University of British Columbia - Totem Yearbook (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)

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i'Dances held in Brock Hall every Saturday night were staged by ca mpus organizations to increase coffers. Dance above was Pan-Hellenic Alumni Association which turned proceeds over to the Women s Dorms. aiurclag ight sbancea from opu ar As sure as there are exams every year, there will be a dance in Brock Hall every Saturday night. Students trudge to the campus for the dances which have become traditional with U.B.C. Dances varied from hard time to square dances. They were sponsored by campus clubs to increase their deficient budgets. This seemed to work for every- one except the Arts Undergraduate Society who lost money on the two dances they staged. The first one they sponsored Treasurer Iohn MacKinnon had to get Fort Campers and Dorm Residents to come to Brock Hall so that there would be more than four couples there. Their Paddy Day dance was a comparative suc- cess with over ZOO couples there. Even at that they lost money. i'Swing your partner was a familiar ring to Brock Hall. Here couples danced until their feet dropped, to square dance records piped from Rad Soc offices. 52 i'Film Society enioyed one of the best dances of the year. During dance movie proiectionist added a touch of reality to the evening by playing movies on north wall of the lounge. During the fall term, football dances were held, but after Christmas they changed to basketball dances. Dances were not open to every student as Clubs often sponsored Saturday night does for their own members. But the majority of time students had to pay admis- sion prices to gain access to Brock Hall. Club which sponsored the most 1 dances was the Dance Club. Aim ' on campus was to have every- one dancing. Next to them came the Radio Society with music piped from the South Basement. Rad socers had little trouble making a finan- r K Q cial success. '4-

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Jn iermiuion ikemembered . . . the audience that got in the way of the short girls' chorus . . . the person that upset a patron's dinner by step- ping across the head table . . . the traffic ticket Cook received for parking in a lane while pick- ing up decoration materials . . . the five free haircuts that long- haired co-chairman Graham won in the raffle draw . . . the reception of flying sandwiches, ice cubes and sugar cubes and the collapsing teepee that greet- ed table decoration iudges Jo Jean and Mrs. Chant in one fraternity corner . . . the appar- ent satisfaction Johnny of the Commodore got out of wearing a feather in his hair all night . . . the entertainers who forgot their passes and almost didn't get in the door . . . the clown that knocked over band leader Ole Olsen in the process of making the grand gesture . . . the person that iumped on the chair to make an impromptu speech and sailed right through the wicker bottom. Not remembered . . . who drank the liquor left over from the patrons' cocktail party . . . who dropped Di Cox on the floor . . . what took up all the time at committee meetings. upset election at the pepmeet of the preceding Tuesday. The gala pepmeet was featured by the free- for-all that broke up the presenta- tion of the king candidates, the parade of queen floats, Al McMillan and some members of his band and, something new in the way of pep- meet entertainment, Chief of the Capilano Tribe, Ioe Mathias. The decorations chairmen, Marg Braim and Phil Cook, claimed to have the only inebriated totem poles in captivity, and placed them in a prominent position above the or- chestra that they might set the tone of gaiety for the whirling couples on the dance floor below. The rest of the decorations were for the most part authentic, UBC's Totem Park and anthropological museum having supplied the models on which they were based. The two girls' choruses made up in spirit and skill what they lacked in authenticity, and, if they didn't look exactly Mic the Indian maidens and totem poles they were sup- posed to represent, they looked good enough to the male members of the audience, judging from the leers on said faces. Credit for their success must go to Di Cox. Nflbsa

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grofic or flue armera- armereifeat For weeks ahead stickers were pasted all over the campus advertising the Farmers' Frolic on lanuary 26. Theme of the barn dance, which was held in the armouries, was 'Aggie Khan'. lust what 'Aggie Khan' meant was kept top secret until the night of the dance. As patrons entered the barn dance they were greeted by Aggie Khan and students beseecher Totem photographer Bob Steiner to have their picture taken contemplating world problems in it. Aggies added a touch of history when they Wheeled the first 'stone boat' the university owned into the centre of the dance floor. Wagon was used to haul stones away from the site of the first buildings built on the campus, includ- ing Science building. Dean Eagles claimed that some day it would be an antique, but over half of the students at the dance had never seen a Stone Boat' before. Large part of the evening was spent trying to get the balloons that had been suspended from the roof of the armouries in a net. Finally after making human ladders in an attempt to get them dovvn, an Aggie executive member got the stand that they had used to put them up with. YA hoe and an old wash tub went a long way to make farmers' frolic a success. Pride of the evening was Aggie Khan. Every- one including winner of the-costume prize spent a few minutes visiting. Intermission had an added sparkle when patrons tried to get balloons down from ceiling. Below couple dressed in hard-time clothes cuddle.