The Exponent, 1951-10-12

              Joan Strader
1950 QUEEN TO RETURN
Betty Lou Foerster Bob Keeler
Betty Lou Foerster, above, of Parkston, 1950 Gypsy Day Queen,
has sent word that she will be back to crown the Gypsy Queen of 1951
at the coronation ceremony that will take place at 10:00 a.m. on Sat-urday,
October 13. Miss Foerster is teaching in Woonsocket this year.
Bob Keeler, pictured above, of Minneapolis, 1950 Gypsy Day Mar-shal,
enlisted in the navy in June for four years.
THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL The Exponent
GYPSY DAY GYPSY DAY
Volume 50, Number 2
Northern State Teachers College
October 12, 1951
STRADER REIGNS AS GYPSY QUEEN
Grage Chosen Marshal
Dance Features
Hal McIntyre
Hal MMccIInnttyyrree
Hal McIntyre (above) and his
orchestra are returning to play for
their second Gypsy Day dance to
be held in the Civic Arena tomor-row
evening, October 13, at 9:30
or immediately following the Nor-thern-
Sioux Falls football game.
The orchestra, heralded as the
"band all America loves," also
played for the Gypsy Day dance
on October 8, 1949.
McIntyre is coming to Aberdeen
with seventeen musicians who have
just completed a month's engage-ment
at the Roosevelt Hotel in
New Orleans. He has been playing
engagements from coast-to-coast
and has also worked in four fea-ture-
length Columbia pictures.
McIntyre is known for his wide
variation in music, making his
among the most popular bands in
the nation today.
Gypsy Day
Parade Plans
Are Ready
One of the largest Gypsy Day
parades in the history of Northern
State Teachers College is expected
to make its appearance in the
downtown section on Saturday,
October 13 at 2:30 p. m. It is
estimated that the parade will be
comprised of approximately 105
units.
Included in these units will be
the colorful floats entered by the
campus organizations and clubs
and the Aberdeen city organiza-tions.
Twenty one bands are expected
to participate in this year's parade.
The following towns will be repre-sented:
Aberdeen, Brentford, Bris-tol,
Britton, Cresbard, Clark, Co-lumbia,
Conde, Doland, Eureka,
Groton, Herreid, Ipswich, McIn-tosh,
McLaughlin, Miller, Mo-bridge,
Northville, Timber Lake,
Waubay, and Webster.
The route which the parade will
follow this year is the same as it
has followed in previous years.
The various entrees will assemble
in front of the ball park. After
organization, the parade will leave
the college campus on Twelfth
Avenue and Kline, moving west on
Twelfth to Main, where it will
turn north on Main Street to First
Avenue. There it will turn east
to Lincoln and then south on Lin-coln
back to the college campus.
Judges will be on hand to ap-praise
the individual floats, and
prizes will be awarded accordingly
after the parade. The various band
organizations will also be judged
according to their performances
and will receive awards at a later
date.
CORONATION,
LUNCHEON
PLANS SET
A woodland setting has been
chosen as the background for the
coronation of the new Gypsy Queen
and Marshal to be held in the Civic
Theater at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow.
The eighty-member Collegiate
Choir, directed by John Berggren
and accompanied by Alyce Berg-gren,
will be the center of the
stage action of the ceremony.
Those in cha"rge of the planning
are: E. T. Gibson, faculty advisor;
Kathleen Schlepp, student chair-man;
and Mary Stangl, Gene Orr,
and Roland Loomis, stage setting.
Following the coronation will be
the Queen's-Alumni luncheon at
11:45 in the Alonzo Ward ball-room.
The luncheon is open to the pub-lic,
but all tickets must be pur-chased
in advance. They are avail-able
at the Business Office for
$1.50. Sales close at 5:00 p. m.
October 12.
After the luncheon there will be
a brief program honoring the form-er
queens and marshals as well as
the present ones. Mrs. Lois Bisto-deau-
Shanahan, Great Falls, Mon-tana,
will receive special honors
marking her twenty-fifth anniver-sary
as a Gypsy Queen.
Those in charge of the luncheon
arrangements are: Mrs. Margaret
Smith, faculty advisor; Elaine Ro-mans,
student chairman; and Doro-thy
Hanson, assistant. Last year
sixteen former queens and mar-shals
attended the Queen's-Alumni
luncheon.
Gyps Ready For
Ceremonies
Coronation ceremonies of the
Royal Order of Gyps will be held
again this year at the Civic Thea-ter
immediately following the
snake dance.
