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PDF (V. 63:28, May 17, 1962) CaliforniaTech Associated Student.. of the California Institute of Technology Volume LXIII. Pasadena, California, Thursday, May 17, 1962 Number 28 Awards Assembly To Be Held Lost Weekend Begins Tomorrow The annual C a I t e c h spring Tau Beta Pi Freshman of the awards assembly will be held at Year Award. Winners of sev· weth J h Whet D- D 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, May 24, eral interhouse trophies )Vill be I OS I e Inner ance on the picnic grounds southeast announced, including the Inter· " of Tournament Park. house Sports Trophy (Ricketts), Lost Weekend begins tomor· and at all Mutual Agencies at the will be cooked at the beach, and At this ass e m b I y, sports the Intercollegiate Rating Tro· row with the arrival of many regular prices of $3.50, $2.50, afterwards there will be a trip awards will be presented for phy, the Discobolus Trophy girls to participate in a weekend to Pacific Ocean Park. The and $1.50. Tickets will also be- basketball, swimming, tenniS, (Dabney), and the Goldsworthy of social activity. Park closes at midnight. Part. baseball, track, and golf. Honor Snake Trophy. sold tomorrow night at the box yers will have to provide their keys and honor certificates will A steak barbecue will follow Tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. office. After the concert, there own transportation to the beach. also be given, along with the presentation of the a war d s. there wiI be a formal dinner in will be a dance in the Olive The women will be housed in However everyone is invited to the Olive Court. Then at 8:30 Court to live music until 1 a.m. the upper alleys of Lloyd House Youths Spo. nsor the assembly even if they do not Josh White wiI be appearing at or so. Dress for the entire even. under the chaperoneship of the stay for supper. Cost will be the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, ing will be semi-formal, i.e. dark members of the Caltech Service etelcal Ne.ght $1.25 for spring athletes and with comedian Murray Roman, suits for men and cocktail dress­ League. Men will not be allow· $2.00 for others. Tickets are in a concert sponsored bYes for ladies. Poll ed in the rooms or alleys where The Pasadena Area Youth available in the Houses and ASeIT. Tickets can be bought the girls will be staying. The Council is planning to sponsor from ASCIT Athletic Manager at the Caltech Bookstore at re- Saturday there will be a beach Bob Liebermann. duced rates for ASCIT members party at Playa del Rey. Supper girls will have to be in their a Youth Political Night on Fri· rooms by 2:30 a.m. Saturday and day at 8 p.m. in the Sexson Au­ Sunday morning. Men will be ditorium at Pasadena City Col­ BOC Elections out of their rooms in upper lege in order to inform interest· Lloyd by 10 a.m. tomorrow, and ed Pasadena citizens of the vari· the women will move in at 3 ous aspects of the coming guber­ Next Tuesday p.m. The women will be out of natorial election. Elections for House repre­ the rooms by noon Sunday. The non-partisan affair will sentatives to the Board of Con· feature representatives from the trol will be held Tuesday. Nom­ inees are Steve Mastin, Blacker; Glee Club three leading gubernatorial can­ LoST ,"""ox.. ...u. didates - Brown, Nixon, and Dave Barker and Bob Brunner, Shell. These representatives Dabney; Brian Belanger and Jim Holds Elections Eder, Fleming; Volker Vogt, will present their respective Elective and appointive offices Lloyd; Dave Seib, Page; Chuck platforms and their views on in the Caltech Glee Club for Minichiello and Terry Murphy, the role of youth in California. next year have been filled. The Ricketts; and Russell Hageman, A panel of four interested high new officers are Michael Perl· Terry Mast, and Joe Weis, Rud· school students will then dis­ man, manager; Don Terwilliger, dock. The seven elected mem­ cuss the major issues of the president; Richard Hake, secre­ bers will serve on the Board all campaign with them, and finally tary; Alan Hindmarsh, treasurer; next year. questions will be taken from the Terry Allen, librarian; Victor audience. In addition, two appointed Sirelson, alumni secretary; and The event is completely educa­ members, who started serving James Dalton, "keeper of the tional and no political considera­ this term, will serve for the first coats." tions have beeen made. mach two terms of next year. They l speaker will be given equal time are Steve Gar r i son and Al Next Sunday evening the Glee on every question. The general Lin d h, both of Page. Since Club will hold its annual ban­ f quet. At