Black Earth High School - Earthman Yearbook (Black Earth, WI)

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PICTURES OF THE HOMECOMING PARADE INIT IAT ION

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HOMECOMING hOur Homecoming was a three day celebration. Thursday evening the crowning of our Queen and King, Gerry Knowles and Gene Barman was held. A large crowd attended. This was followed by a bonfire and snake dance. Friday afternoon was the parade, put on by the Black Earth Grades, High School, and outside interested citizens. After the parade the game between Black Earth and DeForest was played. Black Earth was defeated, but the boys played a good game, the score being 36 to 24. Saturday evening was the Homecoming Ball, sponsored by the Seniors. The gym was decorated in blue and white. Music was furnished by Fern Lamonte. A large crowd attended. FRESHMAN INIT IAT ION One of the first events of the school year was the freshman initiation, sponsored by the sophomore class. The boys came to school decked out in little girl's apparel wearing short dresses, stockings, hair ribbons, make up. carrying dolls under their arms and eating lollypops. The girls were rigged up like working men, wearing overalls, shirts and neckties backwards, rqen's shoes and smoking pipes of in- cense. ' The'initiates were expected to bow to all sophomores when they met as well ascrawl on all fours in and out of the assembly. The climax of the occasipn wash party in the evening, where each of the freshmen performed a special duty for the entertainment of the upper classmen.