University of Central Missouri - Rhetor Yearbook (Warrensburg, MO)

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015132 1914 ageant a 1' MONG the events of commencement week in the spring of l9l4, the Pageant perhaps is the one best remembered. It occurred on Wednesday morning, May twenty-seventh, starting at ten o'clock and continuing until twelve-thirty. The crowd of people in attendance num- bered about two thousandg they were from the surrounding country, neigh- boring towns, and distant states. A It was the plan of the managers and promoters of this Pageant to make it a home-coming day for the Alumni of the school, representatives of each class from I875 to and including the class of I9I4 were to be present and take a part in the Pageant, which was to depict the past, present and future of the school. Each organization in the school was also to be represented in some way. Mrs. Lee Smizer, who was president of the Alumni at the time, with many committees and representatives of organizations and classes, was able to success- fully carry on the plan. ' Father Time, who was none other than Prof. W. E. Morrow, took his stand on a high pedestal and viewed the procession as it passed before him. The first person on the scene was a trumpeter announcing the opening of the Pageant, followed by a, short scene depicting the Legislature in session which appropriated the necessary money for the founding and building of the first Normal. The laying of the corner stone of this building, erected in I87I , was next represented by a tableau. The floats of the various organizations were next in order. Among those especially deserving of mention were the floats of the Science Department, the German Department, the Art Department, the Six Literary Societies, the Boy Scouts, the Camp-fire Girls, the Juniors, the Sophomores and the Preps. These were followed by members of all the classes graduated from the Warrensburg Normal since I875, each class carrying a banner with the date of its graduation. In the class of l875 the five members were present, this number steadily increasing to the one hundred seventy-five of 'I4. After all the old ugradsn had marched by, they assembled, and, as the last act of the Pageant, received the class of 'IQ4 into the Alumni Organization. It was a joy to all Alumni to meet their old classmates and to make new friends. The Pageant was pronounced a great success and those who had worked so faithfully to make it such felt that their time had been well spent. r M. A. ir ? -J E' av Page iz

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