Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
!. P. ALUMNI FROuC
ON FRANKLIN FIELD
Men OF 1869 Class, Oldest
Graduates, Appear-Big
Parade Held
DIVISION OF THE CASUALS

This is "Alumni Day" at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
Officers of the General Alumni So
ciety- said they had the largest attend
ance on record at the parade on Frank
lin Field this afternoon. More than
thirty classes held reunions.
The Oldest class in the line of parade
from the big quad to Franklin Field,
where the Pennsylvania baseball team
played Cornell, was that of 1869 col :
lege. This veteran class celebrated its
fiftieth reunion since it's graduation.
The secretary and chief marshal was
the Rev. j. ]. Bawn. The other classes
ranged all the way down to the present
senior class of nearly 800 members.
All kinds Of stunts were prepared by
the returning classes. The costumes
were picturesque and colorful.
For the first time since these parades
became part of the commencement
week activities plans were made for a
division of casuals. Into this division
were grouped all alumni whose classes
were not formally participating. Big
Bill' Hollenback. football player and
captain of the 1908 eleven, was marshal
for the "casuals.'
The alumni features began last night
when the old graduates began to re-
turn for their big reunions. Most of
the fve-year classes have scheduled
two day programs, going out to the
nearby country clubs for an outing and
dinner, then returning to the city for
luncheon at the fraternity houses to-
day, going thence to the baseball game
by means of the parade and ending
their jollitication with another> dinner
tonight. The parade started at 2:30
o'clock from the dormitories and pro-
ceeded to Franklin Field.
The reunion of the class of 1917 will
be virtually reunion of Base Hospital
No. 20. Many members of that class
as we'll as graduates in the class OF is
enlisted in the base hospital. =
Among those who will march with
the class of II will be ''Heinie" Miller.
who was captain of the football team /;
Lieutenant John NJ. Clarke, who served
overseas with the engineers and was
first honor man and president of the
class of II, and Henry Hagert, who
headed the gym" team
Marshals for the class units in the
parade follow:
80 college, the Rev. John J. Bawn ;
'76 college, j. j. Moore; 10 college,
Thomas Reath; 'S3 college, II. G.
Thompson, Jr.; 'S5 college, Paul
Thompson; 's6 college, J. B. Israel ;
'S7 college, T. l.. Latta; 80 college,
W. I. Forbes; '92 college, w. Wagner
'94 college, f. Mccain; '94 medical,
DR.. Irving Hollingshead; '95 college,
o. Hokanson; '97 college, Horace NJ.
'Lippincott, secretary OF the alumni as
sociation; '9S college, Percy Reming
ton 90 college, Thomas b. Donald
son 30 law, J. G. Hinckley 90 medi
cal, DIR. Samuel II. Brown; 30 dental
DR.. Fred. w. Allen; 'O1 college, Liv-
ingston Smith; 'O4 college, Robert
Burns; '04 medical, DIR. .P. s. Stout
'O6 college, It. e. Rodman; 90 college,
j. r. NJ. Klotz; IL college, o. G.
Wood; IA college, w. l.. Saunders; rs
college, ]. B. Shober and 10, college,
Samuel R. Harrell.
Nine classes whose year ends with
80" will have a luncheon in the Law
School, Thirty fourth and Walnut
streets, before the parade.
Henry G. Thompson, of the class of
1888, is chairman of the Alumni Day
program. Major M. ]. Pickering, 'O2
c., graduate manager of athletics, was
the marshal.