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Commencement activities for the fant skirts, the UU"IJ"~",,~""'.[TV·H'"
sixtieth and largest class yet graduat-
ed from Western Maryland College
have been in full swing on the "Hill"
during the past three weeks. With ~he
end of their college career drawmg
ever nearer, the one hundred and one
seniors have participated in the various
celebrations and exercises of Final
Week with a mingled feeling of happi-
ness and sorrow. Few have been the
days since the inauguration of the
Commencement activities with the May.
Day Festival on May 16 which were
not slated for a special occasion of
some sort.
The events of Monday were, howev-
er, but the culmination of that series
of colorful occasions which have. en-
livened the closing days of this pres-
ent school year. Tradition has woven
a varied scheme of pleasure able situa-
tions from the crowning of the May
Queen down through the Sophomore Ivy
Planting, the Lantern Chain, the Socie-
tay Reunions, the Trustees Meetings,
and the Alumni Dinner to the Great
Day itself.
The, May Day Pageant
Many days ago in the afternoon of
Friday, May 16, when the air still
breathed of very early ,spring, the co-
eds held their fourth annual May Day
exercises on Hoffa Athletic Field.
The May Queen was Miss Eleanor
Gunby, 'of Marion, Maryland. Her
ladies-in-waiting, selected from the four Charles Havens, was the victor with a
college classes, were: Senior duchess,
Blanche Robinson; Senior attendants,
Gladys Rickards and Elizabeth Scott;
Junior duchess, Dorothye Todd; Ju-
nior attendants, Carolyn Tull and Mil-
dred Raum;. Sophomore duchess, Eve-
lyn Ryon; Sophomore attendants, Vir-
ginia Sterling and Mary. McComas;
Freshman duchess, Mary Ellen Senat;
Freshman attendants, Helen Doenges
and Ann Johnson; trumpeters, Mildred
Cutler and Elinor Myers; trainbearer,
Cleona Br'insfiald ; crownbearer, Susan
Strow; jesters, Isabel Douglas and
Madeline Murphy.
Miss Gunby wore a gorgeous princess
gown of ivory satin with a .sweeping
train. Her crown was of white sweet
peas and asparague fern, and. she ca~-
ried white rose buds and malden hair
fern.' The duchess and attendants wore
gowns of point d'esprit in pastel shades
bodices bouf-
On Wednesday afternoon, May 21,
quets of snap dragons while
dants wore shoulder bouquets
colored sweet peas.
'I'he procession of the queen and her
retinue, from the college buildings to
her throne on Hoffa Field, was under
- the escort of a royal guard of
ladies in dashing uniforms of
duck with red shoulder capes.
, Hav,ing arrived on Hoffa Field the
queen passed under an arch formed by
the swords of the Guard to be crowned
by Dr. W. R. McDaniel, vice-president
and treasurer of the College. After she
ascended her throne, the Guard passed
before her and gave an exhibition drill. acea for all ills. Song and dance acts
For her entertainment as well as for
that of the onlookers there was pre-
-sented a lovely litUepageant "Spring-
time", in which the principal charac-
ters were: Ceres, Margaret Leonard;
Prosperine, Alice Huston; Pluto, Louise
Shipley; Cupid, Ruth Davis; Water
Nymph, Maude Heath; Winter, Louise
Werntz; North 'Wind, Elizabeth How-
ard; Messenger, Ruth Rawson; Fairy,
Catherine Hobby.
The Track Meet
The annual track meet in which the
contestants were Companies A and B
of the R. O. T. C. unit was held on
Tuesday, May 20, on Hoffa Field. Com-
pany B, whose commanding cadet is
score of 97 points to Company A's 37.
A pie-eating contest constituted a
novelty feature in which "Reds" Went-
landt.. the winner, beat by four seconds
the record set by Harry Benson last
year. •
In the competitive manual of arms
drill, Barnett of Company B, won the
ti tIe of best-drilled .cadet.
The various events and their winners
were:
Relay, Company B
100-yard dash, Brubaker
220-yard dash, Doughty
440-yard dash, Seitz
Half-mile, Crowthers
Mile, Addison
Shot-Put, Pincura
Running Broad Jump, Eaton
Hop, Step and Jump, Callahan
Medals were distributed to the Ill-
dividual winners, including the pie-eat-
the annual Senior Farewell given by
the Junior Class was held on the cam-
pus between McDaniel Han and Science
Hall. The main feature of the pro-
gram, which was in charge of theJu-
nior Girls, was a clever play, Supressed
Desires" by Glaspell Cooke. The parti-
cipants brought out cleverly the auth-
or's subtle ridicule of the recent mod-
ern craze for psycho-analysis as a pan-
followed the play. The class prophecy,
in a of limericks and was
presented, "Pathetic News of 1930",
which gave quite an interesting insight
into the future lives of the girls of the
class of '30. After refreshments had
been served, the beautiful cup cere-
mony took place. The senior girls
formed in a circle, and each one drank
from the traditional silver loving cup.
She then received a red rose from the
Vice-President of her literary society.
During the ceremony, the rest of the
girls formed a circle around the seniors,
and sang. The Farewell closed with the
songs and yells of the various classes.
Ivy Planting
It has been the custom at Western
Maryland since 1926· for. the Sopho-
more class to plant ivy in honor of the
Senior class. This year the traditional
planting took place on the west side of
. McDaniel Hall, Wednesday evening, as
the twilight shadows were lengthening
across the Campus. Clarence Koockogey,
president of the Sophomore class, gave
a short talk in which he wished the
Seniors the "best of luck" as they set
forth on the "highway of life." Harry
O. Smith, president of the Senior Class
replied to this expression of good wiIi
with a declaration of the Seniors' hope
that the two classes, although no longer
together on the rHi ll, might still be close
in friendship. The ceremony closed
with the class songs and yells of both
Seniors and Sophomores.
The Lantern Chain
With green and gold lanterns forming
a glowing path the Seniors and Fresh-
men women moved through the ritual
of the Lantern Chain. In the chain
the green and gold lanterns
~YJLI'U'UlJ'ze' the girls' search for' know-
lantern is a which