Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Pi Phis erected a Little Miss MufFigan to pose prettily beside their poetical prediction of wolverine fate. Maize and Blue football players twirled unhappily — strung up by the Alph Sigs who used amusement park theme. Send our Ellie . . . , say the girls from Canfield Hall, and sure enough in true Cinderella fashion Miss Ellie Boley was chosen the 1953 Homecoming Queen. BELOW: The Alpha Epsil heart theme for their lovely Kitzinger. Phi ' s play up the didate, Carol Homecoming ... a quick departure from that last Friday class marked the beginning of the most greatly anticipated weekend of Fall Quarter — Homecoming! First, a tour of the frater- nity and sorority district where greeks battled to keep signs up and paper mache football players intact in the face of a blustery wind blowing in from Michigan. The decorations, clever as they were, were not in most cases designed to take the buffeting of the rising wind and no sooner had the judges ' car passed than many were reduced to little more than a few bits of scaffolding and a valiant chicken wire figure or two rapidly losing stuffing. Phi Psi ' s voiced the opinion of many a despairing decorations chairman and posted a defiant TO HELL WITH IT. WE LL MEET YOU AT LARRY ' S . . . The wind served to fan the Homecoming bonfire right into an inspirational victory glow Friday night at the foot- ball rally down by the stadium. It whipped an enthusias- tic crowd of two thousand into long, loud cheers as Bill )udy introduced the lovely Homecoming Court and an inspired football team. Woody promised a victory in no uncertain terms, left the chanting, cheering crowd, and next day turned the promise into a wonderful realit) ' . From the rally we went on to the big Homecoming dance in the Union where the music of Elliott Lawrence blew hot and sweet in tune with a fabulous Fall weekend.

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Bill Judy presents the Queen, Ellie Boley, with her trophy Honiecoining A wind storm fanned our enthusiasm . . . Twenty big fat points — that ' s what the stadium scoteboard showed in out favoi at the end of the most satisfying Homecoming Game we ' ve seen in eight yeais! Michigan was on the little end of that score and lustily we sang our favorite song about what we don ' t give for the whole State of Michigan! Surely the Bucks had caught some of the contagious spirit that went into the whole Homecoming weekend. Decorations were bigger and better (before a disastrous wind wend to work); enthusiasm from the Homecoming rally carried ' Woody and the boys right into a victory; vigorous campaigning for Homecoming Queen delighted the whole campus and ended with the election of the lovliest Queen and coutt we remember. Chief Fiji Engineer Ronnie Spring collects the first place Homecoming Decorations trophy for Phi Gams.

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il Ingenious Phi G.unni.i Dclt.rs ti)ol ilu- tiist prize for Homecoming decorations with this display. The giant honey-bear vas stung by moving bees, set in motion by energetic members of the Fiji pledge class . . . A Phi Delt English major -was the inspiration behind these decorations for the Homecoming weekend, no doubt. With their o vn version of Rime of the An- cient Mariner they predict Michigan game outcome. Fred Pride, president of the Ohio State Alumni Association, performs one of his most pleasant duties — presenting the lovely Homecoming Queen with her trophy while members of her court and their escorts observe . . . Snapped just before the big moment, the Homecoming Queen and her court pose in their front row football seats. After arriving in a parade of convertibles which took them around the oval they were presented to the crowd.