Colgate University 1939 Yearbook (Hamilton, NY) - Full Access

Girls, Gaiety, Glamor; Men, Music, Mirth Girls, dances and sports are the attractions of a Colgate houseparty . Three times a year- in fall, winter and spring, a glamorous and welcome crowd of femininity descends upon the Valley of the Chenango, and for three all-too-brief days, worldly cares are to ed to the winds for the sake of the pleasure and enjoyment of all . This year at fall party, good weather greeted the girls and, for a change, a Colgate house part.y was blessed with sunshine. The football team was in Worcester playing Holy Cross, and so sports activities were at a minimum; although on Saturday afierno n large groups could be found huddled together listening to the outcome of Maroon destinies via the radio . On Friday evening there had been formal dancing at each fraternity as well as at the J. C. Union, where the Freshmen and Commons Club were holding forth. On these occasions, which were preceded by formal dinners, the individual beauty queens of each house and of the Commons-Freshmen dances were cho en . Saturday noon, these girls were escorted to the President's Dining Hall of the J. C. Union where a faculty committee, composed of Professors Himes, Rylander and Munshower, judged the beauty queen contest. This contest was unique in the fact that the judges were blindfolded and judged each girl largely on the results of questionnaires which each contestant. had filled out previous to the judging. These questionnaires had to do with intelligence, personalit. and education . As a result, Miss Bethany Deane of Yonkers, a guest. at the Theta Chi house and at her seventh Colgate house party, was awarded the queen's crown. That evening, the party goers enjoyed them elves at informal dances in the fraternity hou es and at. the J. C . Union . The cu tom of open house which had been practiced at tea dances earlier in the day was continued aturday night. Sunday was a day of sadness, for the weary visitors reluctantly bade their adieus to another grand fall party. The Winter Carnival program, which was held in February, likewise had both formal and informal dances. An extensive sports program was undertaken on aturday aftern on. This was highlighted by the annual intra-faculty hockey (?) game between "Anemia" r i's "Ice-Churners" and "Captain" Littlefield's "Bubble-Dancers." The yearly alumni-var ity hockey contest had preceded this exhibition, and both served as fine food for pleasure for the 300 fair guests . leigh rides late aturday afternoon w re the fortune of some of the fraternities but the big event for the Freshmen and Commons Club guest was Friday even– ing when they danced to the nationally famous music of Les Brown and his orchestra. 120