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Show Kemember.. the Parade, Homecoming Chairman, John Frank' lin Buckle. The committee, John Kelly, Joe Beeson, Blaine Kimball, Joe Ensign, Phyllis Berntson, Mary Milano, Chairman Buckle, Peggy Johnson and Barbara Davis. As the red and brown of autumn supplanted the green of the late summer-as mighty men matched brawn and aptness, working like ma' chines on the gridiron, I saw hundreds of col-legians (for so they will always be, at heart) turn eyes toward the University where one, two, ten, twenty-five, or fifty years ago, they had been students. Though Homecoming beckoned to thousands of graduates, distance, business, illness, and death kept many of them from the campus they loved. So hearts, not heads, were counted at Home coming, 1940 style. On-the-surface activities among fraternal organisations, propagators of good will-and friendly rivalries-were directed by a veteran exponent of the art of extending hearty welcomes, Jack Buckle. I could not help marveling at the expertness with which the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and the Delta Delta Delta sorority molded the schemes of their floats, skits, quartets, and house decorations to the appropriate, and well-received, Homecoming theme of defense. These two groups, for devoting considerable time, and effort, to make j October 24-26 The winning A'D'Pi quar' tette, Shirley Stanislaus, Lucille Jacobsen, Lorena Taylor, Miriam Taylor. Three hundred fourteen • |