Pomona College - Metate Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

Text from Pages 1 - 232 of the 1941 volume:

t 4 1 METATE BRINGING INTOF C3 US YOUR LIFE ON THE CAMPUS O F FP O M O N A COLLEGE CLAREMONT CALIFORNIA A. T o T y v y WARREN WHEELER . EDITOR LOU SAWYER . ASSOCIATE EDITOR TOM MORRIS . BUSINESS MANAGER I 2j T PASSES OVER MOUNTAINS B Y FOOTHILLS - NEAR S AND ACROSS THE DESERT- NOW AND SEA AND CITY. - . i-aciSSE !! , ALONG THE HIGHWAY-BELOW THE FOOTHILLS- STANDS A TOWN-AND IN THE TOWN A COLLEGE. AS IN EVERY AMERICAN TOWN - AND IN EVERY AMERICAN COLLEGE - THERE IS THE CHANCE TO LIVE IN FREEDOM-AND THINK IN FREEDOM-AND PLAY IN FREEDOM. jmIC - ■■■• .1 m TO DO -TO QUESTION-TO REALIZE-WHAT YOU WILL. 11 FROM THE HIGH WAY- THROUGH THESE COLLEGE GATES ONTO THIS CAMPUS . ' ,? :;• :Ui- v ' ' • ■ ' t.2 vfc. ■if- . ' ' -;. ■Wfl ..,.:v- : -i-f Siu.B-;. ,a.- :- AND N OROZCO ' S PROMETHEUS IN FRARY — MEN ' S DINING HALL PATIO OF THE STUDENT UNION 14 T O THESE BUILDINGS- SMILEY HALL— MEN ' S DORMITORY B LA IS D ELL— WO M EN ' S RESIDENCE CLARK HALL— MEN ' S DORMITORY HARWOOD COURT — WOMEN ' S RESIDENCE — LEFT SUMNER H ALL — A D M I N 1ST R ATI O N — B ELO W LEFT SCIENCE QUADRANGLE — BELOW CENTER BRIDGES HALL OF MUSIC — BELOW RIGHT YOU HAVE COME T O LIVE- 17 AND STUDY- .3W. MRNOPEAN, 8- 18 FOLLOW YOUR INTERESTS- J % v fii 0f 0m v i ?3 ' rs , ev; AND PLAY ■ • X I? r : Iv9 ■ 5 Ir -. tf IT IS THIS LIFE— YOUR LIFE— WHICH WE WANT TO BRING INTO FOCUS HERE. YOUR LIFE— FOR IT IS YOU AND THE PEOPLE YOU KNOW WHO ARE THE COLLEGE. HOVVCOjAt 24 EVERYONE MEETS PRESIDENT CHARLES K. EDMUNDS, as everyone who has come here in the last thirteen years has met him. For that long time he has served Pomona, trying to see that eight hundred students a year get at least a partial insight into a liberal education, and greasing the wheels for keeping the corporation which is the modern privately- endowed college in order. You realize that he takes the lead in college convocations, that he gives innumerable dinners, receptions, luncheons for students, faculty members and campus guests. But have you stopped to think that President Edmunds does the major share of what you and I would call dirty work at Pomona — that when he retires in June the expression private life will come back into his vocabulary for the first time in twelve long, highly-fruitful years? Keeping expensive, well-equipped Pomona on its feet has been a terrific job, has won for him the admiration and praise of student and educator alike. For all these reasons, and because we cherish a particular fondness for a certain nameless negro janitor, we dedicate this book — our idea of what Pomona is — to him. TAKING TIME OUT from raising the wherewithal, President REHEARSING for Mein HE TALKS OVER history with three of Pomona ' s founders a Edmunds converses with Ghost president Lloyd Iverson. Kampus Negro janitor. 1937 Jubilee: Frank Brackett, Edwin Norton, George Marston THEN YOU MEET HOWARD PATTEE, director of admissions, who is in a very large measure responsible for spreading the name of Pomona from coast to coast, and for seeing that none of its lights are hidden under bushel baskets. In addition to yearly visits to a multitude of U. S. cities, a large part of Pattee ' s job consists in interviewing prospective college candidates — here, Martha Ann Hubble. MARTHA ANN straightens out some irksome complications which have arisen over semester hours or prerequisites or something (as a result of previous conference with her faculty advisor) with Margaret Maple, impresario of the records, sender of D no- tices, best friend of the neophyte job hunter — whose official title is Pomona College Recorder. Now Martha is ready to pay bills. 26 $7.25 FOR ASPC DUES, $1 for a Sagehen, $1 for a season drama ticket, and, unless she has been forewarned, another $4.50 for a Metate, and Martha Ann begins to wish that she had tried getting a liberal edu- cation via some correspondence school. FURTHER DECIMATION of capital re- sources is effected by a brusque two-minute chat with Miss Amelia Smith, who relieves the exchequers of the Hubbies and 750 other families, of sums ranging skyward from $390 per semester, for board and room. A SADDER BUT WISER GIRL about red p ' tape and registration, Martha discovers that as far as entering college Is concerned there is no getting anywhere without stand- ing In long lines. World-weary, she beats a path to the Coop to consort with a coke. AND THE DEANS OFF FOR A WELL-EARNED REST, dean of the college William E. NIcholl took his sabbatical second senaester. His duties, at present filled by dean Kenneth Duncan, are general coordinator of college activities, chairman of College Life committee. Probably his most distinguished insignia is the little blue hat donned upon state occasions. WHILE MISS GIBSON took her sabbatical during the first semester, Ellen Bowers, shown here chatting with some information-seekers, held the fort down, was made assistant dean of women. It is her thankless job to de- cide who shall have the use of the new AWS station wagon. DEAN OF WOMEN Jessie Gibson and acting dean of the college Kenneth Duncan had a hand in the awarding of scholarships, buckled down near the end of the year to help decide what students will enter Pomona next fall, write them reams of welcoming and advising letters. THEN THERE IS THE FACULTY FIRST YOU SEE THEM in flowing robes and sober faces, bound for convocation. The procession is slow, full of tradition and shadows of the past. It ends in Little Bridges, the professors assembled on the stage. The convo- cation begins. The professors are merely faces on a stage. And then you see them in class. The faces become sources of facts, dates, great ideas, biting satire and subtle wit. Your classes are small; you see your professors as the camera lens saw English Instructor Joseph Angell. . YOU SOON DISCOVER YOU SEE THEM IN THE COOP, on the campus, and in their offices after class, and you discover that they are really quite human. They like swing and they hate eight o ' clocks just as much as you do. Bottom, dis- cussing life in general over a stiff bottle of 7-Up are faculty members Philbrick, Wo- mack, Davis and Lincoln. Just above, profes- sor W. T. Jones talks over grades and philos- ophy with the back of John Dye. This year of all years proved the humanity of professorial Pomona, when Mein Kampus was present- ed. Below left, history professor Frank Pit- man takes a ride on his filly, Broom Ida. THAT PROFESSORS ARE PEOPLE TOO GRADUATE MANAGER first semester, one-time SIg Tau and AMS president Dean Pollard, runs over inventory and the rebate situation with Curt Murrell, big boss of the Coop. Before leaving, Dean kept an eagle eye on the finances of the school organization, made arrangements for football games and track meets. Curt does excellent job of I) keeping just right amounts of Ivory, LIFE and tennis shoes, size 8, on hand; 2) getting rid of them. MILTON CHEVERTON, also one-time AMS prexy, gets prize for shortest term at bat as graduate manager in college history. Called by the Navy, he leaves his efficient, omniscient secretary, Mrs. Helen Throne, to carry on. She has had three different bosses in one year. THE MANAGERS- BEHIND THE COUNTER at the Coop with Keith Spees and customers. Spees, aided by fountain manager Ed Sprotte, supplies nourishment or refreshment at any time, ham- burgers at certain hours. Succeeding Cheverton as grad- uate manager, Spees now controls the purse strings of col- lege organizations, has, among other things, the job of calling up dozens of track coaches each Saturday to tell them it has rained again. Sprotte, like Spees, must be a genius at organization, have coke-sundae men at all hours, experienced hamburger cooks at those certain hours. 31 AND ALL THESE PEOPLE THEY COOK YOUR FOOD- TEND YOUR ASSISTED BY NURSE HELEN MITCHELL, Claremont Colleges physician Gilbert Coltrin took over health service for the associated colleges for the first time in September, received a baptism of fire by being imme- diately precipitated into flu epidemic which resulted ultimately in extra tv o weeks recess before Christmas. MAKE LIFE DORMITORIES ARE STRANGE PLACES. Memos from behind-the-scenes workers state that eighty gallons of ice-cream are consumed a week by Pomonans, that chocolate flavored foods and steak are our favorite dishes. A maid isn ' t surprised when asked to sew on a button or wash out an extra shirt — some do it without being asked. Switchboard operators make good social secretaries when you aren ' t there to receive guests. Janitors have to fix the plumbing, hang pictures and drapes, clean up after water fights. Beauty spot of the campus is the small plot of ground east of the big gym where the gardeners eat lunch, relax in shade. ;ROUNDS— CALL YOU FOR EIGHT O ' CLOCKS— GIVE YOU YOUR MAIL— AND MAKE YOUR BEDS. E A S E R F O R YOU ' ■ ni MERRITT says chief Ju+y outside of sports is :eeping dormitory life Jown to a dull roar and Jeciding who pays dam- ages after horse-play. DIRECTOR of women ' s residence halls is official title of Blaisdell ' s May Frank, who authorizes ex- penses for repairs, pro- vides for afternoon teas. MRS. FREY, director of the men ' s halls, is also hon- orary member of Alpha Gamma Sigma. Most com- mon worries are broken windows, flooded showers. DINING-HALL chief Lu- cille Gramse is to be re- membered not only for the food that she serves, e.g., fried chicken — but also for her faculty show Fiji dance. HEAD RESIDENT of fresh- men women ' s Harwood court Is Undine Dunn, who likes to play tennis when not in house conferences or planning campus parties. 33 ' ft ' ii iiifc . JACK DWAN, your student body president, smiled his efficient way through a successful year. Among his major accomplishments: in- augurating the all-college chest, stream- lining the constitution, reshaping the exec- utive council, cutting short election dinner. ELEANOR FORBES, as Associated Students vice- president, was Our Eleanor to Student Life, for which she conducted My Week column as mouth- piece for her plans concerning campus affairs. PETER VAN KURAN was president of his sopho- more class, and has spent the past year as secre- tary for the ASPC, recording proceedings of the ex- ecutive council as it supervised publications, rallies. FORBSIE AND PETE 35 MASTER OF INCOME and ouHleld is Chief ALICE WEEKES, head of fhe Cyclopes clan, NOTED FOR SOLID FOOTBALL and frumping Arikaran Mai Lenfz. This Phi Befe is a member hails from Kentucky mountains, is responsible for his partner ' s ace is Neptune president Bud Fish- of Ghosts and alumnus of the Student Life. such things as the junior prom and class play. er, honorary inhabitant of Haddon House. WITH THE HELP OF THOSE IN OFFICE YOU REALLY DO GOVERN YOURSELVES, for within the executive council of the Associated Students are representatives of your every interest: Ted Griffin and Vic Montgomery have split the year as pres- idents of the Interfraternity Council; Bud Phillips has supervised pub- lications as chairman of the board, while Mai Lentz, Alice Weekes, Bud Fisher and Frank Hart have represented the interests of their classes. Bud Phillips Vic Montgomery and Ted Griffir 36 AFFABLE FROSH prexy Frank Hart is an addi- tion to the San Marino majority, lists tennis and debating as s i d e I i n e s, was a Kinney winner. ORGANIZE YOUR ACTIVITIES CONSTITUTIONAL REORGANIZATION this year put the election of activities chairmen into the hands of those whose interests they rep- resent. Meanwhile, Ellis Farmer, Bennie Hisanaga, Whit Halladay, Neil Porter, Barbara Bergen and Carter Ide looked after your music, athletics, rallies, dramatics, debate and oratory, worked with AWS and AMS presi- dents Benton and Cowger as advisory cabinet for president Jack Dwan. Carter Ide Barbara Bergen Neil Porter TOP, Ellis Farmer; center, Bennie Hisanaga; lower, Whit Halladay. A W S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT of the AWS this season was the purchase of a station wagon for the women ' s campus. Second in Importance was women ' s day with the May Masque. Biggest meeting of year is the Banquet at which Mortar Board members are tapped, new officers installed. JANET BENTON, AWS president, had hand in nearly every campus committee concerning Pomona women ' s activities. THIEF OF BAGDAD helped buy station wagon. Women sold tickets to men for promises of rides. HEADS of various women ' s committees serve also on the AWS board — front row: Smith, Barrett, Rodenbaeck, Springer. Back row: Atkins, Amiing, Reed, Sutherland and Crumrine. a K = i ■« ' I ■s l ■1. •,, - ;;:c:rr3 - . iOB COWSER, Jack Tanner and Whit Halladay ran AMS affairs IS president, secrefary-freasurer and vice-president. Martha Tilton lower) sang with Lud Gluskin at the AMS formal in October. FROM LUD GLUSKIN to just plain hillbillies describes the entertainment provided by the Associated Men ' s Students, AMS to you. President Bob Cowger ' s live group started off the social season with its Formal at which the above named band played sweet strains. Following this coup d ' etat, they threw the cider and corn barn dance in Po- mona ' s own barn, complete with example-set- ing hicks. AMS also bought its share of band uniforms, helps many a needy student. 39 THE GHOSTS ADVISERS and not terrorists, the Ghosts, honorary men ' s organization, fulfilled their duties to you, as always, this year in the manner of the well-in-hand Marines. They are inductors of the frosh and a restraining fist on other male collegians. This body of Pomona ' s finest includes leading campus men from many fields and is headed by Lloyd Iverson, runs the annual dawn dance at Norco in May. V - 1 I ■ ■ I ' ISI ll 1 1 H I if wj Jj j E ■rfJj t fij J5 9 ► « M jrH M B P fl[ ' « M K ' ' ' i i 1 .J jH Wi S ' H il v m k. - ' i 1 ■ i 1 AT M KH F ' V V : I H 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 LEE DOAN was induc-t-ed at the sophomore -formal; new Ghosfs usually join at the annual dawn dance at Norco in May. IN FRONT ROW, from left to right: Lee Doan, Bob Cowger, Dick Davis, Lloyd Iverson, Jack Shel+on, Art Bliss; second row: Jack Dwan, Mai Lentz, Whit Halladay, Pete Van Kuran, Bennie Hisanaga, Bob Fernandes; and behind them: Dick Barker, Ted Griffin and Pete Arth. AND THE WOMEN DELIBERATION Is the byword of the local chapter of Mortar Board, a branch of the national senior women ' s honorary society. Five nnembers this year acted chiefly as a cohesive force on campus, but stepped into the limelight long enough to oversee frosh hazing and give a bridge tea. TARDY INHABITANTS south of Third street account for laxness to a self-governing women ' s judiciary group. In ad- dition to depriving backsliders of late hour privileges the Residence Council frowns on bobble socks at dinner, de- crees time allotted for night owls after special events. SELECTED junior and senior women arrive early, meet freshman and transfer women students, tell them what to wear and how, describe date etiquette, give theoretical instruction methods, interpret complex Pomona traditions, are proverbial shelters in time of storm. In Mortar Board picfure: Amiing, Crumrine, Paulin, Sutherland and Benton. Residence Council members, left to right, front row: Love, Austin, Montgomery, Smith, Myers; back row: Crumrine, Dolley, Connell, Brittingham, Paulin, and Wilson. Sponsors, in front row, are: Crooks, Nancarrow, McBride, Jones, Adams, Springer, Fulford, Bailard, Dewey, Winterburn; in second row, left to right: Diemer, Dolley, Stacy, Myers, Long, Campbell, Robinson, Kirtland, Smith, Moore, McPherson; back row: Bergen, Garver, Stull, Bell, Frame, Pidduck, Eller, Holt, Paulin, Austin. DINKS— FRIENDLY HAZING— ORANGE FIGHT— BONFIRE AND MIDNIGHT VIGIL— BLIND DATE— LAZY AFTERNOONS AND GRUELLING MORNINGS— MISSION-ENGLISH AT 8 SOME OF YOU ARE F R O S H IT WAS SEPTEMBER, and you entered schooL Remember the first day carry- ing suitcases up to Harwood and polish- ing the sophomore ' s cars? Then there was your first sight of opposite sex, and dinks at 50 cents a crack. Here Shovel Thomas and Tom Ridgeway help Jean Clark. YOU FOUGHT with the sophomores during the first few weeks, were sup- posed to memorize all the songs and cheers, but didn ' t, despite intimidation when they caught you unaware (above). Another cause for reading the riot act was failure to carry bible or dink. YOU COUNTED on force of numbers, and stormed the sacred sophomore arch, were repelled with buckets of water. In retaliation you dumped one or two Nep- tunes Into the drink, but failed to crash the arch, which was heavily bolted and guarded against the freshman siege. 43 THE WAY TO MAKE a woman feel bad is to de- glamorize her in public. The sophs did a good job, but some of you looked good despite the green paint. After so long, frosh women rebelled, started fight. CAME OCTOBER and the class elections. Jack Langdell and Frank Cooley were carried oft by sophs; Hart nnanaged to evade them. Remember the election speeches of Cowger and Tarr, the Bene- dict-Frazer duet, Zipper Zetterberg, Don Juan of the dance floor? And after the election: organi- zation — up to a point. The banner was dreamed up; the spring was figured out to the minutest de- tail. Bax Starbuck and Jim Carrigan began to make bonfire arrangements. The sons of Excailber be- gan to look like a family. Of course the banner . . . AT THE CLAREMONT INN, freshmen danced while election votes wer counted. Elected were vice-president Suzy Joy, secretary Jim Holbroo yell-leader Dan Karasik, social chairman Pierre Zetterberg, historian Ray Fr zer, social chairman Peggy Winton, president Frank Hart, treasurer Earl Tar THIS ISN ' T IT, but a reasonably accurate fac- simile of frosh banner reconstructed by Nep- tunes from description given by Mexican kids who had seen real one flashed at Rediands game. CAME OXY GAME and the bonfire. Women served coffee to menfolks during three days it took to build; nearly whole class guarded it until rally night, burned it together with the P. FROSH MEN hold late hour jam session, with Barry Baumgartner at what there is left of the piano, fireball Ray Frazer of the Benedict-Fra- zer-Corbitt combination on the B-flat clarinet. FINALLY CAME MATRICULATION, and you were full fledged Pomonans. President Frank Hart and his fellow officers signed Fuzz Mer- ritt ' s book, held below by Bernhardt L. Bergstrom of the class of 1918 and Mrs. Lucille Reed Sutherland ' 10, who spoke at Parents ' Day luncheon in Frary, and Paul Fussell, father of freshman Ed Fussell, who talked on parent ' s viewpoint at Matriculation Convocation in Bridges hall. Then, like Jan Sutherland (below right), daughter of Mrs. Sutherland, you added your names to those of Joel McCrea, Bob Taylor. F R O S H F U N REOUtStTtON MEMOli H FOR Jt fv| H SSl B J l CiUIIQBi tI I JOHR DOE ! H m ' ' ' M M ' ' ■ ■fJ 46 AND SOME ARE SOPHOMORES PADDLES— SOPH ARCH— SPIKING THE BANNER SPRING —MAKING UP WITH THE FRESHMEN— RUSH PARTIES AND HELL WEEK— SWEATER SPRING— OUTSIDE HOUSES i- i . 