Ohio Wesleyan University - Le Bijou Yearbook (Delaware, OH)

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Thornton Wilder's Our Town scores o dramatic success at Willis High School Auditorium. Tex Beneke provides the music as queen-crowning ceremonies and golden decor transform Edwards Gym into a Regal Ballroom l

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Chi Omega, Gamma Phi Beta and Kappa Alpha Theta won the sorority float contest with Skunk the Scots. ,4 Q? Released from inconvenient Saturday classes, holiday-makers labored in the rain. Forced volun- teering-float-stuffing. Wee, small hours and hours were spent poking and pounding plastic-shrouded displays. There was plywood and paper and tape and crepe and chickenwire. Coffee was indispensable and ineffective dur- ing the early-morning drizzle. There was no dawn, iust the judging deadline and a dim promise of forty winks before the parade. Homecoming cli- maxed in a football victory over Wooster, the play Our Town, and dancing to Tex Beneke's band. Exhilarating, exhausting, enthusiastic. rf The OWU Marching Band sets the tempo for the cheering section. Grind the Scots brought Delta Tau Delta fraternity their seventh straight victory in the display competition.

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National politics in the blustery air-with heat- ed debates in the Mub, in the dorms, and in Chapel. Campaigns and opinions were vivacious or vehe- ment. Out of hiding came pre-election spirit - by conviction or by heritage - Democratic or Repub- lican. Some trekked to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad station, awaiting Nixon. Most spent a long vigil on voting night, awaiting the final out- come. Among the sleepless on Election night were Delaware County Commission- er R. K. McNamara, Dick Clark and Paul McGonigle, who spent late hours relaying voting results. District Representative Ken Creasy, class of '55, endorses the Republicans. D1 NIE A -l ' I . I