The Exponent, 1961-10-06

              Queen Lorene Cowhick Marshal Larry Winters
Perkins Announces 1961 Parade Registration;
Over 100 Units To Perform Saturday Mornin
Royal Order Of Gyps Will Crown King
Ceremony To Climax Evening's Program
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Les Johnson, Owner and Manager of Tiffany Laundry, is crowned "King
of the Gyps" for 1960, by Jack IIaldeman, Office Manager for Hub City Iron,
1959 king. Johnson's successor will be crowned tonight at the Civic Theater.
The Exponent
Volume 60, No. 3
South Dakota's Northern College — Aberdeen, South Dakota
October 6, 1961
Gypsy Clan Chooses 1961 Royal Couple
As of press time, the line-up for the
Gypsy Day parade consists of 104
bands, floats and cars. Owen Perkins,
Chairman of the Committee, expects
even more participants before the
deadline.
Honorary guests who will be in the
parade are Governor Gubbrud, Presi-dent
Kramer, Commissioner Gerdes,
Senators Mundt and Case, and Repre-sentative
Reif el. These dignataries will
follow the V.F.W. Color Guard and
the NSTC Band.
Other participants, in the prescribed
order, are; the Willow Lake High
School Band, Steele Hall float, former
Gypsy Queens, First National Bank,
Founders of Gypsy Day, Hitchcock
High School Band, NSTC Business
Club, E. 0. Johnson Motors, U. S.
Navy, Northville High School Band,
Senior Class, Reed-Johnson Agency,
Waverly High School Band, Lincoln
Hall, Loel Lust Chevrolet Company,
Corona High School Band, Phi Alpha
Mu Sinfonia, Aberdeen School of
Commerce, Student Council, Bowdle
High School Band, Wesley Club,
Baggett's Conoco, and the Columbia
Visiting Dignitaries
Expected At NSTC
During Gypsy Day
Many prominent persons will be
present for Northern's annual Gypsy
Day. Governor Gubbrud will crown
the new queen and marshal at the
Friday evening ceremonies.
On Saturday Senators Francis Case
and Karl Mundt and Representative
Ben Reifel will he in Aberdeen. One
of the founders of Gypsy Day, Px , 1
Keiser of Toledo, Ohio, will also be in
attendance for Gypsy Day.
W. A. Hack, superintendent of the
School for the Blind; Al Hamre, S.
Dak. treasurer; Eric Heidepriem, for-mer
member of the Board of Regents;
Bernard Linn, commissioner of School
and Public Lands; Chris A. Merkle,
member of the Public Utilities Com-mission
are also expected, as are sev-eral
members of the legislature and
other guests.
High School Band.
A''-so entered in the parade are:
U.C.C.F., Aberdeen National Bank,
Queen's Float, Doland High School
Band, Association of Women Students,
Cal Golz Motors, Eureka High School
Band, N.S.T.C. cheerleaders, Eagles
Auxiliary, Miller High School Band,
Sophomore Class, St. Paul's Walther
League, Langford High School Band,
Graham Hall, League of Women Vot-ers,
South Shore High School Band,
Northern Dames, Rotary Club, Roscoe
High School Band, Union Board, Cos-
Les Johnson, present ruler of the
Gyps, will crown the new king of the
Royal Order of Gyps this evening at
the Civic Theatre. The Royal Order
of Gyps, an organization of fun-lov-ing,
NSTC-boosting, local business
men, will present their program in
conjunction with the crowning of the
new Gypsy Day queen and marshal
and the "Waldo Presents" show.
The Royal Order of Gyps was
founded by the late C. H. Creed, its
first king, in 1941. Since then, a Icing
has been selected to reign in each
succeeding year with the exception of
1944. The purpose of the organiza-mopolitan
Club, Java High School
Band, Gamma Delta, United Com-mercial
Travelers, Selby High School
Band, Sigma Alpha Iota, Lions Club,
Warner High School Band, "N" Club,
Parkway School, McIntosh High
School Band, Howling Echo, Trail
Rural School, Mobridge High School
Band, Junior Class, Hub City Motors,
British High School Band, Young
Republicans, Presentation Junior Col-lege,
McLaughlin High School Band,
Seymour Hall, Brentford High School
Royalty, Cresbard High School Band,
tion is cooperation with the college in
homecoming activities.
Past kings include A. M. Shanahan,
Franklin Park, Ill., 1942; Abe Pred,
1943; H. F. Jorgenson, Phoneix, Ari-zona,
1945; C. H. Malchow, 1946;
Neil Haley, 1947; the late Mark
Mulcahey, 1948; Mac Milstead, Far-go,
N. Dak., 1949; Ed Olson, 1950;
John Shevlin, 1951; F. G. Tonner,
1952; Richard Huffman, 1953; James
Morrison, 1954; A. A. Bolduan, 1955;
B. F. Martin, 1956; C. C. Lind, 1957;
Ed Downs, 1958; Jack Haldeman,
1959, and Les Johnson.
Industrial Education Club, Viking
Sewing Center, Britton High School
Band, and Association of Childhood
Education.
