FREEMA·N DEFEATS HURLEY FOR ASB PRESIDENT
Ge orgia Li v in gston
M ona A vila
P aul Hower
Burt:onAccept:sVice-Presidency Avila, Livingst:on Also In Office By Dicl< ·Carothers
Nationally Known Educator To Address 13th Graduating Class The
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Grisingher To Speak At AGS-Patron's Banquet May 29 P a lomar College's chapter of the Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society will a nnounce the winner of the $100 "AGSPalomar Patrons" ~cholarship during its sixth annual banquet to be held May 29 , 7 p.m., a t the Lazy H Sky R anch, Pauma Valley. Dr. Kenneth Grisingher will be th e after-dinner speaker. His topic will be, "Can a Hydrogen Nuclear Age Afford the Luxury of a Liberal Society," or, "What Has Happened to the Republic?" All 1958-59 members of AGS, the Palomar College faculty, and life members of the honor society are in vi ted. The appropriate attire will be semi-formal, and dinners of prime ribs or lobster will be se rv ed for $3 each. Over -all planning for this annual affai1· is being supervised by Ellen Wright, president of the Palomar AGS ; with Mr. Adolph Heyne, sponsor of the organization, working in an advisory capacity. Other members of AGS working on the project are Marshall Bronson, publicity and invitations; with Ri chard Harding, Cathe Haberland, and Franco Bonardi in charge of bids. 1\Irs. Joanne Hinchliff, a life member of AGS, along with Madelon Porter and Linda Gibson, are in charge of programs. ---o-
Date Set For Annual Year-End Beach Party Palomar College's annual yearend student beach party will be h e ld Friday, from 3 p.m. to 6 p .m. Admission is 50 cents without student body card. ASB card holde rs will be admitted free. i\-larshall Bronson, chairman of the ac tivity, assures: "There will b e plenty of food and recreation for all."
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Looking Ahead May 22, 23 Roads ide, 8 p .m ., ti c kets $ 1.00. M ay 25-29-St udent A r t Show In library . M a y 29-Aw,ards Assemb ly, 11 a.m. AGS Ba nquet, 7 p.m. WRS Inter-Co ll egiate Softb a l l T ou r nam ent, El Cam ino C ol leg e. May 30--Kn i ghts Farewell F o r m al. Ju ne 4-F i nals Start. Jun e 12-Last Day of C l asses.
Sixty Students Take Business Skill Tests
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this year for the Associate in Arts degrees. Dr. Irving R. Melbo, Dean of the S chool of Education at the University of SQuthern California, will giYe the Commencement address. The noted educator and author will speak on the topi c, "The Finest Person I Know." Baccalaureate services will be held in the new cafeteria building, June 7 at 3 p.m .. with the address b e ing given by Rev. David Porter, of Escondido. The ReY. Clell C. Gray, pastor of the First Metliodist Church of Escondido, will give the Invocation and Benediction. Commencement exercises will be held on June 13, in the new. cafeteria at 4 p.m. The Rev. Graeme C. Smith, pastor of the Community Church of Vista, will give the Invocation and Benediction. Miss Madelon Porter, daughter of Rev. Porter, will read from the Scriptures, and Mr. Morse Olmstead, Chairman of the Board of
The National Business Entrance tests were given Thursday morning on campus starting at 9, to approximately 60 business students. The tests, given every year, were open to the general public, and covered the skills of typing, bookkeeping, stenography, m achine calculation and general office clerical work. will present the deThese tests are for the purpose Classifier! personnel of Palomar of measuring achievement in specific skills, and if the student after passes - the particular test he i s -otaking, he receives a certificate of achievement. This certifi cate enables him to place himself more easily in the employment situation, and shows that he has reached A 1959 Motorola transistor rad io a satisfactory level of accomplishwill be first prize at the Knights ment. Pa lo m ar A pprvved Testin g Center dance to b e held at J;he Del Mar Palomar is' an approved testing Hotel, May 30. Second and third prizes to b e center for the United Business Educational Association, according awarded will be free lub e jobs, one to Instructor Georg e Toll, head of in Escondido and one in Vista. The the Business Department. The d rawing will be h eld during the tests have b een given here for dance and persons who win will eight years. Standards for these not be r equ ired to be present to tests are set-up by the National receive the award. Tickets are currentlY' being sold Office Management for beginning by m embers of the Knights on office workers. campus and in t he various sur---0--rounding co mmunities.
