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VID--No . �2 .. , YPSILANTI, MICH., THURSDAY, MAY 18, J9JJ Price Four Cents AT BAY CITY CHARMING PETE IVY DAY 1910 REUNION Everything Moved According to May-Day on the Green by Mrs. A Most Delightful Feature Added A Red Letter Day in Alumni Burton's Cla.sses Prettiest of to Commencement Week in Annals Schedule Springtime Recent Year.s A m�EAT HOME COMINO MAKES ITSELF FELT A softly rolling amphitheater, with In the years '05-'07 Normal Hall a laughing brooldet trailing its care­ saw more rousing Mass Meetings than Many Years Represented and Many Normal Alumni a Decided Pactor free way across the velvety green any five years before that time or Old Priendships Renewed expanse; a thousand persons seated M. S. T. A. Affairs since. It was a very common pro­ in happy abandon on the hillsides As the result of speeial effort on overlooking the little vale; three hun­ cedure for the students then in the One of the best reunions of Normal the pant of the eommittee in char,ge dred merry maids in white tripping, Normal to gather in one great body of the Alumni meeting last June and College al1,1mn11 held in many years swaying, dancing on the level green; was the one at the annual meeting of to cheer the unbeatable baseball and the co-operation of some of the not­ soft strains of music floating up the able alumni, the annrual meeting was the State Teachers' Association at rise to the knots of spectators and debating teams, then our· proud boast. Bay City last October. Numerous meetings were held under one long to be remembered and marl{­ then drifting lazily on over the roll­ ed as a red-letter occasion in Normal To start matters off properly the ing fields; all this two hours before the direction of the vigilance com­ Normal College faculty voted to To the Alumni of the Michigan State annals. Normal Hall was crowded on sunset, at the close of a beautiful May mittee (elsewhere mentioned in this that evening, and a novel feature .was assess themselves to raise the money day-and you catch but a glimpse of Normal College­ number) simpl to sing the old songs, the attendance of the graduating class for renting a desirable room for alum­ one of the prettiest lawn fetes ever Greeting: y ni headqruarters and to provide such The State Board of Education, the yell the old yells and get acquainted. in ,a body, inspiring these newcomers staged in connection with Normal. into the association with a feeling refreshments as might be deemed It was the May-Day on the Green faculty and students of the Michigan It was the spring of '-06 at one of desirable. S'ecretary Steimle was State Normal College send their an­ of their oneness with college tradi­ that Mrs. Burton had been planning these meetings topics of interest to tions and history. As they entered given entire charge of the arrange­ on for several weeks. Nothing just nual message of good will to you ments and his energy and foresight through the Normal College News. the Normal were discussed. 0. P. to a festival march played by Direc­ like it had ever been attempted here tor Frederick Alexande upon the or­ in looking after every detail con­ before, butt the striking success of the The institution is closing the happi­ Steimle, one of the speakers of the r gan, ithe alumni rose to welcome them, tributed largely to the success of the feature urges strongly for its adoption est and most prosperous year of its evening, spoke on the desirability of undertaking. a history. From every direction there and when they had all entered, Prof. s ,an annual event. Staged so hap­ having a day of each year to be ex­ Laird, who presided as acting presi­ A large and pleasant room was se­ , with the dances comes to us the evidence of the loyal­ pily in this iMal spot clusively and distinctively for Nor­ dent of the association, called upon cured in the Wenonah Hotel and pla­ and marches executed to such a de­ ty of its graduates. The growing repu­ Ray Wise to lead the seniors in the cards were placed about the corri­ lightful termination, the fete should tation of the College, so manifest on mal girls. A committee was appoint­ class and college yells. The following dors direcling alumni to Normal Col­ beeome the pretttiest event of all every hand, is the direct result of ed to f.urther the idea, but owing to lege headquarters. The room was you;r devoted and efficient service. splendid program was given, every­ spring-time at the college. Surprised complicating elements, the matter thing being so enjoyable that it would decorated with banners, a barrel of 1 Through this Alumni number of the and delighted were the hundreds 01' was deferred a year. be impossible to say that any one snow apples was provided and a reg­ onlokers who, anticipating a pretty Normal College News you are invi1ted In the springtime of '0'7 the matter was better than the others: ister for Normal College people. Ex­ scene, did not dream of �nything to come back to us for commencement Overture to William Tell (For pi- tra copies of the No!'mal College News quite so charming. season, to renew old associations, to was a.gain presented in Mass Meeting and the smiling faee of the editor cement friendships and to gain new assembled by Miss Jean McKay and ano and organ) .......... Rossini Mrs. Burton was especially fortu­ Mrs. Lorinda Smit Clifford, '04; were also in evidence. Almost any nate in her selection of the spot to inspiration for future service in the h another committee appointed with Mrs. Clara BralJIJ Mc Andrew, '04; time during the day and a good part stage the affair. The field wa lo­ cause we all love so well. s Miss McKay as chairman. After consid­ Frederiek Alexander of the night groups of alumni and cated just back of the President'.;; L. H. JONES, erable 'discussion in numerous meet­ Welcome- Acting President, Samuel former students were to be found here home, a reach of rolling land so ar­ President. B. Laird, '74. discussing old times and renewing ranged as to afford the spectators ings by the committee, composed of old friendships. a viewpoint of advantage, and pro­ Misses McKay, Camp, Munson, Gar­ v,ide the actors a flat of green be­ rison, Swyney, McDonald, Newkirk, neath. lit would be hard to describe Ronan, and Harper, the following was the dances adequately. S'ome were excee��ngly simple, but their very adopted: first it was resolved that simplicity in the midst of the delight­ the day be called "Ivy Day" and that fnl setting enhanced their charm. the permanent date be Senior Class Others were intricate, so complicated Day at Commencement. S'econd, pro­ thlat the onlooker who tried to trace the succeeding figures soon lost him­ gram of day to consist of an oration, self in the maze of swaying; white. music and songs appropriale to the The flc,v. cc dances were 1Jea11tifnl, and occasion. Three permanent featt1res the drills exceedingly clever. The o[ this to be, orator, chosen by the program was very prettily terminat­ faculty, presentation of silver trowel ed hy ,the May-pole dance, in which scores of girls danced at the ends of by Sienior vice-president to Junior long streamers about four May-poles, vice-president and song to be sung winding and unwinding them amid he "Ivy Song," words to be written by their peculiar movements. The ac­ a Normal girl. Boys were expected to companiment by several pieces of Hart's was in itself a delightful ele­ provide trowel and ivy chain. ment. So unusual, and yet so pleasing The minstrel men, when appealed in this spot was it that all were to for a trowel, very generously re­ charmed. sponded and donated enough money to No litJtle commendation should be pnrchase the beautiful trowel that C. P. Steimle, '02, Secretary given Mrs. Burton and those who as­ now graces the trophy ease in the Response-S'enior President, Norman Webster M. Pearce '97, sisted her in staging the lawn fete. W. J. McKone, '87 Women's Gymnasium, when not i� Arthur, '10, use. Vice-President MRy its initial success lead to its es­ Treasurer Slate Board of Education Violin Solos: tablishment as a tradition of Nor­ Under the efficient management of a. Sailor's Song .............Grieg The banquet held on the second mal. "our enthusiastic Jean" the first I-vy c. Grandmother·,, Minuet .....Grieg evening of the meeting was one of tlrnsiasm, loyalty, and ·devotion for Day was a pronounced success. The c.