1+JE PA[OillAR COITEGE
THE TELESCOPE
Volume XII. Number 9
Ross, White i Estrada Are
Councilers
HUggans, Conway Win
Awards at UCLA Debate
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The Associated Student Body of Palomar College held spring . elections last Friday. These elections were held to fill the posts of Representative at Large. Winners of t he balloting were: Ron Ross, of Escondido; Gary White, of Vista; and Fred Estrada, of Vis t a. Ron Ross is a sophomore, holding, in addition to his newly won council post, the position of Sophomore Class president. Since transferin g to P alomar last fall from San Diego State College, he has been a valuable member of the star ting five, on Coach OFF TO THE WARS-Well not exactly. just a speech tournaMyer's basketball team . ment, but the idea is the same. Mr. Vergil Bergman gives a few Frosh Wins last second i·nstruc:tions to his able crew. Gary White, a freshman from Vista, entered campus politics with a win first time ou t. He has held offices at Vista High School, Women Elect Replacements along with many posts in social and technical a ctivities. Fred Estrada, also from Vista, 0 1 was the winner Df the third va1 cant post. A freshman, he is a 1 .L leado::1 in Lhe Palomar Chapter of' I 1 the Circle K InternatiOnal. B eI sides b eing a mem ber of the Viola Arroyo, the gal with plans to teach. H er outsid e malocal board of directors he holds the smile, was elected the new JOr interests are riding and mudown the position of T reasurer of presiden t of the Associated Wo- sic. the California , H awaii a nd NevaMary Fuller was song leader men ~f P alomar at the recent da District. Fred rec eived one of at San Dieguito, treasurer to the the Palomar Patron' s scholar- spring election. Vi, a former Girls' L eague in 1954, senior class student of San Diego State colships to attend Palomar when he representative to the League in graduated from Vista High lege , has been highly active on 1955, and was on the staff of the the Comet campus . She is PaloSchool. mar 's leading cheer leader, tre- Mustang . She also participated T here were 260 eligible voters , asurer of the Student Council in the activities of the Spanish if some of the student body card and was a delegate at the state club , as well as in those of the holders had not dropped school. convention of the California Stu- Girls' Athletic association. Mary It is estimated that there are acdent Government association. is enrolled' at Palomar as a busitually 220 card hold ers . Since She is a physical education ness major. only 79 ballots were cast, the perWith l.Jean Helen Brown as adcentage of voting students was a major. Diana Roth and Mary Fuller, visor, and with the holdover oflow 36 p er cent. graduates of San Dieguito High ficers; Jackie Corbett, secretary; were elected to the offices o f Edith Springer , social chairman; vice president and treasurer re- and Peggy Jo Huggans , comspectively . Diana , while at San missioner of Womens' Affairs, Dieguito, was a member of the the Associated Women are planCalifornia Scholarship Federa- ning a full, and active program tion. Majoring in history, Diana this semester .
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Complete Election Returns
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P eggy J o Huggans and D ave Conway c a p tured three excellent awards in the Southern California Forensics Association tour nament held at UCLA-, Feb . 17, 18. Peggy J o received one award in E xpository speaking, a nd the other in Oral Interp retation. Conway won his certificate . in the fie ld of Extemporaneou s sp eech. Other P alomar tou rney contestants were R ich M iller, Francisco T rinidad, Pale Cowa n and J anice Asper. All of Palomar's entrants were in the lower d ivision, either mens or women's . J anice Asper missed joining Miss H uggans in the select group of 12 women who received excellent ratings in the field of Oral Interp retation by only one point. Since this was Mrs. Asp er's first tournament,
Shakespeare Play Scheduled at
Plan Easter Show
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W AA Elects Guepin Prexy T he new officers of W AA are Butch G uepin , president ; Barbara Burt, vice _president ; Donna Chapman, secretary; J ackie McCalister, treasurer; and Pene
Who's Charley?
