1941-11-05; Central Michigan Life

              Alumni Welcomed
To Gala Week-lend
Sorority, Fraternity, Departmental Clubs Plan
Breakfasts, Luncheons, Open House; Game with
Grand Rapids University to Highlight Week-end
for Football Fans.
With Homecoming plans completed Central awaits only
the arrival of the week-end and the returning alumni to
materialize the celebration excitement.
Visitors arriving early Friday afternoon will be welcome
to watch the annual Freshman-Sophomore games from 3:00
till 5:00 at Alumni Field. But for the rank and file of the former
students the fun will begin at 7:15 Friday evening at the big pre-game
pep meeting in the Auditorium. Dr. Wilbur E. Moore is to be master of
ceremonies; and coaches, representatives of the team, student body, and
alumni will speak. Following the pep meeting there will be a dance in the
ballroom, with Coy Eklund and his band of Lansing furnishing the music.
Saturday activities begin at 8:00$
a. m. with club breakfasts and end
at midnight with the annual Homecoming Ball. The time between will
be filled with a varied program of
events including luncheons, the
Homecoming parade, the game between Central and the University of
Grand Rapids, the "Coffee Hour",
and club dinners. Bob Siegrist and
his orchestra will play for the dance
Saturday night.
A ceremony expected to be colorful and impressive will be that of
raising the flag at Alumni Field before the game. All the bands will
stand in mass formation and play
the national anthem. Besides the
Central band there will be the Mt.
Pleasant High School band and that
of the Home and Training School.
The parade will begin at 1:00
p. m., forming behind Warriner
Hall. The parade will be lead by an
official car in which members of the
Student Council will ride. Following ■ this will be the flag-bearers,
Bill Manahan and Gordon Campbell,
and the Central band will follow the
flag-bearers with the other bands
placed intermittently between the
floats.
A special effort is being made to
make the "Coffee Hour" a success.
Everyone is invited to this mixer,
including members of the University
of Grand Rapids team. Harriet
Foss and Jean McFarland are
League representatives in charge of
the mixer.
Much credit is due the Executive
Committee for its constant attention
to Homecoming affairs during the
past month. Working on the committee are Dr. D. Louise Sharp, social activities; Joseph P. Carey, pep
meetings; Dean C. C. Barnes, finance; and Paul Hintze, student participation. Lewis C. Fay is chairman
of the committee. Dean George N.
Lauer has been appointed marshall
of the parade and is responsible for
the routing of the parade and the
arrangement of floats. Preston Mayhew has charge of the bands and the
flag-raising ceremony.
VOLUME 33
NUMBER 5
eague to Offer
"Trof
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The "Turkey Trot", an informal
pre-Thanksgiving frolic sponsored
by the Women's League, will be
held in the Keeler Union Ballroom
from 9:00 to 12:00, Saturday,
November 15.
Decorations will follow the late
fall motif, with rust and yellow
chrysanthemums and the traditional holiday turkey receiving primary attention.
"Bud' Benford and eight piece
campus orchestra will furnish the
music for dancing.
I Tickets' for this girl-bid dance
&re limited to 150 couples and will
be sold for sixty cents per couple,
included.     .        ................
Two Name Bands
To Furnish Music
For 'Homecomers'
Coy Eklund. Bob Siegrist to
Be Features of Week-end
Dances.
Two orchestras well known
throughout the state will furnish
music for Homecoming week-end
dancers' at the Friday night party
and the Homecoming Ball Saturday night, both to be held in
Keeler Union ballroom from 9:00
p. m. till midnight.
Coy Eklund and his eight piece
band from Lansing will play for the
first party, with their music in the
manner of Freddie Martin, promising something vastly different from
other bands which have appeared,
here. Featured with the orchestra
are Bill Cox at the piano and So-
lovox, the Three Trombones, and
vocal numbers by Eklund.
Bob Siegrist and his twelve piece
orchestra will make their initial
appearance at Central Saturday
night for the Homecoming Ball.
Bob's band became known as
"Michigan State's" Original Broadcasting Band" in 1936. Since then
they have been a regular feature
on WKAR. Last year Bob gained
much recognition for his composition "The Birthday Ball", which
will be used as the theme song for
the annual national campaign
against infantile paralysis. Lynn
Dawson is featured with the band
as girl vocalist; other outstanding
musicians and entertainers include
Ohuckie Mitchell, comedian and
impersonator-; Andy Chapin, virtuoso of the singing guitar; Dick
Dean, with his swing violin; and
vocals by Dick Tomrell and Seig-
rist, assisted by the choir.
The parties are being sponsored
by the Student Social Activities
Committee. Admission for both will
be fifty-five cents per person, tax
included. Tickets may be purchased
at the door.
Sloan and Ronan Halls Set
Open.House for November 16
Both Sloan Hall and Ronan Hall
have set Sunday, November 16, as
the date for open house, when the
dormitories will be open to friends
and parents of the residents.
Both aormitories held special
housemeetings Monday night, November 3, to   discuss   homecoming
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1941
Vocalist
To sing on Saturday night, featured with Bob Siegrist's orchestra, is Lynn Dawson.
Kaye to Speak
Here at 4:00 Today
Orin W. Kaye, jr., foreign correspondent who recently returned
from Europe, will lecture in the
college auditorium today, Wednesday, November 5, on his experiences
of the past few months in England.
The lecture is at 4 p. m.
