Word: proms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Julian H. Singman will deliver the oral argument for the Casner Equity Club, which will contend that the statute is invalid. The other members of the club, who worked on the brief, are David T. Bryant, John A. Curtiss, Robert H. Huntington, Jr., Robert E. Mansfield, Robert C. Prom, and James E. Ryder...
Radcliffe's Class of '54 recently voted to hold a "Junior Prom" or other class dance this year. Members tentatively set the date for late February or early March, a period when girls would be free to work on committees. The type of dance is uncertain, with suggestions ranging from a square dance to a formal...
...playing field, the Junior practiced his chariest on in preparation for the Prom, which was being planned by John time were the Student Council elections. The officers for the next year would be Leo Francis Daley, president: John Randolph Burke, vice-president: Henry S. Wood bridge, secretary; and Frederick Vanderbilt Field, treasurer...
...university," and this year's commencement exercises showed some good reasons. Instead of being preserved in bronze or marble, the university's namesake-founder, the Rev. Bob Jones Sr., 68, chairman of the board of trustees, marched in the academic procession. There was no senior or junior prom, since Bob Jones's 3,000 men & women students do not dance. Instead, the outstanding social events of graduation week were a student sermon contest and a presentation of King Lear, with President Bob Jones Jr., 40, the founder's son, in the title role. At a gathering...