College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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Spring RUTH LAMBORN of Arlington, Virginia, was the campus choice to preside over Color Day festivities as May Queen. May queen election time is a period of vote-swapping, soliciting, and haranguing. The honor traditionally goes to a iunior. Ruth was chosen from a group of beauteous nominees which included Peg Bantord, Eleanor Rogers, Margaret Sherrard, and lean Ann Cotton. The May Queen selected Eleanor Rogers to be maid-of-honor. QUEEN'S ACTIVITIES President, French club Classical club Sunday Evening Forum Cabinet President, Trumps Freshman basketball Tennis Swimming Co-author, 1940 Color Day pug eant Y.W. advertising French plays Classical club play, 1941 af,

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it Lift A SECOND FRESHMAN MIXER was a highlight ol the late winter season. Yearlings who felt they were not properly acquainted with their class- mates did the organizing. Chief entertainment of the affair was dancing. Usual roles were ex- changed as girls did the cutting-in. Clear as Crystal, by Johnston Lewis, was the 1941 Gum Shoe Hop. It portrayed life in a small college where Scott Leonard sang his way to victory in a three-way vie for the hand of Tink Carter. Alex Drysdale was elected to represent Wooster at Ewing College in Allahabad, India. On February 27, Harry B. Flory, graduate of Wooster and London journalist, spoke inter- VHONSKY AND BABIN climaxed Wooster's Coop- erative Concert series. Although youthful. they have already won fame as duo-pianists par excellent. They have made tour transcontinental tours. Wooster students were especially interested to learn that the pair was married: they had sacrificed separate careers, but had found a greater one as a team. estingly at chapel on the British situation. That evening Fortnightly waxed dramatic, presenting Amelia Goes to the Ball, a comic opera which had a packed house laughing from start to finish. Frosh held a second freshman mixer, March 1, in which boys and girls changed roles as escorts. But frosh triumph was short-lived, initiation week, March 3-8, under a new short-week plan, ushered l0l freshman pledges into fraternity life. Duo-pianists Charm Music Lovers On March l, Vronsky and Babin, famed duo-pianists, were guests, appearing on the Federation of Music series. The next day, Dr. Frank Guy Armitage held students spell- bound with impersonations of Dickens' char- acters. Paul Gruber and Beth Boyer played leads in Berkeley Square, a costume play of the eighteenth century, which was presented March 13 to l5. The College formally recognized the advent of Spring with the declaration of spring vaca- tion, March 28 to April 8. Glee Club men toured Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan during the recess. SECTIONS VIE for mythical honors in dance dec- orations. By general acclarnation, Third Section's hunting lodge idea was the best. Douglass Hall's dance floor was converted into a mountain hunting lodge from which dancers could see snow- capped mountains projected in color on the dorm walls.

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Chief social event of Wooster's spring season Was the spring formal, April 18. A fast negro band from Hollywood, Cali- fornia, Les Hite, Was hired. The band made a big hit on the campus. The high-light of the evening came when they played a swing arrangement of The Love Song. Most dancers were pleasantly dumbfounded. The Chaucer banquet, May 15, found many English students under Professor Bradford dressed in costumes of old Eng- land. A yearly event, the Chaucer ban- quet is a time when modern conven- iences are discarded. Students dine unencumbered with cutlery or manners. Entertainment is of a medieval nature, and a court joker is in charge of the fun- making. King and Queen who reigned over last year's fete were Art Cowles and Beth Boyer. Lamborn Reigns Over Color Day The Color Day pageant is the most colorful event of the Wooster year. The festivity is traditionally reigned over by the beauty queen of the campus chosen from the junior class. This year, the student body selected Ruth Lamborn. THE MAY POLE DANCE on Color Day is a traditional sen- ior responsibility. Gaily costumed merry-makers trip about the festooned may pole to the enjoyment of some 5.000 spectators. About 250 students performed in the seven dances which made up last year's pageant, The Warp and Woof of Wooster. rW..,,: ,t ,+ 9 1 . . We fx A :Q . , JYW' . Q ' -,ffl CLIMAX OF THE CHAUCER BANQUET is the carving of the roast pig, the iob done in this picture by English student Dean Mordhorst. Presiding over the gala dinner is the bearded Chaucer, Prof. Bradford, who teaches the popular course. The old English banquet last year was visited by Life magazine photographers, who were amused. enlight- ened, but not sufficiently impressed to include Chaucer pictures in Life issues. Her maid-of-honor, who ran second in the balloting, was Eleanor Rogers. This year's spectacle was the Work of Alice Forman and Betty Dodds, who, aided by instructor Arthur Kaltenborn, also directed the performance. The pageant Was impressionistically oriental. ENTHRONED IN A FLOWER-COVERED BOWER the may queen watches the pageant. Last year, Ieanne Simmons was the queen. To the left of Ieanne is Lee Young, the retiring monarch. To the right are Barbara Caldwell, Ieanne's maid-of-honor, Eleanor Fleming, and Dottie Booher. Queenly pomp and ceremony lend dignity to the performance.