Illinois State Normal University - Index Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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of the older Home-Comers availed themselves of this opportunity to learn of the community 's recent improvement and growth. At 1:30 on Saturday afternoon every body gathered for the Big Parade. The Faculty, the Student Body, the Home-tf'omers, VVa Hoo fthe Fell Hall Dogb in gay apparel, the Sympathy Septette, the Normal Community and University High School Students, and the Soldiers' Orphans' Home Band all marched in dignified or undignified order from the south steps of the Main Building to the Athletic 'Field to see I. S. N. U. win a football game from t'harleston Teachers' College-our Eastern Illinois Normal. The score was 43-3 in favor of I. S. N. U., but the score made little difference. The big thing was the enthusiastic happi- ness of the crowd. Several new Cheer Songs were initiated during the after- noon, chief among them being Cheer For Our Team written by Mabel Eden Martin. '22 This song received the prize as the best cheer song submitted in a song contest. Other musical attempts were Vila Hoo, Bah! Rah! for Normal, and HBoom, Boom, de-ay. These songs and the old and new school yells kept the excitement of the crowd at high pitch and demonstrated to the Home-Comers I. S. N. U. is loyalty. At 7 o'clock Sa.turday evening Philadelphian and VVrightonian Halls were the scenes of old time enthusiasm. The special programs which had been care- fully prepared were much enjoyed and the speeches of the Home--t'omer mem- bers of both societies added greatly to the success of the meetings. One feature of the Philadelphian meeting was the celebration attached to the consumption of the famous fruit cake which had been buried in the south end of the Campus for four years, but had been unearthed that morning with great formality. By 8 P. M. two more parties were well under way, one at Fell Hall where a reception preceded at dance, the other at the gymnasium where dancing was the chief attraction. Before the evening was over many had attended both parties. Next year will probably see another Home-tf'oming at I. S. N. U. It may be larger than this one in point of numbers, but most first experiences are best remembered, so this First Home-Coming will always remain a bright spot in the life of the Qld School and in the hearts of those who participated in its many phases. 19

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Ghz iiaumezfliuming g Landmarks, Milestones, Red Letter Days-call them what you will--are the never-to-be-forgotten times and experiences in the lives of institutions as of individuals. Such a time and such an experience was 1. S. N. U. 's First Home-Coming, which was celebrated on the fourth a11d fifth of November of this school year. The starting time was General Exercise Period on Friday, November lth, when the early arrivals were introduced to the Home-lf'oming song. Normal, Nile Remember, written by Bradford Stewart, '18, and set to music by Prof. 'Westhoff for the occasiong it was all over by midnight of Satur- day. November 5th,-less than forty hours, all told, not allowing for sleep or study of which there was little or none-but how much excitement, joy, and real happiness were crowded into those few hours only those who were a part of it can know. Groups of the Varsity Club members and some of the men of the faculty, assisted by our far-famed and invaluable musical organization, the Sympathy Septette. met the trains and escorted the visitors to the Home-Comers' Regis- tration Desk in the Main Office Where they were presented with a souvenir book- let, a badge, and a, bunch of wahoo berries, and given requested information about various topics of interest. By Saturday noon nearly seven hundred former students and graduates had registered. Those from farthest away came from San Mateo, Florida. and Bremerton, Vklashington, but the majority were nat- urally from nearby towns although all parts of the State were well represented. Many who could not attend wrote letters of sincere regret to President Felmley. One of these letters came from far-off India. Vwlhen the curtain rose on the Jester Play at 8:15 on Friday evening the Auditorium was tilled to capacity with Home-Comers and their friends, for every one was a friend of the Home-'C'omers. It was this friendly spirit which added to every thing unusual pleasure. The Auld Lang Syne Party after the Play was composed of a gay crowd busily engaged in recalling good times of former years. It was at this party that everybody found everybody and ex- pressed surprise and joy in the discovery. Saturday began with breakfast, as most days do, but this breakfast was different because it was cooked and served by the Domestic Science Girls for the Home-Comers and their hosts. It consisted of waffles, coffee, bacon, eggs, et ceterag it lasted four hours for the Domestic Science Girls, but the Home-Com- ers came. feasted, and hastened elsewhere, because-Miss Milner was greeting her many friends in the Library, the Nature Study C'lub was meeting, Class Reunions were going on all over the Main Building, and the VVomen's Athletic Association had set 12 o'clock the hour when seventy-five of its present and past members should eat luncheon together in Bloomington. Both time and appetite had to be reserved and conserved for these other activities or each Home-Comer might have eaten breakfast all morning, and that would not have been fair because the Kindergarten 'Club was serving lunch on the Campus and all were welcome. Besides the already mentioned affairs, the business men of Normal had a large procession of automobiles waiting at 10 o'clock and many 18

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