Stevens Institute of Technology - Link Yearbook (Hoboken, NJ)

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l I k Alumni Day Saturday, June 10, 1926 FTER a week of dismal skies, cold, damp, and generally unfair weather, the Eighteenth Annual Alumni Day dawned beautifully on Saturday, June 10, . 1926. Busied with a program ofevents that began at earlynoon and extended into the late evening, the Sons of Stevens and their friends lived another one of those memorable days-days on which the ties of old college friendships are renewed and strengthened once again. Twelve o'clock noon, found the Alumni and their guests gathered at the Lacka- wanna Dining Room, partaking of a delicious luncheon and providing themselves with sustenance for the strenuous day that was to follow. After luncheon the crowd repaired to the College Auditorium where the Annual Meeting of the Alumni Asso- ciation was held at 1 P. M. The graduating class was elected to membership in the organization and officers were elected for the new year. The President-elect was Mr. H. T. Gerdes, '02, succeeding Mr. Richard A. Wolff, '14. The usual business having been disposed of, the classes prepared themselves for the Big Parade. The halls of the old class rooms resounded with such remarks as Hey, Bob, where's our dressing rooms?,' and Who's got the hats and sashes? and N. 'Where in --- is that Hag P Soon the strains of martial music were heard over the hilltop, and then with Cap Hart, the Grand Marshal, in the lead the procession approached through the 1 will FV' . - A a--- -,X 71111137-0716 WSW X ir, ,, ll .X N.: 1 .Ngkl

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FE OF T !X7,L-...... ,.--,, 'jS?,., L X 7 'Umfaf' Alumni Association of Stevens Institute of Technology 1 OFFICERS HENRY T. GERDES, '02 . . . . . . . President ROGER C. ALDRICH, '99 . . F im Vice-President WILLIAM T. BOUCHER, '96 Second Vice-Prexident Louis A. MARTIN, JR., '00 . . Treaxurer GUSTAVE G. FREYOANO, '09 . . Secretary DIRECTORS 1925-1927 1926-1928 HERBERT T. SCOTT, '18 STEWART J. BELL, '11 AUGUSTUS W. VENNEMA, '09 KENNETH K. LYDECRER, '05 ARNETTE R. LAWRENCE, '11 PETER J. NESTLER, '10 CLARK Y. MCGOWN, '16 THOMAS W. KIRKMAN, '08 REPRESENTATIVES ON THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES JAMES E. SAGUE, '83 JOHN H. PEPER, '09 RICHARD A. WOLFF, '14 TRUSTEES OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION RICHARD A. WOLFF, '14 HERBERT W. SCOTT, '18 JOHN H. PEPER, '09 ROGER C. ALDRICH, '99 , GUSTAVE G. FREYGANG, '09 V 1 . ,,ITfsaA.1Q-- T53 lk V I - Thirty ,LJ HA H1

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North Gate. By this time Dr. Humphreys, President Wolff, and the Old Guard had taken their places in the reserved section of the grandstand, where with the rest of the spectators they viewed with pleasure and laughter the colorful costumes and clownish make-ups of the various classes. After passing the grandstand the parade continued around the track once again, and then in order of seniority the classes performed their different stunts which were both numerous and humorous. The Class of 1891 led off by appearing before the crowd in a huge sightseeing bus that was fitted out like a dining car, only better. A large sign informed the people that it was lV1orello's Famous Dining Bus, serving the Class of 1891 with its 35th Anniversary Dinner. It was further announced that at one time the Class of 1891 had stolen the Class of 1890's dinner, and the Class of 1890 was invited to partake of 1891's dinner to replace the one they had lost. Next in line were the Classes of 1901 and 1906, both garbed in attractive red-and-gray costumes. Then came 1909, the class which has won so many of the Alumni Day prizes in the past that they decided to take it easy and in this way give the other classes a chance. They rode past the grandstand without costumes or display, their care-free appearance signi- fying their spirit. Shulfling along to the tune of a funeral dirge, the boys of 1911 appeared on the field dressed in solemn funereal attire and carrying the bier ofa famous sport recently deceased-football. Prexy approached the casket and with a huge hypodermic syringe injected some Stevens Pep into the corpse. Instantly the dead man arose and began to play with the pigskin in the good old-fashioned way. When 1921 came into the picture they re-enacted the Polar Expedition of 1926 in great style. Captain Cook, Admiral Peary, and Commander Byrd each visited the Pole in his own way, and then the Norge came into view. The miniature airship Hew to the North Pole and one ofits crew descended in a parachute, planted the class numerals on the cake of ice, which only a few minutes before the famous Red Grange had especially delivered, and then returned into the cabin of the ship and flew away. The Class of 1922 set out to prove to the public that this here new-fangled thing of taking pictures in Dill-Pickle Circus, London, and looking at them in the drug- store window on Main Street, Gopher Prairie, on the day before they were taken was Ninety-Jix': Thirtieth Reunion . l K-.. wg 34 .4l2lX l , vi 1 u -1 X, M... 1., ,X 1 Th irty-two .-4111 K i 1 .. .... ., , 4, f '1:'.1igf. 1 .. ,wjf'fit.4'..Y --..-- I I 1