Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
COLLEGE ALUMNI
MEETS SATURDAY
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ebrOtiOn 10 be held at the college IN
May.
The main event Is the banquet Il
be held In the Commons at $3.50 o.
clock. The headliner is DR.. Phillips
Thomas. Research Engineer of the
Westinghouse and Manufacturing
Company, who will talk on RAM
bles In Research" He will also
demonstrate many Of the nutstand-
ing marvels of the electrical world,
showing for example. how ice cubes
are made in a refrigerator, how mu-
sic can he produced by flashlights,
and other bits of electrical legerde-
nipin
The banquet will also be featured
by the presence of Delaware's new
football coach, J. Neil Stanley. who
will make a few remarks. Short,
snappy talks will also be given by
Harry o. Lawson. 'OS, president of
the alumni association: Walter Dent
Smith, %, editor of rhe Alumni
News, and others.
In the afternoon there will be two
gatherings, one of former engineer
ing students at one o'clock in Evans
Hall, and the other of former arts
and science students in Mitchell Hall
al two o'clock. The engineers will
make an inspection Of tle engineer
ing buildings under the guidance VI
lean Robert l.. Spencer.
An elaborate program has been
arranged for the Mitchell Hall
gathering by DIR. V. Owen Sypherd,
80. head of the English Department.
The following talks will be given:
THE College in 1884," hy Dean
George L. DuttOn. '04: "SOciai Ef-
fects of the Recovery Program" by
DR.. f. B. Crooks; Romance of the
Soy Beam" by DR.. A. A. Horvath;
and English Poetry Through the
Centuries" by DR.. Sypherd. All Of
the speakers are members Of the
faculty. Dean DuttOn will preside.
This will be followed by an or
gan recital in Mitchell Hall given
by Firmen Swimmer, nationally
known Organist.
Following the organ revital an in
formal reception will be held Ill the |
lounge room of Old College as a pre-
lude to the banquet. DR.. Walter Hull |
linen, president of the University;
Harry G. Lawson and prominent al
lImni will receive. Here for a half |
hour the grads can sit in comfor-
table chairs in thoroughly colleSl-
ate atmosphere and chat.
All alumni are invited to attend
the swimming meet between their
alma mater and Lehigh University
scheduled for eight O'Clock in Taylor
Gym Immediately after the banquet.
After this event the reunion will be
brought to a hilarious conclusion by
a party i'm the Deer Park Hotel.
At noon those alumni who are
members of the Committee OF one
Hundred responsible for cOmmuni-
eating with all graduates of the Uni
versity in reference to the Centen-
ary celebration to be held in May
will be the guests of DR.. Hullihen at
a luncheon in Old College. Plans for
the celebration will be discussed.
Up to last year all alumni func-
lions were held i'm Wilmington. AS
an experiment these affairs were
shifted for the first time last year to
The campus. 1t met with such sue
cess that the college campus has
been the locale for all alumni func-
ions.
The committee in charge of reun- ,
ons in addition to Mr.. Stelle is COM {
oosed of Walter Dent Smith, '22; Is {
,dore Bleiberg, '26; G. E. Taylor 5
IL: DR.. w. Owen Sypherd. 80; J. }.
Murray, '23; Wayne c. Brewer, 20;
J. p. Doherty, '16, and E. P. Reese
30.