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Knights To Give Radio During Dance May 30
Avocado League Meets To Elect Year's Officers
Some 150 Associated Student Body card-holders cast ballots. Monday, J\1ay 18, to vote Bob Freeman into the office of ASB. president for .the 1959-60 semester. Chosen to aid Freeman in his governing of next year's office are Ken .Burton, vice president; Mona Avila. seqetary; Geprgia• Livings ton, treasurer ; Paul Hower, comm·isioner of men;s affaii·s; and Pat Nyholt, h ead cheerleader. Also approve(! on th e ballot was the request that the ASB constitu" We expect approximately 700 tion be revised. "I want to thank the members day students on the Palomar Col- of the student body for placing lege campus next fall. This figure their confidence in me by electing will include 500 freshmen." me president." Freeman said, "and This statement was made by I hope to have, with your help, the Robert L. Burton, dean of students, most satisfactory year that Palowho also stated that enrollment in mar has seen." night classes is expected to reach Freeman's campaign platform of 2,000 students. improving intercampus publicity, This prediction is based on the increasing student activities, and interest shown in Palomar College promotion of Palomar College on by high school seniors in the and off campus, are worthy stucounty. The number of people mov- dent bofly objectives which should ing into the area, and also the have received the voting attention general expansion taking place in of all students. the area were taken into consideraThe one deterrent to an othertion. wise successful campaign was the The increased courses offered at general apathy of ASB card-holdPalomar, the new facilities. and ers who do not turn out to vote as the success that the basketball seen in the approximately 150 balteam has had this year, will also attract new students, Dean Burton lots cast out or a possible 387 qual- . ified voters. stated. _ .......,_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ __ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ __
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S.J.C.S.G.A. Conference Assembly F avors $600 Studen1 Tax Exem p1.IOn Two weeks ago at Long Beach, the State Junior C ollege Student Government Association·s semi-annual conference passed a resolution evidencing its approval of Hou~e of Representatives Bill No. 1215, w:hich would provide an additional $600 tax exemption for college students. The 600 delegates present at the confer ence considered this one of the mor e outstanding resolutions to come before the General Assembly. The bill. now in. committee at ·washington, would apply only to Federal Income Tax returns. The fi \·e·n)an Palomar delegation usually "went along 'Vith the flock" in the General Assembly, always voting with the majority, abstaining rarely, a nd once did not raise
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their placard. ~ Almost 30 resolutions and recommendations came before the Assembly throughout the conference, all dealing with government, fi nance, publications, activities, and athletics on the junior college level. The conference, although similar in power to the United Nations. does have a moderately strong voice in the California Legislature. This was the 27th conference of its type and extended over a threeday period.
Air Pollution
Election of four student high sc hool officers will be held Friday on the college campus to coincide If Palomar students find th eir eyes beginning with the annual spring conference of the Avocado League Student to water, and th eir white clothes turning to brown, Councils. they can probably blame smog. Tests being conStudent leaders from high schools I ducted by the Palomar chemistry class in analyti c in North ern San Diego County analysis, with Mr. Charles Coutts instructing, show will ballot for league president, that smog is "moderate" in the San Marcos area. vice president, social chairman, These tests are being held at the request of and publicity chairman. the San Diego County Smog Control Board, and are The day's activities will begin run Monday through Friday at one o'clock by the with r egistration at 9:30 a.m. to be chemistry lab. The tests must be given at this fo llowed by a general assembly at standard time because there are -varying amounts 10 a.m. Dr. John Dunn, Palomar of smog in tl'"" air at different hours of the day. president, will be the featured II The apparat s used for measuring smog conspeaker.. tent, calle{l a '"bubbler," has a simple operating
Palomar Ch·emistry Class Conducting Smog Tests principle. Ozone containing smog particles enter!! the bubbler, which holds a water solution containing the chemical phenolphtalin. Air is pumped through thi s solution at the rate of one liter per minute for 10 minutes_ The ozone then colors the water solution pink, and the intensity of the pink determines the amount of smog in the air. The chemistry lab has a water sample given to the college which serves as a standard of comparison. This sample contains fifty parts of ozone per 100 million parts of a ir, and the amount of smog at Palomar is 10 parts per 100 million. Fifty pmts per 11)0 million are dange r ous.