Purdue debris . am was the peppiest offering of its kind ever put onin the history of the Alumni Association. Starting with a smoker on Saturday evening, June 4th, the crowdliterally waked the old town up during their stay in LaFayette,and thanks to the weather man and the combined efforts of the variouscommittees, everything went off in ship-shape style. Preliminary an-nouncements carried glowing accounts of a series of surprises whichwere to be staged on Saturday evening, and those in attendance werenot disappointed, for during the course of the smoker, in honor of themen, it was stated that
Purdue debris . am was the peppiest offering of its kind ever put onin the history of the Alumni Association. Starting with a smoker on Saturday evening, June 4th, the crowdliterally waked the old town up during their stay in LaFayette,and thanks to the weather man and the combined efforts of the variouscommittees, everything went off in ship-shape style. Preliminary an-nouncements carried glowing accounts of a series of surprises whichwere to be staged on Saturday evening, and those in attendance werenot disappointed, for during the course of the smoker, in honor of themen, it was stated that the affair would be given over to a celebrationof Dean Coulters sixty-eighth birthday. Not only was the Deanpresented with a gold watch, the gift of admiring alumni, but a mam-moth birthday cake, some two feet in diameter was also this was transpiring, the ladies had a surprise all their ownwhich included the presenting of a gold wrist watch to Dean CarolynShoemaker, a gift from the Purdue TEXTKI) CIRCUS Sunday brought the usual motor rides, sightseeing tours, and otheramusements of a similar nature. With the coming of Monday. June6th, the real headliners of the Gala Week program were introducedin such rapid succession that it fairly made ones head swim. In theafternoon came a musicale for the ladies in Fowler Hall, and a ballgame, between Purdue and Indiana, on Stuart Field. The secondannual Senior-Alumni banquet, in Memorial Gymnasium, took placeat 5:30 p. m., and this was followed by an open air concert by thePurdue band in front of Fowler Hall. Tuesday morning brought the annual meeting of the Alumni Asso-ciation, which was followed by the campus luncheon. Then came theannual alumni parade, and later the greatest carnival and program offrivolous games and pastimes ever attemped at Purdue. There followed a meeting in Fowler Hall, held in the form of anentertainment, the program being furnished by undergraduates. Theawarding of prizes and a fin
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