University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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THE I. S. U. MEET CHRISTMAS vacation over, the campus sinks under the evil spell of the mid-year examination period, from which it emerges, somewhat tered but still kicking, with its eye on only one bat- thing, the thrilling diversion of the Kake Walk Week-end. During January and February, while the rest of the campus is engrossed in exams, and the progress of the basketball team, Kake Walk KING DAVID AND QUEEN JEANNE WALKING FO' DE KAKE

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TEA DANCE AT THE SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON HOUSE snow turns the out-of-doors into a winter won- derland as a complement to the gay interiors and all work together to make the final parties the greatest of successes. As the student body makes its preparations to return home for the Christmas holidays they look back on a fall season which has found varied activities keeping all the campus busy. The football team finished its season successfully, the cross-country squad had a perfect year, the basketball season got underway, fraternity rush- ing came and went-all rounded out a fine fall season. So, as the loaded trains and cars pull out through the snowy countryside, bearing the Vermonters to their far flung homes for the vaca- tion, memories and anticipation mingle in mak- ing the trip one of the gayest events of the year. FREDDY WEBSTER BRINGS HOME THE BACON -,, . ., ,Mi - , .,... vt

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Kan W M Directors John Royer, Bob Kenney, and Bill Pye, have been diligently working at getting the details of the big event organized and the various points of the program in order. Also busy has been the Outing Club under the efficient leader- ship of Dot Smith, which besides sending out its ski teams to the leading meets of the New England area, has also taken on the job of playing host to the Inter- national Ski Union's annual meet on the Kake Walk week-end. First real sign of Kake Walk to appear on the campus in general is the com- mencement of the spirited campaign for King and Queen which rages for two weeks, to the accompaniment of posters, promises, and propaganda of all sorts and reaches its climax on the Thursday before Kake W'aIk with the election. Friday night the week-end really begins to open up with the Masquerade Ball. A new high in color and hilarity is reached as the dance, to the strains of Johnny Messner and his Orchestra, and under the able chairmanship of Eddie Guilbert reaches its peak with the crowning of the most charming and handsome Queen and King yet, Jeanne Woolley and Dave Sawyer, to reign over the season's biggest event. . I THE KAPPA SIGS, WINNING STUNT PHI DELT S RUNNERS UP