Keuka College - Kiondaga Yearbook (Keuka Park, NY)

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may A kaleidoscope of white dresses, caps and gowns, senior hoops, dripping damsels dunked off Neamo, and most of all, our radiant Mav Day Queen, will forever enliven our memories of May Day, 1954. Parents, alumnae and friends crowded the campus to share our most significant Keuka tradition, the festivities which symbolize and sum up the academic and social achievements of the college year. Commencing the day’s program were the moving-up day exercises in the auditorium where seniors relinquished their places to incoming juniors and the other classes took a step forward. The crowning of the A.A. queen concluded the morning’s events. In the afternoon, as the freshmen and sopho¬ mores processed Down this Aisle of Elm Trees,” we, with our parents and our friends, anxiously awaited the arrival of the May Day Queen. Proud¬ ly we watched as the sophomore social chairman placed the regal crown of pearls upon our Queen —the senior whom we felt best represented the ideal Keuka girl. Through her personality, her leadership, her fellowship, and her scholarship, she had shown us the true Keuka spirit. This was her day, and hers was the highest honor a Keuka girl could receive. That night, we paid a fitting tribute to our mothers at the Mother - Daughter banquet, con¬ signing our Dads to the ministrations of the fac¬ ulty men. With a note of sadness, this day ended with the senior step-sing. First row, Left to right: Susan Madden, Andrea Stutz. Second row, Left to right : Joan Duerr, Rosemary Farnum, Nancy Weninger, Queen; Marilyn Porter, Anne Sweet. Third row, Left to right: Marie Nevins, Jean Howard.