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Socially, the junior year was climaxed by the annual prom in Mem Hall. The Junior Dance Committee, amid waning interest, staged the last of many dances to be held in the building. The Committee, composed of R. A. Stout, A. T. Hartwell, F. B. Grant, J. H. Sachs, James Lawrence, chairman Sweezy, and treasurer James deNormandie, sat daily in the Lampoon building waiting for members of the Class of '29, who might have been overlooked, to report for assignment to one of the boxes surrounding the dance floor. But with only ten days remaining until the March 2 date...
...HAVEN, Feb. 27--Sensational goal-tending by sophomore Charlie Flynn and two goals by Bill Cleary enabled the varsity hockey team to tie a fighting Yale team, 3 to 3, tonight in overtime, before a screaming, dazed Junior Prom crowd of 3800 at the New Haven Arena...
...each listed with respect to officership, membership, and other sub-categories. The survey, conducted by James S. Davie, sociaologist in Yale's Department of Health, showed these to be the ten most desired positions: 1) football captain, 2) editor of the Yale Daily News, 3) chairman of the junior prom, 4) membership in Skull and Bones, 5) basketball captain, 6) membership in the Whiffenpoofs singing organization, 7) chairman of WYBC, 8) tie between hockey captain and swimming captain, 10) president of Phi Beta Kappa...
Custom in Creston, as in hundreds of small towns across the U.S., demands that the high-school kids take off after the annual senior prom and speed merrily around the countryside until dawn. As plans rolled along for the traditional all-night sprees, the elders frowned, though not entirely on moral grounds. Auto accidents worried them most: in the May 1-June 10 periods since 1946, 50 Iowa teen-agers have died on the highways, most of them on prom night. The all-night graduation rite has long been prevalent, but it took on a sort of tomorrow...
...menace by offering an annual community-sponsored all-night fling. Last week Creston tried the same remedy. Druggist Rex L. Mitchell sparked the party, got 33 local organizations to cooperate. The junior and senior classes approved the plans, added stipulations: 1) no teachers allowed after the prom, 2) other adults could serve food and drive the cars but were in no way to act like chaperons. The kids picked a name for the fling: "Crestubilee," for "Creston Student Jubilee...