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GEORGIA S CLASS OF ’31 REVIVES SENIOR PARADE
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Parade
Seniors Don
Planter Hals
By JANET GRIFFIN
Fifth of n Nerics
The official regalia for the
senior parade consists of
Southern planter hats and
canes. However, history re
veals a time when Shrimp
Bates, Willie Sowoats and llula
(•Iris dressed In fitting attire
were main attraction* of the
march.
The parade had its beginning
hack in tiie lilOO'H. The tradi
tion of the senior class was to
select one of the most impor
tant baseball games In which
to stnge tills exhibition. Arch-
rival Georgia Tech was usually
selected.
The parade would begin ad
round 3 p in. when the seniors
would tramp through the
streets of Athens and down
Lumpkin to Sanford Field. At
tills time tiie University was an
all-male school. Women, as
guests of men, viewed the
march from the stands.
The seniors would don cos
tumes of popular characters
and present skits around tiie
field. Some of the more popular
names for the men Included
llula Girl, Shrimp Mates, Spare-
riba, Gravy, Nanseator Slick,
Amputator Quick and Willie
Sowoats. As the names indi
cate, there were some daring
and freakish costumes.
Urograms giving the stu
dents' names and attire for tiie
parade were distributed. Sphinx
was represented with white
ties and tails. Senior baseball
players were usually the only
seniors not in tin* parade.
As the years passed, tiie pa
rade got out of hand. Students
were wearing fewer clothes
and Athens citizens began to
complain. One example reveals
a mule pulling a wagon loaded
with a bathtub. A hoy wus
pouring water on a fellow stu
dent inside the tub. However,
the hoy in tiie tali was wearing
hi. birthday suit. Another ex
ample cites a ‘‘pregnant hoy”
who was not piegnunt at the
end of the parade.
A few years lapsed before
the next senior parade hut it
came hack with all its glory
around 1930. The parade was
later moved to the half-time
of tiie homecoming football
game. Seniors then began to
wear derbies and carry canes.
According to legend, the
canes and derbies began as an
inspiration from the past. It
seems that the sheriff during
the first years of the Universi
ty wore a derby and carried a
cane when he marched the
students to class to protect
them from the Indians.
In 1961 a plan was submit
ted to University officials to
give the seniors their choice in
selecting derbies or Southern
planter hats. Today a mixture
of the two is often seen in the
parade. However, the planter
hat is the official regalia for
this year.
THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
SALUTE: BURL RAINWATER
W hen Ituil Rainwater (B.A., 1058) reported to Southern
Hell in 1‘M.I, he coordinated the Hell System Census Project
in Tennessee. Working out his own guidelines for collect
ing data, Hurl analyzed his results to forecast household
growth during the Sixties for each telephone exchange
in Tennessee.
Success on this assignment earned him a new one where
he also had to pioneer. W hen told to study the possible
application of teaching machine* to telephone training, lie
and another employee programmed an entire busic elec
tricity course to show what the new devices could do.
The textbook the two men developed for the machines w r as
later copyrighted and published.
W illi such achievements behind him. Burl is now carry
ing out other interesting assignments in the Knoxville Com
mercial Office.
Hurl Rainwater, like many young men, is impatient to
make things happen for his company and himself. There
arc few places where such restlessness is more welcomed
or rewarded than in the fast-growing telephone business.
Committee Plans
Cordial Weekend
The Georgia-Auburn Committee today released a set of
rules to promote better relations between the schools dur
ing the University’s Homecoming this weekend.
College Honors
business Grads
Twelve outstanding alumni
of the University's College of
Musiness Administration were
honored today as part of the
college's golden anniversary
celebration.
Tiie awards were presented
by I)r. J. Whitney Bunting,
dean of the college, at a dinner
highlighting the celebration.
Those honored are Howell
Arthur Inghram, class of 1917,
professor of accounting at Co
lumbia University and director
of the Institute of Accounting.
Charles S. Ileyman, class of
1920, president and general
manager of Fox Manufacturing
Company of Rome.
Preston C. Upshaw, class of
1922, president, chairman and
director of the Retail Credit
Company of Atlanta.
Greene F. Johnson, class of
1926, second vice president in
charge of investments of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company of New York.
Walter Ennis Parker, class
of 1928, president of the Po
mona Products Company of
Griffin.
Charles James Thurmond,
class of 1931, president and di
rector of J. D. Jewell, Inc. of
Gainesville and president and
director of Southern Frigid
Dough, Inc. of Florence, Ala.
Benjamin II. Askew, class of
1932, assistant to the treasurer
of International Business Mac
hines for financial studies and
special assignments.
Wyck A. Knox, class of 1932,
chairman of the board of Knox
Homes Corporation and presi
dent of Knox-Rivers Construc
tion Company and the Knox-
Florida Development Corpora
tion.
Roy L. Ward, class of
1933, a partner in the account
ing firm of Mount and Carter
in Atlanta and past president
of the Georgia Society of Cer
tified Public Accountants.
William Hartman Jr., class
of 1937, Athens agent of the
National Life Insurance Com
pany of Vermont and member
of the Million Dollar Round
table. He was for many years a
baokfield coach for the Univer
sity of Georgia.
Gordon Jones, class of 1940,
president of the Fulton Nation
al Bank of Atlanta and trustee
of the University Foundation.
Arthur L. Montgomery, class
of 194 4, president of the At
lanta Coca-Cola Bottling Com
pany and executive vice presi
dent of bottling companies in
six Georgia cities.
The committee made seven
suggestions directly related to
the Auburn-Georgia weekend.
It was agreed that every ef
fort would be made to make
it a hospitality weekend. The
Bulldog Club will provide
printed leaflets welcoming the
Auburn students. The IFC will
encourage University fraterni
ties to invite their correspond
ing Auburn chapters to visit
them. Auburn students will be
welcome at the all-campus
concert and fraternity open
parties over the weekend.
Auburn and Georgia fresh
men will not wear ‘‘rat caps”
during the weekend. Editorials
and news exchanges between
the Red ami Black and the
Auburn Plainsmen will empha
size goodwill.
The cheerleaders will encour
age hospitality at all times and
no mockery of either team’s
mascot will he allowed. No
signs, banners, leaflets, or cir
culars of poor taste will be
allowed on campus. Painting
of buildings on either campus
is not permitted.
Hospitality is to be stressed
at pep rallies at both schools
prior to the game.
The delegates attending
the Oct. 3 conference at Au
burn were Charles Horne,
freshman football; Bobby Lee-
burn, varsity football;' Buck
Barber, freshman class; Teri
Barton, cheerleader; Jolaine
Wood, WSGA; Tucker Dorsey,
Student Council; Jim Bishop,
IFC; and Sandra Newton, ma
jorette.
1st Seals Go
To Panllel
The first sheet of tubercu
losis seals in Athens, framed
and signed by Georgia’s Gov.
Carl Sanders, Saturday was
presented to the Panhellenlc
Council for its large donation
to the Piedmont Tuberculosis
Association.
Mr. Francis Brown, president
of the seven-county association,
presented the seals to Panhel-
lenic President Elaine Kemp at
the Athens Airport, where the
award had been flown in from
Atlanta l>y the Civil Air Pa
trol.
Present at the ceremony
were the association’s Board of
Directors and Gall Browne, a
member of the Council.
Panhellenic hns been the
largest single contributor to the
association for the past several
I years.
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