Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-04
MADISON AWAITS
JUNIOR "PROM"
WISCONSIN UNIVERSITIES SOCIAL
EVENT OF YEAR WILL BE HELD
ON FEBRUARY IS.
REFORM" BASIS is DROPPED.
Students Are Given Free Rein This Year
and Old Charge Will Be Made
for Tickets.
The PATRONS AND PATRoNESSES.


| Three weeks from Friday the scintil-
ating social event of the college year,
the annual Junior promenade Of the Uni
| Fersity of Wisconsin, will have become
matter of tradition and history, and the
great class of 1911 (members of that
class always like to have the adjective
great" prefxed in describing it, will
| have set a mark in the social progress
Of the university for future college ju-
niors to attain to. At the outset of the
college years members of the present
| junior class announced that they in
| tended to give a hop that would outstrip
any given in years gone by, and the ar
Engagements made up to date by the prom
committee would indicate that the class
| of 1911 is about to make good on the
promise of producing the biggest,
grandest and most democratic prom that
the University of Wisconsin is ca
| pable of.
Expect Many Visitors.
| While the junior prom is primarily
| university event and is of main interest
only to those connected with the uni
versity, there are hosts of outsiders who
| look with friendliness upon this annual
social event. Especially is this true Of
Milwaukeeans, for there are always a
| number of Milwaukee young men, sons
| of the Cream City's citizens, who are
members of the prom committee. This
| year is no exception to the general rule
and much of the success of the under
| taking will be due to the untiring eff
| forts of the Milwaukee members of the
committee. Arthur B. Doe, son of Gen
Joseph B. Doe, is chairman of the ad-
vertisng committee and is also member
OF the committee on finance. Doe IS
member of the Phi Gamma Delta fra
| ternity. Karl Mann, another Milwau-
kee boy, a member of the Kappa Sigma
| fraternity, is working with Doe on the
| advertising committee. Addison M.
| Bleyer is a prominent member of the
| decorations committee, while G. Walter
Esau. also Milwaukee product, has had
much to do with arranging for the music
| for the big event. Clement A. Rossbach
of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity is OH
the reception committee, and with the
other members of that committee it will
be his duty to see that the prom goes off
in the proper manner. The reception
committee has little work to do previous
to the day of the prom, but upon its
members shoulders falls the burden of
the work when the rest of the prom com
mittee are enjoying themselves dancing.
Alumni Will Gather.
A special feature of this years prom
will be the number of alumni who will
attend. Considerable publicity has been
given the event III the college publica-
tions which reach the alumni of the uni
versity in the hope that the alumni might
find it convenient to return to their alma
mater at a time when the social season is
at its height. Responses from the alum
nj have been numerous, many of the fra
ternities reporting that the majority Of
the members of their box parties will be
former students. A movement is now on
foot tO hold q of a informal oil
gathering some time during the festiv-
tiles, but whether the plans for the meet
ing materla1lze or not, the old Grads will
have an opportunity to see one another
for short time at least.
The prom committee this year has had
no opposition from the faculty of the
university as previous prom committees
have had. After two years of unsuccess-
full prOms conducted on a reform basis,
the faculty at last conceded that it was
impossible TO conduct the junior hop
on {. cheap basis and allowed the COM
mittee to charGC 50 admission fee. The
additional 81 over what previous prom
chairmen have had will give the pres
ent chairman enough money to work
with so that there will be no deficit as
there has been in years past. The COM
mittee has been engaged up to this time
in considering bids for the work to be
done in getting the gymnasium in shape
Tor the dance anu II was not uuIIl IuIS
week that the contracts were let. Gin
bel Brothers of Milwaukee secured the
contract for decorating the armory.
Decorations to Be Elaborate.
CLalies E. Terry of Tomah is chair
man of the decorations committee. The
scheme of decoration worked out by that
committee viii be in green and white,
The class colo-s The massive iron
eirGers Of the university armory and the
forbidding brick walls will be hung with
white bunting surmounted by strings of
smillx The lighting this year will be
more elaborate than in years gone by.
Fifty clusters Of lights, eacn cluster 10
contain twenty lamps, will serve to
| brighten the otherwise dingy appearance
of The gymnasium. The boxes, twenty
six IN number, will be ranged as usual
along the sides and ends Of the gym
nasium. These boxes will be decorated
in the same manner as the walls and
ceiling of the hall. An innovation this
wear will be swinging doors on all boxes.
Heretofore the boxes have opened di-
ractlv onto the floor. Simple elegance is
the effect aimed at by the decoration
committee.
Probably the most important part of
the Junior promenade is the music and
this years committee has spared no
work or expense in getting the best to be
had. Johnny Hands Chicago orchestra,
the same which played at the Chicago
charity ball and many other social func
tons during the year, has been engaged
to furnish the dance and supper music.
No Junior prom would be complete I'M
less it was set off with the prominent
men and women of the state and OF the
university as patrons and patrOnesses.
The 1911 prom will be no exception to
those of former years, and upon the
dance programme. as sponsors for the
gala event of the college year. appear
the names of those beyond the realm of
student days who will once more throw