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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1956
NO. 36
Mammoth Miracle Mile Parade
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SPIRITUAL
LADY OF TROY-Cynthia Dixon radiates Trojan beauty as she contemplates her busy reign as Helen of Troy. Miss Dixon, a junior in the School of Education, climaxes her official Homecoming duties tomorrow night at the Home-
Pailv Trojan Photo by Bruce Alallin
coming Dance at the Chase Hotel in Santa Monica. Miss Dixon is a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. She hopes to be an elementary school teacher after she completes her studies at SC in June, 1958.
PAST MEETS PRESENT TODAY
Gage s Wcrk To Be Unveiled
Many Alumni Festivities Crammed Into Weekend In Indianapolis
Chancellor
Will Speak At Services
Chancellor Rufus B. von KIeinSmid will speak on spiritual enlightenment in a talk entitled “Let There Be I Light” at the Sunday Morning Worship Service in Bovard Auditorium.
Sunday’s program, second in a series of nondenomina-tional religious services to be held on campus, will begin at 11 a.m.
Dr. von KIeinSmid, who served as university head for a longer term than any other SC president, is internationally famed as an educator and authority on world affairs. He is also recognized as a phycholo-gist, authority on prison reforms and a lecturer.
Light for Illiteracy
"We interpret light as meaning enlightenment — spiritual light,” the Chancellor explained.
Illiteracy is all too prevalent • in some of the most populous parts of the world, he said. It ranges anywhere from 80 to 100 per cent in an area including China. India, Africa and South America.
“As was recently pointed out by a celebrated statistician, the average wage per year in this ! area is scarcely $100. The average span of life, scarcely 30 j years. The responsibility for dis- 1 pelling the darkness of chaos by i the entrance of the spirit of light, the responsibility for the 1 annihilation of ignorance, disease and poverty, is ours,” the j Chancellor said.
Honorable Dedication
Chancellor von KIeinSmid ex- i plained that our schools and colleges are organizations dedicat- ; ed to this advancement of letters and science.
“Our success is dependent as much on the activities of in- ■ stitutions organized immediately 1 for this purpose as on any other ; activities encouraging develop- 1 ment of understanding good will and general helpfulness,” he said.
Students, their parents, faculty members and friends of the university may.attend the campus religious services, which are planned by a student-faculty committee.
Chaplain Clinton A. Neyman. acting dean of students, and Dr. Albert E. Raubenheimer, educational vice president, are co-chairmen.
By DAVID C. HENLEY Daily Trojan City Editor
The 76th anniversary of the fifth largest private university in the United States —which had its beginnings in the days when Los Angeles had 5000 citizens and pistol duels occurred daily along a dusty trail named Figueroa Street—will come to a climax i this evening when more than 20,000 persons line the sidewalks of Wilshire Blvd. to i view SC’s Homecoming Parade.
Floats . . . marchers . . . bands ... Indians . . . horses . i movie stars . . . politicians . . . i and even clowns will proceed ! down the brightly-lit Miracle Mile tonight beginning at 8.
Included in the mammoth parade will be 25 floats and 25 non-floats from SC's sororities, i fraternities and other campus j ! organizations.
Corvettes, Curves 1 About 30 Chevrolet convertibles and Corvettes will carry \ Troy’s student leaders, faculty i notables, Grand Marshal Danny Thomas, and Honorary Marshal Los Angeles’ Mayor Norris Poulson.
Also scheduled to decorate the parade will be motion picture star Jayne Mansfield. She will ride one of the convertibles in the long line of floats and automobiles which will proceed east from the Prudential Life
DANNY THOMAS
. . 20,000 to Watch
JAYNE MANSFIELD
. Curves in a Corvette
Insurance Bldg. to Detroit St., the music of Bob Caudle's Com- [ rallv will be held in the SC
one block west of La Brea Ave. bo.
Another notable in the parade, which has not been held on the Wilshire thoroughfare since 1933, will be Homecoming Queen, “Miss Helen of Troy,” Cynthia Dixon. She will be attended by Princesses Judy Green, Janet Peterson. Chai’.e Moran, and Judy Kircher.
