Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Adorning the staircase are May Queen contestants Bonnie McDill, Jeanie Earl, Dianne Dunn, Jo Ferguson, Mary Jo Klinker, Patty Sharp, Louise Fallon, Mary Bare- more, Sally Shaeffer, and Dona McGinnis. JN KEEPING with the “Mid-Century May Week” theme a Charleston dancing contest was held for the enjoyment of all at the annual May Week dance. The dance, an all-campus affair, was held in the Men’s Gymnasium from nine p.m. until one a.m. More than 6,000 students wore gardenias, roses, or carnations on Wednesday of May Week in cele- bration of Flower Day. That evening the women’s residences held a square dance for the members of the River Road and the Stadium Dormitories at the Baker Hall parking quadrangle. This was followed by an hour long open house at Baker Hall. Bi © Kuch» The balmy weather was an important factor in Slain, the success of the student-faculty baseball game and the annual May Week Supper. Links, Mirrors, and Chimes girls served to over 1100 people under the sponsorship of WSGA. Students found on the base- ball diamond that their professors are no more lenient than they are in the classroom, for they were handed a 12-4 defeat. The cane rush and the tug-of-war bat- tles, and the bicycle race attracted hundreds on the Oval. On the opposite page we find float number nine as it ap- peared in the float parade during May Week. Students and faculty alike crowded around the Oval to watch the varied conglomeration of floats. Middle-left we see one of the scenes of the annual push-ball game between the Greeks and the Independents. This was followed by a lacrosse game. BOTTOM LEFT: One of the wetter moments of the week as the Freshmen try to dunk the Sophomores. The TOP RIGHT picture should speak for itself, it was at the AGR pool, and some few people got wet. MIDDLE RIGHT: presents one of the hectic moments in the newly-revived cane-rush. BOTTOM RIGHT: shows one of the gay skits given at the Panorama on the eve of elections.

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While sorority sisters won votes clad in bright shorts and colorful costumes, all the queen candidates followed WSGA's ruling of no bath- ing suits by appearing in formals. Candidates Patty Sharp, Sally Shaeffer, Dona McGinnis, Bonnie McDill, Mary Jo Klinker, Jo Ferguson, Louise Fallon, Janie Earl, Dianne Dunn, and Mary Baremore are shown following the queen skits presentation on the s teps of Page Hall. working part of the campaigning by telephone dates. The court were all so tired that it didn’t answering. Each answer included, ‘‘This little matter too much who had won the coveted neophyte has but to say, Mary Jo Klinker for crown. Many of the girls thought that the judg- queen of the May.”” The remaining members of ing should be more on the candidate's beauty the queen’s court had their own way of getting rather than on the skits that were presented, but votes, and undoubtedly did a fair job. Balloting in the end all worked out for the best and none for the queens took place in most of the campus of the candidates seemed to mind too much that buildings and ballot-box stuffing was the cry she had not been chosen the Queen of the May. from the political parties about the other candi- In a brief break from furious campaigning the May Queen and her court smile for the birdy. The court included Patty Sharp, Sally Shaeffer, Bonnie McDill, Queen Mary Jo Klinker, Dianne Dunn, and Mary Baremore. Past Queens were spotlighted at the May Week Dance, touching off the announcement of the May Queen. Present were Queens Marty Knoll, Norma Brown, Tex Adams, Louise Fallon, and Pat McClusky.

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