University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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This might have been anything from boogie-woogie to barrel philosophy, but it turned out they were just the micropho ne. The football team referees as traditions float Sixteen judges from Kangaroo Pete ' 99 to Vic Bottari watch Phi Mu ' s Orchids to Homecoming drive off with their votes. Good things come in threes—Queen Pat Strachan and Attend- ants Caroline Johnson and Jackie Luhr are definitely things. A high-spot of the Axe-travaganza was this bit borrowed the class of ' 44. Ralph Manza stuck close to the mike, if the tune. CALIFORNIA Hi Alumni. Together the canes of ' 74 and the dinks of ' 45 discovered that all roads led to the Campanile for Homecoming Week festivities. First came the dinner that served large helpings of Big Game pep for women only . The four hour Axe-travaganza high-lighted local talent, Queen Pat Strachan, and a full length movie. At the close of the Alumni Luncheon on Friday, California ' s all-time foot- 24

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With a storehouse of information worth any number of Quiz Kids and Information Pleasers, HALE SPARKS conducts the Association ' s popular program, The University Explorer. Mr. Sibley ' s silent helpers keep in contact with the world ' s largest alumni association through letters and The California Monthly as well as bringing new sheep into the fold. A late dispatch from the fourth floor of Stephens Union disclosed that the Alumni Association is still keeping in touch with its 25,000 scattered members. Administration of all touching was in the hands of Robert Sibley and Company, managers of the largest University and college alumni association in the world. The California Monthly rolled off the press with news of the seven campuses, the sixty-nine graduated classes, and the streamlined nine-point program for the year. Efforts were directed to stimulate high morale of alumni in army camps and naval bases, to maintain eighty scholar- ships for high school leaders of the state, to complete its building program for the men ' s dor- mitory, and to lay plans for occupational assistance and continued schooling for able-bodied alumni at the close of the war. The cry of an Indian massacre in the Fall, and promises of a taste of the good old days in the Spring lured alums back for the Homecoming and Charter Week programs. CALIFORNIA MONTHLY STAFF BACK ROW: Edwin Emery, Mrs. Viola Kuehne, Robert Sibley, George A. Pettitt, 0. Watt FRONT ROW: Doris Ann Neely, Francis Holbrook Holland 23

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HOMECOMING ball team made a break around left end to review a parade of California traditions, ranging from The Belle of North Hall to Oskie ' s Harem . The Greek Theatre reechoed once again with yells and songs at the Axe Rally, and the Gym with Duke Ellington ' s and Ernie Heckscher ' s bands. The Indian scalp and the axe, symbol of Big Game victory, were the unplanned-for climax to the week ' s program. 25 Queen Pat Strachan faces her crowning achievement at the Axe- travaganza. Bob Orr, Homecoming chairman, looks strictly honorable as he does the honors. Sheridan Hall ' s hit float previews a coming attraction by capitating Indians. Of course, they weren ' t real Indians—just fellows who hadn ' t paid their house bills. America ' s Duke replaces the juke for Friday ' s Homecoming Dance. His big name band draws crowds to the Men ' s Gym for an unusual form of physical education. Bob Sibley ' 03 snips the tape that starts the parade of tions after personally greeting many of the alums who came back for a few days of collegiate life.