Iowa Heritage Digital Collections
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May Day Pageant

May Day Pageant

Title

May Day Pageant

Description

The May Day Pageant was started around 1901 by the Y.W.C.A. The May Queen is selected from the senior women, by the men students, while the women elect a Cardinal to crown and attend to the Queen. The procession marches across the campus to the Queen's throne. The procession is led by two trumpeters, followed by the Queen and the Cardinal, and ended with the flower girls and the entertainers. After the Cardinal has crowned the Queen, the classes put on various forms of entertainment to entertain the Queen, which included the winding of the maypole. The day ended with a meal followed by a play or concert put on by the speech or music departments.

Source

Box 9

Publisher

William Penn University; Wilcox Library Digital Archives

Date

1900's?

Rights

www.wmpenn.edu/library/library.html

Format

image/jpeg

Type

image

Identifier

http://cdm16125.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p16125coll5,65