The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-07

Wis contributed much to the success
of the program, which consisted of re-
sponses to toasts by representatives
from several college generations. The
following is the toast program:
Royal ]. Davis, POSTMASTER.
Invocation-President David NJ. Ed
wards.
As 1t Was in the Beginning-Eli
w. Hiatt.
High Lights-Clifford Crump.
Then and Now-Ione V. Hill Cowles.
Earlham in Perspective-Bernhard
Knollenberg.
AS Others See Us-Robert L. Sack
EFT.
The Very Latest-Walter R. Yarnall.
1853 Alumni Register
One hundred fifty-eight alumni reg
istered at the booth of the Earlham
Alumni and Old Students Union Tues
day. OF these only three were stu
dents of boarding school days. All but
four of the reunion classes were rep
resented.
| The oldest student on the campus
was Enos B. Hill, student in the board
! ing school, 1880, and in the college
| '61'62. Mr. Hills parents were former
/ ly superintendent and matron of the
| institution. Other boarding school stu,
dents were Rhoda Emma Hadley
Kinchnigh, 1854, and Mrs. Rozanna
Lamb Dougan, Sc, of Richmond.
| The largest reunion class represent
ed was that of 1874, of which only one
member returned, Albert H. Votaw Of
Lonsdowne, Pa Although the class Of
"a, was represented by six alumni
lClara Mering, of Indianapolis, was the
only members of the class of 81
to register. An average of about si1
alumni registered from each of the
reunion classes since that time. A:
was expected the two-year class, 20
had the largest delegation at the jubi
lee. The reunion classes this year were
those with numerals ending n fou
and five, the fifty, twenty-five and two
year classes.
Financial Drive Launched
j A number of alumni members of thu
: Earlham Athletic association, led b.
iGlenn Wood, IA, staged a financia
campaign Tuesday afternoon for fund
to be used in erecting the indoor field
The board of trustees had agreed il
its meeting Monday morning to donat
. $4,000 to the building fund of the field
, providing the alumni could raise tn
, necessary remainder Of $4,000 Il
, thirty days, and the launching of tn
/ campaign came as a result of enthus
/ iastic support to this proposition b
} the old students. The amount Of tn
: pledges now collected totals owe
: $4,000 and the leaders declare tina
there is little doubt of going love
, the ton" within A. short time
J Rufus NJ. Allen, 1906, was elected a
t Alumni member of the board of tru!
| tees at the meeting of old student
: Tuesday He succeeds Mrs Ethel S.
3 mons Stuart, Phi. B., 1899, and wi
: serve for a period of three years. NJ
1 Allen is now manager of the Star
: Piano company retail district, and !
5 active in the forwarding of Earlhal
: Improvements.
f Celebration Changes.
+ An astounding evolution has take
$ place in the form of May Day celebr
e ton at Earlham since the inaugur
r ton of the customs in 1875, accordir
n to Mrs. Tennessee G. Tomlinson Phi
a lips, Earlham's first May Queen, WI
witnessed the revels Monday afte
q noon. Participants in the first celebr
/ ton shocked the controlling powers /
G introducing as an aid to the proce
r sion the forbidden strains of a Jew
3 Harp and suggesting that the quee
! he arrayed in a dress of pure whit
6 Snow fell on the first May Day, May
!. 1875.
After careful consideration OF IL
c matter the faculty granted its permi
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