Miss Jean Holtz,
of Burley, Ida.,was crowned queen at the traditional Ivy Day
exercises of the University of Nebraska held Wednesday morning
as the opening event of the third annual Cornhusker roundup.
Miss Grace Spacht of Alliance was maid of honor. Perfect weather
favored the beautiful exercises, which were held on the city
campus, both morning and afternoon.The space between University
hall and the Administration building formed an outdoor theater
with the stage banked with green foliage and masses of spring
flowers.
According to
tradition the names of the May queen and her maid of honor,
selected by Mortar Board, honorary senior girls’ organization,
and a vote of the senior girls, was kept secret until their
appearance in the procession. The eight attendants, whose names
were also kept secret, were: Seniors, Lois Thompson, Margaret
Wattles; juniors, Neva Jones, Dorothy Davis; sophomores, Helen
Tomson, Winifred Steel; freshmen, Laura Whelpley, Margaret Dunlap.
The morning
program opened at 10 o’clock with selections by the University
orchestra, followed by “Who Will Plant the Ivy?”
by the girls’ octette, as the daisy chain, composed of
girls from the freshmen, sophomore and junior classes entered.
Following were the girls of the senior class, dressed in white,
forming the ivy chain and singing the Ivy song.
The procession
to the platform was led by Miss Gertrude Tomson, president of
Mortar Board, senior girls honorary society, and twelve other
members of Mortar Board, all in black robes, mortar boards and
masques. They are Margaret Hager, Helen Kummer, Ruth Miller,
Edith Olds, Lois Peterson, Emily Ross, Josephine Schramek, Ruth
Small, Marie Snavely, Lila Wyman and Fae Breese, an alumnae
member.
As they took
their places in front of the platform the dance of the flower
maidens was given by Nevada Wheeler, Dolly Langdon, Anna Hines,
Anna Jensen, Jean Killenbarger and Leona Schultz.
The heralds,
Margaret Long and Eloise McMonies, clad in court costumes of
white satin, preceded the eight attendants of the queen, the
senior girls, wearing gowns of orchid organdies, the juniors
gowned in rose, the sophomores in green, and the freshmen in
yellow, all carrying arm bouquets of garden flowers.
The maid of
honor, in gown of blue headed gorgette with large picture hat
to match, entered next and was followed by the four tiny attendants,
Janice Lee Morrison, Thurlow Lieurance, jr., Donald Anderson
and Harriete Lehr and the little crown bearer, Jean Holtz, niece
of the queen.
The queen was
charming in a gown of white satin with a court train which was
carried by Burke Hinds and Carl Hossie. As she reached the platform
she was crowned by her maid of honor.
Dances to the
queen followed. The “Breath of Spring” was interpreted
by Miss Kathryn Everett and Dorothy Dougan, and “Woodlands
Flowers” by Elizabeth Sawyer and Leora Chapman, Mary Lou
Gould, Betty Lantz and Alice Pieffer.
The May pole
was wound by the small pupils of Miss Donna Gustin, Claudine
Burt, Sarah Anne Kaufmann, Erla Gaddis, Mary Catherine McCrory,
Roma Lyons, Maxine Meyers, Marjorie Swift, Helen Wood, Jean
Bendell, Jean Tusker, Elaine Miller, Felicie Giguere, William
Altstadt, president of the senior class, and Rolland Estabrooks,
president of the junior class, planted the traditional ivy at
the stadium.
Miss Bernice
Balance danced to the queen.
