Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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•. The Zips won first prize for this outstanding float. FLOATS, BALLOONS, AND FUN Above all others, one event in the school year provokes the greatest display of student energy and loyalty — Home- coming. In ' 56 the Creighton student dressed as a clown and shivered gaily in the Homecoming circus parade through downtown. For half the week the administration yielded to Queen Ann Drahota, who reigned through the snake dance and the burning of the remains of the Commerce Cottage to the team ' s conquest of South Dakota and the Coronation Dance in the somewhat awkward setting of the Student Center. It was one of the most successful and spirited Home- comings of all. The student looked at the blue and white banners hanging from the Administration Building and at the over-sized paper elephant in the Center Patio and was glad Creisrhton was his. A student stands in awe before the mighty Kangaroo float, which won third prize in the float contest. 18

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Registration, as always, was long and exhausting — especially for the green freshmen. While the Nation elected President Eisenhower, Creighton ' : sophomore class elected President McEvoy. CONVOCATION, AND ELECTIONS Father Reinert greets some nuns at the o pen house ot ihe new Student Center. 17

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