unsurpassed even by Bret Harte or Mark Twain. The story, which is constantly taking an un- suspected turn, is enough to send even the most morbid sadsack into gales of laughter. The burial of Kim Tussie, only mem- ber of the Tussie clan who was drafted into the Army in World War II, opens , the book. His widow, Vittie, collects the government insurance and proceeds to get rid of it in the quickest possible way, aided, of course by several leeches in the form of the Tussie clan. They move into the largest house in Greenwood, furnished by a large part of the money, soon to be joined by all the other Tussies in the state who have heard of Vittie's good- fortune H0,000 bucks worthi. The Tussie clan is famous in these hyar parts for working slower and working less, than anyone else. Thomas Benton, famous Missouri art- ist, does an excellent job of illustrating the book with appropriate drawings. . . Surrett. + Organ Installation Complete Music lovers of PC may look forward to the use of the newly installedprgan for the Christmas program. Preparations were begun last February for the instal- lation of this four-rack organ. Formerly the property of the Rialto Theatre, the instrument was donated to the college by Harry Nace, Jr. It has taken longer than previously expected for installation, but now we have a fine instrument re- splendant with 292 pipes and 25 chimes. 4 BEAR TRACKPPHOEN lX COLLEGE Misplaced College Spirit Let's take a look at the recent orgy of destruction occurring on the Phoenix College and on Tempe Butte where ASC displays its A . Surely there is no one so stupid as to think there has been any good derived from display of mutual bad manners and ill breeding. The reputation of Phoenix College and its students and faculty has been lowered in the public estimation at a time when such action can do ir- reparable damage to our aspirations for four-year status. Certainly ASC can not be proud of the vandalism wrought on our campus and accredited to their students, whether rightly or not. Cer- tainly no thinking PC student finds any satisfaction on our part of the recent Tempe Butte fiasco. There is a group in our student body that apparently feels only the loud mouth and the rough manner can denote a cam- pus wheel. These people and their brethren of other Arizona Icolleges, in their misplaced zeal to show college spirit, are in danger of indicting all col- lege personnel before the citizens of their communities. What is the answer? Bear Tracks feels that we must find the solution among ourselves. If any punitive measures prove necessary to stop these sporadic out- breaks of violence they should evolve from the colleges themselves. Actually no measures should be necessary. Any student intelligent enough to carry a it should be smart enough to realize the futility of Probably those who think otherwise will not be on our college course and pass the recent exhibitions. campus after the grades come out so we will not be bothered further by them. To sum up, a man acts as a gentle- man not because his neighbors are gen- It might be well for all of us to keep this in tlemen but because he is one. mind. Tau Omega boasts of a cham- pionship football team. Any frat who dares to challenge us, just name the day and time. T0 DEAN'S BOX Congratulations to all participants in the best homecoming ever held at Phoenix College. The play, the alum- ni dinner, the dance, the parade, and game were carried off excellently. It would be impractical to name individuals to whom credit is due be- cause of lack of space and the chance ommission of the name of an impor- tant contributor. However, they are well known to you. Homecoming was swellll LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Please notice EBH, DRW. In order to acknowledge letters to the editor we are compelled to have them signed e your own name. The co-editor felt flattered that you were so descriptive of his an- swers. TAX FACTS Students! If you are employed either on or off campus be sure to file a tax exemption slip. For students employed on campus, blanks may be obtained from the central accounting office. Unless you file an exemption, seven- teen per-cent of your weekly earnings will be deducted, no matter how little you earn! BOUQUETS and ONIONS Bouquets to the newly formed PC or- chestra for its excellent rendition of background music in Petticoat Fever. Through an oversight we omitted it in the play write-up last week. Heaps of bouquets to our courageous football team. It takes a lotbot grit to embark on a new gridiron career, espe- cially with the competition they had to face. Onions to the vandals that had Bruin Bumstead decapitated! ! Phoenix College Alumni Association By Henry Rieger lHenry Rieger is a PC alumnus and member of the board of directors of PC Alumni Associationl. The Phoenix' College Alumni Associ- ation saw the light of day last May when a handful of former PC students gather- ed in Coach George iDutchl Hoy's of- fice for the avowed purpose of banding together as a supporter group for the school and its activities. Two former PJC athletic greats, Ben Alexander and Tom Rippey, previously had approached school officials, broach- ing the organization of such a group. The suggestion met with decided favor and cooperation both from the athletic and administrative staffs. At the first meeting a committee was appointed to draft by-laws and generally further the organization of the associ- ation. Brit Burns, who was later elected as an executive board member, was ape pointed to head the sub-committee draft- ing the by-laws. Burns, a Phoenix attorney, modeled the constitution after a composite Ari- zona and Arizona State at Tempe con- stitution. The constitution was accept- e8, with a few minor changes, at the second meeting. At the same time officers for the first year were elected. Alexander was chosen president, Bob Bowyer, vice-president; Leo Dominquez, secretary; Bob.Wilkin- son, treasurer; Burns, Dix Price, Royal Marks, Kelley Turner, Joe Kerby, and Henry Rieger directors. The officers and board, aided by a handful of interested alums including Johnny Koppen, Jim Bohling, Jack Alex- ander and others, proceeded to carry1 out the aims of the group. A membership drive, headed by Alex- ander and Wilkinson, was started. Pro- ceeds from the drive and the sale of programs at football and basketball games were used to further the athletic program at the school. 'The alumni group has barely scratched the surface of their eventual goaleput- ting Phoenix College on the map schol- asticaly and athletically, and last but not least driving for the paramount aimea tour-year school. The help of all students, past and present, is solicited! BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE 5 A Frosh Reaction To Hayakawa My name, or what I am called is Thomas Et Dewey. They tell me names and words have no significance. I can well believe this, as mine has less and less each day. You'll probably recognize me better as Dewey l, formerly of Dewey 2, and Dewey 3, related to Bessie l, Bessie 2, and Bessie 3, only dis- tantly. These comments are strictly confiden- tial, for the realization that Robert A. Taft and l are not on amenable terms, would be of great value to adversive elements. It is said that cultural accomplish- ments, the invention of weapons, writ- ing, printing and the discoveries of arts and sciences are free gifts from the dead; Taft's sources of free gifts were deader in that event, I suggest that than the general use. Also, iand I may be confused as to my maps and terri- toriesl but I believe Taft's map has been seen in too many territories of late. While attending a social Robert Taft and I met in rather a strange function, manner. When someone offered to in- troduce me, I approached Taft from be- hind, and as he was stooped forward, bending to retrieve his false teeth, I re- ceived a signal reaction. I lifted -my right foot high in preparedness, but then per- suaded myself to replace it, for only chimpanzees react to signal reactions and we humans only to symbol reactions. A 'symbol reaction being a delayed re- action conditioned upon the circum- Later, the circumstances seem indicated that l sta nces. to have would have been perfectly justified in making like ' a chimpanzee. In the confines of my private sanctum Robert once asked. Thomas, what sug- gestion have you that will better enable me to capture the Republican nomina- tion? Robert, my friend, I answered with dignity and reserve, try Li'febuoy soap. And continuing in my best use of directive language, I added, with dig- nity and reserve, get the - - - - out of III here This we can remember, Taft, is a living organism, constantly changing, constantly ingesting food and air, trans- rid of Viewed microscopically, he is a mess, I forming it', getting it again. mean mass, of variegated corpuscles, cells and bacterial organisms; modern physics would call him a perpetual dance I of electrons.' He is therefore, very high on the abstraction table, but unfortun- ately, not high enough. But we know this, Taft is uniunthere is nothing else in the universe like him in all re-' spects, and for this we may humbly thank God. . . . Don Holroyd. CAMERA REMBRANIDTS REMONSTRATE The B.T. shutter bugs are practically knocking themselves out striving to give you, the Students, a decent photography display in your school newspaper, There is no duller news sheet than the one without a few decent photos of you, your class- mates, and the school activities. This yearlour photo department got off to a sleazy start. Now, however, we are in a position to produce but can't, without being under a handicap that only an- other photographer could appreciate, that is, no laboratory. Last year we had a dark room; this year we meet with an array of duplicity when we ask why we can't use the same one. We have at least three qualified technicians but still have to -jockey our film packs down to the various commercial film processors. The ultimate in vagueness is the only response to our inquiries. In one con- ference with the faculty only two inferences could be derived. They were: i. that we would devastate and make off with the practically worn out equipment. 2. that the possibility of a girl being in the dark room with the male photographers might lead to foul play. The dark room promised in the dim future may be of use to our chil- dren but we need ,it NOW. I leave you with this question-ls this the way for a progressive icollege?l to treat its own newspaper? THE KOlLiS KORNER Here's one for Bumstead. You can call it an obituary if you want to, though actually it's a little more than that. What it is, really, is a tribute to a dead sym- bolea symbol that meant a lot of things to everybody that has ever attended Phoenix College. It's not the business of this writer to discuss the recent violent outbursts of vandalism on the PC and ASC cam- puses, which vandalism resulted in the decapitation of our beloved Bumstead. That question is dealt with elsewhere on these pages. The subject under dis- cussion now is Bumstead himselfehis life and his untimely death at the hands of a bunch of foul murderers. During the two years that this writer has been at PC, that little concrete bear has really been given a rough going over. He's been painted scores of times, tarred and feathered on more than one occa- sion, and last year, a group of kidnap- pers that made up for in nerve what they lacked in moral fibre even went so far as to abduct him from his place by the flagpole. At that time, the editors of Bear Tracks led the enraged students in a search for the little guy that found him and brought him back home for Bear Day. Now Bumstead is dead; he's been cruelly decapitated. The decapitators killed more than a concrete bear. They killed part of the best that's been in PC during the many past years. It seems to this writer that the body shouldnit be moved from its present position, but that it should be cleaned up, given a decent and approriate funeral service, and left right where it iSein a place of honor. Farewell, Bumstead, farewell. They cut off your head and killed you, but they can never touch the things for which you stood. All Phoenix College mourns your death; all Phoenix College will remember you. 6 BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE PRACTICE TILTS OPEN BASKETBALL SEASON With a disastrous football season com- ing to a close, PC students can look forward to much better prospects in the The Bear cagers, who lost out at the Compton coming basketball season. Western States tournament by 3 ref- eree's decision in the final game last year, have even brighter prospects this year. Leon Blevens, Art Carroll, Fred Roche, Gilbert Trejo, Bob Williamson, Bill Ham- montree, and Glenn Barlow are returning lettermen from last year's winning squad. These stalwarts have been bolstered by the addition of Harpo and Frank Celaya, Larry Fuller, Farris Ellington, Barry Ar- ney, and Richard Yen, who represent some of the best prep talent of recent years. Coach Hoy can also count on Bill Palmer and Wallace Patterson, members of last year's JC squad, and on Ernie Walkup and Sonny Dale, who are at'pres- ent playing football. The Bears looked very impressive last week in their scrimmage with the Nicks Constructors team. The Constructors, boasting such players as Ralph Baskett and Bill Ogilvie, were played on pretty even terms; both teams substituted free- ly in what amounted to an informal prac- tice session. The Hoymen have been bearing down in preparation for their opening tilts with the New Mexico State Teachers at Sil- ver'City,.N. M., Nov. 28 and 29. The Phoenix team faces a rugged schedule this year. In addition to the W5C games, the Bears have slated many tilts with non-conference opponents and will be as busy as the proverbial one-armed paper- hanger. Althodgh the returning lettermen are conceded an edge, berths on the traveling squad are still wide open. Students will have a chance to see the Bears in action soon, since more practice games are being scheduled to polish the club's floor game and to give the new players experience in playing together. Except for a small minority, PC student support has been of the fair weather variety so far this year. The players devote a great deal of their time to the teams which represent our school. These players-win or lose-deserve our sup- port. We should have a fine basketball team this year. Student support will not only help the team, but will indicate as well whether or not we are ready to take our place as a college or must remain a high school extension. Sports Slants By Jim Agee Last Week's Bear Tracks carried a story claiming anything can happen in a Western States Conference tilt, and it DID! Long Beach City College, favored by one touchdown, romped over OUR Phoenix College Bears 51 to 2, but the locals weren't the only team to lose face, as the Compton College Tartars, the most heavily favored team in the WSC, suffered a defeat at the hands of an inspired Pasadena College last Fri- day night. The Pasadena squad edged the Bruins by six points the week before. With the defeat of Compton, this leaves Los Angeles City College as the only undefeated team in the conference, and the Phoenicians winless and com- plete owners of the cellar, Compton can cause more uproar in the standings if they defeat LACC next weekend, and the scramble for other positions can only be determined after the season is completed. The Long Beach gridders hit their stride against the Bears, showing the material that was supposed to make them the team to beat at the first of this sea- son and the favorites to take the WAC championship. After scoring nineteen points in the first half, their high geared offense went wild in the third quarter as they racked up twenty-six points, and even as their spirited attack cooled in the final fifteen minutes with a flood of substitutions from both benches, the Cal- ifornians showed the fight that would have helped them beat any team in the conference had they met that day. The Bruin gridders have an Open date this week in preparation for their season finale next Saturday in Roswell. Let's send them off with the knowledge that the school and students are going to be with them at least in spirit. The football squad won't even have time to hang up ther uniform before the . Bruin basketball team opens its 1947-48 season. The local quintet, counting on seven retired Iettermen from last year's great squad, play the New Mexico Teach- ers at Silver City next Friday and Sat- urday nights. Good luck to them as they go to meet their first foe of the season. $ The Phoenix College Y is entering a team in one of the city basketball leagues. The Y team was entered in the Metropolitan League last year. The club, boasting an enlarged membersip, expects to have a strong squad this year. Ailing Bears Await Final Football Fray The Bruins of Phoenix College are idle this weekend, awaiting their final contest, the off and on again game, with the New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell, New Mexico on November 29. A weekend of relaxation, the first since the Bear's season opened in Sep- tember, is well needed by the locals to heal bumps and bruises that have been mounting up on them during the past three weeks. Charlie Ew i ng , backfield mainstay, hopes to be in uniform for 'the first time since he was injured in the Ventura contest. Also time will give Eddie Cathe- mer a better chance to heal from his at- tack of appendicitus, and such others as Paul Rideau, Les Kastner, Jim Gump, Raul Mariscal, Ernie Walkup, Don Good- win and Bob Collier will have their in- jured knees, shoulders, and ankles ready to go for the Roswell game. Next week's contest will be the third non-conference tilt for the Bears, having been defeated by Riverside and romping over El Centro in the other two. Little is known of the New Mexico eleven and the teams can not be compared as they have not tangled with a similar foe, but the Phoenicians have always found the NMMI boys a worthy opponent, willing 90 do battle. ' The contest will give some compari- son of the strength of the Rocky Moun- tain area two-year colleges as of those in the high powered Western States Conference. The Bruins will make the 800-mile trip by bus, leaving Phoenix the day before the tilt and returning on Sunday, November 30. Long Beach Viking BEAR TRACKFPHOENIX COLLEGE 6urvaliant squad: left'to right: Kastner, Azbil lSr. Managed. Cathemer, McDannold, Miller iManagerl. 'lst row: Oatman, Ewing, Morris, Kemp, ZapieII, Carson, Dufallo, Maddy, Collier, Stephent, 2m: row: Peterson, Talbot, Walkup, Dolmas, Wolven, Meloche, Lewis, P. Smith, Latins, O'Neil, 3rd row: Coach Ahee, Scott, Bondus, Rideau, M. Smith, Agee, Gump, West, Goodwin, Saunders. Rector, Dale, Mahoney, Mariscal, 2118.: a1 Gd. 5v;- ru-r. x .qmvw. erEif- w.';;g Riggs. LONG BEACH LARRUPS BATTERED PC BEARS The Long Beach City College Vikings ran wild last Saturday afternoon, tramp- ling the Bears of Phoenix College, 51 to 2, in a Western States Conference tilt played at Montgomery Stadium. The Bruins, trailing 1'9 to 0 at half time, came out of their dressing room to face a terrific onslaught by the Norse- men as they romped over the local's goal line four times in less than twelve minutes of the third period; and added another touchdown in the final quarter as they scored their decisive victory. It was the sixth conference defeat for the Phoenicians and the seventh of the sea- son. Playing the type Of ball the experts had figured them to play all season, the Californians were too hot for the Blue and Gold to handle. With backs like Everett Pearson, Tony Morabito, Chuck Holmes, Bob Rubidoux, Dean Stevenson, and Merle Decker running wild, and a terrific forward wall leading the way, the Vikings were able to score almost at will. Phoenix threatened the Long Beach goal line four times during the after- noon, but were unable to carry the ball across, and only. a brilliant tackle by Paul Saunders, who caught Decker in the end zone, saved the Bears from being completely shut out. Fumbles prevailed in the opening quarter, and for a while it looked as if the two teams were going to keep hand- ing. each other the ball. Twelve miscues occured in the first half, costing each squad the chance to really get moving, and the Bears never seemed to get hold of themselves after handing the visitors the ball that paved the way for their first six points. The entire Viking eleven sparkled with their backs playing the title role, while for the locels it was the everv presence of Paul Smith, George Dolmas, and Don Goodwin that furnished some light ' in the defeat. PC Has Movie Night Wedneeday night the Associated Stu- dents and faculty presented the film Stanley and Livingston in the auditorium. The student body and their friends were invited to attend the free showing. Mr. Jessie Decker, spokesman .for the faculty committee, stated that standard films that are both entertaining and educa- tional from the historical standpoint had been selected and voted upon by the faculty and student committees. Other films to be shown this year are Abe Lin- coln, Wilson, Guadalcanal Diary, and Keys- to the Kingdom. Thanks, Home Ecs. . . The Journalism Dept. k BEAR TRACKS--PHOENIX COLLEGE 8 Member of Associated College Press Co-Editors ..... Frank Burch, Kerlin Rowland Issue Editor.. ............................ Betty Pagan Sports Editors.. Don Levenhagen, Jim Agee Feature Editor .......................... Tod Rosnek Photoraphers .............. John Boskin, Leo Chavez, Janet Hedrick Faculty Advisers ..... R. C. Emery Cartoonist ........ ..Daniel Zapien Reporters: Dan Biscoe, Patricia Harris, Don Levenhagen, Patricia Mitchell, Herb Surrett. Bob McDannold, Marian Plueddeman. BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. A Prof's Interests enjoy the presence of Mr. Arthur Lee Phelps on its campus in 1926, when he came here after four years as an associate professor of chemistry PC first began to i Greek Gossip Alpha sorority met last Monday to make plans for their pledge ceremony which will Ea held Monday, November 24, at Jane Luke's ome. Kappa Delta Nu sorority met last Monday to make up their pledge lists. Next Monday the group will meet at Marilyn Blair's house for their pledge night. Phi Alpha Chi: Monday evening, November 17 Dr. Stahnke, professor of biology at ASC, Tempe spoke to the group on Animals of Arizona. The highlight of the speech was the actual demonstration of his pets , which consisted of scorpions, tarantulas, etc. Phi Alpha Chi invites the student body to a lecture on Alligators and Their Relatives to be given on Monday 24, 1947 at 7:30 P.M. in the Blue and Gold room. The owner of the alligator farm in Tempe will speak and will show a few live alligators. At the regular meeting of Tau Omega Mon- day nightlthe fraternity attended to financial matters, using the money received from their prize-winning homecoming float to liquidate several small debts. The club also voted to issue a challenge to any other fraternity or group of men to engage in a football game. Following this, the meeting was adjourned. and pharmacy at the University of Southern California. Upon his arrival, Mr. Phelps took up the same duties, plus the teaching of physics. As might be expected, Mr. Phelps' hobbies are connected with chemistry. He is interested in criminology and perfume making, but states that these interests are giving way to others, mainly travel. His journeyshave carried him to every state in the union as well as several of the Canadian provinces. However, think not that in all his travels Mr. Phelps has ever contemplated leaving the Valle Del Sol. He says that his first impression of Arizona, received through a train window, was of a cold and sandy desert. His arrival in Phoenix and his first view of the sun in several days no doubt helped to dispel any doubts about his liking for the city. Another interest of Mr. Phelps is Lions club work. He is secretary of the local Lions. Campus Clubs The newly formed ROTC club met Thurs- day activity period in room 106 Arts build- ing. Fifteen members were present andielec- tion of officers ensued. Cadet Colonel Gus Engstrum was elected president with Cadet Colonel Harry Corbett as secretary. Jerry Joachim was elected secretary. The organization, open to members of the ROTC class, plans to meet every Wednesday during activity period. Master Sgt. Thomas Bunkley, of the Unit- ed States Army is the sponsor. He is a mili- tary instructor at PUHS. Mask and Dagger will present Petticoat Fever in the main theatre at Williams Field on the evening of November 20. The play has been well publicized on the field and a packed house is assured. This is the first time in recent years that a tull-Iength play has been taken off the campus. Scenery, furniture and properties will be taken to the field by army transportation. The cast and crew members will have dinner in the Offi- cers' Club. An initiation banquet to be held early in December is now being planned by the Wind- sor Club. The club, which has been reacti- vated since the war now consists of 35 mem- bers of which Beverly Seiff is the president. The club's advisers are Victor Baumann and Earle L. Stone. At a recent meeting of the PC Riding Club officers were elected and near future plans were drawn up. Velma Jean Caviness was telected president and Sandra Chrest, secre- ary. A ride is planned for Saturday afternoon, November 22 at the Weldon Riding Stables from 2 to 4. The group will meet first at PC. Members and non-members are invited. The club plans several rides this year with a chuck wagon party as the climax. The Astronomy Club met last night. Start- ing at 7 p.m., they viewed the heavens through the telescope and at 8 pm. the group moved indoors to movies and talks on Exploring the Universe. Le Cercle Francais met last Tuesday in the Blue and Gold room. They sang French songs and played French games. Sheik Franklin and Jim Carroll were in charge. Club sponsors and officers!!! It you have meetings or plans that you wish publicized in Bear Tracks, will you please nominate a correspondent to see that we receive the information. This need not be written up. Just fill out the form obtainable from Bear Tracks. I guess I just lost my head. . . . Bumstead. 332m 'illratkg Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, December 5, l94.7 Religious Groups Gather This week-end delegates from the five Arizona colleges will convene in Thatch- er for the seventh annual State Inter- religious Conference at Gila Junior Col- lege. Among the activities scheduled will be a banquet tonight in the Gila College Gymnasium, followed by a Christmas pro- gram in the chapel. The days activities will 'close with a fellowship and social hour in the Thatcher Recreation Hall: Tomorrow following breakfast, there will be a general business meeting fol- lowed by an assembly. Then seminars will discuss We Gather Together. Lunch will then be served in the cafe- teria. A summary of the seminar will be conducted after lunch with Jo Seiber presiding. From 2:30 to 4:30 there will be a social hour with games and a movie, followed by a hayrack ride and camp suppen On Sunday morning the convention's activities will close with a farewell as- sembly in the Thatcher chapel. I PHOTO BY BOSKONl The owner of the alligator farm at Tempe and C. J. Smith inspect one of the many a l I i ga tors that have been brought out of the swamp lands of Texas and A r ka n sa 5. These creatures are phlegmatic in a cool climate but can still bite and tear an arm off or break 'your leg with their powerful tail swat. Mr. Kimbell of the Tempe alligator farm caught these reptiles at night by the hypnotic effect of a beam of light held in,their eyes as they float with just their eyes above the surface of the water. A hasty lasso of the crocodilia before they are aware usually results in another for his collection. These reptiles make a tasty dish and are considered a delicacy in some hotels of the southern states. Varied Activities Mark PC Holiday The Turkey Day holidays saw a prodi- gious amount of student activity, both on and off the campus. First on the holiday itinerary for most Phoenix Col- lege stu d e n ts was the Thanksgiving dance, held in the Gymnasium on the eve of the Pilgrim festival's celebration. The Vance McPherson musital aggrega- tion was on hand to furnish the rhythms for such a heavy turnoht of dancers that many of the more frantic collegiate hep- stersethe Madison Square Garden type of dancersefelt sorely pinched by the lack of dancing space. In spite of such minor inconveniences, the crowd stayed on to the bitter end, pausing only long enough to cheer Ardeth West and Joyce Roche on to victory in the Prize Waltz. Off-campus activities over the vaca- tion saw the Bruin football team chalk up its second victory of the season in its schedule finale with the New Mexico Military Institute Cadets. While the Bruin gridsters were racking up an 18 to 6 win over the soldiers, the basketball five split a double game series with the New Mexico State Teachers five at Silver City. Last Monday morning saw an unusual- ly high number of students returning to school with drooping eyelids, dragging feet, and paler complexions than the Arizona sun would warrant-testimonial, no doubt, to the long hours of study time which the holidays offered. CADETS BOW TO BRUINS IN SEASON FINALE, l8-6 Climaxing a season that has been over a rocky road most of the way, the Phoe- nix College Bears turned on the heat to stun a favored Cadet eleven from New Mexico Military Institute, 18 to 6, last Friday afternoon at Roswell, New Mex- ico. The Bruins, led by the terrific run- ning of Les Kastner, scored once in the second quarter and twice in the final period as they racked up their second win of the season. The Cadets scored their six points early in the second half. Kastner scored the local's initial touch- down when he broke through the left side of the Institute line and raced sev- enty-three yards behind an almost per- fect interference to the end zone. The Bruins threatened the Cadet's goal line two other times during the first half, but fell short of a touchdown each time. In the early minutes of the third quar- ter the Roswell squad opened an attack that carried to the Phoenix three-yard line in four quick plays, where they hit a stone wall for three downs and were forced to fire an aerial for their only tally of the afternoon. An intercepted pass near the close of the third canto provided the Cadets with another scoring chance, but the Bear's defense stiffened and they took over on dOWns. From there the locals opened the second scoring drive. Jim Gump made a first down on the Bruin thirty, and on the next play Kastner ripped loose for torty-tive yards. The Bears picked up another first down on the New Mexico twenty-five as the quarter ended. Two more plays found the Blue and Gold inside the Cadets' twenty-yard . stripe, where Raul Mariscal dropped back and fired a quick pass to Ernie Walkup who rambled into the end zone for six points. Once more the Roswell eleven inter- cepted a pass deep in Phoenix territory, but the Iocal's defense swamped an at- tempted o'ffense and again claimed the ball. For a second time with their backs to the wall, the Bruins opened up with Kastner, Gump, and Don Goodwin iContinued on Page 3 BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE 2 BEAR TRACKS But we're emphatically not a bunch DEAN'S BOX l Member of Associated College Press 0f dragon-slaying knights inesbining arma Co-Editon ........... Frank Burch, Kerlln iRowland or. .Dec..2, I947. kfgigffi'izaa. ' ssagdympggii Mr. Pulliam went on to say that Amer- A student '5 acting In an adult Lee Ingalls, Jim Agee ....... Marian Plueddeman and Tod Rosnek Director of Photography ..... John Boskon Phntographer's Assistants. ..... Leo Chaves. Bob McDannold, Janet .Hedriek Reporters: Don Biscoe, Patricia Hams, Don Levenhagen, Patricia Mitchell, Franklin Sunett. BEAR TRACKS welcome; any signed opinions expressed by the student body. The Koil's Korner Eugene C. Pulliam, the publisher of The Phoenix Gazette and The Arizona Republic. spoke before the students of Phoenix College in an assembly recently. And it was quite a speech, kiddies; it was quite a speech. Mr. Pulliam has re- cently returned from Europe, where he viewed political and social conditions at first hand. He started his speech by saying that he wanted to pass on to us some of the things he saw over there. He then flatly stated that there would be nowar with Russia. After having expressed this heartening view, Mr. Pul- liam proceeded at some length to re- fute it. The burden of his song was that Russian Communism is an evil and menacing thing, that it is a grave threat to democracy as we know it in this country, and that we in the United States must never relax our vigilance against its threat. Sports Editors Feature Editors I quite agree with Mr. Pulliam there. I think that all of us in this country ex- cept the tools, the dreamers, and the traitors 'agree with him. When he start- ed his speech with that as a thesis, I looked forward to, hearing what he had to say. He hadn't spoken five minutes before I was looking for a way to get out otithe auditorium without being seen. For, to this listener, his speech was so inflamatory, so filled with dangerous gen- eralities and pat words and phrases, and so wildly emotional in tone as to have been very funny had it not been so very, very sad. Mr. Pulliam was saying things in a way that I haven't heard or read of any- one saying them since the early 1900's. He said that we are the greatest nation on earth. I believe that, but I also be- lieve that we've been far too prone in the ' past to shout about it. The other peo- ples of the world are sick and tired of having Uncle Sam thrown up to them as the only country that's completely right in this whole wide world. We've been far too condescending for far too long. We're a great and wonderful people; we're probably the best chance that the world has right now. ica's divine mission is to save the world from Russian Communism. He talked about our manifest destiny as the coun- try that would stand against the Russian tide. What kind of talk is that, anyway? Does Mr. Pulliam honestly believe that it's a question of this country being something th 3 t ' 5 completely different and unique? Is he actually serious'with his talk of divine missions and manifest destiny? If he's not, then he put on one of the cleverest exhibitions of loaded or- atory, of dealing in meaningless gener- alities, and ot waving the flag like a Fourth of July soap box speaker that I've ever heard. If he is, then I contend that he, and those like him, are among the gravest dangers to world peace that exist. Peace, Mr. Pulliam, won't be pre- served by nationalistic muscle flexing or by throwing large verbal rocks at the Russians. It can only be preserved it men have it in their hearts, if we in the United States recognize the danger that confronts us and prepare to defend our- selves against it should we ever have to, and if we in this country talk a lot less about the deplorable conditions in which the European peoples live and do a lot more to alleviate those conditions. It's all mixed up with food and clothing, faith and elemental human decency, guts and intelligence. I don't think that you did the peace that you said you wanted to preserve any service by the things you said in our auditorium recently. ASSEMBLY At a combined music and football award assembly, PC students and fac- ulty were entertained by the band and A-Cappella choir, and then witnessed the awarding of letters to eighteen members of this year's football team. First the band, directed by Victor Bau- mann, played Risoluto and The Whif- fenpoof Song , winding up'the program with Gladiator March. Kenneth Hakes directed the A Capella choir in O God is. Here , Lullaby on Christmas Eve , Carol of the Bells ,' Fairest Lord Jesus , and Lost in the Night. Lette rs were presented by Coach George Ahee to Don Meloche, Vic Lewis, Paul Saunders, Manuel Larios, Ed Hub- bell, Tom Bondus, George Dolmas, Art West, Ernest Walkup, Sonny Dale, Raul Mariscal, Les Kastner, Jim Gump, Don Goodwin, Bob Collier, Paul Rideau, Charles Ewing, John Ruman, and team managers C. J. Smith and Boyce Azbill; manner when he does so in et h i ng about it when he is failing or confused in a course. One method is to ask the teacher exactly what is wrong. The teacher does not have time to answer this question in the five minutes be- tween classes. A much more effec- tive way is to ask the teacher for an appointment which will suit his and the student's class schedule conveni- ently. Robert J. Hannelly, Dean Letters to the Editors November 30 Dear Editor: At last the great moment has arrived for those sorority members who last year survived the six weeks, ordeal of ridicule and p h y s i c a I embarrassment by their friends. Now these members have the chance to command their pledges to all the silly and senseless doings which they dream up. I am sure no one would question that these actjons are one way of satisfying a person's ego, but also does it not re- veal the foolish and childish notions of these students? College is a place where people should go to mature, and not a place to go and carry on high school antics. ' eWilbur Hoff. Dear Editor: Why not institute a feature in the school paper on places to go in Phoenix? This would be a great help to students seeking a oiace to have a good time for the desired price. Bear Tracks could no doubt obtain a list of dinner, dance, or dine and dance places such as the Sundown, Grand Cafe, Cathay Gardens, and others, and list their hours, facilities, bands, and prices with little or-no diffi- culty, and place them in the paper under and appropriate title. How about it? -Carwis Pomeroy. If we ran such a feature it would be putting our stamp of approval of such places. We cannot do this. We suggest you consult the Chamber of Commerce, The Y , or your religious center for such information. + Bear Tracks Wishes organizations to turn in news BEFORE ACTIVITY PERIOD TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE Sports Slants By Don Levenhagen Gilbert Trejo is one of the big factors that made last year's basketball team the greatest in school history. Although he isn't particularly tall, he covers a lot of territory and is an ace ball handler and rebound artist. Giz was one of the team's leading scorers last year and has been elected to captain this year's squad. He missed the opening games against New Mexico due to an injured arm, and his absence was keenly felt by the team; he will, however, be back in the lineup soont Gil played for the Phoenix Coyotes in '43; '44, '45. He was an All-State se- lection in his last two years, and received A.A.U. recognition in '45. Coach Hay and Tnlo Confer Coach Hey is well pleased with this year's basketball turn out. Up until last year he was faced with the formidable task of molding a basketball team from players who had never played together. This year the coach not only has players who played together in high school, but also has a number of high caliber new- comers who are serious and cooperative. Coach Hoy, with much talent on hand, now faces the problem of finding the most successful combination. The coach feels that something is lacking at pres- ent, but that the team will show great improvement as the season progresses. W The Bear gridsters have hung up their togs after ending an oft-defeated season by beating the New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell, N. M: We, of Bear Tracks feel that Les Kastner, Phoenix scat-back deserves special recognition for his fancy footwork and all-around,- fine performance in the Bear's backfield. Ernie Walkup, All-State prep player from P.U.H.S., has been singled out from the rugged Bear line as a candidate for All-Conference honors, Walkup's bril- liant play on offense and defense alike this year certainly marks him as deserv- ing of this honor. Good luck, Ernie! BEAR CAGERS SPLIT OPENERS The Phoenix College Bears opened the '47-'48 basketball season by splitting a two-game series with the New Mexico' State Teachers at Silver City, New Mex- ico, Nov. 28, 29. After a late arrival that left little time for limbering up, the Bears dropped the season opener as they were unable to erase a substantial 24-15 halt-time ad- vantage which the Mustangs compiled. The Bruins' fast-breaking attack went for naught as the Mustangs took control of the rebounds. Throughout most of the game, the Bears were limited to a single shot by the New Mexico ball-hawks, who emerged on the long end of a 40-38 score. Williamson and Carroll, garner- ing 11 and 7 points respectively, led the Bears in their uphill battle. The Bears pounced back Saturday night, winning 42-35 as the five-point half-time advantage which they never relinquished. Big guns in the Phoenix attack were Bill Hammontree and Larry Fuller. Coach Hoy carried a ten-man squad, but missed the services of Gilbert Treio, injured team captain. Those carried on the trip were Leon Blevins, Art Carroll, Bill Hammontree, Bob Williamson, Fred , Roche, Barry Arney, Larry Fuller, Farris Ellington, Eddie Cavanaugh, and Bill Palmer. Gridiron Victory tContinued from Page 11 leading a running attack, while Mariscal was tossing to Walkup and Art West as they began to move down the field for their final score. Kastner climaxed the drive, counting from three yards out. The Bruins failed on three passes for the pbint after touchdown, while the Cadets' only try, from placement, went wide. Kastner was definitely the outstanding player on the gridiron all afternoon. He scored twice and accounted for 212 yards in his 20 times with the ball for an average of almost eleven yards a try. The Bruin line proved its ever value to the team as they opened the Cadet line for the local backs and Icaused the New Mexico team's offense trouble all afternoon. Big George Cookie Dolmas was again the outstanding lineman. The Roswell squad's offense punch was dealt a severe blow in the opening minutes of the second period when they lost Don Walker via the injury route as he attempted to break away tom the Bear'ssecondary only to be dumped on the sidelines on a terrific tackle by Phoenix Five lnvades Coast Chaffey Junior College will oppose the Phoenix College Bruin qqintet tonight and tomorrow night in the Ontario, Cali- fornia school's gymnasium, as the Bruins make their initial invasion of the west coast for the 1947-48 basketball season. The Phoenicians, although winning a double event from the Californians last season with their almost identical crew of now, will be classed as the underdogs in the two trays because of the slow start they made in last weekend's con- tests, and the fear that the local hoop- sters have not reached the prime they were when they started .the 1946-47 season The Bruins, who depend on a fast breaking offense that brought them rec- ognition as one of the top two-year col- lege squads in the west last year, will be out to climb back on the pillar they molded for themselves in west coast bas- ketball last season, and if they start hit- ting like the red hot crew of last season, the locals will be hard to stop. Pacing the Bears will be Leon Blevins, Fred Roche, Bill Hammontree, Art Car- rol, Bob Williamson, and if an injured arm has healed, Gil Treio. -Treio and Blevins teamed at forwards last season to rack up most of the victories, and were found by many teams as a hard pair to stop. Trejo, captain of George Dutch Hoy's squad, injured his arm last week and wa 'unable to make the trip to Silver City, but it was fast in healing and may be in uniform in to- night's contest. Along with the return- ing big six of last year, will be the faces of four new men in the local sport picture, led by Larry Fuller and Barry Arney. P. E. DEPARTMENT PLAYS SPEEDBALL The men's Physical Education depart- ment is knee-deep in Speedball activity at present. Speedball is a high-powered, fast-moving game. If you like -a sport with plenty of thrills and spills, Speed- ball is your meat; so turn out some ac- tivity period and watch the fun. Sbeed- ball is an activity of the Physical Educa- tion department and is being supervised by Johnny Riggs. The championship game is scheduled for December 15. Gump. Walker entered the contest for only one other play and was again helped to the bench by his team mates. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE 1:40:31 I ift Wings and Goggles flying club, rapid- ly expanding under its new program of flight instruction for Phoenix College students, is still offering its new facilities to those students who are interested in learning how to fly. D. F. Stone, club sponsor, stated that student interest in the new program has been appreciable, but there is room for more students who desire to work toward their private pilots' licenses should investigate the club's new program as soon as possible. PC Plene: i oh- Pilot training at the Phoenix College Flying School, located at Sky Harbor, is carefully supervised by competent in- structors and conforms to rigid Civil Aer- onautics Administration regulations. The Phoenix College flight program enables students to learn to fly at costs which are considerably lower than other flight courses which are being offered now. Membership in Wings and Goggles is open to all college students meeting nec- essary college and physical requirements. The formation of two new organized ensemble groups from the PC band and orehestra highlights the news from the Musil: department this week. ' One is a brass sextette, composed of Vance McPherson, first trumpet; Clair Folk, second trumpet; Charles Phillips, French horn; Chester Davis, trombone; James Gilkerson, baritone; and Ralph Swift, tuba. The other is a string quar- tet, with Richard'Philabaum, first vio- lin Wilbur Hoff, second violin; Marian Jones, viola; and Janet Bowerman, cello. The sextette made an appearance at the 13th Annual Arizona State Confer- ence of Social Work, Thursday, at Trin- ity Cathed ral at which they played dinner music. The quartet is rehearsing chamber music which will be suitable for dinners and small club meetings. The demand for music ensembles such as these has been great in the past and the band and orchestra of Phoenix Col- lege have taken advantage of the op- portunities offered by those demands, according to Mr. Victor Baumann, PC band director. The band is now rehearsing concerts music in preparation for the numerous concerts to be held this year, including the formal Spring Concert. w Members and pledges of Alpha Sigma Gamma met Monday evening in the col- lege clubroom to complete plans for an Open House to be held on December 19th, in'imediately preceding the Christ- mas formal. The sorority will be host- esses to the other sororities, the faculty, and their guests. Pledges in charge of the event are: Love Veta Farmer, Joyce Abbott, Doris Stegner, Claryce Beck, Pat Snuffer, Marie Childers, Doris Ruddell, Theresa Chuka, Maurine Kessinger, Pat- ti Davis, Betty Kayetan, Connie Dumont, Donna Johnson and Betty Jackson. Plans were also discussed for a formal initi- ation dance to be December 23 at En- canto Clubhouse. l Hillel had a bowling party for its mem- bers on Sunday, November 30. On December 8,: Hillel will have a dance and social affair at the Beth lsrael Congregation, 2nd Avenue and Culver. Everyone is welcome. The admission is an inexpensive child's gift. The party will begin at 8:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served. W The Camera Club had a picnic at Seven Springs on Friday November 28th.. Future activities of the club include a trip to the moving picture studios near Camelback Mountain and to the photography studio in Paradise Valley. + The Engineers Club will meet next Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Club Room. Mr. Mclntyre of the Bureau of Reclamation will speak on the con- struction features, the generating sta- tionl and the distribution network of the Davis Dam. This promises to be one of the most outstanding meetings of the year and all students in any branch of engineering should be interested in what he has to say. The Riding Club met during activity period Monday. Plans were made for the next ride which will be held tomorrow night from 8:00 to 10.100 p.m. Those interested in going should 'give their names to Sandy Crest. Meet here at the college at 7:00 p.m. Bring a car if pos- sible! + The Woodson club met last Wednes- day in the club-room to make plans for the Christmas formal which will be held on December 20th in the college gymna- sium. Those in charge of committees are: drch'estra, Travis Williams; invita- tions, Ethel Bover; decorations, Justice Hall, Fay Lewis, and Earl Swain; refresh- ments, Doris Tease and Hazel Williams. The socialco-chairmen for the event will be Marvin Jones and Rushia G. Fellows. Monday, December 8 Student Christian Association meet- ing activity period in the clubroom. Freshman class officers meeting ac- ing activity period in executive board room. Phi Chi, Blue and Gold Room; 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Hillel dance and social; Beth ls- rael Congregation, 2nd Avenue and Culver. Tuesday, De'cember 9 Orpheus Club annual fall concert; 8:l5 p.m. in the auditorium. Friday, December 12 Hillel Foundation; meeting in the Blue and Gold room during the ac- tivity period. Newman Club meeting in the club- room during activity period. Mr. Andrew G. Valenzuela, publicity chairman of the Newman Club', cordially invites all Catholics and those interested in the Catholic religion to attend the regular meetings held every Friday dur- ing activity period in the club room. Mr. Valenzuela states that a well-rounded program of activities is being planned, and he hopes that all Catholic students will take part. hot. An initiation was held in the auditor- ium for the following first semester pledges of the Masque and Dagger club: Velma Jean Caviness, Anne iRedick, Bar- bara Miller, Frank Lundstrom, Glen Ben- ton, Nancy Keller, Marjorie Sonnen- schein, Ester Kirk, Jill Branning, Don tSypherd, Evert Furrey, Janet Hedrick, Dorothy Saunders, Dick Sypherd, Joan Kearns, Mary Hannelly, lda Price, Bev- e'rly Coleman, Marion Louise Wild, Bill Hinkley, Bonnie M. Hodges, Susan Van Zandt, Elizabeth McDonald, Frances Lip- son, Dorothy Watson, Don Bonine, Shir- leen Allen, Patti Davis, Jerry Wilson, Jean Mondo, Douglas Peterson, Virginia McClure, and Barbara Flett. ' Neophytes were first made up with different shades of grease paint and rouge and then were led onto the dimly lit stage, where they performed individ- ually. Following initiation, a party was held for all members at the home of Marilyn Blair, secretary. Other officers of Masque and Dagger are Bob Bloecker, president; Cooper Welch, vice-president; June Welch, treasurer, and Dave Garber, sergeant-at-arms. W During this last week, the tryouts were held for our next school play. Masque and Dagger Society is sponsoring the pro- duction. It will be the .comedy, Stage Door, which will be presented in the auditorium January 'ISIh, 16th, and 17th. ?Ewr Eratk Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Vol. 20 Phoeriix, Arizona, Friday, December 12, I947 No..9 PHI CHI'S wow STUDENTS IN ASSEMBLY Phi Alpha Chi presented an old vaude- ville play Third Party Risks in assem- bly Tuesday, December 9. Jim Carroll starred in the role of gul- lible, neurotic Clarence, whose girl friend Sonia was portrayed by glamorous Jay Higgs; Bob Bloecker was the third party. The plot centered around his falling for Bloecker's scheme of seeing -whether Sonia would be a suitable companion. Sonia fell for Bloecker. Harland Padfield was master of cere- monies. Riley Geary and Bill Wendell imitated Jeannette McDonald and Nelson Eddy. Those in charge were: Dean Rob- inson, stage manager; being assisted by the pledges of Phi Alpha Chi; Bob Bloecker, director, and Harold Bowmon, fraternity prexy, was general manager of the whole assembly. PHOENIX INVITATIONAL SLATED NEXT WEEK Basketball fans are in for a treat when the Phoenix Invitational basketball tour- nament opens December 16 and con- Both afternoon and evening games will be played all five days of the tourna- ment. Some of the leading two-year schools of the country are already entered and both competition and action promise to be plentiful. Compton College, last years' national champs and the strong host team, Phoenix College, are sure to be strong contenders for the various trophies to be awarded. Other schools entered include: Amarillo College from Texas, Ricks College from Idaho, Los Angeles City College, John Muir College of Pasadena, Branch Aggies from Cedar City, Utah, Pasadena, Ventura, Long Beach, Gila, Sacramento, and Fullerton. Campus from Phoenix College Flying School Plane tinues on to and including December 20: HOOPSTERS SEEK FIRST HOME RUN The Phoenix College Bears, making their initial appearance on the local court this season, will be out to settle a score from last year, when they tangle with the Glendale College Vacqueros tonight and tomorrow night in the Bruin gymna- sium. The Californians, victors over the Bruins twice last season, will attempt to break a string of victories racked up a year ago on the Phoenix floor, where the PC five was never downedn The locals, however, will be out to dump the Vacqueros to avenge that double whip- ping handed them, and to 'make their first home showing a success. The Blue and Gold hit their old stride last week and can almost promise with Gil Trejo and Leon Blevin in the line up that they will be hard to stop. Treio, captain of this year's five, returned to the squad last week in time for the con- tests on the coast, and seemed to add new fire to the team, while the lanky Leon became the big'gun of the college team by racking up fifty points in the two games. Coach George Dutch Hoy's team, using their terrific fast break offense, will be favored to drop the Glendale five in the two contests. The starting five will probably consist of Trejo and Blevins at forwards, Fred Roche at the pivot spot, Art Carroll and Bill Hammontree, guards, with Bob Williamson trading off with the letter pair. The games will be played in the local gymnasium, so let's all be there and help the Bears make their first home appearance a great success. All veterans who work during the holiday season must report all earnings to the Veterans Ad- ministration. For additional in- formation and the necessary VA forms, see Mrs. Noble in Dean Hannelly's office. BEAR TRACKkPHOENlX COLLEGE 2 BEAR TRACKS Member of Associated College Press Co-Editors ..... ,..Funk Batch, Kerlin Rowland ..... Jitter McDannold A. Betty Pagan ....Jan Hedrick galls, Jim Agee ...... Marian Plueddeman and Tod Rosnek Director of Photography . John Boskyn Photographer's Assistant... ....Jan .Hednck Reporters: Don Biscoe. Patricia Hams, Dun Levenhagen, Patricia Mitchell, Herb Surrett. BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. A TIME FOR THE CYNIC Can a newspaper be honest? This quese tion was asked of PC's advanced journal- ism class last week and the results might be surprising to the editors and publish- ers of many well known newspapers. A tabulation of the answers shows a very low regard for the integrity of many famous journals including our own local dailies. The chief reason for this seemed to lie in the belief that each paper has Issue Editor Assistanl Editor Society Editon. Sports Editors Feature Editors its own political and social axe to grind and that all worship at the shrine of the great god, circulation. We wonder if this attitude of wari- ness and disbelief is a general condition of today's youth or only indicative of specialized knowledge of newspaper prob- lems due to vocational interest in that field. We would suspect that it is a gen- eral feeling, and offer the thought that perhaps it is a good thing. Perhaps the time has come for young people every- where to examine closely the statements and motives of the purveyors of resound- ing words and phrases that would play Moses to our Israelite children. Where are the people of the world today after almost 2000 years of lead- ership by the graybeards of the so-called civilized world? Frankly we seem to be in what the diplomats call an inextri- cable position. In the simple words of the Cockney we've 'ad it, mates. And with no regard for whether or not we liked it. Therefore it seems to us that we have come upon a time for cynicism and suspi- cion and that such products are only the natural yield of the impotent seeds sown by our faltering seniors. We do not offer this as a solution but only as an observa- tion. The young men and women of today are faced with a world full of uncertain- ty, fear and chaos brought on by the ime minence of war. We think that anyone who has just survived one global con- flict has a right to be bitter when faced with an immediate return engagement. We agree with the judicial principle that no man should be placed in double jeOpardy. It seems to us that the sov- ereign states of the world would do well to adopt this principle in regard to their politics. One war in a lifetime is enough. What to do about all this? The answer eludes us as well as those we have criti- cized. We can only serve notice to our contemporaries that where once we had faith now we have nothing. Where we nurtured hope we now know fear and that charity has been replaced in our .0 hearts with suspicion. From here on in, Mister, if you preach to us you had bet- ter be able to prove your facts. KOIL'S KORNER Here's one for CARE. What's CARE? It is, almost certainly, the difference be- tween life and death for literally thou- sands of people on the continent of Eu- rope. CARE is the Cooperative for Amer- ican Remittances to Europe. It's com- posed of the twenty-seven major accred- ited American overseas organizations. lt's drawn raves tor the wonderful job it has been doing in keeping a steady sup- ply of desperately needed food supplies going to all parts of. Europe from Presi- dent Truman, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and a host of other na- tionally respected leaders representing all groups of our people and all segments of our American life. Here's how CARE works: it takes the contributions it receives and with them buys packages of food, clothing, blankets, household linen, etc. It distributes the packages to fifteen European countries through its vast system of warehouses which are scattered all over the conti- nent. When CARE gets your contribu- tion, they send you a receipt for the money you sent; When the package that you bought is delivered in Europe, the recipient signs a receipt, which is sent back to you. it you know somebody in Europe to whom you want to send help, direct your contribution to themeCARE will see to it that they get it. If there's nobody in particular that you want to help, you can, if you wish, direct your aid to a certain type of personea French student, a Polish widow and her chil- dren, or any type person in any country served by CARE. There's no change of direction taken by anything that's bought with funds that you contribute; the stuff goes where you want it to go. And don't for a minute try to ignore the fact that the people of Europe need our help desperately, and need it NOW. Conditions over there, which were rough enough a year ago, are much worse today. Last winter was the worst Eu- rope's been through in a hundred years. Spring floods and unseasonable frosts wiped out what was left of the crops in country after country. The transporta- tion systems over there are broken down, and there's no way of getting what little food there is to the areas where it's need- ed most. Little babies are dying like flies from malnutrition. Over half of the kids born in Europe since VE Day have died. Get that, over half! Literally hun- dreds of millions of Europeans are l'liv- ing on a 1200 calorie daily diet. Many of us in this country get that much for breakfast. That's the situation; we can do some- thing about it, if we will. In a fewi weeks we'll be celebrating the birthday of the One who said, I am my brother's keeper. Let's be our brother's keepers. It seems to me that unless we are, every Merry Christmas that we say will stick in our throats. Send what you can, all you can, to CARE, 50 Broad Street, New York, 4, N. Y. Or bring your contribu- tions to me in the BT office, and I'll be glad to see that they get to CARE. But don't wait to contribute; don't think about it or talk it over or let George do it. People are dying while we're messing around. Let's help them live, and let's do it NOW! Dean Robert J. Hannelly is in Good Samaritan Hospital with a virus pneu- monia infection. Bear Tracks extends our best wishes to Dean Hannelly for a speedy recov- ery and a pleasant convalescence. BUSTED BUMSTEAD BURY BUMSTEAD INDEED!!! We've all grieved and wrung our hands.-now let's fix that sick bear. You know, he's. been through a lot and he's kept his counsel through a lot of years. We think he's worthy of a little more consideration than just a funeral . . THAT BEAR IS NOT DEAD. How about the Art Department? No sculptors? Let's make Bumstead a new head. He's winked at a lot of pe- culiar things he has seen and we think he's tolerant enough to accept gracious- ly a new head, even if it might be a little irregular. From Bumstead's point of view, don't you think he'd rather stay right out there on top with a few infirmities and be with us, than to be buried and have us pay respects at his grave? We do a lot of talking about how much we think of Bumstead, now let us consider what Bumstead thinks of us. We can't think he wants us to desert him when he is down, and we don't think he wants us to banish him because he's in trouble!!! Let's all help BUILD A BETTER BUMSTEAD. BEAR TRACKkPHOENlX COLLEGE Idlers. Pictured are PC's returning lettermen. Reading left to right: Art Carroll, Bob William- son, Leon Blevins, Fred Roche, Bill Hammontree, and Gilbert Treio Sports Slants by JIM AGEE The big event of next week in the local village will be Phoenix College's invitational basketball tournament that opens Tuesday at the Phoenix Union High gymnasium. Sixteen of the hottest teams of the two-year colleges from the west will be on hand to battle it out for 'the number one position. The games will offer the students of PC and the people of the city a chance to see a top brand of basketball. With the showing of last week, the Bruin basketeers have classed themselves as one of the teams tobeat during the tournament and for the rest of the sea- son. The team was highly successful on their trek to Ontario, California, last weekend as they handed the quintet from Chaffey College a double defeat and returned to their old form that made them a very respected 'five last season. Coach George Dutch Hoy's squad was led by Leon Blevins and Gil Treio in their coast invasion. The local pair put on a show last Saturday night on the Chaffey court that 'will be hard to beat. By halftime, twith Blevins and Trejo pleasing the crowd with their smooth ball handling and tricky passing, most of the Californians had turned their support to the Blue and Gold. Blevins scored a total of fifty points during the two contests, dividing the amount equal- ly each night, to lead the local's attack. Let's hope that PC's invitational tour- nament along with the support of the Phoenix newspapers will let the people of Phoenix know that there is such a place as Phoenix College. Tonight the Bruins tangle with Glen- dale College. Let's all be there and help them avenge a double defeat handed to them last season by the Californians. Chaffey Highlights The Phoenix College Bears' attack caught fire last Friday and Saturday nights to overwhelm a spirited but under- manned Chaffey team, 72-56 and 69- 55, at Ontario, California. The locals unveiled their vaunted, fast- breaking attack Friday night; running, passing, and sharpshooting their way to an early lead that was never relinquished. Larry Fuller, ex-Mustang hoopster, put in a strong bid for a first string berth by scoring 18 points on Friday night. The Bears still looked a little weak on rebound work, but the torrid pace they set spelled Chaffey's defeat. After a slow start Blevins, Trejo, and -Co. turned on the heat Saturday night, displaying a tricky-passing attack that won praise from Phoenix and Chaffey rooters alike. Blevins and Treio demon- strated that teamwork pays off on the scoreboard by bucketing 25 and l7 points respectively. Blevins had little trouble finding the,range at Chaffey, racking up an impressive 50-point total for the two games. The ten-man traveling squad was com- posed of Blevins, Trejo, Roche, Carroll, Fuller, Williamson, Hammontree, Arney, Yen, and DePlanche. CALENDAR Friday, December 12 Basketball game with Glendale. Saturday, December I3 Salt River Valley Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese convention at PC; 10 to 12 a. m. Basketball game with Glendale. Windsor Club formal dinner Jokake Inn. Freshmen class officers. meeting during ac- tivity period in the executive board room. Eta Chi Epsilon party and initiation of new members; clubroom 7: 30 to 9 pm. and dance; 'Tuesday, December 16 tthrough 2m Basketball, invitational tournament Wednesday, December 17 Movie, The Keys to the Kingdom ; Audi- torium; 7 p.m. Thursday, December 18 Astronomy Club meeting; through telescope; room. Friday, December 19 Hillel Foundation meeting in the Blue and Gold room during the activity period. Newman Club meeting in the clubroom dur- ing activity period. 