7 : c ! ? X;; ««s m K. 1 fj IS « ' % ' m c i ■w ■ . Ife m %.. m. ' t- s|k NEPTUNE OFFICERS were president Fisher, social co-chairman Mars+on, sec- SOPHOMORES BEAT FROSH in push-ball fight which this year retary Ford, social chairman Mallette, vice-president Shiels, treasurer Kingsley. replaced more strenuous tie-up. Ball was heavy, hard to stop. SONS OF NEPTUNE, the class of ' 43, formally and informally inducted the class of ' 44 into Pomona with the pushball victory, the blue sweater-spring parade, the banner fiasco, countless unrecorded punitive incidents. The names of Reeder, Fisher, Kern, Forsch and Chambers once struck fear (figuratively speaking) into the hearts of the sons of Excaliber. Athletically, Neptunltes pro- vided the basketball team with long legs and plenty of spark in Johnny Dye and Frank Morgan; boosted football chances for next year with Jaqua, Craig and Smith; helped the varsity to a conference championship in track with Fisher and Jaqua doing double duty. Sophomore women backed their classmates, made history in class and out. TERRY CHAMBERS waltzes Pat Waterman at soph skate party. Check prof Jaeger at hay ride. v- K-f i FOR THE MEN sophomore year was fraternity year, and at that time eligibility to one of six local fraternities was extended. After bidding and pledging, all sorts of hell were In order for initi- ation week. Pledge pins and odd attire were features of the most painful week of the frat member ' s life as he received swats and good-natured humiliations. Another notable event was Black and White Formal around Valentine time, with music by Garwood Van, plans by social co-chairmen Art Mallette, Mary Marston. PLEDGE BOB DIETERICH bears the brunt of a favorite Nu Alpha Phi stunt: egg-splatter. AT THE BLACK AND WHITE FORMAL, sophomores danced to music by Garwood Van. MARY COBERLY starh the day in her Baldwin bedroom as she hurriedly pu+s on lipstick before breakfast and her eight o ' clock: zoology. Note the dance bids and pictures pasted on the mirror, which is to coeds what the closet door is to men: open-face scrapbook of odds and ends. AFTER BREAKFAST, Brackett girls go into the kitchen to iron evening dresses for that night ' s concert. From left to right are June Houston, Ethel Freeman, and Joy Stromberg at ironing board. In its annual open house, Brackett ' s specialty is marshmallows roasted over fireplace. THE KENYON CLAN suns itself (above) on one of the rare days when it seemed spring had at last decided to come. Below, they pile into station wagon given them by author Charles Nordhoff, father of Kenyonite Sarah, to scout surrounding country for signs of winter ' s end. SIXTY SOPHOMORE WOMEN got to- gether and pulled strings last spring to get their gangs ensconced in the highly- coveted outside houses, where they could form nice, cozy families that take the place of sororities on the unorganized south campus. There, under house moth- ers, they have more room to spread out, can have a new date without the whole dorm knowing about it. Here, in pic- ures, is what goes on in a typical day. IN DENISON HOUSE, Almina Calkins takes it easy on bed, while Ruth Myers digs in at desk. Once a year, Denison, like other four houses and the women ' s dormitories, holds an open house, treats visiting, rounds-making men to punch, pop-corn and music, shows off its rooms. 50 WHAT GOES ON BACK FROM A PREVIEW in Pomona, Hunt Norris and Sue Taft wait until H is time for her to go in. A sophomore, she can have two I 1 :30 ' s per week. AT I 1:29, we find Hunt and Sue lingering on Haddon steps before saying good night. N THE SOPHOMORE HOUSES? LATE IN AFTERNOON, Haddon takes time out for bridge. At table are Sue Taft, Ann Betts, Barbara Ann Smith, Lynn Ford. Jane Farlee kibitzes while Virginia Brittingham keeps house well- read. Alice Bucquet plays Yes, My Darling Daughter, on phonograph. 51 4 ■«5r .- • ■ sas. ■ J OTHERS ARE J U N I O R S 52 UPPERCLASSMEN NOW — MORE COKES — MORE COOP — MORE DATES — THROUGH WITH RAISING HELL? — HEADING FOR HONORS OR OTHERWISE— JUNIOR PROM. WHEN YOU ' RE A JUNIOR, you begin to catch up on the social life that slipped by in the first two years of keeping up with the recorder ' s office. At the same time, you have about decided on your major, and may even be taking honors. For, by then, you have learned how to mix fun and work, and get in a lot of both. This year, the Cyclopes had a highly successful bridge party in Blaisdell Rec hall, threw a barn dance in the big gym, brought Lud Gluskin and Martha Tilton to campus for their prom, and joined with the Arikarans to take the dinner-dance to Frary for the first time. DRESSED IN JEANS, the junior class began Hs social year Octo- ber ninth, when it threw bales of hay into gym, square-danced itself into appetite for gallons of cider, dozens of doughnuts. CLASS OF 42 CHIEFLY RESPONSIBLE for seeing that juniors had a good time, and that they carried out the functions traditionally theirs, the Cyclop officers did a good job of both. All four of the above (from left to right: vice-president Curt Murrell, president Alice Weekes, social chairman Anne Crooks and secretary-treasurer Glenn Cornwell) played equal parts in the planning of the year ' s social events. At the first of the year, Al Weekes presided over the presentation of the new flag in ceremonies held before the student body assembled on the steps of Bridges auditorium. 54 ALL JUNIORS study, but some take honors, must work even harder. METATE, looking for a beauteous junior in honors to disprove theory that brains and beauty don ' t mix, ran across Rosamond Robinson as she emerged from the library on her way to a session with her advisor. AFTER FIRST CONVOCATION, the Junior class followed an old tradition, presented the college with a new flag. Captains Dick Strehle and Dan Pratt help raise it for the first time. Every ROTC student has flag duty at least twice before end of year, when old fl ag is weather- beaten and faded, ready to be replaced by juniors. MAL LENTZ AND AL WEEKES, p r e s i d e n t s of the Arlkarans and Cyclopes, respectively, eat biftec, quisan- tes y refresco de helado con chocolate at their junior- senior dinner-dance March 19. In Spanish-decorated Frary hall, they danced from 6:30 ' til I I to the music of Charles Koelsehe. Jean Campbell and Anne Crooks were in charge. 55 PALE PINK FANS edged in lace dangled from fenninine wrists March eighth, when juniors sponsored their annual prom, brought popular Martha Tilton and Lud Gluskin back for their second campus appearance of the year. (See AMS). Betty Reed and Caro- lyn Moore turned Student Union into a flowery southern plantation. CORY GAY danced Theme in Variations in prom show. 1938 FRESHMEN 1939 SOPHOMORE 1940 JUNIORS ■ AND NOW SENIORS GOAL IN VIEW— LORDS OF ALL YOU SURVEY— MORE BULL SESSIONS— MORE BRIDGE— CAPS AND GOV NS— MAY QUEEN —SENIOR WEEK— THE SYCAMORE— GOODBYE, CLAREMONT 57 S! S . SENIOR OFFICERS were secretary Jim Hall, vice-president Jean Cannpbell, president Malcom Lentz, seen here on way to a graduation committee meeting. A SENIOR ' S LIFE Is just like that of any other student, except that there is nnore of it. After four years at Pomona, Sagehens have learned a lot. They have found out that college is not books, not beach, and not dates, but all of these, and more besides. They know enough not to draw an inside straight when it costs too much. They know a little bit about body surfing. They are familiar with the feel of a paddle where it hurts, and they know how to wield the pine. The women are smart enough to tell their dates what color formal they ' re going to wear, and they ' ll try a finesse every time. Most lines are old stuff by now, and it takes more than an interesting brand of chatter to interest them. The advice they give their sponsorees is usually pretty sound — because it ' s the same they paid no attention to four years ago. (Continued on Page 61) 58 ALBERTA ADAMS GERTRUDE AMLING ANITA ANDERSON PETER ARTH MARGARET AUSTIN JAMES BEAN BARBARA J. BELL BARBARA P. BELL ROBERT BENIOFF JANET BENTON ROBERT BODDY KENNETH BOEHCHER EDWARD BROTMAN BARBARA BROWNFIELD DWISHT BULKLEY MARJORIECADWELL FOREST CALDWELL JANET CAMPBELL JEAN CAMPBELL JOHN CAMPBELL GRAHAM CAMPBELL MAURICECOHEN ELMER COLE HYLACOOK CHARLES CORBin HELEN CRABTREE MARYCRUMRINE JOHN DRYER MARTHA DUMKE JEANDUPREE JOHNDWAN MARGARET ENSIGN FRANCILLA ERICSON WILLIAM CAMPBELL DANIEL DOWNER MOST OF THE SENIORS know what records are on the machine at the Mish, and it bores them to think of it. They are pretty choosy about going to chapel, but they ' ll turn out if it sounds good. They like plays and movies and most of the Artist Course events. If a lecturer is good enough, they ' ll take that in, but not many of them buy lecture series season tickets. They can remember the year of The Flood, and how much fun it was to save the new Student Union building from the water pouring down Dartmouth avenue. A few of them can remember being roiled down the street by the flood waters. All of them sneer at the Sage Hen, but all of them read it from cover to cover. Student Life gives them a laugh once in a while, but they skip around a good deal. Some of them know which faculty wives make the best cake, and most of them have two or three pet profs that they swear by. A lot of them cut classes too much, and a few of them don ' t cut enough. Almost all the seniors have been changed by Pomona. They are bigger, more impres- sive, more mature. They can tell when others are slinging the bull, and they do the same themselves. They like clothes, dances, good food, good music, and they occa- sionally read a good book. Lately, they have been more disturbed by current affairs. They read the newspapers more carefully, and politics is pressing sex for top bull-session material. Most of them have opinions about current affairs and politics, but they are not too positive. After graduation, they will travel in many directions. Not a few will go to graduate school — to Claremont Colleges for a secondary teacher ' s certificate; to Harvard for business, law and econ; To M.I.T.; to Stanford and California for law, physics and chemistry. Some have jobs waiting. Some, alas, will be drafted. Others will become Army, Navy, and Marine officers on land, sea, and in the air. Some of the women will start out on the job of marriage. If they are near, they will come back. They will be seen at the Oxy game, at graduation, at formals, and at sports banquets. For though they aren ' t aggressive about it, they like Pomona. ELLIS FARMER CHOCOLATES AND CIGARS A N OLD CAMPUS CUSTOM CHOCOLATES are passed in the girls ' dorm and cigars at the fraternity meeting to an- nounce the engagements of Pomonans. Great heights of originality are achieved with- in the traditional form of telling the news. According to unreliable statistics, thirty- five seniors, the largest percentage in years, are engaged or already united. Below are Nancy Barrett and Lloyd Iverson, both of whom announced plans for 1941. RICHARD HAGOPIAN WILLIAM HILL KAZUMAHISANAGA KENNETH HINKEL CORINNA HOBART MARY LOU HOBBS EDWARD HOLDEN PATRICIA HOLT BARBARA NORTON WILLIAM HOXIE CARTER IDE CHARLES INMAN ROBERT ISACKSON LLOYD IVERSON MARION JONES ROY JORDAN LUCY KILMER HELEN KINS STROTHERKIPP SHIRLEY KIRTLAND RUTH KLISE JAMES LAMME DORIS LAWRENCE WALLACE LEE MALCOLM LENTZ JANE LONG GWEN McCLUSKEY SUZANNE McLEAN EN DA MILLS END-OF-SEMESTER social life bears out old maxim that there ' s no rest for the young in heart. May thirty-first, Victorville was the partying place: swimming, horses, melo- drama. On May sixteenth Arikarans took a Ditch Day off, spent it at beach. Senior week was filled by trip to Catalina, dancing at Mission Inn, senior breakfast, baccalaureate. Dean ' s and President ' s receptions, gradu- ation with the address by Louis D. Wright. AT THE JUNIOR-SENIOR DINNER DANCE, Strother Kipp and date Betty Spall of Chaffee J.C., Betty Slocum and John Campbell wait for Koelsehe to begin. HOLDEN MOORE MARTHA MUNSER MORAMUNROE LOUISE NANCARROW DONALD NEILL EVELYN NEWLIN ACCORDING TO TIME-HONORED CUSTOM, seniors participate in Ivy Chapel, a ceremony centered about the planting of ivy by the senior class president. This year, as it comes to most ivy, planting came to a sprig set in the ground on May twentieth by Malcolm Lentz, using the tra- ditional spade first handled by the late, great Theodore Roosevelt when he visited Claremont. He planted a tree. ALFRED NIBECKER ROBERT NICKERSON MARY NOBLE MARYOCHIAI RUTH OLIVER FRANCES PAUL KATHRYN PAULIN ROBERT PECK CAMILLESHAAR JACKSHELTON RICHARD SHELTON CLIFTON SHOEMAKER ELIZABETH SHULTS BETTY SLOCUM DENNYCE SMITH DOROTHY SPRINGER ALICE STACY RICHARD STEELE EDWARD STERLING BARBARA STEVENS CATHARINE SUTHERLAND MARJORIE SWIFT REED TREGO TOM TYLER JEAN VANDERWOOD JEAN VINJE THIS O R BEFORE YEAR IS OVER, many seniors have begun to think seriously of what they will do next. Jobs are waiting for some. Others have ideas, but no rack on which to hang their hats. Ready to help them is recorder Margaret Maple, who has many contacts with possible employers. At left, she helps Art Bliss with step I : the application blank. Like Bud Phillips, examining his draft card (right), some senior men have the next year or so cut out for them, have to worry more about getting rid of present jobs and commitments than getting new ones. Bud was ordered to immediate training, was able to get deferment until June. MARY STEVENS MARGARET STEWART CHARLES STIMPSON RICHARD STREHLE HELEN STULL FRANCES STURGES ROBERT WARFIELD RUTH WHITNEY JACK WILEY JOHN WILSON BEHYWINTERBURN BONNIE WYATT ROBERT BLUN MARY BOYNTON THIS MARION DANNEBERGER ROBERT ERASER JOHN HOPKINS HENRY ISHAM GERTRUDE LYNCH VICTOR MONTGOMERY WILLIAM POTTER NATHAN SWEET THOMAS TITUS 69 LOOKING BACK ON FOUR REMEMBER frosh elec- tion night — first experi- ence with Pon iona politics? SOPHS and frosh met. Outcome depended on how you looked at it. ARIKARA was born and announced to the world at the C a 1 1 e c h game. IF YOU rooted for the home team in ' 37, you followed Shelton ' s lead. THE RAINS CAME and came; if you think 1941 was wet, remember 1938. A YEAR after the del- jge Pomonans commem- orated with a flood dance. THREE LITTLE MAIDS from Scripps rank with famous trios of history. IN 1939 you were juniors on next to last lap; Mary Pidduck was your prexy. THEN there was the Oxy rally, with dean ' s hat, and Jacque Bailard on tandem. MYSTERIES of S m i I e y, better left buried, were aired for women in ' 40. HOLMES HALL housed this year ' s Whittier rally and later the faculty show. A SENIOR ' S eye view of Cecil ' s farewell appear- ance — the Oxy rally. CLIMACTIC final min- utes — your last taste of ti- ger meat as an undergrad. 1941 SAW your Artist Course opportunities drawing to a close. LAST entirely pleasur- able experience with the army — ROTC formal. YEARS REMEMBER THE FALL OF 1937 when Claremont was merely a name on a map to you? You bought a dink, made resolutions for four years of brilliant scholarship; you wor- ried over classes, social life, what your roommate would be like. Those were the pre- Artie Shaw days, when jitterbugs were still pretty much of a rarity — days of Shirley Temple, Josephine, Once in a While — days before the flood and the Quest . . . JOEL McCREA named freshman Jean Dewey the queen of fhe campus. SPECTACULAR was The Quest that came at end of your frosh year. BACK IN SCHOOL— and you were sophomores with inevitable jalopy fever. SAGEHEN rooters made first all-college exodus by train to San Diego. TEA OR COFFEE? asked hostesses at the Christmas supper, 1938. JUNIORS and seniors dined, danced, and yo- delled Tyrolean in Feb., ' 40. JOB of decorating for their colorful Prom fell to junior committeemen. ANOTHER SUMMER — then back in school as se- niors for last grid season. SELDOM, IF EVER, will senior women get a chance to play bridge in a dormitory again or senior men draw for a straight in a frat room. 10 DOLLARS, 126 units, 4 years of work and play entitled you to this. PUBLICITY DIRECTOR BOB Moore keeps your home town papers advised of your doings at college, runs play contest, and edits alumni news letter. ALLEN F. HAWLEY, ' 16, as director of public relations, supervises publication of bulle- tins and news letters, has a large staff keep- ing in constant touch with scattered alumni. ALUMNI ENJOY THEMSELVES at a dinner typical of Pomonan get-togethers the country over. Profes- sors Carl Baumann and Norman Ness discussed world affairs at this dinner-meeting in Orange County. AL U MN FOURTEEN SCHOLARSHIPS and thirty-five grants in aid given to students by the Alumni Association show that Pomona graduates are no gray beards. Other indications of their active interest and participation in the college and in its affairs are: their bigger-than-ever attendance at the Homecoming Day, November 15, the day of the Oxy rally; their establishment of Alumni College, with first classes meeting on June 7; and their development of the scholar- ship fund which in 1941 totaled $10,750, had helped many a needy student. EVERY YEAR, ALUMNI COME from all directions to help students cheer on their eleven against Oxy. Freshmen build huge bonfire and light P at rally. r: r YOU CAME TO POMONA TO LEARN— TO GAIN FROM EXPERIENCE WITH BOOKS AND PEOPLE ALL THOSE THINGS CALLED A LIBERAL EDUCATION. THIS INVOLVED, AMONG OTHER THINGS, ABOUT 800 HOURS AT STUDY. ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES IS A RECORD OF THOSE HOURS— HOW YOU SPENT THEM —AND THE PEOPLE WITH WHOM YOU SPENT THEM. SO TURN THE PAGE AND SEE THE PEOPLE STUI THE CLAREMONT GROUP, with colleges and universities the country over, has realized this year more than any other, the part It can play — the part It must play in the fight to preserve the freedom of thought and of action which has been the American Ideal of truth. The colleges don ' t expect to cap and gown a com- pletely educated man but rather to give the average student that kind of a liberal education which will send into the world of today a free, objective thinker with a breadth of outlook, a sense of values and a realization of the duties as well as the privileges of this freedom. There Is no sentimentality about this. Both the faculty and students recognize that their way of life is better than any other — at least for them — and they want to see it stay that way. 76 YOU SPEND ABOUT FIFTEEN HOURS A WEEK in classes. If you ' re LIKE WEE WILLIE MARTIN, here cramming for an exam, you spend lucky, you may gef no eight o ' clocks, no professors who call roll. (theorefically, at least) fifteen hours a week with the books, many more in Above, Instructor Joseph Angell and 19th Century Literature class. February and May. Bull sessions, bridge and poker fill time between finals. FIRST CLASSES at Pomona College were held in a rented house in the Pomona of 1888. Today, the $12,780,000 corporation known as Claremont Colleges — Pomona, Scripps College and the graduate school — owns twenty-five buildings, annually hires an adminis- trative staff of 99 — some of whom double up on teaching — and a faculty of 123, runs three libraries with a total of over 160,000 volumes. Comfortable as an old shoe, and just as flexible, is Pomona ' s curricular program. Provided students keep graduation, with its 126 units, in mind, are careful to straddle all three divisions, they have pretty much free rein to get themselves a liberal education, can choose from courses ranging from Art to Zoology. The Honors program makes it possible for students to make a detour from the regular route, to continue research of their own and to get better acquainted with their professors through independent study. On the following pages we have tried to catch the spirit of professors and their classes as you saw them. 77 IF YOU TAKE A LAB COURSE, whether chemistry (left), biology, geology, psychology or physics, you pay fees and breakage deposits, then work hard until dinner time to get your money ' s worth. YOUR PROFESSORS are not mere pedants. In some of their courses you meet with them in their homes. All of them are friends with whom you may talk in- formally as is Doris Lee with Kenneth Fiske (left). IF YOU WORK REAL HARD, you may one day be a Phi Beta Kappa, like Dwan, Mayer, Bell, Bar- kelew, and Ide. Others not included: Bergen, Cook, Frank, Gaebelein, Hammond, Holden, Mertz, Mun- ger, Newlin, Poe, Porter, Riemcke, Lentz, Fobes. BOOKS-BOOKS-BOOKS SEDATE OLD LADY of College avenue, the Carnegie library has com- pleted another year of service to the connmunity. It has watched stu- dents v alk up and down its steps for more years than it is safe to mention. Since the library is the real center of intellectual study, the 180,000 books and pamphlets are primary source material to stu- dents ranging from the frosh, who come in seeking The llliad or The Heart of Darkness to the most advanced thesis-writing graduate student. AFTER FINDING HER OWN BOOKS Noreen Van Vlie-j- checks some out for a night ' s work in her room. Some prefer to study at the tables in the library, where they can step out now and then (below) for a chat and a cigar- ette. Classic library crack is by a freshman girl who got all her studying done in the afternoon so that she could go to the library at night. DOUBLING UP as director of the library is clas- sic languages professor Homer E. Robblns, who also belongs to the nine-man faculty library committee which administers purchase of books. FROM HOMER HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT is associate professor Elli- ott C. Lincoln (above left) who specializes in American lit- erature, creative writing. Stories of Mr. Lincoln ' s many writing pseudonyms and prolific Western yarns spread to new students in a short time. Assistant professor Harold Davis Is one of Pomona faculty ' s Rhodes Scholars. Genial, understanding Hal Davis is friend to all students and the particular confidant of English majors. He is shown (above right) with a group of students reacting to one of his gentle witticisms. Instructors Geraldine Womack and Norman Philbrlck are both Pomona graduates who have returned to the fold to teach short story and playwriting. 80 TO HEMINGWAY THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT works on Thomas Henry Huxley ' s theory that Literature is the greatest of all sources of refined pleasure, and one of the great uses of a liberal education is to enable us to enjoy that pleas- ure. Its professors are nnen like Charles T. Fitts, who takes time out from his education courses for several classes in the English department; asso- ciate professor Ernest Strathmann, whose fine scholarship never obscures his Interest In student work; Instructor Joseph Angell, whose interests range from Thomas Mann to swing; Dr. Benjamin Scott, speech mentor. MENDAL FRAMPTON (far left), officially retired, has never been able to leave be- loved Shakespeare course, gets more fun from it than from his golf game, and com- municates his enthusiasm to students. Bruce McCulley (left) is another professor with such a fondness for 18th Century Literature that he comes back from retirement to make sure it is being taught properly. From such men, Pomonans learn love of literature. 81 HOMER E. ROBBINS, as professor of Greek, Latin and classical history, director of the college library and mayor of Clare- mont, leads an exceedingly busy life. BASEL-TRAINED German professor Carl Baumann says: To make students self-reliant in handling a language, and to make the study enjoyable is the teacher ' s ideal. MARGARET HUSSON directs annual Spanish play, and with professor James Crowell entertains South American visitors, fosters inter-American cultural relations. OTHER TONGUES MISS MARBURG directed the French play. Miss Wagner the German. Both were witnessed by high schoollanguage classes. THE LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT is one of Pomona ' s most crowded. Two of the five reasons for the Interest (other three: Hus- son, Crowell and Baumann) are Helen Mar- burg, who came from Mills this year to suc- ceed the late Rosa BIssiri, assistant professor of French since 1920, and Emilie Wagner, who bears a Doctorat de I ' Unlversite from Toulouse, teaches both French and German. Both were faculty show hits, Miss Marburg singing Trikina in the Van Snort number, and Miss Wagner swimming, extolling spin- ach, and acting in the Masqueers ' play. AND OTHER TIMES AS HISTORY DEPARTMENT, these men work together in an outstanding honors course. As separate historians their Interests vary fronn Russia to Jamaica to Pacific. Pro- fessor Frank W. Pitman (right with medieval civilization class) is working on second volume of history of British West Indies. Assistant professor John H. Gleason (above right) has three interests: Elizabethan government, Russophobia, a former Scripps instructor he married this year. Sea-minded PBK prexy John H. Kemble (above left) is delving into the rich history of Pacific shipping. ON TUESDAY AFTERNOONS, students of medieval history meet in a seminar with Frank Pitman to read their papers, discuss the course. 83 BOVE, physicist Curtis Haupt and student Vendell Mordy compare notes. Lower, class nakes waves stand up to be measured. PHYSICISTS DIG IN FOR THE SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS have plugged along, building slowly but surely until they make use of three buildings, have six department heads who are nationally recognized for contributions to their fields. This year, like scientists the country over, Pomona physicists have dropped their research, tightened their belts in order to give time to an important phase of national defense: Civil Aeronautics. Physics department head Roland R. Tileston is coordinator for courses, has associate professor Curtis Haupt and graduate assistant Dick Post working with Walter T. Whit- ney and World War I flyer Robert L. Strehle giving instruction in air- craft operation, aerodynamics, civil air regulation, radio, meteorology. Meanwhile, graduate assistants Rodney Smith and LeRoy Spore help the loaded, hard-working department with its regular physics classes. ROLAND TILESTON ' S survey course in physics Is a three-ring circus, keeps jumping assistants blowing up charges, spinning wheels, showing movies. Students pay five dollars a semester for the charges, wheels, movies, say they ' re worth every cent of it, every hour of homework. AFTER FOUR HOURS OF CLASSES with course instructors Walter Whitney, Curtis Haupt, Robert Strehle and Roland Tileston, students in primary course go to Brackett field (right), where they begin actual flying in Piper Cubs. CAA INSTRUCTORS Bill Feast, Marshall Miller, Dick Thonnp- son, Alison Tangeman and Carl Wright line up to put the Ryan training ship through Its paces. Pride of Brackett field, the 120 mile-an-hour plane is used by advanced pilots. SEATED IN COCKPIT, Bill Kingsley (right) gets ac- quainted with the plane. Instructor Richard Thompson has his parachute strapped on back, ready to go up with Kings- ley on his first flight. First eight hours of flying is dual. AFTER THIRTY HOURS, Bob Cowger has his private pilot ' s license, can take up Virginia Bergstrom as his first passen- ger. Thirty hours began with dual instruction, worked up to solo flying, and finally to two long cross-country hops. NIGHT CLASS Is held in the basement of Bridges Audi- torium, where there is a plane for demonstration purposes. Webb school ' s Al Shatzel (back to camera, below) is lecturing In meteorology. Other subjects: navigation, aerodynamics. TAKE OFF PLANE TAXIS up field, will head into wind for fakeoff. Steele has to zig-zag as he taxis in order to see field from cockpit. GLIDING to 500 feet altitude. Steele will do figure-eights. After landing, he must sign the airport log book, is given grade by Instructor Wright on assignment. UP SHE GOES, her 65 horsepower engine sputtering away. Dick will fly her up to 3,000 feet before he begins assigned spins, stalls. CHOCKS are pulled from under wheels. This Is one of three Cubs available for train- ing. Advanced pilots use low-wing Ryan. BEFORE FLIGHT, primary student Dick Steele, on his fifteenth hour, fastens on parachute and safety belt, is going up for practice spin. INSTRUCTOR CARL WRIGHT gives him his last-minute Instructions, stands on the field and watches him carry them out. Steele takes off his watch. CONTACT. With switch off and throttle closed, Wright gives the propeller a few trial spins, then yells contact, turns over engine, and student Steele is set to go. PROFESSOR of chemistry Charles J. Robin- son ' s chief problem right now is the whipping into shape of industrial chemists and pre- medicals, of which there is a shortage, and for which many employers look to Pomona. Above, Robinson helps dig out research data. INSTRUCTORS Norman Elliott and Richard Tyson help meet the demand for Pomona- trained research men, are doing work of their own in chemical structure, with the aid of the department ' s powerful magnet. Tyson gives the non-technical survey course in chemistry. TEST-TU BES AND BEAKERS BOB SHELTON and friends work on improvised still in organic chennistry lab. MEN WITH MICROSCOPES EARLY MORNING BIRD WALKS, cats in formaldehyde, hours over the microscope and nights in the Greek theater feature these professors ' FOR THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS William A. courses. Professor of zoology William A. Hilton has just finished research Hilton has been peering through Pomona microscopes, studying little fellows from sea. papers for the Smithsonian Institution, plans for the thirtieth year of Pomona ' s famed marine laboratory summer school at Laguna. Botany professor Philip A. Munz specializes in desert flora and has made valuable contributions to U. S. science, is now classifying the results of a year ' s research in South America. Walter T. Whitney, associate professor of astronomy, is a key man in the civilian pilot training program, spends hours with his classes in Brackett observatory, watching the night out. Professor of geology Alfred O. Woodford has been with the college twenty-seven years, has built one of the finest, most complete collections of geological and mineralogical equipment and literature in America. NO LAND-LUBBER, Walter T. Whitney has studied eclipse in Gulf of California, now helps CAA pilots steer course in air. FRANCES PAULS hails from Wood ' s Hole, Massachusetts, foremost U. S. zoological insti- tution, is working on master ' s degree. Meanwhile, she instructs for biology department, is seen below explaining the difference between flora and fauna for a fauna-conscious class. NEWCOMER Pequegnat gets acquainted with department ' s stuffed birds before set- ting out as instructor for Munz and Hilton. PROFESSOR Jaeger turns from wrifing such hits as Po- mona Boy and Pomona Girl to sketch a masterful parabola. RESEARCH-MAN Hugh Hamilton and engineer Edward Taylor, checking drawing, round out the math department. SINE-COSINE-AND TANGENT PHILIP A. MUNZ (top) has had a Guggen- heim fellowship. Alfred O. Woodford is shown on a field trip to Three Arch Bay. MATHEMATICS professor Chester G. Jaeger devotes most of his time outside of class to extra-curricular activities, is in con- stant demand as a sponsor at social affairs, out-Fadimaned Fadiman in popular Infor- mation Please assembly, has had much to do with success of faculty show. Professor of en- gineering mathematics, Edward Taylor takes surveyors to Bluff Lake in San Bernardino mountains for a six-weeks summer course. Brown-trained Hugh Hamilton rounds out the department, is usually busy doing re- search and writing for mathematical journals. 89 ECONOMICS AND THE LAW PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, and acting dean during the second semester, Kenneth Duncan Is probably the busiest man on campus. Mr. Duncan spent his sabbatical last year making a study of South American economic conditions, has since delivered approximately seventy-five addresses before forums, service and women ' s clubs, has given a course in South American resources to the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Banking, to say nothing of handling several courses. Associate professor Norman T. Ness, meanwhile, gives the popular Money and Banking, looks out for honor students, does more than a little public speaking himself, and Is also recognized as an expert on South America. NORMAN NESS, top, holds honors conference with Whit Gaebelein. Below, Kenneth Duncan answers questions after principles of econ class. PROFESSOR of political science, gruff- voiced and well-liked Edward M. Salt heads the government department, guides aspiring diplomats in honors work. JUNIOR MEMBER Murray Kirkwood, Rhodes Scholar, ski-lover, teaches pop- ular Dr. Story-Innovated courses in Pub- lic Opinion, Administration, The State. DOCTOR of jurisprudence George S. Burgess is secretary to faculty, handles college ' s law courses and the economic department ' s Monopolies and Trusts.  -|l t venirs of one sort and an other — a Pullman towel or PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSORS Bernard C. Ewer, author of a well-known book on applied psychology, and Robert S. Ellis discuss neurones and morons, Freud and Jung, supervise the grading, tab- ulating and scoring of frosh placement tests, soph comprehensives. a handsome array of ash trays, but when profes- sor William Kirk (upper right with discussion group) returns from one of his periodic trips to far places to complete his study of primitive tribes of the hemisphere, he brings treasures beyond capacity of trains or hotels. On sabbatical leave for the fall semester. Kirk came home with an intricately wrought house front of camphor wood, eight feet high, the only one of its kind in existence. Professor Ray E. Baber (upper left), pictured with members of Alpha Kappa Delta, honorary sociological fra- ternity, in whose affairs Baber takes an active part, has completed second year on Pomona faculty, may or may not be responsible, via medium of marriage course, for upswing in campus matrimony. 91 PHILOSOPHY-THE ORIENT-AND RELIGION SCHOLARLY, INTERESTING associate professor of philosophy Raymond F. Iredell (far left) spent most of his first semester sabbatical at Harvard, making a study of self-knowledge, plans to write on the subject in near future. Swarthmore-Oxford- Princeton- educated instructor William T. Jones (left) retained accents from all three, took time out from writing a book on political theory to marry a former Scrlpps instructor during spring vacation. H WFi . bi l H 1 f ' ' Er Kf s i H r5s Ht 1 1 1e . -- - jfn i fciK vi A BUSY ONE-MAN RELIGION DEPARTMENT is asso- ciate professor Bernard E. Meland, who supervises chapel programs, meets at home every week with popular phil- osophy of religion class, gets in a lot of writing on the side. 92 TIES WITH FAR EAST, begun by President Edmunds, who once headed Lingnan university and is still active in promoting Chinese-American relations, have been retained through Charles Fahs (left), assistant professor of oriental affairs, on a leave of absence this year, and instructor Shau Hong Chan (far left) who gives courses In oriental languages. THEY WORK WITH BEAUTY STEAMBOATS, TABLECLOTHS, and Iceland were among the subjects depicted in exhibits at Rem- brandt hall this year. Underthe direction of associate professor of art Thomas M. Beggs (below), his first semester substitute, instructor Richard Taggart, and associate professor Cyril Jurecka (right), sculp- tor, art students found opportunity for expression in clay, oil, pencil, watercolor, and woodcuts. INSTRUCTOR Cyril Jurecka, student Reed Trego and friend. 93 PROF RALPH H. LYMAN (above with bari- tone Don Sykes,) is head of music department, directs Pomona ' sfamed, prize-winning glee clubs. AT CONSOLE of one of three campus organs, William G. Blanchard plays for weekly chapels, draws crowds in his annual Christmas program. INSTRUCTOR in voice, Beatrice Brody succeed- ed New York-bound Lucille Stevenson, is shown above rounding out notes of pupil Mora Munroe, FROM BEETHOVEN TO BLANCHARD AND MOST LOGICAL ROAD to culture and enlightenment for a considerable pro- portion of Pomona ' s students Is the music department. Catering to everybody from the layman, for whom a course in the appreciation of fine music is keyed, to the master craftsman, who grasps the intricacies of counterpoint, this particular branch of liberal education is one of the most active on the campus. Besides giving pri- vate instruction to gifted individuals, every member of the staff has had at least one other major project during the year. Prof. Lyman led the choir to new heights of performance in The Messiah at Christmas, and The Seven Last Words on Good Fri- day. Everett S. Olive not only was soloist with the orchestra, under the direction of Kenneth Fiske, in Beethoven ' s Second Piano Concerto in May, but also composed music for the Faculty Foibles. Contributors also to Mein Kampus were Doc Blanchard who added further laurels to his crown with an orchestration for his band of Grieg ' s E Minor Concerto, and Shirley Snider, who played boogie-woogie with Blanchard, gave a recital, as did Daryl Dayton. Solo song recitalist was newcomer Beatrice Brody. 94 5ACH AGAIN CURRENT AND CHOICE are rumors that music students eat, drink, and breathe music — that Bridges is a kind of cloister where devotees shut themselves up for weeks at a time. Such is not the case. Pianists, cello virtuosi and miscellaneous mu- sicians are completely normal, have as much sense of humor as most campus inhabitants. Witness the singing birthday telegram which disrupted Mr. Day- ton ' s Music Appreciation class one winter after- noon, and the gentleman who spent the night in a sleeping-bag in Little Bridges on a bet. IN DARYL DAYTON ' S MUSIC appreciation course, students relax and listen to a large repertoire of great music, study its connposers, themes, and structure. PROFESSOR OF PIANO, Everett S. Olive VIOLINIST Kenneth Fiske above; theorist Walter A. Allen, instructor Shirley Snider. T H E M E N DEPAf EUGENE W. NIXON would have every Pomona man his own athlete. Frosh men undergo agility tests; sophomores swim. Many take months to make the grade, but come out in better shape than when Pomona got them. Two of pro- fessor Nixon ' s books are widely used, and he has been given an award by the American Physical Education Asso- ciation for distinguished service in the field, was once vice- president of the American Football Coaches Association, president of the Pacific and Rocky Mountain coaches. 