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Sharing events with the men of Tech has been a time-honored custom. These girls are all dressed up to help Tech celebrate the McCormick Festival. The traditional lore of any college is a precious clement in the shaping of its reputation, its respect for the past, and for the principles upon which its founders and its directors, in every capacity, established it. Radford has an especially colorful traditional heritage. Two names which every Radford alumnae will immediately recognize are those of Pocahontas and of Mary Draper Ingles. The Ingles-Pokie Literary Society debates were the great campus event for years. A less familiar tradition is that of the “Hollyhock Trail.” From seeds gathered from the hollyhocks planted in front of the stone wall of the older part of campus, a trail of hollyhocks was to be planted from each girl’s home to her academic home. A yearly spring event commemorated this tradition and the seeds of the hollyhocks were prized acquisitions. The Avcnt Tennis Club, the first athletic organization on the campus, began a tradition of respect for the place which athletics should occupy in our lives. Such traditions as the Senior Breakfast Sneak Day, the Capping Service, and Move-up Day were celebrated in various ways throughout the history of the college and testify to the spirit and hopes which we and our alumnae want to preserve as the Radford tradition. 20
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The legendary magnitude of the Mary Draper Ingles story, because she was a native of the Radford scene, and the traditional Virginia respect for the Pocahontas story have given our college two women to whom we can look for the principle of courage and duty which is basic to our way of life. In previous years, there was an Ingles play, which had been written by our own people and which was acted every year at the authentic log cabin, a part of our campus that succumbed to progress. In this symbolic picture of Mary Draper Ingles and Pocahontas, the costumes for the play arc shown as well as the trophy which was annually awarded to the winner in the literary societies’ debate. In the Pokic-Ingles party of today the traditional custom of naming each entering class, alternately, either Pokies or Ingles is borne out in the costumes of the class. Tins years Senior Class members arc Pokies. On Campus Clean-up Day everyone joined in the fun and hard work of campus beautification. A kerchief around your hair, a rake in your hand, a spirit of co-operation in your heart, a wagon, and a horse made you a part of the tradition. 21
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