Homecoming Hits Hilltop 1954 Festivities Feature ptw< SMU Hit Parade' Theme W An exuberant collection of football, dances, a parade, tours, reunions, revues and picnics will greet crowds of Mustang alumni and students as SMU's. "Hit Parade" Homecoming of 1954 builds up momentum and reaches its peak this weekend. \\\ Starting Thursday, when the Homecoming "programme'? I was held, the yearly get-together of Hilltop exes will build up steam until the figurative boiler bursts Saturday, with the SMU-Texas A&M football tussle and the Homecoming B-0 dance highlighting the day's activities. —— _ Dallas will see its first night n parade in 25 years when SMU stu­ & dents take over most of Main street 6,000 Aggies at 7 p.m. tonight to present a "Hit £S Parade" of floats, sponsored by ISA and Greeks on the campus. The Due To Storm parade will begin at Main and Aus­ 4 tin streets and continue east on Main, ending near the Central ex­ pressway. Riding in the last float SMU Campus in the procession will be SMU's By HARBI BASER Homecoming queen nominees, toss­ Co-Editor of the A&M Battalion ing roses and gift certificates to by­ Specal to The Campus standers. COLLEGE STATION—The Texas Today's Homecoming events start A&M student body—6,000 Aggies— this morning when registration for will invade Dallas Friday for three exes takes place at the Student days of the school's Dallas Corps Union building. At 9:30 a.m. Law­ trip. yers Inn plays host to the alumni Principal reason for the Corps board of directors' meeting and (UantpuH trip is the A&M-SMU football game luncheon. Freshmen and upper- Published Semi-Weekly by SMU Students Publishing Company Saturday afternoon, but many classmen will grunt and groan in small and large parties are also 40tti Year Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Friday, November 6, 1964 the traditional tug-o-war over the If Ob 15 planned by the Aggies. fountain in front of Dallas hall at A&M's 3,800-man corps of cadets 12': 45 this afternoon. will parade down Dallas' main Friday at 2 p.in. finds SMCs streets Saturday morning in full freshman Colts meeting the Bay­ SMU Week To Parallel dress uniform. The parade will lor Cubs at Ownby stadium in the start at 10 a.m. day's football game. At the game, The school's 240-piece band will the freshman Homecoming queen Current Sustentation Drive march in two sections, one near chosen by the Colts, will be pre­ the front and one near the end of By PAT BAKER sented. out next week. division. the parade. Associate Editor of The SMU Campus General chairman for the 1954- Chairman for this year's drive Alumni association officers and Also on hand will be A&M's Col­ directors will be informally enter­ "Tie to SMU" has been selected 55 Sustentation campaign is will be George P. Cullum, muni­ lie mascot, Reveille II. as the official theme of -SMU's Bishop Hiram Abiff Boaz, the cipal contractor and vice-presl- tained at the home of -President During half time at the game, the Willis M. Tate and Mrs. Tate be­ 1954-55 Su'stentation fund cam­ university's second president In dent of the Dallas Rotary club. Aggie Sweetheart, Miss Judy Nuhn paign, which will have its kick-off 1920, whose helpers raised the Division I of the campaign will tween 4:30 and 5:30 p.m., and an of TSCW, will be crowned. alumni reunion is slated for 4:30- at noon Monday in the Baker hotel first half-million dollars to start be nnder the direction of Robert The band will form on the field ballroom, where 500 Dallas busi­ SMU on its way to education B. Gilbert. 6:30 p.m. at the Student Union. and play for Queen Judy while Friday's main event takes place nessmen will receive their pros­ fame. Gerald C. Mann, former Texas Frank Ford, cadet colonel of the at 7 p.m. when the downtown pa­ pective assignments to help raise Bishop Boaz relinquished his of­ secretary of state and attorney corps, gives her a bouquet and the rade will be held. Other Friday •over $300,000 from personal soli­ ficial duties in 1938 at the age of general, and Gordon F. Cullum, of traditional sweetheart kiss. events include the "alumni night* citations. 