Billowing Clouds
“Miss Helen” and her escorts will ride on the official Homecoming Float designed and built, by Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
The float will consist of billows of angel hair clouds on a sky-blue background. The Queen and princesses will sit befoxe a huge fan rising from the rear of the float.
Among the other entries on the parade agenda will be Troy's traditional Tommy Trojan riding his white charger. Following Tommy will be ten Trojan warriors in full costume riding Palimino horses.
Behind Tommy and his escort will be equestrian units, high school and college bands and drill teams.
End on Detroit St.
The parade, which is scheduled to take about 1*2 or 2 hours, will disband on Detroit St. The fraternity and sorority floats will be driven back to the campus after a giant football rally to be held at the Huddle Restaurant parking lot at .Wilshire Blvd. and La Brea Ave.
Thousands of students, alumni and spectators are expected to narticipate in the celebration which will be led by SC’s cheerleaders. The Trojan Marching Band also will be present in full regalia.
After the rally students will take part in a street dance to
The Homecoming celebration will continue till tomorrow afternoon and evening when students and alumni will attend the SC-California football game and the annual Homecoming Dance at the Chase Hotel in Santa Monica.
Before the game at 2 p.m., a
Rooters' section about 12:30, with actor Red Skelton as featured entertainer.
Troy's cheerleaders and marching band will also participate in this rally. Following the game, a Charleston contest will be held at the Theta Xi house, 728 W. 28th St.
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Dances Highlight Homecoming Fete
SC's annual Homecoming Dance and Charleston Contest will be held tomorrow evening and afternoon, respectively.
The Homecoming Dance, set to Degin at 9 p.m. in the main ballroom of Santa Monica's Chase Hotel, will feature the music of Frank De Vol and his orchestra and Dave Pell and his octet.
De Vol will perform on the main dance floor while the Pell group will make with their ; “modern sounds” in an adjoin-( ing room.
Walt Williams, chairman of the dance, said it “Will have : music to suit everyone's taste, pleasant surroundings, and plenty of jovial Homecoming spirit.”
During the dance, Queen Cynthia Dixon and her four princess-1 es, Judy Green, Janet Peterson, Charle Moran, and Judy Kircher, will be presented to the approximately 1500 alumni students and faculty present.
Tickets for the dance, which cost S3 per couple, may be pur-
chased on campus at the booths in front of the Student Union and Founders Hall, in the Grill, or at the Chase Hotel.
According to Williams, the easiest way to reach the ocean-front hotel is by taking Hoover St. to Pico Blvd. and then proceeding west through Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and finally to Santa Monica where the hotel is located.
The trip should take approximately one hour from campus, he added.
The Chaleston Contest, to be presented at the Theta Xi house, 728 W. 28th St.. immediately after tomorrow s football game, will feature Teddy Buckner and his Dixieland Jazz Band.
The dance and contest, sponsored by Theta Xi fraternity and Gamma Phi Beta sorority, is free to students, alumni, and faculty.
Persons interested in participating in the contest are asked to sign up at the Theta Xi house
earlv in the afternoon.
DELTA SICS, KAPPAS, ZBT S SECOND
By ARL1S HOFFMAN
The past and the present unite this weekend as alumni and students join to celebrate SC's 76th anniversary.
Alumni act i\ it ies, planned by Charles Moser, '29. will continue today and tomorrow with class and professional school reunions, dances, clinics and demonstrations.
Alums who may recall horse-drawn streetcars. George Tire-biter. and post season loot ball games will convene with their fellow classmates tonight at 6:30 at the Biltmort Hotel.
Conference Floor
Several thousand grads expected by Chairman 1 jeonard Finch will gather on the Conference Room Floor to find their lespeetive meeting rooms. Classes 54 through '56 will meet in room 4. ’51 through '53 In room 3, ’45 through '53 in room 2. '39 through '44 in room 1 and other classes prior to '39 will meet in rooms indicated by various sitrns.
