Volume 10 , Issue 24

1935 - 11th Annual Junior-Senior Banquet of NSTC

It was Monday, May 13, 1935, 6:30 p.m., at the American Legion Hall, in Alva, Oklahoma, that the 11th annual Junior-Senior Banquet of the Northwestern State Teacher's College was held. March of that year the "Castle on the Hill" had burned.

The image to the left was a cut-out with my dad's name (Merle McGill) printed on it that I found with the partially mouse eaten program from that banquet.

On the menu was fruit cocktail, meat pie, riced potatoes, creamed peas, glazed carrots, olives, parker house rolls, waldorf salad, ice cream, wafers and mints.

The Toastmaster was Earnest Read; Invocation was given my Miss Shockley; the welcome was given by Louise Ewalt; and the Response by Verlin Easterling.

The Floor Show consisted of Director, Mr. Turner; Vocal Solo, Justin Bradshaw; Accompanist, Helen Sherrill; Reading, Dorothe Douglas; "New Buildings for Northwestern," President Hatcher; "Castle Airs," John Day; Accompanist, Jack Archer; "New Buildings for Seniors" Dean Percefull; "new Buildings for Juniors," Miss Holland; "The Castle Falls," Marion Monfort; Group Singing, "The Castle On the Hill," Leader, W. P. M..... (because of the mouse eaten portion, we couldn't make out W. P. M's last name); Dancing and Bridge.

On the back of the program were printed the words to Oh! Northwestern!.

Oh! Northwestern!
You have written your name in history
Oh! Northwestern!
You've engraved it deep up on the scrolls of fame
We have linked our lives with yours
Oh! Northwestern!
Our achievements add a luster to your fame --
Chorus
So then stand ye sons and daughters of old Northwestern
Take off your hats to the men upon the fields
They will fight tonight for old Northwestern
And for the honor of the Castle on the Hill
So then stand ye sons of old Northwestern
Pay your tribute to the men who never yield
They will fight tonight for old Northwestern
And for the glory of the Castle on the Hill.
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