96 MENT OF VIGOR AND VITALITY ELIZABETH KELLEY may be classed without hesitation as one of the busiest faculty nnembers on the campus, and one of the most popular with students around Third street and the north gym. In addition to carrying a full teaching schedule, energetic Miss Kelley lectured at conferences all over the state and nation. Highlights were a flight to Atlantic City at the end of April for re- search work, publication in the March issue of Research Quarterly Study of her thesis. T H E WOMEN 97 •J i; I ,ji «« «— - ,.-. . ....- . ,,■.;.-• || SOMETHING ABOUT A SOLDIER EVERY MONDAY afternoon, Alumni Field takes on the color of an Army camp as government-provided instructors put record- sized unit of Reserve Officers Training Corps through its paces, put into practice principles of Military Science learned in classes during week. Following, in pictures, is a typical two-hour drill. 98 BEFORE STARTING drill, unit cleans rifles, falls in by squads of eight, platoons, and companies, aligns itself (above) at command Dress right, dress. Men must stand fast without talking when at attention, hold head and eyes to the front. LIEUTENANT HALL inspects his platoon, has men do port arms. Failure to shave or wear correct uniform means demerits. AFTER HOUR ' S DRILL, battalion passes in review to beat of drums, blare of bugles. Note grin on face of Cadet Hunt Norris, who, as a junior officer, watches men In his platoon, checks gun alignment, wipes grin off their faces, if not his. STACK ARMS. Before falling out for calisthenics or mid-afternoon rest, two men In each squad fasten rifles in neat stacks. DURING BREAK, sweating, foot-weary students loosen ties and coarse O.D. shirt collars, com- pare merits of King and standard cigarettes. A FRESHMAN SQUAD is Instructed in tent pitching, must be able to demonstrate this and drill for government inspector In spring. FIRST AID Is demonstrated by Gail Fehrenson who applies splint, must know his hygiene. COLONEL Raymond Baird came out of retirement+o run local ROTO for officer-needy War Deparfmenf. POMONA GRADUATE Harold S+ewarf was called into active dufy as Military instructor, adjutant. ARMY SERGEANT Lewis Ellsworth issues uniforms, looks after armory in training quarters, and instructs. CADET LIEUT.-COL Ellis Farmer, ranking officer, commands bat- talion in best Glee Club baritone. SENIOR OFFICERS receive reserve officer commissions in the army upon graduation. In back row: Arth, R. Strehle, Pratt, Farmer, McCully, Ashworth. Front row: Boddy, Kew, Hall, Warfield, Chinn, J. Shelton. THESE OFFICERS will run battalion next year, after summer In camp. In back row: Heron, Loucks, Norris, Adams, Lincoln, B. Shelton, T. Strehle. In front: Murrell, Durley, Ballard, Sait, Sievers, Halladay and Johnson. HONORARY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL Virginia Bergstrom, Major Norma Daly presided over formal (see right), were presented at reviews, where they inspected the unit, were the incentives for much belt-polishing. 100 AT THE ROTC FORMAL January 18, you saw cadets with polished buttons and flashing sabers, met their sponsors, and danced to the music of Larry Kent. Here, you also heard appointments of year ' s officers. A COLLEGE LIFE COMPOSED ONLY iK OF TEXTBOOKS AND TERM PAPERS WOULD BE A NARROW AND ISOLATED EXISTENCE. SO, WHEN YOU LEAVE THE CLASSROOM A ND THE LABORATORY, YOU SEEK OTHER I ' s INTERESTS— MUSIC, DRAMA. PUBLICA- TIONS, FRATERNITIES .... ALL SORTS OF Ik ACTIVITIES WHERE YOU MEET AND WORK WITH OTHER PEOPLE. THESE, TOO, ARE PART OF EDUCATION — AN EDUCATION OF EXPERIENCE AND ASSOCIATION. ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES YOU WILL SEE THE PEOPLE WITH OTHER TEHESTS ' % MUSIC O N T H E WHILE THE FOOTBALL TEAM sweated and s+ralned out on the practice field last fall, a group of fifty-odd hardworking musicians sweated and strained just as hard on Marston quadrangle. The Pomona symphonic and unsymphonic band, under the inspired leadership of William G. Blanchard, did its unsymphonic bit at every football and basket- ball game this year, strutting proudly in its flashy new uniforms. Came the spring and symphonic concerts in nearby towns, the final home concert in Bridges on May I I, which featured Grieg ' s E Minor Piano Concerto, with senior Pat Holt at the keyboard. 104 A M P U S THE CHOIR, picked -from auditions held before Prof Lyman, sang the flu-postponed Messiah in January with Jean Vinje, Dick Hagopian, Frances Sturges and Corine Bukovac as soloists. Blanchard and Shirley Sni- der acconnpanied at organ and piano. HONORARY MUSIC CLUB votes its members in on the basis of out- standing achievement around little Bridges. Headed by president Ellis Farmer, the club gave Its major con- cert on May 22, also held a series of brilliant recitals on Alumni Day. THE FIFTY-PIECE orchestra, under violinist Kenneth Fiske, was heard in two concerts: one in mid-Feb- ruary, and an all-Beethoven pro- gram in late May. The string or- chestra played a major part in the concerts and gave two of Its own. MAlt iiumiir ifflML iMM J nf?: ■!!l!!!!il!i!J!iL -JliUiliiNliil f •:• ? ' ; -- ' ENMASSED ON STAGE of Bridges hall, the choir sang Handel ' s Messiah. IN TWO CONCERTS, the orchestra (below) played Eames, Bach, Beethoven. Organized talent, the hHonorary Music Club (above), presented several concerts. m i llii S • • T H E GLEE CLUBS THE WOMEN ' S GLEE CLUB (above, right) and the Men ' s Glee club (left) sang their way all o ver Southern California, appearing separately before Rotary clubs, churches and high schools, and in the Pacific Southwest contest at Redlands, where, under the direction of Ralph H. Lyman (right in picture, above left) they made their usual ex- cellent showing. It was Prof ' s twenty-fourth year, and the Men ' s Glee club ' s fiftieth anniversary. As usual, the latter made its successful concert tour to San Francisco, and both clubs, headed by Bob Nickerson and Mary Pidduck (above left) packed little Bridges with their annual home concerts. AS A PREPAID feature of your year at Pomona, you were, as in every year, given the privilege of attending Bridges auditor- ium events presented by outstanding person- alities in the realm of music and the dance. Discomforts of standing in long lines while the prospective concert goer ahead of you quibbled over the merits of seats in row RR right or SS left were offset by fine performances by basso Kipnis, pianist Rubin- stein, the Ballet Russe, violinist Nathan Milstein, Negro soprano Dorothy Maynor, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra. BALLET RUSSE transformed IN LAST CONCERT of the Arfist Bridgeswifh Nu+crackerSuife Course, Polish pianist Arfur Rubinstein and Weber ' s Vienna, 1814. demonstrated his exciting technique. CONCERT JIMMY DORSEY A VITAL PART of the musical program is the re- corded concerts on the Coop ' s juke box. Most any morning finds a group enjoying the talents of Amer- ica ' s greatest orchestras over a quick coke. Three minutes of music for a nickel is the unspoken salestalk of the magic machine. Heading the list of favorites for the year was Artie Shaw ' s unforget- table Frenesi, closely followed by Pompton Turn- pike, Charlie Barnet ' s great hit tune. In the vo- cal department, top honors go, by actual count of times played, to Dinah Shore and her rendition of Yes, My Darling Daughter. Students have shown they know their jive, and, as year closes, are en- thusiastically accepting a combination of two of the newer rhythms in Will Bradley ' s Boogie Woogie Conga, are playing It about fifteen times a day. DINAH SHORE CONCERTS IN THE COOP FREDDY MARTIN Artie Shaw GLENN MILLER Tommy Dorsey Kay Kyser CARMEN MIRANDA BENNY GOODMAN The Ink Spots 108 DANCERS FORE: a group from Orchesis works out some choreog- raphy before a recital, based on study of technique of dance artists. DANCERS AFT: Itsue Hisanaga and Namlyn Kong helped work these hula girls Into routines for the May Masque and the rally (above). THE DANCE ORCHESIS PROVED THE THEORY that modern dance is more than just all Greek or incomprehensible sur- realism. In a demonstration-recital in November, it gave a vivid choreographic picture of The West, complete with Wagon Trails, Rolling Along and Crooked Contours. A chapel saw the dancers portray negro spirituals, and they played a big part in the May Masque, serving as a nucleus for the hula dancers. Earlier in the year, Orchesis advisor Louise Bird turned the Student Union into a cabana, gave six lessons (rhumba, conga) to all who were interested. 109 BEFORE T H E CURTAIN THE COMPLICATED PROCESS of produc- ing a play begins when several people sit down in a litfle room with fhe director and wrangle about the many factors which gov- ern choice of play. Here, such a committee. MORE NERVE-WRACKING to many act- ors than the performances are the try-outs. Above is a scene at reading of senior play, George Washington Slept Here, with Mrs. Allen directing the casting (lower left). THE DIRECTOR is the keystone of all produc- tions. Mrs. Virginia Princehouse Allen holds the reins on all dramatic activities at Pomona, keeps them untangled, shakes them capably at neces- sary intervals. Above, at rehearsal, she directs. WITH AN INGENUITY almost diabolical, the stage crew produces castles from canvas, moun- tains from papier mache. Their work is accom- plished under the aegis of capable William Robertson, trainer of stage hands [above right). COSTUME MISTRESSES Marnie Waller and Betty Thompson had much more to do this year than merely rent appropriate apparel for the plays. Borrowing, ransacking, and stitching are three ways of dressing performers (center). TENSION reaches its height before a perform- ance in the make-up room, the last stop be- fore the curtain goes up. To see what curtain has gone up on during year, turn page. Betty Winterburn makes up Barbara Bergen (bottom). 110 RISES- THE THESPIANS are the stars of tomorrow. Freshmen with a common denominator of eagerness to participate in dramatic activities, they have produced two assembly plays on their own and have contributed much to major productions. Led by pres- ident Bob Holt and advisor Dick Butfum, their solo flights were The House of Juke and The Man Who Died at Twelve O ' clock. Thespians is a training organization; stage, make-up and cos- tume workers as well as actors have gained experience for use on future major productions from these one-act plays. THEY BEGAN TO TREAD THE BOARDS. Front row, left to right: Hatch, Gooch, j Jones, Brown; second row: Churchill, Turner, Ward, McCulloch, Bacon and Whitney. Back row: Leynse, Omejer, Cooley, Holt, Popenoe, Lyndes and Fries. im sakw = f ■ W •h CLIMAX: The gentle people have murdered Goff; Magruder (Bob Holt), Eli (Bob Walter) and Stella look on as Flaherty (Forrest Ockels) questions Philip. THE GENTLE PEOPLE THE FIRST PRODUCTION of Pomona ' s dramatic season, Irwin Shaw ' s Gentle People turned out to be a modern parable of significance and charm. It provided the cast with a fine opportunity for varied and thoughtful characterization, and offered a challenge to the industry and ingenuity of the stage crew by requiring five sets, ten changes, a large collection of strange properties, unusual lighting, and some com- plicated sound effects. Both performances were well received, and those who saw the play will long remember the feeling of contentment when at last all the problems had been solved and one of the two old fisher- men returned to the peaceful refrain with which the play opened: Off the coast of Cuba, in the Gulf Stream, they catch fish that weigh from 700 to 1000 pounds, fish with spears in their noses. The water ' s warm . . . 112 RIGHT, above: Anagnos and Goodman buoy up each other ' s spirits as Jonah ' s wife enjoys her liver troubles. Right, below: they seek solace in a Turk- ish bath with Lannmaniwitz (George Golitzin) and the Polack (Jinn Squire). Golitzin provided comic relief. JONAH GOODMAN is a watch-maker; his friend Phillip Anagnos washes dishes in an Italian restaurant. At night, they sit in a boat by Steeplechase Pier and dream of sailing to the Gulf Stream. Even their dreams are endangered when Harold Goff, petty gangster and agent of force and vio- lence, enters the scene with demands for protection money. Jonah stands to lose something more dear to him yet when his daughter Stella becomes Infatuated by Goff, decides to go away with him rather than marry Eli Lieber, solid citizen of Brooklyn. Faced with the necessity of combatting force with force for the first time in their lives, these gentle people rise up sadly, and justly smite gangster Goff. ACT II, SCENE 3: Jonah (Carter Ide) begs daughter Stella (Martha Palmer) not to run off with Goff. ACT I, SCENE I: Gangster Goff (Dick Buffum) breaks in on hap- py, uncomplicated lives of Philip Anagnos (Clif Shoemaker) and Jonah with demand that they pay for docking their boat in harbor. ACT II, SCENE I: Angelina (Roe Arlen) calls on Philip Anagnos, invites him to come up and try her spaghetti. k ■ illW w B I ' lJ 1 ,U 1 p%c f i Im III ll wh ' W P - , ■ . ' ..-- ■ -V. MASQUERS: Welch, Tucker, Thomas, Reedy, Walter, Maddox, Morris, Ide, S+urges, Buffum, Shoemaker, McBride, Myers, Benson, Crumrine, Jeffries, Hawke, Bergen, Hagopian, Palmer, Machin, McDonald, Smith, Moore, Boyn+on, Winferburn. MASQUE F A M L Y PORTRAIT MASQUERS ARE THOSE PEOPLE who have demonstrated their interest in dramatics by continued activity in the yearly productions. As a group, they see outstanding plays in Los Angeles, hear speakers on topics of the- atrical interest; and the third play of each year, presented by their organization, is generally the most difficult and ambitious of Pomona ' s dramatic season. This year it was Family Portrait, the story of the fam- ily of Jesus of Nazareth and what His coming meant to them, told in simple language and timeless settings. It showed the family at breakfast, quarreling about Jesus (left cen- ter). It showed how some tried to capital- ize commercially on Him (bottom, far left) and the troubles He brought when He re- turned to his native village (bottom right). ROBERTA LIGHT, Georgiana Turner, Jacque Henkel, George Golitzin, Carolyn Moore, Jim Holbrook (Simon), Art Kelley (Judah), center, members of Jesus ' immediate circle at the breakfast table. Lower left, discussion in a Capernum wine shop, Judas Iscariot (Clif Shoemaker), Mary (Georgiana Turner), travelling merchant Bob Welch, Selina (Jane Long) participating. Right, Mary remonstrates with son Joseph. R S PRESENT HATRED AND HYSTERIA which had risen against Jesus were revealed in all their ugliness by the woman of Jerusalem (rt. above) and the love and esteem of those who really knew Him were feelingly depicted by Mary Magdalen (lower right) in a scene whose gripping climax suggested the crucifixion. In the last scene, the family ' s life has returned to normal; marriages and births go on, but Mary hopes that He will not be forgotten. NEAR END OF PLAY, Leben (Herbert Lowenstein, center) comes with his son Joshua (Bob Walter, far right) to arrange a nnarriage with Esther (Marjorie Ward, seated). Mary Cleophus (Roberta Light), Reba (Jacque Henkel), Joseph (George Golitzin), Mendel, the marriage broker (Joe Morris), Rabbi Samuel (Coy Sanders), Simon (Jim Holbrook) and Naomi (Carolyn Moore) listen as Mary (Georgianna Turner) informs Leben that Jesus belonged to their family; Leben replies that he never heard of him. BARBARA BERGEN was the woman who reviled Christ, above. Palmer the one who praised. f?. i ON THE PLATFORM I DR. SCOTT coached Jack Livingston and Jim Walker to debating victories in Southern California speech tourney. BETWEEN TAKING the verse choir to Webb, Cal Prep and miscellaneous church groups for recitals, and arranging for Pomona entries in a half dozen speech tourneys, Benjamin Scott had a busy year. Jack Livingston and Jim Walker got to the finals at Stockton in March, won the Bakersfield tourney and the debate division in the Southern California tournament. Hugh Ralston, Whitfield Gaebelein and Camille Shaar went to town at Stanford in the Pacific Forensic League meet. THE VERSE CHOIR, front rov : Jones, Brownfield, D. Rosenkranz, M. Rosenkranz; second row: Fitch, Neely, Ward, Sellon, Anderson, Russell, Hinkley, Elliott, Turner, McCulloch, Brown, Finch; last row: Long, Seinnears, Lloyd. 116 MAURICE HINDUS came in March from Town Hall to answer fhe question What Next in East- ern Europe, belittled the Russo-German pact. THE FIRST LADY talked in a crowded Big Bridges in April on the Outlook for the Future of America, said all depends on people ' s faith. CAPTAIN John Craig, deep-sea diver, au- thor of Danger Is My Business, talked on the Philippines, predicted their return to the fold. AUTHORS AND COMMENTATORS, experts in their fields, beat a path to Claremont lecture halls, six of them to Bridges auditorium, where they spoke under the auspices of the auditorium events committee of Claremont Colleges, many more to Holmes hall, where they were booked for Thursday morning assemblies. Large crowds heard Captain John Danger Is My Business Craig, novelist Alfred Noyes, Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, South American expert Edward Tomlinson, commentator Maurice Hindus, and woman-about-America Eleanor Roosevelt. Arctic explorer Vilhjahmur Stefansson and president of the Norwegian parliament Carl J. Hambro were among those who spoke in Holmes, and at Frary luncheons. 117 EVERYTHING STOPS for chapel on Tuesday mornings at eleven, and once in a while, if program promises to be exceptionally good, almost everyone goes. THE RELIGIOUS COUNCIL, back row: Clark, Colburn, Love, Ide, Hagopian, Powell, Shelfon and Meland; front row: Dwan, Farlee, Gates, Forbes, Welch. RELIGIOUS I NTE RESTS TWICE DURING THE YEAR, once in early September, leaders of cam- pus religious activities gathered at Idyllwild ' s Halona lodge to plan chapels, forums and college church services for the year. After winding up their get-together with an eve- ning of Virginia reeling, they came back with their ideas: interludes of organ music by William G. Blanch- ard, one-act dramas, interpretive dancing by Orchesis, symphony re- cordings and choral music. Jesslyn Gates and Francis Wheat acted as religious activities co-chairmen, and worked with associate professor Ber- nard Meland to line up Tuesday morning chapels, Sunday evening college church services, programs that drew some record crowds. STUDENT FORUM, under Blandin Colburn, met on Sundays that col- lege church did not, enabled students to get better acquainted with their professors and other interesting Claremont personalities through an informal discussion of the speakers ' field of interest. Memorable sessions of the year were those led by Kirk- wood and Gleason, Ness and Coons, and concert pianist Lee Pattison. 