The Collegian The Grove College Newspaper November 9,2001 Vol.62 No. 9 Lives Making Magic Alumnus remembers career with Disney By Matthew R. Divelbiss While at GCC, Passilla played basketball and became a member Disney happened to be expand- Collegian Editor-in-Chief ing in the outdoor attractions of the Epsilon Pi fraternity. area and, three months after he His name appears on Main In 1961 Passilla graduated and made contact, Passilla began Street U.S.A. at Walt Disney gave up playing professional World in Florida. He's not baseball. working at Disneyland in the personnel department. Mickey Mouse or Walt Disney. "I gave up baseball at the point Passilla said there were about He's Jim Passilla, class of 1961, in time because I kind of made 1,500 people at Disneyland. and he had quite a career with up the decision in my mind that Unknown to Passilla, Disney Disney. if I hadn't made the major had other projects in the works, Passilla started his college life leagues by the time I graduated namely a small park in central at Cornell University on a full- college, I decided I'd start my Florida called Disney World and ride to play baseball and basket- career," Passilla said. a park in northern California ball, but during his freshman He then headed to southern called Mineral King. year at Cornell, he signed to play California, working for Hughes "After about six months, I was baseball professionally with the Aircraft for a year before joining actually pulled off the job and Cincinnati Reds organization, Microdot, Inc. He also began put into an organizational pro- ending his scholarship. working toward his master's in gram," Passilla said. "So I was looking for a place business administration, focusing The group's task was to study to continue my education, on the personnel-industrial rela- the Disney company in detail and because I knew I wanted the edu- tions side of business, at the plan for the new theme parks. cation," Passilla said. "And I had University of Southern California After 13 weeks, the group a lot of friends who went to while starting a family. made a presentation to Walt Grove City, so I came down to Passilla became the No. 2 man Disney himself and the compa- visit Grove City." at Microdot, but his work with ny's executive committee. The next year, Passilla enrolled Microdot took him out of his "That was probably one of the at Grove City College, continu- area of interest: human relations. most outstanding experiences of ing to play baseball for part of So Passilla made a list of com- Photo by Matthew R. Divelbiss the year and attend college for panies he would like to work for, Jim Passilla, Class of 1961, worked for Disney for almost 30 years my life because it was the first the other part. and Disney made the list. before retiring in 1992. time I met Walt," Passilla said. See Passilla on page 4 No Small Change Ticket prices lead to in-depth discussion 4000-quarter reward offered at last week's SGA meeting By Megan A. Standish Grove City Police Department to By Kaitlin Domanoski Collegian Managing Editor report the theft. The Inside officers contacted Bon Appetit Pennsylvania State Police Collegian Copy Editor about a month ago but communi- Department has since been con- SGA says resumes will go Grove City College is offering cation was slow-going. a $1000 reward for information tacted, as well, and officials The relationship between stu- online--page 6. Nancy Paxton, vice president leading to the arrest and convic- from its crime lab have secured dents and Bon Appetit was a of student affairs, intervened as tion of the person or people evidence, such as fingerprints point of discussion at the Oct. 30 Two reasons for the change in other students shared their opin- and tool markings from the Student Government Association ticket price were cited. They ions on the matter. Since the responsible for a recent campus theft. change machine, that could lead meeting. were the decision on the price by meeting, officers and Bon The theft, which happened toward an arrest and eventual Other discussions addressed SGA prior to confirming the Appetit have communicated on conviction. monetary requests, TLC printers menu, meal costs and service the event, specifics have been sometime prior to Oct. 31, involved the removal of money "The college is taking this and the SGA treasury report. costs with Bon Appetit, as well agreed on and the planning is from a change machine in the very seriously," said Kent D. A question about a change in as delayed response by Bon underway. Hicks Dormitory laundry room. McFadden, assistant director of Crimson ticket prices led to the Appetit to SGA organizers. In other business, the Alpha The amount of money stolen had safety and security. discussion of Bon Appetit. Sean Ammirati said SGA had want- Sigma men's housing group and not been disclosed at the time of No suspects had been deter- Ammirati, executive president of ed to lower the price this year. the service organization publication. mined at the time of publication. SGA, said the originally adver- Because of a lack of communica- Signature approached SGA with Campus officials, who discov- McFadden said information tised price of $12 per ticket had tion with Bon Appetit, however, a monetary request for $80 to ered the break-in during normal been changed to $15 because of it could not be done. help cover costs of a dance on rounds on Oct. 31, contacted the See Theft on page 4 ineffective communication. According to Ammirati, SGA See SGA on page 4 Flag City of What Burning Lights Fools! An amendment look at a Shakespeare is the wrong semester in makes an choice. Paris. appearance. Page 3 Page 8 Page 11