Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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Second Semester Student Council When the second semester Council was elected, the Progressive ticket was voted in almost bodily. This fact necessitated the newly-elected follow¬ ing out their campaign pledges, which were ambitious to say the least. The Council carried out the pledges not only in letter but also in spirit. A main feature of the Progressive platform was membership of the Associated Students in the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. Sending President Broughton there was one of the wisest acts the Junior College ever did. Another accomplished campaign pledge was the adoption of a constitu¬ tion. This constitution was unique in the line of College constitutions. It was drafted after the plan of Sacramento’s municipal government, fixing all executive responsibility in a manager. The legislative powers are still vested in a Council elected at large. The systematic advertising which was promised was well carried out. Our tireless secretary, Percy Westerburg, wrote many of the leading busi¬ ness men of Sacramento to get their opinions of the Junior College and to focus their attention on the idea. These officers of the Council more than vindicated the wisdom of their choice. President Phil Broughton, not content with his campaign pledges by themselves, exercised his fertile brain in contracting new ideas for the advancement of the Junior College. Vice-President Charlotte Krebs shoved the Freshman reception and other school functions across in great shape and succeeded in the difficult task of avoiding conflicting social dates. Secre¬ tary Percy Westerburg spent Sleeperless nights struggling with the records and the advertising letters. Roy Portman lived his role of treasurer well. The president of the two classes—Sophomore, Gerald Richards, and Freshmen, Edward Smith—were on the lookout not only for their classes’ interest, but also for the welfare of the College as a whole. Similarly, the representatives, Henry Alltucker of athletics, Myron Wells representative at large, gave of their time and energy without stint. ■

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First Semester Student Council The Student Council has been the governing body of the Junior College. Elected for a term of one semester, it has governed the College ' s social activi¬ ties, financial business relating to athletic and non-athletic activities, and Student Body policies in general. The first semester Student Council, contrary to certain rumors, did not spend all its time and energy in trying to resurrect t he elusive constitu¬ tion. As the secretary ' s minutes prove, President Busick unmercifully drove his charges for five eventful months. The routine work and details of College management were, therefore, well handled. A few choice morsels gleaned from Secretary Laidlaw’s.records follow: The budget problem of Treasurer Beach furnished material for several heated Council meetings. Oil was poured on the troubled financial seas in the form of Vice-President Kleinsorge ' s carnival contribution to the treasury. Though the expenditures for the various school activities were extremely liberal, the Council was able to show a decidedly large balance on hand at the semester ' s close. Charles Busick as president of the Associated Students and of the Coun¬ cil displayed an executive ability which will give future presidents something to perpetuate. Vice-President Mabel Kleinsorge gave him earnest co¬ operation and supervised the social life of the Junior College in a peppy manner. Secretary Elizabeth L aidlaw fulfilled her duties of keeping the minutes and heading the advertising in her proverbial “A fashion. Alvin Beach as treasurer showed great interest in his work, and proved himself as efficient with money as with foil. The manager of the co-op, Thorwald Jensen, and the editor of the “Blotter, Margaret Hamilton, not only put their charges on their feet, but also made them a paying proposition. The president of the two classes, Paul Bruton of the Sophomores and and Phil Broughton of the Freshmen, submerged class rivalries. The representatives were Willsie Wood, representative of athletic activities; Murle Shreck, repre¬ sentative of non-athletic activities; Edward Smith, representative at large. 18

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■ Freshmen Class First Semester The first semester’s class came to the Junior College innocent of the guile and cunning of their older College mates. So at the first assembly their Sophomore comrades blithely sheared the Frosh of the Subject A funds. Then, too late, came that rude awakening. Just to show the Sophomores what they could do if they wanted to tear loose, the Freshmen elected one of their number representative-at-large. After this act, thoroughly satisfied that their honor was vindicated, the Freshmen joined with the Sophomores in backing all the College activities. The first call came with football and the class sent out its doughty warriors. When the cry sounded for a carnival concession, the Freshmen stepped in and livened the affair by giving away whole boxes of candy—for a small consideration. Then, when basketball rolled around, the class sent in its quota of hoopsters. And of the debaters, three out of the five were Freshmen. This fine display of enthusiasm was due in no small part to the leaders whom the class selected—Phil. Broughton at the helm as president, Jack Pendergast vice-president, Helen Rohl secretary and treasurer. Second Semester The second semester Freshmen decided to show their Sophomore com¬ rades that in elections, at least, they could “better the instruction.” When the confusion and din of torrid turmoil calmed it was found that Edward Smith, Verna Hannah and Edwin Fairbairn had been elected to the offices of president, vice-president and treasurer. The big event under their able leader¬ ship was the Freshmen -Sophomore dance for the graduating class. The transfusion of young bloods who entered Sacramento Junior College in February did not dilute but rather enriched the Freshmen spirit. Just too late for basketball, the newcomers sent out the tracksters to aid their upper Freshmen brothers in trouncing the Sophs in the interclass meet. In base¬ ball, too, the Freshmen responded nobly with their array of fence-busters. But when the call came for the Freshmen to assist their vice-president and several other Freshmen and Sophomore lassies to “Come Out of the Kitchen,” enthusiasm reached its climax; some forty knights were killed in the rush. Such spirit on the part of those who will be Sophomores next year promises well for the education to be administered to next year’s corps of Freshmen. 20 a