Dr. Dodds Honored with Sketch ' T his week's faculty personality is Dr. J ohn Dod ds, the head ot PJC's ,soci al science department . Dr . Dodds is a native of Sterling, K ansas , where his father was an instructor a t Sterling college . Dr. Dodds received his elementary education in Orange county, New York , and his professional e ducation a t Geneva college, in the state of Pennsylvania. He later went on to secure his PHD . of history from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Dodds served in the Army medic al corps , supply division, during World War II, and was recalled to serve in the Korean situation . D uring his service, Dr. Dodds participated in the African campaign, served on a quartermaster research team , and served as chief of the train-
Long Beach State Schedules Forensic Ass n Tourney April 2
her near miss is an high achievement. Francisco Trinidad's oration also fell into the class of being a near miss since he too lack· ed only one point of getting an excellent award. Rich Mil· ler was also entered in Ora· tory. They were also compe· ting in Expository speaking in the men' s division. In the women's division Peggy Jo Huggans was an award win· ner. D ale Cowan and D ave Con· way completed in the field o f Extemporaneous speech. Although this was D ave's first complete tournament, he gained one of the seven excellent award s given. Moreover, this was the most heavily entered event and division in the entire tourney. In this, one of the Inost import a nt forensics meets of the year, 20 colleges and universities entered 250 contestants. The school honor awards, sometimes called sweepstakes awards, were won by UCLA, USC, Los Angeles State College and the University PJ~; of R edlands. Every effort i s made to give two awards for u p per division and two awards for lower d ivision. For this rea· son, the USC and Redland s tro. . . phies are considered to be lowMr . VIrgil B ergman d iscl~sed I er d ivision, although each gainp lans for the sprmg semester, ed many of their points in the last w:eek . T h_e speech d ep<l:rt- upper division. m~nt IS plannmg on, p;.esentmg Joan Bennett, a San Mar· William Shakesp ea~~ :' T he T acos resident and Escondido mi~g of ~he Shrew m the Pathigh school graduate . won a ron s PatiO Ma_Y 17,18 . Tl:}Is will second place award for her be the fust time Shakespeare schooL the Univer sity of Red· has been performed at P al_omar lands. Although only a sopho· college. The use of th~ P atio. for more, Miss Bennett won her a play will also be an mnovatwn , pr ize in the upper women' s accordmg to Mr. Bergman. division of Oral Interpretation. The Palomar College speech P lanned for earlier in the spring, at the Easter assembly squad's next tournament is at Mar ch 23, is the famous moral- Long Beach State College, March ity play , " The Summoning of 2. Mr . Virgil Bergman, foren· Jensen, manager of sports. Every Man." This play will be sics coach, is planning on re· On March 21 the W AA is going presented by the Oral Interpre- from his Fundamentals of Speech to attend a volley ball play day tation class in conjunction with aind from his Oral Interpretathe music department. tion classes for this meet. at Mount San Antonio JC.
Arro Y Roth Fuller Elected prexy y eep s ecre aryl AWS
Ron Ross ................................ Gary White ............................ Fred Estrada ............................ H al Helsley ............................ Paul Aschenbrenner ............ Frans Van Es ........................ Gerald Swain ........................
Friday, February 24. 1956
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division at William Beaumont 1 military hospital in El Paso , . Texas. In addition to 711s Doctorate , Dr. Dodds holds an administ r ative credential from the University of Chicago. Dr : Dodds is the head of the Palomar n ight division, and reports a 100 per cent increase for the last sem ester , over the preceeding period of last year. On his d ay s chedule , Dr. Dodds teaches cou rses in: Histor y of the Weste rn civilization, History of Latin America and I ntroduction to Economics . Dr . D odds i~ also a family man. His wife is a form e r art teacher and active in civic affairs . D r . Dodds , his w ife and their t wo sons at present reside in Escondido.
AWS Delves into Scandal The news leakin g from sealed lips of the Palomar A WS a bout this morning's assembly is that some fellow named Charley has been guilty of scandalous conduct. Bu t, Who is Charley? And why is the second most common question on the campus; Do the Messers Mye rs, Bowman and Bergman trust their wives? At press· time Telescope reporters were unable to find out if Charley has any connection with the faculty wives.
Dr. John Dodds
But telescope news-hounds did uncover this; the sordid facts will be revealed at the A WS assembly today, 10 a.m .• 1 in the lounge.