118 SIDELIGHTS ELECTION AND THE WAR were responsible for two of the three more or less un-scheduled events that had campus crowd lovers in a dither. While Pomona Democrats held their pep session In a telephone booth at the Inn, Republicans met in Holmes hall one evening after a torch-light parade to hear Jim Jefferson, Zazu Pitts and Norman Ness rationalize their choice. Then, in January, Joan Fontaine, Brian Aherne, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray and the junior symphony donated two hours of good en- tertainment for their fellow Britains. In March, Edgar Bergen pre- sented his friends McCarthy and Snerd in a couple of hilarious skits, backed up by comedian Haydn, singers Jaynes and McPhail. HEATHER ANGEL AND ROLAND YOUNG appeared in the British relief show with a sketch of their own. Basil Rathbone read from Shakespeare ' s Richard III, and negro tenor Charles Holland sang for the cause of bundles and new spitfires. 119 POMONA STUDENTS EDIT FIVE PUBLICATIONS i- SIX EDITORS (two of them co-edited Sage Hen) used reams of paper and buckets of printer ' s ink to keep you posted on news, humor, telephone numbers, literature and college life. Under the general supervision of publications board chairman John Phil- lips, they spent about nine thousand dollars of yours and advertisers ' money to publish a directory, a humor magazine, sixty issues of a bi-weekly newspaper, a literary maga- zine and an annual. Ted Griffin, Jack Shel- ton, Tom Morris and Glenn Cornwell handled business affairs for editors Bailard, Dryer- Roulac, Wheeler and Phillips, respectively. During the second semester, John Phillips and his staff took a week off from Student Life, let John Dille and Ray Frazer col- laborate to turn out six up-to-date, heavi- ly-illustrated issues of their Pomona Daily. TWICE A WEEK, Sfudent Life edHor J. Roderick Phillips ge+s together with news editor John Dille and business manager Glenn Cornwell to plan space for the next issue. FAR REMOTE from the Courier office are the doings of Harwood, Blaisdell, e+ al. If is fhe job of Lou Sawyer, (interviewing Miss Maple) to provide all women ' s news. 120 SPORTS EDITOR John Bodger capably handled job of columnist, prophet, score-totaler for Student Life readers this year. His Once-Over Lightly ranked about tops. NIGHT EDITOR Bob Walter takes over at the Courier workshop, with the able assistance ot one-time news editor Ray Frazer and Roland Vaile, plans layout, reworks stories, sets heads (above). FRANCIS WHEAT, night editor on alternate issues with Bob Walter, nnakes a last-nninute check on page-proof at the Courier press for transposed headlines, a Student Life habit ( above rt.). AT BREAKFAST next morning — Tuesday or Saturday — George Mayer (right) is among those poring over the paper for scandal news, sports results, announcements of the next week ' s events. ■ r H H B HL Ky S :. 1 lis Jsr • ; . . ' ' tatX Ui ki STUDENT LIFE rolled off the Claremont Courier presses every Monday and Friday night, and was in the dining halls in tinne for breakfast and your eight o ' clock classes. While business manager Glenn Cornv ell was scouting the valley for advertising, edi- tor John Phillips was dreaming up assignments which news editor John Dille passed around to his stable of writers. John Bodger was responsible for sports coverage, had his own staff of experts. By noon, reporters and feature writers had their copy in the office, where it was copy-read and revised by Phillips and night editors Bob Walter and Francis Wheat, whose job it was to follow It through to newsprint. At the plant, printers had the copy set up on the linotype by supper time, when, with pen- cils in one hand and bag lunches in the other, Phillips and Walter or Wheat corrected proof and drew up a final dummy. Mary Reld, Roland Vaile, Bruce Adkinson and Jane Shiels took turns assisting at this stage of the game, while Ray Frazer set up headlines, helped Phillips, Walter, Wheat and make-up man Russ Schwab put the paper to bed. 121 WARREN WHEELER was his own art editor, checks layouts here with business manager Tom Morris and associate editor Lou Sawyer. Re- cuperating from the pace at photograph-time was assistant Mary Reid WRITING and stooging for Wheelersawyer kept John Bodger, Mary Noble, Bob Walter, Anne Crooks and Alice Bucquet (above), John Dille, Art Mallette, Ray Frazer and John Metcalfe (below) busy for weeks. THE M E T A T E FOR SEVEN LEAN YEARS drought troubled the United States. Not even the most ardent Hopi prayers could make it rain. But in 1940-41 the cloud and deluge boys got busy, if somebody on the Metate staff called you and asked you to be on hand for a picture on Tuesday, it started raining Monday night, and gladdened the farmers ' hearts for twenty-four hours. If we tried again on Fri- day, there was more of the same. The Los Angeles Engrav- ing company implied that it couldn ' t process copper plates without pictures to work with. The Progress - Bulletin presses rolled off high school annuals and theatre pro- grams, but Metate copy had gotten lost in a synaptic con- nection somewhere on the editorial staff. Kilowatt hours soared and forced the bills for the publications office into three columns. D notices were issued by the Record- er ' s office from professors who felt that there was no reason for Metate to go on forever. But, for 700 good men and true who had paid $4.50 to spend on luxuries like yearbooks, we defied hell and high water to publish a rec- ord of life on the campus of a small Western college — not as educators think it is, not as your parents see it, but as it is. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Dan Karasik cov- ered the soph formal and the May Masque rally, took picture of couple on page 200. JACQUE BAILARD compiled your phone numbers, home and school addresses info college directory. SAGEHEN-CRITERION-DIRECTORY i DRYER AND ROULAC (See City Dairy ad) gave Sage Hen handsome HUMOR In Sage Hens (above) was aimed covers, filled in with besf that Pomona, Dartmouth and Harvard at women, fraternities, escapes from reality, humorists could dream up. Biggest idea of year — to decide what JOHN METCALFE (below) gathered stuff coed men would like to be marooned with — fell into censors ' hands. out of people ' s drawers to fill in Criterion. SAGE HEN put you and its editors under the table four times during the year. John Dryer and Earl Roulac aimed humor mostly at women and fraternities, got both to poke fun at themselves. In their last issue, they helped wind up the year with a magnificent escape from reality. THE CRITERION was again a vehicle for the Robert Taylor playwriting contest. Edited by John Metcalfe, it included the winning plays, as well as poetry and prose compiled from the You-Didn ' t-Know-I-Wrote col- lections of campus literati, may well be on the way to a comeback after a few years of non-existence, brought on by a prosaic and poetic drouth. BOB TAYLOR, shown with John Dye, backed play contest which brought entries from all over U. S. Winners appeared in Criterion. FOR CLEARING TABLES or manning the cafeteria line, men earn 40 cents an hour. Working behind Harwood line (above) are Monroe Morgan, Pete Van Kuran, Harry Kavanaugh and John Campbell. BOB SH ELTON takes over the switchboard at I I , sleeps by it until 7 In the morning. MANY STUDENTS manage to sandwich fronn twenty to forty hours of NYA work a month — at from thirty-five to fifty cents an hour — into their programs, and for that money do almost anything from typing bulletins and letters to putting books back into the stacks or grading papers. Others, not on NYA, help earn their tuition or pin money working for the college or for themselves at other jobs (see pictures). AT WORK COOP MANAGER Curt Murrell keeps a staff of clerks on hand at 40 cents an hour, waits on pulchritude himself. SOME STUDENTS work as assistants in laboratories or at grading papers for professors. Hyla Cook has a research problem of her own. LAUNDRIES keep campus representatives (below, Barbara Bentley) busy acting as middlemen, pay them a percentage of their collections. IT ' S BEFORE BILL KINGSLEY got this far, fhe paddling phase of Hell Week, he was talked over, like all rushees, in a ding session that may have lasted all night, nnay have split the fraternity wide open over black-balling. THE BID IS NOT ASSURANCE of membership, merely means that the rushee is invited to come along on a rush party, to look over the fraternity, and to be looked over. He may go any- where from the mountain cabin to The Drunkard. Here, the Phi Deltas and their rushees are with Dorothy Lamour at Rum Boogie. AN INEVITABLE feature of initia- tion, no matter what the fraternity, is the pine paddle. Techniques, though, vary with the tong. Kenny Boettcher tries the AGS swat. PART OF INITIATION for Kappa Deltas consists of supplying members with cigars and gum. Here Boomer Beni- off robs the contents of Warren Smith ' s supply between classes on Holmes ' steps. WEEK IT DIDN ' T TAKE YOU LONG, when you were a frosh, to discover that there is a fraternity situation at Pomona, and it didn ' t take much longer to figure out what that situation is. Pomona ' s six fraternities are local but you soon found out that most of national fraternities ' good points are here, and a good many of the bad points are not. You probably visited a frat room in your freshman year, and you at least heard about the cabins in the mountains. You noticed that fraternity brothers here usually sit together at dinner, but you soon found out that they also mix well with men from other tongs and with non-orgs. Later, after you joined, you discovered the reasons why the groups are small, local, and housed in the dormitories. The spirit is here, as the pictures on these and the following pages will testify. Hell Week in all its questionable glory, paddling, egg-tossing . . . PHI DELTS HIKE for miles carrying big rocks, sometimes don ' t get in until the wee hours of the morning. Hunt Norris, Red Schaef- fer and Bill Kingsley were luckier, got back in time to snatch a little rest at the Mission. NAPI PLEDGE Eugene Brown has missed his fellow pledge, Tom Hood, with an egg, has to assume the position and be paddled by Hood. Howard Rapp waits his turn, while brothers Buck Wheat and Willie Martin, and K D ' s watch. RUSHEE SMITH must also furnish KD girls with cigarettes and candy. Collect- ing here are Shirley Kirtland and Jean Ful- ford. The Napi ' s have developed this cigar box canteen to a fine art, make much of it. IF HE ' S A NAPI, a pledge faces a more ar- duous week, messy with egg-throwing, a favorite Nu Alph sport. Here, sophomore Arthur Mal- lette stands up to take his egg, being dropped by another pledge from the dormitory roof. ON HIS BACK, Mailette gets a neatly-aimed egg in his mouth. Alpha Gams have to get all actives to sign their paddles; Sig Taus are con- demned to pink shirts, and Kappa Thetes have to hold heavy cakes of ice on chests, and orate. ALPHA GAMMA SIGMAS fell In love enmasse with White Cargo ' s slave girl, Tondeleyo, pasted her all over their closet doors. Besides having beach parties at Laguna and a yacht trip to Catalina, they kept thennselves busy attending Pomona dramatic productions and glee club concerts — that is, those who did not take part themselves. Highlight of year was installation of Mrs. Frey as an honorary member. ALLEN ANDERSON BALLARD BOEHCHER ALPHA GAMMA SIGMA BUFFUM CRAWFORD DURLEY EGELER FEHRENSEN FRANKLIN HARRELL HERON JOHNSON KEPLER KUHLMAN KYNE LARNER LOUCKS MAGNIN MERTZ METCALFE MILLER NICKERSON REFVEM SHAAR SHEFCHIK SHOEMAKER SPRANKLE TREGO WELCH WHITTLE 128 K A P P A D E L T A KAPPA DELTA, oldest Pomona fraternity, grabbed the whole crowd of athletic sopho- mores, upheld its traditional smoothness. The KD ' s, socially active, held a Mount Baldy barbeque, danced in the frat room, white- tied at Los Serranos country club. On the lighter side, brothers joint-partied with the Phi Delts at Norco and with the Napi ' s at the latters ' cabin. In interfraternity athletics, they took the basketball championship and the track meet, stood a chance to win the soft- ball tourney. Came spring recess, and KD ' s fished, burned under hot Mexican sun. REIGHARD 129 BECKER BODGER BULKLEY LIVINGSTON LOVEDAY PAGE PENNIMAN CAMPBELL CHINN COLE CONKLIN HOLDEN ISACKSON REEDY ROSSELOT TYLER KAPPA THETA EPSILON had fewer members at the start of the year than usual, made it up by grabbing more pledges than any other fra- ternity in February. Always sparked by men interested In the scholastic vein, this year was no exception as the tong dragged down Its share of honors. Spark-plug of the fraternity was junior John Bodger, erstwhile sports editor of Student Life. Kappa Thetas ' pride and joy is the billiard table In the tong room in Smiley, where mem- bers stop between classes, after supper, for stag parties which are not held at the tong cabin. WALKER KAPPA THETA EPSILON NU ALPHA PHI has the custom of serenading every time a brother announces his engagennent, got to put the custom into practice nine times this year, and, with the largest membership on the campus, stands to use it many more times. The president of the student body, the president of the Associated Men ' s Students and the president of Ghosts were all Napi ' s this year. Brother Shelton broke into print in the Saturday Evening Post with an article about a certain blond Pomonan who wields a badminton racket. N U A L P H A P H DIETERICH DWAN EVANS FARMAR FISHER GRAHAM HITCHCOCK HOBART HOOD IVERSON JONES LENTZ McCULLY McWETHY MADDOX MALLETTE MARTIN MUNSON MURRELL RAPP SCHMIDT J. SHELTON R. SHELTON STIMPSON WARFIELD WHEAT V INCHESTER WOODBURY mm BAKER BASHORE DAVIS DIMMICK DOAN DUNTON DYE FREEMAN HALLADAY KAVANAUSH KINSSLEY MERRILL MONTGOMERY NORRIS PORTER ROULAC SAIT SCHAEFFER SMITH STEELE STREHLE PHI DELTA TANNER WHEELER WILLIAMS PHI DELTAS, raucous and spirited, are famous for their beach parties, which they sometimes manage to grace with such people as Ida Lupino. Phi Delts hold some of their shindigs in a cabin just outside Claremont, displaying two gasoline pumps and a huge neon clock, others at the Hawaiian Hut, Norco and at Emerald Bay. They provided Pomona with an interfraternity president, AMS vice-president and secretary, next year ' s ASPC president and se- nior class president, this year ' s editors of Metate and Sage Hen. 132 CAMPBELL CARLTON CHAMBERS GOLITZIN SIGMA TAU, famed year in and out for i+s brawn and prowess on the field of athletics, kept up its reputation this year with the captain of the football team, several other major athletes, astounded the fraternity world by turning quite scholarly to boot. They captured the Intertong volleyball championship, placed third In fraternity basketball. The social season started out with a pledge party at The Drunkard, closed with a memorable brawl at the ranch of Student Life editor Bud Phil- lips In Victorville. The interim was filled with gala affairs in the tong rooms, at the cabin on Baldy, and at brother Hayes ' home. Spring was filled with the usual beach parties at Laguna. SIGMA TAU HALL HAYES HINKEL HISANAGA HISANAGA KEW LINCOLN MORDY REEDY 1 j|a BOB BODDY took third for Kappa Delta in 75 yard dash, but took outside lane where he could get in picture. Photographer missed the boat, left out winner John Jaqua, who won for KD, and Napi Bob Dieterich, second. MONROE MORGAN, Sig Tau, faces pitcher Joe Kyne of Alpha Gamma Sigma, In interfrat softball game, which, like swimming, came too late for METATE coverage. Freshmen and non-orgs also take part in tong tourney. TONG WARFARE TYPICAL EXAMPLE of the fraternity man ' s outlook on inter- fraternity athletics was the KD rain dance the night before the tong track nneet. It rained, and the men escaped, for another day at least, the necessity of comparing their athletics with those of the other organizations. Interfraternlty sport is an ordeal that has to be gone through, though. In that — for one thing — it is a good reason for the very existence of the organizations, and, for another thing, it provides comic relief for members, non-orgs and girl friends alike. Three fraternities fairly well walked away with the honors this year. The basketball season was one of the most evenly-matched in several years, and there was some good ball despite the apathy. Kappa Delta, Phi Delta and Sigma Tau finished In that order. The Sig Tau ' s won the volleyball tourney, with the Phi Delts coming out second, and the KD ' s, Napi ' s and Phi Delts took first, second and third In the track meet. 134 THERE IS STILL ANOTHER PART OF COLLEGE LIFE— A PART WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH 8 O ' CLOCKS OR MIDTERMS. YOU MAY SOON FORGET ENGLISH Ala, THE DEVELOPMENT OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, OR BIOLOGY B2a — BUT THE DATES AND THE DANCES — THE HOURS SPENT IN THE COOP OR ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD — DAYS AT THE BEACH AND UP IN THE SNOW — THE MISSION — WHO WILL EVER FORGET THESE? TURN THE PAGE TO SEE II EOP LE PLAY DAY DAY DAY DAY DAY DAY DAY DAY NIGHT NIGHT NIGHT NIGHT NIGHT NIGHT J .4 ik- ' i i ■ i- 1 1 X ■ W r r 4 1 -f . H 1 l ,  « .o... ■• wl 1 fl k p- 1 1 m Kf F m 1 W ' ' l ft 1 YOUR DAY IF YOU GET UP IN TIME, you probably grab a quick shower and maybe a cup of coffee before that eight o ' clock. Maybe you sleep through. In any event, between classes you find yourself any day and every day on the steps of Holmes, arguing with some one or other about the next formal, the last ex, the present war. The steps are an official polling place, a semi-official date bureau, a non-official smoking spot. Here plans are made, dates set, the day ' s extra-curricular activities started. AND AFTER ALL YOUR CLASSES, you wander into the Coop and buy yourself a coke, and discuss life in general with sweet young things and hefty football players. Perhaps you play the well-worn Frenesi on the juke-box or play bridge or actually buy something from Curt Murrell. Life Is sweet and relaxed in the Coop and you find it a good place to start — and maybe finish — the day ' s relaxation. Here is the morning ' s center of activity, the rest of the day ' s meeting place. THE LUNCH TABLE AT HARWOOD or at Blaisdell is the unofficial campus news and scandal center. Dates and dresses are hashed over, and the placing of pins and rings is old stuff ten minutes after it is announced. LUNCH AT FRARY finds men a little less interested in clothes and rings, more interested in that gal Eddie has over there and where she came from. Topics of conversation