1952-1953 Academic Catalog

GENERAL IN.FORMATION. 13 to see Cedarville College students at their services: Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Friends, Reformed , United Brethren, and Roman Catholic. Students remaining in Cedarville for weekends are encouraged to attend the church of their preference. SPECIAL OCCASIONS Homecoming. Cedarville College celebrates four occasions during the year when alumni are especially invited to return: the fall home, coming, the winter homecoming, Cedar Day, and the Alumni Banquet of Commencement Week. The fall homecoming begins with a bonfire and pep rally on Friday evening, continues with a parade on Saturday morning, and alumni and class reunions, a buffet lunch; then, in the afternoon, with the crowning of the Queen and a football game with some traditional rival. In the evening, after a dinner in the gym served by the Ladies' Advisory Board, and a few moments of informal program, the day concludes with a student-alumni dance. The winter homecoming is in February, with a similar program, except that it centers around basketball rather than football. Cedar Day is the highlight of the college year. For it a day in May is chosen, when the sun may reasonably be expected to shine, for it is an outdoor occasion. Long ahead of time the ..Theme" is chosen, dances worked out and rehearsed and class stunts planned. To reign over the festivities a Cedar Day Queen and Orator are selected by the student body. T he great day begins with a parade : fraternity floats, bands, the Queen and her attendants. When the parade returns to the campus, the queen and her maids of honor, her train-bearers and pages, proceed in slow procession to the flower-decked throne against the background of the fir trees in the meadow. Here she is crowned by last year's queen, and from her throne, surrounded by her attendants, watches the program carried out in her honor. The Orator speaks to the assembled students, alumni and friends, the Queen's subjects dance, tumble, clown, and circle the Maypole. When the program has come to an end, participants and audience join in a buffet luncheon and afterwards return to the campus to watch the college baseball team play against some favorite opponent. T he fourth and last of Cedarville's homecoming events is the Alumni Banquet which comes at Commencement time. Dinner is served by the Ladies' Advisory Board in the gym. A fter dinner t he annual business meeting of the A lumni Association is held; graduating seniors are wel, corned into the Association, some eminent speaker- perhaps an alumnus - is heard. When the formal meeting is adjourned, the younger alumni continue their reunion at a formal dance.