Homecomings Unchanged Since Initial Celebration
Sixteen years after the first Homecoming the college marks a similar event with a queen a big football game and a gym dance. Merle Wagoner’s Golden Flashes beat Defiance 13 to 6 led by Kilbourne Stejskal Barry and Sapp with Mary Donze chauffeured in a new Oldsmobile convertible. Sigma Tau Gamma won the decoration contest and about 800 alumni attended under perfect weather.
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Merle Wagoner
Golden Flashes
Defiance College
Charles
Kilbourne
Art Stejskal
Phil Barry
Ted Sapp
Bowers Field
Roosevelt High School
Mary Donze
Youngstown
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Omega
Mary
Wills Gym
Harry Acksworth
Policy On Ads Is Announced By University Newspaper
Frank Vendely the business manager of the university’s student newspaper announced ad policy and rates. Advertising remains 50 cents per column inch and classified ads at two cents per word with deadlines for three issues. He also invited applications for circulation manager and provided contact hours and phone number.
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Frank Vendely
Vendely
Stater
States Office
Kent
Seyler To Play For Homecoming
Art Seyler and his 12 piece KSA band perform at Wills gym this Saturday for Homecoming hop. The group will feature stock arrangements of well known tunes with Andy McKennon on vocals and Art Kembury on trumpet. Bill Williams will provide piano as the night includes Drummer Man as a highlight.
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Art Seyler
KSA
Wills Gym
Art
Andy McKennon
Art Kembury
Bill Williams
Homecoming Queen Contest Satirized At Campus
A satirical piece mocks the Homecoming queen selection at a university. It jokes about contestants, rules, and campus politics, describing a chaotic, humorous process and warning entrants to join the political scene cautiously.
Kent State University Origins and Name Changes
Records trace the university from December 1910 when two normal schools were authorized. Enrollment grew from 291 to about 38,000 by recent years. It became Kent College in 1929 and Kent State University in 1935, with a series of presidents through 1944.
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State General Assembly
Ohio
J. E. McGilvrey
Kent State
Normal School
Kent College
Kent State University
J. O. Engleman
K. C. Leebrick
Leebrick
George A. Bowman
Busses From Kent to Cleveland Schedule Note
Bus schedule notes busses from Hoard's Drug Store 119 West Main Street to Cleveland with a change at Stow. A quoted line about an election appears nonsensical. reader advised to be patient and wait for a turn in ten years.
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Kent
Hoard’s Drug Store
W. Main St
Cleveland
Stow
Dearie
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Sigma Tau Gamma
John Hastings
Kem
Belita
Barry Sullivan
Bonita Granville
John Litel
Raymond Hatton
Cary Grant
Alexis Smith
Dane Wyman
Robert Young
Sylvia Sidney
Seyler
Cooper
Stetson
Coe Livingston
Aos
Ruth Hoehn
Tri- Sigma
Betty Lou Tuttle
Jeanne Cook
KSU
By Bob Wentz
Chum
Lena
Bill
Poppa
Joe
Student Council
The
Robin Hood
E. Main St
Akron
Eniow Kent
Iso
Minck
E. Main
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