Following these will be: Barnard
High School Royalty, Aberdeen Drum
and Bugle Corps, Riverside School,
Kappa Delta Pi, Wilmot High School
Band, Freshman Class, Brown County
Centennial Committee, Aberdeen Cen-tral
High School Royalty and Band,
Phalanx, Lab Technicians Float, Web-ster
High School Band, American Le-gion
Auxiliary of Warner, Jaycees
"Sno-Queen," Waubay High School
Band, Lindberg Hall, Spitfire Race-formation.
Perkins stated that "all floats are
to gather at Simmons Field at 9:30
a.m. Saturday, and will proceed from
13th Avenue down Main."
Howling Echo Club
Conducts Mum Sale
will be necessary when the mums are
picked up. Members of Howling Echo
will have them ready for distribution
immediately following the Friday
morning assembly at the Union.
Cowhick And
Winters Win
Campus Vote
Northern students and alumni will
gather to pay homage to a tiny, fun-loving
coed and a serious, slow-talk-ing
young man tonight at the corona-tion
ceremony.
Chosen by popular vote of the
NSTC student body on Wednesday,
Oct. 4, as successors to the royal gyp-sy
throne were Lorene Cowhick and
Larry Winters. They will reign over
the 1961 Gypsy Day, Saturday, Oct. 7.
The revelation of the names of the
new Queen and Marshal was an-nounced
by Mrs. J. Howard Kramer,
Queen Mother of the Gypsy Clan, at
costume ball last evening.
Miss Cowhick comes from Cresbard
and is majoring in Music. Active on
campus, she belongs to Wesley Club,
Band, Choir, Brass Choir, Masquers
Club, and Sigma Alpha Iota. She has
been cornet soloist with the college
band throughout her college career.
In high school Lorene was one of the
few named to play in the All State
Band for four consecutive years.
Miss Cowhick was sponsored by
Wesley Club, Sinfonia and the Col-lege
Band in her successful bid for
Gypsy Queen. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Herb Cowhick of Cres-bard.
Winters, a social science major,
hails from Seneca. Larry is a freshman
counselor in Lindberg Hall and par-ticipates
in many campus activities
such as Young Republicans Club and
the Inter-Religious Council. He holds
the office of president in Phalanx and
Wesley Club and is vice-president of
South Dakota Methodist College Stu-dents.
The new marshal was also spon-sored
by Wesley Club as well as by
Lindberg Hall. His parents are M
and Mrs. Otis M. Winters, Seneca ,
Lorene's sister, Karolyn, and Larry's
sister, Norene, are in a position to ex-change
comments on their older sis-ter
and brother. They are both mem-bers
of Northern's freshman class.
p Other members of the royal party
ways, Groton High School Band, Bris- Minacrlyu dKeo Chlohllaeaesn, AEnbgelradnede,n W; Gaeterratlodwinne;
roe Hall, Pi Omega, Hecla High Sayler, Aberdeen; Judy Serr, Eureka; School Band, St. Mary's CYO, Hos-1 Bev Griffin, Mitchell; Gary Breitag, mer High School Band, Moccasin Leola; Vic Godfrey, Aberdeen; Gerald Tracks, Kulm, N. Dakota, High Sayler, Aberdeen, Ron Schlekeway, ScThohoisl Byeanard',s apnadr aBdreo owkislild ien Sccluhdoeo lt.h e Lake City; and Eldon Stoehr, Pierre.
Sheriff's Posse and one other horse Ctohlel eYeonu Engn gRleapnudb wlicaasn ssp, ownhsioler eLdin bdy-berg
Hall and Order of St. Ives se-lected
Mary Kohlhaas. Chosen by
three organizations was Judy Serr. She
was sponsored by Lincoln Hall,
Phalanx, and the sophomore class.
Geraldine Sayler was picked by Epsi-lon
Pi Tau, Industrial Arts Club, and
Moccasin Tracks. The frosh selected
Bev Griffin as their candidate.
Sponsoring Gary Breitag was Steele
Hall, Vic Godfrey was named by Moc-
The traditional gold mums are being cCalsuibn. TErldacokn sS atonedh Pr .w Ea.s Mnoamjoinr-aMtedin boyr
sold on campus for Homecoming again Gamma Delta, N Club, and Young
this year. Howling Echo Club is in Republicans, while Ron Schlekeway
charge of arrangements with Sylvia was backed by the Howling Echo
Trombley, Aberdeen sophomore, as Club. Gerald Sayler's sponsoring or-ganizations
were Lincoln Hall and the
chairman of the mum committee. sophomore class.
Orders for the mums have been /' Royal Party was selected from
taken during the week in the Union 41 candidates in a primary election
and the Lincoln Dining Hall. This hewlde rMe coanrdriaeyd, oSne, patn. d2 t5h.e C fianmalpisatisg anps-year
the purchasers have paid for the peared before the student body Wed-mums
as they ordered, and receipts nesday, Oct. 4, at a morning assembly
planned by Ellen Johnson, junior from
Onida, and Lynne Ickler, Aberdeen
junior.
The new queen and marshal will
ascend the royal throne tonight at the
Civic Theatre. Highlighting this eve-
The mums will be for sale through- ning's show will be the coronation of
out Gypsy Day. Headquarters on Sat- Queen Lorene and Marshal Larry.
Presiding at the ceremony will be
urday will be at the Union. The cost Dorothy Parkin, 1960 Gypsy Queen,
of the mums is $1.25. \and Gov. Archie Gubbrud.