71 but returned to the university Cullum & Boren company, will be A&M dismisses its Saturday performance of the Pigskin revuf This year's drive will parallel the following year to inaugurate co-chairman for division II. classes for the Corps trip, allow­ at 8:30 p.m., in McFarlin auditori­ Mayor R. L. Thornton's recent the Sustentation fund. Heading division III will be Roy ing all students to attend and um, and an open house and dance proclamation of an "SMU-Dallas The campaign is divided into W. Hill. Publicity for this year's to leave sometime Friday. Two at the Student Union after the pa* week," and the campaign, which three sections: Big gifts division, drive is being handled by Wilson corps trips are held each year. CContinued on Page 8) begins Monday, will last through­ Industrial division and General Crook Sr., who is keeping the theme "Tie to SMU" in the minds of prospective donors with his de­ Began in 1924 signed lariats which say, "Here's Musical Decor Erected your 'Lariat,' Partner . Wear it and TIE to SMU! with your greatest gift to the Sustentation For Campus Buildings fund." "SMU Hit Parade," this year's orations committee added a candel­ Over 500 workers will wear Homecoming theme, is featured in abra for the top of the piano and red SMU string bow ties during the campus decorations which a a "blue" Aggie trying to get out. the week, and all prospects will By RIKKI AMSLEB The Kirkos juke box lists the ten receive red fore-in-hand ties with As for the girl who was chOMi dozen school organizations put up SMU Homecoming celebrates its to be queen—she reigned over tht Wednesday and Thursday. top "tunes" or events of this week­ a bine Peruna on them. end. The question often comes up to 30th birthday this week-end as the football game played between two A 19-yard poster stretched be­ donors as to what SMU has to offer 1954 celebration marks finis to of the schools participating in tht tween the Dallas hall columns an­ "Old Aggies Never Die, They Just Fade Away," proclaims the Dallas. SMU Comptroller Trent C. three decades of get-togethers. Circus, and over other events (i.e^ nounces the theme "even to people a tree-planting ceremony and % Student Union committee, and the Root, the man on the "Hilltop" The first official reunion of on Hillcrest," says Corky Lang, fashion show) connected with it law school judge, erected by the with the figures, has a ready ans­ SMU alumni was held in 1924, as chairman of the COGS committee The Circus served as a homecom­ Blue Shirts, hands down sentence wer. a feature of the "All-College Cir­ which made the poster. ing for all the colleges concerned, to a cadet. Root points out that last year cus." The A-C C, for those readers "It's in the Book" in front of since each college had a reunion At the north and south entrances alone SMU students spent an esti­ who are not hep on history, was a Fondren library, where the Campus for its alumni after the football the Arden club encourages the mated $2,000,000 in Dallas; and the joint celebration participated in by League of Women Voters has de­ game. Mustangs to "Give 'em the Old total estimated expenditure by the 39 colleges from all over the na­ picted a dilapidated Aggie crawl­ In 1926, SMU had an individual Squeeze Play" and "Fiddle 'em university, students, visiting par­ tion. Each scfiool nominated a ing out of a book. The "Y" project Down to Size." "It Happened Once ents and out-of-town athletic fans Homecoming celebration, separate duchess, and a queen was selected from the Circus. There was a was to build two economy-sized Before" says the business fratern­ reached the amazing figure of $15,- from the duchesses. Thanksgiving parade and ball game records. In front of Hyer hall is ity, while on the Mustang circle the 000,000. He says that during last "Plow the Farmers Under" by P. ' SMU's entry into the Circus, or with TCU. A barbecue rally, a pep APO project shows a drum-beating year, SMU spent $6,332,0Qp in Dal­ the Revue, or the All-Collegiate Peruna and the Mustang Eleven, Peruna pounding a drum to the las for operations, athletics, book meeting, and an ex-students' meet­ while "You Win Again" by the Circus (the name seems to have ing were held prior to the game. tune bf "Beat The Aggies." store, Student Union operations ben rather vague) was sponsored Twelfth Man decorates Perkins Rounding out the campus decora­ and new buildings. Finally, in 1930, SMU withdrew by the Rotunda. The SMU repre­ from the All-College Circus, and administration building. tion's are the calendar of events at IfltJi the completion of the new sentative got her picture In the began to concentrate its energies A tux-clad pony is playing the the west entrance, built under the coliseum at SMU, the unlrefplty year book, as being a duchess then on one celebration, which eventu­ '"Piano Roll Blues" at McFarlin chairmanship of Rick Mc'Bride, and will have spent a total of $52,• was equivalent to being Homecom­ auditorium.