The Winslow mail., 1926-10-22
N. A. T. c. To Install
New President At
Home Coming Event

TEACHERS COLLEGE, alag
staff)-The Third Annual Home
Coming Day of the Northern Ari-
zona Teachers College promises to
be the biggest event on the college
calendar for the fall quarter, is the
word given out by Dean Bellwood,
chairman.
Elaborate plans are being made
for the largest influx of home
coming alumni ever known in the
history of the college and Flag
staff. Invitations are being mail
ed out to all the alumni of the in
stitution, dating back to the first
graduating class in 1901.
The Home Coming activities will
commence on Wednesday evening,
October 27, with Columbia Ladies
Orchestra of IA pieces giving the
first of the entertainments in As
hurst auditorium. 1t is expected
that many of the alumni living in
the nearby towns near Flagstaff
will take advantage of hearing this
group of feminine artists. They are
one their way to the coast and it
was only by special arrangements
with the management that the col
lege was fortunate in obtaining this
group for the Home Coming week.
A demonstration of pep and en-
thusiasm around the bonfire which
will reach to the top of the Train :
ing school on the campus is the
special feature for Friday evening
to herald the coming of the In
dians from Phoenix Torches will
be set every hundred feet all the
way to the depot and torpedOs will
be exploded as the train ScreecheS
into the yards with the invading
braves. Two Indian bands will
help make the evening merry, and
with the glowing timbers making
it's final stand, will the bugles
ring out the songs of the Lumber
jacks.
The big day will be Saturday.
Beginning at $50 a. M, when Pres
ident Grady Gammage will take the
gavel to lead the Home Coming
alumni in the round table discus
sion every hour of the day until
midnight will be chuck full Of i'll
tereSt.
The outstanding attraction of the
mornings festivities will be the
Hobo Parade in which all the
classes of the alumni will re rep
resented. The student body of the
college will also take part in the
parade with the Hobo Band led by
TEX" Patton at the head of the
procession.
Mrs Carolyn Smith, business Sec
retary, of the college has made ar
rangements with many of the diff
ferent local fraternal organizations
and business houses to enter floats
in the parade. If it is possible, the
Chamber of Commerce, will arrange
to enter their prize winning float,
which took first honors in the re-
cent prosperity exposition held IN
Phoenix. Prizes are being offered
for the most original and grotes-
que costumes.
Preceding the football game in
the afternoon between the Phoenix
Braves and the Flagstaff Teachers,
the new physical education build
ing will be formally dedicated.
George Grantham, star first base
man of the Pittsburgh Pirates, will
be one of the principal speakers on
| the program.
The formal installation of Presi-
dent Gammage which was on the
program for Home Coming Day, has
| been postponed to a later date.
The annual Home Coming ban
quet will be held in the main din
ing hall. The hall will be profuse-
ly decorated throughout with foli-
age of the surrounding forests.
The days proclivities will come
to a close with the grand ball in
the evening honoring the alumni
and members of the visiting teams