Mr. Kaye has lectured in this
area several times previously. Many
college students have heard him in
one or more of these lectures, and
several students heard him at the
annual collegiate press convention
in East Lansing last February. His
ability to speak of his varied foreign
experiences has been demonstrated
before many audiences'.
There will be no admission charge
for students.
Goal Post Rush
Feature of Games
For Frosh-Sophs
Seven Other Games to Be
Part of Afternoon Activity to
Determine Class Superiority.
By Mary Jean Coon
New and hilarious is the scheduled
finale for this year's Frosh-Soph
games. Promising more points to the
winner than any of the other contests, the goal post rush will prove a
real spectacle at the games Friday
afternoon, November 7, according to
Dave Lewis,   Ferndale   senior   and
general chairman of the games.
With a well-organized set-up the
program is all ready to go and will
open with an inaugural speech by
the presidents of the freshman and
sophomore classes. Other events
scheduled in this exciting program
include an obstacle race, tub fight,
wall fight, centipede race, tug of
war, wheelbarrow race, three-legged
race, and the grand finale, the goal
post rush.
The goal post rush, which has not
been practiced here for several years
and includes all men of each class,
promises to be of great interest since
it involves one class trying to prevent the other from getting a man
with his class flag on the cross bar.
In case the freshmen are victorious
they may dispose of the hated pots,
but will not be able to toss them into
the Homecoming bonfire as previous
classes have done. Freshman defeat
will mean a continued wearing of
the caps until Thanksgiving.
House-President's Council
Has November 5 Meeting
Violet Woodcock, Ellsworth
sophomore, was elected»president of
the House-President's council at the
first meeting of that group held
on Monday, November S, at 5
o'clock. Other officers elected were:
Beatrice Harrington, vice-president,
and Ruth Mead, secretary-treasurer. Plans for the coming year
were.made at the imeeting. - ■.-.■••*
1500 Students Vote
In Class Elections
Lewis,    Gay,    Houk   and
Shader to Begin New Duties
as Class Heads.
Less campaign excitement
than has been evidenced in
several years was followed
yesterday by an election with
the smallest vote tljat has
been cast in the last half-
dozen elections. The total vote
was 500, less than 50 per cent
of the student body, compared to a usual 600 or 650
poll.
With a divided vote according to
political party leaning heavily
toward the Democratic candidates,
12 of the college Democratic candidates went into office with 7 of the
"V" party candidates victors. One
of the write-in candidates went into
office.
Dave Lewis was elected president
of the senior class with a large majority over Walter Siebel. There was
little close competition in the senior
class, with the other officers elected
Jim Vanderhull over Fred Lee for
vice-president, Florence Woodard,
secretary, over Bob Rosselit, and
Harriet Myers, treasurer, defeating
Dorothy Doyle.
In the junior class, Jim Gay went
into office, the only write-in candidate to be elected, defeating Carlton.
Jacobson, Florence Mary Gwinn defeated Bill Hendrickson for vice-
president. One of the closest races
of the entire balloting was for secretary of the junior class with 5T
votes cast for Marjorie Dues to 54
for Warren Williams. Betty Jane
Read was elected treasurer over
Nadine Robinson.
In the sophomore class was seen
the only entire class-"real competition" of the election. For president,
Russ Houk nosed out Frank Reger
by the slim margin of four votes, 71
to 67. Zola Marsden beat Eleanor
James by seven vo'lss, 72 to 65. Irene
Butkowski won over Anna Mary
Kane, 75 to 63. Max Dean was elected treasurer, 70 to 68, over Russ
Wilson. Student council representative from the sophomore class is
Roger Stressman, who defeated
Maurice Durfee.
All freshman class officers went
into office by large margins. Jim
Shader won over Evelyn Schmidt for
president, Bob Vaughn over John
Ross for vice-president. James Sim-
onson is treasurer, defeating Fran
Stewart, and secretary Betty Dough-
tery, victor over Katherine Barnes.
Of the four candidates for freshman representatives to the student
council, Frances Mewmaw and
Jackie Brien.were chosen over Stewart Traines and Ted Kjonhede.
Because of improperly signed petitions, with duplication of signatures,
names of many nominees for office-
were not eligible for inclusion on the
printed ballots. All of these same-
nominees were, however, included in.
the election by means of write-ins,,
a variation of "sticker" candidates-
Musical Hour in Union
Features Two Concertos
The recorded musical program to
be held in the Women's Lounge of
Keeler Union on Tuesday, November 11, from 4:00 to 5:00 will consist of the following numbers: .
Tschaikowsky, Concerto No. 1 in
B. Flat Minor, for piano and orchestra, as played by Arthur Rubinstein and the London Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by John Bar-
birolli.
Bruch, Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, for violin and orchestra, as
played fby Yehudi-Menuhin a,nd the
London Symphony orchestra, conducted by Bis Landon Donald.
Museum Group Observes
Indian Basket Collection
President Emeritus E. C. Warriner
displayed at the Museum Committee's meeting last week, an interesting collection of Indian baskets from:
Petoskey, which will be on exhibit
in the foyer in the very near future..
COFFEE HOUH
Students, faculty, and Homecoming: visitors' ar© urged' to join
their Mends during the "Coffee
Hour" at Keeler Union ballroom
Saturday afternoon following ithe
Central-Grand Rapids game. The!
mixer is sponsored by the Student:
Council, Women's League, and
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