are light, dates planned are heavy. SANCTUM SANCTORUM of Blaisdell is the patio where many afternoon hours are spent in the above manner. Those less inclined to inhale fresh air may at this time be studying or dating or perhaps attending afternoon classes. Gossip flies at these sessions. FOR THE MORE ATHLETIC there is tennis or golf or archery. John Dye and Eleanor Forbes prefer the former, practiced enough to win the school-wide mixed doubles tourney. AND THEN, IF YOU ARE SO INCLINED there are always games to be played on Marston Quad- rangle. In addition to such fun as model airplanes, tag and blind man ' s buff are always popular, and a vicious game, drop the Handerchief, draws crowds. _ 141 AND ON SATURDAY AFTERNOONS IN OCTOBER you trouped out to Alumni field to see Pomona play football. You got there a little early, hollered loudly through your Desmond meg- aphone, frowned at the guy who was listening to the SC game on his portable. It got rather hot after the first quarter, and you sweated and squirmed and got splinters from the rough bleachers. You got very bitter about the officiating and the coaching and the playing, and you let the officials and the coaches and the players know about your feelings. You wondered whether it wouldn ' t be more comfortable to play the game than to watch it. And then we lost; you swore and had a temper and vowed you wouldn ' t come back again. Or we won; and you took a philosophical view on life, commended Fuzz, and decided this was the best football year of all. ON THOSE SATURDAYS you went to Alumni Field, paid the little man with one of those green tickets, cheered long and lustily with Bu Graves, watched Doc Blanchard and his band, left as tired as if you had played the game. HOLD THAT LINE CONFERENCE RUNNER-UP, the squad made up in fight for whaf if lacked in weighf, tofaled less fhan three tons. First row: T. Strehle, Deane, D. Reedy, Halladay, Jaqua, B. Hisanaga (Capt.), Page, Heiser, Jones, Griffin. Second row: Tanner, C. Hisanaga, Forsch, Reeder, Boggs, Boyden, Cowger, Fernandes, Mead, Barker. Third row: Van Ginkle, A. Smith, Steudler, D. Strehle, Craig, Bloedorn, W. Smith, Ballif, Heller and W. Fisher. WINNING TEAMS are never built in a day. Hard-work- ing, hard-driving coach Earl Fuzz Merritt and some thirty Pomona men toiled three practices a day for a solid week before school opened to lay the groundwork for the winning combination which finally appeared near end of 1 940 season. With a game within a week of the opening of school, Fuzz put the team through workouts mornings, afternoons, nights. RIGHT: all-conference blocking back, five feet eight, 180-pound chunk of dynamite from Hawaii — Captain Kazuma (Bennle) Hisanaga. EVER SINCE his graduation, Fuzz Merritt has kept himself in shape whipping football and bas- ketball teanns into shape, and or- ganizing Pomona ski enthusiasts. 1940 GRID SEASON VICTORY over Occidental for third consecutive year, a win over Whittler after scoreless dead-locks the two previous seasons, second place In the Southern California conference with three triumphs and one defeat, a season record of four won, four lost — this was the 1940 Pomona College football season. The last two Saturdays in September found the Sagehens losing to big-tlme non-conference foes, Santa Barbara and San Diego State Colleges, and after an easy victory over La Verne in early October, the Pomonans were buried by the powerful San Diego Marines. More successful was the conference season, for the Hens took Caltech again, and although Redlands passed them dizzy In the next tilt, November brought triumph when the Pomonans outfought a favored VVhittier team and two weeks later whitewashed a fighting Occidental eleven In the 44th Big Game, of which Pomona ' s Sagehens have won 27. LEFT, top to bottom: junior mana- ger John Bodger, ditto Bill Kings- ley, senior manager Maury Cohen, and place-kicker Dick Barker, out of contact work because of injury. BREAK-AWAY THREAT, second HARD - DRIVING blocker, sopho- SURPRISE PACKAGE Al Smith, HARD-HITTING Sherwood Heiser, team all-conference Bobo Per- nnore running-guard Warren Smith newcomer who played sixty min- 180-pound Honolulu, one of best nandes, hula-hipped halfback. was also valuable on pass defense. utes as guard against Whittier. blockers, all-conference tackle. EARLY GAMES BREAKERS, white sails, wet grass and green-clad Gauchos high- lighted Pomona ' s invasion of Santa Barbara for a 19-0 defeat. Dag- ger dance by Aztec song-leaders celebrated Pomona ' s first defeat in three years in San Diego State ' s Grand Canyon stadium, 33-3. Marching to touchdowns almost at will, Pomona defeated La Verne 33-0. Journeying to San Diego again, the Sagehens were royally en- tertained at the United States Marine barracks, but the Big Red Machine gave them a 47-0 defeat, had the situation well in hand. BELOW: Bobo Fernandes is knocked out of bounds by Leopard tackier during first- half touchdown march in first home game. Below, right: Dick Strehle carries ball on fake punt formation later in game, while brother Ted takes out a La Verne tackier. IN LA VERNE GAME, Wayne Fisher takes a flat pass in the clear near his goal, while captain Bennle His- anaga (22) starts down-field to block for him (above). K HIGHLIGHT of Cal+ech in rally in Village Thea+re was Cockeyed Mayor of Kanalcaikai hula by l+sue Hisanaga whose brothers aided in victory in next afternoon ' s game. A SOPHOMORE LETTERMAN, Ted Sfrehle (above left) gave promise of becoming another outstanding pass-receiver and defensive end. Above right, all-conference Dick Strehle averaged 45 yards a punt, was able pass-catcher, hard to handle on end sweeps. POMONA 23 - CALTECH 6 SAFETY-MAN Johnny Jaqua meets several Caltech tacklers while hiking back a punt. Ted Griffin (20) and Bob Craig (44) have one man cinched, but cannot give very immediate or very effective help. 148 .s NOT ONLY a capable blocking back and line-backer, Wayne Bud Fisher is a left-handed passer. LEAN, hungry Jack Tanner, 1941 caplain-elect, is good pass receiver, made his end dangerous to enemy. ONLY junior back, Whit Halladay made his letter at right half, may move to quarterback next fall. TOP SOPHOMORE back, 60-mIn- ute man against Whittier, sprinter John Jaqua plays safety ondefense. REDLANDS 27-POMONA 6 IN THE CALTECH GAME, which had the managers carrying ice instead of water to the sweltering gridders, the Sagehens won their second home game by outlasting Tech 23-6. Taking the ball early on a fumble, the Hens marched to a score, follow- ing closely with a Barker field-goal. A pass-inter- ception by Steudler set up the next score, and a pass from Fritz to Bill Reeder in end zone scored. THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY saw Pomona ' s title chances exploded by a 27-6 defeat from the 1941 champions, Redlands, on the Claremont field. The Hens scored early in second period when Steudler made two first downs, and Fernandes circled end for the score. The Bulldogs came right back with a 66-yard touchdown pass, led 7-6 at the half; the sec- ond half was all Redland ' s, with three touchdowns. THREE POMONANS were needed, (right, above) to stop Al Norman, Redland ' s elusive back, but Fernandes makes a shoestring tackle, with Warren Snuffy Smith and Jack Tanner in on kill. (Right) Punt run-back finds Bobo Fernandes nearly trapped deep in Sagehen soil for loss. THAT ' S THE TROUBLE with night games; you can ' t see where A POET THREAT IS THROWN BACK deep in Pomona territory in the you ' re going to land! John Jaqua goes down fighting as a Whittier first half. Being straight-armed on this end sweep Is Jaqua, while end makes an effective tackle on Jaqua ' s run-back of a poet punt. eager faces behind belong to wingman Dick Strehle and tackle Heiser. POMONA 12 -WHITTIER 7 AFTER THREE YEARS of waiting Pomonans finally see their Hens break deadlock, score on Whittier. AFTER A FIRST HALF which re- peated the scoreless ties of ' 38 and ' 39, with Pomona ' s fighting line throwing back three Whittier thrusts inside the ten, the Hens broke a three year deadlock to upset the Poets. On the first play of the second half, Bobo Fernandes streaked 78 yards to the most spectacular score of the year; Fred Steudler intercepted a pass, galloped 45 yards to another. Whittier made last six minutes agon- izing with aerial bombardments. BEFORE the Oxy game frosh must build a huge bonfire. At left, the first step: sawing logs. Volunteer or be drafted. SOMETIMES sophomores aid. Here Bob Dieterich helps bonfire take shape. It was built in three days and nights. ALL READY TO LIGHT is the bonfire (lower left) after hours of concentrated effort. About this time, one dark night, Oxy appeared and the battle was on. ALL ABOUT A BONFIRE THE OXY FIGHT occurred in the small hours of Friday morning. A horde of Tigers poured on to Alumni Field, were repulsed. Above, the lighting of the P , which was made possible this year by lots of wet weather. Rangers accompanied the frosh who lit the letter on the mountain above school, made sure of no forest fire. THE BONFIRE LIGHTING was synchronized with the lighting of the P , went off with a huge blaze at Friday ' s Oxy rally. The night before, nearly the whole freshman class had stayed up all night to guard it. Features of the Oxy rally were: yell-leading by alumni, a pep talk by Dean Nicholl, annual ghost dance by the men ' s glee club. BIG, BLOND Fritz S+eudler, 190- STRONG, silent right guard, Gor- PHOTOGENIC fullback Bob Craig HARD-HITTING Bob Cowger, two pound all-conference fullback, was don Gabby Heller hates noise, will need his ruggedness to fill years Pomona ' s running guard, a terrific smasher of enemy lines. loves action, piles up noisy backs. all-conference shoes next year. backs up the line on defense. TIME OUTS came often for the 14 iron men who beat Oxy. Resting are Al Smith, Hisanaga, Van Ginkle, Jaqua, Snuffy Smith, Cowger, Steudler while water-boy John Bodger rests himself after hectic dash to cool sweating Hens. BLOCKING for Steudler (48), right foreground, is Hisanaga (22), far left, while Dick Strehle (21) and Al Smith (29) watch the pass interception from the disorderly pile-up of blocking Hens and blocked-out Tigers in the background. POMONA 6 - OXY MOST EXCITING BIG GAME in years, the 1940 tilt at Eagle Rock was undecided until the final gun barked with Pomona lead- ing Occidental, 6-0, the third win in as many years. Marching 60 yards to a first- quarter touchdown on off-tackle smashes by Bobo Fernandes and Fred Steudler, short passes from Fernandes to Dick Strehle, the Sagehens scored when Bobo circled end. Oxy was within the Pomona 20 six times during the game and the last three quarters were a series of lethal aerial attacks which the Hens stopped in shadows of goal posts. GLUE-FINGERED end, sophomore Bill Reader snared touchdown pass against Tech, expects big year in ' 4 1 . ENEMY BLOCKERS don ' t move Henry Van Ginkle, 215-pound out- side tackle, and they seldom try. ANOTHER junior lineman, Al Ber- tie Mead played both tackles ably during past two pigskin seasons. WITH VAN injured. Serge Ballif came through against Oxy at right tackle, was rugged on defense. THROWN FOR A LOSS, far left, is Bob Fernandes, pursued by a couple of Occidental tacklers, and faced by several more, while John Jaqua (18) looks on from the ground, and Warren Smith leaps in futile attempt to make play work. CENTER, three year letter- man at end, Ted Griffin, was injured early in season, remained on sidelines. Be- low, veteran pivot-man Bill Potter was most accurate passer, hard to budge. ANNUAL football banquet found vice-prexy Eleanor Forbes giving award to Cap ' n Bennie HIsanaga, latter announcing Jack Tanner as his newly-elected successor for the 1941 season. BASKETBALL DRIBBLING — ZONE DEFENSE — FREE THROWS -SIX FEET— REBOUND SH OTS— PE RSO N AL FOULS— CENTER JUMP — HIGH POINT MAN POMONA ' S TALL, LEAN and gangling aggregation of 1940-41 started off with a muffled sputter and landed in the ditch twice in as many attempts to get the Big Blue Machine rolling in January. But February found the soph- omore-studded Sagehens finally hitting on all eight. Lack of experience was the main reason for the disappoint- ing record of two victories, six defeats in the So-Cal conference race, which Redlands won, with Whittier, Oc- cidental, Pomona and Caltech trailing. No all-conference stars featured the Hens this season, unlike the past two winters, but all of the regulars will return, and of the ten-man squad three were juniors, six sophomores. With a year ' s experience under their belts, the Pomonans should be hard to beat the next two seasons, and Frank Morgan, John Dye and Bill Kern are all-conference possibilities. DARK, lanky Harry Horse Kava- naugh, 6 feet 4 inch forward, aver- aged be+fer than 5 points a ganne. SECOND TEAM all - conference was 6 feet 6 inch center Frank Mic- key Morgan, averaging 10 points. ONLY SENIOR on squad, bespec- tacled center Jim Lum Lamme played great ball in last game. HOT IN LATER games, sky- scraping John Dye, 6 foot 4 inch forward, averaged seven points. UNDOUBTEDLY the worst game was the first with Oxy, in the Eagle Rock gym, when the Pomonans let the Bengals take an early lead, trailed at half by fif- teen points, lost hopelessly, 39-31. The following Tues- day at Poetville, the Sagehens were hot for 15 minutes, then the defense collapsed before Whittier ' s flea circus speed, and desperate attempts to score led to a 78-42 de- bacle. With both teams playing ragged ball, Pomona was just good enough to eke Caltech on the Claremont floor the next week-end, 55-45. Both teams were better next Sat- urday at Pasadena, but after trailing until the final minutes, an inspired Tech team upset the Hens, 37-36, for their first win in years. Playing real ball, finally, Pomona gave Red- lands a scare until the final five minutes, lost 49-33. Fans cannot say that the Hens did not give them excitement. IN THE FIRST OXY GAME, Harry Kavanaugh (top right) shoots for score, watches below after ball has been fed to Elwood Rich. AVERAGING almost 5 points a game, forward Elwood Rich (above) always played dependable ball. Nearest thing to perpetual motion was speedy, sure and spectacular guard Li ' l Billy Kern. STEADY ball-handler, efficient under back-board, was veteran Serge Ballif. MOST EXCITING GAME was the second with Whittier, on the local floor, in which the teanns were tied at half-time, and Pomona led in the sec- ond half ' til the last two minutes. Then the crafty Quakers stole the ball to sink bucket after bucket, hand Hens a heart-breaking 49-48 defeat. Showing their best ball of the season, the Pomonans amazed an over-confident Occidental team in Claremont gym by seizing an early lead never to be nipped, 49-40. Anti-climax after that was last Redlands game, champs giving Pomona an easy 33-23 defeat. COACH FUZZ MERRITT indicates positions when the boys go into zone defense, as Bill Reeder, Jim Lamme, Bill Kern kneel with him, and John Dye, Serge Ballif, Gordon Knoob, Elwood Rich, Frank Morgan, Harry Kavanaugh stand behind. JUMPING with Redlands man is Elwood Rich (19), while at left are two tallest men in conference, Leon Christensen, Redlands, Frank Morgan (22). LONG BEFORE season opens, a dozen cagers sweat a couple of hours twice a week, getting the feel of the ball and the floor, learning zone defense nnethods, finding an eye for the bucket, and dis- covering how to fight for the ball under the back-boards. Working every night fronn December to March, except when scrimmages or games break monotony, the hoopsters learn how to work together to move the ball into scoring position. Arranging the special meals and trans- portation for trips was job of senior man- ager Howard Adkinson, junior manager Fred Rice. Strength of the forward wall was at its height (average: 6 feet, 3 inches), just an edge under the basket. Chief weakness was lack of defensive ability on occasions. Most effective play was a cross-over, with center and forward breaking across to screen other forward ' s shot from within foul circle. UNDER BACKBOARD, three Pomonans attempting tip-ins are Morgan, Kern (10) next to him, and, looking at ball in background, Kavanaugh (20). 157 RUBDOWN — STARTER ' S GUN — SECOND WIND —STOPWATCH— TWO LAPS LEFT— SPIKED SHOES- BROKEN RECORDS— FINISH TAPE— STRAIGHT AWAY ABOVE RIGHT, in gruelling two-mile race, Bill Sa+chell sets pace, followed by two Oxy men and Pomonan Earl Lingle, who won in conference in a marvelous race. Bob Fernandes, top, took firsts in javelin and broad jump. Center, trainer Oscar Olson tapes heel of broad-jumper Hal Jones before meet. Bottom, distance man Mike Zu- niga checks his time after two-mile victory, gets con- gratulations from bespectacled shot putter Jack Lehman. I FROM STARTING GUN TO TAPE MIDORI COVERS THE O X Y MEET BIGGEST SPRING SPORTS EVENT is always the Occidental track meet, which has been won by Pomona for the past three years, as has the Big Game in football. Every Pomonan who makes a point in this traditional Big Meet automatically earns his letter. This year ' s meet found a bus-load of Sagehens, several hundred rooters invading Eagle Rock to see Oxy swamped, 88-43. Early events found the Bengals winning the pole vault, where Dolph Hill of the Hens tied Oxy ' s Ogle for third by clearing I I feet, 6, the high jump, where Oxy ' s Kring forced Dick Strehle into second, and where Pomonan Bud Phillips tied Ogle of the Tigers for third. Oxy won also in the sprints, in which conference champ Paul Shirey ran the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat, with Galen Fisher second, also beat Jaqua in the 220. The meet seemed very close. START OF THE QUARTER-MILE, won by Galen Fisher in the easy time of 51.5 seconds. Leaving their blocks are Stu Bruce of fhe Hens (farleff), an Oxy man, Fisher (second from righf) and ano+her Bengal. Bruce finished second, Oxy ' s Kenf fhird. Fisher ran his best time in conference meet. MID- WAY in 120-yard high hurdles, won by Dick S+rehle, in fast time BIG FRITZ STEUDLER was in iop form for the Oxy meet, where he threw th of 15.3 seconds. Sfrehle won 15.2 seconds to win high sticks in the discus 130 feet to win easily as coach Strehle ' s Pomona team swept the eveni conference meet. Wheat taking second in both. In picture, Dolph Hill Jack Lehman taking second, Dick Strehle third. In the conference meet Steudle isthirdfromleft. Wheat second from right, winner Strehle on far right. took second, forced Hal Turley of Whittier to toss 130 feet 4 inches to wir BUT POMONA TOOK FIRST In all three distance races, when Stu Bruce won the half-mile in two nninutes, 2.4 seconds, Earl Lingle took the mile, and Mike Zuniga was a surprise winner in the two-mile in I I minutes, 26.4 seconds. And, when the Sagehens made clean sweeps In all three weight events, with Fred Steudler winning the discus. Bob Fernandes the javelin, and Big Jack Craig the shot, with 40 feet, I I inches, the Sagehens built up a huge lead. Francis Wheat won the 220-yard low hurdles with the good time of 24.6 seconds, Strehle taking third. Pomona also won the high hurdles and the quarter-mile, where Strehle and Galen Fisher were outstanding, as well as the broad jump, where Fernandes was first, Bill Kern third. The relay team of Fernandes, Hill, Wheat and Fisher won easily in 3 minutes, 31.1 seconds to complete the landslide. 