Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 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

-I0ree weeks from rlQay the Schulz
| lating social event of the college year,
the annual junior promenade Of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, will have become a
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 iD 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
verSty, 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
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 Il. Doe, is chairman of the ad-
vertising committee and is also a member
of the committee on finance. Doe is a
member of the Phi Gamma Delta fra
ternlty. Karl Mann, another Milwau-
kee boy, a member of the Kappa Sigma
fraternity, is working with Doe on the
advertising committee. Addison M.
BIeyer is q 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 on
the reception committee, and with the
other members of that committee it will
be his duty to see that the prom goes off
III 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
attend. Considerable publicity has been
given the event i'll the college publica-
tons which reach the alumni of the uni
yersity in the hope that the alumni might
ind 1t convenient to return to their alma
mater at time when the social season is
at It's height. Responses from the alum
III have been numerous, many of the fra
ternities reporting that the majority of
the members of their box parties will be
former students. \ movement is now on
foot to hold a sort of an informal alumni
gathering some time during the festiv-
tiles, but whether the plans for the meet
ing materialize or not, the old Grads will
have an opportunity to see one another
for a 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 d cheap basis and allowed the com
mittee to charsL a So 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
for the dance and it was not until this
week that the contracts We're let. Gin
bel Brothers of Milwaukee secured the
contract for decorating the armory.
Decorations to Be Elaborate.
Cka1les 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
Orders Of the university armory and the
forbidding brick walls will be hung with
white bunting surmounted by strings of
smilax. The lighting this year will be
more elaborate than in years gone by
Fifty clusters Of lights, eacn cluster to
contain twenty lamps, will serve to
brighten the otherwise dingy appearance
six in number, will be ranged as usual
along the sides and ends of the gym
nasium. These boxes V-ill be decorated
in the same manner as the walls and
ceiling of the hall. An innovation this
year will be swinging doors on all boxes
Heretofore the boxes have opened di-
rectly 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 oace more throw