Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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Hey, Lothamer! This really isn ' t a minuet, you know. Happiness is being Autumn Empress and her escort, for Janet Thiel and Don Marxen.

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FALL BALL Autumn Nocturne” + 1920 4 the street where you live” = 1965 Fall Ball. Saturday, November 6, the Loras Fieldhouse was bewitched into a 1920’s street scene for Autumn Nocturne”, the annual Student Senate Fall Ball. Music for the dance was supplied by the Merry Notes from St. Marys College in Winona, Minnesota. Reigning as Autumn Empress” for the evening was Janet Thiel, a Clarke junior from Minneapolis, Minnesota who was escorted by Loras senior. Don Marxen. This year a new procedure was adopted loi selecting the Autumn Empress . As each Eoiasman and his date entered the dance they wen given ballots with the names of the candidates. Dining the dance the candidates were presented to the assembled group, after which the ballots were marked and tabulated. After the vote ' s were counted tlu Em¬ press” was presented with the traditional crown and roses. To add to the week-end’s festivities, the Senior class scheduled a Senior (’lass hayride the night before the ball. 22

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Nobody laughed when he sat dov n to play. Mike Reidy gave the audience a fine piano redition of One For My Baby , Peter Brown takes center stage of Life ' s a Ball for his interpretation of It Was a Very Good Year . Even emcees have hidden talents as shown by Mike Blake and Jim Davis who join together to give the Sneak Preview audience a bit of mugging during their running commentary on changes at Loras. A P O “Life’s a ball!” At least according to the theme of this year’s Sneak Preview. The cast, made up of people from Loras, Clarke and Mercy set the tone for the evening with the opening song A Lot of Livin’ To Do”. The show centered around two returning Loias- men and some of the experiences they had and some of the people they met during summer vacation. The show began with comments on some of the change s at Loras, an opportunity which emcees Mike Blake and Jim Davis exploited to its fullest extent. The mood of the show changed from the light to the serious and hack throughout tlu evening, hol¬ lowing Blake and Davis, brothers Cliff and Mike Schroeder sang a ballad “ The Alpine Tunnel. Clill Harder set the audience chuckling with his Canta¬ loupe Song.” The atmosphere switched to the blues as Mike Reidy tickled the ivories with his rendition o( One For My Baby”. Kay and the Burgu ndies, featming Kay Zobac from Clarke performed one of the e e- ning’s real crowd pleasers “The Girl From Ipanema . Pete Brown and his guitar formed a perfect team loi Rake and Hamblin Boy and ‘ It Was A ei Good Year”. The first hall ol the show closed with a