Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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» pB fj : [ i 4 1 Hr i i jy.y ■iflEr - ■ S i f! ■ ISr ’ j commencement day, 1952 The long procession from Cody Commons to the Coliseum marked the beginning of the red’ letter day of days. Mother and Dad joined graduates at the annual Commencement Dinner after the degrees were finally conferred.

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KAYE VON SCHRILTZ, President student council STANDING: Ann Crumly, Dean Thompson, Harold Burnett, Steve Bohonicky. Jerry Starkey, Earl Merkel, Don Hunter, Don Jones, Kayo McGillivray, Lowell Hawks, SEATED: Dean E. R. McCartney, Mary Anne Willour, Evelyn Gardner, Harland Dietz, Gene Jaco, Cecil Merkel, Kave Von Schriltz. 27

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1932 Reunions of graduates of yesteryear were held at the Commencement din- ner. The groups were eyed with a bit of puzzlement by the brand new Class of 1952, which had a bit of difficulty envisioning itself twenty years hence. 1942 Has it really been ten years? ? ? The Class of 1942 held its first reunion at the Commencement dinner. 1952 graduates and their parents and friends jammed Cody Commons for the traditional Com- mencement dinner. To say that nobody minded the heat would be gross exaggeration, but it all seemed worth while, considering what was at stake.