Following the class reunions the alumni will leave to \'atch the Homecoming Paiade on Wil-
shire Blvd.. according to parade chairman Gordon Gray '45.
More than 1200 practicing dentists are expected at the allday soi ies of clinics and disc ussions of the School ol Dentistry in the Bevtrly-Hilton Hotol today.
speaker of the day will bo Dr. Merrill G. Swenson, piolessor of prosth tic dentistry at the University of Oregon. Swenson will discuss “Dental Prosthesis"’ at his l>;tures at 9:30 a.m. and at 2:30 p.m.
Dentists Convene
Dental alumni will register at
8	and the program will begin at
9	a.m. Dental alumni chairman Dr. Dallas McCauleyw ill introduce president elect Dr. E. Boyd
j Thompson.
Exhibits in research, a section on scientific clinics and an m-formal discussion of individual hobbies of i turning alumni will be included in the program.
Dinner and dancing in the Bali Room will conclude the day's ac-ti\ ties Chairman of the event is Dr. Arthur Aull and Dr. F. James Yamvas will provide en-l tertainment, Dr. Harold J. Holt
and Wallace L. May are in charge of registration.
Alumni of the School of Medicine will gather at the Univer-i sity Club at 6:30 p.m. for a I banquet honoring outstanding I alumni members of the proies-i sion.
On Saturday, alumni members of the School of Pharmacy will attend a formal dinner dance at 1 the Biltmore Hotel at 7:00 p.m.
Entertainment will be provided by the “Happy Jesii_is." according to Chairman Betty Anil Pulley. Other committee members includeDonald March j '29. Prof. Katherine Kirchner. j Miss Jerry Vidovich '49.
Undergrads and alumni alike will dance to the music of Frank ! DeVol and Da\e Pell at the An-j nual Homecoming Dance, Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Cnase Hotel in Santa Monica.
Crowds will gather to enjoy a few spirits of ’76 and to reminisce over days sone by. During the dance the Queen and her court will be presented to the alumni. Tickets may still be boucht in front of the Student i Union or in the Grill.
A bust of the Hon. Sherman Minton, who resigned last month I from the U.S. Supreme Court because of failing health, is being cast in bronze and will be unveiled in the Indiana State Capitol building next month.
Gage, who heads the sculpture division of the fine arts department, was commissioned by Gov. George N. Craig of Indiana to do the bust.
The sculptor was gi\en a room in the Supreme Court Building to use as a studio. He roughed in clay first from photographs, and then had Justice Minton pose one and a half hours a day for a week.
Gage worked six hours a day I on the bust, spending about 36 j hours with the clay and another 1 12 hours making a plaster cast to be sent to the bronze foun--dry.
“I never had anything go so smoothly in my life,” Gage said. “Justice Minton was a perfect subject.
“All the justices of the Supreme Court, from Chief Justice Earl Warren down to the new-(Continued on Page 16)
TKE-PiPhi s, Fijis, Thetas Take Trolios
Tau Kappa Epsilon-Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta. and Phi Gamma Delta won first place in the mixed, women’s and men’s division of Trolios last night.
Placing second in the judging were Delta Sigma Phi-Alpha Delta Pi, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Zeta Beta Tau for mixed, women's and men's divisions.
After only ten minutes of deliberation. the judges picked the Teke-Pi Phi skit first in the first mixed division event in history of the annual variety show.
An adaptation of George Orwell’s book, "1984,” provided the grist for the Teke-PiPhi dramatization which pictured SC in 1985. In the dance number the mixed group choralled against the “anti-sex league,” which dominated the society they were dramatizing.
Kappa Alpha Theta chorally ; described the coed of the future in their rendition of "Collegiate.” to walk off with first place in theirs, the women's division.	I
WINNERS - Pictured above is the TKE-PiPhi first prize skit in the miexd division PiPhi first prize skit in the mixed division
off with first place in the first appearance of a mixed group division tn the history of Trolios variety show.