Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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WERS. LO F OWHNG GR AS CHILDREN . l EN GART ER WND

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HOURS OF DANCE

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NORMAL OFFERING 23 Uhr Svtnrg nf the Pageant. UR dearly loved Miss Brown asked the writer, in Cctober, 1914, to serve on the Pageant committee for the Seventy-fifth. Varying opinions of the dramatic material in the history of the School were expressed by the committee. Then came Miss Brown's sad illnessg there was talk of giving up the Pageant. On the eve of the spring vacation, Mr. Boyden reorganized the committee, and it was necessary to put the historic material into text at once, and submit it to some one of experience. That vacation held no leisure and little rest for the new chairman, and its pace was prophetic of that attained later by the committee, and gradually by faculty and students. For, when the scenario was read to and accepted by the committee and the direc- tor, Miss Clark, it was but ten weeks to the date of performance. How well the machinery worked, once it was set in motion, how freely all responded, giving time and strength, is well known, and makes the achievement one worthy the traditions of the School. Miss Clark's only change in the scenario was the addition of the Dance of the Hours to strengthen the time-motive. It was decided to transform the ice-house into the time-dial needed, and to center the action about the south of Campus Pond, with the pond, the dial, and the trees as background. 'In quick succession followed choice of leaders, of danc- ers, of color-scheme, work on properties and costumes, rehearsals, and more rehearsals! It would be a pleasure to give credit to each and allg to note how many willing hands made the handsome banners and shields, the grassy dais, and all the numberless propertiesg how cleverly patterns for cos- tumes were evolved from pictures and suggestions, how many yards of cloth were measured, and how many thousands of loyal stitches taken. The achievement of Miss Burnell and her aids in borrowing, distributing, and returning intact scores of old fashioned costumes is worth a chronicler. How admirable was the music of the Glee Club, and the Orchestra, and what a credit the smooth finished performance of the Pageanters was to Miss Moflitt's dramatic training! So we might go on and fill a volume, if the full tale of loyal service were told. It must suffice to say that it proved a line school spirit. When June 19 dawned fog-laden, although we were ready for the rain which happily did not