1941 Construction begins on Memorial Auditorium.

This vast edifice has approximately 31,000 square feet of floor space. When fully opened up, it will seat nearly 4000 persons. A portion of the building can be divided from the remainder, forming a chapel with approximately 1200 seats. There are in the building a regulation basketball court with a hardwood floor; showers and lockers for physical education classes; offices for the physical education staff; a classroom, as well as offices for the district superintendent and his secretary. from The History of Pasadena College; J. Proctor Knott, 1960

Chalmer Cartwright (1941-43) remembers...A Rude Awakening: I entered PC the fall semester of 1941. I was so green that if they had stuck me in the ground I would have grown. Dr. Stowe, Dr. Gilliland, Dr. Cantrell, B. Edgar Johnson, Harrison Davis and Herb Ratcliff to name a few were attending.

I was surprised to learn that the joke was to turn on the washing machines, filled with tin cans, at about twelve o'clock at night. They would run until our dorm mother, Miss Thompson, got up and went downstairs and turned them all off. What an introduction to dorm life!



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