7-8 viewing 8-9 meeting in the club- MOVIE REVIEW By Mitchell and Harris Taken from the novel of the same name, Nightmare Alley is a quick moving, not too convincing story of the rise of a mentalist from a carnival mind- reading act to the big money spook racket. The mentalist, Stan Carlisle iTyrone Powerl, makes a play for Zeena ann Blondelll in order to gain knowledge of a secret code which Zeena and her hus- band, Pete, used successfully in a big time vaudeville mind-reading act. Once Stan has the code he drops Zeena and moves into a night club mind-reading act at which he is very successful with the assistance of his wife Mollie lColleen Grayi. A visit to a psychiatrist, Lilith Ritter lHelen Walkerl, leads to a plan for a partnership in which she is to sup- ply confidential information for Stan to use in his proposed spiritualism racket. Zeena and another carnival friend Bruno tMike Mazurkil pay a visit to Stan and Mollie and during the visit Zeena tells Stan's fortune, predicting downfall if he goes on with his new plans. Stan ignores Zeena's warning and goes on with his plans which do lead to his downfall. Joan Blondell turned in far and away the best performance of the picture in one of the best roles of her career. Ty- rone Power and Colleen Gray were ex- cellent at times but were given to uncon- vincing portrayals in certain scenes which may have been due to the directing or to the script. Taylor Holmes, who drew raves in Kiss of Death suffered notice- ably in trying to portray an unrealistic, almost impossible character. The death scene of Pete, who is played well by Ian Keith, is the highlight of the picture with Miss Blondell 'at her very best. , On the whole the picture was handled well, following the book in the essential places except for the ending, which though changed, kept all the impact and suspense of the original story. + Can you identify these two lines? If you can, turn your name and answer in to Bear Tracks. Next week we will pub- lish the names of the winners. My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings. Associated Students Dance, Christmas For- mal, 8 p.m. in the Gymnasium Saturday, December 20 Woodson Club formal dance. Monday, December 22 Freshman class officers meeting in the ex- ecutive board room. Phi Chi meeting, Blue and Gold room from 7-9 p.m. 4 BEAR TRACKkPHOENlX COLLEGE Getting Square Pegs Out of the Round Holes lPart One of Four: The lnterviewl Veterans! After grades came out three weeks ago were you disappointed? Did you think yourself up against a misun- derstanding world? Or did you consider your instructors not quite on the ball? Dry your tears. Things need not look so bleak. Our Veterans' Guidance Cen- ter can do wonders in helping you find whether or not you should continue study- ing that course. Mr. E. C. Thoroman interviews Doug Murphy y Mr. E. C. Thoromanuot the Veterans' Guidance department, states that many enter their life'Stwork by happenstance ; they enter a field because of parental per- suasion or pressure, they just drifted into the work, or their friends all did that for a living: Going into the economic world an individual faces much competition. He should go into that field of work where his interests and abilities are used to best advantage. There are many people going into various occupations who have no ability for work in the field of their choice and would be better off, economically and psy- chologically it they could have known this. When someone first comes in, undecided, he is interyiewed. Through this his recreational and OCCUpational likes and dislikes are found. Many of the boys entering the services were undecided about the type of work they would follow. Some found new occupational interests and when discharged planned to continue in that field. These pre-service and post-service interests and occupations are looked into also. After the interview is conducted, the exact tests to be given are determined in accordance with the interests and education the person has had. There are in- numerable tests. Only some of them could possibly be helpful to the respective in- dividual. If a person had never reached the eighth grade, it would be inadvisable to give him tests on the college level. This guidance work, of which the interview is the first step, can be very help- tul. Just assembling blocks and answering questions might seem rather stupid, but if it can lead you to find an occupation for which you might be better suited, it would be far from that. Any veteran interested in these guidance tests should consult the Veterans' Guidance Center, Room 103 Liberal Arts building. The Veterans' Administration will pay the necessary fees. Next week we will discuss the following step in the vocational guidance work: Paper Tests and Manual Dexterity Tests. Pat Ball is another of the golden-haired I beauties roaming our campus; A liberal NeXt Fl'lday arts student, she hopes to' major in Span- The annual Christmas Formal iSh' Pal wan the Al' sponsored by the A. W. S. will h M G Cl . ?nasp:ni5:m:;a' ;::;h be held on Friday, December 19 High last year. Maybe in the Phoenix College gymna- she likes Spanish so sium. The following committee we because She 5W? heads were chosen by Jo Seiber, :Cel1:; '5: 5:11:52; president; Decorations, Mharoia , She is an ardent roof- McConoughey and Pat Grippm; ' e, at all the footba refreshments, Carolyn Parsons; J . . t r' games, and is special- publicity, Mary Hannelly and ly interested in basketball. Dancing and Sona Halleh, music, Pat Wheat; riding are favorite pastimes with her too. and program, Shirley LaTourette. w H The a v e r a g e weIl-educated person uses from two to five thousand words; plans. We would ke '0 know d exceptionally gifted authors rarely dou- while it is still NEWS. ble that number. Please let us know of your advance Stage Doorii Play Cast Revealed Masque and Dagger has announced the cast for Stage Door the dramatic production to be given January 15, 16, and 17. The play centers around a room- ing house inhabited by aspiring young actresses. lt pictures their trials .and trib- ulations. Those in the cast are: Olga, Beverly Seiff; Matti, Olive Grasham; Big Mary, Esther Kirk,- Liltle Mary, Elizabeth McDonald; Bernice, Isabel Casares: Madeleine, Ida Price; Judith, Barbara Rosenberg; Ann, Pat Dunne; Kaye, Joan Kearnes; Linda, Velma Jean Caviness; Jean, Jane Jones; Bobby, Bev- erly Coleman; Louise, Mariorie Sonnenschein; Susah, Mary Hannelly; Pat, Darleen Ander- son; Kendall, Amelia Malewski; Terry, Marilyn Blair; Tony, Marian Wild; Ellen, Jo Waddie; Mrs. Orcutt, Barbara Miller,- Mrs. Shaw, Doro- thy Saunders; Frank, Evert Furrey; Sam, Don Sypherd; Devereaux, Jerry Wilson; Powell, Har- old Engle; Milhauser, Frank Lundstrom; Kings- ley, Robert Bloecker; Keith, Dave Garber; Dr. Rendail, Grant Johnson; Larry, Don Bonine; Billy, Dick Sypherd; and Gretzel, George Dol- mas. + CLUB NOTES Members of Alpha Sigma Gamma assisted with the annual Alumni Association Tea, Sun- day, December 7, at the home of Mrs. Oscar C. Palmer, .29 East Country Club drive. Mrs. Mary Stevens, alumni president, greeted the guest. She was assisted by Nadine Howard, Sandy Chrest, and Mary Hannelly. tAttending during the afternoon were Alpha Sigma Gamma Alumni and officers: officers of Alpha, Phi Lambda Zeta, Theta Chi Delta and Kappa Delta Nu, college sororities; pledges of the active group and college faculty. + pr. Charles Kendall, pastor of Central Meth- odist Church spoke on the possibilities of union among the protestant churces 0t Amer- ica at the last official meeting of the Student Christian Association. in a special meeting held yesterday committees were appointed to plan the club's Christmas Vesper service which will be held December 22. w A new sorority, Delta Pi, is being organized on our campus. The main objectives of the group are iii Service to the school. i2i Serv- ice to the sorority. All members will be re- quired to devote a minimum of two hours of active service to the school. The present charter members are Barbara Wolcott, Margie Moore, Maxine Wright, Jackie Bacon, Hazel Williams, and Mary Jo Claypoole. At a recent meeting, the following tem- porary officers were elected; Jackie Bacon, president; Hazel Williams, vice-president; and Mary Jo Claypoole, secretary-treasurer. Miss Nichols will sponsor the new sorority. The plan for the scholarship program, will be especially new and different. The member with the highest grade average at the end of each semester will have the honor of wearing a gold scholarship key during the following semester. + New members of Sigma Kappa Phi were formally initiated into the fraternity at a meeting in the P. C. club room on Friday, December 5. The following members were received by the group: Graham Bullock, Dick Bullock, Dave Garber, Bill Hinkley, Bob Lamb, Lee Linderman, Ed Liberman, Jitter McDan- nold, Cecil Nash, Bert Nelson, Ruppert So- Relle, Ted Westervelt, John Myers, and Brooks DuBose. Following the initiation , the group ad- journed 'to a dinner at El Gordo's restaurant. The dinner was followed by a party at the home of Brooks DuBose, 2729 East Camelback Road, to which all members and their dates were invited. W Members of Alpha sorority were honored in their pledges at a dinner held at the Tamale Shop on Wednesday, December 10. Official Student Publication of Phoenix College 315ear QErack5; PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1947 Methodist Minister Speaks At Assembly Dr. Gordon Chapman, minister of First Methodist Church, addressed the student body in assembly, December 16. He urged each student to find a religious faith that suited him. Dr. Chapman gave the group four suggestions for finding this faith: bring religion up' to date in- tellectually, make it emotionally satisfy,- ing, ethically elevating, and socially shar- able. Dr. Chapman suggested that re- ligion is the search by the lonely one for the only one. + FLICK! Another in the series of full-length movies was presented at 3 p.m. and 7:30 ' p.m. on Wednesday, December 17. The movie, presented in the auditorium, was A Bell For Adano. WINTER VISITOR GETTING SQUARE PEGS OUT OF THE ROUND HOLES Part Two of Four: Paper Tests and Manual Dexterity Tests Last week we covered the interview. Now let us tell you about the tests. There are from eight to ten psycho- logical and vocational tests. The names of some might be familiar to you such as the Strong's Vocational Interest, which, by asking your likes and dis- likes, measures occupational interests; Bell Inventory, thch measures somal adjustment There are about six manual dex- terity and finger manipulation tests. Two of these are the tweezer dexterity test and the Minnesota Spatial Relations test lsee picturel. lnnumerable abilities can be detected. Some of these are: Musical, by the Sea- shore method, a listening test for tones, pitch, etc.; artistic, by paper tests of pictures and required drawing; mechanical, by the manipulation tests and by paper tests on tool recognition and solving mechanical problems; engineering, by problem solving in higher mathematics; selling, this takes in both the personality test and a clerical ability test, one which reveals capacity of checking numbers and names accurately; and drafting, which is measured by having one fill in and draw outline forms. The results are then prepared for interpretation and analysis. These tests are carefully scored and analyzed by qualified people. Though kept confidential, the results are revealed to the person taking the test. No information is withheld. Veterans interested in taking tests should consult the Veterans' Guidance Cen- ter, Room 103 Liberal Arts building. They are also open to non-veterans on payment of a tee. Next issue we will discuss the following step in the vocational guidance work: Advisement- after the analysis and interpretation of the tests. CHRISTMAS FORMAL SOCALITES SASHAY AT SANTA'S SOIREE Purple stockings, goldfish, blue-rimmed glasses, artificial freckles, stuffed animals : all will be left at home tonight in favor of more elegant dress as the girls take their self-chosen dates to the annual Christmas formal sponsored by the Associ- ated Women Students. Even the gymnasium will be arrayed with yuletide trimmings. From the ceiling will hang a giant, silver bell, and you can hang your stockings, not the nylons of course, on the Christmas tree. And it won't be in vain, for Santa Claus will be there. Yes, indeed. Technically . . . the dance is not for- mal; you fellows don't need to wear tuxedoes, dark suits will be perfectly in order. However, the girls won't pass up the opportunity to dress to the hilt. Highlighting the evening's program will be the grand march and the tradi- tional prize waltz. Gordon Wallace's orchestra will provide the music; AWS president Jo Sieber has an- nounced the following committees: Pat Grippen and Marcia McConoughey, dec- orations; Shirley LaTourrette, programs; Sona Hallen and Mary hHannelly, pub- licity; Pat Wheat, orchestra; Caroline Parsons, refreshments. + SCA SPONSORS CHRITMAS VESPERS The Student Christian Assooiation is sponsoring a Christmas Vesper service Monday, December 22, in the PC audi- torium at 8 p.m. The vespers will fea- ture the Christmas scriptures and music, and a holiday message given by Rev. George Walker of the Phoenix londian Presbyterian Church. The SCA wishes to invite the student body, their fami- lies and friends to attend this service. On the committee arranging the pro- gram are Jay Higgs, Harry North, Marian Plueddeman, Dottie Lou Harrington, and May Belle Lauderdale. BEAR TRACKS-e-PHOENlX COLLEGE A t BEAR TRACKS Official Publication of the Student Body . of Phoenix College Co-Editors . Frank Burch, Kerlin Rowland Issue Editor ...................... Frank Burch Assistant Editors Pat Mitchell. Pat Harris Page Editors ................. Marian Plueddeman Jan Hedrik, Lee lngalls Photography ................................ John Boskon Reporters: Don Biscoe, Don Levenhagen, Herb Surrett, Jim Agee, Betty Pagan. Photographers....Jan Hedrik. Jitter McDannold Faculty Advisor Raymond C. Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. HOSTS OR HOODLUMS? The two home games with Glendale proved to be successful by way of score and attendance. Our pint-sized gym swelled at the seams from the capacity crowds of last Friday and Saturday nights. Yes, things went well for dear old PC. Still, there was one thing about these games that we should correct - but quiqk! This sore spot was the unsports- manlike conduct exhibited by some few students,. who persisted in casting slur- ring remarks at the referees and the Glendale players. Our team needs and welcomes our support, but surely we can cheer our boys without insulting the refs and opposing players. Can it be that some PC students feel so inferior that they must resort to crude remarks to place themselves in the limelight? We hope not because our players have always been well received in California, and it is only right for the Californians to expect courtesy in return. The popu- larity of our team was evidenced by the fact that the California tans cheered for Phoenix at the Chaffey and Compton tournaments of last year. Our team won the favor of these fans by playing hard, clean ball and by displaying good sports- manship. Are we, then, to disgrace our team and school by our rudeness? Here is another thing that we may well consider. We have a fine gym at P.U.H.S. and it is possible that some day Phoenix will be considered as a site for the Western States Basketball play-offs. This is something worth working for, and will come to pass'only if we make other teams feel welcome. Let's do our part ' to give Phoenix a reputation for courtesy and good sportsmanship. Our team has won the respect of opponents; let's follow the team's example. + All veterans who work during the holiday season must report all' earnings to the Veterans Ad- ministration. For additional in- formation and the necessary VA forms, see Mrs. Noble in Dean Hannelly's office. YULETIDE YARN EXEMPLIFIES CHRISTMAS SPIRIT Christmas time is near. The time of year for cheery greetings, the exchange of gifts and the spreading of glad tidings. We will have the usual flood of Christmas stories and songs on the radio, in the schools and in the churches. This we believe is a good thing and only regret that the spirit doesn't last all the year. There is one story in particular that grows in favor with the American public with the passing of each year. It is assuming the proportions of a real tradition. We refer, of course, to Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This is in a way remarkable since the story was written about an era long past, with the setting in a country most of us have only hearsay knowledge about, and the author an Englishman, not a native American. We wondered for a time about the popularity of this tale. What was its fas- cination? Why its general appeal to Mr. 8t Mrs. U.S.A., the kids and the family dog? We went back to Mr. Dickens' little fantasy to find out and we think we have the answer, an answer worth knowing and remembering, an answer that contains not only the Christmas spirit but also the ifabulous American attitude about ourselyes and our neighbors, an attitude that surmounts the barriers of race, creed, color or geographical boundaries. As near as we can remember Dickens let Tiny Tim voice the thought at the end of A Christmas Carol when he said, 'Merry Christmas, God bless us every one. THE KOIL'S KORNER l It's Christmas time again. The dec- orations are hung over the downtown streets and the stores are teeming with the shoppers and there's a tense ex- pectancy in the air. Go dOWntown to- morrow and walk around and look into the windows of the stores and into the faces of the people that you see. You'll get a kick out of the whole deal, and you'll go back home feeling that Phoenix is a good town filled with good people and that the world is a pretty decent place in which to live after all. Because that's what Christmas does to people. I don't know of anybody that's immune to theyfeeling of general good will and friendliness that pervades the holiday season. If there are any cynics around - at Christmas time, they manage to keep themselves pretty well out of the way. What is this mellownessthat mani- tests itself so strongly at this time of the year? It can't be a religious thing exclusively, because there are a lot of people for whom Christmas has no re- ligious significance, who are every bit as mellow when it rolls around as those who consider it an important part of their religion. It isn't snow and evergreen trees and all the rest of the traditional Christmas card stuff that people in colder climates have as a part of the holiday. For Christmas in Phoenix is not at all different, in spirit and mood, from Christmas in my home in the Mid-West, where the thing has all the trimmings. No, it isn't a question of geography or climate or anything else that's tangible and material. Christmas, I think, is simply this: It's a time when people concern themselves with the other guy's welfare and happi- ness. It's a time when we stop slugging and slashing and cutting each other down and remember that we're all brothers. It's the rememberance of that simple fact that makes the Christmas season the greatest season of the year. Wouldn't we all be better off if we kept the spirit of Christmas alive the whole year around? NEW MOVIE SCHEDULE Mr. J. Smith Decker has announced the schedule of full length movies for the rest of the year: Dec. l7--A Bell for Adana, starring John Hodiak, William Bendix, and Gene Tierney. Jan. l9-Keys of the Kingdom, Greg- ory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, and Roddy McDowell. i Feb. Z-As You Like It, Lawrence Oli- vier, Elizabeth Bergner. March 29eYoung Mr. Lincoln, Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, and Margery Wea- ver. I Put these dates on the calendar in your Blue Book ; let's support these free entertainments. Woodson Club At a recent meeting of the Woodson Club, final plans were made for the Christmas dance, which will be held Sat- urday, December 20, in the Phoenix Col- lege gymnasium. Also under discussion were plans for an assembly to be pre- sented by the club early in January, an- Inounced Rushia G. Fellows, president of the club. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE ALPHAS DINE-DANCE The gala holiday season was opened last weekend with a formal dinner dance given at Jokake Inn by the members of Alpha sorority. Sona Hallen, the social chairman, was assisted by Jane Luke in the preparations for the party; Bonnie Jo Sandy, the president, acted as hostess. The patio room, in which the dinner was held, was decorated with red carnatibns and red and white candles. The girls and their dates danced in the main din- ing room to the music of Gordon Wal- lace's orchestra. A feature of the eve- ningis entertainment was the balloon dance which was won by Bill Wilson and his date. Alpha's special guests were Miss Denny Lourdeau, Dr. Frances Mooseau, Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Han- nelly, Miss Jean Hunter, and the Alpha alumni. Alpha Sigma Gamma will entertain at their first Open House this evening in' the Club Room immediately preceding the Christmas Formal. Entertainment will- be provided by Maurine Kessenger at the piano with Patti Davis presenting vocal numbers. A holiday motif will be carried out in the decorations. Pledges of the group will serve cokes and hors d'oeuvres to their guests be- tween seven and nine o'clock. Although the entire student body is invited, spe- cial invitations have been extended to Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hannelly, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Smelser, Dr. Francis P. Mooseau, and the Phoenix College fac- ulty. Making arrangements for the refresh- ments will be Sandra Chrest and Pat Snuffer; heading the clean-up crew is Clara Hays; Nadine Howard and Love Veta Farmer are providing the costumes; the Christmas decorations are being made by Mary Hannelly and Doris Ruddell; Jo Waldie and Maqrine Kessenger will see that the show goes'on. Alpha: and elcorts Misses Scott, Sandy, Botsford, Plueddeman and gents CAMPUS PERSONALITY One of the bright spots on the campus of culture conscious Phoenix College is Jim Commando Carroll. Jim comes to PC from P.U.H.S. i'43i via the Marine Corps. Here at PC he is studying law and plans to attend law school at Berkeley, California. Scholastics are just a fractional HR part of Jim's campus l' :N 3 activities. In addition 3' jig 57 'to serving as a stu- dent body officer, he is active in drama- tics, politics, and athletics, to say noth- ing of holding down a part time job after school. Jim is known by his smiley face. lMust have a'good dispositionl. And in Jim's opinion women are here to stay. sob French Club Frolic Every year the French Clubymembers add their bit to the Christmas season by singing French carols de Noel. This year the club, assisted by the French students, met at 7 p.m. last night at the home of Miss Jean Hunter, sponsor of the group, 61 East Thomas Road, and continued on their way through town. The party ended at the home of Caro Solosth for refreshments. Usually the club holds a Yuletide party and exchange gifts, but this year the group has collected money to purchase a CARE box to send to the needy people of France. NWWEWKV' MERRY XMAS from BEAR TRACKS hWWWN Frat Festivities Tau Omega plans to have its formal initiation following hell week at the El Gordo Restaurant on N. Central Ave. The T0 pledges are Tom Barrett, Leon Blevins, Bax Carson, Clair Folk, Bill Finch, Wayne G r i p p e n , Ed Hubbell, Marty H u m p h r e y , Al Moore, Wally Perry, Ronald Prator, and John Williams. The TO's are having their Christmas dance on December 29, at Paradise .lnn. Mickey McMahan and his orchestra will furnish the music for dancing. In addi- .tion to the alumni of the frat, the presi- dents of the other fraternities and sor- orities will also be invited. Working with President Stelson Allen and social chair- man Richard Rubie on the dance are Chuck Sherrill, John W i I l i a m s , Bill Mo on e y , Charles Pensinger, and Gus Pickerell. Eta Chi Party Eta Chi Receives New members of Eta Chi Epsilon sor- ority were received by the group at for- mal initiation ceremonies in the Club Room on Monday, December 15. The ceremonies were part of the annual Christmas party, and at that time the pledges presented stuffed animals which they have been making for the Mari- copa County Children's Home.- New members who were initiated were Lois Ahlene, Arlene Allen, Shirleen AI-r len, Clarice Beck, Betty Jane Brantly, Joan DeFoy-, Jeanette Edwards, Love Veta Farmer, Alice Farrell, Barbara Fisacker- ly, Mary Hartman, Sadie Kohatsu, Jane Luke, Barbara McClanahan, Elizabeth McDonald, Belva Nottingham, Margaret Oliver, Jean Phillips, Elenore Schuelor, Elizabeth Van Akin, Fong Yee, and Alice Young. Decorations of the room carried out the Christmas theme. Those ih charge .of arrangements were Virginia Meinholt, president; Beverly Woods, social chair- man; Betty Jo Baker, program chair- man, and Mary Ellen Farrell, general chairman in charge of pledges. Sport Slants Thirteen of the West's top two-year college quintets have been paraded be- fore the basketball fans of Phoenix dur- ing the past three days in the Phoenix Invitational Tournament at Phoenix Un- ion's spacious gymnasium. Ten teams were featured Tuesday when the tourney opened with Long Beach City College and Sacramento Col- lege tangling in the initial event that afternoon. Fullerton, California, and the Branch Aggies of Utah followed the opening contest, and that evening Comp- ton College and Gila JC, the Phoenix College Bruins and Amarillo, Texas, and the fives from Snow College of Utah and Pasadena, California, provided the action for the many spectators who were on hand for the opening contests. Wednesday found th ree other top .teams, Los Angeles City College, Ven- tura, and John Muir of Pasadena, enter- ing the second round play by virtue of a bye in the first day games. Classing the tournament as a non- elimination affair, Coach George Dutch Hoy, Bruin athletic director and basket- ball chief, stated that this type of tour- ney will give each team a chance to play at least three games and will give the coaches a chance to see how his team plays against several different types of basketball. Not only will this give the squads a chance to meet d i ffe re n t schools, but also will give them an idea of how they will stack up for a chance to become the western representatives 'to the National JC Tournament in March. Not only have the fans of the local city had the pleasure to see some of the top teams of the double year schools, but also some terrific stars of these teams. The Compton squad, claimants to last year's national crown and one of the tourney's heaviest favorites, have three men that are certainly pleasing to any crowd. Bob Crowe, holding down a forward spot and a man that is all over the court; Carl Kraushuar, the coast squad's dependable center; ,and Dan Ducich, who is always there at the cen- ter spot when the big Kraushuar is on the'bench. From Fullerton comes one of the best players that the local Bruins claim they have faced, who is Herb Wil- son, their crafty center. And as long as we are picking individual stars there is always the PC squad, the host team of the tournament, with Leon Blevins and Gil Trejo making most of the show. With all the glittering stars from these high- powered teams, think of the job it would BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE be to pick an aIl-tourney team. The semi-tinals were the 'big event of yesterday with 4 undefeated teams clash- ing, and tomorrow the finals will come up with that last two winners risking their perfett records for the affair. The pre-tournament dope had the last two teams coming from Compton, LACC, Long Beach, and the Bruins in the last game of Saturday night, with the ex- plosive Tartars from Compton figuring as the team most likely to be there when the two teams take the floor. Action in the John Muir game. Art Carroll in a scramble with two Muir hoop- sters: Leon Blevins watches in the back- gtound. The Bears won, 54 to 45. Yesterday began the first in a series of inter-class volleyball games between freshman and sophomore girl teams. The games will be played every Thursday dur- ing activity period from now on and the winners will be decided on a two out of three decision. Girls who participated in yesterday's 'game were Paula Purseley, Rae Standi- ford, Gye Grammar, Joyce Roche, Vir- ginia McCarley, Jeanne Gary, Catherine Neal, Betty Payne, Audrey Toncray, Mary Jane Odle, Arleen Irion, Sadie Kohatsu, Margaret Oliver, Pat Wheat, Lila Heflin, and Iris Chester. l Free throw, Glendale game BRUINS GET REVENGE WITH WINS OVER VAQUEROS The Phoenix College Bears dumped the Glendale, California Vaqueros twice last weekend for respective scores of 51- 40 and 50-42. in sweeping the twin bill, however, the Hoymen appeared be- low par and except for. brief flurrys, displayed little of their smooth floor game and tricky passing. In the first game, the Phoenix five got off to a fast start and put on an ex- cellent show of ball handling in the first 0quarter. Leon Blevins and Gil Treio did most of the crowd-pleasing flipping. After piling up a comfortable lead in the first period, however, the local quint started to coast and the game was rag- ged from there on out. Coach Hoy startled the fans at the second game by starting a reserve five. Only after the Vaqueros had stacked up a nine point lead did Hoy send in his regulars. They soon had the game in con- trol but still showed only flashes of their top form. The two games were loaded with miscues for both sides and at times the referees seemed a bit overzealous in calling errors. However, no complaint was heard about the fairness of the of- ficiating. l Shining for the Bruins in the second set-to. was Larry Fuller, who canned some nice shots. Treio and Blevins handled the ball around the court with deceptive ease and big Fred Roche stood out in both games on defense. Although the Bears were outdone by the coast five in the' rebound department, Bill Hammon- tree of the locals managed to snag his share. ! NOFFICIAL PROGRAM HOEHIX IIWITHTI COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP annensnu TO A name xx r' DECEMBER 16-20 1947 Welcome to Phoenix . . . Phoenix College and the Phoenix Thunderbirds extend to youeploryers, coaches and visttors-the courtestes of Phoenix. We trust you'll find Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun to your liking and hope you'll return home With pleasant memoriese-Win, lose or draw. It is impossible for each cmd every team to emerge the champion but good luck to all, and, to use c: tried and true phrase, may the best team Win. PHOENIX COLLEGE PHOENIX THUNDERBIRDS APPRECIATION The sponsors of the Phoenix College Invitational Basketball Tournament Wish to thank the Rotary Club of Phoenix for donating the beautiful championship trophy. Also, a hearty thank you to 0:11 Who have made this event possible, the press, radio, Central Arizona Basketball Officials Association and the many Phoenix civic clubs. One and 0111 have lent CI big hand in making the tournament c: success. AWARDS CEREMONY: Presentation of awards Will be made immediately following final games Saturday night. James Coles, president of the Phoenix Thunderbirds, will preside at the presentation. The Phoenix Rotary Club Will be represented at the ceremony and Will present the champion- ship trophy. SPORTSMANSHIP TROPHY: manship on the basketball floor. Court officials, referees and umpires, will select the team which displays the best sports- N SPURTE 'EUUIPMENT XI; X J FOR ALL SPORTS Basketball Baseball Softball Football 1 Golf f Tennis Badminton 7 Seuwh. . A ' uni 5, 1 , PHOENIX 732 W. Van Buren 723 Grand Ave. Other Stores in Glendale. Mesa. Chandler, Buckeye. Coolidge. Casa Grande t ATHLETIC HEADQUARTERS SARATCGA CAFE i'i'iz SERVING THIRD GENERATION GOOD FOOD 'AT MODERATE PRICES I Phoenix College Invitational Taumament December 1 6-20, 194' 7 TOURNAMENT OFFICIALS - Tounmment Director - George D. Hoy - Executive Tournament Committee - Dr. E. W. Montgomery Dr. Robert Hannelly John Riggs George Ahee I. N. Smelser Clark Duncan Ben Alexander Dix Price Tournament Committee Chaimcm - Housing Press Entertainment I. N . Srhelser Virginia Botsford Cecil Kerstin Bob Williamson Programs Advertising OHicicxls Alumni Association Fred Roche Gene Holmes, pres. Letterman's Association Sale George Dolmas Central Ariz. Officials Association Don Goodwin Scoring Timing Tickets Johnny Riggs George Ahee Bob Wilkinson Leo Dominquez John Koppen A. L. Phelps Joe Brundige Rcrul Mariscal Dix Price Don Glaze Henry Rieger Ushers Phoenix College Inter-Frcrternity Council TOURNAMENT AWARDS Championship Team Trophy .................................................................................................. Rotary Club 15 Gold Basketballs .......................................... . ................................. Phoenix College Runnerup Team Trophy .............................................................. Phoenix College Alumni Assoc. 15 Silver Basketballs ....... . .................................................................... Phoenix College Third Place - Team Trophy .......................................................................................... Phoenix College Fourth Place Team Trophy .......................................................................................... Phoenix Co 11gge Consolation Team Trophy .......................................................................................... Phoenix College Sportsmanship Team Trophy ......................................................................................... Phoenix College hm A -- -s .. Making The Final Arrangements 3W Above is a picture 0! Dutch Hey, tournament director. conferring with Alumni Association members of the tournament committee. When the picture was taken, the group was engrossed in completing tinal arrangements. Greetings T0 0ur Visitors This is the first in what we hope Will be a long series of Phoenix College Invitational Basketball Tournaments. We are glad to greet all representa- tives of the institutions Who will take part in this event. The greatest outcome of such an aiaiir is not the idea of Winning the championship, but to participate in such a contest and show the highest type of sports- manship and athletic ability, A request. If such tournaments do not promote real sports- manship, they are hardly worth the effort and money to stage them. We, here at Phoenix, hope that we serve you well, and make your preeCchristmas visit so enjoyable that you Will remember our institution and the tournament long after it has passed into history. Dr. Robert Hannelly Dean This, the first Phoenix Invitational Basketball Tournament, is an early season event staged . primarily as a clinic for coaches and players. It is requested that you, the sports fans of Phoenix, lend understanding in bearing with the efforts of the teams and 'players participating. It will be appreciated if all will refrain from unsportsmanlike activities. Thank you. The Tournament Committee The Team To Beat COMPTON COLLEGE TARTARS It was Compton that won the mythical national junior college title last year with a thrilling extra period win from the host Phoenix College five. The score of that heated contest was 63-59 and it was the climax of the Western States Tourney at Compton. Phoenix will be out to remedy what they claim was a blotch on their excellent 1946-47 record and Compton will be equally as eager to prove the 1947 tourney wni was no fluke. Tartar mentor Bill Schleibaum has a veteran team returning and has bolstered his squad with players boasting all this and that rating in high school. Heading the list of Compton stellar players is Bob Crowe. It was Crowe who was selected the player of the Western States Tournament. Another lad who made the Western States all-tournament team returns in the person of big, 6' 6 , Carl Kraushaar, a whale of a center. A third all-tourney selection with the Tartars is Ralph iVolante who won that honor in 1945. He was out of school the past two years. Schleibaum's array of all-stars includes 10 other honor winners. There's Dan Ducich, the man who was the star of that famed overtime period and all- state Montana in 1942; and a half dozen prep school all-sectional selections. Phoenix, and the 11 other entrants, have a big task ahead. Off pre-tourney dope Compton must rate the favorites role. And Another Contender LOS. ANGELES CITY COLLEGE Coach Bob Fuhrer takes over the coaching reins of the Los Angeles City College basketball squad for the 1947-1848 season, in hopes to. put the Cub institus tion back on the map in the Casaba sport. Fielding probably one of the smallest quintets in the history of the school, Fuhrer will depend mostly on speed and dead eye shooters on his club to keep the L. A. C. C. boys in the running in the Western States Tournament. Art Shepherd, in the minds of the coaches, is one of the greatest guards to appear on the Cub hard- wood. His smooth ball handling, plus beautiful deception on the floor, rates him high as all- conterence material. Shepherd hails from Portland, Oregon, where he won fame at Benson Tech High School. For two years he won laurels as All-City guard. Harold Uplinger, the youngest member on the Cub's first five, is a local boy, coming from Marshall High School. Upy stands 6'3 , and will rate watch- ing. While playing for Marshall he earned All-City honors, and All-League honors. Bob Gillis is another local lad on the Los Angeles City College roster. He hails from Hollywood High where he won All-League honors in the Western division. A deadueye on the court, plus a lay-up artist, makes him first string on the Cub aggregation. Brian Courcier and lack Sparks share honors at the other guard post. Sparks was All-City while play- ing for Los Angeles High School in 1945 Courcier is up from the junior varsity, which he held a first string birth while his team won 18 consecutive games before dropping their only two to the U. S. C. and U. C. L. A. frosh teams. - Probably two of the flashiest forwards on the Cub varsity are Allan Fletcher and Chuck Satterfield. These boys teamed up while playing for North Holly- wood High, and make a dangerous combination at the forward post. your J-lost jeam By Bob Williamson Sportswriter. The Phoenix Gazette i: i it In the span of a scant year Phoenix College has risen from the average ranks to the summit of junior college cage play, and now finds its 1947-48 quintet among the favorites of its own invitational basketball tournament which supports cr roster loaded With the classiest jcrycee teams in the western section of the nation. Responsible for this hardwood revival at Phoenix College are Veteran Coach George tDutchl Hoy cmd a whole host of former Phoenix City prep stars who together have made the Bruin high scoring casabo: five one of the most feared in the West. Last year Hoy's Hustlers averaged 63 points per game and won 29 of 33 contests besides annexing the championship of the preseason Chaffey College tournament and placing runner-up to Compton in the West- ern States meet later in the campaign. Six lettermen'return from the quint that swept past the most high-powered clubs of the West and they are currently speorheading the Bears to another bcmner year, having already trounced Chaffey at Ontario, Calif., 74-56 and 69-55 while holding a single Win over New Mexico State Teachers College of Silver City. The locals lost a close 40-38 decision but came back strong the next evening for CI 42-35 verdict. Hoy's crew played without the service of Captain Gilbert Trejo, high scoring forward both tussles. The Bears primarily crre cm offensive-minded group of rabbit-like cagers While probably possessing c1 weak defensive unit. Usually Hoy's hoopsters build up or big advantage, coast- ing along until their opponents ccm catch up With the fast pace. They, according to Coach Hoy, are the most inconsistent tecrm he has ever tutored. ' Actually it is difficult to install the Bears or any other team as favorites since every quintet in the meet has an excellent opportunity to find itself fighting for the title because all of the thirteen squads entered ctre potent aggregations, representing the finest cage Clubs of the nation. From the humble sportswriters' viewpoint, it'll be the team that can set a torrid pace- and hold it receiving the championship trophy Saturday night. The squad that Wins Will have to be hot throughout the entire tourney for CI letdown Will only spell out d;e-f-e-CI-t. Fred Roche, c 6'4 So. Art Carroll, g 6 5'10 So. 6'1 So. Gilbert Trejo, f 5'9 So. 6111: Ferris Ellington, q 5'9 Fr. Bill Hammontree, g So. Leon Blevins, f 6'1 So. Larry Fuller, f 5'11 Fr. Eddie Cavanaugh, g 5'6 Fr. E 9 I 527:00 .ARIZQNAS- 1 FIN EST 1!:ka DRIVEeVIN a ,. ZEDININQLROQM 3v . 4- .' . . - .A 1 0 out o. . '1? 52d HOT FOODS To Take Home, 3000 N. Central - North of Thomas Road ' Closed Mondays ' 0 r, P A S A D E N A Pasadena, c1 member of the strong Western States Conference, is a tournament dark horse. However, this hotbed of high classbasketbcdl has come forth With a winning ball club since the days of major league baseball star Jackie Robinson. Robinson was a four-sport' star at Pasadena prior to enrolling at UCLA. Pasadena is coached by former Michigan State College luminary Leslie C. Bruckner. Last year the Bulldogs went through c: tough schedule to lose to Phoenix in the second round of the Western States tournament in Compton. Pasadena Bulldogs Left to right, Top row: Fm- hngn, Emerson, Mayer, Baker, Abbott. Bruckner Coacm. Middle row: Blake, Watson, Spencer, Moss, Lamorecxux. McMm-die. Bradshaw, Shipman. Bottom row: Johnson, Bob Rouzer, Gaspar, Lucas. Ramiriz. Finnie. A A AA A A A FAA A A A AA A A Amarillo Badgers Left to right. Front row: Pate, Babb, Wiggins tco-ccxpu, Brotherton tco-cath, Williams, Carter tcouchi. Second row: Myers, Bell. Kile. Martin, Roark. Back row: Osgood tmng, Ballard, Rogers, 1.. Iones. Hinkamp. Kenney. AMARILLO With Sacramento and Utah's Branch Aggies, Amarillo gets the honor of traveling the 4 most miles to compete in the first annual Phoenix tournament. The Badgers competed in the Compton tourney last year but had the unfortunate honor of playing Compton' 1n the first round. Coach Robert P. Carter rates his club a better outfit this year. One thing is for certain, it will probably rank as one of the tourney's tallest clubs. Ten men top the 6'1 mctrk. Amarillo, undoubtedly, will emerge near the top of the standings When the curtain falls on the meet Saturday night. X1 i'mm. e'r't 'x'J. Phone 4-1709 X. Phoenix Brake Service 81 Supply Co. Brakes Relined Scientific Wheel Aligning Come In and Let Us Give You the Breaks 350 W. Van Buren PHOENIX, ARIZONA 19606an CoHeg Lu WW 0779A! 9 17714 .. 76 120 $ecem6er l94 l Ila fzbm. w... 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I 6 : 3 O 6- LOSER 0F 3 'Dlace. l-UINNER 0F 24 24.0551? 0F 24 WINNER or23 mom 0F 23 5-WINNER 0F 22 22 7 MORRIS ATHLETIC SUPPLY COMPANY. e FOR THE BEST; 132 North First Street' ' J PHOENIX VENTURA A veteran squad, with Q liberal sprinkling of'tcdented newcomers, puts this team among the top four in the tourney. Three of last year's starters, center Bob Thomason, and guards Milo Marinovich and Frank Doss, constitute the first five foundation. Venture comes into the tournament undefeated in three 1947 outings. Turned back by the fast traveling Pirate five were El Camino Junior College, 51-37, Santa Monica City College, 43-87, and a Ventura commercial team. Todorte, Murrell Binkley, the shortest man on the squad Cit 5'8 , and Thomasori lead the Pirates in the scoring column. Both are former, Venturct high School stars. Venture, another member of the newly formed Western States Conference, bears considerable tournament consideration. Venture: Pirates A picture at this year's Venture squad was unavailable at tournament time. Although the above is a picture of last year's starting five, three of the five are back this year. They are Bob Thomason. starting center. second from the left: Milo Mminovich, a first string guard. third from left.- and Frank Doss, the other starting guard, at the extreme right. h - hA - hA h-A---AAh--AeA hheAAAAV. vm w How Does The Tournament iWork? This event, Which has attracted nation-wide attention and highlights the Phoenix 1947-48 basketball season, is unique in that every quintet participating will play four games, win or lose. In the general run of tournaments single or double eliminations are the vogue. But the Phoenix InvitatiQnal allows the 13 contestants to meet four different opponents With losers vieing with losers and winners with winners wherever possible. Each time a club is defeated it drops into a lower bracket which enables a complete listing of the clubs, from the champion through 13th place, at the tournament's conclusion. This pre-season meet also permits a player limit of 15 and will aid coaches in sitting their new material more thoroughly for the remainder of their schedules. In effect, the tournament will serve as a gigantic basketball clinic, giving coaches an actual prospectus of their own squad and many of the fives they will have to engage later in the season. Tournament odds and ends . . . There are no less than two dozen all star selections, high school and college, competing in the tourney. Heading the list is Compton's flashy Bob Crowe and Phoenix Leon Blevins. Compton tops the list with 13 members of the s'quad that have an all something rating. Los Angeles City College is next, followed by Phoenix. Branch Aqgies has a Utah conference star in short Carlson Terry. Terry is quite a track star having placed in the javelin event last year . . . Speaking of track brings to mind the National Junior College Track and Field meet scheduled for Phoenix in May and sponsored by the Phoenix Thunder- birds. Meet Director Hoy reminds all school athletic directors to make early reservations for the meet which is sure to set an all-time attendance and participant record this May . . . Did you notice the no. 25 on the cover? There's a striking resemblance between the cover sharp- shooter and Phoenix' Leon Blevins. Phoenix fans and students will discover the similarity immediately. For convenience of Phoenix basketball enthusiasts we are listing the Phoenix College basketball schedule. December February 16-17-18-19-20 13-14 Phoenix Invitational Tournament Gila Iunior College December ; 1?February 27 ' 17 New Mexico State Teachers Ventura College Icmuary igebruary 9-10 I C C 11 John Muir College Ompton o ege 13mm 59mm Los Angeles City College Long Beach Clty College i L - February 1PM 27-28 Pasadena City College Ventura College a. March 1170muary . 5-6 i P d Ct 11 John Muir College asa ena 1y CO ege h March January 9-10-11-12-13 28-24 . Western Regional Tournament Los Angeles City College iCompton, Califomial January March 3031 2324.25-26.27 Compton College National Junior College Tournament February V tSpringfield, MOJ 6-7 V Road Gamesl Long Beach City College I947 Phoenix College Invitational Basketball Tournament Rosters Several schools failed to furnish program officials with rosters consequently their squads have been left out of the program. Number changes will be many as most schools will be wearing new uniforms, Which, in most cases, were received just prior to departure for the Phoenix tournamnt. In pointing out that this is cm early season tourney and that squads, numbers etc. are unstable, the tournament officials trust you'll bear With 'em. AMARILLO COLLEGE, Amarillo. Texas GILA COLLEGE, Thatcher. Ariz Coach Robert Carter Coach Bill Starr No. Player Age Ht. Wt. No. Player Age Ht. W1. 3 Kile, Iames ................................................ 19 5' 1V2 158 3 Gardner, Wendell .................................... 21 5' 9 135 4 Roark, Horace . 18 5' 9 150 4 Pace, Clyde ....... ...18 5' 7 145 5 Ballard, Iohn ........ ....18 5'10 150 5 Smith. Dole ,,,19 5'11 175 6 1Co-Ccpu Wiggins, Dick ....20 5' 9 150 6 Tanner, Richard ...24 5'11 150 7 Frazier, H. M. ................................ ....18 6' 2 160 7 Famsworth, Marien .................. 5'11 150 1. '8 Meyers, Charles ............................. ....18 5'11 150 8 Merrell, Adair ............................ 6' 11,72 150 1 9 Jones, Michael 18 6' 165 9 Peuse, Jess 5' 9 180 1 10 Babb, Patrick ..20 6' 2 165 10 Eaton, B111...,.. 5'10 150 11 Fate, Whit ......... ...23 6' 2 185 11 Savage. B111 . 6' 1V2 170 1 12 Williams, Glen . ....20 6' 3 190 13 Woods, Harold . 6' 1172 185 13 Bell, Iimmy .................................................... 20 6' 2 178 14 Johnson, Leo ............ 6' 4 185 14 Martin, Billy ................................................ 19 6' 4 180 15 Randall, Doyle ............................................ 17 5'10 152 15 Hinkamp, Carlos 5'11Vz 160 16 Hoops, lock ..... . 6' 1 175 16 1Co-CcrthBrothe1-ton Glen 6' 4 180 17 Wilson. Icck ..... 6' 1 150 17 Ayers, James ........ . 6' 2V2 175 18 Johnson, Kieih ................................. 5'11 170 18 Rogers Gerald. 6' 4 185 '9 Keeney' 11mm ----------------------------- 5 1' '50 JOHN MUIB COLLEGE, Pasadena. Calif. . Coach A1 Walton B. A. Cu Cedar -C1tY: .IJtah NO. Player Age H1. W1- COGCh Ra? LmdQWSt 50 Godfrey,Rober1 ............................................ 19 5'11 150 NO- Player 599 H'- W'- 51 Ruder, Ronald ..... .,..20 5'11 173 30 Miles, L. C. .23 5'10 170 52 McCutcheon, Henry ....23 6' 3 175 31 DeLcmd, Dick ..... 18 5'10Vz 155 53 Pruett, Paul ........... ....21 5'10 155 31 Terry, Carlson .23 5' 8 150 54 Schafer, John . 22 5'10 172 33 Thompson, Ray 24 5'11 155 55 Meyers, William ....23 5'10 155 36 Humphrios, Nyles 22 6' 2 185 56 Kreil, Marshall ..... ....21 6' 3 200 37 Allred, Arden ................. 22 5' 8 140 57 Salter, Richard ..... ....21 6' 2 185 37 DeLcnd, George ........................ 21 5'10 152 58 Pebley, Harlan ..... ....23 6' 2 170 38 Holyoak, Boyd .. 21 5'10 158 59 ChelL lack ......... ....21 6' 2 178 39 Nielsen, Lynn .. 20 6' 163 60 Roney. William . 21 6' 175 40 Peterson. Bob 18 6' 161 61 Moyer, Kenneth, ....22 6' 206 42 Fullmer, Eldon 5' 9 140 62 Keys,vlames ..; ....18 6' 4 202 431 Urie, Dave ............................................. 21 6' 170 63 Pizza, Louis ....19 v 6' 2 183 44 Mathews, Clark .................................. 23 6' 1 185 64 Hunt, William ...... ....19 5'11 170 Shenutt, Lowell ............................................ 18 5'10 160 65 Peterson, John . 20 6' 1 168 66 Burkhard. Frank ............. 6' 155 CONIPTON COLLEGE, Compton, Calif. Coach Willicnn Schleibaum LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE. Los Angeles. Calif. No. Player Age Ht. Wt. Coach Bob Fuhrer Crowe, Bob ....23 5' 9 150 No. Player Age Ht- WI- Owens, LeRoy .24 6' 2 180 3 Sparks, Jack ............................................. 18 6' 140 Violante, Ralph 21 5' 9 140 4 Gillis, Bob ..... 6' 160 Garcia, Matias .20 5'10 145 5 Gran, Jerry .. 6' 145 Darrow, Harold .. .. .21 5'11 175 5 Garcia, Ray 5' 8 150 Kraushuar, Carl .20 6' 4 195 7 Seandell, Acre 6' 140 Ducich Dun 22 5' 3 198 8 Shepherd. Art 5'11 159 Warren. Bill . .20 5'11 165 9 Fox, Bernell . 6' 160 Deeter, Ray .21 6' 170 10 Kemp, Nibs ....... 6' 2 180 Brownlie, Ray .23 5'11 145 11 Courcier, Brian . 6' 1 165 Hill, Pat ..... .19 5' 9 146 12 Wade, Tom 6' 2 190 Stanley, Bill . .19 6' 1 175 13 Uplinger, Harold 6' 3 160 Gregory, Bob . .26 6' 2 175 14 Bell, Art ................ 6' 3 215 Little, Bill ..... .20 6' 175 - 15 Sutterfield, Chuck 6' 170 Tilcock, Allen .. .18 6' 148 16 Fletcher, Allen 5'10 175 Pearson, Norman .20 5'11 155 17 Guzilc. Leo ......... 6' 4 215 Clark, Walter ...... ....19 5' 7 165 Richards, Ray ............. 6' 168 m l947 Phoenix College Invitationalm Q: Basketball Tournament Rosters PASADENA COLLEGE, Pasadena. Calif. SACRAMENTO COLLEGE. Sacramento. Calif. Couch Les Bruckner Cogch Ned Kay No. Player Age Ht. Wt. No. Player Age Ht. Wt. 1 Brown,1cxmes171' ........................................ 17 6' 1 175 17 Chase. Ricrard ............................... 23 6' 2 170 26 Shipman, L, Gordon ..21 6' 1 155 12 Hader. Iacob ..... 21 5' 9 156 27 Elake, James .............. 23 5'11 175 '15 Hanlcn, Robert . 5' 93A 145 21 Iohnson, Robert . .20 5'11 158 '13 Leibe. Robert . 6' 3 200 18 Finnie. George .......... 24 5' 4 194 0 Lewis, Dave 6' 3122 180 31 Lormorecux. Norbert ........ 6' 4 194 11 McDonnell, Jim 6' 4 175 Moss, Tom .......................... 6' 3 185 23 McKenzie. Don ........... 5'10V2 150 Moyer, George . 6' 3 170 5 Newsome, Lorry .. 21 6' 0 155 24 Gasperl Edward 5'10 150 '18 Ostman. John .. .21 6' 6 205 32 Tueas,1ack 5'10 165 Patterson, John .22 5'11 155 23 Rcuzer, Jerry ..... 5'10 170 ' 5 Perish, Jerry .20 6' 134 205 25 Ramirez, Anthony . 5'10 155 8 Roach, Larry .18 5' 9 165 30 Spencer, Bed ..... 5'11 165 9 Schwall, Irvin .. .20 6' 2 187 Abbott, Don ..... .. 5'10V2 165 3 Scurfield, Ralph .19 5'10 150 20 Bradshaw, Donald ...................................... 18 6' 170 '16 Thompson. Bill .. .18 6' 1 165 29 McMurdie, Iack ................................. 18 6' 3 165 10 Yelle, Archie ............. ....25 6' 1 180 22 Watson, Harry .................................. 20 5'11 170 'Indicctes Probable Starting meup. 2 VENTURA JUNIOR COLLEGE, Ventura. COM. PHOENIX COLLEGE, Phoenix. Ariz. Coach Russ Hackler Coach George 1Dutch1 Hoy N0. Player Age 11:. Wt. No. Player Ht. WI- 3 Ballard, Bud ................................................ 20 5'10 160 ZQPAmey, Barry . 6 240 . 4 Binkley, Murrel .. .21 5' 8 155 g. -B1uth1. Linden . 2 190 5 Gonzales chcn'io .19 5' 8 150 23; Blevinsl Leon .. 1 155 11 Webb, Hal .......... .18 5'11 165 26,: Carroll. Art ....... '10 150 6 Brennan. Joe .. .20 5'10 170 21: Cavuncxuqh, Eddie 6 145 7 Thomascn, Bob ..... ....22 6' 2 155 Celayd, Frank 11 170 8 Vandeventer, Glen ....19 6' 1 160 Deplanche, Bud . 4 165 9 Courage, Jack ....... .19 5'10 150 uDale, Sonny 2 180 10 Marinovich, Milo .21 6' 4 170 32 a.Ellington. Ferris . ' 9 155 12 Campbell, Ken .. .18 5'10 170 20.;vFuller. Larry ........ 11 165 13 Peters, Les .................................................... 22 6' 185 282 Hammontree, B111 ........................................ 23 6' l 180 14 Beardsley, Bob ..... 6' 2 195 38 .uvPcdmer, B111 .......... ..21 6' 2 177 15 Doss, Frank .22 6' 2 215 5 Patterson. Wally ..20 6' 6 185 16 choFond. Larry 5' 9 175 27 L-Roche, Fred ....... ..21 6' 4 231 17 Wheeler, lack 6' 2 170 LTrejo, Gllbert . ..21 5' 9 145 Coffey, Don 6' 170 LWUIkup, Ernie ..18 6' 180 Hull, Wayne. 5'10 170 30 QWilliamson, 'Bob ..21 6' le 160 Downey, Don 5'10 170 :,Yen, Richard ................................................ 19 5'10 165 Long, Art ................................ 6' 170 Three schools did not forward pre-tourney rosters. They are: FULLERTON COLLEGE, Fullerton, Calif. SNOW COLLEGE, Ephraim, Utah. LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE, Long Beach, Calif. ' Little is kdown of the three forgoing schools. Snow was a last minute entry and reputedly is one of the best of the Utah junior college ranks. Long, Beach, another member of the Western States Conference, will undoubtedly floor a Team worthy of upholding the athletic record of the beach city. Fullerton is a member of he Orange Bel? iunior college conference and has always been a top fhreaf in 11101 Ioop's basketball ranks. COMPLIMENTS 0F JEFFERSON HOTEL A. S. ACKEL, mgr. - PHOENIX, ARIZ. Marston Supply Company Equipping the schools of Arizona with Athletic Equipment and Supplies NVD 324 No. Central Phone 3-5511 MORE CONTENDERS BRANCH AGGIES BRONCOS The Aggies, hailing from Cedar City, Utah, are more or less an unknown quantity. This is the schools final year as a two year institution. It will be converted-into a full four- year state agricultural college next year. Heading a squad short on heighth is Carlson Terry, who made all Utah junior college conference at guard last year. Terry is unquestionably one of the better individual stars in the tournament. In addition to his basketball prowess he is a track and field star of con- siderable merit. He placed in the National Junior College Track and Field championships in Phoenix last May. His favorite event is the javelin. Coach of the Broncs is Ray Lindquist, Utah State graduate. GILA COLLEGE MONSTERS Coach Mike Starr brings to Phoenix a team that has better than a 50-50 record to date. This record was accumulated against stiff early season competition and without the aid of several team stalwarts, then members of the strong Gila grid squad. Gila is a bit miffed because it was overlooked by the Little Rose Bowl committee. The boys from up Thatcher way believe they had one of the best junior college elevens in the country. And the record bears 'em out. An interesting sidelight is ,the presence of Johnny Riggs, until this year athletic director at Gila, as a member of the Phoenix College coaching staff. Gila, perrenially one of Phoenix's arch enemies, hopes to meet the host squad during the tournament, and would rather it Would be in the finals. LONG BEACH VIKINGS Little is known about the Vikings. Most Phoenix college fans will remember the beach city football team, however. Long Beach waxed the Bears 51-2 in the locals homecoming appearance last November. Long Beach supporters say the football victory was a balancing of the icales. Phoenix edged Long Beach iri the finals of the Chaffey invitational tourney last i Decem er. , FULLERTON COLLEGE Coach Art Nunn's quint boasts a veteran forward wall that gave the Phoenix five a stiff battle during the Chaffey invitational meet last year. Included in Nunn's roster is a lad who notched 34 points in the Phoenix game to almost tumble the tourney Winning Bears. Identified by number. Roney 16m, 'Pebley tSBL Pizzo tSSL Chell t59L McCutcheon tSZL Peterson 645. Walton tCouchL Meyer t55L Salter WM, Rude: tSD. Keys tSZL Prueu t53L Godfrey tSOL Burkard $4,. JOHN MUIR One of the newer additions to the Pacific Coast junior college ranks, Coach Al Walton's John Muir Mustangs hoopsters acre a tall, gangling team with a good early season record. Off that record the Muir squad, a member of the Western States Conference, rates CI contenders nod. Muir has a heavy compliment of returning veterans that should set them up in the seasoned class. With c1 good break in the drcrw, Muir could easily go to the semi-finctls in the chem- pionship bracket. Headmcm Walton is c: graduate of one of the West Coast's better acc1demies of basketball, University of California. $55515g55$ $51553, 3x $55: 555555 5155 BARQ'S BOTTLING CO. PHOENIX, ARIZ. COUNTRY FRIED CHICKEN AND FROZEN CUSTARD A TEAM THAT'S HARD TO BEAT AT THE POLAR BAR 2809 N. CENTRAL AVE. PHOENIX. ARIZ. SACRAMENTO COLLEGE Coached by one of the nation's top junior college basketball mentors, Ned Kay, the Sacramento Panthers have compiled Ct sensational record the past three years. Lcrst year the Panthers were led by the grth Iohn Stanich, now the star of U.C.L.A.'s defending southern Pacific Coast conference champs. , Ned, one of the coaches who Will assist the Central Arizona Basketball Officials Association in call- ing the some 24 games, floors a team with two veterans from last season predominating the offense. They are Bob Homlon at one forward spot and Ietry Perich at center. Included in last year's top record was or third place in the Western States Conference tourney at Compton, and or runnerup post in the Northern Coditornia I. C. Conference race. In 1945-46 the Panthers won three titles, including the Western States, California State and North- ern California. It was a 32 out of 35 game year for the Panthers. Terrific in anybody's league. Sacramento Panthers W. Lelt to right. Front rowi Kay tCoacht Roach. McKenzie. Lewis, Hanlon, Perich. Walker. Second row: Evans Mng, Patterson. Newsome, Oslman. Scurfield, Hader. Weisker, Weems tasst. coachJ Third row: Birkcr tmgtJ, McDonnell, Thompson, Yelle, Chase. Liebe. Bandy, Schwall. AA V AAAA v MAAA A A A A ELECTRIC CENTER, your Bendix Dealer brings you ED deFOREST and ERNIE SAUNDERS BROADCASTING THE BASKETBALL GAMES KlRU X 34K0 011 yourDial YOUR MUSIC, SPORTS AND NEWS STATION , eRS 7713-1'L egg? ADAMS AT'FIRST ST. 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MAW D 88 Hex, wm- 96m vumnxwgm E 0 Co 00 A m k 423 DbX- ED III ?WC chz'X MCWHEZ 1993933 0 WW $wm 'l-LCVzH ear 1 mam Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Vol. 20 Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, January 9, i948 Bears, Mustangs Meet in Conference Opener e Two evenings of basketball hi-jinks rare in store for Phoenix cage tans when the high-riding Phoenix College hoop- sters engage John Muir College of Pasa- dena, California, in a two-game set-to to- night and tomorrow. Both games will start at eight o'clock. This evening's game will be held in the Phoenix Union High School Gymna- siiim and tomorrow night's fracas will find the Bears on their home grounds in the Phoenix College Gym. 7 A slight edge will be given the local lads on the basis of their winning the re- cent Phoenix Invitational Tournament. The California squa'd was eliminated in the same tournament and should find the going r o u g h against the fast, t r i c k y Bruins. Despite the record, however, John Muir is expected to furnish some tough opposition for the Bears. The Coast five displayed a nice floor game and some of their sharpshooters hit the net with frequency. The hot Phoenix club willl be attempting to extend a win streak, however, and will go all out to subdue the visitors. W ANNUAL THETA FORMAL HELD IN GLENDALE Members of Theta Chi Delta, sorority held their annual Christmas formal on Tuesday, December 23, i947, at the Glendale Women's Club 'house in Glen- dale, Arizona. Invitations were sent to Dr. Mildred Dietsch, Mr. and Mrs. George Riadalescu, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brundage, the Misses Jo Ann Waldie, Bonnie Jo Sandy, Laura Louise Norris, Katherine Hadley, Hazel Williams, Jackie Bacon, Maxine Wright, Margie Moore, Mary Jo Claypoole, Barbara Wo I cott; Messrs Cooper Welch, Stelson Allen, Clay Kaigler, Harold Bowman, and their guests; and the alumni association. Under the general chairmanship of Pat Wheat, president, committee chairmen lwere Rae Standiford and Mary Jane Odle, tefreshments; Judy Davis, program. STAGE DOOR WILL OPEN THURSDAY Bob Bloecker try: hard to remember Bar- bara Miller's name in another scene from Stage Door. ATTENTION! ! ! All health examinations will be delinquent after the fifteenth of January. All Veterans who do NOT plan on returnng to PC next semester . . . . Please notify Mrs. Noble before January 23rd. ejeV-fem' iv: Jane Jones, Joan Kearns, and Marilyn Blair il. to r.l will take the leads in Stage Door , opening at 8:30 Thursday night. . . $$$$$K$$ Under the direction of Dramatics De- partment head Cecil Kersten a cast of thirty-two Thespians will portray the trials, tribulationseand the fun, too- of the stage-struck occupants of Mrs. Ore cutt's boarding house on the east Fifties in New York City. e ' Marilyn Blair, Barbara Rosenberg and Jane Jones will take leading roles in the characterizations made famous by Kath- erine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers in the cinema versions and Margaret Sullavan on the legitimate stage. 'Students may ,pick up their tickets simply by presenting their activity cards at the box office window of the auditor- ium. A small fee will be asked of those people desiring to see the play who do not possess activity tickets. + Alphas Formally Initiate Alpha will hold its formal initiation at the home of Jane Luke tonight. The ten girls being received formally into the sorority are Jill B r a n n i n g , .ngine Wright, Jeannine Hanlon, Rita Rustuen, Barbara Bissett, Sharon Ewalt, Arline Allen, Francis 5 to k i e , . Elizabeth Van Achen, and Shirley Sperry. After the ceremony the group will enjoy ice cream and cake. II BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE :x' BEAR TRACKS Official Publication of the Student Body of Phoenix College Co-Editors .......... Frank Burch, Kerlin Rowland Issue Editor ....................... Frank Burch Assistant Editors . Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris Page Editors .................... Marian PLueddeman Jan Hedrik, Lee lngalls Photography ................................ John Boskon Reporters: Don Biscoe, Don Levenhagen, Herb Surrett, Jim Agee, Betty Pagan. Photographers .Jan Hedrik, Jitter McDannold Faculty Advisor .. Raymond C. Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. 1948, YEAR FOR DECISION When the first of that species known as man made his appearanCe on the face of this earth, crawling laboriously out of that primordial slime that is the culture dish of every living microcosm anywhere, he could not have known that he him- self was a question and that sometime, somewhere, his tar distant offspring were going to have to answer for him. He could notu have knowny for there was no precedentlbehind him. There were no books, no magazines, no means of citing situations and the correct re- sponses to them; there was not even one other living soul to say, Well, that hap- pened to me, too, and I found that by doing such-and such . . . All he had was himself, and the world-his raw mate- rialeand the not-too-valuable examples of the others of his newly-evolved species. He must have lived alone at first. He lived by force and brutality. He took his nourishment by force. He reproduced by force. And when he found that life could be easier by uniting, he learned to live with the counterpart of his own sex. Then, when families found that they could not fight constantly among them- selves and still provide themselves with the necessities of life, they united and formed their clans and their totems, their tribes; And tribes saw that in order to preserve themselves from their own bar- barity they must uhite, and tribes be- came governments, governments became nations and nations became empires: all of this for the same inherent reason; all because man needed protection from man. And-now the empires are falling. . . We mentioned the primeval man be- cause we're still mixed' up with him; we're the result of him. Thousands upon thousands of years of evolution have led from him to us. But we're not the glor- ious end-product, don't kid yo u rse If about that, mister; this world today is a long way from being Utopia or the Prom- ised Land. tAnd maybe it never will be because Utopia is a state of perfection and mankind isn'tl BT Misses Advisor The Bear Tracks staff is without the assistance of their a d v is o r , Mr. Ray Emery, for severaledays. Due to the death of his tather-in-law, Mr. Emery was called back to Nebraska hurriedly, and is not ex- pected back until Thursday of this week or perhaps not until next week. His presence is missed by the staff of Bear Tracks. DEAN'S BOX A good college has many activities. The number should not be increased without good motives for the reason that we are not interested in squirrel- cage education. One activity for which no apology needs to be made is scholarship. In order to emphasize scholastic achieve- ment, We have created a Dean's Schol- astic Honor Roll for students with grade-poirihunit averages of 2.75 or better. Those students qualifying at mid-term were: Donald Stuart Boomer, Clyde Ve rno n Diller, John Thomas Eade, John Carl Eiehenauer Ill, Mar- gery Price Foote, Lee Freeman In- gram. Simon On Kin, John J. Miles, Barbara Helen Schilt, Beverly Ann Seiff, Kathryn Peavy Shawhart, Jose- phine W. Sieber, Faye Ruth Stone, Frank Leland Wadleigh, J. Joe Wal- den, John Erskine Winkler, and Billy Yuen. No, this isn't the end, but it could be. Take a look around you, mister, and see if this is what we fought for and what we bled ourselves for and worked for. And if you were an insurance company, how far ahead would you consider your own life -- or anybody else's -- a good risk? 50 now the empires are falling, and na- tions are wondering how they're ever going to scrape together enough body and soul for the next aggression. Man is cry- ing for unity and for peace. ls world government the answer? It's more than that: it's inevitable. Make up your minds to it: some day not too far away this world is going to acknowledge a common government. If we work toward it now, it can be one of our own choosing; if not, somebody will choose it for us. The year l948 brings us an unavoid- able dilemma: unity or holocaust. We may as well face the music and dance, for whether we do or not, we'll have to foot the bill. THE KOlL'S KORNER Well, children, we've kicked another one in the head. The year 1947, having given to each and every one of us our allotted number of breaks lsome in the arms, some in the legsl, receded a couple of Wednesday nights ago into that in- accessible Never Never Land called Past. As Somerset Maugham would say, it's time for The Summing Up. All right, so it's time. So let's sum. Here are the Bests and Worsts and In Betweens of 1947 as they look to me right now. I know, dear readers, that many of you consider me an incompetent judge. I know too, though, that I'm free to write about what l please here and that I please to write about the just completed year. So if you're of the opinion that my 'iudgments aren't good and valid you should turn to the Sports Page right now. Because here I go. The Biggest Flop of 1947: Day at PC. The Biggest Success of '47: Joe Sta- lin in his man of mystery role. The Sa d d est Sight of '47: What Michigan did to USSC in the Rose Bowl. Hello The Biggest L'augh of '47: Frank Leahy's cryings and carryings on about what would happen to his poor, untal- ented Notre Dame football team. The Prettiest Sight of '47: The new- est model Hudson automobile. The Ugliest Sight of '47: Any Hudson automobile but the newest model. The Biggest Fraud Perpetrated on the American Consuming Public in '47: The new look in women's fashions. The Most Frightening Event of '47: The examination of all books on the University of WyOn'iing campus for any- thing they might contain that's subver- sive, and the banning of any books that are found to be dangerous. The Most Heartening Event of '47: George Marshall's speech in the Harvard Yard. The Biggest Sure Thing of '47: The fact that man isn't much good but that he has it in him to be good, and the in- evitable corollary to that fact: that we're not beaten yet. Well, there they are. I suppose that I should add some predictions of things to come in order to really do this thing as it should be done. But I'm not going, to; next time maybe, but not now. You makerthe predictions. I'm going to go get a cup of coffee. Black. ' BEAR TRACKS4PHOENIX COLLEGE 3 To Bear Tracks Editor: l have just read someone's little pinch of sentiment about Busted Bumstead a that squatting old hunk of plaster of paris full of concrete! That long-suffering re- ceiving end of so much cheap paint and praise. Let's have done with all this stoofy poofy! Let's act now!! One may ask what action would be best. Several suggestions have been made. I shall re- view them briefly. ill Place the bear beneath the surface of the earth several 'teet and leave him there. That would greatly enrichen our Sentimental essays. Buried things have aIWays stirred men to great flights of praise. But this suggestion would not work out. We don't want Tempe and U of A students burrowing about in our campus looking for the Bum. iZl Make a small replica of him and place it on the top of the flag-pole. Then, of course, destroy the original. He'd be safe therkhe'd occupy a lofty perch on the carnpUSaand, it small enough, no one could find him because one couldn't see him. In this age of materialism,- we don't believe anything we can't see, you know. So he simply wouldn't be there, yet he would be. This. metaphysical dilemma -would stir the minds of our faculty and students for years to come. But that wouldn't do, so I oppose this alternative. i3l We could sell him to one of the various groups who have stolen him from time to time-auction him off between halves at a football game. 'Twould be novel, 'twouldn't it! But of course that would be commercialism naked and un- ashamed. 'Twouldn't do. Ml Our solution is the best one- mainly because it's ours. iDon't sneer! That's the way the world wigglesl Leave Burn where he squats. Make hundreds and hundreds of paper mache heads that will not only fit him architecturally, but that will fit the season of the year, the particular sport in vogue at the time ia large round head during basketball sea- v son, an egg-shaped head in the fall, a long slender head resembling -a vaulting poletduring the track season and so on with paper heads designed and colored to be in keeping withsuch important occasions as fraternity initiations, semes- ter tests, the sorority rushing season, deer seasonr et cetera.l These heads would be inexpensive, easy to remove, easy to replace, certainly in keeping with all modern gadgets. Let the purloiners purloin them. We can have an endless supply which with push- pull and a click-click could be installed. This is our plan. Novel, yet' attractive, wonderful. inexpensive, Let's move! !! 7 Holiday Dances Two Christmas forn'ials highlighted PC , activities Friday and Saturday evenings, December 19 and 20. The associated Women Students of PC sponsored the one held on the l9th. Ca- mille King and Stelson Allen took the evening's waltz prizes. The Woodson Club Sponsored the other dance. The gym was appropriately decorated for both. Faculty Featu res Coming here from the College of Mines at El Paso, Texas is Mr. C. Wayne- Edland who teaches freshman English. Mr. Edland believes that this' course is the most important and best on the cam- ' - , . pus. He is in the teaching profession V 5 because of a sincere I interest in trying to make the world a better place to live and had arrived at this conclusion after years of work in the business world. In comparing PC with the College of. Mines, Mr. Edland states, At PC, the genuine friendliness of the student-body among themselves and toward their in- structors is not as marked. Our student body appears to have enjoyed better ed- ucational opportunities but are less re- ceptive to that which they consider un- pleasant. If a student doesn't wish to perform, or prepare a report, he stays away. This was not evidenced in the college of mines. Perhaps economic pres- sure on many students there was greater and contributed to their seriousness. The staff of PC is unassuming and stimulating. The administration is the most democratic l have ever observed. W Greeting newcomers to PC is the charming receptionist, Bonnie 6011. A eve. native Arizonan, she graduated from i P. .U. H. S. and then from Stephen's Col- lege in l947. She I had majored in tic- ket - office - reser- l vation - aviation while t h e re , sorne day plans to , go back into it. Her main outside interest is photogra- phy, no developing, just clicking of the shutter. and- sPhoenix College is indeed fortunate to have as the Director of the Psychology and Philosophy departments Miss Mildred? K. Dietsch. Before coming here, Miss Dietsch taught in Los Angeles and San A I Diego. While in the i latter city, she or- . ganized -the bureau of child guidance. Besides interest in her field of guid- ance and clinical psychology, Miss Dietsch has an in- , terest in aviation. During the war it was her responsibility to give the pre- -pilot tests for National Research in Aviation. These were under the direction of Jack Dunlap and were financed by Rochester University, N. Y. It is a tour-hour test which ascertains mainly, emotional stability. Miss Dietsch states that she was at- tracted to the field of psychology by the inspiring work of one of her childhood educators. Besides her work as a psychologist and an educator, she has written articles for publication on Gifted Children. Miss Dietsch is very .impressed with the academic work of PC students. Some of the research papers done in the psy- chology departmentiwere comparable to graduate students in the handling of footnotes, exacting data, and vocabu- lary. W Webster Groves, Missouri's, loss and Phoenix College's gain is Mr. P. L. John- son, our freshman English and Ethics in- structor. He received his Bachelor of' Science in Education from the state col- lege at Warrensburg, Mo. and his Master of Arts in secondary education from C6- , lumbia University in New York City. 