University of Houston - Houstonian Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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UH s first alumni band made Its inaugural appearance at iho Homocoming game. Avid Cougars choor the toam as si« more points flosh across the scoring board. Cougars Beat Tulsa 35-31 Homecoming Week, the biggest and busiest week of the fall semester, was climaxed by a 35-31 win over Tulsa. Weary Cougars at last relaxed after the beauty of the bonfire, the excitement of the dance , the exhaustion of float-building—but already planning a bigger and more exciting Homecoming next year. Tumbling Cougor Stove Benson shows his teeth to cheerleodcr Toffy Lemping. Penny Dur.hom and her escort. I962's outstanding alumni Walter Rainey, beam as they oro presented at the halftimo corcmonios of the UH-Tulso game. 29

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Homecoming was officially kicked off with the APO bonfire on Thursday, November 8. H-shaped and 40-feet high, the bonfire was constructed in the Fiesta lot. Student volunteers went without sleep to complete the stable framework on the bonfire, and .coeds lent a hand by bringing coffee and moral support. Volunteers from APO then guarded the bonfire until the evening of the pep rally. Finally the torches were thrown and smoke and flames reached high in the air as Cougar cheers died down to pensive watchfulness. Newman Club bonfiro dance was just as hot as the bonfire. 31