The Gyps, a group of Aberdeen
businessmen, originated their cer-emonies
as a complement to the
more serious ceremony of the cor-onation
of the Queen.
Eddie Olson, present King of the
Gyps, states that they have a
brand new program lined up. There
is no admission charge, and every-one
is invited to attend.
Allan Grage
Talent Show To
Start Festivities
Pre-Gypsy Day activities will be-gin
this evening when Gypsy Jam-boree,
an all college talent show
will be presented in the college au-ditorium
at 7:30 p.m., with Gene
Petrik, Scotland, as master of
ceremonies.
The acts which had been entered
up to the time of printing are: a
twelve-girl chorus group from the
Aberdeen high school; tap dancing
by Bonnie Lou Schueler, Mobridge;
a dramatic reading by Marlin
Hochstetter, Java; a , male quartet
composed of Bob Klein, Mobridge;
Arnold Levsen, Doland; Orville
Schneider, Britton; and Bob
Schurr, Roscoe; a one-act play by
the Acme Ajax; a vocal duet by
Arnold Levsen and Janis Strom-well,
Aberdeen; and a short skit
by Tex Evans and company.
The show is open to the public.
Tickets are forty cents per person,
tax included.
Following the talent show, the
bonfire and pep fest will be held
at the open air theater with a dem-onstration
of yells and cheers con-ducted
by the pep squad. The an-nual
snake dance will then wind
down Main Street, terminating at
the Aberdeen Civic Theater where
the King of the Gyps will be
crowned.
Joan Strader, Aberdeen, and Al-lan
Grage, Ipswich, were elected
Gypsy Day Queen and Marshal in
the election held Tuesday, Oct. 9.
Both candidates were sponsored
by the N Club.
Joan, who was queen of Aber-deen
High School's homecoming,
Pageant Day, in 1948, graduated
in 1949. She was a member of
Keystone, a national honorary fra-ternity,
a member of Quill and
Scroll, and editor of the high
school annual. She also attended
Girl's State.
A senior at Northern, Joan is a
member of orchestra, choir, band,
the Order of Gray Gowns, Kappa
Delta Pi, and Sigma Tau Delta.
She is also editor of the Pasque
this year.
Allan, formerly from Aberdeen,
graduated from the local high
school in 1948. As a high school
athlete he won three letters in foot-ball,
three in basketball, and two
in track. He also received the
Lion's Club award.
He attended the University of
Indiana during 1948 and 1949.
During his years at Northern, he
has won two letters in football and
one in track. Allan is a member
of N Club and president of the
senior class.
GYPSY DAY
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12
7:30 p.m.—"Gypsy Jamboree" (all
college talent show). College
auditorium. Open to public. 40c
per person, tax included.
Immediately following — bonfire
and pep fest in college open-air
theater and snake dance to the
Civic Theater where the King
of the Gyps will be crowned.
No admission.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13
10:00 a.m.—Coronation of Queen
and Marshal in Civic Theater.
No admission.
11:45 a.m.—Queen's-Alumni lunch-eon
in the Alonzo Ward Ball-room.
Tickets $1.50, tax in-cluded.
2:30 p.m.—Gypsy Day parade.
4 :30 p.m.—Buffalo barbecue in
Lincoln Dining Hall. The public
is invited. 75c, tax included.
6:45 p.m.—High school band ma-neuvers
and mass band concert.
Simmons Field.
7:30 p.m.—Sioux Falls College
Braves vs. Northern's Wolves at
Simmons Field. Band maneu-vers
and a baton twirling exhi-bition
featuring Pat Ryan, Na-tional
Baton Twirling Champion,
between halves. Tickets $1.00,
tax included.
9:30 p.m.—Dance at Civic Arena.
Hal McIntyre and his orchestra.
New Royalty
Receives Bids
Northern's 1951 Gypsy Day
Queen and Marshal were invited
to attend the Huron College home-coming,
Pow-Wow Day, on Oct.
6.
Because Northern's election was
not held until last Tuesday, a del-egation
was sent instead to Hu-ron's
homecoming. Those who
went are: Freddie Brooks, Kim-ball;
Venita Flathers, Milbank;
Kathleen Schlepp, Java; and Russ
Harris, Delbert Lowe, and Bruce
Mannes, all of Aberdeen.
The new royalty has also been
invited to attend Dakota Day at
the University of South Dakota
and the Blue and White Day at
Dakota Wesleyan University. It
is not known yet if these invita-tions
will be accepted.