'Since then he has ltaken additional work at the .Univer- v' sity of Iowa. Mr. Johnson served in the communi- cation department of the navy, whilerin the service. His immediate interest and hobby is entering contests; he has been successful numerous times by winning such items as Bendix washers, radios, a refrigerator, cash and war-bonds. He be- gan entering contests 10 years ago by merely submitting an entry and winning an automobile. Monthly Mr. Johnson submits aboutk twenty-five to thirty entries. While it is a quite profitable hobby, he states that it is too much of a gamble to enter as a livelihood. MOVIE REVIEW By Mitchell and Harris Captain from Castile starring Tyrone Power, Lee J. Cobb, Cesar Romero, and Jean Peters, is the type of picture that is well satisfying to any member of the family and its beautiful filming in tech. nicolor brings the Shellabarger novel viv- aidly to life. The movie is surprising in that it follows the book quite closely. The entire cast headed by Tyrone Power was good but the exceptional per- formance was turned in by Lee J. Cobb as Juan Garcia. The story concerns a young Castilian of Noble birth, Pedro de Vargas lTyrone Poweri, who is accused by an enemy of being a heretic. De Vargas and his fam- ily are thrown in prison, but escape through the efforts of Pedro's friend, Juan Garcia. Garcia has told Pedro much of his adventures inrthe West Indies and Pedro in his flight decides to go with him to the New World. They take with them Catana Uean Petersi, who helped in the escape. The story continues with their joining the Army of Cortez and the exploration of Mexico. Much of the Mexican part of the pic- ture was taken in Mexico on the actual sites of the Cortez expedition. The tech- nicolor filming was outstanding, the color and photographic effects both being of the best quality. + Alpha Sigma Gamma formally initiated fifteen new members in candlelight cere- monies at Encanto clubhouse Dec. 23. Old members participating in the initi- ation were Mary Hannelly, Nadine How- ard, Jo Waldie, and Sandra Chrest. A holiday dance followed honoring the 'new members. Honorees were Betty Jack- son, Betty Kayetan, Belva Nottingham, Claryce Beck, Connie Dumont, Theresa Chuka, Pat Snutfer, Love Veta Farmer, Doris Ruddell, Doris Steginer, Donna Johnson, Joyce Abbott, Maurine Kessin- ger, Patti Davis, and Marie Childers. + Phi Lambda Zeta held its formal ini- tiation at the Sun Down Club last Mon- day night. Their new members are Doro- thy Dodson, Dorothy Safely, Billie Mit- chell, Jackie Pitts, Doris Coors, Cather- ine Neal, Annabelle Brice, Bethany Fyke, V Velma Caviness, and Phyllis Miller. + Delta Pi is holding a candy sale to- day. Hazel Williams is the chairman of today's sale. DEAN RETURNS After an attack of virus pneumonia, which lasted for nearly the entire month of December, Dean Hannelly is back in his office,- apparently none the worse for hislillness. His sojourn in a hospital bed seems to have left him as fit as ever, and he states that he is glad to be back at his desk. Modestly, he adds, My absence was hardly felt, since my colleagues are to be complimented on the way they have performed during my illness. Dean Hannelly says that according to his doctor, few people ever die of virus tpneumonia, but they often wish they would. + Kappa Delta Nu held a dance at En- canto Clubhouse in honor of its new members on December 20. Their decora- tive scheme was carried out in yellow and white, the club's colors. Over the punch bowl hung gold arrows with over- sized pledge ribbons bearing the names of the girls and their dates hanging from the arrows. The pledges enter- tained the old members with the singing of You'd be Surprised. Honored guests were Mrs. Treyillian, club sponsor, Mr. tKersten, and Mr. Johnson. During the holidays the new members gave a spaghetti dinner for the old mem- bers and members of the alumnae asso- ciation at the home of Lois Ahlene. hb Phi Chi went all out during the holi- days and took off for the icy wastes of the Seven Springs Park-not knowing it was icy, of course. They had a great time drinking the ice cold pop they had so carefully prepared. But later in the week they all had a chance to thaw out at a dance held in the Encanto Club- house. The theme of the decorations for the dance was mistletoe. GETTING THE SQUARE PEGS OUT OF THE ROUND HOLES Parl- Three of Four: Advisemenhafter the analysis and interpretation of the tests. No individual, man or woman, is of any value to the society of which he is a member until he becomes economically self-sufticient. Untilsthen he is a dreg on the resources of others. The advisement in vocational guidance is the most important, since it is con- sideration toward the selection of 3 VO- cational ichoice. Not all of us can be- ,come good doctors, good lawyers, or even good mechanics. Industry and business are interested in only one question: What can you do? For the individual the choice means more than knowing what one can do. The .following questions are important in the selection of a vocational objective: Will I be content with this work? Is the financial'gain adequate? Am I physically and emotionally equipped to stand the strain of the everyday problems involved? Does it provide the social prestige I de- sire? Can I derive selt-satisfaction from my work because of service rendered? Is it within the bounds of my personal limitations? These questions must be carefully considered and adequately an- swered in arriving at the suitable voca- tional objective. These questions are answered in the main from test results, so the individual is assisted in choosing a vocational. ob- jective for which he is physically and emotionally equipped and in which he has a sustaining interest. Educational institutions have recog- nized the need for vocational guidance and Phoenix College employs some of the same tests for their incoming students. Vocational guidance is no longer lim- ited to men since more and more women are entering the professional and busi- ness world. Does this sound as dull as dish-waterP- lt might take on a new interest when you are faced with making your own way in theiworld. V e t e r a n 5 interested in taking tests should consult the Veterans' Guidance Center, Room l03, Liberal Arts building They are also open to non-veterans on payment of a fee. Next issue we will discuss the follow- ing step in the vocational guidance work eConsultation. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE ' . Bears Hit Stride, Cop Phoenix invitational V' BRUINS, TARTARS WSC CO-FAVORITES With the holiday season passed, which found the Phoenix College Bruins vic- torious in the Phoenix Invitational Tour- ney and in a return game with New Mex- ico State Teachers, the local five turns to the opening contests of the Western States Conference when they tangle with the John Muir Mustangs of Pasadena, California, tonight and tomorrow night on the local court. Coach George Dutch Hoy's squad has been picked as co-favorites, along with Compton College, to come out in the number one spot in the conference standings when the basketball season comes to a close at the end of February. Los Angeles City College'has been picked to give both the bears and Compton a load of trouble during the season, and the remaining conference teams, Long Beach, Pasadena, V e n t u r a, and John Muir, will be a threat to any of the teams of the two-year college organization. Bruins Auenge Early Loss The Bruins have p rov e d themselves again, this time by coming out on top in a return tussle with the Teachers from Silver City, New Mexico, the only squad that has dumped the local five this sea- son. The victory increased the Bear's win streak to ten games since their open- ing upset by the Teachers. Carroll looks for an opening as LACC battles for the ball. Sports Slants By Jim Agee Knocking off Amarillo JC, John Muir, Snow College, and LACC in a row, Coach Hoy's five came out on top in the first annual invitational basketball tournament sponsored by the local college. The Bruins were'in full form for the final con- test of the tourney when they met the LACC squad, with the regulars hitting the nets with the same smooth form that brought them notice last year. Leon B l e v i n s and Bill Hammontree 'were given notice by local papers for their fine playing in all of the contests. Several of the invading coaches picked the lanky Blevins as the most outstand- ing player of the tournament. The enti re Phoenix squad deserves credit for the type of ball they played to come out victorious, with a special plug for the six Iettermen from last year, Blevins, Hammontree, Gil Trejo, Fred Roche, Art Carroll, and Bob Williamson, plus Barry Arney, Larry Fuller, and Ernie Walkup, the three newcomers that have broken into the Bear line up. + The Mustangs of Muir were shaded by the Bruins, 51 to 46, during the tourna- ment, as they proved' a threat to the locals for the entire contest, holding the Bruin regulars on the floor nearly all of the game. The coast team has the talent and spirit to surprise any team that might The Phoenix College Bears established themselves as the team to beat in the Western States Conference by gobping the initial Phoenix Invitational Tourna-' ment, which was held at the P.U.H.S. gymnasium, December 16-20. In winl' ning, the Bears inflicted successive de- feats upon Amarillo, Texas, John Muir of California, Snow College of Ephraim, Utah, and L.A.C.C. Though the Bears held the advantage of being they . proved their supremacy by overpowering Los Angeles City College, 63-50. Coach Hoy's classy first string ran the 'score in the easier bracket, to rout proportions before retiring from the game. The highly-regarded Compton Tartars had to content themselves with consolation laurels as a result of their licking at the hands of L.A.C.C. Coach Hoy stated that while the tour- nament drew praise from players and coaches, the turn out was disappointing and doesn't justify continuance of the tourney. The inaugural meet was well executed, though, and Coach Hoy listed the following as deserving of much praise for their contributions to the success of the tournament: Tau Omega, Sig Kaps, Phi Chi, Ki Delta Chi, Mrs. Motto and the cafeteria staff, Mr. Croyl, Mr. Holt, 'Jim Miller, and also Alumni, Official's association, Letterman's Club, and the bands of P.C., N.P.H.S., and P.U.H.S. Now that our Bears have tucked the Phoenix trophy safely under their belts, even the California papers admit that Phoenix has a slight chance in the Far Western States Conference race. Phoenix fans concede their Bears more than a slight chance for the championship and in any case expect to witness many bang- up ball games this season. $ Let's all be here tonight. and tomorrow night to offer the Bruins our spirit and support when they meet the Mustangs from John Muir. 'With a little help from the students, the locals may top their sixteen game win streak of last year and prove themselves the top team in the conference. be favored' over them, and has proved to the Bears that they can offer a good bat- tle. With that in mind, the Blue and Gold quintet will be out in full form for both contests to prove they are rightly picked as co-tavorites. 55'? 0W. hOWS 'em h o B battles with Muir ; 7 while Hammontiee 8 and E watch anxiously. defender, Walkup H 132m? 013mm Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Vol. 20 Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, January 16, 1948 No. 12 CARROLL IS NEW PREXY x PLAY WILL END TONIGHT STAGE DOOR OPENS AT 8:30 Tonight at 8:310, Masque and Dagger will give a repeat performance of Stage Door, which was presented last night in the auditorium. The play concerns 'the joy and grief that enters the lives of a group of young would-be actresses who reside at a New York boarding house. The manner in which the plot is laid out makes clear the reason for the play's success on Broadway. Tickets are still on sale at the ticket office in the auditorium and may be ob- tained upon the presentation of a student activity card. EXAMS BREAK CAMPUS CALM The first of five days of semester exams started yesterday. The exams, from which no student is exempt, are each two hours long. Classes which meet at irregular periods not cov- ered in the schedule will have exams on Wednesday 1:00 to 2:55 p.m. only. In- structors are asked not to schedule any final examination at a different time than that designated on the schedule, without first consulting the committee. The faculty has requested the students who are not taking examinations to be especially quiet in the halls and on the campus, in order not to disturb classes. Schedules are to be found in the Reg- istrar's office and on all bulletin boards. Bloecker, Brock, Plueddeman Win One of the most colorful elections in the history of PC came to an end at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon with the elec- tion of Jim Carroll, Bob Bloecker, Phyllis Brock, and Marian Plueddeman to student body offices for the second semes- ter . Carrdll polled a total of 350 votes to defeat Singing Sam Stevens for the presidency. This year's election showed no signs of ballot-stuffing or other fraudulent attempts which were in evidence last year. AWS offices went to Mary Jean Mehl, Rae Standiford, Betty Jackson, and Jean Thompson as freshmen representatives; Gye Gram- mar, Lorane Fuller, Sadie Kohatsu, and Joyce Roche were elected to the WAA offices of president, secretary, vice-president, and treas- urer, respectively. Only Barbara Bell registered a clean-cut victory in the race for AWS offices of president, .vice-president, secretary, and treasurer. Run-offs are slated between Pat Wheat and Pat Grip- pen, Carolyn Parsons and Joyce Roche, and Marie Getty and Doris StegnerL Fred Roche, George Dolmas, Jim Gump, and Don Goodwin won the AMS offices of president, vice-president, social commissioner, and secretary-treasurer, respectively. ' ELECTION TOTALS Student Body Offices: President-Jim Carroll, 350; Sam Stevens, 204. Vice-Presidente-Bob Bloecker, 354; Charles Lowe, 188. Secretary-Phyllis Brock, 373; Harland Padfield, 159. TreasurereMarion Pleuddeman, 330; Marilyn Blair, 2 . BEAR TR-ACKS Official Publication of the Student Body of Phoenix College Co-Editors .......... Frank Burch, Kerlin Rowland Issue Editor .......... Kerlin Rowland Page tEditors Marian Plueddeman n Hedrik, Lee Ingalls Photography John Boskon Reporters: Don Biscoe, Don Levenhagen, Herb Surrett, Jim Agee, Betty Pagan. ' Photographeranan. Hedrik, Jitter McDannold Faculty Advisor ................ Raymond C. Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. Did You Vote? Elsewhere on the pages of this issue there are articles regarding the student body election and campaign. For the past week the campus has been covered with posters extolling the merits of the vari- ous candidates and their records. The purpose of all this was of course, to get out the vote, to prepare us for our future duty as citizens. Despite the effort, the total vote for any student body office probably did n o t e x c e e d one-third of the total enrollment, this estimate based on the last two semester's experi- ence. This is a glaring example of the miser- able fizzle we? are making of our at- tempts at a workingdemocracy. We pay lip service to the greatest idea yet con- ceived in the field of political science, government by the people, and yet most of us will not take five minutes of our' time to make the basic step toward de- mocracy by casting our ballot. if we do not vote, we have no right to complain about the type of government we receive. When enough of us lose our right to complain, we have set up a dic- tatorship in our midst through our own inertia and stupidity. This CAN happen here. Not today or tomorrow perhaps, butIeventually, if we do not exercise care. Do not be mis l ed by our historical success as a nation. We of' today are not nearly the men and women our forebearers were. The founders of de- mocracy were earthy people with cal- loused and hairy chests. They didn't talk democracy, they lived it, and they KNEW it. No one had to urge them to vote. They fought for the orivilege. We have come a long way since the inception of this country. We have come a long way from the original democratic ideal too. We may laugh at the idea of fighting to vote. Especially at ,a PC elec- tion. However Democracy is seldom lost on battlefields. it is lost first in the hearts of people. If we want it, we too had better start living it, knowing it and VOTING it. , of that auditorium BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE AN APPEAL I came to school at nine this morn- ing tNovember 10, l948l just like alls other mornings at WEST PHOENIX HIGH SCHOOL. Between the first two classes, an announcement came over the loudspeaker that the American Legion convention had started. Another one, I thought. Well, I guess we won't have our regular assem- bly this week either, Last week it was the Phoenix Symphony at practice. The week before it was the Internal Revenue Convention. A lot of good we get out ,u Far. fetched, you say? Maybe. . . . it isn't so hard to imagine is it? After all, that's what the auditorium will be built for, if the bond election is passed tomorrow, proposing the construction of a Civic Center in connection with the auditorium at West Phoenix High School. TH E DEAN'S BOX We wish to call to your attention the splendid job Paul Erickson and other student body officers have done during the past semester. They have met faithfully every Thursday to con- sider problems of general student con- cern. They have planned and exe- cuted athletic events, dances, elec- tions, charity drives, and social poli- cies. ' Almost every member of the board is president of a campus organization and is a busy person. If you want a job done, ask a busy person. In addi- tion Paul has presided ably at assem- blies. The Executive Board of the A550- ciated Students deserves the plaudits of the students, faculty, and adminis- tration for its genuine and democratic service to Phoenix College. The KOIL'S KORNER Take a look at the editorial on the past elections here at PC and our re- sponsibility to vote in those elections that appears elsewhere on this page. That editorial is a farewell gift to you, the stu- dents of Phoenix College, from Frank Burch. It is Frank's last ,contribution to the pages of Bear Tracks; he leaves the staff and the college at the end of this semester for Tucson, where he will con- tinue his studies at the University's Law School. ' That editorial of his makes sense, doesn't it? It hits hard too. It's more or less typical of the stuff Frank's been writing on the pages of this paper all semester. He's got ideas, has Mr. B. That's not what makes him a valuable guy to have around, though; everybody and his third cousin has ideas. The thing that's different about Frank is that he has both the ability and the nerve totexpress his ideas. When he has something to say, his listeners can be pretty sure that' it will make sense and that Frank won't pull any punches in saying it. He's worked for this paper; he's worked plenty. We of the BT staff appreciate the work he's done, the good advice and the clever ideas he's contributed to the make up and character of the paper, and his genial and friendly personality. What it adds up to is this: Frank Burch is a good guy to be around; Working with him this past semester has been a real pleasure for all of us on the staff. This paper is a better paper for having had him as one of its editors. Those of us who have known him through his work for the BT join all Frank's other friends in wishing him the very best of everything down at Tucson and from here on in. + . NOTICE! ALL THOSE WHO ARE lNTERESTED IN BECOMING MEMBERS OF THE A CAPPELLA CHOIR FOR THE SECOND SEMESTER MUST SEE MR. HAKES BEFORE THE END OF THIS SEMESTER lN ORDER TO BE ELlGIBLE. THE LIST OF THOSE WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO BECOME MEMBERS WILL BE POSTED JANUARY 21 IN THE LIB- ERAL ARTS BUILDING. elSABEL CASARES, Bus. Mgr. A. Cap. Choir $ ALL VETERANS WHO DO NOT PLAN ON RETURNING TO PC NEXT SEMES- TlER . . . PLEASE NOTIFY MRS. NOBLE BEFORE JANUARY 23RD. l BEAR TRACKyPHOENlX COLLEGE . . V . . . , 55.24 Dr. E. W. Montgomery, president of Phoenix College, took his first trip in a Link Trainer this week, at the PC 'Flying 7 School at Sky Harbor. ln the plane with a hood over his head, Dr. Montgomery chould see nothing but the luminescent instrument board. After piloting the plane into .a hose dive, Dr. Montgomery decid- ed that perhaps he should give up flying. For the benefit of you stupes who don't fly your own plane, a Link Trainer is a stationary job that sits in a class room, and revolves and rotates in such a way that you'd swear you were in a thunder storm over South Mountain. The Link Trainer saves hours of instruction time in the teaching of instrument flying. GARBER GOSSIPS I Gerber has a flair,' states Dave Gar- ber, and strangely enough he's not the only one around this campus who thinks so. An electives major, this soon-to-be-l9- years-old student hails from Cleveland, Ohio, but has been in Arizona for eight years. He wants to go into law or else write the great American novel. At the present time his interests, scholastically, center around dramatics, and you've seen him or will see him in the male lead of Stage Door. He plays tennis, he's ac- tive in campus activities, he likes Frankie Laine, and he's planning to go to the U of A or an eastern university. What does he like? Daves likes pretty girls. What else does he like? Oh, there must be something else. TAU OM EGA AlthOUQh as yet the Tau Omegas can't remember exactly what their frat did dur- ing the holidays, we do remember that they were planning a holiday dance at Paradise Inn. At the dance, they were A supposed to have presented Marty Hum- phrey with the outstanding-pledge-trophy which was won by Bill Mooney last year. MOVIE REVIEW By Mitchell and Hairis With all its talent it's a wonder Hal Wallis' I Walk Alone didn't turnout better. As it stands, it's interesting but not as good as some of the former Burt Lancaster flickers. lttconcerns an ex-convict, Frankie Madison lLancasteri, who returns to New i York and the very prospering Regent Club of his former speak-easy partner, Noll Turner lKirk Douglasl. Noll and Frankie had made an agreement before Frankie's fourteen-year prison stretch that whatever they made would be shared fifty-fifty. However, things aren't that easy. While in prison, Frankie had signed some papers for his best friend, Dave lWendell Coreyi, and trusting Dave, Frankie had not bothered to read them. The papers turned everything over to Noll and Frankie-is left with nothing but his prison memories and a good-looking, blonde singer, Kay lLizabeth Scotti. Frankie then gets together a couple of thugs and trys to scare Noll into an equal share of the club, but that isn't successful either. It seems the club is controlled by three different corporations. The thugs abandon Frankie and he is first beaten up by Noll's compatriots, then rescued by Kay and Dave, whose loyalty to Frankie has finally taken the upper hand. Dave goes back to the Regent Club to have it out with Noll over a little matter of two sets of books, one of which has been seen by no one but Noll and Dave. This scene leads to murder and the picture comes to an exciting and well done climax. Wendell Corey lived up to the re- views he received from Desert Fury by far surpassing the rest of the cast. Lizabeth Scott did some nice singing and Burt Lancaster turned in a tough per- formance. Kirk Douglas bordered between a nice iob of acting and over doing his role, but he was not the fine actor of The Strange Love of Martha lvers. ALPHA SIGMA GAMMA ALPHA SIGMA GAMMA met at the home of Clarice Beck last Monday night to hold a late formal initiation for Patti Davis and Doris Ruddell. They are plan- ning a Spanish dinner at the home of Betty Jackson on January 2l. Arrange- ments are being made by Nadine How- ard, chairman, Mary Hannelly, and Love- Veta Farmer. PHI 'ALPHA CHI . Phi alpha Chi held a formal dinner at the Arizona Club January 12th in honor of the recently initiated members. C. J. Smith introduced their guest speaker Mr. Bill Turnbow, Washington correspondent and columnist of the Phoenix Gazette. Mr. Turnbow related some of his experi- ences of the Washington scene and told of some inside interviews with the Presi- dent and other top political figures. Mr. Turnbow also discussed atomic theory and his tour through an atomic bomb plant. The talk was concluded with emphasis on our American heritage and the impor- tance of every American taking an active interest in their government by under- standing it and exercising the American perogative of voting for it. President Harold Bowman introduced Mr. A. Phelps who gave a welcoming ad- dress to the new members on Phi Chi's tradition of having the highest scholar- ship on the campus. The new members included Milford Babb, Jack Bakeman, Charles Bill, David Brauer, Bill Cohee, Bob Cuthbertson, Hal Davis, Don Jolly, Willard McDonald, George McKahann, Richard Millin, Ken Morgan, Tommy Os- borne, Eugene Schmitz, Roy Smith, and Ralph Vic. Also in attendance were the old members, 'John B o s k 0 n , Robert Bloecker, Don Bringgold, James Carroll, Dale Dombey, Tom Engelhardt, George Franklin, Riley Geary, James Gilkerson, Jay Higgs, Forrest Jacobs, Zeno Johnson, Paul Livermore, Harry North, Harland Padfield, Dean Robinson, John Senter, Al Thomas, Karl Turner, William Wan- dell. sb Bob Tyron, sports editor of the Ari- zona Times, referred to the Bear quin- tet in his column on Monday as the whiz kids from Phoenix , heaping a lit- tle more honor on the shoulders of Coach George Dutch Hoy and his speedy squad. Mr. Tyron wasrcorrect in calling the local quintet the whiz kids , as has been shown in all of the home gamesrthis season. At times they might have got away to a slow start or maybe played so they looked a little ragged, but they have come through with that speed and ter- rific shooting to give them enough points to win. j w KDN met last Monday night' at the home of Barbara Schilt to make plans for 3 Valentine's Dance on February 13 at Encanto Clubhouse, and to discuss plans for their formal installation of officers. w Members of the WOODSON Club held their last meeting of this semester to dis- cuss the election of new officers for the, coming semester. BEAR TRACKS-wPl-lOENIX COLLEGE: PHOENIX COLLEGE EXAMINATION SCHEDULE Sem ester I 1947-48 Classes 'which recite regularly. on Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Monday, Tuesday, Thursda,, Friday, oeraily at . . . PERIOD 1 y 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. 2 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. 3 10:00 a.m. ' to 12:00 a.m. 4 1:00 p.m. 1 to 2:55 p.m. 5 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. 6 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. 7 1:00 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. 8 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. 9 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Classes which recite regularly on Tuesday PERIOD 1 13:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 2 1:00 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. 3 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. 4 1:00 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. 53 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 6 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. 7 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. 8 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 9 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Thursday January 15 Thursday January 15 Friday January 16 - Thursday January 15 Friday January 16 Monday January 19 Monday January 19 Tuesday January 20 Thursday January 15 andtor Thursday at . . . Friday January 16 Friday January 16 Monday January 19 Tuesday January 20 Tuesday January 20 Tuesday January 20 Wednesday January 21 Monday , January 19 Wednesday January 21 GIRLS LOSE GLAMOUR, GET HEP Under the direction of Mrs. Ethel Ra- dulescu, the twenty-four girls enrolled in the Home Economics Course, The Home, are learning the intricacies of rebuilding all types of furniture and remodeling the home with both economy and taste. According to Mrs. Raduleseu, the course will help her students gain ex- perience in all types of home furnishing, as well as enabling young married cou- ples with small or moderate incomes to decorate their homes with a minimum of expense. With a smile Mrs. Radulescu added, Besides, it's lots of fun! At present the projects of the class in- clude the remodeling of studio couches, tables and chairs. Cushions, slip covers and drapes have been made and will be employed in the decoration of the rooms which the class is remodeling. The tables and chairs which are being refinished have been secured from a naval base and their renovating requires a max- imum of scraping and varnishing. lt was necessary to place springs and cushionSe removed from other broken down couches .ein the studio couches which the wo- men are renovating. Slip covers and drapes are also a part of the work being undertaken by the class. A long bench in the combination living and dining room has been re- modeled and special slip covers, cushions and mattresses have been made in order to upholster the bench and give the once ungainly object a bright, attractive new look. Induction Tests Slated On Thursday, January 22, morning and afternoon, and Saturday morning, Janu- ary 24, the following schedule of tests will be giveh in room 101, first floor of the Liberal Arts Building. Thursday, January 22 a.m. 9:00- 9:30 Reading Test 9:30-10:45 Mathematics Test 10:45-11:25 English Reading Test p.m. 1:00- 2:00 Psychological Test 2:00- 3:00 Interpretation of'Data Test Saturday, January 24 a.m. 9:00-10:30 Personality Test 10:30-12:00 Vocational Interest Test These tests do not admit to or exclude anyone from the college. Their purpose is solely to help the student discover his aptitudes and select the course of study for which he is best titted. + One of the big points in sports so far this season is the official's whistle. And it seems, in the games the PC cagers alone'have played, that the man with the whistle is making use of it most of the time. At the first of the season the blame can land on the teams, because of the usual early season roughness, but this has carried into the second month of the game, and it seems there is just one answer to it, the referees are just calling the games closer this year. BRUINS TACKLE COAST FIVES IN TRIPLE TILT The Western States Conference moves into full swing this week after the open- ers of seven days ago, with the co-tavor- ite Phoenix College Bruins making their first conference invasion of the coast. The local tive left Phoenix Tuesday morn- ing bound for Los Angeles where they met Los Angeles City College Wednes- day night and they will tangle with Pasa- dena Junior College tonight and Pasa- dena's cross town rivals, John Muir, to- morrow night. The Bruins were boasting a twelve-game win streak when they left and were out to remain unconquered since their opening tray defeat, and go on to top last year's sixteen in a row. PC Quintet Takes Double Win Over John Muir The Phoenix College Bruins romped to a double victory in a two-game stand with the cage crew of John Muir College of Pasadena, California, last Friday and Sat- urday nights. The first game, played at Phoenix Un- ion High School's gym, was marred by some sloppy lapses' in the otherwise flashy ball handling of the Bears. The local boys were never in trouble, however, and won handily, 50-39. In the second fracas, held at the Bruin's home court, the Phoenix five dis- played a superb floor game, and a very crowd-pleasing brand of tricky passing. Art Carroll and Leon Blevins, Bear tor- wards, also helped the cause along by canning some next to impossible shots. The California quintet couldn't seem to get rolling, although they staged a sur- prising rally in the late stages of the game, and the Bruins again won, 65-50. This week, the Bears go to California, where they will meet three Western Con- ference toes. Wednesday night, they en- gaged Los Angeles City College; whom they already defeated once this season. Tonight they tangle with Pasadena and Saturday night they will battle again with John Muir, whom the Bruins have now beaten three times this season. The fast, classy Phoenix lads will definitely be shooting to extend their twelve-game win streak and should provide for some in- teresting cage antics on the Coast this week. 339m 013mm Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, February 6, 1948 No. 13 DlSC, DlMES DANCE lS SET Four local disc jockeys will combine their talents tomorrow night at 9:30 in the Phoenix College Gym when the Associated Students present the Disc and Dime Dance. The admission will be 50 cents a person and the entire proceeds will go to the March of Dimes. Second Semester Enrollment Less Phoenix College opened its classroom doors last Thursday, beginning the sec- ond semester with a total enrollment of 1083, 186 less than had registered by this time last semester. Of this number, only 101 are new students; 354 are veterans under the G. 1. Bill. Last semester there were 428 veterans registered. The n u m b e r of Freshmen and Sophomores has not been tallied yet, but the ratio of males to fe- males is about the same as last semester ethree to one. Two new faculty mem- bers have been added in the Chemistry department. They are Dr. R. J. Hemphill and Dr. Irene Eastman. Mr. Rittgers has left the faculty to care for his business in Iowa. An organist, Miss Louise Utter- back, is coming to us on February 17 from Louisiana State. Registration officially c l o s e d l a s t Thursday when classes began, but new- comers may register until February 1'4, by paying a fee of $3.00. All who reg- ister after that date must file a petition with the Registration Committee. All new students planning to graduate this semester must have petitions filed by February 14. Any person filing after that will be fined $1.00. H. Second Semester Night School Opens Second semester night school classes began February 5 and will meet every Tuesday and Thursday. Three periods of work are being offered, the first starting at 6:30 and the last period letting out at 10:25. Class periods are 1 hour and 15 minutes in duration. A class fee of $6 per credit hour is charged. L. to R. Ash, Harkin, Sheldon, Booth, Morrow, Klemmedson. CONFERENCE ON SHOOL HOUSE PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION The problems of school building con- struction was the aim of the conference held last Friday and Saturday, January 30 and 31 here in the college auditorium. The meeting was held by the above men; left to right: Messrs. Robert Ash, of Glen- dale; C. E. Harkin, Asst. State School Superintendent; Don Sheldon, of Pres- cott; R. E. Booth, Winslow; Bob Morrow, Tucson; L. D.'Klemmedson, State School Superintendent. The conference was sponsored by the Architects Assn. of Arizona; General Contractors; Equipment Firms; Phoenix College; Office of Educa- ' tion; State Dept. of Public Instruction and was open to' the public. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETS The Executive Board met last week for the purpose of choosing the Com- missioners on the Executive Board for the second semester. The following students were chosen: Dave Garber, assembly com- missioner; Don Grundy, social commis- sioner; and Harland Padfield,- publicity commissioner. The athletic commissioner and fine arts commissioner were not chosen. The highlight of the evening will be the broadcasting of an hour of the dance over radio station KRUX. Don Grundy, Social Commissioner for the second se- mester, will be in charge of the arrange- ments and he will be assisted by mem- bers of Sig Kaps Fraternity. Jim Watson, a member of the KRUX staff is in charge of the musical arrangements. The dance will begin immediately at- yter the basketball game between Phoenix College and Long Beach City College which will be played in the Phoenix Union Gym. Light Vote Marks AWS Election Last Friday's special run-off election placed Pat Wheat, president; Carolyn Parsons, secretary; and Doris Stegner, treasurer of the AWS. Barbara Bell, new- ly elected AWS vice-president, was the only candidate to poll a clear-cut margin in the initial balloting. Candidates in the AWS run-off elec- tion were : Pat Wheat and Pat Grippen for president, Carolyn Parson and Joyce Roche for secretary, and Doris Stegner and Marie Getty for treasurer. Mary Jean Mehl, Rae Standiford, Betty Jackson, and Jean Thompson were elect- ed freshman representatives. AWS RUN-OFF TOTALS President Pat Wheat ...................................... 57 Pat Grippen .................................... 43 Secretary Carolyn Parsons .............................. 62 Joyce Roche .................................... 39 Treasurer Doris Stegner .................................. 51 Marie Getty .................................... 49 BEAR TRACKS Official Publication of the Student Body of Phoenix College Co-Editors ........ Kerlin Rowland, Tod Rosnek Issue Editor ............. Tod Rosnek Assistant Edito ..Lec Ingalls Page Editors ........ ...Jan Hedrick, Jim Agee Helen T. Maney Sports Editor.... ..... Jim Agee Photography Editor . ohn Boskon Photographers ........ Jan Hedlick, Leo Chavez George Brown Reporters: Don Levenhagen. Don Biscoe, PatsMitchell, Pat Harris, Herb Surrett, Russell Orton, Joyce Roche, Jim Gump. Jitter Mc- Dannold, John Barron. Faculty Adviser ............................ R. C. Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opin- ions epressed by the student body. EDITORIAL It has been the policy of this year's Editorial Board to publish in Bear Tracks editorial matter which is directly the con- cern of the students of Phoenix College. Consequently, among last semester's edi- torials the subject matter ranged from sorority-fraternity discussion to an appeal for world government. And yet more than one student has voiced a complaint to us concerning the remoteness of certain articles from the fields of student interest. As one student told us: What's all this stuff about world government? Who cares about that? The kids don't; they want gossip and humor in their paper. They're not interested in all that dull stuff; it doesn't concern them. tThat's an actual quote, by the way.l No, we don't suppose the kids care much about discussing and choosing which form of government they will be living under in the future. Kids can't be expected to take much of an interest in adult problems such as this. But the trouble is, there are too many kids nowa- days and they're not always confined to grammar schools, high schools, or even colleges; too many of them have respons- ible, adult positions in society, and yet' these so-called adults are just as kiddish as Old Joe College himself who thinks lsometimesl that the most important problem in the world is that of becoming president of his frat, and that the great- est thing in literature is Barefoot Boy With Cheek. No one in Beer Tracks is writing those high sounding editorials because he likes to show off, nor does anyone on this staff feel that these questionSesuch as world government-are outside of the legiti- mate domain of the college student. On the contrary, we feel that the question of international government is just as vital and important to the student-citizen as the question of the rights and privi- leges of sororities and fraternities. Both BEAR TRXCKkPHOENIX COLLEGE THE KOlLtS KORNER There's been a lot of talk about the recently completed registration for the second semester. That wouldn't be un- usual, except for the fact that this time the comment has been overwhelmingly favorable. That's quite a switch, isn't it? Everybody seems to be in a good mood about the way in which registration pro- ceedings were carried off. Indeed, the concensus seems to be that the registra- tion we've just gone through was about as well planned and smoothly executed as it could have possibly been. Consid- ered from any angle, it was a thoroughly good deal. A lot of credit is due the person tor personsl who conceived the plan of staggering the times for register- ing, and still more credit should, I think, be given all the faculty members and .,.f.;.,.,.,.,.l.,.,.,.I.I.I.I.J Freedom Train Rolls The American Heritage Foundation is sendirig The Freedom Train to Phoenix on Feb. 20th. Before that date, many important citi- zens of Phoenix will be engaged in plan- ning a re-dedication program. They will re-dedicate themselves to the principles for which America really stands. Education is a basic principle of De- mocracy. One prominent faculty member said only this week, We believe that the na- tion develops by developing its citizens. We, as students, should educate our- selves and each other into the ways of Democracy. .,ol-I-Ju,n,-IIruleJII-I-III-I'J problems affect the student directly; his life is influencedefor good or for bad- by them. World government is important. lts discussion should be stimulated. And yet the background for intelligent discussion of this problem is sadly lacking in most college students. Ignorance of history is appalling, and yet we are affected by everything that has gone before us. With- out knowledge of the Grand Design of Henry of Navarre, the UNO cannot be understood in its full significance. With- out the knowledge of the Industrial Revo- lution, how Can the struggle between Communism and Capitalism be fully un- derstood? ' Therefore, we of BT feel that our policy is not amiss. We feel that World Federation is as vital and personal 3 problem to students as any problem or event upon this campus It should be just as interesting, too. To discuss these problemSeto stimulate debate, thought and interest-is our birthright and duty. It is yours also. students who co-operated so well to make registration really move this se- mester.. 3? SE $t l got a kick out of the staid, con- servative New York Times' editorial com- ment on presidential candidate Henry Wallace's statement that he wants peace and prosperity for the whole world. Cracked the Times, Who in hell doesn't? it it tk Speaking of politics, I notice that the Republican House of Representatives passed the Knutson tax reduction bill the other day with plenty of votes more than they'll need to over-ride the veto which President Truman will surely throw at it. The measure, as the House has passed it, calls for a $6,500,000,000 reduction in income taxes. The Senate won't act on the bill until at least the fifteenth of this month. Democrats in the Senate hope to pare down the House figure to $4,000,- 000,000. 'They contend that we can't safely go any higher than that at this time. I wonder if we can safely go that high. It seems to me that the Republi- - cans picked a poor time to cut down the taxes. They're highesure they're high ebut the national debt'is high, too. So are the expenses that we're going to have to meet in carrying out the Marshall Plan. Don't we need the revenue from income taxes 'even more at this time than we need relief from those taxes? it i f A very irate PC student charged into the BT office the other day and gave us a job to do. He wanted us to write an editorial on, of all things, the subject of the coffee that's served in the cate-t teria. He claimed that the cafeteria's coffee is scarcely fit for human con- sumption, that he's not a cook but that he could brew better stuff himself, .that everybody is complaining about it, and that something should be done to im- prove the situationefast. I've been thinking it over, and I've come to the conclusion that while the plasma being dispensed in the cafeteria isn't the best I've ever tasted, it isn't the mud that this citizen would have us be- lieve that it is, either. However, it isn't the business of the BT to pass judg- ment on problems of this nature. Let's hear from you coffee drinkers on cam- pus. Just what do you think of the coffee that youiget in the cafeteria? lf we don't hear from you, we'll assume that you're satisfied that it's of reasonably good quality. lf we get enough letters pro- testing its quality, we'll write an editorial voicing your views. a4 BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE SOCIAL NOTES Theta Chi Delta members held a meet- ing Activity period Wednesday to make plans for a dinner dance to be held in the near future. i' 'k i Members of Alpha sorority met at the home of Shirley Sperry last Monday for a business meeting and election of of- ficers. Those who took office are Mary Phillips,. president; Donnie Hudspeth, vice-president; Rita,Rustue'n, secretary; Barbara Bissett, treasurer; Marian Plued- deman, publicity; Willie Ashcraft, senior representative to the lnter-Society Coun- cil; Shirley Sperry, junior representative; and Sharon Ewalt, pledge mistress. i: e: at The Newman Club for Catholic stu- dents will meet every Friday during Ac- tivity period in the Club Room. Plans are now being made for the annual two- day conference of the Newman Clubs throughout the state. Election of officers will be held at the meeting scheduled for February 6. In addition to the regular meetings, special religious services are being held at St. Mary's Church every other Monday at 7:30 p. m. All Catho- lic students are invited to attend and it is hoped that as many students as pos- sible will participate in the religious and social activities offered by the club, stated Andrew J. Valenzuela, president. Kappa Delta Nu Members of Kappa Delta Nu met on Monday, January 19, at the home of Cathy Brooks, 2lOl W. Jefferson St, for an election of officers for the new semester. Members who took office are Jo Sieber, president; Robbie Lee Grippen, vice-president; Marilyn Blair, secretary; Darleen Anderson, treasurer; Marriel Slaughter, pledge mistress; Barbara Schilt, social chairman; Carolyn Parsons, pub- licity; Berbara Rosenberg, historian; Laura Louise Norris, senior representative to the inter-society council; and Anne Reddick, junior representative. At the same meeting, plans were made for a Valentine dance to be held on Feb- ruary 13 at the Encanto Club house. Committee chairmen for the dance are Laura Louise Norris, Marriel Slaughter, Anne Reddick, Marilyn Blair, Susan Van Zandt and Barbara Schilt. At a more recent meeting of KDN, held at the home of Pat Dunne, 143 W. Pierson, general business and the treasury were discussed. V. A. Manual Dexterity Test L. to R. Thoroman, Riordan, Burke, Tang, Trausch, Brown, Steward, Mooney. Club Notes Members of Alpha Sigma Gamma so- rority met in the Club Room last Monday evening for election o'f officers. Tho'se receiving offices for the coming semester are N a cl i n e Howard, president; Mary Hannelly, vice-president; Pat Snuffer, secretary; Betty Jackson, treasurer; Love Veta Farmer, pledge mistress; Doris Steg- ner historian; Marie Childers, publicity; Doris Ruddell, lnter-Society Council rep- resentative. Plans were made for a cake sale to be held on Friday, February 13. Mary Hannelly and Joyce Abbott acted as social hostesses. The Associated Women Students hon- ored new women students at a Coke Hour held today in the Club Room. Of- ficers of the AWS and members of the event. Invitations were extended to all faculty members. In charge of general arrangements were Barbara Bell, Pat Wheat, and Dr. Mousseau. The Radio Club will hold its first regu- lar meeting of the new semester on Friday, February l3, President John Al- bright announced. The meeting will be an organization meeting and election of new officers will be the most important event on the agenda. All students interested in the theory, operation and Construction of radio equip- ment are invited to attend. Incoming veterans are invited to call at the Veterans Administration Guidance. Center in the Liberal Arts building if they desire assistance in vocational guid- ance. Many young people find the prob- lem of vocational choice a difficult one. There are so many occupations from which to choose. The VA has realized the necessity for assisting veterans to establish themselves as soon as possible, and has provided the Guidance Center to give them aid. After the veteran has been given a complete battery of intelligence, person- ality, vocational interests, and special aptitude tests, an advisor assists him in making a vocational selection. This se- lection is designed to utilize his major interests and abilities, and to protect him in his weaknesses. This service is paid for by the VA for all honorably discharged servicemen. Suspense Drama Offered The Phoenix Little Theatre will offer a presentation of Thomas Job's suspense drama, Therese, opening February 5 and running nightly until February l4. Curtain time is 8:30. The play, adapted from the Emil Zola story, Therese Raquin, will star Polly Smith in the title role with Ted Curtis playing opposite her. Tickets for the play may be obtained at the box office, 100 East McDowell Road, or by calling 4-4779. The price is $1.50 per person. Front row: Celaya, Wolven, Zapien, Brady; Back row: Carbajol, lrion. BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE Dr. Irene Eastman obtained her B. 5. degree from the University of North Da- kota, and then attended the University of Chicago for her Master's Degree. She .received her Ph.D. degree from the Col- lege of Surgeons a n d Physicians at Columbia University. Dr. Eastman first taught at Bismark High School in North Dakota for Ifour year, and then was with Elmira Girl's College, New York, for five years. She helped to establish Brainerd Junior College in Minn. where she re- mained for three years. During the war, she was at the School of Chemical Tech- nology at the Agriculture College of North Dakota, and later was with the University of Southern California for a year. She' has also been with Northland College in Wisconsin, and Buena Vista College in Iowa. Dr. Eastman's native state is North Dakota which she recently left to join the Chemistry Department of Phoenix College. She also has a very in- teresting and unusual pastime; she has spent a great deal of time flying. -7I-l I'1-l...wslm . K. x Dr. Raymond J. Hemphill is a new ad- dition to the Phoenix College Chemistry Department. He holds a BA from Cornell University; a MA and PHD from Colgate University. He was an instructor at Cor- nell for one year, and at Colgate for nine years. The world famous General Elec- tric Research Lab. had his services for thirteen years. Before coming to Phoe- nix College he was the Chief Chemist at the Western Milling Company in Mesa, Arizona. Put all of the above together and you have a man with much knowledge, ex- perience and a great teaching ability that will help make this a bigger and better college. Phoenix College welcomes you Dr. Raymond J. Hemphill. Bruins, Vikings Tangle In Scheduled Doubleheader Tonight and tomorrow night the Bruins entertain the Long Beach City College Vikings. Saturday night's game is a con- ference tray and will be played at the Phoenix Union gymnasium, while to night's nomieague affair will be played on PC floor. Both games will start at 8 p. m. The Bears, who will be out for a double win to build up their victory col- umn will most likely have Blevins and Gil Trejo at the forward positions, Bar- low and Art Carroll at the guards, with the center spot falling to either big Fred Roche, Barry Arney or Bob Williamson, when they enter the contests. For the Vikings the starting line up will probably have Bob Swedeberg and Jim Payne at forwards, Art Abrams at the pivot post, and Dick Wolfe and Ev Juerg- ens at the guard slots. The invaders have been paced mostly by Juergens who is rated as one of the top guards in the conference. it 1: 3t Glenn Barlow resumed his position with the Bruins and showed promise of being another leading scorer and floor man for the squad. But even with the return of Barlow, the loss of Bill Ham- montree was felt by the locals as they were in need of the sharp rebound work he had displayed and his long set shots that always came when they were needed. + Miss Meredythe Webster has become receptionist for the VA Guidance Center, replacing Miss Mary Lou Carson, who will attend Occidental College this semester. W Current Affairs Contest Given Students in P h oe n i x College Social Science classes were given the opportuni- ty to take the Time Magazine Current Affairs Test, which was given in all Social Science classes last Wednesday. This test is being given in over seven hundred colleges throughout the United States, and it is designed to test the students' knowledge of present-day world affairs. According to Mr. Mario Zito, of the Social Science Department, the contest covered the events of social significance occurring in the last four months. Win- ners in these contests are given books as prizes by the sponsors. l The Time Magazine Current Affairs 'contest makes students more aware of the importance of political events now occurring in our post-war world. Manuel Larios, the short, dark, husky gentleman who played a lot of guard on the Phoenix College football squad this year, has added another laurel to his list of athletic honors. The Bruin student is now the amateur heavyweight boxing champion of Arizona. Winning the title in the recent Golden Gloves tournament held in Phoenix, Larios, proved himself a capable and ef- ficient belter. The title bout was ended midway thru the second round when Mauling Manuel stopped his opponent cold. He was never in trouble through- out the fight, and left no doubt in the minds of the judges and fans that he de- served the title. The Thomas Road campus can point with understandable pride to their stu- dent and champ, Manuel Larios. x .A, , :y ,.' 17.; -LJ. A newcomer to Phoenix College and this city is the genial and pleasant blind boy with the seeing eye dog, Joe D. Chowning who last week registered in Liberal Arts. He plans on receiving a teaching certificate at Tempe to teach in the Arizona State School for Deaf and Blind at Tucson where he graduated last year. Joe is originally from Kansas where as a lad of 18 months he was accident- ally blinded by an exploding shell. He has been a resident of Arizona only since August 1945 and thinks there is no- thing like an Arizona winter; v' , 23' , ,, r' 7f 'If - e WLWV e 'l-Wt' : K :. x TQQV 3152M ZEr-at Official Studeiit Publication of Phoenix College Vol. 20 Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, February 13, 1948 AIR, COURSES SET FOR '48 - '49 Mr. D. F. Stone, head of the Physics department, has released a change in schedule for the 1948-1949 bulletin. Freshmen interested in Radio, Meteoro- .logy, angi Business Administration can take Aeronautics 87 the first semester and Aeronauticss 88 the second se- mester. ' ln Aeronautics 87 and 88 a study is made of the various allied aviation trades and occupations. Attention will be given to the nature of the knowledge and skills required in each field to give the student the necessary background upon which to make proper evaluations. Laboratory work is done at the airport. Mr. Stone'emphasizes that air trans- portation involves more than-the building of planes and training of pilots. Estab- lishment of maintenance, weather, flight scheduling, radio and supervising services, the development and maintenance of air- ports and adequate personnel, to insure efficient operation are all involved. . For every pilot in the air ,there are many needed on the ground, stated Mr. Stone. Everyone can't be a pilot, but many other fields of aviation are prac- tically limitless. BAUMANN HONORED Mr. Victor Baumann, music instruce tor and director of the Phoenix College Band, has recently been appointed to the position'of Division Chairman of the Junior College Section for the music curriculum study which is being carried ,. on by the Music Educators' National Conference. Mr. Baumann, who was formerly State Chairman of the University and College Section, received his appointment in a letter from Amy Grau Miller, president of California Western Division of Music Educators' National Conference. NOTICE All .new students planning to grad- uate this semester must have petitions filed by February T4. Any person filing after that will' be fined $1.00. DISC, DIME DANCE WAS DANDY Lou Lowry, Andy Wilson, Jim Wat- son, Ed deForrest, Charlie St. John, and Howdy Waite, disc jockeys of our local broadcasting stations, pooled their talents last Saturday night to make the Asso- ciated Sudents' Disc and Dime Dance click. The dance,' proceeds of which went to the March of Dimes, was held at the Phoenix College Gym. Don Grundy, So- cial Commissioner for the second semes- ter, was in charge of arrangements and was assisted by members of the Sig Kap fraternity. Jim Watson, PC student and member of the KRUX staff, was in charge of the musical arrangements. + ' UDALL TO SPEAK , ' IN ASSEMBLY Stewart Udall will be the speaker at next week's regular assembly. He will speak on the topics of world government and world politics. Udall is a graduate of the University of Arizona Law School, and he recently led the fight against high prices on the University campus. iArsenic and Old Lace, ls Slated; y Cast Chosen For Three Act Comedy Tryouts were held last Thursday and Friday for the play Arsenic and Old Lace, a three act comedy, written by Joseph Kesselrihg. The famous comedy Success was a smash hit in New York and on the road. The story is about the.charming and in- nocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously acceptable roomers; the antics of their dear brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; and the amazing activities of their other brothers. Director of the play, Cecil Kersten, announced the cast as follows: Joan Kearnes, Abby Brewster; James Rosser, The Rev. Dr. Harper; Russell Orton, Teddy Brewster; Russell Voyce, Officer Brophy; Riley Geary, Officer Klein; Marian Synder, Martha Brewster; Jane Jones, Elaine Harper; Cooper Welch, Motimer Brewster; Frank Lundstrom, Mr. Gibbs; George Dolmas, Jonathan Brew- ster; Bob Bloecker, Dr. Einstein; Andyi Grayner, Officer O'Haraf Charley Oat- man, Lieutenant Rooney, and Evert FILIr- rey, Mr. Witherspoon. Business Manager for the play .. is Glenn,Denton. Performances of Arsenic and Old Lace will be March 18, 19, and 20. FRESHMEN, SOPHOMORES - HOLD CLASS ELECTIONS in the class elections which were held February 4, the following students were elected to represent the Freshman Class for the second semester: Don Jolly, presi- dent; Marshall Humphrey, vice president; Pat Snuffer, secretary; Charles Bill, treas- urer. Jerry Joachim was elected as freshman representative to the Executive Board. The results of the Sophomorerelection: were as follows: Riley Geary, president; Blaine Mullins, Hallen, secretary; George Stuart, treasa urer; Cooper Welch, the representative to the Executive Board. vice president; Sona BEAR TRACKS Member of the Associated College Press Co-Editors ........ Kerlin Rowland, Tod Rosnek Issue Editor ................................ Tod Rosnek A ' l t Editor. Lee ' Page Editors .............. Jan Hedrick, Jim Agee Helen T. Maney Sports Editor ........... ..'..Jim Agee Photography Edltor, John Boskon Photographers ........ Jan Hedrick, Leo Chavez George Brown Don Levenhagen, Don Biscoe, Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Herb Surrett, Russell Orton, Joyce Roche, Jim Gump, Jitter Mc- Dannold, John Barron. iFa'culty Advisor ............................ R. C. Emery BEAR TkACKS welcomes any signed opin- ' ions epressed by the student body. THE KOlLiS KORNER ' Here's one about the rapid disintegra- tion of our American civilization. Oh, that's fantastic, is it? it's more of this religious scare stuff, is it? We're wiser and better today than man has ever been in his whole history, are we? , Reporters: I say that we're on the skids. The distintegration of our society isn't im- possible; it's not a thing that might con- ceivably happen in the future if we aren't careful. It's happening now, right under our eyes. And most of us know that it's happening. But it will continue to happen, because most of us just don't care enough to do anything about it. We're pretty sure that the thing is going to blow up in our faces tomorrow or next month or next.year, but we aren't at all inclined to worry about that today. Be- cause today we're having too much fun to worry about anything. What constitutes this moral and phy- sical falling' apart at,the seams of our society? lt's primarily a question of speed. People live too fast today. They're geared too high. They smoke too many cigarettes, they drink too much hard liquor, they get too little sleep. And whenever somebody says that maybe it would be a good idea to take it a little easier, the modern people sneer and accuse him of being old fashioned and Victorian. Possibly that word modern sums up all that's wrong with our society. It has been so corrupted that it's actually laughable. Anything goes in the name of modemismeanything. It's all right to get drunk because that's the modern thing to do. lt's all right to steal your best friend's wife, because, after all, we mustn't be Victorian about this thing, now must we? We mustn't express a faith in anything that hasn't been scien- tifically proved to us because that's childish . The farmers of the world keep us alive with the food they produce, but we must look down our noses at them BEAR TRACKSePHOENlX COLLEGE and make fun of them because they're so crude. Ask us to give to the Red CrOss and the March of Dimes and we'll gladly comply. Don't, however, ever have the temerity to suggest that the goodness in people is not affected by whether or not they read The New Yorker. Whatever else we do, we've got to read all the literary garbage turned out by the Book-of-the-Month Club written, for the most part, by frustrated womenl and call it art we've got to know what is meant by words like square, creep, and smoe iand we won't get the definitions we need out of any diction- ary.l We mustn't look farther back than 1930, or to any places save Hollywood and New York toiget our ideas about how to live. But we must know which celebrities are currently married to whom, or whether women are hiding their legs this year or admitting that they have them. 11 I Our culture stinks. Our ideas stink. Our lack of elemental integrity stinks. indeed, most of twentieth century Amer- ica stinks. We're falling apart, we're falling apart fast, and we haven't even the basic intelligence to be afraid. MOVIE REVIEW Remembering some of MGM's poor at- tempts at drama, including Sea of Grass, Song of Love, and The Huck- ters, we suggest that they concentrate their efforts on weak-plotted, almost entirely musical, and very enjoyable pic- tures like Good News. Good News, taken from the stage play of about twenty years ago, brings to the screen the effervescence, music, and color of the original play with the aid of one of the most talented casts of young stars ever assembled in Hollywood. The versatile cast, provided with some excellent dance routines and singable songs with appropriate lyrics, did their very best by them and that's pretty good. The cast includes June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Joan McCracken, Mel Torme, Ray MacDonald, Loren Tindall, and Pa- tricia Marshall, all of whom get into the dance routines and at one time or another burst into song. Allyson and Lawford use their own voices, not good but very interesting. Joan McCracken shows the way she danced to fame in Oklahoma with the very funny Mr. MacDonald as her screen partner. Mel Torme wraps his soft voice around the audience and holds them there, entranced, and, believe us, they weren't struggling. The dialogue was good for a musical and the cast read their lines admirably. l THE DEANtS BOX Participants in the Disc and Dime Dance last Saturday are to be congrat- ulated. Acimission was charged and the Associated Students paid all ex- penses so that all proceeds less tax went to the March of Dimes. Gross proceeds were $130. Don Grundy, Jim Watson, Marian Plueddeman, Jim Carroll, and Dr. Mousseau made substantial contribu- tions of time and effort to make the dance successful. Also commendation is owing to each and every student who attended, whether out of desire to dance or just curiosity about the nature of disc jockey competition. BOOK REVIEW By HERB SURRETT THE PEARL, by John Steinbeck, is not an entirely new book, since it first appeared in one of the women's maga- zines several years ago. 'However, it has just recently been published in book form. . Steinbeck tells the story, as it was told to him by a Mexican some ten years ago, of a young Mexican, Kino, taking them to a nearby city to sell. One day Kino finds a huge pearl, perfect in every re- spect, as large as a pidgeon's egg. The three pearl dealers in the city hear about it and agree among themselves to tell Kino that the pearl is not shaped right and to offer only a few hundred pesos for it. The young man sees through their scheme and decides to take the pearl to Mexico City to sell it. A doctor, who supposedly cured Kino's baby daughter when she was stung by a scorpion, determines to get the pearl it he has to kiH the entire family to do it. What the young couple go through, and how they finally dispose of the pearl makes one of the most enjoyable and readable stories that has been offered to the reading public in a long while. It is very short, taking only about one hour to read, and worth every minute of it, too. It ranks,- in my opinion, among the best of Steinbeck's works: The Grapes of Wrath, Tortilla Flat, and several others. Only John Steinbeck could write such an appealing story. + Repetition freshman induction tests will be given Saturday morning, February 28 from 9 to 12 in the Blue and Gold room, Liberal ArtselOl. These tests are open to all freshmen who missed the induction tests at the beginning, and will give them a chance to clear their records with the office. N .. ux-uu-a Git 'im, Sadie! ght as well be spring , ' mm Ou-r Symbol 1 . i A AHgAJo. The second semester advisory council in session. Sitting U. to rJ are Gerber, Carroll, Hannelly, Croyi, Joachim, Bloecker, Pluedde- man, Roche, Brock, Wheat. Standing, Padfield, Smelser Emery, Hoff, Mousseau, Grundy.- TRACKgPHOEN IX COLLEGE Barlow bolts for the Hall as Ev Juergens, Viking guard, finishes second in the race. r 7 ' Walkup 9 ds to a screec 9 half as Arneyaims- quick flip at him. Eager Vikings are Wolfe Hm, Juergens HH, and Payne H9L H - I A- '- . 'd 2M d Bluth IaTwles with a Tartar iumper w Ile Elevms and Fuller winzsusgrfadl: afisrazttfmtgzzinags gimgs Se: 3 an look on for Bears. Owens UH, Decter 09L and Ducich mm ' ' for Compton. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE Sig Kap Election ; Jim Watson, who was recently elected president emeritus of Sigma Kappa Phi. Memberslof Sig Kaps Fraternity met last Monday night at 7:30 in the club room. The business of the evening was the election of officers for this semester. Officers elected were: Ed Wasielewski, president; Kerlin Rowland, vice president; Frank Conner, secretary; Chuck Treat, treasurer; Jim Kinnerup, sergeant-at-arms; Bill Hinkley, social commissioner. An- other item of business was the appoint- ment ,of Jim Watson as honorary life- time president. Plans were also made for a picnic to be held at Apache Lake, February 23. Bill Hinkley, social commissioner, is in charge of arrangements. + Language Club To initiate Alpha Mu Gamma, national honorary foreign language fraternity, has listed the following PC students as eligible to membership in th Beta Chapter of this college: Marilyn Blair, Simon Kin, Don Levenhagen, Paul Livermore, James Rosser, Eugene Ulmer, Dean Robinson, Mrs. G. Ingram, Kerlin Rowland, Sybil Rice, Anna iPiercey, Joyce Abbott, Bill Garcia, Isabel Casares, James Carroll, James Kinnerup, Beverly Seiff, Barbara Preblude, Tom Wadlow, Josephine Sieber, Bob Sexton, and Beth Miles. Students who gain this honor will be recognized at local chapters throughout the nation. The Alpha Mu Gamma fra- ternity requirement are two semester A's and a semester B , in a foreign language and members must also main- tain a high scholastic standing in all other subjects. There will. be a meeting of Alpha Mu . Gamma pledges Friday, activity period. The main Alpha Mu Gamma social event of the year will be the initiation banquet to be held on April 27. Social Notes. Members of Theta Chi Delta sorority met on Friday, February 6, to discuss plans for a rush party to be held on lMonday, February 16, at the home of Marie Getty, 1222 East Brill. The group met yesterday to discuss further plans for the party. Members of Alpha Sigma Gamma will entertain the boys and girls at the Ari- zona State Crippled Children's Home with a Valentine Party tomorrow after- noon. The hospital wards will be deco- rated with red hearts and Valentine boxes. The afternoon's entertainment will in- clude the making of Valentines and group singing. The sorority will present the children with Valentines and heart- shaped cookies. Mary Hanneily' will act as story teller for the younger children. Marie Childers is the-general chairman for the event. The sorority is also sponsoring a cake sale today in front of the cafeteria. Claryce Beck and Joyce Abbott are in charge of general arrangements. Phi Lambaa Zeta sorority met on Tuesday, February 9, at the home of Phyllis Miller, 2229 North 7th Street; at which time they elected Phyllis Daw- son pledge mistress. Plans were made for a Leap Year dance to be held on February 28 at the W0- man's Clubhouse. All women students of the college are invited, and the admis- sion will be $1.50 per couple. Caro Soiosth, social chairman, is in charge of general arrangements. + New instructor Miss Louise Utterback was recently added to the faculty as an instructor of music in organ and piano. She became the ninth instructor in Phoenix College's music department. All students intere ested in taking piano or organ lessons are asked to see Miss Utterback on Tues- day morning, February l7. Newman Club. New officers were elected last Friday, during activity period by the Newman Club, a club for Catholic students. Those now heading the club are TonysPagono, president; Mike McClure, vice president; Jeannine Hanlon, secretary; and Barbara Holland, treasurer. The Executive Board is made up of Tod Rosnek, Helen T. Maney, Andy Valenzuela, and Jeanne Nixon. elected officers of the French Club pose for a BT staff photographer. ' L. to R. they are Dick Packard, Jane Luke, Jeannine Hanlon, C. J. Smith, and Oscar Lauderback. Newly, The French Club elected officers last Tuesday, February 10, 1948, for the new semester and' made plans for the initia- tion for new members. Dick Packard was elected president; Jane Luke, vice presi- dent; Jeannine Hanlon, secretary; C. J. Smith, Jr treasurer, and Owl Louder- back, publicity chairman. February 25, 1948 was set as the date for the initia- tion picnic of new members of which there are approximately twenty for the new semester. Club News Friday, February 6, at the first weekly meeting of the semester, the Woodscn Club elected officers for second semester. The results of the election were as follows: R. G. Fellows, president; Winfred Orum, vice president; Hazel Williams, Secretary; Ethel Boyer, assistant secretary; Tom Jewell, treasurer; Thelma Clardy, busi- ness manager; and Ronald Swain, re- porter. The College Y basketball team moved into the undisputed first place, in the metropolitan league, by dropping the - Marston quintet, 38-30. The team, con- sisting of Phoenix College student's, is coached by Joe Leach, former Valparaiso University, and Second Army Air Force star. ' Officers of the club are: Jim Gump! president, Art West, vice president, and Jim Agee, secretary-treasurer. New of- ficers will be elected at a coming meet- ing, and announced at a later, date. Members of the Shanish Club met Tues- day, February 10 for the nomination of officers. Those nominated were lda Price for president; Frank Lundstrom for vice president; Nancy Keller, Marie .Pierce and Joyce Abbott for secretary-treasurer. The club is planning to visit Jorge Geli who is in 'St. Luke's hospital. Bears HahdiVikings Double Setback Paced by Leon Blevihs and Glenn Barlow, the Phoenix College Bears swept a twin bill from the Long Beach City College Vikings last week end on the local Courts by dumping the invaders 59 to 40 and 76 to 56. Friday night's nori-conference victory came on'the' Bruin floor, which saw the local five take a 33 to 14 halftime ad- .vantage and coast to the victory. Both coaches flooded the floor with players allowihg all members of the two teams to get in the contest. Neither school's starting five were in the game together until the closing minutes of the game, allowing the two mentors a chance to work withrseveral different combinations. Blevins paced the Phoenix attack with ten points followed by Barlow with nine. Gil Treio sparked the local's attack in the final twenty minutes after the two pace setters had led the first half scor- ing. Moving to Phoenix Union's spacious gymnasium for the conference tilt on Saturday night, the Bruin regulars met with stiff opposition from the. Squad of 'Vikings that had upset the LACC Cubs the week before. The quintets matched baskets in the opening minutes of the contest, and then' Barlow caught fire and began dropping baskets in from all over the court, scoring fifteen points as the Bruins pulled out in front to' hold a 36'toi 24 lead at the haIf-way mark. In the final halt, Blevins shook loose from lthe two L'ong Beach cag'ers who had held him to four points in the initial twenty minutes, to spark a forty point drive as the Bears scored their fourth conference victory. Barlow added ten points to his first half total to take the scoring honors with 25 points, followed by Leon with 24. BASEBALL UNDER WAY Under the supervision of Coach Johnny .Riggs, approximately fifty Phoenix Col- lege diamond hopefuls have beerl work- ing out daily for the past month. Riggs hopes to field a strong squad to meet the tough schedule the Bruins ' encounter this season. -A new baseball diamond is being con- i structed on the ten acres just north of the football field. The field is expected to be ready for play at the season opening. t TICoaich Riggs urges all men interested in baseball to come out for the squad: Glenn Barlow gets away a shot in one of the recently completed Bruin-Long Beach games. Leon Blevins prepares to take the rebound. GILA CAGERS INVADE BRUlN LAIR l Phoenix College basketball fans will V have a chance to see their favorite hoop- sters in action whn the Bruins engage the Monsters of Gila Junior College in a double header tonight and tomorrow night. i The two arch-enemies are both primed for battle and the red hot Bears are expected to be given a stiff test by the always dangerous Gila gang. Although comparative scores and com- petition should make the Phoenix five the favorites, the grudge nature of the games should make for an interesting fracas both evenings. The smart, hard- playing Gila crew are always competitors and undoubtedly are out to sink the classy Bruin club if possible. Coach George Dutch Hoy and his Bruin aces will also be gunning for a pair of wins to insure their chances of being invited to the Western States tournament next month. Both coaches havin'g this in mind, the two contests shape up as naturals, and the twin bill should provide plenty of hardwood entertainment. SPORTS SLANTS x By JIM AGEE With the conference victory over the Long Beach City College Vikings last Saturday night, the Bears of Phoenix College have moved into third place in the conference standings. Compton, who was idle last week in conference play, leads the league with five victories and one defeat. They are followed by the LACC Cubs who holdea six and two record. If the Tartars stop the Cubs on the Compton floor when the'two squads get together they will almost assure. themselves of first place in the standings. Leon Blevins, high scoring Bruin for- ward, added 24 points to his scoring column and now has a total of H9 points in conference play for an average of 17 points a game. Blevins is followed by Dan Ducich of Compton and Hal Uplinger of- LACC with1 85 counters apiece, with Ducich rating the number two spot as he has only competed in six games to Uplinger's eight. Art Car- roll of Phoenix is still in eighth soot in the scoring standings with 61 pointsf iiiear Official Student Publication of Phoenix College ratk Vol. 20 GEORGE AND MARTHA' DANCE SET FOR TONITE Tonight from nine until twelve in the Phoenix College gymnasium tho. Associ- ated Students will present the George and Martha Dance, in honor of the father of our country and for the enter- tainment of the entire student body. Vance McPherson and his band will sup- ply the music. This year's dance, falling at the close of Re-dedication Week; will carry a double patriotic meaning and according- ly the gym will be decorated with flags, bunting and other reminders of the Na- tional Emblem. Social Commissioner Don Grundy has announced that there will be a prize waltz and possibly an exhibition of the minuet of George and Martha's time by the quartette which appeared in the Re- dedication Pageant at PUHS Wednesday night. . The entire student body is invited to the dance, admission to which will be gained simply by presenting activity cards. s $ Photography Ciricula Offered Next Year Mr. D. F. Stone, head of the physics department, says two complete curricula will be offered in photography next year. One group in photography will study for two years in what is called a terminal curriculum and another group will take a. university curriculm. This last group will study two years at Phoenix College and two more years at some accredited university. Both curricula are complete in themselves and both give thesstudent a thorough understanding of the prob- lems of a photographer. Mr. Stone added that, Due to unfore- seen conditions, the photography depart- ment took a beating this year. Next year there will be seven booths, one of which will be for the exclusive use of Bear Tracks. That will leave six booths for the photography classes; and each booth can handle two students, each class in photography will have twelve stu- dents. Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, February 20, 1948 Stewart Udall Speaks In Assembly; Urges P. C. World Federalist Chapter Stewart Udall, who spoke in assembly last Tuesday. LEAP YEAR DANCE SET Final plans for the Leap Year odance being sponsored by Phi Lambda Zeta so- rority have been made. The dance will be held from 9 to 12 p. tn. on Saturday, February 28, in the Phoenix Women's clubhouse. Under the general chairman- ship of Shirley LaTourrette, sorority president, committee chairmen are Caro Dorothy Annabelle Brice, re- Solosth, decorations; Dodson, Velma Caviness, freshments; Caro Solosth and Bethany Fyke, invitations; and Vivian Tarbell, publicity. Board Hits Careless Smokers At the last meeting of the Executive Board the subject of smoking in the Cafeteria and Student Union was dis- cussed. It was reported that a certain group of students were disregarding the rules on this subject, and they have re- fused to cooperate when Barbara Fisack- erly, Student Union Manager, told them they were breaking the rules. Dr. Hannelly pointed out that there is a gity ordnance prohibiting smoking in any of our buildings. The Executive Board also requests the cooperation of all students to help keep the Student Union clean. Mr. Stewart Udall, a graduate of the University of Arizona Law School, spoke on world government at the general as- sembly on Tuesday. Mr, Udall stressed that world government is, the only an- swer to save civilization from destruction. World government was an academic sub- ject until the era of the atom bomb. It was an idealist's dream. Now, because of our ability to destroy, all of us must be interested in world government. Mr. Udall said that other nations will have the atom bomb soon and that new and more frightful ways to conduct war have already been discovered. The atom bomb has been perfected even more than it was, and bacteriological warfare could be conducted with devastating results. Un-, til world government works, the United States will live in constant fear of at- tack. Mr. Udall stated that General Eisen- hower admitted that the nation'which strikes first in the next war will win. The United States will never strike first because that is not the way of democ- racy. Mr. Udall added that, in an atomic war, great urban centers would be lev- eled and one-third to one-half of the population killed. Democracy would lose no matter who won. Mr. Udall is a United World Federalist and wants a chapter of that organiza- tion established ,on the PC campus. He said that college students can mold pub- lic opinion and that a large part of the leadership in a world government must come from youth. According to Mr. Udall, the United Nations Organization is nothing more than a treaty. Nations observe treaties only as long as they profit by them. ' Mr. Udall concluded with the state- ment that world government is a great cause. We can have chaos or a new period of spiritual and intellectual de- There is no . velopment. It's up to us. security except in world government. BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE BEAR TRACKS Member of the Associated College Press co-Editors ........ Kerlin Rowland, Tod Rosnek Issue Editor. ...... Jim Agee t ' ' Edl a on L... '- Page Editors .............. Jan Hedriek. Jim Agee Helen T. Maney ' ...... Jim Agee ..Jolm Boskon ....Jan Hedrick , George Brown Reporters: Don Levenhagen. Don Biscoe, Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Herb Surrett, Russell Orton, Joyce Roche, Jim Gump, Jitter Mc- Dannold, John Barron, George Brown. Faculty Adviser ............................ R. C. Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opin- ions expressed by the student body. PC PEACE PLAN With the appearance of Stewart Udall in our assembly last Tuesday, the stage has been set for the formation of a Phoe- Inix College chapter of the United World LFederalists organization. , i It is high time that our campus or- -ganized such a group, for the. issue is vital and the time is short. And this mat.- ter needs more than the rnere weight of public opinion; it needs the pressure of well-planned and determined action. And yet some of the most potent fac- tions standing in the way of world gov- ernment are composed of people who are intellectually sympathetic to the idea. They argue that although the need for Sports Editor ............ Photography Editor.. Photographers. such a government is apparent to every? one it is such an idealistic plan as to be impossible. G. AK Borgese of the. University of Chicago has supplied the perfect answer to that argument. He stated: World government is necessary; therefore, it is possible. Another argument frequently advanted is, 'How can capitalism'and communism get along together? The answer here is also that it is a question of necessity. The Russians need the products of capitalism because they are expanding and rebuild- ing. With them, commerce with the American system of enterprise is an ex- pediency not to be influenced by ideo- logical differences. On the other hand, Russia is the one great nation besides the U. S. to emerge from World War Ill with enough cash and credit to do large- seale business with the American capi- talistic concerns which are now ready and willing to produce more than ever before. Russia is the greatest potential world mar-' ket that capitalism has. Economists seem to be generally agreed that capitalism and communism can ,exist together for the next fifteen years, economically, without danger of a crisis, simply beeause the two ways of life need each other. Whether or not the two systems could maintain such a prolonged social and economic inter- course and still emerge ideologically in- tacteie, uncorrupted by the ideas and methods of the other system-would de- pend entiiely upon the basic soundness of the systems involved and upon the character of their fraternization. While it is true that. capitalism and communism are ideas which are greatly opposed to each other, it is not too much to hope that world government could solve this problem of conflicting ideolo- gies. certainly world government is a better answer than international anarchy. w Letis Support The Team What about this idea of school spirit? The vast majority of Phoenix College students seem to have the idea that c h e e r i n g or supporting a team is kid stuff, too childish for their mature and grown-up actions. They seem to be of the opinion that anyone who does yell or raise a little racket in support of a team is an intellectual low brow, who hasn't grown up yet. Well, maybe they haven't. And then again maybe the so-called kids, who apparently see nothing wrong in giving a few lusty yells in support of the finest basketball team Phoenix College has ever put on the floor, are more grown up than the smart boys think. Perhaps, however, we should regard ourselves as, intelllectual giants, who are above engaging in siJch moronic activi- ties as cheering fbr a basketball team. After all, only the kids yell in suppor of a team. ' Is this the attitude that is taken? Whether it is or not, that is the im- pression that is given by the rows of fans, who never raise their voices, except to voice disapproval of the noisy, boister- ous, little group, who are backing the team with real school spirit. Let's lower our dignity a little and get behind the team and really support them. They are representing us in a good manner, and deserve our whole hearted support. $ .Don't Forget Bumstead! What good is a beer that has no head? None what so ever! What good is a bear that has no head? None what so ever! Hasn't any one got the time, ener- gy, or. what ever it takes to get a head on our BUMSTEAD? Doesn't any one care? GET HOT somebody and see that .OUR BEAR doesn't have to go through this semester with his bear neck hanging out. The Koil's Korner The Freedom Train is in town today. There are probably several of us who will want to go down to the station and take a look at it. It brought a vitally important cargo to Phoenix. For inside the Freedom Train are the original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and practically every other famous document that's a part of our history. But this wasn't intended as a public- ity blurb tor the Freedom Train; there's been plenty of publicity'about it already. Radio and the press have been beating the drum for it ever since its inception. Irving Berlin wrote a song to publicize and commemorate its trip. It wasn't much of a song, as popular songs go, but it did serve its purpose. , People will go to see the train, all right, and they'll come away impressed. They'll come away thinking that our democracy is a great and wonderful thing and that there was never a people in the history of the world who did a better job of governing themselves. I think. that's fine; I can find no quarrel with such thoughts, for they are my thoughts too. The trouble is that whether or not a man has seen the Freedom Train has nothing whatever to do with what kind of a citizen he is.. Until we make the democracy embodied in the documents in the Freeedom Train 'work the way' they should work, there isn't going to be any great good as a result of people hav- eingsseen them. There's no sense in enu- merating our failures to make democracy work here. We've all seen the list be-t fore; we'll all see it again. Here's the point: The men who wrote the documents that are in the Freedom Train had a dreamean ideas that free men could govern themselves justly. We have come a long way toward the reali- zation of that dream. But we have not realized it yet. The instruments in the train won't have their great promise tul- filled until the time when democracy has ceased to be a theory and has become a living, irrefutable fact. The question of the week for all of us, it seems to me, should be this: Am I doing anything to postpene that time? Make appointments for pictures of your organization for the year book with the photo editor activity period Monday. March lst is the dead-line for taking pictures. BEAR TRACKS-ePHOENIX COLLEGE Campus Personalities e 5'35! R999 e, i c, 1....l A campus personality everyone should know is big Fred Roche, Bruin center, and recently elected AMS president. Fred, who graduated from PUHS in 1944, served two years in the Navy as a radioman, before coming to our campus. You students who follow our boys in basketball will know Fred as the big, dimpled center who gives the crowd a . kick when he fouls. He is a happy-go- lucky fellow, all 6 feet 4 inches, 230 pounds of him. When asked what his hobby is, he just answered, Eating, even though I'm undernourished. I'm just Waiting for Bear Day and the pie eating contest. Here's a tip for you girls, Fred just loves to have his back scratched. New Classes ln Metal Shop Classes in metal shop under the classification of ME. 52 are now of- fered to engineering students. Now being taught by Mr. Amos Hoff and Mr. J. C. Douthit, the shop coursestare held in the east wing of the cafeteria building. Mr. Hoff stated that the metal shop classes are open, not only to engineer- ing students, but to all students who are interested, and the courses will con- tinue indefinitelyp It was -also an-. nounced that wood shop classes will be offered in the fall. These courses were discontinued dur- ing the war because of a shortage of materials and equipment. The new equip- ment now being installed includes a lathe, drill press, shaper, and an elec- tris arc and o'xy-acetylene welding ma- chines. The course includes instruction in the use of all this equipment. Willy Ashchaft Everybody knows this petite femme for her friendly smile and her effer- vescent personality. Being a native Ari- zonan, Willie is a graduate of North Phoenix high school. A sophomore at PC she is taking a general course and her future plans will be directed towards the University of Arizona where she will major in Art. Dancing and roller skating are two of Willie's favorite avocations. She is currently senior representative for Alpha sorority; DEAN'S BOX Although Phoenix College is unique in many ways, it is outstanding in the small amount of stealing, if any, which is preva- lent on the campus. For about three decades members of the faculty and student body have had a pleasant sense of security with respect to personal effects and professional equipment. The opposite has been true in some schools and colleges. Respect for the property of others is consistentrwith the improvement in char- acter which should result from college education. Allow me to congratulate you and past students upon your honesty and urge you to continue your policy. THANKS GEORGE Since George Washington's birthday falls on Sunday, February 22, Monday has been declared a legal holiday . . . for us working people's benefit. School will be resumed on Toesday, February 24. This means a three day week end for all; so there is no need for a blue and studentless Tuesday. We should all be greatful for this extra holiday that is donated to us, so . . . Thank you, George! ' Orchid of the Year By John Boskin Photography Editor This year's orchid goes to the students of the photography classes who since early last semester have picked up ham- ' r'ners, saws, plumbers' wrenches, elec- tricians' equipment, and trotted out to our annex buildings and actually built dark rooms. This is truly a liberal edu- cation. What one didn't pick up in photography was well compensated for in practical construction knowledge. Thanks, Dean Hannelley, for having a dark room set aside for the journalism department. OSCAR REVlEWS By Mitchell and Harris Nominations have been made for the most outstanding event of the movie world, the Academy Award presentation, which will be made on March 20. Nominations for the best picture of 1947 include The Bishopl's Wife, Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement, Miracle on 34th Street, and the Brit- ish picture, Great Expectations. Miss- ing from the list are pre-nomination fav- orites, Mourning Becomes Electra, Odd Man Out, and Body and. Soul. The general concensus is that - Gentle- man's Agreement will take the award and we're going along with the crowd. Best actresses include Joan Crawford, Susan Hayward, Dorothy McGuire, Rosa- lind Russell, and Loretta Young, and it ' will probably be a duel between Misses McGuire and Russell. Welll put our money on Russell. I Ronald Colman, John Garfield, Gregory Peck, William Powell, and Michael Red- grave are up for best actor. This should be close between Colman and Peck. in our opinion Colman probably deserves it, but Gregory Peck will take the Oscar. We believe that James Mason should have been nominated for Odd Man Out, and that he should have the award hands down. Ethel Barrymore, Gloria Grahame, Ce- leste Holm, Marjorie Main, and Ann Re- vere are supporting actresses, and every- one including us is picking Celeste Holm. The competition is stiff, however. Supporting actors n o m i n a t e d are Charles Bickford, Thomas Gomez, Ed- mund Gwenn, Robert Ryan, and Richard Widmark. This will be another hotly con- tested race, and we're laying our bets on Edmund Gwenn, but our hopes on Richard Widmark, who definitely had the most difficult role and handled it su-l perbly. SPORT 'SLANTS The Phoenix College Bears have been in'California this week playing vital con- ference games with Ventura on the l6th and 17th and at Compton last night. The Bruins will finish their California jaunt by tackling Long Beach tomorrow night. Though the Bears have little chance of copping the W5C championship, they have been assured a place at the Camp- ton Tournament by virtue of their double win over Gila Junior College last Friday and Saturday nights. Coach Hoy took a twelveeman squad to the coast. The team was composed of Leon Blevins, Gilbert Trejo, Art Carroll, Fred Roche, Glenn Bar- .row, Barry Arney, Farris Ellington, Bob Williamson, Charlie Castle, Ernie Walk- up, and Lynden Bluth. Sonny Dale missed the trip when Hoy discovered at the station that he had named thirteen players instead of twelve. r Better luck next time, Sonny! Larry Fuller, Glenn Barlow, who won a first string berth on the honorary team selected at the Campton Tournament last year, is back in the Bear lineup. Glenn's sharp eye and clever ball-handling are a wel- come addition to the Bruin roster. Al- thoogh he was ineligible, Glenn practised with the team all during the first semes- ter and now has been called upon to fill the vacancy left by veteran guard, Bill Hammontree, who has been lost for the season. A promising newcomer to the Bear squad is Charlie Castle. Charlie knows and plays a lot of basketball and 'will un- doubtedly be a big help to the team. Old PUHS grads 'should remember this Tex-Coyote flash ofia few years back. Leon Blevins, who somehow failed to be an alI-tournament selection at Camp- ton last year, has served notice that he will be hard to stop this, year. Leon is currently leading the .Western States conference with a 17 points per game average. Tomorrow night's genie at Long Beach stacks up to be pretty close. Long Beach will be out to avenge the double licking which the Bears handed them here After this trip, the Bears return home for their final conference stand against Pasadena. The remainder of the season will be spent in preparation for V the .Western regional tournament at Campton next month. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE .- ; !e ' Twas. Phoenix College co-eds get in the swim. Posing on the bank while Arlene Irion and and Lila Milligan test the water are, left to right: Jan Hedrick, Barbara Flett, Virginia McCarley, Mary Phillips, June Welch and Phyllis Dawson. PC CAGERS TOP GILA; INSURE TOURNEY BID The Bruins of Phoenix College added the Gila Junior College Monsters to their list of victims when they swept a double header from the Gila crew last Friday and Saturday nights. Although the first night's fracas, played at the Phoenix College Gym, was marred by numerous fouls being commit- ted by both sides, it was a close contest and the boys from Thatcher gave the Bear squad a rough.battle before finally bowing 53-47. The local lads were defi- nitely not up to form and it marked the first time during the season that Leon Blevins, smooth Phoenix forward,' had more than two fouls called on him during one game. It was the sterling play of big Fred Roche, however, that pulled the Bear cagers out of the hole and sparked them to a last-quarter rally which, en- abled them to tuck away the game. Far- ris Ellington, sub forward, also made a spectacular recovery of a bad pass which helped to bring the Phoenix club back into the tray. The second evening's brawl was a dif- ferent story. A smooth-working Bruin five hit the basket from all angles to swamp the Monsters, 81-64. Blevins led the scoring parade with 26 markers while his running mate at forward, Gil Trejo, was pumping in 17. Glenn Barlow and Art Carroll also racked up their share of points to help the Bruin cause along. The Gila club put up a spirited battle both nights and were definitely in the games all the way. Sparked by Leo John- son and Wendell Gardner, the Monsters. gave Phoenix fans several uneasy mo- ments, The Bear five always seemed to recover, however, and they won handily the right to represent Arizona in the Western States Tournament at Compton, California, next month. BRUINS TOPPLE VENTURA FIVE The Bruin cagers of Phoenix College opened a west coast invasion last Monday night by taking a 55-to-50 victory from the Ventura College Pirates on the Cali- .fornia school's home court. Paced by Leon Blevins, the Bears grabbed a 2840-24 half time advantage and stood off any Venture challenges to grab their fifth conference victory and move into complete command of third place in the league standings. Blevins hit the hoop for 19 counters followed by Glenn Barlow with 15. Mur- rell Binkley led the Pirates with 22 points and scoring honors for the evening. Tuesday Night's Results Phoenix College ................ 47 Ventura College ................ 40 RED CROSS SPONSORS PC SWIM PROGRAM Under thesponsorship of the Red Cross, Phyllis Dawson, Mr. Kersten, and Miss Herron are developing a swim pro- gram which is open to all students and faculty members. The Physical Education Department honors the weekly swim at the warm-when-it's-cool, cool-when-it's- warm Autopia Motel pool with a semes- ter hour credit. Time for the class is Thursday after- noons at two. Autopia Motel is locateql at 390l East Van Buren. Those interested in enrolling in the class should see Phyllis Dawson. lege Flying School. 332m: Imam Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, February 20, 1948 The ROTC Club has elected its new officers. They are: president, Lt. Colo- nel Eldon Hamblin; vice-president, Colo- nel Joel Leetham; secretary-treasurer, Lt. Colonel 'Larry Norton; social chairman, MajOr Don Perry, and publicity chairman, Lt. Colonel Jerry Joachim. The ROTC Club is planning a formal military ball to be held at the PC gym on Friday, March 12, from 9 to 12. Chuck Wellington's orchestra will provide the music. Tickets for the dance will cost $1.50 a couple. The student body is in- vited as are the cadet officers from the four Phoenix ROTC units of the high schools. Teachers Meet, Eat, Fly The PC faculty held their regular monthly meeting and dinner at Sky Har- bor Airport yesterday. After a brief fac- ulty meeting in the clubroom of the Phoenix College Flying School, the teach- ers dined at the Sky Chef. The meeting was held at the airport so that our PC faculty might gain first-hand knowledge of the Phoenix Col- As an added incen- tive, faculty members were invited to take a spin in the Flying School's train- ing ships. Miss Herron was in charge of accommodations. The Atlantic Monthly is now con- ducting a literary contest, open to all college students. Entries will be re- .ceived till April 10, 1948. To be judged will be the best essay, the best story, and the best poem. The essays must not exceed 3000 words. The stories must not exceed 4000 words. Pbems must not exceed 60 lines, but may be in any form of verse. The prizes: $50 for each of the essays, stories, or poems judged as the best. George Ahee Sorority Sponsors Shindig One of the social highlights of this semester will be a Leap Year Sport Dance sponsored by Phi Lambda Zeta so- rority. The dance will be held tomorrow night, February 28, betwee n 9 and 12 p. m. at the Phoenix Woman's Club. Invitations have been extended to sororities of Arizona State College at Tempe, Phoenix College and also to the women of Phoenix College and over ,one hundred individual invitations have been sent to girls who do not attend college. Gordon Wallace and his orchestra will furnish the music for the affair. Balloons, crepe paper and streamers will be used to decorate the clubroom with an original motif. The Mardi Gras will be the decorative theme. A percentage of the profits from the dance will be donated to the college library for the creation of a special fund. Under the general chairmanship of club president Shirley La Tourrette and social chairman Caro Solosth the follow- ing committees have been organized: decorations, Dorothy Dodson, Annabelle Brice and Velma 'Caviness; refreshments, Caro Solosth, Bethany Fike and Shirley La Tourrette; invitations, Vivian Tarbell; publicity, Doris Coor. Sponsors for the dance will be Mrs. Lillian Whitney and Mr. Cecil Kersten. Admission will be $1.50 per couple. Ahee Resigns As Bruin Grid Mentor Successor To Post Not Named As Yet George Ahee, head football coach of the Phoenix College Bruins during the past season, an- nounced his resignation lastweek. The statement came as a surprise to many of the students and sport fans who followed the Bear for- tunes through a disastrous cam- paign. Although the Thomas Road footballers dropped all of their conference games, they proved their potential ability twice dur- ing the season by winning easily from both El Centro and the Ca- dets from Roswell, New Mexico. Both games were a tribute to good coaching. As the season began, Coach Ahee was faced with almost in- surmoUntable difficulties in at- tempting to mold a gridiron club. Taking a group of inexperienced players from a school which hadn't fielded a football team in five years, and playing a full schedule in the rugged Western States Conference, which boasts some of the best two-year school talent in the nation, was a big enough un- dertaking in itself. To field a con- sistently winning team, under such conditions, would have been nothing 5 h o rt of a coaching miracle. D e s p i t e the circumstances, Ahee produced a cleated crew which turned every game into a rough battle and definitely left the opposition with the impres- sion that they had been in a foot- ball game. The Ahee-instilled spirit of fight was responsible for that. Although his future plans are indefinite, the colorful Ahee will be missed at Phoenix College by many members of the student body and the faculty alike. Sport followers and friends all wish George Ahee good luck and many good seasons ahead BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE BEAR TRACKS Member of the Associated College Pies: Co-Editors ........ Kerlin Rowland, Tod Rosnek Issue Editor ............... Lee lngalls Assistant Editor ..Russell Orton Page Editors ...... an Hedriek, Jim Agee Russell Orton, Helen T. Maney Sports Editor.... .Jim Agee Photography Editor. ohn Boskon Photographers .......... Jan Hedrick J. Boskon, George Brown Don Levenhagen, Don Biscoe, Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Herb Surrett, Russell Orton, Joyce Roche, Jim Gump, Jitter Mc- Dannold, John Barron, George Brown. Faculty Adviser ............................ R. C. Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opin- ions expressed by the student body. HOW ABOUT IT There are lots of people on this campus that will get ahead in life. Now, who is going to get one for Bumstead? Summer's Reporters: coming; are we going to let him get his neck sunburned? We should be ashamed it he does. We got on the Art Department in one issue and nothing was even said about it, much less done. It's funny they didn't even give some excuse. Also the workshops in the Cafeteria Building have molds that they could possibly simulate a head. Whatever happens, let's get Bumstead a head before Bear Day. He went through a lot last yeareand made it back for Bear Day. He's here now but . . . oh, well, let's not lose our heads and forget about Bumstead losing his. ab Yakkitty-Yak Once upon a time there was a most delightful mauve yak who cavorted about the mountains and chasms of Tibet in a most unyaklike manner. habits annoyed all who knew him-both men and other yaksefor, after all, it His unusual one is a yak one must act like a yak and not like a yak might act if he were not a yak. But this absolute logic did not affect the unyakly yak one jot, and he continued his conniptions and cavortings until the whole neighborhood became so unfriendly toward him that they would scarcely speak when they encountered him, skip- ping 93in up pointed pinnacles and down perilous precipices. studied slights did not impress the pseudo yak, for he was a rugged individualist and as such sincerely believed that a yak's best friend was his whimsy. However, even these The recalcitrant yak was named Pyg- 'malion, but no one knew why, for he had never read Shaw nor carved a statue in his entire yakly life. Pygmalion had an insatiable propen- sity for posing riddles to everyone he met, and this eventually led to his sad demise, although it must be admitted that his was a most unjust end, foreall things considered-Pygmalion, for a yak, had a knack. His favorite riddle was this: When is a yak not a yak? The answer, of course, was: When he's an emu! but no one of whom the question was asked was ever able to answer it, and this pleased Pygmalion no end. I can still hear, in fond memory, his gay yak's laugh echoing through the chasms of Tibet; my mind's eye can still picture him, doubled up with helpless laughter, rolling about on the floor of the canyon as he shrieked with merriment at the look of puzzled be- wilderment upon his victim's face. Unfortunately, Pygmalion's love of hu- mor was to be his downfall, for it was not long after his seventh birthday that he met his nemesiSean American scientist who was also fond of tellingxriddles. Pygmalion accosted him one day, and eaudibly snickering with amusementehe asked the scientist his suppressed favorite question. Quick as a wink the scientist replied, When he's an emu! and before poor Pygmalion knew what had happehed, the scientist said, Now I'll ask you one: Why is a yak? To be concise, Pygmalion was caput! And he knew it, too; for, after all, how could a yak know why a yak was? His shaggy shoulders slumped and his yakky face was twisted into a sorrowful grim- mace. Life held no more meaning for Pygmalion; his star had set and, egad, death was the inevitable consequence, Pygmalion began to cry, and as he cried he dissolved into shining tear drops until there was nothing left of Pygmalion but a small pool of water. Eventually, violets pushed their little heads into the sunshine to mark the spot where the un- fortunate yak had dissolved into tears. . . . And that, kiddies, is how Yakima, Washington, got its name. + Students are requested to reserve the parking space at the west side of the Liberal Arts Building for Frank Wadleigh. This request was made of the Student Body in an earlier issue of B1 . In spite of this fact and in spite of the sign reserving the space for Frahk which is posted there, some students have been tak- ing Frank's parking place. The BT again asks all students to cooperate in this matter. The Koilis Komer When are the nations of the world going to join together in some kind of a federal world government, with enough power to prevent war and provide secur- ity everywhere in the world? It had bet- ter be soon, for if it is delayed much longer the world will be plunged into still another war. And the next world war could well be the end of civilization as we know it today. Who says so? The men in the best possible position to know what they are talking aboutethe scientists who created the atom bomb. These men have told us, time and time again, that we face extinction if we don't outlaw atomic warfare. But how are we to do that? By means of treaties between sovereign states? No. Men have been making treaties and agreements with each other for hundreds of years; they have been breaking them and settling their differences by killing each other ever since they started making them. All right then, how about the UN? No again. The UN is nothing more than anlattempt at government by law among a group of sovereign states. It has already been made abundantly clear that the na- tions of the world will try to settle their differences through the UN only when it pleases them to do so. It's the old story of piling treaty on top of worthless treaty, spouting platitudes about co-oper-i ation, and then governing every action by the ruthless rules of power politics. It seems to me that we haven't any choice about this business of creating a real world government. The only answer to international law is international an- archy. And the inevitable corallary to that is international war. We had better get a world federal government with powers sufficient to prevent war, and we'd better get one fast. The loss of our national sovereignty implied in the idea of federal world gov- ernment isn't to my liking. Neither is the present vagueness of the world fed- eralists' plan satisfactory as a solution to the problems that confront us. A more definite plan will have to be evolved if world federation is to succeed. But, though what the world tederalists propose is not yet definite enough to be effective, it is the machinery out of And this is certain: it we want to prevent a war which will be vastly more horrible than any we have yet fought and which could easily obliterate our present civili- zation, we must form a federal govern- ment of the nations of the world. There is no other way. which the final answer must come. h BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE 3 TROOPS BUST AL'L ASSEMBLHY RECORDS Speaking of Inflation. Singin' Sam Stephens renders Rose of Old Pawnee unconscious to the accom- paniment of George Ahee's git-fiddle. Bookie Bondus impresses the music critics. ' Jimmy Tennessee Lowe and the ever- presenf accompanist. This is talent? BEAR TliACKS-ePHOENIX COLLEGE LOUISE UTTERBACK Recently added to the Phoenix College music department as an instructor of or- gan and piano is Miss Louis Utterback. Miss Utterback has appeared in a long string of recitals, including a perforin- ance in New York's famous Carnegie Hall as an accompanist. She 'is not new in the teaching profession, having for- merly been a music instructor at Louisi- ana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. J MARY ELLEN FARRELL You have all seen Mary Ellen Farrell, a sophomore from Sioux Falls, South Da- kota, on our campus. She graduated from St. Mary'sAcad- emy, and later entered the Women's Marine Corps. The blue eyed, brown haired student served 2V2 years before coming to our campus. Mary Ellen is a member of Eta Chi, home economics sorority. Mary Ellen will .represent all the schools in the Arizona- New Mexico district at the annual nation- wide home economics club convention, which will be held in Minneapolis, Min- nesota, this June. Next year she will attend the Univer- sity of Arizona, where she will major in home economies. Movie Review By Mitchell and Harris Without a doubt the best figl'lt picture ever filmed, Body and Soul combines great talent, hard-hitting dialogue and artistically realistic photography. The picture shows in one flashback, which takes up the majority of the run- ning time, how Charley Davis Uohn Gar- fieldi, a young boxer, rises from the slums of New York to the middleweight Although his mother lAnne Reverel disapproves of championship of the world. boxing, Charley's friend, Shorty lJoseph Pevneyl, convinces a promoter, Quinn lWilIiam Conradl, that he should manage Charley. Charley's success is quick and great, and it is not long before he is given a crack at the title. When he does tight the champion, Ben Chaplin lCanada Leel, he doesn't know that the fight has been fixed and that Ben, who has been suffering from a blood clot on the brain, had been promised an easy fight. Ben is seriously injured and after his recevery, he becomes one of Charley's seconds. Charley becomes involved with a boxing racketeer and despite the warn- ings of his mother, Shorty, andihis girl, Peg lLilli Palmerl, to quitvboxing, he keeps On until he owes money to the racketeer and is forced to agree to a fixed tight. The photography by James Wong Howe is perfection, especially the fight scenes which he himself photographed with a hand camera. These blaody scenes alone should easily cop the photographic awards for the picture. The entire cast was excellent with the exception of Hazel Brooks, who had no chance to display whatever acting ability she may have. Especially outstahding were John Garfield, Anne Revere, Lilli Palmer, WilliamsConrad, Canada Lee, and Joseph Pevney, a newcomer to films who bears watching as a very fine actor. Can- ada Lee, with a very small part, was bet- ter than good. He was perfect. Body and Soul is such an all-round good picture that we can forgive Holly- wood for some of the Grade D movies that they try to pass off as entertaining moviefare. MIKE LISCINSKY A Roamin', rovin,' and congenial Mike is no doubt the most appropriate way to introduce this Connecticut Yankee. Mike is a native of Bridgeport, Conn., and after spending 37 months in the Army, 3i of which were South Pacific duty, he ac- cepted a friend's invitation to visit Ari- zona and after spending several weeks here decided to stay. Mike is taking his pre-law here at PC and will continue with law at the University of Miami in Florida. Mike is a sports enthusiast. He regards football, softball and volleyball as high on his list of favorites. The Home E: Department is the scene of a little first class facial surgery. Helping make,a raving beauty of the old girl are ileft to rightl Marijllen Farrell, Winnie Mae Gilbert, Arlene C. Irion, Evelyn Duncan. BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE Social Nate: Members of Theta Chi Delta sqrority entertained on Monday, February 16, at a rush dinner held at the home of the president, Marie Getty, 1222 East Brill. Rushees included Helen Backer, Marcia McConoughey, Gye Grammar, and Bar- bara Schiele. Final plans were made for a dinner dance to be held on March 26 at the Sundown. Pledge night, March 8, will be held at the home bf Jan Hedrick, 1805 North 16th avenue. 202-.- Alpha sorority will hold its second se- mester rush party at the home of Willie Ashcraft, 2642 E. Thomas road, tonight. The dinner will be a barbecue and served picnic style. Rushees who have received invitations are Helen Backer, Maxine Ekin, Alyce Farrell, Marlene Gallman, Betty Hyde, Virginia Lawless, Pat Ma- loney, Betty Martin, Marcia McCon- oughey, Betty Morris, Norine Pierce, and Dorothy Saunders. . 2b At a meeting held on February 16 in the clubroom, members of Alpha Sigma Gamma discussed plans for their rush party to be held at the home of Claryce Besk, 924 West Verde Lane. Doris Rud- dell will be in charge of invitations. Also on the agenda were plans for pledge night, March 8, to be held at the home of Theresa Chuka, 1528 East Coronado road. Plans were made for a Barn Dance to be held some time in March. + Members of Kappa Delta Nu sorority spohsored a Valentine dance held on Fri- day, February 13, in the Encanto Club House. The hall was decorated with large hearts inscribed with thetnames of the members and their escorts. Invitations were sent to Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Kersten, Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell, Dr. Mous- seau, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnson. At a recent meeting of Kappe Delta Nu, held at the home of Mary Lea Hart- man, members decided to omit second semester rushing or pledging. Plans for the annual formal dinner dance, to be held in April at Paradise Inn, were made. Barbara Schilt, charge of the dance. + Members at the Delta Pi sorority en- social chairman, is in tertained their rushees at a picnic held last Saturday afternoon at Encanto Park. Boating followed the lunch at the picnic grounds. Special guests were Dr. Frances Mousseau and Miss Grace Nichols, sorority sponsor. Mary Hannelly lead French Club initiates on a Trip to Paris at the initiation of new members of the Cercle Francais which was held last Wednesday. Too Late To Classify Phi Alpha Chi held their early formal dance last Saturday at the Mason's Ball Room. The arrangements were directed by C. J. Smith and Riley Geary. Don Jolly and Ken Morgan assisted. Mr. J, Decker and Dean Hahnelly were guests. + The new Engineers' Club officers elected Thursday, February 12, are John Harold Hunn, president; Shirley La Tourrette, secretary- Senter, president; vice- treasurer, and George McKhann, publict The club, sponsored by J. C. Douthit, voted to change its regular meet- ing to the first and third Wednesdays of A field trip to Reynold's Metal Plant has been planned for mem- bers of the club. relations. each month. H The PC Radio Club met Friday, Feb- ruary 13, to elect new officers for the second semester and to discuss plans for coming activities. New officers are Don Soule, president; Harry Anderson, vice- president; and George Peek, secretary- treasurer. Mr. Gilbert Mills is the club sponsor. Publicity chairmen of all social and academic clubs are requested to sub- mit news for Bear Tracks before noon .on Tuesday. It you want your club's news printed in Bear Tracks, please :omply with this request. Articles may be placed in the box outside the BT office. Club News Hiking, picnicking, and picture taking will highlight the PC Camera Club's pic- nic, which is planned for future. Accord- ing to Dr. M. W. Jones, club sponsor, anyone who is interested in taking pic- tures may come to the picnic. Date will be announced later. + Der Deutsche Verein, PC German' Club, held a picnic at Echo Canyon, Wednesday, February 18, from 5 to 9 p.m. The picnic served as an initiation for new members, and an election of second semester officers. Harry North, first semester president, was program chairman. Dr. Cecile Wilsonlis the club sponsor. + The PC Spanish Club, Los Buenos Vecinos, elected second semester offi- cers Wednsday during activity period. Harland Padfield was program chairman. Mr. M. Monroe is the club sponsor. 0+ Election of officers took place at 1he recent Masque and Dagger meeting held February 18. Isabel Casares succeeded Bob Bloecker as president; Marilyn Blair was elected vice-president, with Barbara . Rosenberg, secretary; Frank Lundstrom, treasurer; and Charlie Oatman, sergeant at arms. Several committees were appointed to publicize the newest dramatic production, A?senic and Old Lace. Tentative plans .were also being formulated for taking in new members, but nothing definite has been decided as yet. 6 Bruin Quintet Tops Vikings Overcoming an early lead, the Phoe- nix. College Bears gained a 48 to 37 tri- umph over the Long Beach City College Vikings last Saturday night in the West Coast city. The two squads matched baskets for the' first three minutes of play, then the Vikings led by Jim Payne eased into the lead, holding 'an 18 to 10 advantage at one point while Coach George Dutch Hoy tried to find a combination that could outurebound the Californians. Com- ing back fast in the last five minutes of the first half, the Bruins gained a 24 to 22 lead at the end of the period. During the final twenty minutes of play the local five played even ball to reach their 11-point advantage at the end of the contest. Leon Blevins scored 13 points to lead the Bears, followed by Barry Arney and Gil Trejo with ten and nine points respectively. Payne led the Vikings with 13 counters. Sport Slants By Jim Ages i The local cagers were more successful during their latest invasion of California, winning three out of four contests. The four games were conference tilts and leave the Bears with a 7-4 record in the won-Iost columns of league play. Their defeat, at the hands of the Compton College Tartars, assured the Tartars of first place in the conference standings and dropped the PC five into third spot again. Had the Bruins dropped the Compton quintet they'would now be resting in a three-place tie for first place, as the Tartafs fell to the John Muir Mustangs on the following night. But as it is, the Compton squad is almost as- sured of first place standing when the conference tilts come to a close. 7 The Bears face one more conference foeTthis season, when on next weekend they meet the Pasadena College Bulldogs on the local court. This weekend's con- tests with Ventura College were canceled as the PC quint played both league tilts with Ventura in California last week. + if the local paper that feels the ref- erees give the visiting team a bad deal in the Bruins home games would take a trip with the PC cagers and see what happens on the West Coast, they would come back praising the referees of the Phoenix area. BEAR TRACKSePHOENlX COLLEGE Captain Gil Treio of the Bruins sets for a one-handed push shot in the recent Gila game. Jess Pease of the Monsters and Leon Blevins of the Bears prepare to move in for the rebound. League Leading Tartars Humble Local Cagers Last Thursday night the Bruins of Phoenix College fell before the Compton College Tartars 63 to 56, in a Western States Conference tilt played on the Calie fornian's court. The Bears opened with an early lead only to suffer when Matt Garcia started to drop the ball through the hoop from all over the court. Compton held a 29 to 27 lead at the half-way mark, and increased their lead as the game reached its later stages. Garcia, Tartar guard, found the range throughout the contest and dumped in 23 points to lead his team to victory. led the locals with 12 Leon Blevins counters. The defeat was the Bruin's fourth in conference play and the fifth of the season. The local five came through in fine fashion from the free throw line in the game with the Tartars, missing only three tosses. TENNIS TOURNEY PLANNED AT PC In an attempt to increase PC tennis interest, Mr. Zito, tennis coach, has an- nounced plans for a mixed doubles ten-' nis tournament here at PC beginning the week of March 15. Mr. Zito states that tennis sHould be a natural here, consider- ing our fine weather, but that at present In addi- tion to creating greater interest in ten- there is a scarcity of players. nis, it is hoped that the tournament may bring to light some hidden talent here on our campus. Mr. Zito pointed out that although more players are needed, the PC tennis team is now composed of the following promising players: John Hardaway, Clay- ton Kaigler, Bob Collins, Dave Garberh and Glenn Phillips. ln addition to these players, Jake Duran, a transfer from Utah State College, is a new hopeful. The tenhis team has a trip to the Coast slated for May 13, 14, 15. While there they will engage Compton, Ventura and LACC. 6 533m: Eratkg i .Oeggamoo OQQQQQQ Official Student Publicatioh offhoenix College I x Vol. 20 Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, March 5.. 1948 No. 17 W;S.C. Tourney Begins 9th Compton Bears Are- Favored The Phoenix College Bears embark this week for the Western States Basket- ball Tournament which will be held at Compton, March 9-l3. This year's Western States Tournament will serve as a qualifier for the national junior college tourney. Finalists from the Compton Tournament will automatically qualify for the nationals to be held at Spring- field, Missouri, March 23-27, An official news release from Comp- ton College states that while the com- piete selection tor the Western States will not be completed until shortly'before the tournament opens, some teams have already assured themselves a berth. Compton and Phoenix, in addition to be- ing contenders for WSC honors, won their invitations by being finalists in last season's Western States Tourney. Los Angeles City College by clinching at least second place honors in the WSC has also qualified. Other sure entries are: Glendale, Santa Monica, Riverside, Visa- lia, and Fullertoneall from California. Among the list of probables are: Snow College, Utah B.A.C., and Weber College of Ogden, Utah. Compton, Phoenix and LACC will be rated as the teams to beat. Most of the California dopesters recognize Compton as a slight favorite, but Phoenix fans say otherwise. Coach Hoy hasn't picked a definite traveling squad as yet, but states that the Bears will leave Monday or Tues- day to insure a good night's rest for the team before they take to the floor. The Sophomore class may' have their pictures taken by appointment with Dr. Jones and his photographers. There will be a notice on the bulletin board in 'the Administration building There will be no charge for the pictures for the for making appointments. year book. If you have a favorite picture you would like used, submit with name and address on the reverse to John Boskon at the Bear Tracks office. Dr. Wilson Resigns Dr. Cecile Wilson of the PC guage Department has announced' that Lan- hes will resign her position, effective at the termination of the second semes- ter, and return to Stanford University in order to resume a faculty post there which she held formerly. Dr. Wilson is a native of France and has lived in ltaly,'Spain, Hungary and Austria. She studied'at the University of Vienna and has an M.A. and a PhD: de- gree from Columbia University. She also holds a degree from a Russian Gymna- sium. As a teacher she is well knOWn in California and in the state of Washing- ton. Her academic field is comparative literature, due to her knowledge of lan- guages. Before coming to Phoenix Col- lege she was head 'ot ,the Modern Lan- guages Department. at Phillips University, Oklahoma. Apart from her career as an educator Dr. Wilson served during the ,war as the head of the translation department of the Office of War Information and Censor- ship and later assisted the United Nations Organization during its San Francisco meeting as translator in the French and Russian departments. Her avocation is writing plays and poetry. As she announced her resigna- tion Dr. Wilson also spoke of her great love for her native country of France. According to Thomas Jefferson, she stated, every man has two countries; his own and France. The samesituation has been true of my life. x FlREU A very costly fire in the Science build- ing was averted early Tuesday morning when PC nightwatchman Weedon dis- covered smoke issuing from the storage room on the second floor. He immedi- ately called the Fire Department, and the blaze was extinguished. The fire, believed to have been caused by a short circuit in the thermostat of the refrigerator where many explosive chemicals were stored, had burnedeal- most to the ceilingesome shelves used for storing chemistry equipment. Accprding to Mr. A. L. Phelps, Chem- istry department head, ether exploded with such force that it blew open the re- frigerator door and set fire to a portion of the shelves that line the room from floor to ceiling. The lock on the door was also torn nearly out by the force of the blast. The terrific heat of the fire, said to have burned only a few minutes, set fire to paper fifteen feet away from the blaze. pletely destroyed as far as any future The refrigerator was com- use is concerned. Mr. Phelps was heard to remark that the about $2 in that condition. icebox was worth The Phoenix Fire Department prob- ably saved the college a great deal of ex- pense by doing such a speedy and effi- cient job of putting out the conflagration. In a matter of ten minutes, the whole storage room would have been a mass of flames, destroying thousands of dol- lars worth of expensive and hard-to-get equipment. + Student Directory Is Planned A Student And Faculty Directory list- ing names, addresses, and phone num- bers, and published by the first-year Jour- nalism Class, will be distributed soon. John Barron and Herb Surrett are co-editqrs; Pat Mitchell and Pat Harris, assistant edi- tors; and the entire class will proof-read and make up the special edition . t BEAR TRACKS Member of the Associated College Press Co-Editors ........ Kerlin Rowland, Tod Rosnek lssue Editor .......................... Marcia Panhurst t i t Editor John ' Page Editors... ...Russell Orton, Jim Agee Helen T. Maney Sports Editor .................................. Jim Agee ?L t , J, Editor John ' Photographers ............................ Jan Hedrick J. Boskon, George Brown Reporters: Don Levenhagen, Don Biscoe, i Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Herb Surrett, Russell Orton, Joyce Roche, Jim Gump, Jitter Mc- Dannold, John Barron, George Brown, John Boskon. Faculty Adviser ............................ R. C. Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opin- ions expressed by the student body. Democracy for Whom? With the release of the President's Report on Civil Rights 'we are made paignantly aware of certain discrepancies between the aims of this nominally demo- cratic nation as expressed by its heritage of freedom and equality and the manner of fulfillment of this heritage, This is an auspicious moment in which to release such a report. It is vital that . the full significance and import of the American Heritage should be impressed upon us in this time of crisis and decision. Twice before in American history we have found it necessary to examine our civil rights: once after the Revolution, in the period when the Constitution was be- ing framed, and again when the Union was deciding whether it could exist half slave and half free. The reasons for this re-examination of principles are of a primary nature: rea- sons of conscience, of self interest and of survival in a threatening world. The Committee on Civil Rights has empha- sized that we have a moral reason for believing that the time for action is now. The great gap between our aims and what we actually do is creating a sort of moral dry-rot which eats away at the emo- tional andJ rational bases of democratic beliefs. It is apparent to those who are disteminQ that there are times when the difference between what we preach about civil rights and what we practice is tanta- mount to travesty. As examples of moral erosion in the American Heritage, the Committee has revealed that ten million people are de- liberately denied the right of franchise in the U. S. Is that consonant with our American Heritage? In addition, nu- merous cases of inequality of opportunity in the fields of education and employ- ment were uncovered. Once more, does that bespeak our American Heritage? We of Bear Tracks firmly believe in the American Heritage because assen- tially it is predicated upon democratic concepts. Up to now no political p'hi- BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE losophy or way of life can be considered to have equaledor surpassed it. On the other hand, we insist that the American Heritage should not be evclusive. That is a violation of everything it stands for. The right to the safety and security of the person, the right to citizenship and its privileges, the right to freedom of conscience and expression, and the right to equality of opportunity should be shared equally by all peoples of the U. 5. Those elements or groups of our so- ciety which deny the civil rights and privileges of the American Heritage to others are just as dangerous as the sub- versives who want to destroy our way of life. By their denial of equal partici- pation in the American Heritage they give large segments of our population no reason to wish to defend the institutions of democracy. It is attitude such as these which contribute to the rise of to- taliarianism. I I Movie Review By Mitchell and Harris Here is another documentary film, and while it is not the best, it is fairly in- formative on trade in narcotics. To the Ends of the Earth, a better than average flicker for anybody's money, is the fourth piece of proof that Dick Powell was wise in making the change from musicals. About all the stars of this picture do is wander around, but since they wander around well, they're enjoyable. The really sterling performances are turned in by the supporting players, but it seemed to come naturally to them, as even they weren't trying too hard. May- lia, the Chinese actress, has one of the prettiest faces we've seen on the screen in a long time. To the Ends of the Earth is the story of treasury agent Barrows' iDick Powelll attempt to break up a narcotics ring that had organizations throughout the world. His interest aroused by an unidentified Japanese ship off the coast of San Fran- cisco, he goes to Shanghai where he breaks up part of the ring. From Shang- hai he follows the trail to Egypt where it is suspected the ring is growing the opium poppy, and from there he follows the unrefined drug to Havana, hoping to have it lead him to the ring leader. From Havana the drug, which has now been refined, is taken aboard a ship sail- ing for New York, on which he runs into Ann Grant tSigne Hassol, whom he had met and suspected of connections with .he ring in Shanghai. She is in charge of a young Chinese girl iMay'lial. At this point the traveling is by no means ended, but eventually the gang is brough to justice. The Koil's Korner Whatever else may be said. about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it will be ad- mitted by everybody, I think, that while he lived he was more than the leader of the New Deal. He was the New Deal, and when he died, it died with him. The trouble with that is that, by the time of F.D.R.'s death, the New Deal had be- come almost all that there was of the Democratic party. Now that the New Deal is dead, the Democrats are showing indications of falling apart at the seams. Evidences of this are abundant, and they're worrying party leaders plenty. A block of loud-mouthed, corn-pone-eating, white-supremacy Democrats in Congress is threatening-to bolt from the party be- cause President Truman's Civil Rights Bill is a menace to them, and to all the hate and prejudice for which they stand. The Truman Administration could easily lose the Solid South in the approaching national election. It has already taken one bad beating. Leo lsacson, Henry Wallace's man in the Bronx's twenty-fourth congressional district, won handily over the Democratic candidate in a recent election. lsacson, who was running on the American Labor Party ticket, had the help of Wallace, Paul Robeson, Congressman Vito Marcan- tonio, and a tightly-knit Communist ma- chine. The Democrats ran an unknown by the name of Karl Propper. They fig- ured that they could win with any candi- date they chose to run. Always in the past Ed Flynn's well-oiled machine had won as it pleased in the twentyrfourth district. This time, in spite of the fact that Mrs. Roosevelt- and Mayor O'Dwyer tried to bolster Propper, it was different. To put it bluntly, the Democrats got their brains beat out by the ALP and by lsacson, Wallace and Company. There is still more bad news for the administration. A recent Gallup poll indicates that right now the Wallace crowd has enough strength in Illinois and Pennsylvania to put those states in the Republican column. l'm not sure whether this is good news or not. There certainly is no doubt of the fact that the Democrats are in mis- erable shape right now. But it seems to me that the Republicans are in even worse shape. Henry Wallace is quite right when he contends that 'the Ameri- can people need and want a third party. Both major parties are failing the people. But I think that there aren't many Amer- icans who are interested in the kind of an outfit that Wallace is heading. They'd rather take their chancesion what they've got. BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE Freshman Fling Frontier Frolic Western Garb In Order; All Students Invited Six- shooters and spurs will be parked outside the Phoenix College Gymnasium for the Frontier Dance to be given by the Freshman Class tonight from 10 until 12. The western motif will be the theme of the decorations and students of the col- lege are urged to come Western, according to Don Jolly, Freshman Class president. Gordon Wallace and his or- chestra will furnish the music. Two novelty numbers are scheduled as entertainment by the band, and a prize waltz will highlight the evening. The dance will begin immediately after the basketball game between Phoenix College and Pasadena, which will be played in the Phoenix Union gymnasium. Freshman class officers are in charge of the arrangements with Don Jolly as chairman. The entire student body is invited to the dance. Admission will be gained by presenting activity cards. Club Notes The College Y Club held an election meeting last Wednesday at the Y. M. C. A. Those elected to offices were: Presi- dent, Bill Palmer; vice-president, Don Goodwin; secretary-treasurer, Byron King.' The club members are now formulat- ing plans for a social event to be held in the near future. The College Y basketball team ended the regular season by winning first place in the number two bracket of the Metro- politan League. The Troops began the Metropolitan Tournament Monday night by defeating Wickenburg 46-29, and are expected to give a good account of themselves in following tournament playw + Sigma Kappa Phi held its semi-annual rush party at the Pepsi Cola auditorium last Wednesday night. Approximately thirty active members brought new pros- pects for membership. The Sig Kaps discussed plans for an assembly to be held April 6, and a Levis Dance to be held April 9, in the gym- nasium. Refreshments were served at the end of the business meeting. + lA meeting of the Phoenix College Hillel Club was held Sunday, February 29, at the Temple Beth -lsrael at which time it was decided to have a roller skat-' ing party Friday night, March 12, at the Rollerdrome skating rink. Everyone will meet at 8:30 at the Rollerdrome and all members and triends-are invited to come.' Don Jolly, Freshman Class president, and Jerry Joachim post publicity posters to boost the coming Frontier Dance to be e held Ftiday in the gym. Arizona Librarians Convene The Arizona Librarians' Association Convention will be held on the Phoenix College campus March 5 and March 6. It will open with a welcoming speech to be delivered by Dean Hannelly on Friday morning. Principal speaker during the conven- tion will be Miss Helen Ridgeway, public library consultant for the American Li- brarians' Association. Friday noon, the delegates will take lunch in our cafeteria and they will be honored Saturday night with a barbeque dinner at Bud Brown's barn. Special Science Session Slated According to Mr. D. F. Stone, head of the physics department, a full year's course in physical science will be offered next year. The course, Physics 19 and Physics 20, will be given to students who are not science majors. These students must have some knowledge of science in order to hold any responsible position in the present-day world. Mr. Stone says that the course will give the student the general background of all the physical sciences. In the past, students who were not science majors were required to take on course in science. As a consequence, the students failed to understand, even briefly, the meaning of the other sciences. A paral- lel course in the life sciences is being offered in many universities throughout the United States. The physical sciences include chemistry and physics. The life sciences consist of courses such as biolo- gy and zoology. North High Band Plays In Assembly StLidents left the auditorium last Tues- day well pleased by the fine musical as- sembly presented to them by North High's lO9-piece band. The band, led by Lynn Fitzgerald, opened the assembly with an inspiring arrangementtof the French Military 'Marching Song, by Sigmund Romberg. Morton Gould's arrangement, Amer- ican Salute, based on the song Wheh Johnny Comes Marching Home, was second on the program, followed by a very clever arrangement of Mexican Hat Dance . The currently-popular hit, Sabre Dance, by Katchaturian, preceded the spine-tingling piece, Dizzy Fingers. A combination of numbers by Gersh- win, called Gershwin Selections, proved entertaining. Gershwin Selections, ar- ranged by Bennett, included such well- known songs as: Strike Up the Band , '5 Wonderful , Liza , 0f Thee I Sing, Baby , Embraceable You , and '-'l Got Rhythm . Concluding the assembly, the ,group played the ever-popular Funiculi-Fu- nicula . Because of the limited time of the as- sembly, an encore was impossible, al- though the applause proved to North High that they were definitely a great success ht Phoenix College. BEAR TRACKPPHOENIX 'COLLEGE MRS. ETHELDREDA RADULESCU A tribute to a really successful mar- riage, Mrs. Etheldreda Radulescu of the Home Economics Department said she wished that any story about her would also include her husband, George. My major interest is George, she told your Campus Interviewer. The Radulescus have been married seven years and have lived in six different states. They came to Arizona in June of 1947. llWe had to come, said Mrs. Radulescu, but we . are staying because we like it. They are very fond of Phoenix and the South- west, she stated. Mrs. Radulescue received her B. S. degree at the University of Minnesota and she taught at the University of Ne- braska while working on' her M. A. de- gree; Since that time she has taught at the University of Minnesota and at Michigan State College. Cooking, sewing, reading and decorat- ing are just a few of Mrs. Radulescu's interests. EVELYN PERCHONOK Spending her first winter in Arizona, Freshman Evelyn Perchonok-hails from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but Evelyn told us that she likes the Southwest lparticu-' ' Iarly Arizonal very much. She accom- panied her family to Phoenix this winter and says that they hope to spend their summers in the Lake Country of Wiscon- i sin and their winters in the Valley of the Sun. Evelyn is enrolled under the Liberal Arts curriculum and hopes to enter the field of social work after college. She plans to do her undergraduate work'at the University of Wisconsin. As tor hobbies and pastimes, Evelyn told us that she is fond of all types of sports. ' l ASTRONOMY CLUB VISITS TUCSON On Saturday, membersl'of the Astrono- my Club took a trip by bus to visit the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona. Although the weather was cloudy in Phoenix, it turned out to be very clear in Tucson, Saturday night. Dr. Carpenter, the director of the observatory, took the club through a tour of the observatory and explained the features of its fine thirty-six-inch reflector. Then for sev- eral hours club members had the oppor- tunity of using the telescope. They en- joyed seeing Mars and its polar cap, and Saturn with its ring system. They also looked at Orion nebulae, a cluster of several hundred stars in Auriga, and fi- nally the Crab nebula. This negula proved to be the most interesting of all, for it is quite possible that it is yet visible, even though it has already disappeared! This nebula probably is the remains of a brilliant star which exploded about 900 years ago. The records of the Chinese and Japanese show a star in this region, brighter than Jupiter, in the year l054 A.D. They called it a - guest star, their name for a Nova. After about 900 years, this star appears as a faint nebula which still seems to be moving outward with long tentacles, which give it its name. Possibly in several thousand years it will . be invisible. But when' we stop to consider the fact that it is l0,000 light years away from us, we realize that this gigantic explo- sion has taken place l0,000 years ago. It is perhaps now entirely over, even though the light from it still reaches our eye, and can be seen with a telescope. The Dean's Box It is to the student's advantage to confer with the instructor of the course occasionally. instructors on thevPhoenix College faculty have set aside five periods a week for student conferences. Students do not always realize this fact. It is not always possible to get con- sideration when a student catches the teacher on the fly in an odd moment. It is much more adult to arrange in advance in order that ample time may be given to the student's prob- lem. One criterion of education is the extent to which one can plan into the future. How'about approaching your teachers with some of ybur perplex- ing problems? They will be flattered. Furthermore; the college can be credited with doing some genuine work in guidance. ,s , .5; .t , 7H , MILLARD SMITH Smitty , as he is best known to all of his friends, isn't the kind of a guy that one would pass by and not notice, for he is recognized by his Li'l Abner shoes and his loud shirts andelast but not leastehis never-failing lunch bag. He came to Arizona from St. Louis two years ago and plans to make Phoenix his permanent home. Smitty served with the Third Army's Fifth Infantry Division overseas and dur- ing his service career he became ac- quainted with what is now his chosen field for a permanent careereradio work. While at PC he is majoring in Business Administration and upOn his graduation from the college in May he will go into the electrical appliance business. On the marriage question, Smitty , a married man of ten months, says that it is even a better invention than radio. nus CHESTER You haven't lived until you've met Iris Chester, 3 hazelaeyed blond who hails from San Diego, California. Iris graduted from North Phoenix in 1946. The happy-go-lucky twenty-one year old, well known in the girls' P.E. de- partment, is following a liberal arts course. While attending the University of Arizona. next year, Iris plans tolmajcr in physical education. When asked about men, lris reported she would rather stay away from all of them. It seems she's allergic to the masculine set. in theifood line; Iris admits that anything edible suits her fancy. With the Compton tournament just around the corner, Iris says she is going if she has to crawl on her hands and knees. BEAR TRACKyPHOENIX COLLEGE H . ,i'. e e , cepteiirGil Trejo, Leon Blevins, Ienn Barl ow. and l l . l l will lead the Bears Ail c5301; m into the WSC tourney at Compton. California, on March 9 through 13. SPORT SLANTS By JIM AGEE The PC Bears will be winding up both their 1947-48 conference and home tilts when they meet the Pasadena College Bulldogs this weekend. The Bruins are favored to cop both games, but as said before, anything can happen in the WSC. The local five is in third place in the league standings, and barring a complete upset, they should finish in that position. Compton is virtually assured of the first place spot, although a defeat this week- end would drop them into a tie with the LACC Cubs, and call for a play-off for the championship. Although not leading the conference in standings, the Bears are ahead in total offensive points and game averages. They have amassed a total of 585 points in eleven games for an average of 53.2 counters in each contest. While on their California invasions the locals have aver- aged only 46.9 points, but have racked up an impressive 64.2 count in the league games in Phoenix. Compton follows the Bruins in total offense, while the second place LACC squad has the best defensive record. Compton rates third and PC fourth in that department. Leon Blevins still leads the conference in individual scoring honors with a total of 175 points in eleven games for a 15.9 average. He failed to score over ten points in only two league tilts, both played on the West Coast. Following Blevins in the scoring race is Dan Ducich of Compton, and in,third spot is Murrell Binkley of Ventura. Glenn Barlow still holds the league record of total points in one game with 25. Next Tuesday the Bruins face the Western States Tournament at Compton. The locals and seven other squads, in- cluding Compton, Glendale, Riverside, and Visalia, have earned positions in the tourney, while the other eight spots will be selected by a poll from thirty-two coaches of the area. The Bears finished in the runner-up spot last year, dropping a close one to Compton in the finals, and must do that good this year to gain a place in the National JC BasketballlTournament in Springfield, Missouri, later in the month. A group of loyal followers are expected to be with the local squad in Compton to offer the team support during the tour- ney. GOOD LUCK to OUR TEAM and COACH GEORGE HOY. Bruins Meet Pasadena In Brace of WSC Contests Two more Western States Conference basketball brawls take place this evening and tomorrow night when the Phoenix College Bears engage the Bulldogs of Pasadena City College in a two-game stand. Both games will be played at the Phoenix Union High School gymna- sium, the Saturday evening fracas being listed as the conference clash. The classy Bruins will be gunning to improve their present third-place confer- ence standing and are expected to fur- nish all of their usual crowd-pleasing ba5-, ketball hi-jinks. The clever passing com- bination of forwards, Gil Treio and Leon Blevins, combined with the rest of the flashy Phoenix crew should make for two evenings of good basketball. Pasadena will provide a stiff test for the Bruin scoring machine and fans will have a chance to see the Bulldogs' high- scoring center, Bob McMurdie, in action. Although the record of the Pasadena club was not too impressive in early season play, they seem to have caught on fire of late and could be right in line for a major upset by knocking over the highly regarded Phoenix five. Both games promise to be excellent basketball enter- tainment for any fans who might care to wander down to the Seventh Street field- house. + Baseball Tempo Upped Bruins Open Against Gila With March 1 marking the official opening of baseball season, the crop of Bruin diamond hopefuls who have been loosening up winter-kinked muscles for the past month will step up the tempo of their daily practice sessions. Coach Johnny Riggs will attempt to mold a winning squad from a group of approximately fifty men who have re- ported for baseball thus far. Both varsity and junior varsity squads will be formed, with two or three weekly games schegl- uled for each. First games on tap for the varsity club will be with the Monsters- of Gila J.C. They will be played in Thatcher March 28 and 29. Riggs, hope- ful of whipping the team in shape for the opening clashes, plans to work out daily with'l two or three practice games per week on the agenda. Although the Phoenix club has lined up a tough schedule, including most of the Western States Conference power- houses, the abundance of good material gives rise for optimism on the part of Bear fans who hope for a topnotch' nine this year. FED This is one American's protest against insult; tha is: insult over the radio, in- sult by movies, insult by newspapers and magazines, and insult by politicians. We've all laughed about the ludicrous ads which are blurted out day and night on our radios, but most of us have stopped laughihg now. I for one, am damned tired of hearingehow John captured Jane's heart by switching to Lifebuoy, or how Jack had to beat the girls off with a.club when he changed to Kreml hair toniC. And pity the poor housewife who sits helplessly by her radio and listens to Dr. Kiljoy, the average American, who is hopelessly in love with his wife's best friend,'who is in turn madly in love with the Doctor's son, whoewell anyhow you can see what these poor housewives go through. And what about the discvjockeys? Why do they have to be frustrated comedians? Brother, a mute disc jockey could write his own ticket! ' The movie industry is America's num- ber one entertainment, but it still treats the American public like a bunch of babies. Hollywood unleashes countless B picture monstrosities each year, sup- posedly for entertainment. The wizards UP! of Hollywood even ruin mostlof the good stories they have by super-colossal . overdrawing of characters and stupen- dous overdramatizations. It's a shame we Americans are so stupid that every- thing must be overemphasized for us. President Truman officially opened the '48 election fiasco with his speech at the Jefferson-Jackson banquet. Never did a man take so long to say so little. From his speech we may gather that: the Demo- crats are defenders of the faith, the Re- publicans are a nasty bunch of reaction- aries, and that the Liberals might just as I Q N well back the Democrats, otherwise the split vote might allow the nasty reac- tionaries to get in office. No doubt the Republicans will counter with some equal- ly vague assertions and as always the American public will' be the fall 'guy. Both parties campaign as if the decisive votes were in the hands of morons who will vote for the party with the smuttiest list of adjectives. The list of insults against Americans could be made much longer and more lengthy, but this would have little con- structive value; the point is, that apolo- gies are in order. .9; Here it comes. Poetry Contest The P h o e n i x Branch National League of American uPenwomen are now holding their annual statewide Poetry Contest which is' open to any amateur writer who is a resident of Arizona. Rules of this cohtest will be posted on the bulletin board in the English D e p a r t m e n t Reading Room. tLACEi LENDS LAFFS V O L. , 2 t W 0 ?ee ?