Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-10
AMES COLLEGE
BANQUET HELD
Nearly a Hundred Grad
yates, Students and Ex-
Students Attend
Banquet Here.
ELECT OFFICERS
Permanent Organization to
Boost Interests of
College

College
Thursday night was canes night"
Webster City.
Nearly hundred graduates, e!
students and students of the low
State college at Ames held banqut
It the Chamber of Commerce. 1T wa
characteristically enthusiastic NEE
ing. full Of college pep and snap. co
lcge yells and college songs. 0. .
Henderson acted as POSTMASTER an
his wit and his personal hits" directe
at the speakers, were feature Of tn
banquet.
Following the banquet an Organiza
ton of Ames alumni and ex-student
was formed, with the election Of tn
following officers:
president-Claude V. Campbell, Jew
ell
Vice preSdent--W. E. Gossard, Web
ster City.
tary-treasurcr-Nliss Clar:
Knppel, Webster City.
Prominent Guests.
Notable out-of-tOwn guests at thu
banquet were Miss Roberts, for man!
years one of the leading members OF
The Ames faculty and, next to Dear
Stanton, now deceased, widest known
over the state among alumni and eX
students, and Ward Jones, secretary OF
the alumni association. Among the
banqueters were Ames people from al
sections of the county and the welkir
rang all evening with the praises OF
lowa's agricultural college-probably
the hest known agricultural school in
all the world.
The banquet was served by the Ia.
Gies Of the COngrega tiOnal church. The
menu follows:
Chicken Pie
Mashed Potatoes Scalloped Corn
Biscuits Jelly
HIdNS
Cabbage Salad
Apple Pie la mode
Cheese Coffee
The Speakers.
The tables were decorated with
baskets of roses and ferns and around
the walls hung Ames banners in great
profusion. Following the serving.
Toastmaster Henderson called on the
following for toasts: Supt. d. NJ.
Kelly, Claude Campbell, Miss Clara
I;uppel, James Yungclas, Ward Jones
and Miss Roberts. All were interest
ing an abounded in wit and humor and
the booster spirit of the college. In
fact. the evenings meeting was but a
pcrcusOr of a good, live, energetic and
active Ames college Organizatio ton in
Hamilton cOunty--an organization
that will be ever on the lookout for the
interests Of the college. The members
were urged to see to it, so far as they
could, that the legislature this winter
IS generous toward the educational in
terests of the state. Mr.. Jones also
spoke of the students memorial to be
erected in Ames and complimented
very highly the generous spirit shown
by the members of the faculty and stu
dents of the college in the large
amounts of money already raised. No
solicitation was done that evening, but
every Ames alumnus and eX-student is
urged to help this big movement along,
to the end that this building may be
erected on the campus soon as a men,
Orial to the Ames men who gave their
lives for their country in the world
war.
A College 'Frolic."
Following the election of officers,
Staley's UNFRAMED singers" quartet
composed of Messrs Staley, Atkinson.
Arthur and ChriStopherson, sang a
medley of popular parodied songs and
4. ii. Hanapel. of the Currie Engineer
ing company. did pretty JOB OF Indian
club swinging. Following this the
party INDUCED in ''frolic"-a dance
for which the SpoOr orchestra played.
The affair was most delightful one
throughout and the alumni and ex
students Of Ames college in Hamilton
county may well be proud of the show
ing made and the enthusiasm aroused.
II is planned to make the event an an
nual one. The formation Of this col
lcge association will do much in Ham
iton county TO stimulate friendly
spirit toward Ames and he of much
benefit. both to the college and to its
many former students here.
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