HOMECOMING PLANNED FOR COLLEGE HERE

K.S.T.C. Celebration Includes Dedication of Kirk Memorial

(Copied from Kirksville Daily Express, September 18, 1940)

A homecoming deluxe is being planned
for the second annual homecoming of the
Teachers College here to be held on Oct.
26. Included in the highlights for the
day's program will be the dedication of
tie John R. Kirk Memorial building, a
perede of floats, football game between
che Kirksville Bulldogs and Iowa
Wesleyan College, homecoming banquet and
ball.

Forrest C. “Phog" Allen, director of
athietics at the University of Kansas
and foremost basketball coach and au-
therity of the country, will be featured
a3 sneaker at the banouet. William H.
Zierel, dean of the Delta State Teachers
Collere, Cleveland, Miss., and Jd. C.
Williams, of Chicazo, I1ll., will be fea-
tured on the dedication prorramn for the
Kirk Memorial,

The senereal homecominre plans are
sponsored by the Blue Key, service or-

eanization on the campus, which sponsored

the first annual homecoming last fall.

The general program for the day opens
at 10 o'clock when the dedication serv-
ices will be held. Jude J. A. Cooley,
president of the Board of Regents, will
preside over this section of the day's.
activities.

Dean Williems served 4s dean here
under Dr. John R. Kirk, late president
of the colleze here. Williams, a gradu-
ate of the school here and a classmate
of Dr. Walter H. Ryle, president of the
school, has been teaching for a number
of yeers in a large high school in
Chicago. Williams has been active in
the drive for funds for the memorial,

and was in charge of two banquets in
Chicago, which were in the interest of
the drive.

Dre P. O. Selby, of the faculty at
the Teachers College, will be on the
morning prorram to give a history of the
Kirk Memorial.

The noon hour will be devoted to
informal luncheons by various groups,
and it is expected that different student
orgenizations will meke plans for en-
tertaining old members during the day.

A parade of floats, which was one of
the features of last year's gathering, ~
will open at 1:30 o'clock. Student groups
are planning elaborate floats to enter in
competition for a loving cupe The home-
coming queen is to be selected and will be
crowned on the field just before the same.

The Kirksville-Iowa Wesleyan game is to
begin at 2 o'clock.

The homecoming banquet is scheduled for
6 o'clock at the Travelers Hotel and the
ball will follow at 9 o'clock in the Kirk
Auditorium.

Music will be furnished during the dey
by the marching band of the Teachers col-
lege, one of the largest in the history of
the institution, and by other groups. Prof.
Je Le Biggerstaff is striving to arrange
a progrem of music which will feature
musicians who were connected in some man-
ner with the school during the life of
Dr. Kirk.

A large oil painting of Dr. Kirk is
being painted and Pres. Ryle said this
morning that he hoped that the picture
would be finished in time to be unveiled
during the ceremonies.

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