- : , : a E- r. ,T-Ethxll A, .0. ;' .. t a 3' I D 4: 93'. x 2 H 'l 2 VETS!! Starting immediately, veterans who are absent from classes without ex- cuse, can and will be docked. If a veteran is ill or unavoidably detained from attending classes, he must notify Mrs. Mildred J. Noble, the Veteran Coordinator, or he will be marked ab- sent without excuse. The Dean's office wishes to remind veterans that cutting classes is a se- rious detriment to good grades. As a result, the veteran's office is deeply concerned with the record of some veterans at P C. Don't cut classes unless it is abso- lutely necessary. Mrs. Noble will gladly discuss with any veteran any special problem that may arise. Arsenic and Old Lace, 3 comedy in three acts by Joseph Kesselring, will be presented in the Phoenix College auditorium on the nights of March 18, 19 and 20. Proceeds of this play, which is being produced by the Masgue and Dagger Club, will go to the Arizona Society for Crippled Children. First of Student Music Recitals Held Wednesday Last Wednesday afternoon in the Phoe- nix College club room the first of a series of monthly student music recitals was held. The program consisted of the brass sextet, made up of Vance McPherson, first trumpet; Blaine Mullin, second cor- net; Charles Philips, French horn; Chester Davis, trombone; James Gilkerson, bari- tone horn; Robert Keene, tuba. Also included was a trombone solo by Chester Davis with Miss Louise Utterback accompanying. Walter Roberts, tenor, sang while accompanied by Mr. Kenneth Hakes. Isabel Casares, soprano solo, was accompanied by Beverly Seiff. Mullin, cornet solo, accompanied by Mary Hannelly; Beverly Seiff, piano solo. The Phoenix College Male Quartet, consisting of Dick Hammontree, first tenor; Bob Watson, second tenor; Al Thomas, baritone; Kenneth Noble base; sang selections to complete the program in a grand manner. The next recital will be held March 24, 4 p. m., in the Phoenix College club room, the purpose of them being to let students perform in public with instruc- tive criticisms made by the audience. A notice will be in BEAR TRACKS as to the time of all following programs. Blaine Highlights of the play, directed by Cecil Kersten, head of the dramatics de- partment, will be presented in the as- sembly next Tuesday. The play takes place in the living room of the old Brewster home in Brooklyn. The house is occupied by Abby and Mar- tha Brewster and their nephew Teddy. Abby and Martha are two very sweet old ladies who have devoted their lives to doing good and taking care of their nephew Teddy, who, being slightly ec- centric, believes himself to be Theodore Roosevelt. Things begin to pop when Jonathan Brewster, the black sheep of the family, returns home. Contrary to the story of the prodigal son, Jonathan is not received with open arms, but he has decided to stay and stay he does. What develops when twelve dead men are found in the cellar, and another one in the window seat, goes to make one of the most popular shows ever seen on Broadway and probably one of the best shows Phoenix College students have seen. The cast is as follows: Abby Brewster, Joa-n Kearnes; Reverend Dr. Harper, James Rosser; Teddy Brewster, Russell Orton; Officer Klein, Russell Voyce; Of- ficer Brophy, Riley Geary; Martha Brew- ster, Marion Snyder; Elaine Harper, Dar- lene Anderson; Mortimer Brewster, Coop- er Welch; Mr. Gibbs, Frank Lundstrom; Jonathan Brewster, George Dolmas; Dr. Einstein, Grant Johnson; Officer O'Hara, Andy Graynor; Lieutenant Rooney, Char- ley Oatman; Mr. Witherspoon, Evert Furrey. BEAR TRACKS Member of the Associated College Press Co-Editors ........ Kerlin Rowland, Tod Rosnek Issue Editor ............. ..Bob McDannold Assistant Editors ............. Joyce Roche Marcia Panhurst Page Editors ...... Jan Hedri'ck, Russell Orton, Jim Agee, Helen T. Maney Sports Editor ..................... Jim Agee Photography Editor John Boskon Photographers ............ .Jan Hedrick J. Bosknn, George Brown Reporters: Don Levenhagen, Don Biscoe, Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Herb Surrett, Russell Orton, Joyce Roche, Jim Gump, John Barron, George Brown, John Boskon. Faculty Adviser ............................ R. C. Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opin- ions expressed by the student body. t SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Look around you! Look at yourself, a'nd look at your friends! What are you trying to find through education and why? There is an increasingly depressing tendency toward specialized education and thought. Peope seem to believe that their ultimate success will be based on a monetary satisfaction rather than a physical satisfaction. You and I are trying to make our mark in life in the minds of other individuals rather than in our own minds. We have lost sight of the fundamentals which our society is based upon-those of respect for family, morals and ethical codes. Our society has instead become a harum-scarum mad rush to ulcers and throat slashing. En- joyment of life has come to mean a drunken weekend, sobering up with eighteen holes of golf and a dash of the hair of the dog that bit you. Dr. Albert Einstein, in a recent article, deplored the lack of spiritual presence in the people of America today. As a rem- edy he asks that we return to the funda- mentals of religion. Let it be a point that he does not assign any specific re- ligion, rather he advocates a return to the ethical and moral standards which all religions signify. He asks that the people grasp some other standard of hope than economic gain. What has happened to the basis of this nation? ln our pioneer capitalism one man was always willing to help the other person to build his cabin, to clear his land, even help to harvest his crops. What has happened? Nowadays a man at- tempting to start in business is subjected to the most cut-throat competition. If he is able to survive the press of his small competition he will be effectively stymied in any attempted expansion by larger corporate business structures. And if he fails there is no great amount of wailing. No one pitches in and helps BEAR TRACKSePHOENlX COLLEGE The Koil's Korner It's spring again, and that means that it's time for Swami Rowland to dust off his crystal ball and made his annual pre- diction about the outcome of the major league baseball races for this season. It you are looking for a big laugh, hold onto this issue of the BT until after this year's pennant chases have been completed and then. compare the Koil's predictions with actual outcomes. 'Let's start with the Na- tional League. I. ST. LOUIS. lf Eddie Dyer can get some pitching and if veterans Terry Moore and Enos Slaughter have good years the Cards should cake- walk in. Even if these thing don't him rebuild his business. More depressing than this is the old but painfully true argument that hun- dreds of thousands of people in this the richest country in the world are in hovels which are way below decent standards of human habitation. There are still thou- sands of people suffering from malnutri- tion due not only to the lack of proper foods but also just plain lack of food. Has the age of social responsibility entirely passed? Have the American people re- sorted to false standards of hope and life rather than the Christian and democratic codes upon which our life is based. Where is the way out? R. 0. THE DEANiS BOX Phoenix College students are for- tunate to have good teachers. Al- though formal educational training is not sufficient to insure good teaching by itself alone, it is important. The minimum requirements for new fac- ulty members are the Master's De- gree and 24 semester hours of edu- :ation and psychology. Exceptions are made only for coaches. The psychol- ogy requirement enables the college to avoid the employment of individuals who can not direct group action skill- fully. The average preparation of the fac- ulty is more than one year beyond the Master's Degree. This degree of for- mal training guarantees knowledge of subject matter. However, degree of training and knowledge are not the most important characteristics of our faculty. The most important fact is that there is a very high percentage of master teachers on the staff. Robert J. Hannelly. happen the Birds should win on re- serve strength. 2. BROOKLYN. The Dodgers have youth, speed, and balance. Leo is back too, and he'll keep them in the thick of things right down to the wire. 3. NEW YORK. It Mel Ott can come with three good pitchers the Giants will cop the NL bunting. l don't think he can. 4. BOSTON. The Braves could well decide who wins the pennant. 5. PHILADELPHIA. I'm taking a flyer on Ben Chapman and his scrappy, rejuvenated Phils. 6. CINCINNATI. E w e ll Blackwell can't pitch every day. 7. CHICAGO. Trouble and grief tor Jolly Cholly Grimm. 8. PITTSBURGH. Better they shoulda stood in bed. The American League 'race.will be a four-team affair at best, and it could well narrow down to a two-team chase. Here's the way it looks to me. I. BOSTON. The Red Sox picked a winner when they acquired wiley Joe McCarthy as their new man- ager. Vern Stephens will fill the yawning gap in last year's Boston infield. 2. NEW YORK. They're the same old Yanks. If Boston doesn't win, the Bronx Bombers will. 3. DETROIT. The Tigers have what is probably the best pitching staff in baseball, but their infield isn't solid and they are lacking a first- rate catcher. 4. CLEVELAND. Rapid Robert Feller and Company are better than this on paper, but the tendency of In- dian teams to fold when the heat is applied consigns the Tribe to this l position. 5. PHILADELPHIA. The Ais have tine pitching, one of the best first base- men in the game in Ferris Fain, and a solid, well-balanced club. They'll give some pennant contend- ers lumps before the season is over. 6. WASHINGTON. Joe Kuel will have an unauspicious first year as a Sen- ator manager. 7. CHICAGO. They'll be lucky if they go this high. 8. ST. LIUIS. Zach Taylor has lost Johnny Berideno, Junior Stephens, Jeff Heath, Walt Judnich, Ellis Kin- der, and Jack Kramer from last year's regular line-up. 'Nuff said. msum THArs WHAT The statue of Venus de Milo had a few parts missing, and that was one of the things that made her famous. But that doesn't mean that our BUMSTEAD is go- ing to be famous just because he has some parts missing. What used to be a ready teddy is now a ruined bruin . If he had eyes I'm sure he would have tears rolling from' them because nobody loves him. At least they don't try to show it. Please, people, don't let him sit there with just a bloody stump hanging. Let's get together and do something about it. BUMSTEAD is our symbol at Phoenix College. ,IT'S UP TO YOU VOTING IS A PRIVILEGE The conversation these days has turned to the coming election, but too often one hears such remarks as: Who cares who wins; they're all a bunch of crooks any- how. This very dangerous assumption is not a joke. Many people actually be- lieve that we are being governed by such men. Perhaps these misguided persons are victims of the popular wave of cyni- cism which is drugging our sense of values. Or perhaps they are rationalizing to excuse their own lack of political savy. Whatever the reason may be, the public is neglecting its voting privi- lege. Take the recent Phoenix city elec- tion as an example. The public vote was a disgrace to Phoenix and to our govern- ing system. The 'thirty-odd thousand Phoenix qualified voters allowed a few thousands from their number to control the election. Voting 'is a privilege. This privilege isn't granted by divine right; it is our voice in government, and is granted by our coristitution. If people refuse to use their precious votes, rule by the ma- jority is impossible. The only other al- . ternative is aristocracy, rule by the self- chosen few. In November all qualified voters will have the opportunity to express their preference at the polls. Your choice for president may be Truman, Stassen, Dewey, Eisenhower, Vandenberg, or Wal-' Their political beliefs, their capabilities, their lace. All these men are sincere. shortcomings are things for you to study. The choice is your own. Theoretically, democracy is rule by the people. Only those who vote have a voice in gov- In practice this isri't quite true. Well-It will attract reader interest! We can retract iLnext week. ernment. Our election system is like a giant pyramidewith local offices serving as a foundation for the lofty presidency. When the foundation is neglected, the whole structure is imperiled. State and city elections are important. Every office from dog-catcher to governor to president deserves our consideration and our yote. The coming national election isn't go- ing to be a landslide for any party. The fact that this election is to be close makes every vote more important than eyer. It isn't so important whether the next presi- dent is a Democrat or a Republican; what is important is that he is the people's choice. A-a-a-a-h-h-I Paf Pollard, North Phoenix High Schooli senior dramatic: student, posed for the pictures made in apsychologic'al experi- ment. The picture above was posed to . show fear. Psych. Students Take Pictu res Admiration, fear, terror, concentration, disgust, pain, loathing, mirth, coyness, and shyness were the titles of ten photo- graphs which Mrs. Lillian Whitney's Psy- chology 52 classes were asked to identify last Friday. 7 The pictures, a test for the student's ability to recognize human emotions, were posed by Pat Pollard, North Phoenix High School dramatics student. The experiment, first of its kind ever to be conducted here, was performed by Robert Brock and Richard Rogers, sopho- more psychology students. You might say we're pioneering the field, said Mr. Brock. i A few of the stimuli used by Brock in obtaining the desired effects were a lime squeezer on the model's ior vic- tim'sl finger for pain; a live snake for ten ror and fear; vivid description for loath- ing and disgust; and Browning poetry for admiration. In all, Rogers, the photogra- pher of the pair, took 32 pictures, ten of Which they selected as most clearly showing the emotions. They also. saved , ten of the other shots, Iettirig the class name them. Some of the titles given were nausea, thought, and flirtation. Photogenic Miss Pollard was selected by the two young men as the best actress in the high school. Her facial expres- sions were considered outstanding for photography and lighting. Results of the experiment were: Cor- rect identification of emotions averaged 75 to 90 per cent in the ten pictures. The more subtle emotions were more dif- ficult to identify. BEAR TRACKSePHOENlX COLLEGE , SPORT SLANTS By Jim Agee The local quintet ended their home season last weekend with a record of hav- ing been defeated once during the last two years on the home floor. That is a pretty good record for any school, consid- ering the type of competition the Bears, of Phoenix College ,have faced. Although this year's squad did not run up an impressive win streak and dropped -two more games than they did in last year's regular season play, the Bruins have been impressive enough to be picked as one of the top two-year college teams in the West. , Along with other honors; the BruinsN have on their squad one of the finest bas- ketball players that has ever hit an Ari- szona court, and quoting a COMPTON COLLEGE sport release,s the most widely sought jonior college cage performer in the West in forward Leon Blevins. Leon has scored over 400 points in the Bear's 29 contests and had a total of 195 for conference play. Win or lose in the Western States Tournament, the PC five will give a good account of themselves against some of the best two-year teams in the area. The bracket Phoenix had to face one of the toughest that could have been tossed their way and quite a few upsets are .ex- pected during the tournament play. Compton again rated themselves as the number one team of the tourney, and the team to 'watch, Visalia, which has notched 26 wins against 'three defeats and an offensive average of 75 points a game. TOURNAMENT RESULTS Bruins ...... 57 BAC ........ 42 Bruins ...... 67 ' MIXED DOUBLES TOURNEY. OPENS MARCH l 15 Mr. Zito, tennis coach, announces that $20 rackets will be given to the members of the winning team in the PC Mixed Doubles tournament, which starts March 15. PC students are invited to pick a part- ner and try to cop the prizes. Those stu- dents who would like to enter, but lack a partner, should see Miss Herron or Mr. Zito. Entries for the contest close March 713. Charley Castle, PC foreward, prepares to make a bounce pass during the Pasadena game. Carroll and Barlow look on from the background. Bears Exit Laughing The Phoenix College Bears closed their home and WSC basketball games for the season with a twinlwin over the Pasadena Bulldogs, 61-35 and 64-43, last week- end on the Phoenix Union court. In Friday night's contest, both coaches flooded the floor with reserves as they gave all the players a chance to get in on possibly their last playing time of the year. The game lacked the excitement that has been present on so many occa- sions when the Bruins met conference foes. Art Carroll dropped in eleven points to lead the local five to their twenty- third victory of the season. Barry Arney and Farris Ellington, the tall and the short of the Bear cagers, each scored nine points to follow Carroll. The Bulldogs' scoring was even, with Bob Johnson slip- ping in seven counters to be top man, while Bob McMurdie played a good de- fensive role. The conference game on the following night proved to be a better battle, with the Bruins scoring in flurries to run up y their game-time advantage. The victory game the local five an. 8-4 record in league play and pushed them into a tie for second place with the LACC Cubs. Barry Arney scoreo the Bear's first five points, Glenn Barlow followed with six, and then Leon Blevins took over to push in thirteen points as the PC quintet left the floor at half-time leading 30 to 23. Howard Lopozich, Bulldog guard, playing a driving game, had notched ten count- ers by that time. During the final half, the locals found themselves being pushed by the cellar- dwelling five from Pasadena, and only a closing push gave the Bruins their final twenty-one-point advantage. Blevins captured scoring honors for the evening with twenty counters, with Bob Johnson dropping in sixteen to' lead the Bulldogs. Lopozich'trailed Johnson by two points while Barlow was second high for Phoenix with twelve. . TRACK During the past month, approximately , thirty Phoenix College cinder hopefuls have been exercising the'kinks out of winter-weary muscles in preparation for the coming track season. Coach Hoy expects to build his team around three returning lettermen from -last year's squad. They are Vie Sakies- tewa, two miler; Box Sexton, high jump; and Kenneth Morgan in the pole vault. . The team also will be bolstered by sev- eral members of last year's prep teams. Phoenix Union lettermen expected to par- ticipate are Jim Magness, George West, and Bob Weaver, while North Hi sends Gordon Sims, and Glendale's contribution is Morris Mansfield. Harold Engle, Mitch Cleary, and Jack Holland have been look- ing good in practice also. ' The team's first meet is scheduled for March 27, at Thatcher, Arizona, where the Bear Thinclads will engage the Gila College Monsters in a dual meet. The Bruin squad's schedule is not com-. pleted as yet; however, a number of con- tests are expected to be scheduled before the National meet, which will be held in Phoenix some time in May. The Phoenix College squad will be the host team dur- ing this meet. l Bruin Baseballers Begin Business Bruin baseballers, with opening games a scant two weeks away, have been sent through their daily paces at an increased tempo by Coach Johnny Riggs. The Bear mentor, striving to get the club in shape for their first opponents, the Monsters of Gila Junior College, has divided his group of diamond hopefuls into three squads, the Reds, Blues and Golds. Al- though none of the three has been desig- nated as the probable varsity lineup, .the Reds seem to hold a slight edge in intra-squad play. in addition to nightly skirmishes between each other, all 'three sq'uads have played practice games with local high school nines. The Bears will engage the Monsters on the Gila clan's home diamond in Thatcher, March 26 and 27. Thernorth- ern J C is rumored to have a potent club this year and should provide a good guage as to what the Bears will have to show in baseball play this season. Riggs,l well supplied with diamond talent, will at- tempt to field a fast, hustling team which also is potent at the plate, in order to keep pace 'in the rough Western States conference. ' SOCIAL NOTES Campus sororities got under way with their pledging with parties held on the evenings of Monday and Tuesday, March 8 and 9. The traditional spaghetti dinner of Theta Chi Delta, held at the home of Jan Hedrick, 1805 N. 16th Avenue, honored pledges Gye Grammar, Helen Backer, Bar- raba Schiele, Gloria Dettmer, and Maxine Wright. Following the dinner the pledges received instructions, and an announce- ment about the dance, td be held on March 26, was made. at Pledges of Alpha Sigma Gamma re- ceived their instructions and equipment ifollowing a dinner held at the home of Theresa Chuka, 1528 East Coronado Road. Pledges are Bobbie JeanVSuggs, Josephine Salcido, Marcia McConoughey, and Betty Hyde. bee: Members of Phi Lambda Zeta enter- tained their pledges at an ice cream party held at the home of Annabelle Brice, 1825 North Dayton. Those pledging the sorority are June Ridgeway,' Sue Esch- meyer, Alice Monts, Dorothy Saunders, and La Verne Leverett. Traditional pur- ple ribbons and hose were issued to the pledges. ebb Alpha sorority feted pledges at a spa- ghetti dinner held at the home of Beverly Seiff, 905 West Portland. Pledges re- ceiving the metal A's and red stockings were Betty Martin, Pat Maloney, Maxine Eken, and Betty Morris. w Evelyn Perchonok, Roslyn Block, and Evelyn McDohald were received by Delta Pi sorority as charter members. An or-i ganization meeting was held at the home of Evelyn McDonald on the evening of Morch 10. w Members of Delta Psi Omega, National Honorary Dramatic Fraternity, recently re- vealed the names on their pledge list for this semester. Prospective pledges are: Joan Kearnes, Charley Oatman, Marilyn Blair, Barbara Rosenberg, Cooper Welch, Grant John- son, Frank Lundstrom, Amelia Maiewski, Dave Garber, George Dolmas, and Velma Jean Caviness. Plans are now being made for a formal initiation to be held in April. + Members and friends of Hillel are cor- dially invited to a skating party planned for Friday night, for March 12, which will be held at the Rollerdrome Connie Dumont and Clay Kaigler were one of the few couples who Complied with the request for Western attire at the Frontir dance last Friday. PLAYS PLANED ' Mr. L. L. Bump has announced that the Dramatic Department is preparing three one-act plays for presentation in future assemblies. Two of the plays, Good-bye Mr. Hicks and Sunset by Slantsky, will be under the direction of Mr. Bump, while the third, Sparkin', will be coached by student Grant Johnson. The casts for the plays run as follows: Good-bye, Mr. Hicks: Rosemary Ed. wards, Barbara Rosenberg; Tom Edwards, Bill Hinkley; Mr. Hicks, A. L. Martinez; Dr. Mitchell, Don Sypherd; Mrs. Mitchell, Barbara Miller. Sunset by Slantsky: Dr. Chrome, Frank Lundstrom; Donald Paul, Jerry Wil- son; Mrs. Featherstonhugh, Marjorie Sonnenschein; Gentleman, David Garber. Sparkin': Susan, Velma Jean Caviness; Tessie, Ida Price; Granma, Esther Kirk; Orry, Grant Johnson. + Le Cercle Francais, PC French club, is undertaking the project of sending clothes and school supplies to the children of a school near Strasbourg, France. This area was badly devastated by the war. There are 150 students in the school who range in age from 6 to 14. To make the project more interesting, the club has divided itself into two teams, the first-year classes against the second- year classes. Those iappointed chairmen for the first-year classes are Carolyn Keyes and Dean Robinson. Chairmen for the second-year classes are Robert Nochta and Helen Millen. The club is having a pot-luck dinner meeting on March 17 at the home of Carolyn Keyes for the pur- pose of packing the articles collected. Mary Hannelly is in charge of the dinner. Those interested in assisting the French club with this project may contact Miss- Jean Hunter for further details. Danny Zapien, world famous Spanish chef, gave exhibitions on cooking Mexi- can foods before three cooking classes at Phoenix College last Friday. He received tremendous attention, .and the girls made much ado over his talent. All of the main Mexican dishes were pre- pared and explained during the course of instruction. Recently elected officers of the Spanish Club shown above are Frank Lundstrorn, vice-president, and Ida Price, president. Not shown is Joyce Abbott, secretary- treasurer. COLLEGE Y The College Y Basketball team was eliminated from the Metropolitan Tourna- ment last Thursday, when they lost a close decision to Alianza Hispana 56-54. Although they dropped from the tourney, the troops saved a little prestige by winning the championship of the number two bracket in league play. The team's season record was 15 vic- tories against 9 defeats which is pretty good considering the boys had little or no chance at all to practice. The members of the squad were Art West, Gabe Gonzales, Don Goodwin, Art Celaya, Eddie Cavanaugh, Jack Daughtry, Jim Agee, Wally Kruse, and Paul Saund- ers. The team was coached by Joe Leach, and rhanaged by Don Landy. l BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE PC FLYlNG SCHOOL WINS APPROVAL . Under the direction of Mr. D. F. Stone, the PC flying school has grown in a year's time from an airplane and an office to the state's only complete ground and flight school of collegiate grade ap- proved by the Civil Aeronautics Admin- istration. When the school first began, it had an average of thirty-five flying hours per month, but now it averages over 600 hours. The school now has four full time and three part time instructors. As a part of the flying school, the Wings and Goggles club presents all the advantages of the school to the regularly enrolled students of Phoenix College. The club will hold a special meeting during the activity period on Friday, March 19, in room lOl of the science building to explain what is offered under the new membership regulations. This meeting will be followed by an open house to be held the following Sunday at the Flying School at Sky Harbor. Mem- bership in Wings and Goggles is open to all members of the student body inter- ested in aviation. I I Movie Review By Mitchel and Harris The semi-documentary type of picture which Twentieth Century Fox has done so well by in the past, again proves to be said studio's specialty, further proof being their latest, l'Call Northside 777 . The story is based on the famous Majczek case and except for the attach- ment of aliases to all characters con- cerned, it follows quite closely to the facts. Jimmy Stewart plays the role of the re- porter who tracked down the information leading to the freeing of Maiczek or Frank Wiecek lRichard Contel as he is called in the movie. Wiecek's mother, played realistically by Kasia Orzazewski, worked scrubbing floors for eleven yeafs to earn $5,000 which she offered as a reward to anyone for informa- tion on the killing of a police officer in a delicatessen-speakeasy. Lee J. Cobb, as the fictional editor of the Times, as- signs the story to his ace reporter, Stew- art, and from there the one-man investi- gation begins. Director Henry Hathaway, who has Kiss of Death and other such pictures to his credit, would have done well to re- member Wiecek's companion, as innocent as the freed man, who is still serving his prison term. While not as good as most of the documentaries, Call Northside 777 should be almost clear profit to Fox, who generously paid Majczek $l,000 for the use of his story. 0G INTRAMURAL TRACKMEN TO RUN MARCH 27 Coach Johnny Riggs announced yes- terday that an intramural track meet is scheduled for the students of Phoenix College. The contest will be staged dur- ing activity periods on Wednesday, March l7, and Friday, March 19. The events for competition will in- clude: 50-yard dash, lOO yard dash, 440 yard relay l4 manl, high jump, broad jump, and shot-put. Elimination contests have been con- ducted in P.E. classes and the top man in each class will represent the section in this track meet. More than 400 young men have been competing in at least one of the above events for the five-week period. Several have tried out in more than one event. Quite a few potential varsity track and field men have been discovered and will 'be encouraged to report for the varsity track team. individual winners in 'each event will be given special intramural medal awards. Nurenburg Trial Movies Mr. Mario Zito of the Social Science Department announced this week that on Wednesday, March l7, a documentary film on the Nurenberg Trials will be shown to all Social Science classes. Stu- dents from other classes who are able to attend the film are invited to do so. Mr. Zito also announced that on the same afternoon at 2 o'clock Dr. Grady Gammadge, president of Arizona State College, has been invited to address the International Relations Club on the Allied Occupation of Germany. It is hoped that a discussion period may be organized. Owns $50,000 Collection Last Week's Assembly Gladys Babson Hannaford, noted lec- turer on diamonds, gave a talk at last Tuesday's assembly. She discussed the history of the diamond, the art of dia- mond cutting and some of the methods used in mining diamonds. Mrs. Hannaford is an authority on the lore and traditions of diamonds and told some stories about the diamond in ro- mance, history and literature. Through work with cutters and dealers, she has had tirst-hand experience with diamonds, including some of the most famous gems in the world. Her exhibits contain accu- rate replicas of the Cuulinan, the largest diamond ever found, the KOh-i-noor, the Hope, and other historic gems. She also has a number of real diamonds, amount- ing, along with her replicas and other ex- hibits to about $50,000. , ear 2mm Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Vol. 20 DR. MONTGOMERY ADDRESSES FACULTY Speaking at the regular faculty meet- ing last Monday morning, Dr. E. W. Mont- gomery gave a report on his recent trip to Lake Success, New York, where he and other educators were the guests of the United Nations Organizatiori. The educa- tors were invited by the Department of Public Information of the UN and the Scho'ol of Education of New 'York Univer- sity to view the proceedings of the UN Assembly. Warren R. Austin, United States am- bassador to the UN, was quoted .by Dr. Montgomery as stating, While we're here talking, we're not shooting. Dr. Montgomery told faculty mem- bers that while the UN was not progres- sing as rapidly as it had been hoped at the time of its organization, it was doing some good in maintaining world peace and cited the example of the trouble be- tween India and Pakistan. Through UN efforts the war between them was stop- ped. Other such problems, he said, that might have led to violence have been solved. Dr. Montgomery further stated that while UN members have not always been able to agree on some of the large prob- lems! they have solved innumerable small problems which could have affected the overall world peace situation. Dr. Montgomery also spoke on this subject before the Hiram Club last Wed- nesday. I PLAY PREVIEWED A preview of the play Arsenic and Old Lace , which is now playing at the Phoenix College auditorium, was pre- sented in assembly last Tuesday. Preceding the preview of the play was an interview conducted by Mr. Cecil Kersten and Albert Flewelling, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Flewelling of 4723 E. ThomasIRoad. Albert is one of the many children who will benefit from the funds which this play will turn over to the Ari- zona Society toriCrippled Children. Phqenix, Arizona, Friday, March 19, 1948 No. 19 ART EXHIBITION HELD HERE; PROMINENT ARTISTS FEATURED These paintings by famous American artists appeared last week in the .Art Department's exhibition By TOD ROSNEK Last Tuesday and Wednesday the PC art department was the scene of an exhibition of paintings by Some of America's foremost art- ists. The group of oil and water color paintings was loaned to the school by the Camelback Art Galleries which is currently featuring a large display of modern American art. -AWS AND THETA SPONSOR DANCES An Easter Parade sport dance, spon- sored by the Associated Women Students of Phoenix College, will be held on the evening of Thursday, March 25, in the college gymnasium. In keeping with the season, the gym will be decorated in the Easter theme. Pat Wheat, AWS presi- dent, is in charge of arrangements, and Mary Jean Mehl is in charge of posters. Faith Harris and her orchestra are sched- uled to provide the music. On the next evening, members of Theta Chi Delta sorority will hold their Spring dinner dance at the Sundown. The dance will follow a fried chicken dinner which is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Marie Getty, sorority president, is gen- eral chairman for the affair, with all members of the sorority assisting with arrangements. Remember . . . No School on Good Friday According to Mrs. Madeline Blake, art department head, the group of pictures was borrowed for the purpose of giving students a tirst-hand opportunity to study the techniques of modern art. Although the paintings were executed by contem- porary artists, Mrs. Blake emphasized that V they were modern, not modernistic, in style. Included in the college exhibition were paintings by such well known artists as Henry Gasser, Paul Sample, Adolph Dehn, John Whorf, Emil J. Kosa Jr., Ray Strong and Louis DiValentin. Most of these artists have held indi- vidual showings of their work in galleries on the West Coast and in New York, and their paintings have often appeared in the art in advertisement ads of such nation- ally-known advertisers as Maxwell House Coffee, Pepsi Cola, and the National. City Bank of New York. Mrs. Blake also announced that stu- dents are welcome to go out to the Camel- back Galleries and view the exhibition which is currently on display there. The management has told me that they tthe st'udentsl are welcome to come, and they blace themselves under no obligation if they do so, she said. 2 BEAR TRACKS-PHOENlX COLLEGE I BEARTRACKS THE KOILS KORNER Official Publication of the Student Body Co-Editorsu Oszmimgogzlfis Tod Rosnek Get ready to go into your routine, what it means, or what it implies, so we'll Issue Edito Helen T. Maney Assistant Editors .mRussell Orton Page Editors ............ Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Jan Hedrick, Herb Surrett, John Boskon Sports Editor .............. Jim Agee PL t ' , Editor John ' Photographers ........ Jan Hedrick, Leo Chavez, George Brown Reporters ........ Don Levenhagen. Don Biscoe, Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Herb Sur- ' vett, Russell Orton, Joyce Roche, Jim Gump, Jitter McDannold, John Barron, Meg Gunnerud, George Brown. Faculty Adviser .............................. Ray Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. Are You Proud? By JOHN BARRON Are you proud of what's going on in America today? Do you want to go on with this mad desire to suppress freedom in the name of patriotism? Is anyone with the slightest tendeney toward the left a rabid red? Do you admire the witch hunt all America is engaged in? Is Democracy so pure that it regards itself as perfection and anything else as completely evil? Are you proud of that so-called American in- vestigation in Washington which forced Hollywood studios to tire authors because they were suspected of being Commun- ists? Is this the brave new'free America? There is a great deal of poverty in America; there is a great deal of wealth in America; is that something of which to be proud? Must the great masses of peo- ple accept poverty because any attempt to make the slightest change is termed Communistic? Are you a RED because you desire a decent way of life? Must hu- manity always put up with entrenched wealth at one end and misery at the other? What's so wonderful about the slums of our great industrial cities? The smug complacency of middle and upper class Americans is deplorable. They get out their bands, they wave their flags, and they sit around admiring each other. The povertyestricken little people have to swallow it whole without protest. One word of criticism of the status quo and you're a radical, a red, a communist. This writer is not a communist; he has no use for any of Communism's main tenents. He believes that democracy is the best form of government that man- kind has developed. He believes that de- mocracy can work here in America. We're way ahead of any other nation on the face of the earth as far as political freedom goes today. But we can't perfect our de- mocracy by running down Communism. Let's work, not ori criticizing Communism, but on correcting our own faults. sucker; drag your uniform out of the moth-balls, shine up your medals, sing three fast choruses of God Bless Amer- ica , and trot down to the nearest army or navy recruiting office. You might as well play it smart this time aroundeyou might as well volunteer. There is no sense in waiting until you're drafted and get- ting your head blown off as an enlisted man when, by volunteering, you Can get yourself a fat, juicy commission and get your head blown off as an officer. Oh, you say you don't like war? You say that you fought in the last one, and that you saw enough that time to con- vince you that war, besides being baseand degrading and filthy, is inconclusive and horribly expensive and not very bright? You say you came to the conclusion a long time ago that war is no damned good? Well, forget all that, sucker; forget it or we'll have to go to the trouble of changing your mind again for you. And we don't want to do that. it will cost us a lot in time and energy and money, and we think you'll agree that it would be much more simple for all concerned if you just went along with us quietly with- out protest. Because sooner or later, whether you protest or not, you are going along with us. We've sold it to you be- fore; we can sell it to you again. Parades are very stirring things, sucker. All the girls are sure to think you look so cute in uniform. Russia is a frightening word. Nobody knows much about what's going on in Russia, so we can tell you about anything we want to tell you, and you'll take our word for it. Communism is a frightening word, too. You don't know define it for you and make sure our def- , inition stick. How can we do that? Oh, come on, sucker, don't be so childishly naive. Did you ever hear of William Randolph Hearst? Are you acquainted with the CHICAGO TRIBUNE? Haven't you ever heard of Walter Winchell on the radio? What they and the rest of our boys have to say isn't so. But you don't know that. You're not a very bright boy, and you'll believe any- thing we say if we say it loud enough and often enough. I So you thought you'd never be stupid enough to be talked into fighting again, did you? So you thought that nobody would be evil enough or crazy enough to start another war, because another war might well be the end of civilization as we know it today? Well, guess again. There hasn't been a really good fight for three years now, and we're bored with the inactivity. iOh, it's true that people have been dying in Palestine and China, but that's pennyante stuff. Think of what can be done with the atom bomb! if we go into action with that, we can kill each other by the hundreds of thousandsll So start getting into the mood for it now, sucker. Practice at nights so that by the time we give you the word you'll be able to hate Russians like a real expert. Get ready to go out and kill and kill and kill, without thought, without re- morse. Get ready to be blown into minute pieces yourself. But have tun, sucker, have fun. Because unless you get smart, and get smart fast, you haven't got much time. DID YOU CHEAT? Did you cheat on that last exam? If you did you probably lowered the grade of someone who didn't and who really knew all the answers. Have you ever looked around you and noticed the nun'1- ber of people who were cheating, saying to yourself, They are lowering my grade so that l'll probably get a D instead of a C? Just stop and think about it. When you get out into the world, perhaps run- ning your own business, you won't like to see shady business deals performed be- fore your eyes, because it may affect your own business. And yet you say, Oh, let him cheat, it doesn't bother me any. Of course cheating on this campus isn't quite as serious as it could be, but the fact remains that there is cheating here. Most people who cheat or rather try to cheat, would be able to pass the courses without it. Cheating doesn't usu- ally get out of hand on most examina- tions. Quite often a person doesn't have the opportunity to use those little slips of paper, or the documented shirt sleeves, or the inked palms, or the scribbled desk tops. He talks like he has had some ex- perience; some of you will say. Well, anyone with open eyes can see the same things. Some of the devices used are in- genious, If students would only put their inventive genius to a worthy cause, other than that of trying a pass exams without study, then the world would be ten years advanced. - What do I propose to do about it? Well, i guess-that is the $64 question. Is it possible to do anything about it other than Call it to your attention, hop- ing that you'll see the advantage of hon-l esty and fairness even in those everyday quizzes that seem so unimportant? Why don't you think it over and then tell ME what YOU'RE going to do about it? H; S. BEAR TRACKS--PHOEN lX COLLEGE 3 Greeks Gather By JAN HEDRICK Theta Chi Delta sorority members met on Monday evening at the home of Bar- bara Fisackerly, 2318 North Central Ave., for the reading of the constitution drawn up by the lnter-Society Council. + Members of Alpha Sigma Gamma hdm- ored their new pledges with a picnic held Saturday evening, March 13, at South Mountain park. Honorees included Betty Hyde, Marcia McConoughey, Josephine Salcido, and Bobbie Jean Suggs. Commit- tee chairmen were Thresa,Chuka and Love Veta Farmer, refreshments; and Connie Dumont, entertainment. Plans were made for a .progressive dinner to be held on March 29, with Donna Johnson in charge of entertainments. + Kappa Delta Nu members met at the horhe of Anne Redick, 733 West Palm Lane, on Monday, March 15. Plans were made for a dance to be held April 3 at Paradise lnn. Following the meeting, a short birthday party was held in honor of Miss Redick. . + Members of Alpha sorority met on M'onday evening at the home of Marian Page. Refreshments were served after the meeting. . . + A Tau Omega picnic is scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, at Marty Humphrey's ranch. The group will leave from the PC parking lot at 4:00. They will eat at the ranch and then leave for Cave Creek for a dance. Engineers Visit e Metal Foundry Members of the Engineers Club en- joyed another field trip yesterday begin- ning at 4:30 P.M., when they departed for Reynolds Metals Company for a three-hour visit of the plant. Theibig extrusion furnace which presses metal into various shapes, the bie cold rolls, and various types of molds for making domestic kitchen wares were a few of the many interesting machines seen at the plant by the members. A pre- heating furnace, the only one ofits kind in Arizona, was among the more interest- ing sights seen. , 'The club is planning a night meeting to be held Wednesday, March 31,-1948. A speaker and a movie have been sched- uled for the program that night. Thetas, P i Lams on Pledge Night Wings and Goggles Admit Non-Flyers The Wings and Goggles Club is now admitting students who do not wish to fly but want to join in the social and other activities of the elub. Mr. D. F. Stone, sponsor of the club, states that many stu- dents are interested in aviation, but be- cause of financial or other reasons, do not want to participate in the club's fly- ing activities. It is for those students that this policy is being initiated. Mr. 'Stone also mentioned the fact that the Wings and Goggles Club is hold- ing Open House next Sunday, March 21. Anyone who is interested may go to Sky Harbor and inspect the club's planes and facilities. Spanish Club The Spanish Club initiation is planned for next Wednesday at South Mohntain park. in conjunction with the affair, Span- ish Club members will hold a picnic. Sherry Turner is in charge of food and Nancy Keller will be in charge of the in- itiation ceremonies. An activity of the club recently has been the plarining of visits by members to Jorge Geli, aAVPhoenix College student who is ill in Greenview Sanitarium. J pen House Helde i 'Open House was again held last night on the campus by the Astronomy Club, where the five-inch refractor telescope was set up for Phoenicians. After viewing the ce- lestial bodies, the club gave a program in the Blue and Gold room. Two movies were shown, Members of the Solar'Sys- 'tem, and Craters of the Moon. Saturn, with its fascinating rings, I Mars, and craters of the Moon were the heavenly bodies seen by the general pub- lic between.7:30 and 8:30. Refreshments were served after the program. These Open House meetings are becoming quite popular, commented Mr. Amos Hoff, sponsor of. the Astronomy Club. He also went on to say that these meetings are held every third Thursday of each month and are open to the pub- lic as well as students of Phoenix College. Newman Club Newman Club members are making plans to spend Palm Sunday, March 21, at the shrine of Saint Joseph near Wick- enburg. Anyone interested in going is re- quested to attend the regular meeting of the Newman Club today, Activities Peri- od, or to contact Jeannine Hanlon, the club's secretary. Q BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE 4 SPORTS SLANTS By JIM AGEE- Last Saturday night wrote finis to the basketball season of 1947-48 for the Phoenix College Bruins, and another high- ly successful season under Coach George Dutch Hoy. Not only did it bring a close to casaba for this year, but ended a two- year reign tor the local courts for Captain Gil Trejo, Leon Blevins, Bob Williamson, Fred Roche, and Art Carroll, and possibly Glenn Barlow. Also bowing out of the two-year school play are Barry Arney, the big transfer from Tempe, and Bill Ham- montree, who was lost during the mid- season for academic reasons. i + A little report on the record of the Bears for this year and the over-all rec- Ord for the last two years: 'This season the local five won 27 oontests while dropping only six, won the first annual Phoenix Invitational Tourna- ment last Christmas, tied for second in the Western States Conference records, and won third place in the Western States Tournament last weekend. With the com- petition the Bruins faced this season, that is quite a record. Their two-year record was 56 victore ies and only ten defeats, two invitational tournament championships, a runner-up and a third place spot in the tournaments at Compton. All of this, and only one defeat on a local floor, and that was by the Compton Tartars in a WSC contest at Phoenix Union which broke a twenty- eight game streak without a defeat on a local court for the Bears, and left us with 35 wins against that one defeat for home games in two years. ab Leon Blevins outelasted Dan Ducich of Compton to win the scoring race for the Western States Conference with a to- tal of 195 points. Also holding down po- sitions in the scoring race were Art Car- roll and Glenn Barlow. The flashy Mr. Carroll finished in seventh spot and was top scorer for all of the guards in the conference. + The end of the season on the hard- woods brings two more great sports into view. The American favorite, baseball; and track, the oldest of 'em all. This year the Bruin baseball squad, under the guidance of Coach John'ny Riggs, face the tough WSC competition that the local football and casaba squads met with. Coach Riggs has been giving his candi- dates for the squad plenty of good con- ditioning and figures the Bears will give any team they face a lot of trouble. The competition will be made up of the WSC toes, Gila JC, and a few practice games with teams in the valley. BEARS FINISH THIRD IN COMPTON TOURNEY The Phoenix College Bears hit a cold night at the Compton Tournament and lost out in the semi-tinals to the Glendale Vacqueros by a 51-43 count. The Bruins, who held a seven-point half-time advant- age, lost their shooting eyes in the second half as the Glendale squad poured a total of 37 pts. through the bucket, thus as- suring themselves of a bid to the National JC Tourney at Springfield, Mo., March 23-27u Phoenix ended up with third place honors by dropping the Visalia quint 70- 55. The Bruins would have been tough for any team to beat as they outran the fastest team on the coast. Leon Blevins, WSC scoring leader, and Glenn Barlow, aII-tOurnament choice at the Compton Tourney last year, were named on the Western States all-tourna- ment team. The classy Tartars of Compton car- ried off the tirst-place honors by halting Glendale 50-42. The Compton quint was up to its usual tine standards as it out- classed the Glendale team without work- ing up a sweat. Gilbert Trejo and Art Carroll displayed some fine basketball at the tournament, but failed to be chosen for aIl-tournament berths. + ARCHERY Thomas H. Merrill and Miss Herron are re-organizing an archery club for all college students. There is no expense on the part of the student and experience is not necessary as the object of the club is to develop skilled archers under an in- structor's supervision. All fellows. and girls interested in archery are qualified. Mr. Merrill declared that the finest equipment obtainable will be used. The meetings will be at the northwest corner of the gym, Wednesday, activity period. THE DEAN'S BOX We pause to pay tribute to the basketball team and Coach Hey. The boys have provided enjoyment for themselves and for many fellow-stu- dents and friends. None of them was expelled from a game because of un- gentlemanly conduct. Most of the games drew substantial attendance mainly because the public liked the boys and the way they played. Dex- terous ball-handling on their part tick- led the imagination of many a spec- tator. At all times Coach Hoy and the team were in control of themselves. Well done, fellows! PLAY PROVES SUCCESS :1 r ,:$ t TTT: , Russell Orton as Teddy Brewster takes a peek at a cadaver while Joan Kearnes tLl and Marion Snyder lRl look on. Arsenic and Old Lace , a rollicking three-act comedy, was presented last eve- ning in the campus auditorium to an en- thusiastic, if not capacity, audience. The play, which is one of the outstanding ef- forts to come off Broadway in the last ten years, was a tastemoving show with plenty of good laughs. While the laughs weren't masterpieces of subtlety, they were plen- tiful and solid. . Joan Kearns as Aunt Abby did a good job with her part except for an occasional lapse from character. -'Marian Snyder, who played Aunt Martha, also turned in a thor- oughly creditable performance, though she was guilty of over-acting at times. Rus- sell Orton's portrayal of Teddy was cer- tainly the best thing about the show. He . walked off with top honors by turning in an intelligent, sensitive and very funny performance. George Dolmas, who played Jonathan, left this reviewer with the def- inite impression that he was not using all the talent at his disposal. Grant John- son's reading of the part of Dr. Einstein showed hard work and was a fine job. Last night, several of the characters displayed that lack of confidence and shakiness of delivery of lines which so often accompanyifirst-night performances. However, it is probable that most of the rough spots will be ironed out before this evening's curtain goes up. Mr. Cecil Kersten is to be commended for his patient and diligent hours of work with the cast. His efforts have resulted in a performance that is, in the main, well paced, well acted, and entertaining. ACT NOW! Pictures for Year Book are due by March 31, 1948. Sign schedule on bulletin board in Registrar's Build- ing for appointments. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE :IF HAROLD ROBERTSON Known to his numerous pals as Rob- bie , Harold Robertson came to Phoenix from Springfield, Missouri. Shortly after his arrival here, he enlisted in the Marine Corps, in which he served for foitheen months. After he was discharged he re- turned to Phoenix, and has been here- a year and a half now. Robbie is taking a business course at PC and says he has no definite plans for the future. His main interest lies in sports of all kinds. He is now employed in giv- ing lessons with the Wade Driving School. MARJORIE SONNENSCHEIN A Chicago girl, Marjorie Sonnenschein was born on November H, 1929. A few years later, Atigust of '46 to be exact, she came West and has been here ever since. Margie attended Phoenix Union High School and there developed her philosophy two to one. Translated, this means two boys on a date are better than one. Margie is majoring in dramatics and hopes someday to be a dramatics coach. Her dark brown hair and oriental green eyes make her look more the actress than the coach, but that's the way its gotta be! 4 Le Cercle Francais and Masque and Dagger are the clubs that Margie belongs to here on our campus. They're swell! says Margie. I love it out here, but I'd like to go back home for a visit. MOVIE REVIEW By MITCHELL and HARRIS The Unsuspected , starring Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield; Constance Bennett, Audrey Totter, and Hurd Hatfield, has a rather poor and obvious plot, but through the use of some very witty dialogue, it manages to be not too boring.'The pity is that there wasn't any good dialogue writ- ten for the more serious moments. As a mystery, The Unsuspected is 'only a second rate whodunit with a more than adequate supply of bodies and a less than adequate supply of suspense. The story, which is not particularly inter- esting, seems somewhat fantastic, as to- ward the end it becomes doubtful that any of the cast will be alive to finish the picture. But the story cannot be com- pletely blamed for the picture's bad mo- ments. In fact the story might not have seemed so dull if there had been a little less line reading and a little more acting. While Claude Rains was his usual, charming, competent self, he was not at his best. Constance Bennett, who had a large majority of the funny lines, had an advantage because of this and did well by her part. Hard Hatfield, cast in a small part, turned in a good performance, but Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, and Mich- ael North could hardly have been less convincing than they were. If they expect to be around Hollywood long, they ought to do something about learning to act. Thestory, which is much too involved to tell without ruining what suspense there was, concerns the supposed suicide of the secretary of Victor Grandison lClaude Rainsl, radio star of a murder mystery program. A young man, Steve Howard lMichael Northl, appears not long after the death, saying he is the husband of' Grandison's ward, Matilda ann Caulfieldl, who was presumed lost in a ship wreck. Then Matilda turns up alive with no memory of being married to Steve. From here the story gains some interest and finally works around to a climax you've been expecting all along. I The Unsuspected does have some nice photographic effects to recommend it, and Claude Rains and Constance Ben- nett are just good enough and funny enough to make it worth seeing. + Mr. Joe Porter, from Porter's in Phoe- nix, talked to Mr. Asmus' Advertising classes Monday, on the advertising prob- lems and policies of Porter's store. ANNABELLE BRICE Maybe you've seen this attractive blue- eyed, ash blond in the cafeteria or on the lawn. She is Annabelle Brice and one of those rare people . . . a native Phoenician. A freshman, Annabelle was born on De- cember 3, 1929, and has two younger sisters and a brother. She is a loyal Mus- tang from North Phoenix, and woe to those who speak against it! Annabelle is a home economics major and is very fond of popular music and outdoor sports. She also is adept at piano playing. She has no ambition except to get married . . . and who says that's not a full-time job? w -- aeec, Ant VtI-l i ESTER KIRK Ester Kirk is comparatively new to Phoenix. From Newtonia, Missouri, she arrived here last July. Although born in Marshall, Oklahoma, on April 15, 1929, Ester claims Missouri for home and says, You got to prove everything to me, 'cause I'm from Missouri. Another home economics major, Es- ter is very much interested in dramatics and music. She likes basketball games and skating. Stardust puts her in that dreamy mood, and blue eyes start sparkling. Ester claims her hair is brown lwith only a slight reddish castl and in- sists she is at least 5'1 . Driving out here was quite an experi- ence . . . very pretty but darned hot! Ester's sister and two brothers feel the same way about that. i 6 BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE The American Legion Thunderbird Post No. 41 will preseht Danny Zapien in an assembly at Phoenix College on March 23, activity period. The assembly will be 3 a comedy skit based on the adventures of Sad Sack in combat, and will have Zapien in the title role. Zapien has previously played Sad Sack in a number of assem- blies at Phoenix Union High School. Captain K. C. Edwards and Sgt. G. Fiore, VFW Post from Arizona, VFW 720 of Phoenix, American Legion Com- mander Ray and Chaplain Frank Juentez will be guests at the assembly. Besides Ziapien, the cast will include Ted Edwards, Joyce Roghe, Boyce Azbill, Margie Huntington, Bill Hammontree, Fred Wilson, Pat Snuffer, Ernest Flores and Dick Snyder. Barbara Aronson will supply organ background music for the 339m? Eratkz omeaaasoeo OQQQQQ . Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Vol 120 . Phoenix, Arizona, Thursday, March 25, 1948 No. 20 PC Open House Set For April 2nd COLLEGE CHOIR HITS ROAD IN APRIL .1 . April will be a busy month for mem- bers of the a capella choir. Their calen- dar is filled from the second through the twenty-second. The schedule is as follows: April 2. Open House April 8. quth Phoenix High April 13. Gilbert and Chandler April 14. PC Concert April I5. Carver High April 18. Tour to Los Angeles and April l9. surrounding colleges April 20. April 21. April 22. Educator To Speak Dr. Paul E. Elicher, executive secre- tary of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, will speak to Phoenix men and women educators ati a dinner Friday night at North Phoenix High School. Dr. Elicher is widely known in education circles. Dr. Montgomery, superintendent of the Phoenix secondary school system, is a past president of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Elsewhere in Bear Tracks you will find a ballot listing all the known aspirants to the Presidency of the United States. Please fill out one and put it in one of the ballot- boxes on the campus. We ask you to play fair, since this is as much for your infor- mation as for ours. Your co-operation in making this a successful poll of campus .opinion will be greatly appreciated. Time Magazine Conducts Survey On PC Campus Included in the pages of Bear Tracks this week is a Time magazine survey being conducted by Bear Tracks and the Social Science Department. This survey is intended to get a cross section of campus opinion on some very im- portant'questions. The opinions obtained here will'be compared with those of In- ternational Relations Clubs of other cam- puses, with those of the United States as a whole, and with those of the nine other countries in which this survey is being conducted. You are urged to regard this survey seriously. The questionnaires should be turned in at the Bear Tracks office, Lib- eral Arts building today. - Rolling along with harmonious smooth- ness and speed are the plans for Open House to'be presented at Phoenix College next Friday evening, April 2, beginning at 7:30 in the Auditorium. Each department will have its doors open to the general pub- lic, displaying classroom equipment and students' accomplishments. The evening's program is scheduled to begin with a band concert in the Auditorium. Following the band concert, Dr. Robert J. Hannelly, Dr. E. W. Montgomery, Dr. Trevor G. Browne, and Jim Carroll will pIesent short speeches beginning at 8 and will be followed by selected numbers by the a capella choir and a dedication of the organ. From 8:45 until lo the classrooms are to be open for the opportunity of parents and students from the college and valley' high schools to visit the teachers and their , departments. The evening will close with a dance in the Gym sponsored by the Phoenix College student body honoring high school seniors of the Valley. New Building Nears Completion A new building for the offices of the general administration of Phoenix College will soon be completed and will house all the present and some future admin- istration offices of the Phoenix School System, announced Dr. E. W. Mont- gomery, Phoenix College superintendent. The building, located just north of the Registrar's Office, was designed to con- form with present buildings on the cam- pus. It forms a 'U' to which wings will be added later on the west side when funds are available. After the additional wings are added, the building will form a square with a patio in the center. The building is being built at a cost to taxpayers of approximately $58,000. The contract was awarded to C. 0. John- son and Son, and the architects were Lescher and Mahoney. BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE BEAR TRACKS Official Publication of the Student Body ' of Phoenix Collegs Co-Editors ........ Kerlin Rowland, Tod Rosnek Issue Editor ....Don Levenhagen Assistant Editors elen Maney, Herb Surretf Page Editors ............ Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Jan Hedrizk, Russell Orton, Lee Ingalls ...... Jim Agee John Boskon . Leo Chavez, George Brown Reporters ........ Don Levenhagen, Don Biseoe, Pat Mltchell, Pat Harris, Herb Sur- rett, Russell Orton, Joyce Roche, Jim Gump, Jitter McDannold, John Barron, Meg Gunnerud, George Brown. Faculty Adviser ...................... : ....... Ray Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. On Guard Wanted: Salesman for World War III! These men will have the task of selling a third world war to the American public. The salesmen are wanted by those people who think they would profit from another war. But there won't be any profit to the next war. It will be all loss. For this reason it is important that Americans be on guard against war propaganda. The United States must take a stand against the present Russian European eco- nomic; aggression. If such a stand leads to war,. this war would be a war caused by Russian bad faith. We have seen the fu- tility of appeasement. You might as well fall flat on your face as lean too far back- ward. lf Russia persists with its European grab, war will be the result. Sports Editor ....... i I Photography Editor. Photographers ........ Jan erc It is important, however, that we give peace every possible chance, and that we are guided by factsenot propaganda. The trouble with this procedure is the deceptiveness of facts. The American public has a free press which presents available facts in every political tint from dark red to bright yel- low. The public, therefore, must consider the source as well as the facts themselves. It's amazing how many different concepts can be conveyed, using the same facts. The Russians don't have a problem at this sort. All of their news is censored. They know only what is printed in the government-controlled press. Fort this rea- son, when we deal with the Russians, we aren't dealing with the people, but with Joe Stalin and Co. The little people of the worldethose who do the fighting, whetheri they be American, Russian, French, English, or of any other countryedo not want war. But most of these people have no way to prevent war. Therefore Americans have a great responsibility; they must see to it for all these people that peace'is not sold short. D. L. I THE KoiL's KORNER I Here's one about ways and means. Ways an means of doing what? Ways and means of staying alive. Several weeks ago I devoted this space to a discussion of the absolute necessity of the formation of a federal world. government with limited powers adequate to prevent war. I stated at that time that I could see no other choice for the peoples of the world but federal world-govemment or eventual self-annihil- ation. There is still no other choice that i can see. But world federation is nothing more than a theory now - nothing more than an ideal. It must become a fact, and it must become a fact fast. The nations of the world are lining up for the next war already. Our civilization will destroy itself within a few years if the peoples of the sovereign states which are getting ready for war allow their leaders to continue down the path to extinction along which they have started. What can we, as college students, do to stop the march toward war? It seems to me that our best possible plan of action is to ally ourselves with the group which is now speaking out, loudly and well, for the only thing that will stop world conflicts eworld federation. This group calls itself The United World Federalists. In its ranks are some of the finest minds in America today. The United World Federalists are trying, with every resource at their com- mand, to sell the idea of federal world gov- renment to the American people. Their organization is big; it is growing bigger by leaps and bounds. And every addition to its strength and effectiveness increases the chances for world peace. The United World Federalists are a good team; they are fighting the most import- ant single fight that's being fought any- where in the world today. They need help it they're to win their fight, and they need DEAN'S BOX Praise is due to the cast, Mr. Kersten, and all others connected with the production of Arsenic and Old Lace. In my more or less amateur judgment, the play was professionally done. Good entertainment seems es- sential for good balance, especially in times of uncertainty and unrest. Be that as it may e- the ticket- sellers, ushers, musicians, custodian, property-managers, makevup people, advertisers, writers, and lighting ex- perts did well enough to be congrat- ulated sincerely. l Incidentally, it-takes a lot of people to produce a play, doesn't it? Dean Hannelly it desperately. They have the answer for all people who want to do something ef- fective and concrete for the cause of world peace, but don't know what to do - who feel that there is nothing they can do alone. About a month ago there was formed here on the PC campus a chapter of Stue dent World Federalists. It offers to all PC students who are interested in doing what they can to keep the world at peace a chance to put their ideas and their en- ergy into something big and powerful and important. The PC chapter of student fed- eralists is no chowder and marching so- ciety; its members are interested in action, not theories. But it isn't an exclusive thing. Politics isn't a consideration, race isn't a consideration, religion isn't a con- sderation. All that it takes to become a student federalist is a normal desire to stay alive and healthy and a willingness to work to see that desire fulfilled. .15 getting very late. We're running out of time. There are people in the world who want another waree-right now. There are people in the world who are willing to let somebody else worry about the possi- bility of another war. Those are the people who will ask me when they read this why I don't write about something of interest to the students. They'll be interested if the bombs start falling again, though; they'll be plenty interested then. But by then it will be too late. I think most of us are neither for an- other war or indifferent to the possibility of another war. i think most us us are scared; I think most of us are bewildered; I think most of us are wondering what we can do to stop this thing. Well, we have our answer now. The PC chapter of Stu- dent World Federalists meets every other Wednesday night at 7:30esometimes in the Club Room, sometimes in the Blue and Gold Rooms Watch the bulletin boards, and arrange to be there at the next meet- ing of the organization. Don't put it off; don't think about it; don't let George do it. This is your fight; get in on it, and get in on it NOW. We. The Summing Up The symptoms are obvious to every one of us. From the glint in each teach- er's eyes to the mad reviewing over past work . . . the first half of our second semester is drawing to a close. It's too late to start cramming now. The damage is done. To those who study diligently all term, llCongratulations! Your way is best after all. To the rest of us, Let's try harder next time and see our names at the head of the honor roll, too! BEAl-R TRACKS-iDHOENlX COLLEGE Greeks Gather By JAN HEDRICK x I' i If you are not taking courses in the Engineering Department you probably are not acquainted with intelligent, well- traveled Mr. Douthit e herewith pic- tured. Although it's Mr. D's first year at PC he has done much in developing the Engineers club; he welcomes every- body to the club's exhibit during Open House, April 2. His many interests include: Boy Scout work, instructing first aid for the Red Cross, working on his twenty-acre citrus farm, woodwork and photography. Political views e well, Dewey and Vandenberg seem to be the better presi- dential candidates. Time allowing, he believes the U5. and Russia must study, understand and compromise with each. other's cultures in order to retain peace. Mr. D. is very tired of Westbrook Pegler's biased arguments. BT was very pleased to hear Mr. Douthit state PC, to him, has not only an above- average faculty but also an above-average student body. TOMMY JEWELL es, , k One of our more prominent second semester sophomores is Tommy Jewell. Born in Milwaukee twenty-three years ago Tommy has lived the past twenty- two of them in PhOenix with the excep- tion of two years in the Army Air Corps. A graduate of Carver High, Tommy is a sports enthusiast e especially basket- ball. Next year he contemplates attend- ing Tempe College. While not yet mar- ried, Tommy has big hopes and is go- ing steady. His favorite food is chocolate ice cream or for that matter, any other Members of Theta Chi Delta sorority met yesterday during activity period to make final plans for their dinner dance to be held tomorrow night. + Members of Alpha Sigma Gamma met on Monday evening at the home of Love Veta Farmer to make plans for a pro- gressive dinner to be held on March 1. Donna Johnson was named. chairman for the dinner. Marcia McConoughey was named chairman for a rummage sale to be held in the near future. e.eH . Phi Lambda Zeta sorority met Monday at the home of Dorothy Safely, 312 E. Mitchell Drive, to have the annual picture taken. + Members of Sig Kaps fraternity held an unofficial meeting at the home of Jim Watson, 1229 E. Edgemont Avenue, to make plans for an assembly to be pre- sented by the group on Tuesday, April 6. Bill Hinkley, Sig Kap social chair- man, states that the assembly. should be one that the school will long remem- ber. Also on the agenda were plans for a 'Come As You'Are dance to be held April 9. ob Phi Alpha Chi members held a party last Saturday at the home of George Franklin, Rt. 2, Box 508. Festivities in- cluded movies, dancing ,shuffle board, and croquet. The party was in celebra- tion of the club's twentylfirst birthday. + Radio, Spanish Clubs Meet A meeting of the Radio Club was held during activity period today in the radio lab room. Plans were made for the dise play for Open House, which will include special radio and radar equipment. $ Members of the Spanish club, Los Buenos Vecinos , held a party in the Rock House, located in the South Moun- tains, for the purpose of initiating new members of the club. lda Price, presi- dent, Was in charge of the event. dessert. He intensely dislikes gloomy days which might account for his liking Phoenix so well. Being an ardent revbop tan, Tommy's idea of a good evening's entertainment is the Tuesday night jam session at the Sunset Club. Politically, he would vote for MacArthur and holds the belief that war is not inevitable. BARBARA ROSENBERG One of the pets among the campus c h a ra c t e rs is genial, witty ,Barbara Rosie Rosenberg. This mere child of eighteen is a recording artist of note in some circles and is an adept actress. A North High graduate, Rosie is in her first year at PC and plans to attend same during 48-49. The 5'6 Miss Rosenberg is blond in a very attractive way and weighs in at an undisclosed amount on the 'Fairbanks . As a hobby, she collects men and miniature 'eftelants'. Rosie might be a notable exception to that old hack, Boys never make passes at girls who wear glasses . Miss Rosenberg is one of those rare people who is not only a native Arizonan but a native Phoeni- cian; what's more, she believes there is no place like home e so long as it's in Phoenix. BT wants to introduce one of the most handsome, unassuming fellows on the campus, Mr. Bill Clem. Mr. Clem, twenty- one, attended West Point one year, is an able athlete, is on the debate team, and makes consistently good grades. Bill is originally from Southern California, and he's going to Stanford next year. Oh, yes, he was salutatorian of North High in '44e a conscientious thinker and is ardenly op- posed to the war talk sweeping the nation. He's very well liked by those who know him. And, girls, his ideal evening includes good music, an interesting girl, a quiet place e- with perhaps a cozy fireplace thrown. in. BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE MOVIE REVIEW BYi MITCHELL AND HARRIS As a picture Gentlemen's Agreement had faults, but as an idea, a plan, a hope, it is a tribute to Darryl F. Zanuck and Twentieth Century Fox. It was certainly the theme of the picture and the sincer- ity with which it was presented, that won the Academy Award for it last March 20. i The fact that the picture won the Award is not what makes it the picture to see; it is that in it the movie industry has finally begun to use the screen as a medium for progress as well as enter- tainment. This industry has a greater influence on the American public than any other, and it is time that Hollywood awakens to its own power. The picture handled alli the phases of antiesemitism with delicate and subtle strength, and Hollywood would do well to see that no pictures of the same type, which are made to make money and which are haphazardly done, be allowed to tear down the good work that Gentle- men's Agreement has succeeded in achieving. From Laura Z. Hobson's novel, the picture deals with a magazine writer who is assigned to do a story on anti-semitism. Searching for a new angle on this often- used subject, he decided actually to be- come a Jew for six months. He succeeds in doing this as he is a newcomer to New York and has no friends there. He meets all the problems of a real Jew, not only through himself, but through his mother, his son, his sweetheart, his best friend and his secretary. The biggest punch of the picture is its advocation of action. it pointed out the many people who consider themselves wihout prejudice, but who keep still and do nothing rather than bring unpleasant situations out into the open. The picture accused those people of allowing some- thing they detest to grow without hampering that growth. Please check your candidate for President on this form, tear out, and place in one of the ballot boxes on the campus. Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower Robert H. Taft Thomas E. Dewey Harold E. Stassen Arthur Vandenberg Henry A. Wallace Earl W. Warren James E. Folsom Douglas MacArthur DDDDEDDDDDD SPORTS SLANTS x ART CARROLL Leon Blevins and Art Carroll, two classy members of the 1947-48 Phoenix College basketball squad, were picked as first teamschoices on the first All-West- ern States Conference squad, chosen last week. Blevins received a unanimous vote of six coaches! while Carroll was the choice of three. Glenn Barlow, who teamed with Carroll at the guard posi- tions, was picked on the second squadt Considered by many as the most valu- able player in the conference, Blevins was also the league's leading scorer with 195 points. Along with his place. on the WSC team, the lanky forward was also a unanimous choice for an all-confer- ence team picked by a poll conducted by the Pirate Press, Ventura Junior Col- lege newspaper. In this same poll, Blevins was the choice for the most valuable player in the WSC. His total of 502 points in 33 games for an average of 15.36 each time he took the floor, was one of the best in the Southwest. Bruin Baseballers Open Against Gila Tomorrow First baseball games of the season for the Phoenix College diamond crew will be played tomorrow and Saturday after- noons in Thatcher, with the Monsters of Gila Junior College providing the oppo- sition. in preparation for the clashes, Coach Johnny Riggs has been whipping his squad into shape for the past month. With daily workouts and numerous practice games under their belts, the Bears have been slowly shaping up into a potent ball club. The two game setto with the strong Gila outfit will undoubtedly prove a stiff test for the Bears and an excellent gauge of what the cleated lads from Phoenix will be able to produce in dia- mond play. szim Agee LEON BLEVINS Carroll, who like Leon, is a graduate of Phoenix Union, was given a forward berth on the conference squad although he spent most of his time in the back- courts. The speedy guard ranked seventh in the league scoring race and was top man for those who played in the back- court. He was a second string guard choice on the Venturapoll. Rounding out the WSC first team were: Dan Ducich of Compton, who was also a unanimous choice, at center; Bill Warren of Compton, guard; and Ev Juergens of Long Beach, guard. With Barlow on the second team were: Murrel Binkley, Ventura, and Bob Crowe, Comp- ton, forwards; Bob McMurdie, Pasadena, center; and Carl Kraushaar, Compton, guard. lNTRA-MURAL TRACK MEET HELD Approximately five hundred Phoenix College men students participated in the intra-mural track meet, which was held last week on the athletic field. The meet was held for the purpose of discovering talent to bolster the Bruin track team, and was deemed highly suc- cessful by the athletic department. The events held were: 50 yard dash, lOO yard dash, ,high jump, broad jump, shot put, and the 440 yard relay. The best performance of the meet was turned in by Mitch Clearly, when he ran the 100 yard dash in the good time of l0.l. Another potential star was found in John Shannon, the individual high point man of the meet, who won the high jump, broad jump, and the 50 yard dash. Big Neal Patton turned in a Creditable performance by heaving the shot 40 feet. Many of the boys who participated in the meet have been asked to try out for the school track team, and with a little coaching should represent the school in a creditable manner. ?Eear Eratks Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Vol. 20 Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, April 16, 1948 BEAR DAY PLANS Bear Day, the annual Phoenix College rumpus, will be held May 7 this year, and promises to be bigger and better than ever before, it the well laid plans of Tennis Star Comes To. Campus Students will have an opportunity to see a great tennis star in action today, April 16, between 10:30, and 12. Don Budge, former world's tennis champion, will bring to our campus a tennis exhibition and clinic . A clinic is a means of teaching people how to . play tennis correctly. Mr. Budge. will at- tempt to correct faults, show proper grip, strokes, and how to control the body and foot work. The effective tactics of tennis will also be demonstrated. Members of the men's tennis team will assist Mr. Budge throughout the ex- hibition. Those assisting will be Dave Garber, John Hardaway, Clay Kaigler, and Art Peterson. Those girls representing the girls' tennis teams are Audrey Ton- cray, and Gye Grammar.- This exhibition is scheduled during activity period to give all students the opportunity to witness Don Budge in ac- tion. Bleachers will be erected to seat students. Claudia Cast . Parts have been cast for Claudia , commencement play, which will be pre- sented in the Phoenix College Auditorium on April 13, and April 14. The title role of Claudia is being por- trayed by Susan Van Zandt, with other characters as follows: David, Claudia's understanding husband, Eugene Miller; Jerry, the amorous Englishman, James Lambert; M95. Brown, Claudia's mother, Barbara Rosenberg; Julia, David's sister- in-law, Marjorie Sonnenschein; Madame Daruschka, the impetuous Russian opera singer', Ida Price; Bertha, the cook and house maid, Marian Snyder; and Fritz, Bertha's husband and handyman, Grant Johnson. Rehearsals are due to start immediately. V Fred Roche, Bear Day Chairman, don't go astray. Fred Roche lLi and Don Goodwin are shown above making plans for the com- ing Bear Day celebration. Student Elections Told Dave Garber, chairman of the election board, has announced that the election of the Associated Students for the first semester of the 1948-49 school year will be held April 23. The nominating assembly will be on April 22, andiall interested parties are asked to study the provisions for elec- tive officers and elections, which may be found in the constitution as set forth in the Blue Book. Official petitions may be obtained from. Mr. Garber on or after April .15. Other members of the Board are Mary Hannelly, Clarke Duncan, Charles Oat- man, and Robert Brock. No Refreshments? At the regular faculty meeting held last Monday, the problem of drinking on campus and at school functions was dis- cussed. Among the various items men- tioned, particular attention was called to the matter of spiking the punch at school dances and parties. No refreshments were served at the meeting. Large Fred arid several assorted asso- ciates have been making preparations for the big blowout for the past several weeks and have most of the program lined up and ready to go. The affair, a traditional event at Phoe- nix College, consists of numerous events with the freshman class competing with the sophomores and winds up with Bear Day itself, a day's outing of picknicking and swimming, to be held this year at Riverside Park. Events. to be held include football, softball, basketball, badminton, pinochle, horseshoes, canoeing, swimming, volley- ball, and several others, including beard- growing. All contests are competition be- tween freshmen and sophomores, and any student in school is eligible to enter. A point system has been set up and points will be awarded for the winning of each contest. The class, freshman or sopho- more, having the most. points at the end of Bear Day automatically become Bear Day champs. Entry lists, with name of event, time and place to be held, are already post- ed in the cafeteria, and all students desiring to compete are urged to sign up soon for any and all events they wish to enter. Several events, such as swim- ming, horseshoes, and the pie-eating contest, will be held on Bear Day itself. All persons wishing to enter in the may- hem should pay up their insurance now and make their preparations early. W Hope Headed Here pr Hope and his entire troop will make their weekly broadcast April 20, from our Phoenix College Auditorium. The program is for the benefit of the Cancer Society. Tickets and information may be obtained from the Cancer Head- quarters downtown Phoenix. BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE BEAR TRACKS Member Associated Collegiate Press Co-Editors ........ Kerlin Rowland, Tod Rosnek Issue Editor.... ........................ Russell Orton Assistant Editors .Pat Mitchell, Herb Surrett Page Editors ............ Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Helen Maney, Jan Hedrick Lee lngalls Sports Editor .......................... Jim Agee tPhotography Editor George Brown Photographers ........ Jan Hedrick, Leo Chavez, John Boskin Reporters ........ Don Levenhagen, Don Biscoe, Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Herb Sur- rett, Russell Orton, Joyce Roche. Jim GI-Imp, Jitter McDannold, John Barron, Meg Gunnerud, George Brown. Faculty Adviser ...... .- ....................... Ray Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. Parlor Pinks The lron Curtain has arroused the curiosity of a confused world in general, and of a number of parlor pinks in par- ticular. Like a tightly wrapped Christmas pack- age, the Curtain preys on the minds of our -.malcontents, infusing them with the unfounded hope that something won- derful lies within. To these people- people who perceive defects in American democracy and prefer embracing a du- bious ideology, Communism, to working for the improvement of our democracye the Iron Curtain is a veritable crystal ball from which the imagination draws a Utopia. But curtains work two ways; you can't see in, but it is equally true that you can 't see out either. There are in- dications that the latter, not the former, compels isolation. First, it is possible that the Russian people would lose heart in their Five Year Plans if they could openly compare their living 'conditions e in terms of cars, telephones, clothing, living quarters, working conditions, food, etc.-with ours. Second, if Russions were allowed to compare their civil rights and privileges with ours, grave doubts might arise. But let's get back to the U S Com- mies and near Commies. Here is a ques- tion which should test their convictions. If communism is the red-hot panacea some claim, why is it that those nearest it iCzechoslovakians, Greeks, Chinese, Poles, Rumanians, eth have fought, or are fighting it? A superior ideology 'doesn't have to be sold with bayonets. Admittedly our form of government is far from perfect, but self-styled critics are prone to go overboard on weaknesses, disregarding the civil liberties which our citizens possess. It is those same liberties which permit these citizens to criticize their own government, a privilege none too common in this struggling world. THE KOIL'S KORNER The first band to march in this year's Rodeo Parade belonged to ASC. Behind the Tempe musicians, scattered all through the ranks of the parade, were high school and grammar school bands from all over the Valley. The last band to march in the parade was the musical organization of Phoenix's own college. The only people behind the PC musicians were the city street cleaners, who were conducting mopping-up operations. Who put the Phoenix College band in such a disgraceful position, and why? RODEO WEEK l've never in the two years that I've been at PC seen a better demonstration of real school spirit than I witnessed on our campus during Rodeo Week. I think that the Sig Kaps and the Associated Men. Students are to be congratulated for the spirit of enthusiasm they .gen- erated and for the good funithey pro- vided for everybody on campus. There can be no doubt of the fact that everyone had a fine time during PC's own special celebration of Rodeo Week this year. Why not make the building of a bull-pen and dressing in Western garb annual events here on the campus at rodeo time? WORLD FEDERALISTS There were between fifteen and twenty people at last Wednesday night's regular meeting of the PC chapter of Student World Federalists. That's encouraging, when the fact, that about a month ago the organization had only four members, is considered. But it's inconceivable to me that there aren't more than a score of people on this campus who are willing to work for anything as vital as world peace. How about the rest of you interest- ed students? What's keeping you from attending the Student World Federalist meetings? They're held on Wednesday American Communists pride themselves on their realism. But is it- being realistic to cast aside our form of government because it has faults, and to embrace Communism in the blind hope that it offers something better? America has developed a way of life which can well be envied by the rest of the world. Still, our system can be greatly enhanced if malcontents concentrate their efforts upon improving conditions, rather than promoting confusion and dissension. The great majority of Americans do not want Communism. And, they are apt to lose patience with loyal Ameri- can Communists who use America's free- doms as a Soviet weapon. nights in the Blue and Gold Room, and they're for everybody who is interested in continuing to live. h h i By the way, the Student World Fed- eralists are sponsoring next week's as- sembly, at which will be shown the movies One World and Atomic Power. Don't miss these films. They are two of the best and most convincing arguments against the horrors of another war that I know anything about. STASSEN The most encouraging political de- velopment that I've observed in a long time was Harold Stassen's clear-cut vic- tory in the recently completed Wisconsin presidential primary. I think that there are a great many liberal American voters who have found in Stassen a man around whom they can rally their strength. It seems to me that most Americans want no small part of either die-hard stand patters like Robert A. Taft or liberals of the Henry Wallace, Glenn Taylor stripe. It becomes increasingly apparent that Stassen is the man who is best qualified to represent these people. He has won the first round of his fight against the Old Guard elements within the GOP. l was almost as surprised as I was'pleased by what happened in Wis- consin. And ,I was pleased plenty. Dean's Box After an eminently successful home concert, the A Capella Choiraot Phoe- nix College has embarked on its an- nual spring tour. The prestige and publicity which this splendid organi- zation brings to Phoenix and the col- lege should not be underestimated. Important as this is, it is not primary. The greatest value is the educational one of cooperation and democracy in singing in such a choir. A member's voice must harmonize. It doesn't bene- fit the individual or the choir to free- lance. Participation is shared with many others in such a large group. Forty concerts in one year add great- ly to the culture and enjoyment in the Southwest. Chauvinism exists with some diffi- culty in music. Songs of love, sorrow, devotion, and laughter are truly inter- national. Nations everywhere and in all ages are united in music. More power to the choir and Mr. Hakes. BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE Tod Talking Get out your handkerchiefs, kiddieSe this is a sob column from the word go. Last week we happened to give out with a few words of fatherly advice and the response has been so touching that our eyes haven't been dry since. Here is a sample tearjerker written to us by some poor soul in his hour of need: Dear Mr. Anthony: the was obviously con- fusedi My girl friend hasn't been the same since she went to her fourth hour English class last Monday. As she came out of the building I reached out to take her hand. She drew back in horror. You beast! she hissed, you cal- loused, unduIy-familiar brute! You . . . you . . you cafeteria cassanova; you COLLEGE MAN e- get thee hence! --Saying this, she ran off and hasn't spoken tosme since. My problem is this: If I try to hold rny girl's hand is it a sign that I'm over-sexed? Signed, Eager. Dear Eager: Your attitude plainly re- veals that you've been sleeping through your Sociology class; either that, or you went to boy's high school too long. i tk Vk Here's anothere Dear Dorothy Dix lthere is obviously some confusion as to who is running this columni: I grew up on a ranch out here in A'rizona and while I may not be a cham- pionship caliber wrangler, I can at least tell the rear end of a horse from the front ithe front end has a bridlel. But what galls me is to see some of these dudes out here on the campus during rodeo weekethese Cleveland cowpunch- ers and Michigan mavericks with their Marshall Field Westerntogs tguaranteed to exude the true flavor of the Old Westl and a western drawl which could only have been cultivated during the rushehour at Porter's on Saturday after- noon. And yet these Central Park wrang- Iers have got the nerve to try and throw me in a two-penny corrall because I don't look like a cowboy ! Now, I ask you, what type of fiendish punishment is fitting for guys like this? Signed, . P. 0. Highly Dear P. 0.: You could forcelthem to join a frat. .k 1' It We were thinking of sending a big bouquet of Limburg'er to whoever it is that is tearing up the city streets this winter tand putting them back together HICKS DRAWSV'KICKS Members of the class, Daramtics 82, entertained an assembly audience Tues- day with the presentation of a one- act play, Goodbye Mr. Hicks. The title role of the sociaIIy-unac- ceptable Mr. Hicks was played by Marty Martinez. Barbara Rosenberg and Bill Hinkley played the parts of Tom and Rosemary Edwards, a yOung rharried couple, and Don Sypherd and Barbara ' Miller were Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell, their dinner guests. Mr. Lyman Bump of the English department was in charge of the production. , The play was a well done production, and the audience seemed to enjoy it very much. LOST AND FOUND If you have lost anything, call at the Lost and Found in the registrar's office, and you will probably find it. Some of the various articles now in the office are: IeCamera, Ansco Clipper. 2-800ks of all types. 3-Brown billfold. 4-:Key cases. 5-Loose keys. 64Rabbit fur mittens. 7eBrown gloves. SeMiscellaneous articles. so crudelyl. If Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun is not remembered for its Rodeo or for its climate, It will certainly be remembered for having one of the poorest street systems in the nation. While it may be necessary to lay in a 'new water system, we doubt if it shows very intelligent planning for the civic bureaucrats to tear up the streets at the heighth of the tourist season. After la , the Chamber of Commerce and all other boost-Arizona organizations spend thousands of dollars everyyear to bring winter visitors to Phoenix and then the city fathers seem to do their darndest to keep the tourists from seeing any- thing while they're here, erecting road- blocks, bumps, ditches, and all manner of unsightly, uncomfortable and incon- venient blemishes on our streets. We feel we've got a right to complain be- cause we're citizens of Phoenix and also recipients of various and sundry jolts, bumps, flat tires and stiff necks suffered while driving on the badly scarred streets of Phoenix. I I Movie Review By Mitchell and Harris JOAN OF ARC Sierra Productions has filmed what could easily be not only the best Ameri- can picture of the year but of the last ten years, and this independent studio has been sneak-previewing it through RKO to see what the public opinion would be. The comments were the high: est compliments and it is our sincere hope that Sierra does not take them seriously to the point of leaving the picture as it is. It's length is not rare but raw, and regardless of how beautifully and magnificently Miss Ingrid Bergman does the role of Joan in the numerous prayer and trial scenes, they becorhe not boring, but tiring. Though the fault of length is important, it is one of the very few faults of the picture and could easily be corrected. Maxwell Anderson collaborated in writing the screen version of his famous play, and his wit and genius are readily apparent in many of the scenes. Jose Ferrer makes his initial screen appearance as the weak Dauphin, and if anyone but Miss Bergman had been playing Joan, he would have stolen the picture right out from under her. Ward 'Bond adds one more excellent characterization to his long accumulation of them. The enormous east is filled with stage and screen notables including Cecil Kellaway, Irene Rich, John Ireland, Tay- Ior Holmes, Hurd Hatfield, J. Carroll Naish, Leif Ericson, Richard Derr, and many, many others. ' The battle scenes are tremendous; the color photography is comparable to that of Wilson and Henry V ; the trial scenes have realism that exhausts the audiencefthe lighting, costuming, and scenery reach a new high in movie- making. But it is the last scene of Joan of Arc that will be remembered through film history, and that is the scene of Joan burning at the stake. There is no tribute greatvenough to be paid to Miss Bergman's acting, her beauty, and the photography of that scene, and we would not hestitate in calling it the most moving piece of drama ever filmed. It is too late for our photography staff to take student pictures for the Annual. However, students who have portraits may turn them in to George Brown at Bear Tracks. ' v BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE GREEKS GROUP, GAB THETA CHI DELTA Theta Chi Delta sorority members held .their annual dinner dance on Thursday, April 8, at the Sundown Club. Following a dinner of fried chicken, the members were entertained by the club's regular floor show and an evening of dancing. The high-Iight of the evening was the surprise appearance of Jerry Colona, who, after plugging Phoenix Cdllege, the cancer drive, and the sorority, entertained the group by singing It Might As Well Be Spring and Mandalay in his own inimitable Style. On Tuesday, April 6, the group met at the home of Jean Mondo, in Glendale, for the informal initiation of pledges. They met last Tuesday at the home of Marie Getty, 1222 E. Brill, when pledges Helen Backer, Gye Grammar, Barbara Schiele; Maxine Wright, and Gloria Dett- mer took their vows and were formally admitted into the sorority. 'DELTA Pl Members of Delta Pi sorority and 'their sponsor, Miss Grace Nichols, recently at- tended one of the performances in the Linda series. The performance which they saw was Cornelia Stabler, who did monologues. The sorority also sponsored a horseback ride on Saturday, April 10, at Weldon's Stables. PHI ALPHA CHI Phi Alpha Chi fraternity held their formal initiation Monday night in a dining room of hotel Westward Ho. Among those present were Dean Hannelly and Mr. Ralph C. Asmus, sponsor of the club. Howard Pyle, of station KTAR, spoke on The Future of Arizona . -He dis- cussed the growth of industries in the state and the need for a more 'ldiversified line of industries, especially in the resort areas. ALPHA SIGMA GAMMA New merhbers of Alpha Sigma Gamma sorority -were formally initiated on Mon- day evening, April 5, in ceremonies in the clubroom. TOtticers of the group, participating in the candlelight rites were Mary Hannelly, Pat Snuffer, Betty Jacke son, Love Vetat Farmer, Theresa Chuka and Doris Stegner. Nadine Howard, sorori- lean Phillips and Bill Bodine receive their prizes for being the best dressed western couple at the Sig Kap's Bar None Dance last Friday night. Left to Right: Don Grundy, Chuck Treat, alumnus Jim Hill, Jean Phillips and Bill Bodine. ty president ,made the presentation of pins, and Mrs. W. D. Bearce, sponsor, gave the welcome. Corsages of yellow daffodils were pre- sented to honorees Marcia McConoughey, Betty Hyde, Josephine Salcido and Bobbie Jean Suggs. Following the initiation, a buffet supper was served. Green and gold, the club's colors were brought out in the decorations and centerpiece. Special guests in'cluded Dr. Frances Mooseau, Mrs. Bearce, Mrs. John Mc- Cormack, and Maurine Kessenger, alum- nae. The sorority is sponsoring its sec- ond cake sale of the year during activity period today in front of the cafeteria. ALPHA MU GAMMA Alpha Mu Gamma, alias Honorary Language Club, is holding its annual formal banquet at the Encanto Club House, April 27. The several speakers attending will'talk in various foreign tongues. Again BT apologizes: Five mem- bers of AMG, namely Joyce Abbott Anna Piercey, Barbara Preblude, Beverly Seiff and Mrs. Ingram, attended their first national convention in Santa Barbara, March 20-21, since this last war began. Many events were planned and it was unanimously decided to assist teachers in various foreign Universities, mainly 1through the sending of books and Sup- plies. KAPPA DELTA NU Paradise Inn was the setting for the annual spring formal sponsored by Kappa Delta Nu sorority held Saturday, April 3, following a dinner served at the patio of the Inn. Music was provided by Faith Harris and her orchestra. Members and their guests who at- tended were Mary Jean Mehl and Ted Rasmussen, Jean Phillips and Marty West, Anne Redick and Marshall Humphrey, Mary Lea Hartman and Aubrey Jones, Phyllis Brock and Charles Rollins, Pat Grippen and Jack Parkinson, Laura Louise Norris and Chuck Pensinger, Marilyn Blair and Russell Vo'yce, Susan Van Zandt and Bud Beck, Darleen Anderson and Cooper Welch, Barbara Rosenberg and Bill Hinkley, Barbara Sichilt and Buddy Norris, Vivian Abney and Jim Temple, Lucy Hegele and Don Miller, Marriel Slaughter and Richard Ruby, Camille King and Stelson Allen, Pat Dunne and Clay Kaigier, Kathe Brooks and Chuck Treat, Jeanne Young and Jerry Lewkowitz, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Grippen, Jo Seiber and Paul Erickson, Dorothy Watson and Dave Garber, Carolyn Parsons and Bob Wil- liamson. A meeting was held, Monday at the heme of Frankie Jo Lanter, 61 W. Vernon, when plahs were made for a tea to be held in honor of the alumnae and a pot iluck dinner on April 26 in honor of the members' mothers. e,, BEAR TRACKyPHOENIX COLLEGE BRAINS BAT BREEZE WINDSOR CLUB The Windsor Club presented Benia- min Salt, Jr., pianist, in a Vrecital last Tuesday night in the student club room. He was assisted in his recital by Kath- leen Nelson, soprano. ' Mr. Salt played three Chopin selec- tions, Romance by Sibelius, Poli- chinelle by Rachmaninoff, Goiliwogg's Cake Walk by Debussy, and Mala- guena by Lecuona. Miss Nelson sang Three Green Bonnets by D'Hardelot, My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair, by Haydn, My Lover ls A'Fisherman by Strickland, Since We Parted by Allitsen, and Morning by Speakes. Her accompanist was Rosemarye Mock. Mr. Salt also played the first move- ment of Mozart's Concerto in E Flat Major. Mr. Earle L. Stone, who is Mr. Salt's teacher, was at the second piano. HILLEL CLUB The Phoenix College l-lillel' Club will hold a hayride tonight at the North Central Riding Stables. It will be a date affair, and the price will be $2 per couple. Food and refreshments will be provided, and all members of the Hillel Club and their friends are invited to attend. There will be a meeting of,the Phoe- nix College Hillel, Sunday, April l8, at 3:30 p. m. at Temple Beth Israel. Plans for the May pieniciwill be discussed. WOODSON CLUB The Woodson Club met April 2, to plan their annual barbeque picnic to be held at South Mountain Park May 15. Each member is allowed to invite two friends. Buses have been hired to take care of transportation. COLLEGE Y CLUB The College Y Club has set a dan'ce for Friday, April 23, at 9 p. m. in the S and V Hall, Fourth Avenue and Washington. Walt Anthony and his or- chestra will play, and the admission will be 75 cents per person and $1.20 a couple. The funds from this dance will go to the World Service Fund, a fund for the YMCA's all over the world. Bill Palmer, president of the club is in charge of the affair and he is being assisted by Byron King, Jim Agee and Art West. 13 CLUB . While discussing qualifications for next year's members and deciding a ten- tative outline of events, the 13 Club had dinner at the Valle del Sol April 5. The 13 Club will assist in the National Jr. College Track Meet, May 7-8. ASTRONOMY CLUB A very successful open house was held last night by the Astronomy Club. The program, which was open to the public, consisted of viewing the planets through the telescope with special emphasis and explanations on Mars, Saturn, and Venus. Afterwards, two movies were shown in- doors ;one on the moon, and one on atomic power. SPANISH CLUB Apology is in order to the Spanish Club for not mentioning their initiation picnic-held March 17thein a previous issue. Perdonenos usted! Yesterday iThursday that isi eighteen. members at- tended the Liga Pan-Americana meeting at ASC, Tempe. We'll have further de- tails on this meeting come the next issue. 'This highlight shot of the recent Sig Kap assembly shows lL to Rl drummer Lee Linde- man, Curley Hinkley supporting a sliake, oboist Wilbur Hoff, rope climber Oscar Lauderbeck, hypnotist Robert Brock, floating debris fakir Graham Bullock. ENGINEERS CLUB The Engineers Club, under the able leadership of Mr. Douthit'and John Sen- ter, has land this is an understatementi . indeed been active since last you read the Club News. Mr. Kelley, of the Phoe- nix General Electric office, spoke the evening of March Si in regard to oppor- tunities offered the graduate engineer. The film Exploring with X-Rays was shown the same evening and proved so interesting that the Chemistry and Physics departments held ittover. Many of the architect students visited and thoroughly studied F. L'. Wright's school t'other day - and, on their own initia- tive. The boys are really interested! Wed- nesday at 4 p.m. the class visited the Tempe Power Plant. Highlight of the tour was viewing the much publicized Navy power train. The films Lubrication of a Gasoline Engine and Screwdrivers and Screwjags will be shown Wednesday evening. Mr. Kilpatrick spoke at the last German Club meeting March 30. With his talk he presented several films on German life he had taken when last there. WORLD FEDERALISTS Don iMikei Boomer took charge of the last World Federalist meeting; later Mr. Zito led the discussion. The size of the group has gradually increased and it is hoped all members will be present come next Wednesday evening. Every- one is invited. A. CAPELLA CHOIR The A Capella Choir will arrive in Los Angeles aboe! 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 18. On the same eVening the choir will sing at the First Methodist Chu.ch in Hollywood. On Monday they will sing at George Pepperdine College and Santa Monica College. The next day, Tuesday, will find them at Glendale College and LACC in Los Angeles. Compton College will welcome them Wednesday morning and they will then travel to Long Beach City College. The afternoon will be spent on the beach. Thursday will again see them vocalizing at Riverside College. Headquarters will be the Rosslyn Hotel, and the choir will encamp there during their rare free minutes. This is a tour that is more work than play and con- gratulations should be extended these good will workers; SPORT SLANTS BY AGEE The sport-world suffered a great loss e early this week with death of Dr. John B. Jock Sutherland, coach of the famed University of Pittsburgh elevens 0f the 30's and lately of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. Sutherland's football record would place him fifth among the nation's top grid mentors in the all-time winning percent- ages, with only Knute Rockne, Fielding Yost, Wallace Wade, and Frank Thomas having records that surpassed his. The greatest success of the Scottish- . born coach came with his teams at the University of Pittsburgh. Four of his teams went to the Rose Bowl while a fifth declined an invitation. His squads won the eastern football title seven times, and produced many of the football greats of the era. And for this, the Silent Scot will be long remembered. + Returning to our campus at Phoenix College, we firid high hopes for the Bruin baseballers. The local nine has upset the dope twice during the past two weeks by splitting games with favored teams of Compton College and Los Angeles City College. On the trip to California the Bears were to play John Muir along with the Compton games, but found that the dew in that part of the country was a little too heavy for a game to be played. The local nine has a two-two record in Western States Conference blay and four wins and 'two losses for the season. The Bruins hope to make a change in their win column today in their games with Long Beach. ' You might call Johnny Riggs' squad 3 gang of thieves by the way theylare stealing bases this season -- .tw'enty-two ,in six games e and eighteen of them were taken in conference games. Clarke Duncan and Jack Maddy are leading the Bruins in the hitting depart- ment with .42l and .391 averages re- .spectively, while four other timber swing? ers have been belting the horsehide over the .300 matk. l The Phoenix College nine beat the Arizona State varsity baseball team 5 to 4 last Tues- day afternoon in a non-sched- uled game at Tempe. BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE BEARS SPLIT GAMES WITH L. A. C. C. The Phoenix College Bears split a doubleheader with a favored Los Angeles City College nine last Friday at Municipal Stadium,. dropping the opener 8-6 and winning the second game 6-2. The cubs got to Jack Maddy, Bruin mound ace for five runs in the first seven innings, and got three runs off Bill Young in the final frame to put the game on ice. Mas Kinoshita held the Bruins 'to six runs on eight hits and was the win- ning pitcher. In the night game the Bruins teed off on the offerings of Cub hurler Anast and built up a lead they never relin- quished. Their big inning was the fourth, when they bunched three hits and a walk for three runs. Duane Wheeler yielded eight hits while- fanning ten men and looked very impressive with his fast ball and tricky change ,of pace. Smart base-running on behalf oflthe Bruins- was a deciding factor in the nite-cap. The split with Los Angeles gives the Bears a 500th; rating in the conference as they pi'eviously split a pair of games with Compton College on their recent visit to the coast. Today at 2 o'clock and tonight at 8, the Bruin baseball team will meet the Long Beach City College Vikings in a pair of baseball games at Municipal Stadium. The Vikings are currently leading the Western States Conference. Howeyer, a double win by the Bruins would definitely stamp them as one of the teams to beat also. Coach Johnny Riggs of the Bruins prob- ably will use his two best hurlers for these contests. Jack Maddy is expected to get the afternoon call, and Duane Wheelerfwill pitch for the nightcap. TOURNEY NEARS END The Toncray-Hammontree and Gall- man-Hagen badminton duos have ad- vanced to the quarter-finals in the PC badminton tournament. Other quarter- finalists will be decided in contests match- ing La Tourrette-Garber against Grammer- Norris, and Milligan-Wilson against Roche-Howser. The Toncray-Hammontree combination advanced to the quarter-finals by downing Lanter-Bullock l5-6, and l5-l l. Gall- man-Hagen had a tougher time in besting Grippen-Gump 7-l5, l5-7, and l5-l l . CUBS TROUNCE BEARS IN TENNIS MATCH The Phoenix College men's tennis team had its initial conference match with LACC last Friday at Encanto Park. This was the eighth such match for LACC, not including exhibition matches with USC, Pepperdine and UCLA. With this experience behind LACC, the PC net men were out-played. Today, April 16, the PC team will meet the Long Beach tennis team at Encanto at 3 p. m. Although Long Beach is sup- posed to be tougher than LACC, Mr. Zito, tennis coach, believes that the ex- perience gained in the LACC match will contribute toward, a better performance with Long Beach. The team consists of Bob Collins, first position; Glenn Phillips, second; Jake Duran, third; Owen Allen, fourth; Jitter McDonald, fifth; and in the doubles, John Hardaway tteam captainl and Clay Kaig- ler, first doubles; Dave Garber and Dave Doucet second doubles; Charles Phillips and Charlie Bill doubles and substitutes. ANNUAL GIRL'S PLAY DAY IS HELD Arizona State Collegelat Tempe was the scene of the 1948 Girl's Play Day, last Saturday, April l0. Schools invited to compete were: Phoe- nix College, Arizona State College at Flagstaff, Gila Junior College, New Mex- ico University, University of Arizona, and Arizona State College at Tempe. The following girls represented Phoe- nik College in the various sports. Softball: Arlene lrion, Margie Jones, Gye Grammar, Doris Coor, Audrey Ton- cray, Joyce Roche,-Marie Stinson, Mary Jane Odle, Gloria Dettmer, and Virginia McCarley. Others in softball were: Ilene Deguchi, Jean Garry, Betty Payne, Willie Mae Gilbert, Sadie Kohatsu, lris Chester, Olive Grasham, and Martha Shirk. Badminton: Marlene Gallman and Shir- ley La Tourette in the doubles, and Aud- rey Toncray and Shirley La Tourette in the singles. Archery: Mary Phillips, Phyllis Duncan, Virginia Meinholdt and Beverly Woods. Tennis: Audrey Toncray and Gye Gran-imar in the doubles. Other PC winners were Marlene Fall- man and Shirley La Tourette in the bad- minton doubles, and Gye Grammar and Audrey Toncray defeated Tempe ih the tennis doubles. The remainder of the day included so- cial dancing, lunch in the school cafeteria and a social tea. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE Book Review BY SURRETT Funny is the best word to describe Thomas Heggen's sea story, Mister Rob- erts . The stage version, starring Henry Fonda, has been a Broadway hit for months, and that is easily explained if it is anything like the book. A stOry of incidents on a cargo ves- sel in the latter years of the war, Mister Roberts tells of the trials and tribulations which are met and very ably dealt with by themen on the ship. Some of 'the more hilarious happenings are the liberty in a South Sea port, the discovery of the Nurses quarters on shore iclearly visible'through the ship's telescopes from where the ship was anchoredi, and the farewell party given for Roberts. Lieutenant Robertsgcalled by the men to whom he is a great hero,- Mister Roberts, had been trying to get' trans- ferred to active duty, but the captain of the ship wouldn't let him go until Roberts threw the. captain's palm trees overboard for the third time. . . . There is a great deal more to it than that, so read this one even if you have It's worth it. Violin Recital Miss Gloria'Dixon, accompanied by her sister Aloa Dixon Richards, presented a violin concert Thursday evening at 8:15 in the Phoenix College Auditorium. Approximately seven hundred attended, it being the largest crowd ever present at a student's recital. Her program in- to steal it. -cluded: Sonata No. 4 D Major ................ Handel Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso ........ , ..... Saint-Saens Concert E Minor First Movement ................ Mendelssohn. Zigeunereeisen Gypsy Airs .......................... Sarasate Mrs. Richards played: Angels Ever Bright and Fair ....Handel Ca ro Nome Rigoletto .................. Verde Alleluia .................................. Mozart Carmena .................................. Wilson Nordessa Dixon Coates, soprano, was Miss Dixon's guest soloist. ' $ FRENCH CLUB PICNICS Our Arizona desert was the setting for the annual French Club picnic held Fri- day the ninth. Beginning at five am, the numerogs yawns disappeared when hot French biscuits, bacon, eggs and coffee were served. Le Francais Club contem- plate holding its yearly banquet May 5. CAMPUS PERSONALITIES Wilburta Hicks Burt , as she is known to all of her friends, no doubt reads, Vogue Fashion Magazine and Field and Stream as she is one' of the better dressed gals on the campus and her favorite sport is, of all things, fishing. A native of Phoenix, Burt attended St. Mary's High School. She is studying under the General Cur- riculm at PC, and after graduation next January she is planning to attend ASC at Tempe. Myron Pugh Myron was born in Texas and soon United States and traveled to the land of forever-sun- shine, California. She claims El Cerri- to, California, her native town and she attended Richmond High School of Cali- fornia where she was graduated in 1945. Myron is enrolled under the General Curriculum here at PC and will gradu- ate next January. Her future plans are not determined as yet, but iwhatever after entered the they may be i am sure that dancing, will be included on, her agenda as that isher favorite pastime. w Honor Board members ushered for the Phoenix College A Capella Choir concert Wednesday evening. A CAPELLA CHOIR 'GIVES' CONCERT Last Wednesday, the A Capella Choirv was presented in a concert in the Phoenix College Auditorium. The first part of the evening was devoted to numbers by Pales- trina. They were Gloria Patri,'4' 0 Bone Jesu, and Response No. 3, with Charles Bill, chanter, The second section opened with 'Zi- generweisen lepsy Airsi by Sarasate featuring Gloria Dixon, violinist and Bev- erly Seiff, pianist. This was followed by My Lovely Celia by Munro-Higgins and concluded with My Journey's End by Foster. Kenneth Noble, bass-baritone, sang the latter and was accompanied by Miss Seiff. The third section consisted of religious numbers entitled To Thee We Sing by Tkach, Salvation ls Created by Tsches- nokoff, And He Never Said A Mum- balin' Word lspirituali by Krone, Lost In The Night by Christiansen, and A Mighty Fortress Is Our God' by Martin Luther larr. MuellerJ Two Sea Chanteys by Barthalomew started the fourth part of the concert. This was followed by Come To Me In My Dreams, a Noble Cain hit, and Ride The Chariot, a negro spiritual. The lat- ter was sung by first tenor, Richard Ham- montree; second tenor, Robert Watson; barito'ne, Al Thomas; and bass, Kenneth Noble. The final selections were Cindy , an American folk song, Sleep Baby Sleep larr. Bob Shawi with Al Thomas as stu- dent conductor, Italian Street Song by Victor Herbert, and featuring Helen Back- er, soprano. Dry Bones larr. Gearharti concluded the concert. Movies Shown Four movies were shown in. Biology lecture room Monday, dealing with hu- man reproduction, body care and groom- ing, human emotion, and bacteria. The movies were open to all students. hOQ Notice! Mr. J. A. Hardy, Superintendent of the Phoenix Transportation System, has announced that due to the abuse of stu- dent tickets by adults, who are not en- titled to the use lof these tickets, any adult presenting a student 'ticket for transportation will be required to show the proper identification card from one of the authorized schools. If they do not have an identification card they will be required to pay the regular fare. 8 BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE RODEO. WEEK Phoenix, the long-time winter mecca of cold-blooded New Yorkers, Chicagoans, and Clevelanders, devotes a week early 'in April every year to the proposition that the tourists should get some of the Western atmosphere for which they pay so much and so often in that dear old coin of the realm. The Phoeni'cians call this Rodeo week, and the great num- bers of levis, cowboy boots, and vac- quero ties that the merchants around town sell for the occasion has nothing to do with the tender feelings the solid citizens harbor for the wild west stuff. Here at PC we devote ourselves to the proposition that we can go along with a gag. Accordingly, last week in the area opposite the cafeteria, there were Western music-ihere l drastically alter the definition of the word musicJ, a corral, a burro, and various and sundry fun and games. The corral was built by the members of Sigma Kappa Phi for the purpose of plugging the Ievi dance they gave in the PC gym last Friday y Y night. The fraternity also supplied the t i, ;Q t ' ' ya burro, which was used to give rides to dudes who were caught on campus W: N , ' Dottie Lou Harrington and Russell Voyce pose in their costumes of the Old West. 3g not wearing some form of Western clothes. It seems generally agreed that prac- tically everybody had a good time out of the whole-caper. Oh, there were several people who threatened to blow up the corral and everything and everybody in it if they had to listen just once more to T. Texas Tyler's rendition of Remember Me . There was even a rumor that one music lover blew his brains out with a Colt Frontier Model .44 after having been forced to hear T. Texas sing Oklahoma Hills twenty-six times in one morning. That's nothing but a rumor though, and until such time as it's substantiated, I think that we owe it to the spirit of the O-O-O-ld West to deny it hotly. Out- side of the above mentioned c'ranks, I think everybody had a thoroughly good time except Jenny, the burro, who took , a terrific beating during the two days that she was on the campus because of the fact that several of the dudes who were forced to ride her were more than normally obese. I'm already looking forward to next year's Rodeo Week. If I'm lucky and it I stay off my feet till then, I should have the blisters inflicted by my cow- me xx: ; 5 4a i m . 3V; i- 7,4: boy boots last week about cured by Bill Bodine gives Darleen Anderson a free ride on Jenny the Bum. that time. 162211? Eratkg Official Student Publication of Phoenix College ' Vol. 20 Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, April 23, 1948 No. 23 Speech Festival Held at Gila The State Speech Festival is being held today and' tomorrow at Gila Junior Col- lege. Entries from the speech and dra- matic classes of Phoenix College are par- ticipating, and the play Goodbye Mr. Hicks will be presented during the festi- val. The play, which will not compete in the one act play contest, will be presented as an extra entertainment. The festival opened with a general assembly this morning, continuing this afternoon with debates and this evening with the plays. A banquet is also sched- uled for this evening. On Saturday a business session will be held. H VOTE FO R---! Today all you spirited inhabitants of PC will flock to the election polls to choose next semester's student body of- ficers. lDon't all go at once, pleasel. During the last week the office seek- ers have been campaigning madly. Signs and slogan posters have popped up in every nook and cranny on the campus. A nominating assembly was held in the auditorium Thursday, at which some stu- dents told the gathering why they should elect their particular candidate. Some of the slogans which have been used in this election are worth mention- ing in passing. If you're a man, Vote for Anne, llf you're a woman, vote for Anne, anywayll This catchy? phrase is in support of Anne Redick, candidate for the office of secretary. Then there was Don't you want a Voyce on the Executive board? lto which one boy was heard to remarke NO l. This for Russell Voyce, seeking the chair of vice-president. Dick Norton said, Let's get a-head! lreferring to our decapi- tated mascotl. Then there were the imaginative aspir- ants who thought up the unique phrase e VOTE FORe-l Dave Garber is chairman of the elec- tion board. Serving with him are Mary Hannelly, Clarke Duncan, Charles Oat- man, and Robert Brock. Remember if you are carrying less than l2 units, you are not eligible to vote. Don Jolly, freshman class president, with Barbara Trim. Freshmen will honor the sophomore class and highlight the second semester social sea- son with a formal Spring Prom to be held in the PUHS Gym- nasium tomorrow night from nine until twelve, it was an- nounced by Don Jolly, fresh- man class president. Newly- elected student body officers for next year will be introduced at the prom, and the hall will be decorated with a.garden par- ty motif. With the music furnished by Vern Suter and his orchestra, the dance will feature a grand march and a prize waltz. Punch and cookies will be served. Don Jolly is general chair- man of the dance committee, assisted by Pat Snuffer and Jerry Joachim. lNTER-SORORlTY DANCE The annual Inter-Sorority Dance was held at the 'Phoenix College gymnasium last Saturday night by members oft'the campus sororities. Music was supplied to the 25 couples attending by Faith Harris and her or- chestra. Relations Club To Hold Tag Day The PC International Relations club, as one of its spring activities, will assist in a program of getting contributions for World Student Service Fund lWSSFl. The program of World Student Service Relief is individual rehabilitation of stu- dents and teachers, who have paid a heavy toll during the war and the criti- cal reconstruction period in Asia and Europe. Student relief is essential to re- store students to health and to return them to their studies. The five phases in the Relief pro- gram are aid in food, shelter, medical care, books and equipment, and through study grants. The American Agency for this purpose is the WSSF, established in 1937 to aid students in Chinese Univer- sities, and extended to Europe after war broke out in 1939. This year the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Culv tural Organization lUNESCOl is promoting a campaign for lOO million dollars for educational relief and reconstruction in war-devastated areas. UNESCO will make no separate appeal, but will encourage giving to this fund through WSSF and other such agencies. Dr. Harold Snyder, director of the pro- gram for UNESCO, has written: In our estimation there is no better way for American students and professors to con- tribute to UNESCO's appeal for aid to needy students and professors, than to give increasing support to the WSSF campaign. On this campus May 4 and 5, the International Relations club will conduct a tag day campaign to solicit funds from students and faculty as their con- tribution to this program. It is expected that the student body will respond gen- erously. M Hardaway-Toncray Winners Art and Marge Peterson bowed to John Hardaway and Audrey Toncray last April 13, losing the PC mixed doubles tennis tournament. The scores were 6-4, 6-3, and the winners are to receive 20- dollar tennis rackets as prizes. BEAR TRACKS-PHOEN lX COLLEGE BEAR TRACKS Member Associated Collegiate Press Co-Editors ........ Kerlin Rowland, Tod Rosnek Issue Editor.. ...Pat Mitchell Assistant Editor 7 U.Pat Harris Page Editors. .APat Hams, Herb Surret Sports Editor .......... Jim Agee Photography Edito .. mGeorge Brown Photographers ........ Jan Hedrlck, John Basket! and George Brown Reporters ........ Don Levenhagen, Don Biscoe, Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Herb Sur- retl', Russell Orton, Joyce Roche. Jim Gump, John Barron, Meg Gun- erud, George Brown, John Boskon, Marcia Panhurst, Lee lngalls. Faculty Adviser .............................. Ray Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. The Time ls Now It's time to start beating the pan again! What happened to our avowed resolution to lobby for a tour-year col- lege for Phoenix. Although the need for more higher institutions of learning has been known for several years in educational circles, little has been done untl recently, when the crowded conditions of colleges else- where make it impossible for many stu- dents to continue their education be- yond junior college This is an apparent lack of thorough, complete, broad-minded, level-headed thinking on the part of the legislature for refusing to pass House Bill No. 208 last year. Bill No. 208 was to provide for a four- year college at Phoenix College. Anyone attempting to either evade the fact that Arizona needs more four-year colleges or flatly refusing to permit more four- year colleges, cannot be thinking of the welfare of future generations, as well as the present generation. level. We, on the campus at least, are well aware that a great need would be met with the establishment of a full-fledged college here, and more than apathy on our parts is needed to bring about the fulfillment of the wishes of everyone attending and teaching at this institu- tion. It is true that international affairs have stolen our thunder. To some, the more pessimistic, it may even seem plebeian to discuss anything but our forthcom- ing doom, the fate that is as sure as Molotov's no at the next UN meet- ing. These pessimists talk war, eat and sleep war, and while drifting inexorably into a jittery, hysterical state, they do nothing to attempt to stop the machine that breeds war. V The American people are going to lose prestige in the world if they lack education, do not understand others and .QUESTlON? ANSWER 1!! Question: Is anything wrong with the thinking processes of Phoenix College students? Answer: From the standpoint of IQ, nothing at all. But when the actual Phoe- nix College IQ is compared with what seems to be the actual ,use of lQ, a feel- ing is experienced similar to stepping on the place where the last stairstep should be, but isn't. Perhaps I had better explain right now that this is no tirade against low grades or lack oficlass attendance. I am speak- ing of the seeming indifference to con- troversial issues and world problems. For example, take the PC World Fed- eralists. Since the forming of this chap- ter, attendance has increased slowly but steadily. However, when you stop and consider that every student who reads Bear Tracks or glances at a bulletin board, knows about the existence of this group, the attendance is pitifully small. To further illustrate: In one of my classes the teacher gave a short talk on world federation and asked the students for comments and criticism. A few stue dents were interested enough to carry on a discussion, but the majority of students just leaned back in their chairs, relaxed, and proceeded to sink into what could be best described as a cowlike mental va- cancy. . The late Adolf Hitler claimed that One of the weaknesses of a democracy is that no one is responsible for anything. I believe college training, among other things should teach a person how to shoulder added responsibility. If not: Well, it doesn't take much in- telligence to do exactly what your su- perior tells you to do; especially if he stands over you with a whip. their viewpoints, and don't use good common sense. Our hollering in the past has evidently not been loud enough to stir up the emotions of those responsible for seeing that adequate educational institutions are provided for the young men and women of this country. It is to those responsible people that we as American citizens make this appeal. it is serious, very serious, more serious than a great many people actually realize. The necessity now is to keep this is- sue alive, to acquaint all of our citizens with the urgency of the idea, and to convince them that the need is truly great! Biscoe and Brown Contest Notice The contest to select a poem for the Sophomore class will close April 30, one week from today. The contest is open to both freshmen and V sopho- mores, and there is no length require- ment. Submit your offerings to either Riley Geary or the Bear Tracks office. Political Poll The fact that the PC campus abounds with politicalIy-conscious students is evi- denced by the many current on-campus, round-the-trees, political discussions. In canvassing for this feature it was noted that Stassen and Wallace claim the most followers; Truman has a number of tol- lowers but these students don't seem so positive about their choice. Here is what some prominent PC students have to say about their political choices: Harmon Puckett . . . I would vote for James Farley because I feel that he is the man from the Roosevelt administration who could carry on the Roosevelt poli- cies. Charlie Oatman . . . I would vote for Henry Wallace mainly as a protest against present day politics. Don Mike Boomer . . . Stassen has come out for world federation; that's enough for me! lit might be added that Mike is a founding father and president of the PC United World Federalists' chap- terJ Bill Palmer . . . Truman, to me, is the closest representative of Roosevelt's poli- cies. Meg Gunnerud . . . Wallace is the only one who will not have us in another war. Kerlin Rowland . . . Stassen stands for more of the things in which I believe than any other candidate who has a chance to Win. You Name It! Since the editors of Bear Tracks feel that the paper should be a source of edu- cation as well as a source of amusement, and gossip ,we plan to publish several courses which are absent from the school curriculum. We would greatly appreciate any opin- ions which you, the readers would care to send us. Beginning next week, our first course will be How To Do Your Own Embalming At Home. N BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE THE KOIL'S KORNER The land is big. They measure the distance in the thousands of miles from the sun-baked sands of Florida's East Coast to the big timber country around Spokane. The North Dakota farmer gets frostbitten hands as he does his chores in the twenty below January weather, and even as he curses the cold, wealthy wo- men play bridge in their bathing suits at the edge of the Tucson resort's swimming pool. The land is rich. There is oil in Texas and Oklahoma and California and Kansas. There is copper in Montana and Arizona and Michigan. There are lead and zinc in Missouri Arkansas. But more important than any- thing else is the land. The clay is red in Georgia and South Carolina - red and worn out. But that happens to land when you don't farm it right. That happens when you don't fertilize and. rotate your crops. The land isn't red and worn out in Kansas. It's black and rich and fertile, and it's good for growing wheat. In llli- nois the bottom land corn grows over six feet tall. In Iowa the farmers claim that their corn grows taller still. They're proud of the corn crops they grow in lowa. In Missouri they talk about their hogs and their mules, in Wisconsin they brag about their dairy products. There are cattle in Wyoming, tobacco and peanuts in North Carolina, cotton and rice in South Caro- lina and Louisiana, potatoes in Idaho and Maine. And everywhere on the face of the great American continent the land is rich and fertile. They grow things in it, they dig things out of it, they feed people from it. And there are names on the land. They belong to the great American cities and to the little American towns; they belong to rivers and lakes and mountain ranges; and the names are strange and wonderful Transcripts Students expecting to transfer to other institutions for summer school should leave their transcript orders at the Registrar's office as soon as pos- ble in order that the transcripts may be mailed when grades are available for the second semester. Those trans- ferring for the summer only will need only a statement of good standing in Phoenix College. Those transferring to work toward a degree will need com- plete transcripts. There is a fee of $1 for each transcript issued after the first one. and bauxite and diamonds in. to the foreign ear. Listen to the names. Teton, ShowaLow, Bitter Roots, and Flat Head. Yellowstone, Sioux Falls, Mare Island, Poughkeepsie, and Tallahassee. Those are some of the American names; that is the way they sound. The great cities have personalities. Hol- lywood, Miami, Reno, New York, San Francisco, and Palm Beachethese are the glamourous cities. Boston and Philadel- phia and Charleston are straight-Iaced, un- yielding, and thoroughly pleased with themselves. Los Angeles and Houston and Phoenix are.young and unstable and lusty, and they are growing very fast. Chicago and Butte and Gary and Pittsburgh are rough and crude and dirty, and they be- long to the builders. And there are some cities that seem to have no personality at all. They are simply places where peo- ple live and work and play and get things done. They build a lot of cars in Detroit, they make a lot of rubber in Akron, they produce a lot of beer and a lot of shoes in St. Louis. The little towns? They are the flag stops on the New York Central and the Santa Fe. They are the places where the farmers park their Model A's and their Chevrolet pick-ups around the court house square on Saturday nights while their wives do the grocery buying for the week and while their sons, too young to smoke, stand under the garish neon light of the little movie theaters, their cigarettes hanging from the sides of their mouths. And during the summer in the little towns, the town band gives a concert every Tues- day night on the court house lawn. The band always plays Our Director better than anything else. Call the role of all the towns and cities. Call it slowly. Millbrook, Unionville, Tul- sa, Augusta, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Deer Lodge, Huntington, Casey, Drummond, Albany, Salmon, Troy, Kansas City. Learn these names; learn them well. And know the towns and cities. Know them as you know your own. For they are where the people live. FACULTY MAKES TRIP IN PC FLYING SHIP Dr. Robert J. Hannelly, Mr. D. F. Stone, Mr. C. D. Cocanower, and Mr. Ray Emery flew to Fullerton Junior College last week-end for the Southern California Junior College Associations spring meet- ing. The trip was made in a college- owned Stinson plane, which was piloted and pin-point navigated by Mr. Stone, director of the Physics department. The latest developments in college courses DEAN'S BOX Bear Day, the annual picnic day for Phoenix College stu- dents and faculty, will be held on May 7 at Riverside Park. For want of a better means of motivating attendance, compe- tition is fostered between the classes. The wily Sophomores try to take the equally wily Freshmen. into camp. Basket- ball, food, sunburn, games, and more sunburn is the order of the day. All in all it a pleas- ant exertion as Daddy Laird, one of our venerable ex-profes- sors used to put it. Let's all fol- low the lead of Fred Roche and Mr. Calhoun and makeiit a memorable day in Bruin his- tory. GO JUMP IN THE LAKE! By Herb Surrett Well, folks, if you have been having a damp forehead lately and you feel as if you were being baked to a turn, then you are just getting a little of Phoenix' biggest productalimate. Don't let it get you down. Who cares if you can try an egg on the sidewalks? So what if you can't see for the per- spiration dripping into your eyes! Just put on your bathing suit and go jump in a lake. iFor directions to the nearest lake, consult the Arizona roadmap and the Greyhound bus schedulei. Or maybe one of our many beautiful swimming pools. tBe sure it has water in itJl You'll find it very invigorating, I'm sure, to jump into a cool pool that's about as invigorating and cool as luke-warm dish- water! But maybe you're one of those who go in for bare shoulders twith trecklesi, and midritfs. Or maybe you're a T-shirt fan. One thing you'll never see, I betcha, is a fella with an off the shoulder shirtD Whatever you do to get away from the heat, you're perfectly justified in doing it, because right now it's 103 de-, grees in the shade! THANKS, MIKE! Don iMikei Boomer received the sin- cere thanks of Dr. Cecile Wilson for his appeal to her classes for funds for the Aid to France program. Sufficient funds were collected to en- able the classes to forward Care a large amount of necessary, tangible aid in these precarious times, said Dr. Wilson. and related studies were discussed at the Association meeting. 