Catholic University of America - Cardinal Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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The last minute touch-up for the big moment: Pat Happ, Homecoming Queen, prepares for her Coronation. Seated: Judith Lewis. I'tnpz'un candidate: Queen Patricia Happ, Phi Kappa. Standing: Patricia Pujda. Abbeyg Kathleen O'Brien, Senator: Bette Kilbrirle, .-llpha Delta Gammag Marlene Frank, Clipper: Barbara Conwy. Sigma Betu Kappa. Another highlight of the weekend was the Homecom- ing Float Parade which precetlecl Saturdays soccer game in the Ct' staflium. For the second successive year a sorority was awartlecl first place in the Competi- tion. The Columlnians' interpretation of the theme, 'lfnitetl for Expansion. was entitlecl Lf-tis Let the Campus Expancli'-a clefense of the fast-disappearing natural lweauty of the campus. Although Holneconiing We-ekelicl is one of the high points of the social season at Catholic tiniversity, it is hy no means the only one. Long lie-fore this affair. the social season has gotten into full swing. Witll tht- arrival on campus of the neophyte freshmen. social ac- tivity hegins at its feverish pitch tluring Orientation Week ancl continues throughout the first semester. tinixersity Brain Trust congregutes in the loliliy of the Sheraton Park Hotel: Monsignor William J. Mellonald, Mr. Morris V. Spicei of the Alumni Association. Archbishop Patrick A. 0'Boyle :intl Bishop Bryan .l. Nlclfntegart.

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The CU Redbird, unoflicial guest of honor, surveys the '57 Homecoming festivities. the University campus-wide as old and recent grads meet with friends once rnore. The year 1957 was no different from any other year in this respect. Many alumni revisited the University to partake in the weekend-long activities. The most lavish affair of the Weekend, the formal dance, held this year in the grand ballroom of the Sheraton-Park Hotel, provided the per- fect setting for the crowning of lovely Pat Happ as 1957 Homecoming Queen. The frenzied excitement of the weekend was maintained through the subsequent celebrations of the cocktail party, the Rector's luncheon and the soccer game. Saturdays banquet was a special event-the occasion when the University awarded its Cardinal Gibbons Medal to His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bryan I. lVlcEntegart, Rector of the University. for his outstanding service to the University. the Church and the nation. Clli... The Board of Governors takes advantage of a break in the weekend recreation to mull over some knotty University prob- lems, present and future. Old grads and undergrads gather to watch the University's pride and joy, the undefeated soccer team.

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