160 COACH ROBERT STREHLE has made a science of building his track teams. As early as the freshman agility tests at the first of the year, he was keeping his eye open for men with strong legs and the makings of good form. By the time track season rolls around, he knows the records of those who made them in high school, and has plans for what he can do for those who want to try out for track, but have never had on spiked shoes. After the season starts, each man is put into a detailed program of workouts. Strehle builds up from practice to practice, has his men work gradually into shape with laps around the track, warm- ups and time trials — much like thoroughbred horses. By the time the meet rolls around, Strehle knows exactly what each man can do, predicts the outcome to within a few points every time. TOP, Johnny Jaqua of Hens (cenfer) pours on power in final yards of 220-yard dash fo take second to Oxy ' s Shirey. Bottom, Francis Wheat, spent after two tough hurdle races, still gives Galen Fisher ten-yard lead in final lap of four-man mile relay. Time set by Bruce, Hill, Wheat, Fisher in the conference meet was 3 minutes 26.2 seconds. TOP, right, Serge Ballif at end of fol- low-through in javelin throw. Fernandes took first, Ballif second. RIGHT, Coach Bob Strehle, who always fields a strong track team, confers with an official at Oxy meet. RIGHT, bottom: Be- hind those glasses is hard - working senior track manager Mark Durley, cleaning up. DICK STREHLE dears 6 feet 1% inches +o place second in high junnp against Oxy. In conference, he jumped 6 feet 2 inches, his best mark of year, lost to kangaroo-legged Bob Kring, who did 6 feet Yq inches. ON TRACK TEAM, which was coached to the conference championship by Robert Strehle, were Phillips, Hitchcock, Strehle, Fernandes, Franklin and Zuniga; Jaqua, Reader, Kern, Bruce, Chinn and Fisher; Lingle, Wheat, Craig, Ballif and Jones. WHILE THE OXY MEET was Pomona ' s most smashing victory of the season, the Sagehens also upset Redlands 74-57, tripped Whittier 82-49 and swept through Caltech 78-53 to clinch the So-Cal confer- i ence dual-meet championship which Pomona had won in ' 39. That spring I the Hens had been upset in the conference meet, but this year the Sagehens came through with several surprises to win with 51 1 3 points. CONFERENCE CHAMPS this season for Pomona were Galen Fisher, who took the 440-yard dash in the good time of 50.6 seconds. Earl Lingle, who ran su- perb two-mile race to upset Heaton of Redlands in 10 minutes, I 8.7 seconds, Dick Strehle in the high hurdles, Francis Buck Wheat in the lows, and Bill Kern, who leaped 22 feet, 7% inches to win the conference broad jump. 162 POINTING TO A DIAGRAM of the squeeze play, coach Colvin Beefy Heath talks It over with Sagehen outfielders Gordon Knoob and Walt Clark. POMONA ' S PICTURESQUE OUTFIELD offers such obstacles as ridges, rocks and ? ' spreading trees, mental hazards like poison oak for these intrepid outer gardeners. This particular fly seems to be in the well, but there ' s always suspense at this point. O N THE PRACTICE FIELD CHANCE VISITORS to the lower athletic field any afternoon are likely to see this stalwart group of apple-blasters disporting thennselves on the green- sward in an effort to attract coach Colvin Beefy Heath ' s favorable attention. Super-snappy infield drill, with either Heath or frosh coach Chuck Potter knocking ground balls to infielders Elwood Rich, Al Revis, Bill Potter, Bennie Hisanaga and Cap ' n Whit Halladay, features the throwing arm of catcher Jim Boyden, breathless suspense as the boys field the grounders and level on first base. While many of the candidates are twelve o ' clock hitters, Hisanaga, who led the conference in batting, and a few others have been known to pulverize the projectile later in the afternoon as well as on the practice field. Hit- ting fungo balls to antelope outfielders Larry Forsch, Hunt Norris, Gordon Knoob, Bill Page and Joe Morris also occupies long hours of practice time. 163 FACING THE CAMERA are shortstop Hisanaga, left fielder Forsch, second baseman-ou+fielder Potter and first sacker Rich, while Captain Halladay knocks slow, bounding balls to thenfi in a practice session. POMONA ' S 194! BASEBALL SEASON was high-lighted by the first win over Redlands in years in the last Sagehen-Bulldog tilt of the year, I 1-8. This was, incidentally, the first win over anyone in two years, and broke a losing streak of 24 So. Cal conference games through 1940-41. Though sonnetimes the Pomonans blew their gannes in the first inning, most of their defeats were incurred in the fith or sixth innings, and several of them might have gone either way with different breaks. Lack of a pitcher who could last seven full Innings at top speed was the main handicap, although the moundsmen would have done better with more support from their fielders. After the first few games the Hens developed real hitting power, and almost upset the undefeated champs, Whittier, in a 17-16 slug-fest which the Poets finally eked out in their last bats. Bennie Hisa- naga was the most consistent sticker, but Bill Potter, Al Revis, Jim Boy- den, Elwood Rich, Larry Forsch and Cap ' n Whit Halladay also had their good days. Three juniors. Jack Schoellhamer, Alton Bunky Baker and Ted Strehle did most of t he pitching, worked together in Redlands game. MOST EXPERIENCED moundsman (left, above) Is be- spectacled southpaw Alton Bunky Baker, who nnlxes curves with control. Heavy sticker and efficient fielder, either at second or In outfield, junior trans- fer Al Revis selects bat (left, center). Keeping score, chasing balls, arranging trips are jobs of senior man- ager Monroe Morgan and assistant Frank Rosselot. ;L jA? GONE GOSLINGS are runners who try fo steal third against the buggy- whip throwing arnn of catcher Jim Boyden, who catches nearly as many enemies off base as are thrown out at first. Captain Whit Halladay, third baseman, slaps the spheroid against an unlucky base-thief in this practice shot. NEVER will Pomona baseball fans forget May 10, 1941. For on that Saturday after- noon, after a long, 38-game losing streak, something happened to the Sagehens in the fifth, and they came out from behind to win from Redlands, II to 8. Never will Joe Mor- ris forget that day, either. For Joe was the hero. Up as a pInch-hitter, he was hit on the head, got to go to first. Later, when up again, Joe got caught off third, and got hit again, this time allowing him to score. A week later, Pomona continued the streak with a 9 to 8 win over Pomona JC. IN THE WINNING column for a few good games was Beefy Heath ' s baseball team: Forsch, Hisanaga, Potter, Boyden, Halladay and Baker, manager Morgan, Clark, Strehle, Knoob, Rich, Norris, Revis and coach Heath. o )«t W -h-V TENNIS BETWEEN sparking the tennis team, getting elected to the student presi- dency, and successively defending his national amateur singles, doubles and mixed doubles badminton champion- | ships, Dave Freeman had a full year RACKETEERS: front row, Bliss, Roulac, Pott, Van Kuran, Clark and Hagopian. In back row are Freeman, Jordan, Dye, Ockels, Scantlebury. CAPTAIN of the tennis team, and one of its most consistent winners, Thayer Bliss navigated the squad through season. THE POMONA— JIM JEFFERSON tennis team is proudest of two wins over Oxy, one over Whittier, and one over a barnstorming University of Arizona net team. Helped sometimes by nationally-ranked Dave Freeman, and sometimes, when Dave was away defending, getting along without him, the personnel of Thayer Bliss ' squad served also as a nucleus for a more comprehensive racket activity: the Claremont Colleges mixed doubles tourna- ment, won in the finals by John Dye and Eleanor Forbes over Freeman and Vera Fraser of Scripps. M S P NOR ORIS SWIMMING CAPTAIN Reed Trego (left in picture) with the help of coach Strehle, worked hard to whip the team into shape, lost to Oxy by only 13 points, took third in the conference. Cohorts, from left to right, were Rapp, Neill, Wyatt, Evans, Egeler and diver Lloyd Iverson. Medley relay was the team ' s ace in the hole. THE GOLF TEAM is the one Pomona aggre- gation which can stay with the big coast schools and have a better-than-average rec- ord. Sparked by Pott, Hoe and Boddy, the Hens completely dominated the conference, licked Cal, SC and UCLA once, lost two games to the latter on their home course. At left, Reighard tries a putt as Hoe and cap- tain Warfield look on. Pott, Gunn and Chapman wait their turn, below left, as Boddy tees off. THE CROSS COUNTRY team (Lingle, Freeman, Bruce, Zuniga, Satchell, Cohen) went into train- ing in November, spent many afternoons puffing around the track and over Indian Hill golf course, training for gruelling four-mile conference run which it was forced to forego because of the flu. Rain kept METATE from getting team ' s picture. THE FROSH IN SPORTS FROSH SPORTS of 1940-41 had plenty of Individual talent, lots of spirit, but lacked depth of material. Season records were average, though seemingly dismal after last year ' s spark- ling success. A good sample of what was to come was football, In which only three full games were played, after a number of scrimmages. Pomona was outclassed by Citrus J.C., edged out Caltech, 14-7. In the finale, the Sagechlx gave the breaks to Oxy and lost, 20-7. Guard and tackle were the strong spots. Coach was Dan Bulkley, backfield stars were captain Merrill and Cowger, line bulwarks were Shallenberger and Baumgartner. FROSH GRIDDERS: front row, Walters, Baumgartner, Vesy, Van Sickle, Claypool, Diddy; second row, Jones, Anderson, Thonnas, Augur, Ridgway, Collins; back row, Newlove, Barnard, Rhodes, Barnard, Cowger, Cooley, Thompson, Merrill, Bulkley. DAN BULKLEY (above) graduate student in physical education, coached frosh grid- ders, who were captained by Jim Merrill. 169 ■HMH BASKETBALL SEASON for the frosh had a good start and an equally good finish, but sagged in the back stretch. After wins from Claremont High and Webb, the team was hit by ineligibility, dropped games to conference rivals Oxy and Caltech. In the last game, Pomona upset a powerful Redlands five, 31-28, sparked by Zetter- berg ' s 19 points. The squad was coached by Beefy Heath, captained by Baughman. BASEBALL TOOK OVER in the spring, and after a shaky start the nine split the mid-season games, then stole a nine-inning thriller from Caltech, 3-2. Out- standing were first baseman Starbuck, pitcher Baughman, and third baseman Collins. CHARTING A PLAY with Beefy Heath, are Shallenberger, Baughman, Rhodes, ZeHerberg, Holbrook in front; Barnes. Hart, Karasik, Shelfon, Godfrey, Holstein and Manning in rear. 170 TRACK was the best frosh sport, as the cinder men defeated Caltech, Whittier, and Redlands before drop- ping their dual meet to Oxy, and placing second in the conference meet. High point men were co- captains Cowger and Varnum in the distances, and Lytle in the dashes. TENNIS squad broke even for the year, winning twice from Oxy, losing to Redlands and Caltech. Most consistent winners were undefeated first doubles team Zetterberg and Augur. Vaile, Diddy, Barnes, and Hart were alternately hot and cold. GOLFERS had a successful season, taking runner-up place in the league meet to Caltech, after dividing two matches with the Tech-men. Team was Bartlett, Holstein, Vesy, Van Sickle, Fussell, and Jones. SWIMMERS took third in the con- ference meet after competing with the varsity all year. After injury and ineligibility took their toll, team was French, Diddy, E. Thomas. ON TRACK TEAM were Bills, Lytle, Varnum, Cowger, Broadbent, Van Sickle, Boreham, Bisconer, S+arbuck, Holbrook, Diddy, with Coach Strehle. FROSH SWIMMERS fake it easy in practice session before conference meet, in which Bill French took third in the hundred. Left to right: Bauman, Diddy, French. In foreground, and on side of pool are Lincoln and Hopkins. E. O. Thomas took second in conference diving. THE WOMEN SPORTS play a large part in the life of a Po- mona coed. Freshmen and sophomore women are required to take four forty-five minute courses a week. Before they graduate, wom- en must have taken a fundamental, a ryth- mic and a team sport. These may include anything from Flit to tap-dancing or hockey. THEIR MOONLIGHT RIDES, like a lot of other campus traditions, were rained out this year, but the score or more girls who don ' t mind eating their supper off the Harwood mantle, like Anne Atkins at left, had their fall and spring horse shows at Scripps, rode to Padua hills and back for tea. TENNIS SINGLES CHAMPION as well as president of WAA, good-natured Ser+rude Amiing ran women ' s sports, ran them well. THE DEPARTMENT is headed by Miss Elizabeth Kelley (see page 96) who is as- sisted by the Misses Cawthorne, Bristol and Bird. While taking two periods a week of the required subjects, freshman and sopho- more women also get in another ninety minutes of their own choice, e.g., riding. ELIZABETH CAWTHORNE drives an interesting little Ford, keeps her archery classes from getting any ideas about shooting apples off each other ' s heads, supervises the tele- graphic and Columbia matches — one of the few inter-school competitions women take part in — runs volleyball tourneys. THE WAA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, composed of Women ' s Athletic Association officers and managers for the various sports, coordinates the whole program and looks out for the interests of individual activities. Seated, from left to right, are Rosamond Robinson, Orchesis; Georgine LaMontagne, fencing; Mary Powell, WAA vice-president; Jean Dolley, volleyball; Joyce Smith, basketball; Mora Mun- roe, swimming; Almina Calkins, tennis; Mary Jane Sanders, riding; Carol Benton, WAA secretary; Barbara Bell, hockey. Standing: Barbara B. Smith, archery; Charleen Eller, cabin manager; Ruth Meyers, WAA treasurer; Sue Taft, riflery, Jane Long, golf, and Martha Ann Hubble, frosh representative and reporter. BASKETBALL AND VOLLEYBALL I 174 THE TOURNAMENT Is the dominant thing In these maior sports of the southern campus. During the second semester, basketball and volleyball groups spice everyday class routine by selecting teams to compete In Intramural contests; meanwhile, out- side of regular class time, racket devotees run off singles and doubles ladder, and mixed double tournaments. Tennis champions this year were Gertrude Amiing and Eleanor Forbes; finalists In badminton were Kay Sutherland and Martha Ann Hubble. Link stars Jane Long and Ann Adams, along with other women golfers, tee off under the guidance of coach Strehle at the Indian Hill course for Round Robins, Blind Bogey anad Flag tournaments. The entire women ' s sports program tries not to emphasize bulging muscles; rather. It alms to create Interest In athletics as part of a well-rounded education. BADMINTON TENNIS GOLF VERA MYERS got close to finals in women ' s bad- GERTRUDE AMLING, not content with win- MANAGER of women ' s golf was Jane minton tourney, was forced out by injured knee. ning tennis singles, annexed badminton title. Long. Ann Adams was year ' s top golfer. I ARCHERY TYPICAL OF WOMEN ' S SPORTS ACTIVITIES are fencing and archery (being demonstrated at right and above by Betty Winterburn, Alice Bucquet and Margaret McDonald.) Twice a week, wonnen fence and shoot in reg- ular classes. Each sport has its own manager on the WAA council. Manager for archery activities, for instance, was Barbara P. Smith, who arranged for participation in two national intercollegiate telegraphic tournaments. 176 FENCING NOT AS A PART of fhe national defense program, but just for the FIFTY OR SIXTY wonnen took hockey for their gym class, shooting fun of it, rifler y is a favorite form of physical education. played twice a week. The senior team, which has won interclass Elizabeth Crispin received the annually-awarded medal for crack shooting. hockey since it was the freshman team, repeated agam this year. SWIMMING RIFLERY HOCKEY COOLING OFF in Scrlpps pool are six of the 30 women who take swimming in classes: Mildred Scott, Ruth Myers, Mary Riemcke, Sammy Sugg, Carol Benton. ESTHER BRISTOL spends most of her time on the tennis courts; Louise Bird (right) teaches dancing. L E D A Y FIFTEEN HUNDRED CARNATIONS were used for leis +o crown May qjeen Mary Pidduck and her court in a -J-radH-Ional island ceremony on Women ' s Day, as a prelude to the May Masque that night. Below are the queen with her attendants, from left to right: Janet Benton, Virginia Bergstrom, maid-in-waiting Shirley Kirtland, Helen Stull, Dorothy Springer, Shirley Makinson, Louise Nancarrow, Jean Dewey. ■ ' ' - i fjy. MAY QUEEN MARY PIDDUCK, her maid-in-wai+ing and her attendants were chosen fronn the senior class by campus women, for attributes of poise, beauty and personality. THE ANNUAL WOMEN ' S DAY (this year Lei day) was the climax of WAA activities for the year. Grand finale to a busy day (play day, a luncheon, exhibition sports matches, a style show) was the crowning of the May queen and ths May Masque. The Masque this year was entitled Halemaumau, House of Everlasting Fire. Taken from Hawaiian lore concerning the wrath of goddess-of-fire Pele against her selfish subjects, the dance-drama was written by Itsue Hisanaga and Namlyn Kong. Heading a cast of ninety were Anne Boyd, Dorothy Jones, Jean French, Frances Sturges, Anita Anderson, Sylvia Adamson and Martha Palmer, backed up by a score of hula girls. 179 YOU GO TO THE BEACH- BLONDES, BRUNETTES AND REDHEADS— men, women and chil- dren begin to look over the situation about the time the camel- lias stop blooming behind Sumner Hall, and start casting around for bigger areas of water than Wood ' s reservoir for swimming and sunning. The Broiler, The Doughnut Shop and various other Laguna Beach es- tablishments get an influx of business from Pomonans, beach houses on Balboa Island are opened up for the season, snipes and sixty-foot yawls come out of drydock. Spring in Claremont is nicer at the beach. 