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Show Pledges from the Alpha Chi Omega house perform on the Kingsbury stage during the Founders' assembly. provides a marked and encouraging contrast to 1850-so collegians of 1941 took time out to remember and revere the educators of another era. On Founders' Day I saw much that is fit to record: red carnations and white gardenias symbolizing a struggle which ended with glorious, enduring success; cannon salutes to men whose efforts have resounded through nine decades; Coy Louise Williams, the "Belle of 1850," and her comrade on the Founders'1 Day throne, vivacious Ruth Young, the "Coed of 1941"; Arthur Ellis, doing a yeoman's job of directing, and saying little about it; and orations, assemblies, and dances that proved the luxury-enjoyers of the Twentieth Century had not forgotten and would not forget the luxury-creators of the Nineteenth. V w Arthur Ellis, chairman in charge of the Founders' Day celebrations. and the Happy birthday Celebration? V Three hundred twenty-one \ |