this time the coveted areas of discussion will include Lindh will not he here next "Olaf Frodsham Awards" will censorship, radical groups, civil year, the Board will appoint rights and employment laws, someone this term to fill the be presented to certain members population problems, education­ remainder of his term of office. for notable mis-achievements be­ yond the call of duty. al developments, fiscal policy, Tom Bapp is chairman of the urban affairs, and juvenile de· Board, while Larry Gershwin is Glee Club records should be \ out sometime next week. They linquency. secretary. will be available in the Houses through members of the Glee Three H'onored Club. Faculty members may Thundering Pachyderms Race get them through Mrs. Arnett in the Humanities Department. By Academy The Book Store will also have To Delight Of Thousands Three Cal tech scientists were a supply on hand. BY I~ARRY GERSHWIN elected Fellows of the American The First Intercollegiate Ele­ Academy of Arts and Sciences Boum Wins Award phant Race in human history at its 182nd annual meeting, Carl E. Baum was presented was held Friday at Orange Coast held in Boston Wednesday, May the SOCiety of American Military State College before the largest Engineers National Gold Medal crowd ever assembled to wit· 9. Award during a luncheon meet­ ness such an event - an esti­ They are Dr. Guido Munch ing of the Los Angeles Post on mated 10,000 people plus many and Dr. Allan R. Sandage, staff May 8. This award is made an­ Caltech students. Competition nually to 20 outstanding senior members of the Mt. Wilson and started at about 4:15 with the engineering students throughout junior varsity sprints, featuring Palomar Observatories; and Dr. the nation from ROTC units of Dabney House. Although Dab­ Ernest H. Swift, Chairman of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. ney's entry did not do very well Caltech's Division of Chemistry Mr. William T. Wright, Pres. in the race, they were com­ and Chemical Engineering. ident of the Los Angeles Post, mended for superior showman­ The Academy, chartered by presented the medal. Baum was ship, the Commonwealth of Massa­ also nominated for the Los An. chusetts during the War of In· geles Post's award which will Stampede dependence, includes in its mem­ be presented at the AFROTC Soon act ion turned to the bership some 1800 national and Annual Awards Ceremony varsity entries, consisting of the international I e a d e r s in the scheduled for 8 p.m. Wednesday more massive elephants. KABC sciences and the arts - the fine in Culbertson Hall. news was covering the event, as arts as well as the practical arts well as the Los Angeles Times Elephant runs wild, kills thousands. of engineering, medicine, busi· and the California Tech, two of berserk pachyderm. Torty (no relation to the mayor) ness and government. Notices the world's truly great news­ Harvard's ei1try was disquali· was judged best in the class of YMCA AUCTION papers. The first varsity entry, fied because infallible scienti- turtles weighing less than 500 The annual YMCA lost and fic tests revealed that he had pounds. Although nobody was Kinney II from Long .Beach found auction will be held today, been given a stimulant. How- allowed on the field, several Cal­ Election of Frosh State College, got nervous and on the Olive Walk, at 12 :30 p.m. headed for the compound in­ ever, Harvard was awarded a tech students managed to in­ Officers Completed Items collected by the Y in a year stead of the finish line. As re­ prize for being "ancient and timidate track officials by pos­ of losses will be put on sale. porters and p hot 0 g rap her s honorable." The rest of the ing as press photographers and Gary Scott and Barry Dinius scattered, Kinney s tam p e d e d races were fairly exciting as reporters for the Tech. Mike were elected treasurer and athle· IH BRIDGE TOURNAMENT through the crowd, threatening elephant races go, with large Rosbash pulled a coup by ma­ tic manager of the class of 1965 The interhouse bridge tourna­ ment will be held next Tuesday and the lives of hundreds of specta­ amounts of money on the out· lesting a drunk, who was then to round out the slate of officers Thursday at 8 p.m. The competi­ tors and its rider. Unfortunate. come. Kinney II and Little carried off the field by the po· for next year. The rest of the tion will be held in Dabney dining ly there were no injuries. A Bertha of the University of lice. He had challenged Ros­ officers are John Beamer, pres· ident; Guy Jackson, vice pres­ room and run by Page House, last near casualty was Rick O'Con.
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