Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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iohn mills . . . A tumbled heap of bed covers rises and falls with a heavy sigh, Two feet pop out. A tanned boy unfolds his length and dashes across the room to bang the window shut, then dives back into the warm huddle again At a shout of Jo-o-ohn l the covers heave again and the feet slide gingerly out and into a pair of fuzzy slippers and stumble uncertainly down the hall, At seven o'clock in student boarding houses and homes throughout the city some 30 per cent of the campus are stumbling bleary eyed to breakfast before an 8 o'clock class, Some drink fruit juices and coffee, read the funnies, others odd toast, bacon and eggs, study a pony for a mid-term, all rush to catch a bus or ride to an early class, Shown in these pages are pictures of o typical junior college student, John Mills. John makes his eight o'clock on the stroke of the bell, beating the prof by 30 seconds, Some mornings he may listen to a lecture and take notes, others, study ponies for a mid-term next hour that he crammed for until three, still other mornings he sleeps in class until the fellow next to him pokes him to rise to a professor's sor- castic remark: Late date, Mr. Mills? Meanwhile in other classes, students like John Mills read Shakespeare, listen to lectures on Neanderthal man, or solder and weld airplane parts, ln another part of the campus white-uniformed girls dye, cut, shampoo, and Wave hair, or khaki-clad cop classes practice jiujitsu and target shooting. Sixty per cent of the students are employed part time on NYA or in stores, homes, offices, and factories. Many are placed by the student employment bureau, others find jobs that fit in with their major. Mills, like many others, takes classes until noon, then works on NYA in the Pony Express office, distributing papers and keeping a scrapbook of clippings for the newly organized news and publicity service bureau. An unusual occupation for a 6'2 football star like Mills is his afternoon job. In a local doll factory he cuts ready-to-sew doll clothes, operating a power cutter that stamps patterns in gingham and organdy for small fingers to sew, l-le also handles publicity and advertising for the firm in conjunction with his journalism major.

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. she also After class, she can be found back in the production room. Maybe she's taking dictation from Miss Stafford, maybe she's finishing the mimeo job, maybe she's typing a letter, anyway, at ten to noon she quits and steps into the hall where her roommates, at least a couple of them, are waiting. 'fl-liya. l-li, she says, closing the door. l-low 'bout a little nourishment? You bet. Talking, they push their way into the crowded drug store, Somebody put a nickel in the machine, Let's have a bit of music while we're waiting. What's there? l.et's see. l-leyl l-lere's Artie Shaw's Stardust l Swell l Play that. The ham sandwich and choc shake are digested during a short gab fest with her roommates. If you listened in, you might find out that she's a Sigma lata Chi, as her room- mates are, and that she's an officer in that sorority. lf she talks about herself, which she seldom does, you might learn that she comes from Klamath Falls and that she came here because she has relatives here, that she is a high soph graduating this June, and that she reads a little, mostly for relaxation and therefore mostly fiction. Then the bell rings, as bells have a disconcerting habit of doing, and she goes back to Miss Stafford's office to finish out her N. Y. A, hours for the day. From three to five, she is busy in Mr, Mercer's Business 66 class. Later that p, m., maybe she plays a game of tennis, or maybe back to her room or the library to study. lGot to keep up those B-average gradesl Dinner at six. More studying, then? Could be. Or maybe she goes to bed, reads a magazine article or story, and . . . well, lshe yawnsl it's another day.

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...he also ln controst to the cutting of doll gorments, John ot ll pm. returns to college to work out on the footboll field, o ploce where he hos won his letter os o right end for two yeors. In the winter he boxes in intromurols, middle- weight closs. In spring, he turns out for trock, winning lost yeor the Northern Colifornio Conference chompion- ship in the jovelin throw. After dinner every night, Mondoy through Fridoy, there ore some 3,000 students trying to put off studying by listening to the rodio ond reoding the poper they missed in the morning. About 8 o'clock the music quiets down ond study begins, Some study, others whistle through their teeth, thumb o few poges, think obout the quiz tomorrow, coll up somebody to folk obout whoddoyo think he'll osk us. All the ones thot studied ond the ones thot conscientiously storted to study wind up ot the corner drug store or Ston's for o coke ground ten o'clock. Mills prefers o quort of milk, in between times, since he keeps troining the yeor oround. Un dote nights, once or twice o week ond week-ends, John ond his Phi Theto Koppo girl friend go out, usuolly on o double dote with some fellow from his boording house lbecouse John hos no corl. Other times they toke the street cor thot effectively serves the Junior Colleges lorge no-cor mojority. The dote itself doesn't meon much, soys John. Then he explciinsi We never plon. It's just, 'Well, whot'll we do?' ond we do it. Mostly we tolk, l guess. John ond his girl go to oll the donces ond gomes on student body cords, get homburgers or milk shokes ofter. Since such o lorge percentoge of men went into the Army this semester with the Notionol Gucird ond droft- ees, Mills, who will soon be Zl, hos it oll figured out. Probobly every other mon on the compus hos the some onswer: l'll be in college ond be deferred. Mills hos olreody hod his footbcill ond educotion interrupted once this yeor when he wos colled by the Novel Reserves. While in militory school, he enlisted ond served two sum- mers in the Communicotions Division. , John is the son of dn Americon soldier ond on English girl who were morried during the wor. l-listory repeots itself dromoticoly in the life of John Mills, o product of o first world wor morrioge, now pre- poring for o world shivering from the reverberotions of the second world wcir.