Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-11-06
Homecoming Day at
University Of Md.
To Be Gala Affair
Lavish Plans Being Made To
Entertain Alumni At Annual
Celebration

College Park, Md.-The University
Of Maryland will be turned over to an
expected attendance of more than
5000 graduates and their friends when
the school holds it's Annual Homecom-
ing Day Celebration at College Park,
Saturday, November IA.
Plans are being made to make this
years affair the most lavish in the his
tory of the institution. Such features
as the football game with Virginia
Military Institute, traditional Old Line
foe; an alumni mixer and buffet sup
per, and a parade of university clubs,
fraternity and sorority floats during
halves of the grid game, are a few
Of the attractions scheduled.
Registration of all alumni in the
Richie Coliseum, ut 100 P. NJ, starts
the celebration. Large blocks of re-
served seats are being held for grad
yates, and reservations by class as
well as by club groups are being
made. The Rotary Club Of College
Park also has reserved q section for
its members and friends. Following
the game the alumni mixer and buffet
supper, in the Girls Field House will
be held. Special hostesses will see
that all those attending have an OPP
portunity to meet old instructors and
friends and clso have an opportunity
to meet the many new faculty mem
bers. Special entertainment will be
presented during the supper and will
fill the time until 500 when the Home
coming Dance will take place.
This dance, which will be the first to
be held in the Richie Coliseum, will
be featured with speciality numbers,
novelty entertainment and will be pre-
sided over by Dan Gregory and his
orchestra.
Prices have been reduced for the
pigskin clash; reserved seats will sell
for S1.10. The committee in charge
has arranged that the entire cost for
the day will not exceed $500 per
couple for returning alumni.
Department heads and faculty men,
bers will hold "open house" in their
various offices, to greet returning
grads, and the new Arts and Science
Building will remain open during the
afternoon and evening for inspection.
G.. Findlay Pollock, alumni secre-
tary, is in charge of arrangements and
is preparing for the largest crowd in
the history of the University, for a
homecoming celebration.
In addition to the Alumni Associa-
TONS program, fraternities and sorori-
ties Of the campus are planning their
own reunions for returning alumni,
buffet suppers, house dances, and old
grad meetings will be held on both
Friday and Saturday nights, and
houses will be suitably decorated for
the gala occasion.
Geary Eppley, newly named athletic
director, has requested that the best
seats in Byrd Stadium be reserved
for the alumni.
The game with v. NJ. I. promises to
be close and hard fought, and because
of its traditional background will be
packed with color. While the Terra
pins are favored to win. on paper, the
Keydets are always formidable foe
when facing the Old Liners. Bill
Guckeyson, Maryland's All-America
candidate, who was injured slightly in
the Florida clash, is expected to be in
condition to play again for this game.
Last year the Terps defeated the
Virginia team by the close score Of
60. In the interim both teams have
improved so the 1886 clash looms as a
sure thriller.