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SOCIAL NEWS
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THE TUDHOPE MEET BANQUET & DANCE
The first social event of our 1946- 47 was on Saturday, October 5th; the banquet and dance climaxing the sports day of the Tudhope Meet. The ban- quet was served by the form social convenors in the auditorium at seven o'clock. The tables were very attrac- tively decorated with •black and gold streamers, candles and fall flowers.
After the bountiful and sumptuous dinner speeches were made, and the award~ p r e s e n t e d t o t h e f i e l d d a y rhamnions for the victories of the day. To add a most pleasant ending to an eniovable dinner, Mr. F. Boyd Wood Jed the assembly in a sing-song and Helen Butler favoured the assembly with a number of "Boogie-W oogie" piano selections.
Later in the evening a dance was held in the gymnasium and due to the number of requests we received for d"nre numbers dedicated to the heroes of tl1e day, Mr. Riley made the da'!lce nroP"ramme quit<> a noveltv iby changmg it into an all request pro~amme, bro,.rlc:u;ted from f<tation C.C.I.
Due to the distance the visitors h:vl to gn. the dance enrled at eleven o'cl0rl< with everyone rather reluctant to leave but a wre bit wearien after a strenuous but very enjoyable day.
THE HARVEST HOP
Our first really big dance of the
year was the Harvest Hop held on Friday evening, October 18. The dance was something new and very different from any other dance ever held in the school before and it really came off with a bang!!
The auditorium was decorated to represent a barn; everything, including the pupils, had that harvest time ap- pearance. The walls were littered with horse collars, harness and saddles, as well as coloured boughs and evergreen boughs interwoven with coloured lights. Corn stalks and wheat sheaves were piled in the corners and along the walls. In one corner there was a blazing camp fire (artificial, of course) and in an- other corner there was an animal pen that contained a beautiful white bunny- rabbit. The benches along the ends and one side ·of the gymnasium were truly luxurious, consisting of planks
resting on kegs. The center-piece for the floor was a large scare-crow seated on a high platform and surrounded by pumpkins, squash and other fall fruits and vegetables, as well as coloured boughs. And to make everything per- fectly complete the dancers danced under a beautiful harvest moon.
The dancers themselves came dressed as real harvesters. The girls wearing gingham or print dresses or slacks, while the bovs wore dungerees, or overalls and plaid shirts, complete with straw hats and even corn-cob nipes. Thev danced by the light of the multiple-coloured harvest moon and the C'oloured lights among the leaves.
During the course of the rvening- snme ent<>rtainmPnt W M supplied by Mr. F. Boyd Wood. James Belcher, HPlPn 'But.ler. Mary GriPvson and others :m d w:u; t1J,roughly en.ioyed by every- nne. For those pupils who do not rlance there were games in the lower h>~ll. and tahle-tennis and shuffle~board in t1,p basements.
Lunrh was served "t ten o'clock f•·nm a large table on the south side n f the f("vmn,.sium. Thi~ table was decor"t.Pd with strr:J.m<>rs. a large numnkin facn surronnded with coloured lPRves nn the centre-pif'rP. and two lar""e rider-k.,,.s, nne placed at each enrl of the t."hle. ThP lunch w::ts ~Prved (',f, tPt-ia f<t"le and it rnllf<isted of sand- winhPs. ral<:e, and gallons of apple- cider.
C. C. I. GLEANER
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THE SKI DANCE
Our second dance and the first one of the new year was the Ski Dance, held on Friday evening, January 31. The dance climaxed our first Inter- Collegiate Ski Meet and it, as well as our Ski Meet, turned out to be a huge success.
The auditorium was decorated with all the skiing tributes possible. Ski posters were hung on the walls and along the balcony and these pictures advertised all the greatest skiing re- sorts in Canada. Along the windows and under the baskets there were cross- ed skies and poles tied with black and
rf' s umerl aftE>r nntil midnig-ht.