180 AND UP TO THE SNOW THE SLALOM HILL on Blue Ridge was the scene of many si+z marks, bath tubs, some good runs, a few perfect Christies. Crowd under trees at bottom of hill wait their turn on Fuzz Merritt ' s ski-tow, built in time for this year ' s season. PEOPLE WITH AN EYE to discomforts in the way of wet feet and stringy hair caused by continual rain this year complained loudly and frequently. The skl-mlnded saw matters in an entirely differ- ent light. Cold and wet in Claremont meant pack up the parapher- nalia and head for Big Pines where a big percentage availed them- selves of Fuzz Merritt ' s ski tow on the slalom hill on Blue Ridge, or Baldy where the more ambitious, like Mulr Dawson, entered meets. DOPEY PORTER (far left) rides the tow. Hun-t Norris skis pasf the camera, shows off his best form. MORE SKIERS MRS. MERRITT suddenly discovers that all skiing isn ' t done on skis. 182 ' ' ■ ; !, ' MOST PEOPLE don ' t spend all their evenings studying or working. Some will take a chance on a Major Studio Preview as often as they have gas in the tank and money for a movie at the same time. Others prefer Claremont ' s own best in single features . Bowling, a little something in the pin-ball line, possibly part of the eve- ning at a dance or a concert, or just outdoors on a spring night with a friend from the other side of the campus. If none of these things appeal to you and you don ' t care for bicycles or roll- er skates, you may relax and spend your IN SPITE OF THE FACT that the dormitory dining rooms feed their year round guests as well as mother used to do, everybody at Pomona is hungry at any time of day or night. Spreads given late at night by one woman for a small select group of others provide food and catting. Here Heller Stull leans over to pass a glass of cider to Jean Scowcroft. Pensive Dumke and conoisseur Swift take stock of the doughnut situation. NIGHTS N T H E BETWEEN BITES, residents of the sec- ond floor northwest section of Blaisdell take time out to change a phonograph record (object of discussion between Ruth Klise and Jean Dupree) and a world- beating round of Hell, a game that requires speed and knowledge of fact that the hand is quicker than the eye. BULL SESSIONS USUALLY START LIKE THIS, end up with everybody having long since forgotten what was talked about earlier. Above, freshmen Bax Starbuck, Bill Thompson, Ed Fussell, Ray Frazer, Roland Vaile, Tiny Bar- nard, apparently in the midst of cramming for a government ex. Starbuck is explaining the two ways to get a bill through Congress to Thompson, while Vaile and Fussell absorb notes, Frazer and Barnard dwell on happier things. DORMITORY ASIDE FROM BULL SESSIONS such forms of amusement as poker games, jam sessions, and poker games give the touted liberal education in night dormitory life. Seated around Phi Delt table for a little five card draw are Foster Davis, appear- ing not at all amazed over three aces, Jim Williams, grim, de- termined Louis Dimmick, Al Smith, George Dunton, grinning. A BIG POKER GAME hits the Alpha Gam rooms as Joe Kyne acts as kibitzer. Left to right: Clif Shoemaker and Camille Shaar put on their best poker faces; John Metcalfe reaches for a card; Dave Kuhlman deals at stud; Hal Larner looks disgusted as shark Bob Ballard is dealt a queen to make three of a kind showing; and Paul Egeler waits confidently for the ace he knows is sure to show up sooner or later. SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE YEAR, usually because of the pressure of studying for exams, men take their weari- ness out in a few minutes of playfulness. Orange fights, water fights and bonfires in the freshman courts are all good signs of midtermitis. Another is the old habit of stacking rooms. Vic Montgomery, for instance, returned to his room (left one night, found it moved into reading room at end of hall. FALL NEARLY EVERYTHING revolves around football in the fall. Pomona steps out to many informal dances, pre-game rallies, post-victory cele- brations, forgets about defeats with , women and song. Here are pic- tured examples of such gay hilarity. THE ABOVE STUDY IN REACTION was snapped at the Caltech rally, held in the Village Theatre. D. V. Brown tries to smother the fact that he caught on, while Ed Sprotte, Art Kelly, Bob Petteys and Dr. Scott laugh shamelessly. B. Baumgartner looks on. THE SOCIAL COMMITTEE (Maddox, Ho- bart, Kirtland, Forbes, Dwan, Peterson) fills calendar with events like the dance at right. AT ONE OF THE early fall dances. Fuzz Merritt, who was MC-ing, hauled un- suspecting couples off the floor to sing in front of the crowd. Some did, some didn ' t, but a darned good time was had by all. N G H T S THE WHITTiER RALLY was an exchange affair. A swing trio (Frazer-Benedlcf-Corbitf), the yell-leaders and Jack Dwan ventured to Whittier to provide entertainment. Right, the Pomona crowd sings Hail Pomona next night. AFTER RALLIES and during dances, everyone gath- ers in the court of the Coop to talk over Pomona ' s chances for the next day — why Doris isn ' t with Bert — and how first semester midterms are shaping up. COLLEGE NIGHT featured the music of Syl Van, the In- auguration of the Date Bureau under Eleanor Forbes. At right are examples of how the latter ' s combinations re- acted to the former ' s music. Dance was held in the Union. S ■ H ■i fl FROSH PRESIDENT Frank Hart and date get started on the intricacies involved in attending the Sophomore Formal. In no time at all he showed $1.75 worth of cardboard at the door, checked his lady ' s wrap, got in tune with Garwood Van. ORCHIDS FOR BETWEEN ACTS at the Junior Prom the feminine con- tingent got a chance to make mental notes about other people ' s formals; both men and women got a chance to mumble pleasantries about the orchestra and friends. ASSOCIATED MEN ' S STUDENTS make up for any gen- eral lack of organized activity at least twice a year — DICK BARKER, who has been at Pomona for three years, has had time and opportunity to perfect the art of dodging pil- lars and potted palms in the Student Union, can now devote his time to perfecting subtler arts of the dance floor. THE LADY once at a hay-in-the-hair, corn-in-the-air barn dance, and once, as here, at a $2.00 formal — this year, Lud Giuskin. IT IS POSSIBLE that the meek will inherit the earth but they will never be able to get to first base for re- freshments at the Coop during intermission at a formal. Only the hardy, brave, and thirsty dare make the attempt. e V R A L H Y T H M 190 TAKE THE LADY in the silver hair, plank her down in the rocking chair, big foot up, little foot down, swing your partner round and round . . . There is nothing like mountain music, ingeniously amalgamated hillbilly costumes, and a cow anchored just off the dance floor to help the finals-weary forget 12-page bluebooks and other unfinished business. The AMS Imported from the back country an orchestra able to dem- onstrate and teach the niceties of hoe-downs and square dances. Murrell, Lincoln, and Mar- tin kept the crowds shown on the opposite page entertained with a fine brand of local corn. TWO G O Ml L T O TARY T H E BALL 1 HAVING BOUGHT a bid, got a date, Lt. Bob Ballard selects his cravat for the annual Military Ball. 2 AT HARWOOD, junior Deb Ab- bott finishes dressing. One hasty last look in the nnirror — she ' s ready. 3 LT. BALLARD makes a door call for Miss Abbott. Frosh Newton, Howard, Wheeler wait for their turn. 5 CAPTAIN-ADJUTANT STREHLE has a word to say about Lt. Ballard ' s wit. Civilian observers Dryer, Davis, Sheets, Powell and Abbott watch proceedings with varying grades of Interest. 4 WITHIN A REASONABLE PERIOD Deb appears In the foyer at Harwood. Check grin on face of Vera Myers. The Ball was held on Saturday, January II. Grant McCully was in charge. 6 DURING THE INTERMISSION, Bob and Deb stop in at the Coop to get a coke and see what ' s cooking. Cooking around behind are Morris, Welch, Taylor and friends. Coop officials report about 300 cokes are sold on an average dance night at fountain. 8 OUR TYPICAL COUPLE dance to Jeanie. After the ball is over, they nnay go to the Sycamore for more dancing, or the Mish for hamburgs, cokes. 7 DEB AND BOB ASK LARRY KENT to play Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (BMI). From the leader ' s grin it would be gathered that he has it in his library of smooth melodies. THERE ARE SEVERAL KINDS of entertainment available for CJarennont collegians on an average weekend night. But once in the career of every Pomonan who sticks to the alma mater for four years in spite of D notices and the incessant noise of vacuum cleaners, the campus is united in the pursuit of one special variety of enjoyment. The faculty puts on a show. If you thought that slide rules and microscopes and textbooks were the sole talents of the men and women behind the grade books you were wrong, and you know it now. (Continued on next page.) O H HOW FIJI CHIEF JONES drops in to refuel at the Coop. AN ADVISOR gets his advisee tied up In Division CHRISTIES and slaloms and not a ski in the lot. AREN ' T you hungry, Wayne? Not while I have you. The 194 IRENE Kenady demonstrated to three separate admiring audiences that managing a sizeable crew of waiters and ■feeding four hundred men were not her only talents. IF you hadn ' t looked twice or maybe three times you might have thought it was any of the Coop ' s competent staff in- stead of English department man Angell behind the counter. PROFESSOR COULD YOU DO IT EXTRA CURRICULAR activities coming up on the outside. HERE ARE little Wilhelmina and Jacob Van Snort. TITLED MEIN KAMPUS, 1941 ' s lavish display turned up torch singers, a chorus of Fiji dancers rivaling anything George White ever brought to light, a melodrama short on logic but so long on nonsense that it convulsed audiences at all three perform- ances of the extravaganza. Some episodes were succinct parodies of undergraduate life within the gates; others, like the chorus of male ballet dancers, feminine to the last detail, were sheer outbursts of natural talent. SUPER salesman Hawley disposes of a program to a pair of BMOC, Pa+tee spectating. MORE MEIN KAMPUS C. K. EDMUNDS, black and efficient janitor. ' ' ' 196 NO STUDENT HAND was allowed to sully preparation. Everything was in the hands of nnasters far nnore competent than you or I; and it all kept them up plenty late, made their classes that week surprisingly snappy, though they made up for it in your bluebooks a week later. Signs warned that anyone who tried to get a line on what was going on during rehearsals would be persona non grata to professor Robbins, verboten to Fraulein Wagner, and no trespasso to Miss Husson. FROM THE DEPTHS of a sopranoish costume E. Wagner lobbied for spinach juice. THE GROUP drops info fhe Coop for a coke. HEAD Ballerina Taggarf poised for action. LATIN Miss Bird and T. Beggs strike a pose. NOBODY AT POMONA has lived until he or she has been to the Mission for cof- fee, pin-balling, and today ' s funny papers. Man with an order pad here is an un- usual feature reserved for special occasions like this one — after a barn dance. CLUB M LEAST EXPENSIVE TYPE of indoor sport at the Mission is this form of the one armed bandit. De- ,,: posit your penny and try to get the ball to the top. S S I O N NO BETTER, NOISIER, more atmospheric night club exists in Claremont than the Mission— also known as the Mish, the Mush, the Black Hole of Calcutta, the place where you dance to the tune of somebody else ' s nickel, the Passion Pit. FAR MORE SUCCESSFUL and more interesting in many respects than the Coop ' s Cuddle Corner is the Mission ' s Dark Room in which such goings on go on. TIME OUT for a quick pick up until somebody else feels in- clined fo puf a nickel in fhe machine. Above the group af the fronf fable is as close as anybody has ever goffen to a menu. YOU CAN ' T TELL any marble game devotee that the human or- ganism never wins in the eternal conflict generated by man ' s race against the machine. Just one more nickel and then we ' ll leave. NO COVER-NO MINIMUM TO SATISFY late hour reg- ulations droves of couples pour out at 10:25, again at 11:25, and the last batch at 12:55. ANY NIGHT YOU SEE THE PEOPLE WALKING ACROSS THE CAMPUS. THEY MAY BE RETURNING FROM A DANCE— THE LIBRARY— THE COOP— THE MISSION— OR THE CITY. TOMORROW THERE MAY BE ANOTHER 8 O ' CLOCK— A NEW DATE— A NEW DANCE— BUT NOW IT IS NIGHT ON THE CAMPUS. ' . I THE PEOPLE IN THE OMMUNITY I 1 PECK ' S STUDIO Is the place to go whether you ' re doing a bundle for Britain or a gift for your man, Mrs. Peck ' s yarns will nnake easy your choice of pattern and style, as the Misses Wilmar, Bergstrom and Bailard have discovered. CLAREMONT INN. Excellent cuisine, handsome accom- modations and hospitable atmosphere are the Claremont Inn ' s answer to lodging problems of visiting parents. 202 M m BUCKLEY ' S. Clothes-conscious Pomona women, with one eye on style and the other on the allowance, know, as does Peggy Winton, that both eyes will get into focus at Buck- ley ' s, and that they are sure to land on just the thing. 138 East Second Pomona 203 CHANDLER ' S STORE FOR MEN. Delighted with the effect produced by a Chandler ' s garment, Flabby Heller grins at himself in mirror. Harry Chamberlain and Dan Jordan exchange looks of approval over value and style. 185 East Second, Pomona TO THE MODERN BETSY ROSS ICE CREAM plant went Art Mallette and Lyn Ford, and with chocolate cones in hand, they watched the manufacture of the same product they have known so well in the dining halls. MR. GILLESPIE, of the GillespIe-Har+sook stu- dios, explains to Vera Myers and Barney Sait the technique behind his senior and frat pictures, which have to please both Metate and subjects. 160 West Second Pomona OWNERS AND DRIVERS of jallopies or Cadillacs alike appreciate the efficient service offered by G. E. McKAY, take their flats and broken rods straight to him. CLAREMONT LAUNDRY. Leaving Pomona and an exten- sive laundry agency, Lloyd Iverson initiates De Villo Brown, next year ' s agent, into techniques of service. Speed, careful handling attract students ' patronage. STYLE-MINDED WOMEN like Alice Peters, Helen Stull and Janet Hatch have come to rely on SIEVER ' S for their wardrobes, particularly for its millinery by Mrs. Garrett. 206 INBORN ARTISTIC TALENT shows up in all of Midori ' s work, as in, for Instance, the super- special Metate shot he is setting up here. His skill makes Metate photography rank tops in U. S. STANDARD ROCKY AND LEE. Unsurpassed service and workmanship is the goal sought and easily reached by this cheerful and industrious team. VERNON ' S. To harrassed Pomona students who want to get away from it all, Vernon ' s Camp Baldy Lodge offers puremountainair,a blazing fireplace and food that is unexcelled. Featuring barbecued meat and fish, Vernon ' s cuisine will make life worth living again. OF THE PURITY, BODY. FLAVOR of City Dairy milk, Dick Steele and John Dryer exhibit mute testimony; when Phi Delts drink it by the case, it must be good. TO THE ALPHA BETA market go quality-conscious Dilys Jones, Patty Bierkamp and Suzanne Joy, for they well know the advantage of keep- ing their rooms stocked with a variety of tasty tidbits for midnight and mid-day snacks. CHUCK LYTLE acquaints Barry Baumgartner with his SANITARY LAUNDRY service. Per- fectly-laundered shirts and crisp, fresh dresses attest to the same quality service for scores of Pomona Boy and Pomona Girl wardrobes, gives Sanitary Service a large following. FRANK ORDWAY doesn ' t confine himself to formal portraits, like the one he is setting up of Julia Haskell below. For other types of Ordway work, see the Metate layouts on the Mission, the ROTC dance, football and basketball action shots, the human interest shot on page 142. 210 BARBARA NORTON AND BOB WALTER, like scores of other Pomona students, have benefited from the quick and friendly financial service ex- tended to them and their monthly allowances by the BANK OF AMERICA. A EWART ' S exclusive, the All-Star Jones sweater gets a check by lettermen Kern and Lamme, while proprietor Ewart, himself, explains to Bill Reeder that the sweater is just one example of his policy of dealing in only the b est. 362 West Second, Pomona THE COOP FOUNTAIN starts rolling every morning at five minutes before eight, when late sleepers grab a doughnut and cup of coffee, Bumstead fashion, on their way to U. S. History, Geology or Principles of Econ. From then on, there is no let-down until eleven at night. Bridge games start at about ten, and the English department holds down a booth after classes on Saturday. As for the rest of the day, enough cokes go across the counter in the afternoon to flood Smiley, as would the late-at-night coffee during exams. Says fountain manager Ed Sprotte, with a gleam in his eye: The installation of a hamburger grill is seriously jeopardizing Miss Kenady ' s dining room business. REBATES TOO. 213 YRegislerJimf l_| PROSPERITY KLllB MAJOR A WARD liEXTfflURSDAY m£ M£ stm Kcm wimess MOVIE-BOUND, as are most Pomonans at least once a week, Louise Nancarrow and Charlie Stimpson head for pomona ' s FOX THEATER, where they are sure of seeing a good bill, perhaps even a sneak preview, complete with stars, directors, limousines. WITH A DEXTEROUS flip. Miss Kenady, queen of Frary, transfers a Crown Meat roast into the pan. Serving both Frary and Harwood halls, the quality of CROWN HOTEL AND RESTAURANT SUP- PLY COMPANY products is known to all Pomona boarders. VILLAGE THEATRE J. A. MEYERS Brightest star in the local entertainment firmament is the Village Theater, which features the best of Hollywood and foreign films, brings back many old ones on request. Capably distributed by agent Monty Taylor is the J. A. Meyers line of fraternity pins, rings and stationery, dance programs and sports trophies that advertise Hen activities. FUTURE EDITOR DILLE of P Metate and Larkin of Sage _ f « Hen make an early acquaint- ' ■ ance with the Pomona Prog- ress-Bulletin and Weber-Mc- Crea Cover Company crafts- men who have printed and k covered the prize - winning K Metate for many years. XiBJi LV ,S con, V- THE LOS ANGELES ENGRAVING COMPANY craftsmen have for twenty years been responsible for the success of prize-winning Metates. Here, Tonn Morris and editor Warren Wheeler get the low down from Jack Cannicott on this exacting art, in which skilled hands and precision tools are paramount THE EDITOR THANKS THESE PEOPLE THE ASSOCIATE EDITOR LOU SAWYER THE BUSINESS MANAGER TOM MORRIS THE PHOTOGRAPHERS MIDORI FRANK ORDWAY W. G. GILLESPIE BOB MOORE DAN KARASIK PROFESSOR W. T. WHITNEY (for his ' ' Mein Kampus ' ' pictures) THE WRITERS JOHN DILLE RAY FRAZER MARY NOBLE BOB WALTER JOHN METCALFE JOHN BODGER MARY R E I D ART MALLETTE ROLAND VAILE JOHN PHILLIPS ANN CROOKS ALICE BUCQUET THE GRADUATE MANAGERS DEAN POLLARD MILTON CHEVERTON KEITH SPEES LOS ANGELES ENGRAVING COMPANY JACK CANNICOTT RAY BRENNAN THE PROGRESS-BULLETIN ROY DAY MOSE JOHNSON ALBERT BIGGS WEBER -McCREA COVER COMPANY THESE ALL HAVE HELPED TO RECORD A YEAR OF YOUR LIFE A YEAR SPENT ON THE CAMPUS OF A SMALL WESTERN COLLEGE A YEAR IN WHICH YOU HAD A CHANCE TO MEET AND KNOW AND WORK WITH OTHER PEOPLE — A YEAR IN WHICH YOU LEARNED SOME OF THE BEST FROM THE PAST AS PREPARATION FOR THE FUTURE — A YEAR IN WHICH YOU COULD FORMULATE A FEW IDEAS — PERHAPS EVEN DEVELOP SOME SORT OF A SENSE OF VALUES — A YEAR LIVED IN THE FREEDOM OF AN AMERICAN COLLEGE. WITH THIS FREEDOM YOU HAVE LEARNED THROUGH THIS FREEDOM YOU HAVE GROWN FOR THIS FREEDOM YOU WILL GO FORWARD. N MEMORIAM ROSA CARTER B I S S I R I HARRISON 1- ,V ' ' ' . « Ps  ' U-«r iflSW . m .. 10 ,•49 - • ' ' Wl