4 BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE Eta Chi Helps Needy Germans Eta Chi, PC home economics sorority, has sent the first of several boxes of use- ful articles to Dr. Wyman, former dean of PC, for distribution to needy families in Berlin. Dr. Wy;man is associated with the U 5 Office of Education there. Articles included in the box were thread, needles, pins, thimbles, shears, clothing, and home economic textbooks. Also included were a letter of greeting from Eta Chi, a picture of the club, and a picture of them packing the box. It's being done through the American Home Economics Association for Inter- national Fellowship. Schedule! Sunday, April 18-Thursday, April ZZeChoir Tour. Saturday, April ZFFreshman Prom honoring Sophs. Tuesday, April 27-Alpha Mu Gamma dinner. Wednesday, April ZBeMasque and Dagger Picnic. Friday, April 30-Associated Men Students Swim-Dine-Dance PartyeScout Pueblo. Wednesday, May S-French Club Banquet. Thursday, May 6eHonor BoardeAWS Officers Banquet. Friday, May 7eBear Day. Friday, May 7-8-National JC Track Meet. Tuesday, May HeAthletic Awards Assembly. Thursday, May 'I3-1F Claudia --Commencemenl Play. Tuesday, May IBeHonors Assembly. Wednesday, May 19-Examinations begin. Sunday, May 23eBaccalaureate Service-B a m. Wednesday, May 26-College Breakfast-6z30 a m-Encanto Park. l Wednesday, May 26eCommencemente8 p m. Friday, May 28-Second Semester ends 5 p m. Tuesday, June 'l--Summer School basins. SPARKIN IS SUCCESS Last Friday, during activity period, a Snerd type of young man, vied for one-act play was offered by Mr. Cecil top honors. At the end of the play, there Kersten's dramatic class. The play, was tobacco juice all over the place; Sparkin', by E. P. Cunkle was a howl- especially on Granny's best dress as Orry ing success. lda Price played the part kept 'spittin' in the closet, thinkin' he of Lessie, a young mountaineer woman; was aimin' outdoors. Everything turned Velma Jean Caviness as her mother, out happily, though, and the young Susie Hanna; Ester. Kirk as llGranny mountaineer couple lived happily ever Painsberry, and Grant Johnson as Orry after, we hope. Sparks, the yOung man who comes a Velma Jean Caviness was the most 'courtin' Lessie. natural looking of the four mountaineers All four students played their parts as her make-up and costume were per- with excellence, but Ester Kirk, as Gran- fect. Grant Johnson was an excellent ny and Grant Johnson as a Mortimer director as well as actor in the play. Sedinger Recital On Wednesday evening, May 19, 1948, Arthur Sedinger, pianist, will be presented in a recital by Phoenix College. He is a pupil of Earle L. Stone and will be assisted by Isabel Casares tpupil of Kenneth L. Hakesl and Beverly Seiff, ac- companist. The program is as follows: Sonata, C. Minor, Op. l3 lPathetiquel.... ............................................ Beethoven A. GraveeAllegro con Brio. B. Adagio Cantabille. C. Allegro. lPlayed without Pausel MR. SEDINGER Elegie ...................................... Masgnet Habanera tfrom Carmenl .................. Bizet MISS CASARES Etude, A Flat, Op. 25 No. l ........ Chopint Nocturne, G. Minor, Op. 37 No. l..Chopin Valse, C Sharp Minor, Op. 64 No. 2.... ................................................ Chopin Polonaise, A Flat Major, Op. 53....Chopin MR. SEDINGER Solveig's Song .................................. Grieg I Love Thee .................................... Grieg Songs My Mother Taught Me.. .Dvorak One Who Has Yearned, Alone .............. ........................................ Tschaikowski J urame ........................................ Grever MISS CASARES Etude Un Sospiro .......................... Liszt Concerto, A Minor .......................... Grieg tFirst Movementl MR. SEDINGER Miss Louise Utterbach will play the or- chestra part ontthe pipe organ. COLLEGE RECEIVES RADAR EQUIPMENT According to Mr. D. F. Stone, head of the Physics department, PC has received a large shipment of electronic and radar equipment from the War Assets ad- ministration, and a completely equipped radio control tower, given to the col- lege by the state vocational department. The only expense incurred by PC for all this material was the cost of transpor- tation. The radio tower, when it is put to- gether, will be from thirty to thirty-five feet high, and will have three floors. Mr. Stone added that the Science de- partment will use the tower as a very high frequency laboratory, since it will have the very latest in radio transmitting equipment, such as antenna. The material, both from the War As- sets administration and the state voca- tional department, is all new. Mr. Stone' said that it was no doubt intended for overseas shipment, if the war had cone tinued. BEAR TRACKS-PHOEN IX COLLEGE Campus Personalities Anne Redick Original, intelligent, pretty and spor- tive; that's our iAnne. Originally from Detroit, Anne is the oldest of five chil- dren. She tells Lis she loves Arizona with its cowboy music and Oakie stomp; she's acquired the ability to roll her own Bull Durham, too . t . Could it be she's been to Cave Creek? ? ?v lWe agree with her thinking in that the Phoenix public should be more PC- minded; and we should do everything to promote the World Government thought. It will be nice to have you back, come next fall, Anne! Pal' Snuffer If you are tall and strong, it you like to dance, it you are a good swimmer, and if you enioy golf and tennis, you measure up to Pat Snuffer's musts in a male. Pat, 3 PUHS graduate, is majoring ine- brace yo'selfeaccounting! Pat is returning to her native state of California next falleour campus won't be nearly as attractive without her. Chuck Sherrill Meet hostll Chuck: How handsome can a blonde male be? Uh-huh! Beautiful Rochester, Minnesota, was Chuck's first baliwick; from there the Sherrills wended to California and third- ly Phoenix. A graduate of North High, almost a graduate of PC, this ex-swabby is considering Stanford's medical school next year. Interests: Flying, farming, hunting, partying-Maureen. And, we're sure when his friends land there are manyi become palsy-ridden, bed-ridden, toothless, hairless, they will chuckle over fond PC memories Chuck made possible with his numerous party-parties. World Federalists Hold Assembly At Tuesday's assembly, two very dra- matic movie shorts were shown, Atomic Power and One World or None. Atomic Power showed how Ameri- can scientists perfected the atom bomb. An interesting sidelight was that Nazi Germany, if given time, might have created and used an atom bomb of its own. Brief shots of the Manhattan Proj- ect at Oak Ridge, Tennessee were also shown. One World or None was a brilliant- ly constructed appeal for some form of world government to save the world from destruction. Both the announcer, Ray- mond Swing, and the diagrams illus- trated the horrible consequences of a third world war. ' At the conclusion of the movies, a short appeal was made to join, or at least come to, a World Federalist meet- ing on the PC campus, every Wednesday night. Bathing Beauties, Muscled Men To Parade Bear Day attendees will be treated to a full scale, honest-to-gosh, bathing beauty contest, according to Riley Geary, who is in charge of the affair. All cam- pus organizations, including fraternities, sororities, academic clubs, etc., will be asked to sponsor both a king and queen for the' contest, which will be held on the morning of Der Tag or, in the language of the uninformed, Bear Day. The big parade of both pulchritude and muscles will get under way at that tinne and a king and queen for the day will be selected from the group. All guys and gals who are chosen as en- trants are advised to check theirymeaa surements at the Arizona Beauty Salon and the rest of we rabble will get our lenses cleaned at the family optometrist. All students are urged to get into the spirit of the thing and buy their bathing suits early. See you in the front row. The Catch-All By Meg Gunnerud Distressed were we! Our colege rag very definitely needed a column on the human-interest side. Finally, here it is! Sorreeeeeno gossip: ilOur staff consist of cowards; not a soul would stick their neck outl. But here's who's who and what's what on PC campus. Not bad, huh? A party should be given for our Debate Team; they did a grand job on the Coast. Spring 'n love. The Vaughns have an- nounced the engagement of their daughter, Nancy, to Glenn Barlow. The big event will take place in June. Good luck, kyds! Bus, maybe? With all the trips the various PC groups take during the year it seems strange we don't have at least one school bus. Okay? Have you lost anything- recent- ly? If so, notify Joyce Rocheethat is, if it's not at the Registrar's office. Subtle hint! Ya know, it's absolutely fantastic 3 city the size of Phoenix does not have a four-year college. ' Uh-huh! Ever listen to the conversa- tions on campus of little gathered groups Monday morn? $$$$$$. At one time planned to attend Summer School hereebut have been dis- couraged by everyone. Hear the cooling system isn't exactly up to par. Being a female! With the weather such as it is, I certainly hope shorts are allowed in classes henceforth, 6 BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE Sport Slants By Jim Agee Two weeks from today the Seventh An- nual National Junior College Track and Field Meet will open in Phoenix. This will make the third year that the two-day meet has taken blace in our city under the guidance of Phoenix College's eth- letic director, George Dutch Hoy. This year, as in years before, the top athletes of the two-year colleges from all . over the nation will perform under the lights at Montgomery Stadium. Los An- geles City College, which finished second last year, will be the team to watch this year, while last season's champions, Comp- ton College, is the team picked to offer the LACC squad the hottest competition. Glendale Junior College has promised a squad to take its share of points, and Riverside and Chaffey have already shown enough strength this season to make it a battle for the third spot. Another out- standing entry, Sacramento Junior Col- lege, two-time winner of the National meet Compton and LACC have also an- nexed the honors twicei will be on hand, and will offer the Southern California schools plenty of competition. Coach de expects a field of athletes from nearly forty schools in the events this year. The big hope this year is that old man rain will have the heart not to visit the local city on that weekend, so that the events will not be hampered. Seems like last year, he came around unexpectedly and the thin-clads ran off the finals on Saturday night in ankle-deep water. Phoenix College will face another tough Western States conference foe today when they tangle ,with Pasadena College in a double-header at Municipal Stadium. Still smarting from the blow of a double defeat last weekend, the local nine will be out to take this pair and get back in the run- ning for a top position in the conference standings. Jim Gump, who was elected captain of the squad last week, will lead Coach John- ny Riggs' Bruins on the field. Gump, who holds down the first sack, has rounded into one of the top players on the squad and in the conference. Jim's hitting has been a bright spot for this year's horse- hide crew from PC. l Along with Gump, Coach Riggs will of- fer the Maddy brothers, Rex and Jack, . Burnie Lamb, and Les Kastner as the ot- tensive power for the club, while Jack Maddy, Duane Wheeler, and Bill Young will handle the defensive chores from the mound. , , 22 e a ,A,,ii..w Richard Bullock and Merlin Abbott Pre- pare for Bear Day. AMS Picnic Men, gentlemen, veterans, and As- sociated Men Students will gambol and carrouse in the inimitable Phoenix College manner Friday, April 30, when those masses of masculine beauty gather for the annual AMS picnic. The affair, strictly date, will give the more frugal male student an op- portunity for a full evening at bargain basement prices. iAnd in the dark, tooi. Did I say bargain basement prices? lt's even better, it's free . . . Dancing istrictly date affairi, swim- ming, and dinner at the historical Old Scout Pueblo are on the program. Fred Roche is in charge. Don Goodwin and Jim Gump were the losers in the game of oddman. The gambol gets under way at the old Pueblo at 4 o'clock. Remember! Bruins Drop Pair To Viking Nine The Long Beach City College Vikings handed the Bruin baseballers a double defeat last Friday at the Municipal Sta- dium. It was the third and fourth loss in conference play for the Bruins. ln the afternoon game, Jack Schlarb, Viking mound ace, held the Bears to five runs on five hits while his mates were collecting 12 runs from three Phoe- nix hurlers. The nite-cap proved to be a slug fest as both teams blasted away at the op- posing pitchers. Inconsistent pitchingand shaky fielding cost the Bears the game, as Long Beach pushed four runs across in the seventh inning to win by a l4-l2 margin. The Bruins' chances were dealt a bad blow in the afternoon game when Clarke Duncan, stellar third baseman, was spiked severely in the hand while making a play at third base. It required ten stitches to close the wound and the injury will keep Duncan idle for three weeks. The two losses of last week give the Bruins a season record to date of four victories in eight games. At 2 p m today the Bruins will meet a highly favored Pasadena City College nine in a baseball game at Municipal Stadium. A win by the Bears would en- able them to get back in the running for the conference crown. Budge Shows Tennis Skill ,7 Don Budge, former world's champion professional tennis player, gave an ex- hibition in singles and doubles on the college courts during activity period last Friday. Budge's opponent in singles was Clay Kaigler, ace of the Bruin racket weilders, whom Budge defeated, 6-1. Budge then teamed with Dave Garber to defeat Kaigler and John Hardaway in doubles, 6-0, 6-2. After the matches Budge gave a 45 minute lecture in the gymnasium on the finer points of tennis. BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE BEVERLY SEIFF GIVES RECITAL Phoenix college will present Beverly Seiff in a piano recital at 8:l5 p m, April 29, in the Phoenix College Student Club Room. Miss Seiff, who is a pupil of Earle L. Stone, will be assisted by the Phoenix College String Quarter under the direction of Victor Baumann. Miss Seiff will play Nocturne in F Minor by Chopin, Ballad in F Minor, Op. l0 No. l by Brahms iEdwardl, Shep- herd's Madrigal by Kreisler, Scherzo by Griffes, the first movement of the Con- certo in G Minor, Op. 22 by Saint-Saens, and Sonata in E Flat Major, Op. 7 by Beethoven. The String Quartet will present four Mozart numbers, Romance, Allegro, Minuet, and Rondo. Other recitals will be a general music recital on May 4, a piano recital on May ii, and a voice students recital on May 13. + The Masque and Dagger club held a meeting Wednesday activity period to discuss plans for their initiation Iand for a picnic. Movie Review a By Mitchell and Harris John Huston's film worth has been proved again by his Treasure of Sierra Madre, in which he has created for his actor-father, Walter, a role that will be remembered for some time. Many Holly- wood columnists have already predicted that the elder Huston will win an Acad- emy Award for his characterization. Tim Holt is given his first chance since Hitler's Children in a good role, and he handles his part of the young, inexperi- enced gold miner exceptionally well, but his ability has had no effect on movie studios, for Tim has been sent back to the saddle in insignificant westerns. Humphrey Bogart very successfully strays away from tough roles and Lauren Bacall to prove that he's essentially a fine actor. The picture is handled expertly by Di- rt rector Huston, down to, and especially in- cluding, the minutest details, and the photography is especially well done. Some of the most outstanding scenes are those that include the laughing Mexi- can bandit, who will till the audience with a kind of humorous horror. . The story is chiefly a study of the way gold affects the three prospectors. As the gold mounts and living in the open begins to wear on them, the men gradu- ally change and human nature takes its course. Y CLUB SPONSORS DANCE There will be a World Service Sport Dance, sponsored by the College Y club, tonight, April 23, at 9 pm, in the S and V Hall, Fourth avenue and Washington. Music will be furnished by Walt Ana thony and his orchestra. Tickets may be purchased from any club member, or at the door. Admission will be 75 cents per person, and $1.20 a couple. Funds from this dance will be con- tributed to the YMCA's all over the world. + DEBATERS RETURN Phoenix College debaters, under the sponsorship of Mr. J. N. Smelser, are back from a trip to the coast, where they par- ticipated in eight debates: Two with Los Angeles City College, two with John Muir, and two with USC's upper and lower di- vision teams. The debates, which were non-decision, were on the subject: Resolved, That a Federal World Government Should be Established. Frank Connor and Glen Benton upheld the affirmative; Bill Clem and Charles Oatman the negative. Mr. Smelser said the trip also gave him an opportunity to discuss class at- tendance, college assemblies, and free- dom of discussion on the campus, with the deans of the respective colleges visited. Lost and Found Found: ' JacketSewool plaid, khaki Many books Brown billfold Rabbit fur mittens Loose keys Brown gloves Lost: Black Sheatfer fountain pen Black nylon billfoldeidentification in- side important. MUSIC TRYOUTS TO BE HELD Tryouts for the Orpheus club music scholarship are to be held tomorrow, at 9 am in the club room. Any branch of music may be included in the tryouts. This scholarship is given to any interested and talented student by the Orpheus Men's Music club. act ETA CHI PICNIC The Eta Chi Alumnae group of Phoenix entertained the college group at a picnic at Encanto Park, Wednesday. Those graduating from PC this year and who are eligible to join that group will be presented to the Phoenix chapter. They will be invited to join early in the fall. Book Review By Mitchell and Harris In Other Voices, Other Rooms, Tru- man Capote has managed to please the critics and still turn out a best-seller. Capote, who had to his credit only some well-received poetry and short stor- ies, shows in his first novel that his pre- vious praise was not undue. He has handled his book well, sustain- ing interest to the last page, although it is based chiefly on a theme rather than a plot. It is more like a group of connected incidents during a strange, unreal summer in the life of l3-year-old Joel Harrison. The incidents pass slow- ly, but with a c0nstant undertone of disquiet and tension that hints .at their ultimate effect on his life. Capote's prose is exceptionally beau- tiful; sometimes bordering on poetry. He has a newness of expression that is pleasant and he makes excellent, if over abundant, use of simile. When twilight shadows the sky it is as if a soft bell were tolling dismissal, for a gloomy hush stills all, and the busy voices fall still like birds at sun- set. The atmosphere of brooding trouble and horror in Other Voices, Other Rooms has led a number of critics to compare Capote's writing with that of William Faulkner, but the comparison does not go beyond the surface. Ca- pote's atmosphere is sullen, slow-moving, deep under the surface in creating a sense of uneasiness, while Faulkner's at- mosphere is created by his swift, strik- ing horror. While Capote only promises horror, Faulkner achieves it. Both Faulkner and Capote have a fine sense of dramatic timing that has sel- dom been equalled, which enables them to make the most of any situation without over-doing it. In this book Capote has brought to life some of the best characters in re- cent fiction. Neither the Negro servant, Zoo, nor Cousin Randolph will soon be forgotten. They are over-drawn, but with such talent that they are all the more real. Capote's book is not faultless, but it is still one of the best books of recent years. if you want to read something that is beautifully and imaginatively written and out of the ordinary, Other Voices, Other Rooms is the book for you. h, Ski-Nose' 5 John Bamm' BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE onna draws laughs WEIR d ; Mandalay. 03 ' CQI ' 332m Wrath: Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Vol. 20 Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, April 30, 1948 No. 24 Student Election Results Are Told The results of the student body elec- tions held last Friday were formally an- nounced at -the Freshman Prom, Satur- day night. In the contest for president, Dick Norton defeated Don Jolly with 256 votes to 174. In the office for vice- president, Marshall Humphrey defeated Jerry Joachim with 254 yotes to 164. Anne Redick, the only candidate for secretary, was given a nice vote of con- fidence. For treasurer, Charles Bill was defeated by Jean Phillips, who had 252 votes to Charles Bill's 165. The new student body officers will take office in the fall, and the remain- ing appointive offices for the Executive Board will be filled then. TRACK STARS PRIME FOR NATIONAL MEET Phoenix College will again play host to some of the finest two- year college track talent in the nation, when the National Junior College Track and Field Meet is held in Phoenix, May 6 and 7. ILL STUDENT AIDED Those who have contributed blood to the Salt River Blood Bank for Emily Decker, Phoenix College student cur- rently hospitalized and seriously ill, are Mr. Cecil A. Kersten, Blaine Mullins, Bob McKinney, Don Goodwin, Sam Stephens and Bill Palmer. Students enrolled in Mrs. Radulescu's sixth period Home Economics class, of have sent which Emily is a member, get-well notes and a gift to her. BEAR DAY TAKES SPOTLIGHT Bear Day is just around the corner, and according to Fred Roche, Bear Day chair- man, it will be the best ever. A score chart has been put in the cafeteria, to keep students posted on the points won by the freshmen and sophomores. The sophomores are in the lead, 275 points, to the freshmen's 100 points. Volleyball, softball, bowling, and track are the completed contests. Of these events, the only sport taken by the freshmen was track. All persons that were a little backward about signing up, but who have obtained a little nerve, sign up, and take part in the annual Phoenix College blow out. It's not too late to enter the coming events, because there's always someone who doesn't show up. By the way, you freshmen had'better get on the ball, before it's too late! Here is a completed schedule of the coming events, up tol and including Bear Day. Event Commissioner Ping Pong Goodwin Badminton Bill Hammontree Tennis Garber Canoeing Bodine Spelling Darleen Anderson Pinochle Bill Palmer Football ' Oatman Golf Hammontree Horseshoes Beard Growing Swimming Armstrong Basketball Blevins 3 leg'ged race Diving Pie Eating Barlow Date Time Points April 27 4:00 pm 75 April 27 4:00 pm 75 April 29 4:00 pm 100 May 6 Activity 100 April 27 Activity 75 April 26-30 4:00 pm 50 May 4 4:00 pm 100 April 30 4:00 pm 75 Bear Day 25 Bear Day 50 Bear Day 1 00 Bear Day - lOO Bear Day 50 Bear Day 50 Bear Day 50 Total Points 1550 More than thirty.schools have already indicated they would compete in the meet, and more entries are expected as the time of the big event draws near. Both Los Angeles City College and Compton Col- lege will have large squads entered, in an attempt to capture the National Jaycee Track crown. The two California powers both played dominant roles in last year's affair. Montgomery Stadium will be the scene of the cinder fracas and existing records should fall by the tapeside throughout the meet. The event promises to be top notch fare for all spike fans, and preparations are already under way to assure a smooth running meet. SPRING PROM HAILED Last Saturday evening, April 24, the Freshman class held their annual Spring Prom in honor of the Sophomore class. Decorations were said to be the lovliest seen this year and the spring theme was beautifully carried out. Vern Suter's orchestra furnished the music for the occasion. Highlight of the evening was the introduction of the new- , ly elected officers for the coming semes- ter. They were introduced by Dave Gar- ber, election commissioner. Don Jolly, Freshman class president, was in charge of the dance and was as- sisted by Pat Sngffer and Jerry Joachim. PETITIONS CIRCULATED Petitions are being circulated to put the World War II Compensation Act on the ballot for the coming election. A. R. French, who is circulating these peti- tions, urges all registered voters, vet- erans or non-veterans, who are interest- ed in either signing or circulating these petitions to see him. BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE BEAR TRACKS Member Associated Collegiate Press Co-Editors ........ Kerlin Rowland, Tod Rosnek Issue Editor ............. ...APat Harris Assistant Ediitor . ...Pat Mitchell Page Editors . Pat Mitchell, Herb Surrett Sports Editor ................ Jim Agee George Brown ick, John Boskon and George Brown Reporters ........ Don Levenhagen, Don Biscoe, Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Herb Sur- rett, Russell Orton, Joyce Roche. Jim Gump, John Barron, Meg Gun- erud, George Brown, John Boskon, Marcia Panhurst, Lee Ingalls. Faculty Adviser .............................. Ray Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. Photography Editor. Photographers ........ Jan Which ls it? By Curtis Hardyck It is beginning to look like mankind simply will not accept any uncomfortable truths. With one hand we wipe away joyous tears because there is peace, and with the other hand we fan the ancient fires of greed, selfishness, mistrust, and hatred. This state of mind controls no particular class. The God-tearing are just as pugnacious as the atheistic. The va- rious social, economic, and political groups that inhabit this earth all desire peace, but on THEIR OWN PARTICULAR TERMS. The one man who had begged for peace with no strings attached, died a martyr's death in lndia a few months ago. The advocates of world government are often ieered at because they would change the status quo; they would place Communists, fascists, members of demo- cratic societies, Moslems, Buddhists, Christians, all races and religions under one government. The feet of clay are showing through the godlike myth with which man has ' surrounded himself. The time is running out. We now have the means of exter- minating ourselves. Unless something can be done quickly, man will lose his and everyone else's life in the process of furthering his own petty desires. We now have two choices: Establish peace or stop poisoning the face of the earth with our miserable presences. Which is it to be? Attention! ! ! Cabs and gowns will be given out on Tuesday, May 11, to those gradu- ates who hold a receipt showing that they have paid their rental fees for these articles. The fee of one dollar should be paid to Mr. Croyl as soon as possible! DEANiS BOX Phoenix College will be host to trackmen from some 40 junior col- leges on May 6 and 7. The latch- string should be out for these young men. The least a student or faculty mem- ber can do is to make the participants welcome and to buy tickets for the meets. The most that can be done is unlimited. Foot-racing is individual, clean, and close to an elemental ability and skill of the'human species. -In the Na- tional Junior College Track and Field Meet gracefulness, speed, courage, and ruggedness are in evidence. Let's give Bill Palmer and Coach Hoy genuine support in this pleasant, worthwhile, tremendous undertaking. WHAT DO YOU THINK? People, do you agree that it looks bad to have our buildings marked up, our campus littered with trash, and the school as a whole looking like a third-class pig- sty? Then maybe you will agree that it looks twice as bad to have our school symbol iBumsteadl covered with a wide assortment of paint, names, tar and feathers. l, for one, cannot see why the frats and sororities get such a big kick out of defacing the Bear. I sincerely be- lieve that it is a disgrace to mutilate Bumstead because he is the school's mas- cot, and when you change his color with paint, or tar and feather him, I think it is just as bad as hauling down the stars and stripes and stomping them in the mud. I realize there are a few low- brows in this institution who think it is a big, funny joke, but there are also people who have a little loyalty left for the school. Let's not give the Bear such a hard time, because he is the symbol of our school. If the sororities and trats have to have their little fun and inia- -tions maybe they can play patty-cake with each other instead of defacing or poking fun at the school symbol. After all, we are college students now so we should eliminate our childish pranks and ways. J. G. Student Opinions In an effort to obtain opinions of the Student Body on the subject of a world federation, Bear Tracks sent out an inquiring reporter. Here is the re- sult: Jo Sieber: Good idea. More people should take an interest in it. Mike Boomer: I have considered the problem of world peacet-every angle that has occurred to mkand it is my studied opinion that world federal gov- ernment is the only preventive for an- other world war, which, if it is fought, will be nothing less than world suicide. Failing world government, there is no hope for future world peace. Ida Price: I think world federation. is a good idea but before anything ma- terial can be done, present insurr'ections iPalestinel must be put down. Gordon Edgar: World government will not work until the problems between the Arabs and the Jews, and between the Moslems and the Hindus, and many other religious and racial difficulties, are overcome. We can't live on a world peace basis until we can live peacefully as individuals. Frank Wadleigh: If we are to have world peace, we must also have birth control, for world population has nearly doubled in the last two hundred years. Either that or we must have a war, or some other means to keep the world from becoming overpopulated. Lauren Look: I think world federation is the only out in the world today. I be- lieve that men have intelligence enough to achieve their own suryival. Willard lMcDonald: Properly done, yes. Barbara Miller: They've tried every- thing else, this might work. Glen Benton: World Federation is an idealistic thing which will 'take at least 75 years to achieve. Bill Hinkley: I think it's all one big mess right now. Eventually the world may get straightened out. World tedera-. tion it handled properly will do that. Notice For Bear Day Beauties! Attention, all you beauties, both male and female, who are prospective candi- dates, for the Bear,Day Beauty Contest! counts, but your personality, wit, talent, and of course, your own personal charm, too. Rememb'er, it's not only beauty that BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE COLLEGE CHOIR CANVASSES COAST The college choir's recent tour of Southern California did much more than just promote the appreciation of music eit went a long way towards selling Phoenix College and its representatives to Californians, both in and out of col: lege. Dr. Frances Mousseau, Dean of Women who accompanied the choir on its tour, told Bear Tracks' reporters, I have noth- ing but good to say of the trip. We were enthusiastically received everywhere we went by big assemblies e which were not obligatory! The choir sang as though it were inspired, and their conduct was splendid at all times. The choir had a rigorous schedule, singing in the Hollywood Methodist Church, Glendale Junior College, George Pepperdine College, Los Angeles City College, University of Southern Califor- nia, Riverside College, Compton College and at Long Beach City College. By the way of amusement, some of the .choir attended the Opera's presentation of Tristan und Isolde in Los Angeles, while another time the entire group visited Forest Lawn Cemetery and sang in the Wee Kirk 0' the Heather there. The choir also serenaded the guests in the lobby of their hotel and at Knott's Berry Farm, widely-noted Southern California dining spot' near Long Beach, where they were given a special room of their own to eat in. At Knott's place they also visited the western Ghost Town and the gar- dens. The singers also visited the Colum- bia Broadcasting Studios in Hollywood, where they were admitted as a group and seated at the front of the studio in order to witness the Danny Thomas Show which originates there. Some of the choir even managed to get in a few minutes of sun bathing on the beach at Long Beach. Although the group traveled in a char- tered bus, Dr. Mousseau described the trip as just a mad rush the whole time, but we were received wonderfully by everyone. Every place we visited asked us to come back next year, and we were given luncheon or refreshments at every school we visited. MUSIC RECITAL Earle L. Stone will present in recital at 82l5 in the Phoenix College Club Room Tuesday evening, May ll, fifteen piano students. Metropolitan- AMS Picnic Tonight The Associated Men Students on the campus will hold a picnic tonight at. the olcl Scout Pueblo from 4:30 to 12 pm. The outing, istrictly date affair, is open to all men students of PC and their dates. Admission is fifty cents per couple. All students who are attending this party were asked to sign with Fred Roche, presi- dent of AMS, before Wednesday. The picnic will include swimming, dining, and dancing. It is reported that creamed turkey will be served to attending Cou- ples. Radio Curriculum Mr. D. F. Stone, head of the Physics department, has announced that a radio curriculum, two years in length, will -be offered at PC next fall. Students taking this course will prepare to enter the field of radio communication and serv- icing. Graduates will be able to take all of the- government examinations re- quired to hold positions in airport con- trol towers, and government radio range stations. In private industry, the gradu- ate of PC's radio school would be able to run a radio station, be a ship radio operator, or hold down numerous other jobs in the field of radio. Mr. Stone added that anyone operat- ing radio transmitting equipment must have a government license. Even a pilot who operates a radio-equipped air- plane has to have a special license to operate the radio. Tag Day Soon Next Tuesday and Wednesday, May 4 and 5, the PC International Relations Club will stage their tag day campaign for World Student Service Relief. As was reported in BT last week, the funds gathered in this campaign, which is nationwide, will go to aid in the rehabilitation of students and teach- ers in countries where the war wreaked damage to educational systems. It is be- ing promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Or- ganization in the realization that the rehabilitation of students and teachers on an individual basis, as well as re- building of facilities are two phases of reconstruction fully as important as any other. The purposes of this campaign are worthy of your generosity. Let's do our part to reach that goal of mo million dollars set by UNESCO. Letter to the Editor Mr. Jolly, officers, and members of the freshman class: On behalf of the class of '48, I wish to extend our sincere thanks and grateful appreciation for the splendid dance of last Saturday evening This was undoubtedly 'the best dance of the year. The success of this dance was in a great part due to the excellent planning of the committee in charge. The musical stylings of Vern Suter and his orchestra and the festive mood of the crowd was only surpassed by the colorful'and well-planned decorations. We hope that the fresh class of next year will treat you half as well as you have treated us. Thanks loads. We had a swell timely Sincerely, RILEY GEARY ' President, Sophomore Class. Summer School Summer school registration for students on the PC campus will begin May 17, and continue through June 5. Classes begin on June 2 at 7 am. Classes will be held Monday through Friday from 7 am until llzl5 am. A student may carry a maximum of nine hours. Mrs. Noble, who is in charge of veterans' affairs, says that .veterans who carry six or more hours in the summer session will be entitled to full sub- sistence. If you wish to go to summer school, please contact the registrar's office, on or after May l7. A schedule of classes will be released in Bear Tracks soon. Registration Set Members of Xi Delta Chi will hold their Spring Informal Dinner Dance Fri- day, May 7, at the Sundown Club. The affair will begin at 8 pm. Special guests will be Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Smelser and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Kersten. Last Wednesday this year's pledges gave all old members a dinner in the home of Bob Bennett. The formal ini- tiation for this semester was also held. The club will meet Monday at the home of Cooper Welch to elect officers for the coming year. BEAR TRACKSePHOENlX COLLEGE New Student Officers SECRETARY Recently elected student body secre- tary Anne Redick, although a science major with plenty of curricular work, takes her office seriously and plans to devote every possible effort to the im- provement of PC through m change of election procedure i-Zi making Phoenix PC conscious l3l by attempting to repre- sent the entire PC student body.' Anne suggests that some changes are needed to bring our election system up to date. The way things stand now, a prospective candidate who has struggled through the difficulties of campaigning, still isn't assured a place on the ballot. School spirit is another point which Anne wishes to, stress. She feels that student officials and board members should exert an even greater effort to make Phoenix PC conscious, and that all students should talk up the col- lege. Coordination of activity period pro- grams is badly needed. To prove this point Anne cited the fact that the Don Budge exhibition, a one-act play, and an intra-mural basketball game were sched- uled for the same activity period re- cently. - A PUHS grad, Anne has always been active in school affairs. For recreation she likes horseback riding, music, and dancing. TREASURER Jean Phillips, newly-elected student body treasurer, states that as yet she is not familiar with the routine of her new office, so she hasn't formulated any definite plans. However, Jean likes PC and wants to do everything possible to push our col- lege and its activities. She feels that the Student Union has been dead this year and that steps should be taken to revive student interest. HEAR YE FISH! Attention all swimmers! Regular swimming classes will meet every Thursday afternoon, between two and five o'clock, at Cottonwood swimming pool on North Seventh street. A class of more than 40 swimmers, both men and women, will be admit- ted free of charge. Other students, however, who expect to get wet should also expectito pay before entering. PRESIDENT Dick Norton, newly elected student body president for the first semester of next year, has sbme very sound ideas to improve student governing procedure. First, Dick feels that the various stu- dent commissioners should be aided by committees because in many cases as- signments are too much for one person. He believes that publicity can be more effectively handled by a group, and that greater publicity will lead to greater in- terest and participation by the students and community. Secondly, Dick will urge that we ini- tiate a system for electing cheer leaders. Elected cheer leaders would be a great help in organizing and increasing stu- dent support for our athletic teams. Third, Dick advocates a weekly meet- ing of student body officers and com- missioners. In this way many ideas can be discussed and school business and activities can be well planned. A graduate of North High, Dick is following a business administration tur- riculum. His chief outside interest is boxing, which by the way is more than a mere hobby since Dick is a boxing. and physical training instructor. In closing it might be added that Dick was president of the freshman class last semester, and held several student body offices while attending North Phoe-i nix High School. VICE-PRESIDENT Marshall Humphrey, student body vice- president for the first semester of next year, plans to work toward four-year status for Phoenix College. He would like to see this idea pushed by means of a high-powered advertising campaign to acquaint Phoenicians with our college, its activities, and its goal. Marty is an Agriculture major and a graduate of North High. He is an ardent. rodeo fan and participant, and a mem- ber of the PC rodeo team, which journeys to Flagstaff May 8 and 9 to compete in an inter-collegiate rodeo. Vice-presidencies seem to be Hum- phrey's specialty. He served as vice- president of the freshman class for both the first and second semesters this year and was vice-president of his senior class at North Phoenix High School. In reference to his recent campaign victory, Marty cited the help he received from Jane Watson and Camille King, who made posters. CLUBS Alpha Mu Gamma held their formal initiation and dinner at the Encanto Club room last Tuesday, April 27. The welcoming address was given by presi- dent Kerlin Rowland. Songs and music were furnished for the event by Gloria Wasielewski, Bever- ly Seiff, and lsabel Casares. The meeting was closed with the singing of America The Beautiful. The new members include: Joyce Ab- bot, Marilyn Blair, Isabel Casares, Rob- ert Dean, Bill Garcia, Mary Hannelly, Jay Higgs, Mrs. G. A. Ingram, James Kinnerup, Don Levenhagen, Paul Liver- more, Beth Miles, Simon Ohn K'in, Anna Piercey, Barbara Preblude, Sybil Rice, Dean Robinson, James Rosser, Kerlin Rowland, Jo Seiber, Beverly Seiff, Bob Sexton, Thomas Wadlow, and Sam Wagehseller. 7 + Members of Alpha Sigma Gamma met recently on campus to complete plans for a rummage sale to be held May 1. Coming events include a business meet- ing on May 3, at the home of Mary Hannelly for the purpose of electing .officers for the coming year, and a Mother's Day tea on May 9. Committee Chairmen planning the event are Claryce Beck, Nadine Howard, Marcia: Mc- Conoughey, Bobbie Jean Suggs, Josephine Salcido, and Betty Hyde. H Alpha sorority members held their annual candy sale last Wednesday. The formal initiation was held at the home of Nancy Keller, at which time Betty Martin, Betty Morris, Norine Pierce, and Pat Maloney took their vows. a Members of the Eta Chi Epsilon sorority are planning another food sale, to be held on May 7, here on our campus. The home economic sorority held a sale on April 21, also. A third food sale is scheduled for tomorrow, in town. The proceeds from these sales will send Mary Ellen Farrell to a national convention of the home economics sorori- ties, to be held in the East during the month of June. W Robbie Lee Grippen acted as hostess tor the Mother-Daughter dinner held recently by members of Kappa Delta Nu: sorority. Plans were made for their alum- nae tea and a dinner for the graduating members to be held at the Arizona Club early in May. ,BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE 5 EXAMI NATION SCHEDULE PHOENIX COLLEGE EXAMINATION SCHEDULE Classes which recite regularly on Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, or Daily at- PERIOD 1 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Wednesday May 19 2 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. Wednesday May 19 3 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 am: Thursday May 20 4 1:00 p.m. to 2:55pm. Wednesday May 19 5 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. Thursday May 20 6 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Friday May 21 7 1 :00 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. Friday May 21 8 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Monday May 24 9 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday May 19 Classes which recite regularly on Tuesday and2or Thursday at- PERIOD 1 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Thursday May 20 2 1:00 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. Thursday May 20 3 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. Friday May 21 4 1:00 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. Monday May 24 5 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday May 24 6 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. Monday May 24 7 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. Tuesday May 25 8 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday May 21 9 10: 00 a. m. to 12: 00 a. m. Tuesday May 25 Classes which meet at irregular periods not specifically covered in the above schedule may be given Tuesday, May 25, 1:00- 2:55 pm only. Do not schedule a final examination at any other time without consulting the committee. Examinations will be given in the regular class rooms. IOTA SIGMA ALPHA TO HOLD BANQUET Iota Sigma Alpha, scholastic honor society, will hold its annual initiation ceremony and banquet at the Encanto Club House on Monday, May 3. The ceremony will begin at 6 pm with a speech by Dr. Richard Harvill, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Arizona. He will be introduced by Dr. Robert J. Hannelly, Banquet Chairman. The dinner, which will cost $2, will begin at 7 pm. Candidates for Iota Sigma Alpha are: Harmon S. Puckett, Jr., Keith Dean Folk- erts, Jerry Howell, Robert L. Collins, Alice Mott Young, Eleanor S. Daniels, Robert T. Dean, Jr., Harry R. Anderson, Patricia Grippin, Beverly Joan Woods, Phyllis Jo Brock, Joyce Carolyn Abbott, lda Rose Price, James Kerlin Rowland, Simon Ohn Kin, John A. Pierce, Arleen C. Irion, Josephine Sieber, Paul E. Liv- ermore, Robert E. Sexton, James E. Ros- ser, Beverly Ann Seiff, Charles H. Oat- man, Audrey Jean Toncray, Warren Channing Lefebvre, Donnie Jean Hud- Speth, William E. Mooney, Jr., Riley L. Geary, Mary Jane Odle, Frank E. L. Conter, John J. Miles, Sona Lee Hallen, William Garcia, Bonnie Joan Sandy, Wal- lace N. Patterson, Darleen Loris Ander- son, Morris Dean Fraizer, Fred Morri- son, Roy R. Carson, John L. Senter, Jr., VETS ADVISED TO TAKE TESTS Mr. Thoroman, of the Veterans of- fice, stated this week that all veterans are urgently advised to take the Veterans Guidance tests during this last month of school so that they may discover their individual capabilities and possi- bilities, which can be very helpful when applying for a position. Surveys indicate that the average young man spends ten years on four- teen different jobs Gntil he locates him- self vocationally. Services made available through the Veterans Administration will safeguard the veteran against loss of time and compensation adjustments. The Veterans Administration, through its school facilities here, is earnestly concerned in trying to make suitable placements for graduating students, but it, is essential that each individual know his abilities and limitations when ap- plying for a job. . These services may be obtained in the Veterans Administration office in the Liberal Arts building. 1 Sybil Darcey Rice, Jack E. Jones: Isabel Casares, Marilyn R. Blair, Barbara Jeane Miller, John H. Shannon, Charles R. Oedekoven, James C. Carroll, M. Dean Robinson and Burton W. Nelson. Sport Slants Two men from LACC to watch in next Week's Seventh Annual National JC Track and Field Meet are Fred Sims and Bill Mitchell. Mitchell has been copping the lOO-yerd dash for the pow- erful Cubs, while Sims has been clip- ping the 220 in 21.5 seconds, fast enough to walk away from the top dash men in the Border Conference. There are hopes that some entry from the east will be able to slow the high scoring teams from Compton and LACC; so that the meet will not turn into a dual contest. Even with the battle de- veloping into a two-way affair for num- ber one honors in the meet, fans will be able to witness the class of the two year schools in action. Some of these boys, especially from California, will probably be competing in all the big meets for the four-year schools twelve months from now, and most likely these boys will be walking off with many of the first places. + Proving the strength of the California schools in the WSC, LACC and Compton will furnish teams to vie in the famed Drake Relays at Des Moines, l'owa, this weekend. Compton will also enter two men in the open events. This will cut down the strength of the two s:hools in the conference track meet, but they should still have enough men left to walk away from the other s:hools in the conference. + Students and fans of Phoenix College have just three more chances to see the 1948 Bruin baseball tonight at 8, next Friday afternoon. After that time, squad in action. Today at 2 pm, and the local nine will be on the West Coast finishing their season with double-head- and John Muir, which will also end their first year in ers against Ventura the Western States Conference. Jim Gump', in the game last Friday night, came through with a single in the last half of the seventh inning that scored Rex Maddy and gave the Bears a victory over Pasadena, who were pre- viously undefeated in conference play. The win gave Phoenix a 3-5 record in the league. BEAR TRACKSePHOENlX COLLEGE BRUIN BASEBALLERS POSE . i gt: . ,3 ?Ti- - m mum lax hMciiitrit'k' . - BEARS SPLIT SERlES WlTH BULLDOGS Man in action. Tennis On the Phoenix College tennis courts Saturday, May 'I, the Phoenix College tennis team will meet Pasadena in a match at9am. The Phoenix College baseball team .split a double-header with the Pasadena Bulldogs last Friday at Municipal Stadium, losing the first game 17-5, but coming back strong to take the night-cap, 7-6. In the first game the Bulldogs wasted no time in building up an early lead as they clubbed the offerings of Raul Mariscal for l3 runs in five innings. Barry Arney relieved Mariscal in the sixth and gave up three runs the rest of the game. Poor fielding also con- tributed to the Bears' downfall. Bulldog pitcher Johnston gave up six hits and five runs and was credited with the win. In the night game Dwaine Wheeler pitched an excellent game and received good support as he set the Pasadenans down with six hits. Bernie Lamb poled a 400-foot homer over the left center field wall to help the Bears' cause. Rex Moose Maddy scored the winning run in the last inning as he went from first to home on an infield hit. The Bruins clubbed the offerings of Bulldog pitcher Stout for nine hits in the seventh inning fray. The split gives the Bruins a conference record of three wins against five losses, and winds up the Bruins' conference schedule until they meet John Muir and Ventura on the West Coast next month. . Today at 8 am and tonight at 8, the Bears are hosts to the Gila College Mon- stere of Thatcher, Arizona. The Phoeni- cians previously defeated Gila by lop- sided scores at the start of the season, but will expect a much rougher time of it now. Both games will Municipal Stadium. be played at the BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE Movie Review By Mitchell and Harris Eleanor Parker may, as has been ru- mored, have been mimicking Margaret Sullivan's portrayal of Sally in Voice of the Turtle, but her charm was all her own. Miss Parker didn't need good lines to be funny, but she did very well with those supplied to her. Her humane attitude toward all inani- mate objects is enough to draw laughs out of a stone wall. Eve Arden has her share of sophisti- cated sarcasm and is an able, it some- what hindering, assistant to Eleanor Par- ker in keeping the audience happy. Ronald Reagan, as the object of Sally's rather stunted affections, will attract lit- tle or no attention, and Wayne Morris and Kent Smith are sorely in need of better roles. The reviews have not been very good on Voice of the Turtle, as it has been compared to the stage play ,and ac- cording to the critics it is not even comparable to it. It probably does not compare with the play, but as a movie I it will take its place with the funniest films of the year. Sitting Pretty may have to resort to pure slap-stick, but with F. Hugh Herbert writing the lines, and Clifton Webb, as the baby-sitting Mr. Belve- dere, reading them, it comes off pret- ty well. Robert Young and Maureen O'Hara do nothing extraordinary in the way of act- ing, but the children who play their sons are exceptionally fine. Richard Haydn's one character role is becoming a little tiresome, but he's still enjoyable. Without Clifton Webb, however, the picture wouldn't have received the raves it has. TEXAN TALKS Phoenix College will present Professor R. S. Underwood, a traveling lecturer, in the Liberal Arts Building, Room 206, today, at 4 pm. Professor Underwood, 3 teacher at TeXas Tech, will represent the Southwestern Section of the Mathe- matical Association of America. According to Dr. Bedford, head of the mathematics department, Professor Underwood will speak to us on the topic, Extended Analytic Geometry. All teachers, and interested students of mathematics are cordially invited to be present. 'Claudia' Rehearsed With rehearsals proving veryepromis- ing, the commencement play, Claudia, which will be presented in the Phoenix College Auditorium on May 13 and 14, is progressing with careful rapidity, an- nounced Mr. Kersten, director of the play. .. Claudia, portrayed by Susan Van Zandt, is married to a young promising architect, David, played by Eugene Mil- ler, who live on a farm outside New York City. Claudia being of chiltjish mind but mature physically tries to make her husband jealous by showing her sex appeal to a young Englishman named Jerry, portrayed by James Lam- bert. At the same time Claudia makes two disconcerting discoveries, she is going to have a baby and her mother, Mrs. Brown, cast by Barbara Rosenberg, has only a short time to live. The play pro- gresses very romantically with a good portion of wit and humor throughout the entire play. VET'S ALLOWANCES The Veterans Administration ex- plains that some student veterans will not be eligible for the recent increases in subsistence allowances. The maximum allowance payable to veterans pursuing full-time courses at the University and Colleges was raised, effective April I, to $75 per month without dependents; $105 with one dependent; and $l20 with two or more dependents. However, the VA points out that these subsistence allowances are con- ditional upon present total earning ceilings iincludin'g allowancesi of $l 75 per month for veterans without de- pendents and $200 with dependents. Therefore, allowances payable by the Veterans Administration will be based upon the ceilings, from which income received from productive labor is de- ducted, which may be less than the new amounts. RECITALS The Phoenix College General Depart- ot Music will present a recital Tuesday, May 4 at 82l5 pm in the Audi- torium. All departments will be repre- ment sented; this includes piano, voice, organ, violin and instrument. Another recital will be presented May 5, at 8:l5 by Mrs. Webb's piano and voice students in the Club Room. . Hearts and Flowers A journalist's life isn't always an easy one. We have our troubles too! We get tired of writing stuff that is more or less stereotyped. For example, take the fellow who has to write the character sketches. Just about every week he has to write something like the following: . . has a wonderful personality . loves to dance . . . good looking . . . loves Phoenix and Phoenix College . . . all in all a wonderful person to have on the campus . and so forth and so on and ditto and et cetera. However, some of these things are true of just about everyone, so we real- ly have a job trying to change the word- ing around so it won't sound like a printed form with nothing new but the name. Occasionally the monotony gets our Campus Personalities reporter down and he tries to publish something like the following: If you're a musclebound moron; if you like to have your feet stepped on when you dance; and if you especially like to chew tobacco and hold spitting contests, ea is just the woman lPl for you. Originally from a a, is attending Phoenix College lwhich she hatesl, be- cause her native state has deported her. During her free periods, can usually be found traipsing gracefully around the campus in her hobnailed boots. The scent of her delicate per- fume leau de Vigoroi instantly com- mands attention in any classroom with inadequate ventilation. Her hobbies are collecting manhole covers and operating her own still. it grieves me to say this but won't be coming back next fall. She will be attending a famous .nedical college as Specimen No. 333972. 50 the next time you read the cam- pus personalities, stop, think, and per- haps brush away a tear at the thought of the mental agony we go through to make you, our next campus personality, interesting reading. C. H. $ ART EXHIBIT HELD A reception was held last Tuesday, April 27, from 6:30 until l0 pm., for the public, to exhibit work done by the evening class of studio art. The class is headed by Mrs. Rose Avery, from the Public Art Center, who was formerly a teacher of art in Mesa Union High School. Half of the classes' enrollment includes G.l.s from Goodyear, who take the night art classes as a hobby. 8 BEAR TRACKkPHOEN lX COLLEGE Hope 5' Co. On Tuesday evening, April 20, Bob Hope appeared here in Phoenix to start off our Cancer Drive with a bang. One fact that is known to very few people is that two members of Bob's family have been victims of cancer. Thus, he is not only helping all America to fight this scourge, he also has a personal interest in it! ' ln interviewing Mr. Hope, I found that he is as witty and full of life backstage as he is when he is performing before the public. However, getting informa- tion out of him is like pulling eye-teeth! When asked how he liked Phoenix, he replied with a broad grin, Naturally. I was at ease from the first with the whole cast, because they really did talk and act like anyone else. lThis should discourage some of you who feel that stars are in a class all their ownll Of course, a number of embarrassing inci- dents did arise like the time I tried to return Bob's Pepsodent smile and dropped my chewing gum . . . he gave me another0 stick. Vera Vague is one of Bob's strongest fans. In watching her during the per- formance down at Montgomery Stadium, it was easy to see that Vera laughed harder and longer at each joke than any- one else. Bob was always telling us to come out front and see what happened next because it was something entirely new. It was always new to Vera at any rate, and her laughter rang out time after time. She is as attractive a woman as you would want to meet, and when asked how she really felt about men, she said, I have only one statement .to make about them. I'm not really man crazy at all. l just say that to fool peo- ple . . . By the way, these Phoenix fel- lows are out of this world. I'm not a bit interested, but, it you could intro- duce me to a few, I'd be glad to stay over'as long as they last! Jerry Colona was the biggest surprise of all; He is very serious and quiet. He did roll his eyes and wiggle his moustache, but all in all, life is a pret- ty important thing to him. When one reporter, John Boskon, inquired as to the authenticity of his mustache, he re- plied, Oh, no! This isn't the real one. I carry it in my pocket so that nothing will happen to it. With this, he pulled one out of his inner pocket, and walked off leaving a very startled Boskon. Les Brown, famous band leader, is full of laughter and excitement. This trip EXECUTIVE BOARD WORK REVIEWED' Now that the new student body offi- cers for the coming semester have been elected, it might be well to enumerate the duties they have in addition to those of the offices to which they were elected. Undoubtedly most students are fa- miliar with the Executive Board, in name, at least, since it was mentioned quite frequently during the recent campaign. That body is composed of the four elected Student Body officers plus the presidents of AWS and AMS, one representative from each class, and five student com- missioners, athletics, assembly, social, fine arts, and publicity. Each of these com- missioners works, in his field, to pro- mote activities on the campus. The group is assisted by a faculty adviser. The Dean's Advisory Council consists of the above august body and three officers of the Classroom Teachers Organi- zation on the campus. Two members elected to rthe purpose, Mr. Ray Emery and Mr. Amos Hoff, and the organiza- tion's president sit on the Dean's Ad- visory Council. At their recent election the Classroom Teachers Organization elected the following officers: Mr. M. W. Monroe, president; Mr. Wayne Edland, vice-president; Mr. Paul Johnson, secre- tary, and Mr. R. C. Asmus, treasurer. The final total stands: ten students and six teachers who have the task of regulating activities on the campus. They reoresent you, the students, on the Coun- cil. That is democracy in action. was a lot of fun to him, and Bob Hope and Jerry Colona kept his sides splitting most of the evening. He told me that he never knew what was coming next since the program was totally unrehearsed. lll don't see how they do it! he exclaimed. Eileen Wilson, vocalist, had a number of close calls with Mr. Hope. She was wearing a dress with one of the suicide necklines. Bob found great pleasure in grabbing the sleeves . . . which could have been disasterous if Eileen hadn't kept a firm grip on it. Oh, gosh! Next time I'm wearing a turtle-neck sweater! All agreed that Phoenix is a wonderful place and want to come back again soon, when we'll have more time to look around says Tony Martin, who flew in and out in a matter of hours. lBy the way, Tony Martin's Casbah is at the Palms and is really going to be good if he sings like he did at the cancer show.l Marcia Panhurst THE CATCH-ALL By Meg Gunnerud Prom! An orchid to the Freshman Class for their sensational job of decorating and planning the dance. Best decore- ment for a school affair we've seen in many a moon , . . Question! How many months will it take the Badminton Tourney to get played off???? Wedding Bells! They will ring on June 5 for Jean Monce and PC student, John Butterfield. Our good wishes to you both! Bop Lovers! Sonny Bridge's band is, if not the best, one of the best bop combo's in the Southwest. He's here in Phoenix and you may see Jerry Hirsh- berg in regards to his booking . . . Married, darn! Along with the ma- jority of the PC gals, here's one in- dividual who agrees that Mr. K is not only the most handsome but also the best dressed male on campus . . . Poems yet! Have you read The Fur Cap? See Bill Hinkley for further de- tails Keeping Youth! In case you've won- dered what the deuce goes on 2 and 3 periods in front of Science almost every day e be not alarmed! It's only the Art Class playing Hop-Scotch Not very much interested! Out of a Student Body of approximately 1400 only 425 ballots were cast in the recent all- school election . . . Suggestion! Per chance next year's eager students won't be forced to leave the library during scheduled activity pe- riod programs . . . Gripe! And whilst . . . ah . . . com- plaining, why-oh-why isn't something done 'bout the sputtering, blasting faucets in PC's rest-rooms???? Also, we haven't heard of any soap shortage in Phoenix. . . + Ahh! Spring is here, and Mrs. Blake's art class is taking advantage of the fact. They plan to journey to Encanto Park for 'the next two weeks. To hold out- of-door classes, that is. + There will be a meeting of the PC Hillel Club Sunday, May 2, 1948, at 3:30 pm, at the Temple Beth lsrael. Plans for the joint picnic and also for the Blow Out Party will be discussed. + Lost: A Phoenix Public Library book, This Is My Story, by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Please return to Charlene Lanham. ' 336m Eratk Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Vol. 20 Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, May 7, 1948 No. 25 BRACE OF BEARS BOLSTER BEAR DAY IRON WORKS GIVES NEW MASCOT After being without any mascot for so long, Phoenix College awoke one day last week to find itself with two of them. The. first bear was familiar;- it was the same old Bumstead who had been knocking around the quadrangle longer than any student now on cam- pus could remember and his metamor- phosis had not visibly endowed him with any new and graceful qualities com- monly associated with a chromophilic vertebrate ithat's the zoo-maior's way of saying bearl. From any angle one cared to view him from he was still a bat- tered, beaten and much abused bruin. The second bear, however, was some- thing new e scarcely a week old, as a matter of fact. He was presented to the student body by E. M. Adams of the Ari- zona Iron Works, whose interest and kind co-operation made the new bear possible. The story of the new statue is one of persistence on the part of student pro- moter Richard Rogers and the students of Virginia Botsford's English 92 class. But it really goes beyond this year, clear back to the first bear that Phoenix College ever had. He was a live black bear cub and he served his purpose ex- cellently until he started to mature and then, of course, his size and ferocity made it expedient to find a more co- operative mascot. From 1925 until 1927 students re- peatedly borrowed the statue of a bear owned by the Igloo ice cream par- lor which was located near the campus of Phoenix Junior College. Upon the Arequest of the administration, however, the students were required to return the bear and a permanent mascot was still to be found. In 1931 student Don Marquess ob- tained a Zerolene bear from the Standard Oil Company which used the massive nine-hundred pound conerete and porcelain statue to advertise Zerolene Oil. The bear seemed to fit the exact requirements of the college and in 1935 the bear was christened Bumstead. Bumstead was moved to the present location of Phoenix College in 1939 and things were fine until last fall when vandals decapitated the mascot. it was then that Richard Rogers pro- posed to mount a new head on Bum- stead's shoulders. Rogers attempted to solve the structural problems of re- mounting the head, but after investi- gation a faculty committee appointed to study the problem, announced that such an undertaking was impossible. Un- daunted, Rogers and Miss Botsford scout- ed for weeks until they located a statue of a bear at Desert Wells, Arizona. With the help of T. J. Doman of Desert Wells the statue was secured and Rogers and Eldon Hamblin proceeded to make a mold of the bear. 8. D. Rogers secured the full cooperation'of E. M. Adams of the Arizona Iron Works who consented to cast the statue of the bear out of a strong aluminum and steel alloy. When the new bear was nearing com- pletion it was discovered that the im- possible had become possible, and a new head would be mounted on Bum- stead. Mrs. Madeline Blake, Amos Hoff and student Ronald Hawkins collaborated to place the new head on the bear's shoulders. And so it is that Phoenix Col- lege now has two mascots instead of one. The shiny new bear will have an ad- vantage over the older Bumstead in that it weighs only two hundred pounds and thus may be easily transported to foot- ball games and other school functions. A contest will now be held to name the new bear, who will be mounted near Bumstead in the quadrangle. The party or parties naming the new bruin will have the honor of getting their names into the local papers, plus that of being first ialong with their organi- zations, if they belong to a frat or a sororityl, to paint or decorate the bear. tPictures on Page 6i Bear Day Activities began at eight o'clock this morning when the freshmen met the sophomores in a basketball thriller. Following the game a cavalcade left the campus and drove to Riv- erside Amusement Park where the beard growing, swimming, diving and pie eating contests were held. At 12:30 lunch was served. As students sit now; eating and read- ing the special Bear Day edition of Bear Tracks, final preparations are being made for the three-legged raceyand the horse- shoe pitching contests which are slated for 2 o'clock and 2:30 respectively. After the contests, points will be tal- lied and the Bear Day champion an- nounced. A free period of swimming will follow. + World Federalists Meet Last Wednesday, the final meeting of the Worldjederalists was held for the year. Providing enough members and prospective members attend the Sumrher Session, weekly meetings will continue; if not, the officers have pledged themselves to make an effective organi- zation on campus beginning next fall. On April 28, Mrs. White, representa- tive at large for U. N., discussed what' should be done to strengthen the United Nations into an effective governmental body. Two, possibly three, W. F. members contemplate attending a week of dis- cussions and lectures in California this summer. Such noted people as Carl Van Doren, Cord Meyer, Jr.' iNational President of U.W.F.l, Vernon Nash, Mr. Holliday, tPresident of Standard Oil in Ohioi and others will be there with stu- dents from all over the South and North- west. - BEAR TRACKSePHOEN IX COLLEGE lBEAR TRACKS Member Associated Collegiate Press Co-Editors ........ Kerlin Rowland, Tod Rosnek Issue Editor ............... Jan Hedrick Assistant Editor. ..... Joyce Roche Page Editors Russell Orton, Lee lngalls Sports Editor... .......... Jim Agee Photography Edito .. ..George Brown Photographers ........ Jan He rick, John Boskon and George Brown Reporters ........ Don Levenhagen. Don Biscoe, Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Herb Sur- rett, Russell Orton; Joyce Roche. Jim Gump, John' Barron, Meg Gun- erud, George Brown, John Boskon, Marcia Panhurst, Lee lngalls. Faculty Adviser .............................. Ray Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. Koil's Corner There is a paradox in American politi- cal life today. It would be a very amusing thing to'observe if it did not constitute such a grave threat to all that is good and worth keeping and improving in American democracy. The paradox is this: The two groups which are the biggest current threat to our democratic society are in bitter op- position, not only to that society, but to each other as well. And each of them strikes many of its most effective blows against our system in the name of fight- ing the other. Gerald L. K. Smith, Father Coughlin, the members of the Ku Klux Klan, and all the rest of the hate-mongering, minori- ty-hating American fascists offer a case in point. They hold their midnight lynch- ings, they trample under the civil liber- ties of minority groups, they spread their hate and confusion and lies, and all the while they have the unmitigated gall to pose as the defenders of democracy. Against what are they defending democ- racy? Against the Red Menace, of course. And who ista red? Anyone who has ever voted the socialist ticket, any- one who does not believe we should go to war with Russia tomorrow, anyone who happens to be a Negro or a Jew or a Catholic, or foreign born -- anyone, in short, who is not a .white, protestant, Christian 1007a American. So much for the home-grown fascists. And what of the communists? Oh, they are in the very vanguard of democ- racy. They rant and rave that they are the defenders of democracy. They claim that the only menace to our system is fascism, and they yell loud and long that communism and fascism have al- ways been in bitter conflict with each other. This is a bald-faced lie, as any- one knows who can remember as far back as l939. It was in that year that these bitter opponents teamed up in a cold-blooded dismemberment of Poland. The communists claim further that their system, in essence, is diametrically op- posed to the fascist system. But they have considerable trouble making their claims stick with survivors of the purges of 1939 or with the White Russians who escaped the tender attentions of the OGPU or NKVD and came to this coun- try. ' And so it goes; the communists and the fascists among us throw rocks at each other and hope that the American people will conclude that, in order to fight one system, one must espouse the other. We must not be taken by their tricks. Our best defense against both communism and fascism is the inherent greatness of our own democracy. Let's work, steadily and hard, to improve, ex- tend, and perfect our system. If we do that, we can have nothing to fear from any brand of totalitarianism. But while we're working and building, let's stay on the alert. Let's not go on any witch hunts, but let's keep our eyes open. For if we relax our vigilance against the dangers that confront us, we might well lose the fruits of the fine beginning we've made. It can happen here. Movie Review By Mitchell 8. Harris State of the Union is a picture you won't want to miss. It's a movie with a message, and it delivers that message Well with the aid of Frank Capra's direc- tion and a fine script. The picture is an entertaining madhouse of events that successfully keep the picture from drag- ging, and the performances of the cast members make the movie very lively. Van Johnson, as Spencer Tracy's wise- cracking campaign manager, had one of his best roles in a long-long time, and proved again that when given a good part, he is enjoyably capable. We've seen Spencer Tracy when he was better, and Katherine Hepburn was playing Katherine Hepburn as usual, but that's fine if you like her. Angela Lans- bury and Adolph Menjou are almost sure to draw hearty approval in any roles, and these are no exceptions. Mr. Capra, with the help of the Lind- say and Crouse theme, has touched on communism, world federation and Eu- ropean aid, through the lines of Spen- cer Tracy, who plays the presidential aspirant, Grant Mathews. Mathews starts out honestly, but to- ward the end he is convinced by politi- cians that he will have to compromise with political machines in order to get the nomination. Mathews believes that once he gains the office, he can break away from the machine and Work for the people. It takes a brush-off from his hometown and a Hepburn tantrum to make him realize that it would be impossible to break away from the dis- honest politicians. When you see State of the Union, you'll realize that it's a very funny, but true picture of American politics, and the people who have put such politics into power. NOTICE Please notify the office if there has been any change in your address since registration. U.W.F. Offers Hope By Don Levenhagen Most of us are pretty well versed at present on the atomic bomb and its terrifying potency, but how many peo- ple know that this bomb ranks fourth on our list of weapons? Ellis M. Zacharias, former Naval in- telligence expert, ranks our new bac- teriological, biological, and climatological weapons more destructive than the atomic bomb because the atomic bomb has a comparatively local effect while the other three are widespread. Just think of it; our atomic bomb, which can snuff out lO0,000 lives in one blast, ranks a measly fourth! There's no two ways about it; we must work out a world-wide compromise for peace, or face a war - the terror of which defies description. We don't have fifty years to solve our international problems, we don't even have five years. Mankind has the means to destroy itself right now; the next to the last war has already been fought, The world situation today reminds one of the Frankenstein story. Man has creat- ed a monster which threatens to destroy its creator. We are faced with a basic crisis, a crisis which calls for a new response, a world-wide response. Peace cannot be assured by building a war machine too powerful to be at- tacked. Peace cannot be assured by appeasement. Peace must be built on faith, mutual compromise, and the rea- lization of what another war will mean. There is something that each one of us can do. Join the United World Fed- eralists. This group represents an imme- diate vehicle of action, and offers all the information at its disposal. You contribute your thinking; the United World Fed- eralist organization gives you an op- portunity to work for peace. We have worked hard to win a war; dare we do less to assure peace? BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE 3 CATCH-ALL Gullies and Trees! This weeks orchid goes to Fred Ears Roche and Co. for their planning and execution of the fine AMS picnic. Wish more of youse guys could have come out. . . . Some people wear trunks! Main at- traction of AMS picnic was the unre- hearsedvand humorous dip our baseball players experienced in full dress. . . . Not very wet, cold and clammy. Odds on the arachnids! Messrs. Stew- ard and Selesnich, George and Arthurl, iRusty and Arti have been sponsoring Bug Races in front of the Arts build- ing. Providing sufficient wagers are of- fered, they will continue henceforth. . . . True, yes! Definition of an American: One who postpones writing a letter for six months and then sends it Air Mail. . . . Doesn't pay, Bob! Ye old stomp Sat- urday eve proved rather rough for a prominent student on campus e but then, what's a black-eye and a bruised foot???? Question! What happened to PCs IRC this year???? Julie Lee yet! The Advertising class just doesn't appreciate Thom Bondus' sense of humor. . . . llt's a cute song, Thom, even if it doesn't exactly go with your advertisement. . . . Pity the last car'l Seems as though a recent picnic got rather fouled up- Yup!! Three cars couldn't find each other. . . . Warning! Beware of making Bill Mooney an enemy - he has taken up spiritualism, and is liable to make a wax dpll and stick pins in it. . . . Same changes made-we hope! A friend recently entered our Student Union and remarked- Hmmmm, thought for awhile I was back in my old Army Canteen. . . . Vitaman A tonic! Fred Wilson cele- brated his boithday last Wednesday. . . .i Sure, it's a rationalistic thinking, Fred, but it's healthy to have an excuse. . . . by the by, Fred is a very talented fly- catcher. . . '. Uust ask anyone in his 4- hour History class. . . .1 Ah, habits Perhaps we're being too radical, but how convenient a cigarette machine would be on campus. . . . Mr. William Mitchell has announced that anyone desiring any information concerning scholarships should com- municate with him before school is out. Mn. Cecil Kenton Attention Sophs Here are a list of very important dates pertaining to all students, but especially sophomores, that fall during the next two weeks. Tuesday, May 11-lmmediately after assembly at 11:15, caps and gowns will be handed out in the basement of the auditorium. Mr. Hakes is in charge. Thursday, May 12 and Friday May 13 --Commencement play Claudia. Stu- dent activity cards and guest tickets will admit. Mr. Kersten is in charge. Monday, May 17-10:00 to 11:00 am, Sophomore assembly. Parents and friends are invited. This is a required as- sembly. A-M will meet on the first floor of the Arts building, whereas candidates N-Z will meet in the Science building. Dr. Bedford is in charge. Sunday, May 23-8:00 pm. Baccalau- reate services in the Auditorium. Line of march same as Sophomore assembly. Caps and gowns necessary. Dr. Mousseau -and Mr. E. L. Stone will be in charge. Wednesday, May 2F7:OO am. Col- lege Breakfast at Encanto Park. No charge. Bring knife, fork, spoon, and cup. Annuals distributed. Riley Geary in charge. Wednesday, May 26-8230 am. Re- hearsal for graduation. Band Shell, En- canto Park. Mr. Cocanower in charge. Wednesday, May 26e8:00 pm. Com- mencement exercises. Mr. Cocanower in general charge. Wednesday, May 2F9:45 pm. Check in caps and gowns. 10:00 pm, refresh- ments. Dean Mousseau, Mrs. Motto, and Honor Board in charge. - Illness Causes Change In Claudia Cast Following the tradition of the show must go on, Mrs. Cecil Ker- sten will step into the part of Mrs. Brown in the commencement play Claudia. Barbara Rosenberg, who. was originally cast for the part, was forced to resign by doctors orders. The play will be presented next Thurs- day and Friday, May 13 and 14, and all graduating students will be given two passes to the play which must be ex- changed for reserved seats before the night of the presentation. I Susan Van Zandt and Gene Miller will play the leading roles of Claudia and David, with Mrs. Kersteri, Grantv Johnson, Marion Snyder, Ida Price, Mar- jorie Sonnenschein, and Jim Lambert in the supporting roles. The play is a three-act comedy deal- ing with the growing up of a young woman, the discovery of her mother's approaching death and her own preg- nancy and the fact sex plays an im- portant part in the running of a farm. Student activity tickets will be hon- ored and all other tickets will be on sale for fifty cents. .All seats will be reserved. NEW HONOR BOARD CHOSEN Members of the new Honor Board, and new officers of the A.W.S. were honored last night, at 6:30, with 3 din- ner at the Desert Room of the Village Drive Inn. Pins were also presented at the in- formal affair. 1 As announced, the following ten girls were selected for their leadership, scholar- ship, character, and attitudes: Anne Red- ick, Josephine Salcido, Carolyn Parsons, Joyce Roche, Shirleen Allen, Jean Philips, Claryce Beck, Shirley Sperry, Gyrene Grammar, and Doris Stegner. The girls that have served this year, are: Darleen Anderson, Pat Grippin, Shir- ley La Tourrette, Pat Wheat, Josephine Sieber, Marilyn Blair, Isabel Casares, San- dra Chrest, Mary Hannelly, and Sona Hallen. New A.W.S. officers honored were Doris Stegner, president; Marcia Mc- Conoughey, Vice-President; Camille King, secretary; Doris Ruddell, treasurer. LOST Lost: Watch and billfold containing identification lost last Week. If found please return to Kenneth Noble iowneri, Bear Tracks office, or the lost and found department in the registrar's office. 4 BEAR TRACKSePHOENlX COLLEGE GREEKS MEET Mothers of Alpha Sigma Gamma mem- bers will be honored at a Mother's Day tea to be held Sunday, May 9, in the clubroom. Doris Ruddell will give the welcoming address and other commit- tee chairmen include Claryce Beck, in- vitations; Josephine Salcido and Bobbie Jean Suggs, refreshments; Betty Hyde, program and Marcia MCConoughey, deco- rations. + Members of Kappa Delta Nu wjll honor the sorority's alumnae with a tea to be held tomorrow at the home of Barbara Rosenberg, 374 E. Verde Lane.. A busi- ness meeting was held at 7:30 pm on Wednesday at the home of Carolyn Par- sons to make plans for the tea. + Theta Chi Dalta members met Wed- nesday evening at the home of the spon- sor, Dr. Mildred Dietsch, 1332 W. Verde Lane for elections of officers. + Members of Phi Lambda Zeta met dur- ing activity period Tuesday, when they nominated Ed Sypherd and Doris Coor for the post of king and queen of Bear Day.. A meeting will be held Monday to elect officers for next year. + At the home of Chick Lowell on Mon- day, May 3, Xi Delta Chi held a meeting for the election of officers. Those elect- ed for the first semester of next year are: President, Tommy Gann; Vice-Presi- dent, Jack Cole; Secretary, Bill Donald- son; Treasurer, Paul Landy; Sergeant- at-Arms, Paul Mangino; Pledge Captain, Elmer Quackenbush. There was a discussion of a dinner- dance to be held Friday, May 7, at the- Sundown Club. Special guests at the dinner-dance will be Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smelser, Mr .and Mrs. Cecil A. Kersten, Paul Erickson and Jo Sieber. GOLF TEAM MEETS MUIR Next Thursday the Phoenix College golf team will journey to the coast to play John Muir, Long Beach and Ventura in the final games of their conference schedule. Today at 1:30 the team, consisting of Bob Mowatt, Jim Norris, Paul Jones, Don Kilpatric, Dick Hammontree, John Pickrell, Charles Pensinger and Richard Delph, will play John Muir at the En- canto Park Golf Course. ACADEMlC CLUBS Beta Phi Gamma, honorary journalistic society, will hold'its initiation ceremon- ies next Monday night at the home of Mr. Ray Emery, faCulty sponsor and Bear Tracks adviser.. Only two members of last year's group Will be present at the installation, Kerlin Rowland and Lew Burch. t New members being installed are John Barron, John Boskon, George Brown, Herb Surrett, Jan Hedrick, Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Don Levenhagen, Helen Maney, Russell Orton, Jim Agee and Tod Rosnek. In order to enter the society a stu- dentvmust have made an A, either dur- ing the preceding semester or during the semester in which he is admitted. Ceremonies will consist of certain ini- tiative rites and working on the year book.. Refreshments will be served. Alum- ni Baysol Turner will also attend the meeting. + The French Club held its annual ban- queteon Wednesday night at the En- canto Club Cafe. Between 45 and 50 at-' tended. Dick Packard, president of the club, presided. V The main feature of the evening was a speech by Miss Louise Utterbachh who spoke on France During the War. Miss Utterbach, an instructor in music at PC, spent a great deal of time in France with the International Red Cross during the war, and was able to en- tertain the club with many unusual anec- dotes concerning the occupation of France by Nazi Germany. 'Helen Backer and Beverly Seiff ren- dered several musical selections by French composers. Some native French people invited to the affair as guests of the club con- versed in French, and French songs added color and helped make the party very successful. The Arizona Alpha Chapter of Delta Psi Omega, National Honorary Dramatics fraternity, held its annual initiation last Thursday at 7:30 in the college audi- torium. The main event of the initiation was the presentation of dramatic readings by each of the pledges.. Following the initiation a swimming party was held at the El Rancho Lodge. New members who were initiated at the meeting are: Barbara Rosenberg, Frank Lundstrom, Charley Oatman, Cooper Welch, Grant Jean Caviness, Marilyn Blair, Joan Kearns, Dave Gar- ber, Grant Johnson and Amelia Majew- ski. Mr. L. L. Bump, Mr. J. N. Smelser and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Kersten were special guests at the affair; + On Wednesday, April 28, members of the Masque and Dagger held a pic- nic at South Mountains Park during which the new pledges were initiated. Baseball opened the evening and was followed by the initiation. Initiates were blindfolded and required to orate from three to five minutes without forgetting any of their lines. Woe to those who did! After the initiation, a picnic dinner was held and the new members were welcomed into the thespian organization by Bob Bloecker. The evening closed with songs and a dance held at the home of Annabelle Brice. New members are Annabelle Brice, Marian Snyder, Raymond Dad, Jim Lam- bert, Mark Coleman, Marty Martinez, Russell Voyce, Bob Quackenbush, Faye Stone, Willard McDonald, Leonard Fi- gueroa, and Marcia Panhurst. X With the purchase of Army and Navy surplus radio .qu lpment, the PC radio club has' been able to set up a sending and receiving station equal to most'of the valley stations. Above George Peek sends a call from the club's shack. BEAR TRACKSePHOENIX COLLEGE SPORT SLANTS By Jim Agee Top athletes of the two-year colleges in the nation also did some fine run- ning last night and are expected to do some of the same tonight in the finals of the National Junior College Track Meet. Don't miss this. Speaking of track meets, it looks like the Arizona-Texas League teams are back to the way of last year in making nearly all of their games turn into marathons. Same goes for some of the scores com- ing from the Border Conference baseball games. Not to mention the games of last weekend that Phoenix College had with their cross state rivals, Gila. The Bruins came through with some power- ful hitting that paved the way for those large scores. + Tomorrow night at lsaac Stadium will be the last chance for the students and fans to get a gander at our baseballers. They will travel to California next week where they will close out their season. Game time tomorrow night is 8:00 pm. BRUINS STOP MONSTERS TWICE Coach Johnny Rigg's Bruin baseball team won a doubleheader from the Gila College Monsters last Friday by scores of 18-4 and 19-2. In the initial game the Bruins jumped into an early lead as they pushed nine runs across in the first three innings. With both teams using reserves freely the game developed into a slug fest, but the Bruin's early lead was too much to overcome. Ted Lee was the victim of the Bruin's assault, while Barry Arney, Bill Young, and Thom Count Bondus performed on the hill for the locals. Count Bondus also led his team at the plate hitting two triples in two official trips and scoring five runs. The nite-cap proceeded to be another slugging bee as the Bears hopped on kHaroid Woods for 19 runs in seven innings. Very shaky support in the field also contributed to the monsters Water- loo. Dwaine Wheeler and Jack Maddy held the Gila Crew to two runs on five hits. The two wins give the Bruins a sea- son record of seven victories against five defeats. Tomorrow nite at 8:00 p. m. the Bears will meet the Williams Field Fliers in a single game at Isaac Park. This will be the last'home game of the sea- son and should be a very interesting one as the fliers are undefeated in 10 straight games. National Meet Finals Tonight Tonight at 7:30, the final of the Seventh Annual National Junior College Track.and Field Meet will take place at Montgomery Stadium. The meet was opened last night at 7:30, when the preliminaries of the two-day meet were held. Co-sponsored by the Phoenix Thun- derbirds and Phoenix College, the na- tional affair is making its third appear- ance in the local city. Last year tound Compton in the number one spot when the finals were over on Saturday night, but the new champions had to. take to the mud to win, as old man rain just couldn't stay away. George Dutch Hoy, Phoenix Col- lege athletic coach and the meet direc- tor, said that the city of Phoenix would be showered by athletes from about forty schools, making up the cream of the crop of the two year college track- men. Jim Coles, Big Chief of the Thun- derbirds, will lead the local organization's representatives at Montgomery Stadium during the stand tonight, and Phoenix College's own Phyllis Brock will reign . pone its visit as the queen of the national meet. Leading the two year schools as they go into the finals will be two schools from Southern California, Compton and Los Angeles City College. Unless some- thing unexpected happens or some un- known school comes up with a wonder team, the two schools should finish in the first two spots as they did last year, with LACC replacing Compton as the ultimate champions. No matter who comes out on top on the score, the people of Phoenix will have a chance to see many close events when the thinclads vie in either the track or the field events. Many of the standing records will fall during the two-day meet, and if the rain will post- until Sunday or Monday, the times set in this meet should top anything seen in this valley. Although Phoenix College doesn't plan to have their track squad up among the top schools competing, they will be on hand, and so should the students, as V good hosts. Coleman is New Grid Mentor PASADENA CLIPS PC NETTERS Last Friday mornings net match with Phoenix College facing Pasadena City College proved to be what looks like the shaping up of a good tennis team for Phoenix College. The score at one time was Pasadena 9, Phoenix 8 and had the second doubles match been different by one small point, Phoenix College would have won the match 14 to 13. The first doubles, John Hardaway and Clay Kaigler won their match for the most points of the contest. May 12, the team leaves for coast to play Compton, John Muir Venture in that order. the and E. P. Chink Coleman, director of athletics and head football coach at Wentworh Military Academy in Lex- ington, Missouri, has been named as the new grid mentor at Phoenix College. He will fill in the slot vacated by George Ahee, who resigned several weeks ago. Coleman is a veteran in southwestern football circles. A graduate of El Paso High School, he attended St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas. He has also taken graduate work at Texas Christian University and New Mexico Aggies. He coached at several southwestern high schools before going to Wentworth in 1942. The new coach is a student of the gridiron sport and has written several books and articles on its intricacies. He also conducts coaching schools. Coleman's Wentworth teams have been His 1943 team won the national jaycee title and last year very successful. won the Missouri state and Midwestern junior college football championships. He will take over his new duties with the beginning of the fall football sea- Robert J. College dean, stated. son, Dr. Hannelly, Phoenix 6 BEAR TRACKkPHOEN lX V COLLEGE Music Department Sponsors Recitals The PC music department is present- ing a series of recitals by music students. The first in the series was a violin recital by Gloria Dixon on April 8, which was followed by a piano recital by Benjamin Salt on April 13, and a piano recital by Beverly Seiff on April 29. Last Tuesday evening the third in the series was pre- sented by selected students in the various branches of applied music. Students on the program were Arthur Sedlnger, organ and piano; Eldon Ham- blin, voice; William Blaine Mullens, cor- net; Shirleen Allen, piano; Walter Rob- erts, voice; Richard Philabaum, violin; Joseph H. Bauer, voice; Jill Branning, organ; Kenneth Noble, voice; Walter Haddad, bass viol; Helen Backer, voice; Chester Davis, trombone; Grant John- son, voice; Billie Mitchell, organ; Gloria Dixon, violin; Lionel de Salliers, voice; Beverly Seiff, piano. On Wednesday evening a program was presented by the voice and piano stu- dents of Ruth C. Webb.. On the pro- gram were vocal selections by the men's octet, Eldon Hamblin, C. J. Woods, Rob- ert McDannold, Lee Lindemann, Jac- queline Davis, Grant Johnson, Charles Philips, Patty Ann Grady, Adolph Mar- tinez, Joseph H. Bauer, and James Day, and piano selections by Joyce Welker and Wilma Voskuil. On the evening of Tuesday, May ll, the piano students of Earle Stone will present their recital. Students on the program will be Betty Payne,.Alice To- borg,' Grace Marugg, Marie Childers, Chester Davis, Susan Thompson, Carol Jean Warnstaff, Mary Hannelly, Marian Pleuddeman, Benjamin Salt, Joyce Webb, Jo Ann Stone, Shirleen Allen, Arthur Sedinger, and Beverly Seiff. The series will be concluded on Wed- nesday evening, May 19, when Arthur Sedinger will present his piano recital. He will be assisted by Isabel Casares and Beverly Seiff, accompanist. Piano selections will include the Sonata in C Minor, Op. .l3 lPathetiquel by Beethoven; Etude in A Flat, Op.. 25 No. l, Nocturn in G. Minor, Op. 37 No. l, Valse in C Sharp Minor, Op. 64 No. 2, and Polonaise ' in A Flat Major, Op. 53 by Chopin; Liszt's Etude Un Sospiro; Concert in A Minor byGrieg; Vocal numbers by Miss Casares will include Massenet's Elegie, Habanera ifrom Carmenl by Bizet, Solvejg's Son by Grieg, I Love Thee by Grieg, Songs My Mother Taught Me by Dvorak, Tschaikowski's One Who Has Yearned, Alone, and Jurame by Grever. ' iAbovel Mr. J. C. Douthit and two stu- dents prepare Bumstead for the receiving of his new head. lRightl Ronald Hawkins, who modeled the new head, poses with the finished bear. lBelowl Bumstead's new cast-aluminum playmate. Story on Page ll 1 STUDENTS! Name the new Bear! Receive free publicity in down- town papers for yourself andJor your frat or sorority plus campus recogni- tion. Submit names to Bear Tracks. 13ml? wrath: Official Student Publication of Phoenix College Vol, 20 Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, May 14, 1948 No. 26 P C Expansion Marks Past Year As the May days ticked relentleslsly' by on the calendar and the campus sweltered under an almost deep-summer heat, students trudged wearily down the cool corridors of the arts and science buildings to enter their varibus class- rooms. For nearly three hundred and fifty graduating Sophomores, Phoenix College would soon be a memory, but the greater majority of students were looking forward to another year on campus, and wondering in their moments of specula- tion, what the next year would bring in changes and improvements. Had they the opportunity to discuss the matter with Dean Robert J. Hannelly they would learn that the college is still grow- ing by leaps and bounds. A year ago last summer the staff at the college was doubled to take care of the increased en- rollment; last summer it increased one- third. Typical of the expansion this year was the music department, wherein the staff was increased one hundred per cent, and the school purchased eight pianos to meet the demands of student musicians. Last fall also saw the entry of the college into the Western States Con- ference, most powerful jaycees athletic league in the nation. A Central Office Building was erected on campus which next year will house the Superintendent of Schools, Dr. E. W. Montgomery, along with Curriculum Con- sultants and other departments of the Central Accounting Administration. Events which students can look for- ward to next year are: The budget will go up for public hear- ing in June, and will go into effect July 1. Expansion of.the Art Department, in- cluding the addition of a full time teacher and the separation of the Art and Home Economics Departments. . The Agriculture Department will also see an increase. We'll give the WSC another try in football, said the Dean. We've got a year's experience behind us now. As lContinued on Page 3 SOPHS BOW OUT IN BLAZE OF GLORY The annual Phoenix College Baccalaureate will be held this year on Sunday, the 23rd of May In the college Auditorium All candidates for graduation will be given complimentary commencement tickets before the exercises. Faculty members and graduating students will e:,. We 1 lDean Hannelly, flanked by President lMontgomery and Mr. McLeod, the school system's engineer inspects the recently completed new Administration Building. HONORS ASSEMBLY NEXT TU ESDAY The annual honors assembly will be held next Tuesday at the regular as- sembly time. Mr. Mitchell, chairman of the Honors Committee, will be in charge. The following honors will be an- nounced: Members to Rotary Club, Ex- change Club, Alpha Mu Gamma, Delta Psi Omega, Beta Phi Gamma, Iota Sigma Alpha, Honor Board, 13 Club, the Editor of the Yearbook, the Ruth Roberts Tro- phy, which is given to the Valedictorian, Phoenix Women's Clubs scholarships, Elks Club scholarships, H. B. Wyman scholarship lgiven to a freshmani, U S C scholarship, Occidental College scholar- ship, Graduation Honors, Commmence- ment Speakers, the Fourth Phelps Trophy, Jr. Chamber of Commerce Award, Angeny Trophy, Rosenzweig Award, Marks Tro- phy, Murdock scholarship, and the Hiram Club scholarship. dress in academic caps and gowns for the traditional religious services. The main address will be delivered by Dr. Theron Chastain, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Phoenix Dean Mousseau and Mr. E. L. Stone are in charge of the Baccalaureate service this year. Members of the Honor Board and the 13 Club will serve as ushers. On Monday, the 26th of May, the an- nual College Breakfast will be held. The affair, a tradition at Phoenix College, is being given this year in Encanto Park. There will be no charge made for the breakfast, and all PC students and faculty members are invited to attend. Miss Stev- ens is in charge of planning for the breakfast; she is assisted by Mrs. Radu- lescu and Mr. Douthit. All persons at- tending the affair are asked to bring their own knives, forks, spoons, and cups. This year's annuals will be diSe tributed at the breakfast. Commencement Exercises will be held at eight pm on the evening of Wednes- day, May 26, in the band shell at Encanto Park. E. W. Montgomery, superintendent of Phoenix schools, will be the chairman of the program. The freshman class will be responsible for the commencement decorations ,while the members of the new 13 Club, under the supervision of Mr. Smelser, will act as ushers. The en- tire program is under the general super- vision of Mr. C. D. Cocanower. It is interesting to note that this year's graduating class is almost three times the size of last year's graduating class. There will be 316 students graduated this year; only I44 were graduated last year. Following the Commencement Exer- cises, there will be refreshments served for the graduates, their parents, and the members of the faculty. Members of the Honor Board will serve. as hostesses for the affair, which will be held in the En- canto Park band shell at about ten pm. BEAR TRACKkPHOEN lX COLLEGE BEAR TRAC KS Member Associated Collegiate Press, Co-Edltors ........ Kerlin Rowland, Tod Rosnek Issue Editor ...... Joyce, Hippso Dippso, Roche Assistant Editor .......................... Russell Orton Page Editors . Russell Orton, Lee Ingalls Sports Editor. ............................ Jim Agee Photography Editor.... ...... John Boskon Head Photographer.... ....George Brown Reporters ........ Don Levenhagen, Don Biscoe, Pat Mitchell, Pat Harris, Herb Sur- rett, Russell Orton, Joyce Roche, Jim Gump, John Barron, Meg Gun- erud, George Brown, John Boskon, Marcia Panhurst, Lee lngalls. Faculty Adviser .............................. Ray Emery BEAR TRACKS welcomes any signed opinions expressed by the student body. Well here we are at the close of an- other chapter in PC history. This has been quite a year all right! George Ahee fielded the first PC foot- ball team since before the war and did a fine job, everything considered. Ernie Walkup, right end on the Bear squad, was selected as a member of WSC's first all- conference team. Poor old Bumstead really took a beata ing this year. He was defaced, displaced, and decapitated in a matter of a few months. But everything came out all right in the head. In fact, things have gone so well of late that two Bears now adorn. our campus. Coach Hoy's basketball squad once again did the school proud. Leon Blevins, Gil Trejo, Art Carroll, and Glenn Barlow added new laurels to their past basketball honors in leading our team to an im- pressive two year record which will be hard to top. The United World Federalist movement progressed rapidly this year on our cam- pus. Through the able work of Don Mike Boomer, Koil Rowland, Loren Look, Charlie Oatman and others, the PC chapter of United World Federalists at- tracted a large number of thinking stu- dents and established a nucleus around which a bigger and better organization can be built next year. It is wished that we could add to this list that we of PC had attained four-year status. It should be at the top of the list of things to be pushed next year. D. L. Orchs to IRC's I R C! This week's orchid goes to the Phoenix College International Rela- tions Club for their efforts in gathering $100 for the Student World Service Fund. These twenty students have held many constructive and informing discussions this semester. With Mr. Zito's help, next year's l R C should be just as active an organization. ' more. KOlLtS KORNER Well, kiddies, it's time for the fond farewells. This issue of the BT is our last for the year. And as far as I'm concerned as a PC student and a BT staff member, this is all there is, there just isn't any Because if the Lord is willin' and the creek don't rise, I'll be graduating this spring. It's always rather difficult to try to say what you feel at tlrie end of some- thing that's been good without getting a little mawkishly sentimental about the whole thing. But I'll try very hard to keep the high school annual class history stuff to a minimum. I came to Phoenix College two years ago from a city that's a long way from here. And I hit this campus stone cold; I didn't know anybody here-not a soul. But it didn't take me long to get ac- quainted. Before registration for the first semester of last year had been completed, l had a very strong hunch that l was going to like this schoolethat l was going to like it plenty. Beacuse that was the way I'd been made to feel. Everyone with whom I came in contact, instructors and students alike, extended to me a real, genuine friendliness the like of which I've never seen anywhere. People at PC seemed to like other people and to want to get along with them. It was just as simple as that. As I've said, it wasn't long before the newness of everything to me began to wear off. Classes began in earnest, and I found to my surprise that college work wasn't different, essentially, from high school work. It was the same then as it had been in high school, the same as it's been ever since. It a guy put out a reasonable amount of effort, he could stay with the work that was assigned him; if he loafed and tried to cut corners, eventually he got his brains beat out. Whenever I had a free moment I found myself moving toward the SU, which was in the cafeteria last year, sitting around over there, watching people dance, and getting to know much bigger numbers of them all the time. That was a great spot; the new SU is pretty sad when it's com- pared to it. I'd like to see the SU moved to a more accessible spot next year, so that it could again become what it was last year and what it should be e the center of campus social life. And that's the way it went all of last year, and that's the way it's been this year. I worked lnowhere as hard as I should have worked, to be sure, but somel and thanks to that and to the fine in- struction that I had, I learned a lot of things. Nor was my learning limited to the work I did in class. I learned from the people I met here at PC what real friendliness means. I learned from the special close friends that I made how to have more fun than I'd ever thought it was possible to have. Yeah, there have been plenty of laughs. And l think too that there has been plenty of worthwhile learning and living. And now it's time to move on to what I hope will be still greener pastures. But before I go, I'd like to say quite simply that I've been far ,far happier in the two years that I've spent here at PC than I've ever been before in my entire life. That's not an attempt at senti- mentalism; it's a simple statement of fact. I'd like to say thanks, both to my in- structors who've taught me so much and to my friends who've also taught me a lot and who have been around when I needed them and have been good for at least one loud belly-laugh a minute in the bargain. It's been a fine two years. Movie Review By Mitchell and Harris Victor Youngls musical score and the above average photography pulled The Big Clock out of the absolute failure class into just a partial failure class. Taken from Kenneth Fearing's novel, the picture fails to capture the suspense of the book, but does make improvements. on the ending which was originally very weak and ineffectual. One of the picture's worst faults was the method in which the minor characters were portrayed. Any chance for reality was lost when the director sacrificed the picture's dramatic possibilities by making the minor characters seem foolish in an attempt at humor. Elsa Lancaster did best by her role as the artist, Patterson, but it was her talents and not the role that were interesting. Henry Morgan fared poorly with a role of a bodyguard that was totally unneces- sary to the picture, and which gave him no opportunity to show his ability. Charles Laughton may have been doing a fine job of acting, but he was rather difficult to understand in most scenes. George Macready, Ray Milland, and Rita Jlohnson make themselves look pretty silly when these characterizations are compared to ones they've enacted in the past. If you want to see a man lwith the complete cooperation of a crime bureaul spend the length of a movie in tracing himself down for a murder he didn't commit, then you might enjoy this. QEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE Dean's Box May 14, 1948 This is addressed to the sophomores. We who will be here next fall will miss you. The faculty and this year's freshmen will be better people because of having known you. Although our energies will be taxed to become ac-l quainted with a thousand new faces next yearl from time to time we shall look in vain for yours. Bon voyage! Dean Hannelly. NEW EDITORS CHOSEN The Freshman journalism class, in its yearly election, under the direction of Mr. Ray Emery, head of the English de- partment, made Don Levenhagen and Herb Surett co-editors of the 1948-1949 Bear Tracks. Pat Mitchell and Pat Harris were elected co-editors of the 1949 an- nual. LIBRARY BOOKS DUE All library books were due May 7. To avoid a fine of $1.00, all overdue books must be returned on or before 9:40 am on Monday, May 17. Books may be checked out during examinations on an overnight basis. Refunds will be made in the Regis- trars Office, May 27 and 28. NO LIBRARY REFUNDS CAN BE MADE AFTER JUNE 15, 1948. SOPHS GIVE PC TROPHY CASE Plans are being formulated by the graduating class of 1948 to present Phoe- nix College with two recessed trophy cases to be installed in the foyer of the Auditorium. Estimates of cost are now being ob- tained and if the project is carried out construction is scheduled to begin soon after the end of this semester. Trophies seen in Dr. Hannelly's office, the college clubroom and several other locations on the campus will be kept in the newly acquired cases. + lContinued from Page ll for last year's WSC gridiron record: think we did reasonably well . . . con- sidering the fact of a new coach and an inexperienced team. The Journalism, Publicity and Photo- graphic departments will be consolidated more in an attempt to coordinate all branches of school publication, such as the Bulletin, Blue Book, Bear Tracks, etc. A Mental Hygiene clinic will be es- tablished in Unit Eleven, which will be Ill PHOENIX COLLEGE SUMMER SCHOOL June 'I to July 23, 1948 One class or three between 7:00 and 11:15 am Regular College Faculty Fees: Registration $2.00; Library Deposit $2.00; Tuitionl$6.00 per semester hour; Laboratory $8.00. ' ENROLL AT ONCE! l REGlSTRATIOWCLOSES JUNE 2 THE FOLLOWING COURSES ARE BEING OFFERED: Aeronautics Basic Ground School Course Commercial Pilot Ground Course Private Pilot Flight Course Flight Instructor Course Art Advanced Drawing and Design Applied Art Business Administration Owning 81 Operating a Small Business Principles of Advertising Business Law i2nd semesterl Commerce Beginning Typewriting Intermediate Typewriting Secretarial Typewriting English English Composition list semesterl English Composition l2nd semesterl World Literature llst semesterl World Literature l2nd semesterl Modern Fiction Advanced Composition Grammar Home Economics Advanced Costume Design Selection and Preparation of Food Family Living Special Problems in Clothing Principles of Pattern Design Language Beginning French ilst semesterl Beginning French l2nd semesterl Beginning Spanish ilst-semesterl Beginning Spanish i2nd semesterl Intermediate Spanish llst semesterl Mathematics Plane Trigonometry Analytic Geometry College Algebra Intermediate Algebra Music Vocal lprivate lessonsl Beg.-Adv. Piano iprivate Iessonsl Beg.-Adv. Philosophy Intro. to Philosophy ilst semesterl Intro. to Philosophy i2nd semesterl Psychology General Psychology l1st semesterl General Psychology l2nd semesterl Science Principles of Heredity Gen. Chemistry ilsr semesterl Gen. Chemistry i2nd semesterl Gen. Physics llst semesterl Gen. Physics i2nd semesterl Social Science Main Currents in Mod Hist. llst sem.l Main Currents in Mod. Hist. l2nd semJ Intro. to Sociology ilst semesterl Social Problems i2nd semesterl Principles of Economics American History ilst semesterl American History i2nd semesterl Latin American Civilization Speech Fundamentals of Speech ilst sEmesterl Fundamentals of Speech i2nd semesterl Public Discussion ilst semesterl Production 81 Acting i1st semesterl FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Phone 5-4704 or come to the Registrar's of- fice, 1202 W. Thomas Road. remodeled for that purpose. A new course will be offered in Physi- cal Science which will offer a broad, non- technical approach to the role of science in civilization. An attempt will be made to do a better job of student guidance throughout the year, not only at registration time, in the form of induction tests, but when- ever the student feels a need to consult specialists concerning any particular prob- lem he might have. That's an eternal problem, Dr. Han- nelly stated. You can never do too much, if it's the right kind of guidance. Nobody likes being pushed into this or that, but there's always a need for good, intelligent student guidance. New Building to Be Finished in July Work on the new administration build- ing for the Phoenix school system is ex- pected to be finished by July, accord- ing to Mrs. Holt, of the superintendent's office. The ultra-modern building faces east on North 11th Avenue, and is built of brick and stone, with a red tile roof similar to those on other PC buildings. A large porch extends around three sides of the building and includes a large re- ception room, several offices, two rest rooms, a heating and cooling system, and a safe. 4 BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE SOPHS MAUL FRO H 2 : Pie Face! This fake: the Cake-Fie, we mean. SOPHOMORES , 988 BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE lNBEAR BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX COLLEGE SPORTS SLANTS By Jim Agee This week rings down the curtain on quite a few things at Phoenix College, and one major item is the close of ath- letic competition for the year 1947-48. The baseball, tennis, and golf squads are on their final journey of the year to the west coast where they will complete the local school's athletic schedule for the year. Coach Johnny Rigg's basebal- lers played John Muir yesterday, with an- other game on tab' for today, and tomor- row will finish up with a doubIe-header against Ventura. Looking back over the records this yast year we find: Coach George Ahee and the Bruin gridders bowing seven times to their foes, while knocking over only two. It was a tough schedule ,the toughest PC has had, but the boys played good hard fottball the entire season, even if the scores did indicate a victory for the other team in many cases. Then came the basketball season. Victory was sweet and we tound it to our liking as the squad racked up win after winetwenty-seven of them, while we could be topped only six times. Coach George Dutch Hoy's boys came out with the championship in our own invitational tournament in De- cember and a third place in the annual Compton tournament. Coach Johnny Riggs stepped into the sport light with a Bruin nine that has been hard to beat, and along with Joe Brundage's golfers and Mario Zito's tennis squad have rounded out the sports for another year at Phoenix College. The National JC Track Meet has been completed another time, and with a new champion, Los Angeles City Collegee 'Phoenix will be the site of next year's contesteand some talk from the boys competing in the events indicated that the oval at Montgomery Stadium is in dire need of a little refacing. Some ath- letes hoped that the meet might be held at Tempe on the cinder track where the boys might have a chance to break some of the records. By the way, one of the local news- papers compared the times and distances set in the Border Conference to those made in the JC meet and put a feather in the Border boys' hats for coming out on top in most of the comparisons. The only thing the two year college athletes had to compliment was the approaches to the pole vault and high jump-did you notice how much difference there hap- pened to be between the two groups in these events. Had the track events taken place on Cinders, I don't believe the BC would have had the edge at all. I That is thirty for sports and thirty for the column for this yearethanks for listening. BRUINS DROP NIGHT GAMES TO FLYERS The Phoenix College Baseball Team lost a close decision to the Williams Field Fliers last Saturday at Isaac Park by a score of 14-12. The game was hard fought and several times minor skirmishes occurred during the slug fest. Dwane Wheeler started on the mound for the locals but gave way to Barry Arney in the fourth inning. Both pitch- ers together yielded eleven hits, however poor support in the field hampered the Bears cause greatly. The Bruins got ten hits off the Fly Boy pitchers and stayed in the game with their brilliant base running. It was the sixth loss of the season for the Bears who have won seven games. Wednesday morning, Coach Johnny Riggs and fourteen players left by bus for California where they will engage the Ventura Pirates and the John Muir Mus- tangs in a .series of games. These games will wind up the 1948 season for the local squad. Paul Carbaial levels on one of the tamer offerings of the Williams Field pitcher; the action is from the recently played Bruin-Flyer game which the Flyers won, 14-12. Teams Travel 'To California Coaches Riggs, Zito, and Brundage and their respective baseball, tennis, and golf teams entrained last Wednesday on the last PC coast invasion of the year. The baseball team, 17 strong, tackled - the John Muir Mustangs Thursday and are scheduled to mix with the Mustangs again today, and from there they move on to a double-header with the Ventura Pirates tomorrow. Coach Riggs took the following men on the traveling squad: Les Kastner, Jack Holland, catchers; Duane Wheeler, Barry Arney, Bill Young, pitchers; Jim Gump, Paul Carbajal, Burnie Lamb, Jack Maddy, Howard Lamb, in- fielders; Al Brady, Rex Maddy, Earl Boltz, Thom Bondus, outfielders; Jerry Hirsh- berg, Boyce Azbill, utility; and Tom Gann, manager. l The Bears were in 5th place according to the last official conference release and stand an excellent chance of bettering their standing if they can cop three of their four coast games. Ventura staeks up as their tongher opponent, sporting 3 won 4, lost 3 record which places them third in the WSC. John Muir, with 3 won 2, lost 5 record, is 6th in the con- ference. Coach Zito's Tennis team played the Compton squad yesterday, plays John Muir today, and will meet the Ventura racqueteers tomorrow. Clay Kaigler and John .l-lardaway will cmstitute the PC ist doubles team; Bob Collins and Jake Duran make up the second PC doubles entry. In the singles matches our men are: No. 1, Owen Allen; No. 2, Glenn Phillips; No. 3, Dave Doucet; No. 4, Jitter McDannold; No. 5, Charles Philips. Joe Brundage, golf coach, carried an eight man squad on the coast trip. The players and their respective team ratings are as follows: 1. Bob Mowatt, 2. Jim Norris, 3. Don-Kilpatrick, 4. Paul Jerald Jones, 5. Dick Hammontree, 6. John Pickerell, 7. Charles Pensinger, 8. Richard Delph. The Bear Golf team met John Muir College in a six-man match contest yes- terday, and is scheduled for the best six- man medal score WSC meet today. Sat- urday they will move to neighboring Ven- tura to play a six man match contest, which winds up this year's competition. BEAR TRACKSePHOENlX COLLEGE Queen Phyllis Brock presents the captain of the LACC victon with his spoils. Up and over! Slide, Kelly, Slide! CUBS CLEAN UP lN NATIONAL MEET When the finals of the Seventh Annual National JC Track and Field Meet came to a close last Friday night at Montgomery Stadium, Los Angeles City College, the pre-meet favorite, was declared the cham- pion for I948. The Cubs from Los An- geles amassed a total of 89V2 points dur- ing the evening, while the nearest com- petitor, LACC's arch rival, Compton Col- lege, which was . the 1947 champion, could only score 61 526 markers for the affair. It was the third time that LACC had copped top honors for the nationals. i The only double winner for the even- ing was Art Williams, Riverside's dusky sprinter, who copped both of the clashes. His time for the century was 9.9 and his 220 yard streak was made in 22.l. He was closely pressed by a host of LACC men in both events. 2 ln winning the meet, Los Angeles was able to pick up only two first places, in the high hurdles and the broad jump, but their overall strength, especlally in; .the dashes' andvthe hurdles where they were really loaded, was enough to grab the victory. The Cubs also copped the non-counting mile relay and broke the only record for the evening in taking this event. The four mah team lowered the time from 3:26.8 to 3:219, as they staved the Terrific Tartars from Compton, who were on their heels the. whole way. Williams in the 220, Wilford Dancer in the high jump, and Al Zimmerman in the pole vault were the only competitors to successfully defend their champion- ships of last year. Dancer of Mount San Antonio, California, was forced to top six feet 55A; inches to win his event, while Compton's Zimmerman found it took a yault of 13 feet to recapture his crown. A couple of ace distance men from Glendale, California, grabbed victories in the mile and two mile events. Bob McMil: len covered the four laps at the local stadium in 4:26.8, finishing far out in the lead of the pack, and his teammate, Warren Ward, copped his event, the two mile, in a brilliant time of 9:51.8. Another fine performance came in the shot put when Lewis Davis of Menlo heaved the sphere 50 feet, 31$; inches, falling short of the national record by a few inches. Following LACC and Compton in the final point standings were Glendale 28;' Stockton 27; Riverside 26; San Bernar- dino 22; Bakersfield 21; Fullerton l9; Chaffey 19; San Diego 16; Santa Ana 15; Mount San Antonio '14; Pasadena l3; Menlo l2; San Francisco lOVz; San Mateo 8; Edinburg 8; Long Beach 7526; Ev- erett 6; Branch Aggies 4; East Los An- geles 3; Salinas 2; Sacramento 1; John Muir Va. 1,7,, , -2 ...,7 nuehuisi ,2 Paul Jones, Don Kilpahick, Jim Norris, Mr. Brundage, John Pickrell, Charles P-ensinger, and Dick Hammontree, members of our too often forgotten Golf Team. I BEAR TRACKSePHOENlX COLLEGE EXAMINATION SCHEDULE SUMMER SCHOOL PHOENIX COLLEGE EXAMINATION SCHEDULE Many profitable and interesting cours- Classes which recite regularly on Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Monday, es will be offered by the home economics Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, or Daily ate- and art department this summer. The PERIOD new clothing course, Pattern Design, at- 1 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Wednesday May 19 fords the opportunity to design ones own 2 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. Wednesday May 19 clothing and then have the joy of ex- 3 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Thursday May 20 ecuting ones plan in the construction of 4 1:00 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. Wednesday May 19 lovely garments. Special problems in 5 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. Thursday May 20 clothing will prove interesting as well as 6 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Friday May 21 profitable to the ambitious co-ed. Phoe- 7 1:00 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. Friday May21 nix, being a- resort town, requires indi- 8 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Monday May 24 vidual attention on clothing problems. 9 3:00 .m. to : .m. ' Classes which rscite regularly 3:27:3de andionylfIFIfSSiayyate May l9 Classes in Studio Art afford the op- portunity to test ones talent by working PERIOD in water colors, oils and other media while 1 3:00 p.m. to '5:00 p.m. Thursday May 20 APPllEd A presents an opportunity to 2 1:00 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. Thursday May 20 test one's interest and ability in leather 3 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. Friday May21 craft, weaving, and etc. The course in 4 1:00 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. Monday May 24 Family Relations has proveh so stimulat- 5 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday May 24 ing that it will be offered during the 6 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. Monday May 24 summer school. The selection and pre- 7 8:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. Tuesday May 25 paration of foods should be interesting 8 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday May 21 and highly stimulating as well as will the 9 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Tuesday May 25 C1355 in Costume 1395191 !- . . y g y, y ' ' ' p y. xammations W e erans planning to attend summer school given In the regular class rooms. ' . under the G. 1. Bill. The Rape of The Bear lTo The Class of '481 VERSE 1 When laurels to a class in fame are spoke, This Class of Forty Eight has much to boast; Of lovers like Carroll, f'cops like Geary, Of queens like Brock, of whom none would weary. Actors, Dancers, and athletes galore, Many the names, '-'wheels to adore. But hark! To your mascot I cast my eye! Lowly creature, innate and cold, has high In your bosoms his vestige long retained. Alas! What fiend your much loved bear has maimed? What devilish, satanic, diabolical crime Forever shall blight the pages of time! Some steel hammer no doubt, some wielded sledge, Severed forever Bumstead from his head! VERSE 11 Then flashed the living lightning from your eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, When shouts of Red! at college, lapdogs cast. But anxious cares the pensive Class oppressed, And secret passions labored in your breast. Not youthful kings in battle seized alive, Not scornful virgins who their charms survive ThetCharlie Oatman Casanova ride, Not K-D-N if robbed of all their pride, Not tyrants fierce that unrepenting die, Nor Mrs. Motto at trays left astray, Could fell such rage, resentment and despair, As thou, graduates! For thy ravished bear. But oh! if e'er a crime could spoil a grace, Or raise a pimple on a beauteous face, Like spiked punch, ev'ning dancer's cheeks inflame, Or change complexions at a losing game: Hear me, and touch Bumstead with chagrin, That single act gives half the state the sin. VERSE Ill Was it for this you took constant care The plaster mold and essence to prepare? Gods? Shall the ravisher display your bear, While the llTroops envy and the wizards stare! Methinks already 1 your rivals survey; Flagstaff, Tempe, e'en the U. of A., Already hear the horrid things they say; Forever cursed be the detested day, Which snatched your best, your fav'rite head away! Restore the head! You cry; and all around, Restore the head! The vaulted roofs rebound. The head obtained with guilt, and kept with pain, In every place is sought, but sought in vairi; Bear Tracks ran wild as publisher's made guess; With such a prize no mortal must be bless'd. Some thought it mounted to the Tempe Butte, Since all things here, to them are treasured loot. There, hero's wits are kept in one-eyed sleep With shears to scalp all those who dare entreat. VERSE lV But trust the MUSPShe saw it upward rise, Though marked by none but quick poetic eyes. A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind the radiant head of your bear. This the bless'd loVers shall for Venus mark ' As making points at night from desert parks. Soon Wilbur Hoff shall view with thankful eyes, lts light while making rain 'bove cloudy skies. Then cease oh class! to mourn thy ravished bear, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the Bumsteads this fair school can boast, Shall draw such envy as the bear you lost. For after all the murders of your eye, When, after millions slain, yourselves shall die: When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all your teachers shall be laid in dust, His head the Muse to fame shall consecrate, And 'midst the stars inscribe the Class of Forty Eight! HARLAND PADFIELD. BEAR TRACKSePHOENlX COLLEGE The Catch All Frederick again! The student body and faculty members express thanks to all those who participated in making Bear Day the success it was. Near'n Far! Majority of the PC students will be working or attending Summer School these following hot monthsehowevah, a few of the lucky ones are: Dave Ga rber, who is returning to Cleveland and then mak- ing an extensive trip around Northeastern U. 5.; Pat Dunn and Marge Petersen, who are also contemplating Eastern jour- neys; Fred Wilson, who is going to Tim- buctoo to hunt female mosquitoes; Mar- cella Wyman, who plans joining her father in Germany; and Connie Dumont, who is going to--ah me, just loaf. Plug! You've no doubt read and heard 'bout the New St. Joseph hospital which is to be built near the campus. May we suggest it's a very good causeecon- tribute to it, you may be very glad you did someday. Our best to you! Rae Standiford, PC student, is marrying Max Phillips on May 28. Student Adrian Scott, and alumna Lucille Hoft's marriage will take place in early June. And, next Fall PC student, Eldon Hamblin, will step into matrimony with Belva Theone Cooper. We'll miss you Sophomores! Next making their averages at Stanford; Koil majoring in Radio Production and Bill in Law. Smiling One Moss will be attending Tempe classes be- tween baby sitting. Also at Tempe will be Barbara Bell iEducationl, Robbie Rob- ertson tBusinessl, Sybil Rice tZoologyi, Stinky, Limpy Blaine Mullins iBusinessl, Hank Hankinson tBusinessl, Justin Her- man iLawl, Simon Krevitsky iEnglishi and many, many others. PSB, Lover Carroll, and family are moving to California, but Jim's liable to be hitting the law books with Bird Dog Oatman at the U. of A. come next Fall. Also at the U. of A. will be Bill Palmer iEducationt, H. F. Chappele tLawl, Bud Beck tBusinessl, Reed Shupe tPre-Medi and A. R. French tBusi- ness 'and anl. At the U. of Indiana will be Tom Bondus majoring in Business, at the U. of Missouri will be Bob Wil- liamson majoring in Journalism and ad- vertising, the U. of Oklahoma will have Tom Cambron majoring in Law, at North- western will be Jim Agee majoring in Journalism and at Cambridge, England will be Harland Padfield majoring in Writing. Owl Lauderback will continue his archi- tectural studies either at the U. of Washington or the U. of California at Berkeley. Maioring in Radio Acting at' the U. of Colorado will be Coop Welch eand, as if the U-Cll wouldn't have U.W.F. Stand ls Popular Results of the world government opin- ion poll, which, was sponsored by the Phoenix College chapter of the World Federalists, have been tabulated. Sixty- three per cent of the people polled an- swered yes to the first question, Do you agree with the United World Fed- eralists and Dr. Einstein that we must have world government because we are living under a world condition of lawless chaos? The second question, Do you believe that the only real form of world gov- ernment is that chosen by and repre- sentative of the people of the world? received an 80 per cent affirmative vote. Sixty-seven per cent approved when asked, Would you support a plan for a world constitution convention it it were proposed by congress or the president? The college UWF will resume their activities next fall when it is hoped that the large majority who favor world fed- eration will join and take active part in the organization. At the last meeting Loren Look was elected president and Don Holroyd vice-president. Eta Chi The installation of new officers will be held by Eta Chi Epsilon at their next meeting, the night of May 21, in the Phoenix College club room. Although the new officers had not been elected when this paper went to press they will be announced today to the members of the club. Initiation services were held last Wed- nesday night, May 5, in a picturesque candle-light ceremony at Encanto Park club house. New members for this se- mester were given their formal initiation and are scheduled to take over the next meeting of the club. A style show is one of the scheduled events to be presented at the next meet-, ing. The show will exhibit garments made by the various clothing classes this se- mester. Refreshments will be served after the style show bringing to a close this year's events for the club. enough on theirvmind with Coop ino of- fensei they'll have Blevins, Roche, Gump and Orton with which to contend! 'Bout Time! Rumor has it BT will be printed upon regular newspaper next year ethereupon, there will be a complete .style change in the Year Book. VBT bids you Farewell! Good luck on the rest of your exams, guySeHave fun graduation week, and, a pleasant sum- mer to you-all. TEACHERS TELL SUMMER PLANS With summer vacation almost here the BT roving reporter has dug into the sum- mer plans and desires of the PC faculty and office personnel. Quite a few, when quizzed, admitted that they had nothing definite planned except to locate a nice cool spot and beat the Arizona heat. Some of them will be right here at PC, bravely trying to put a little knowledge into the long suffering summer school students. And then some of them, including Dr. R. J. Hemphill, Mr. J. D. Calhoun, Mr. J. Smith Decker, Coach George Ahee and Miss Barbara Smith are going out to seek a little more knowledge themselves. Dr. lrene Eastman says that she will be farming this summer. Seems she has a .tarm and when school's out she'll head for the country. Mrs. Beulah Bearce isnit sure what she'll be doing this summer, but she'd like to travel and work on a ranch. Miss Norma Snyder will vacation in Boulder, Colorado, but she'll also work in an office this summer so it won't be all play. Mrs. Mildred Noble will take off for Ft. Lewis, Washington and her hus- band once the work for this year is done. Mr. J. N. Smelser is staying home this summer, but he may go fishinge'qor fish -says he. Mr. Ray Emery will teach summer school and later journey to the West Coast to make preparations for entering Stanford next fall when his leave of absence will begin. Miss Grace Nichols will also have a leave of absence. Mr. Wayne Edland says he has no plans for the summer, but he's open to suggestions. Dr. Cecile Wilson and George Ahee will be among those teachers who will not return to PC next fall, both having se- cured positions in California. Mr. Arthur Phelps plans to spend some time in New York City. The BT reporter couldn't contact all the teachers, but no matter what they are doing this summer, BEAR TRACKS hopes they will have a very pleasant summer, and will be here to greet us next fall. DR. BURROWS TO GIVE PIANO CLINIC Dr. Raymond Burrows, Professor of piano music at Columbia University, will conduct a piano music clinic on June 2, 3, 4, and 5, at Phoenix College. The clinic is primarily for private piano teach- ers wishing to review their state certifi- cation, but is open to anyone interested. Dr. Burrows will give private lessons before and after regular clinic periods. Those interested, will register at the Phoenix College clubroom, at 8 am on June 2. BEAR TRACKkPHOENIX COLLEGE tCLAUyDlA is SMASH Dozens of orchids go to Susan Van Zandt for her outstanding performance in the title role of Claudia, the Com- mencement Play which was presented last night and will be presented again to- night at 8:30 pm. Mr. Kersten, the director of the show, is certainly lucky to have such a fine leading lady. It was supposed to be Claudia's show and it was. Her ease and naturalness on the stage was certainly the best thing about the show. But then again there were many other things about this show that were tops. Gene Miller in the role of David and Maxae Kersten in the role of Mrs. Brown tamed in performances that showed un- derstanding of their parts and a good sense of timing. The three remaining women in the play, Ida Price, Marjorie Sonnenschien and Marian Snyder turned in well rounded performances and especially showed a sense of humor in their respective roles. Unfortunately the other men in the play were not up to the standard of theorest of the cast. Jim Lambert seemed a little uneasy with his British accent, and Grant Johnson's performance was not quite up to his usual excellence. All in all the show is a good one and one that would be well worth the time spent to see it. H LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT ON KOY Tomorrow afternoon, at 4:45 pm, the Foreign Language department, under the direction of Miss Hunter, will broadcast over radio station KOY. This program is one in a series called Know Your Schools and is put on every week by various high schools in Phoenix or Phoe- nix College. TAU OMEGA ELECTS Elections were held Monday night for next semester's Tau Omega officers. Those officers elected were Wally Perry, president; Al Moore, vice president; Ron- ald Prator, secretary; Wayne Grippin, treasurer; Marshall Humphrey, social chairman; Bill Finch, pledge master; and Dick Norton, publicity chairman. Dick Norton received the Outstanding Pledge cup. HILLEL CLUB The joint picnic of the Phoenix College Hillel and Tempe Hillel, scheduled for Sunday, May 16, has been called off. On Saturday night, May 22, Phoenix College Hillel will hold a Blow Out Party at the home of Cecille Siegel, l515 W. Pierce St., at 9 pm. F! ' I .4 Grant Johnson, Marian Snyder, Susan Van Zandt, and Gene Miller in a scene from Claudia. ALPHA SIGMA GAMMA The final event of this year to be . sponsored by Alpha Sigma Gamma will be a party to be held May 22 at White Oak Lodge, Georgia and Central Avenues. The Hawaiian theme will be carried out with the use of floral decorations and leis. Last Wednesday, May ,12, graduating members of the same group were hon- ored by freshman members with a dinner at Knotty Pines. Honorees who received gifts from the group were Nadine Howard, Mary Hannelly, Love Veta Farmer, Joyce Abbott and Jo Lynch. Special guest was Mrs. W. D. Bearce, sorority sponsor. + KAPPA DELTA N U Election of officers was the main busi- ness of a recent meeting of Kappa Delta Nu, at which time the following members took office: Carolyn Parsons, president; Frankie Jo Lanter, vice-president; Barbara Schilt, secretary; Jean Phillips, treasurer; Jean Young, soc i al chairman; Jean Thompson, publicity cha i rma n; Anne Redick, pledge mistress; Lois Ahlene and Dorothy Watson, senior and junior rep- resentatives to the lnter-Society Council. MARY FARRELL ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE Mary Ellen Farrell was elected last week by the Home Economics depart- ment to represent the province of Arizona and New. Mexico in the American Home Economics Association annual meeting to be held at Minneapolis, Minnesota, the week of June 2i, 1948. She was chosen for her outstanding work in the Home Economics classes. Mary Ellen will take part in the work- shop of college Home Ec Clubs to be held at the national meeting. This is the second time in three years the honor has been bestowed upon Phoenix College to have one of its members elected by the province to be represented at the na- tional meeting. A senior at the University of Arizona, Ruth Frederickson, was the elected delegate to the meeting last year for this province and will accompany Mary Ellen to this year's meeting. w ALPHA Members of Alpha sorority will be hon- ored by their alumnae group with a lawn party to be held tonight at lOO East McDowell Road. There will be a meeting on Monday, May 17. grew; A ! .