Miss America is pinned to KU senior
By Judy Farrell
When Bob Boulware gave his KU fraternity pin to his girl, he stepped into a role in a modern fairy tale.
For Boulware are the pinnate of Debbie Bryant, a Kansas girl who is the reigning Miss America.
Boulware, Leawood senior, and Debbie, a KU-bound junior from Overland Park, became pinned January 26, climaxing a 15-year friendship.
TALL, BROWN-EYED, brown-
haired Boulware originally met
Miss Bryant through her older
brother, Doug.
"Doug and I have always been friends," Boulmeal said. "Debbie and I went to grade school and high school together."
Boulware and Miss Bryant, now a five-foot six-inch blue eyed blonde, began dating sporadically when Boulware was a junior and Miss Bryant a sophomore at Shawnee Mission East High School.
THE PAIR began to date steadily just last Christmas and made the relationship official when he gave her his Phi Gamma Delta fraternity pin on Jan. 26.
"We haven't kept it a secret, but then we haven't made a big deal out of it either." Bob said.
The pinning was quietly announced in the Phi Gamma Delta house, of which Bob and his twin brother. Bill, are members.
Boulware and Miss Bryant have an agreement that she need not wear the pin when posing for pictures or during personal appearances. "Eut I don't know if she does or doesn't," he said.
TO COLLEGE students joining is traditionally a step toward an engagement, referred to as an engagement to be engaged, but they are vague about the future.
"We really don't know vet," he said. "We just haven't made any plans."
BOULWARE WILL graduate from KU in June with a degree in business and will travel during the summer and fall for a Kansas City travel agency. He will spend September and October in the Far East and the Orient. He eventually hopes to enter the insurance business.
By August, when she relinquishes her crown to a successor, Miss Bryant will have travelled
several hundred thousand miles about the United States as part of her duties as Miss America.
A graduate of Christian College, a women's junior college in Columbia, Mo., Debbie plans to enter KU as a junior in the fall. She has already completed enrollment and has visited Hashinger Hall to select the room she hopes to be assigned.
Her plans for the future include graduation from KU and study to become a pediatrician at the University of Kansas Medical School.
"I KNOW DEBBIE will be at KU next year," Bob said. "But I'm not sure about the future—she'll probably go on to medical school."
Right now, the duo manage to see each other about once a
month—depending on her travels and his studies.
"She comes up for parties," Boulware said. "Or else we go on. shows or whatever is going on."
He finds the couple is seldom bothered by autograph seekers or photographers when they're on dates. They try to remain as anonymous and inconspicuous as possible, he said.
THOUGH BOULWARE and Debbie were still "just friends" and not pinnates when she was crowned Miss America, he admits to feeling quite proud of her and of knowing her at the time.
"I was very, very pleased," he said. "I thought the judges made a wise decision. It's too bad all girls can't have the opportunities that being Miss America has brought to Debbie."
THE DAYS OF YORE
Hobos and Doc Yak—signs of the times
By Mary Dunlap
From the heart of the Twenties to the end of the Thirties, the legendary hobo found a sanctuary in the heart of Kansas, on Mt. Oread.
I first heard about Hobo Day, when a relative (Class of '39) asked when it would fail this year. And what about Doc Yak? she continued. Lost, I went to old files to find out if it were all a type of spring madness, or if the Day and the Yak really did exist.
HOBO DAY AT KU began officially in 1894, when students learned that they could sell old clothes to traveling rag dealers, who paid them well. A group of students was then trying to raise money to go to far-away Kansas City for an annual "beer bust."
The clothes sale was so profitable that the rag dealers decided to make Lawrence a regular stop each spring . . . it soon became a convention center for old clothes sales in spring. Until the coming of prohibition, the dealers converged yearly on the town.
For years, students sold any rags, bones, bottles, or crew socks that they had on hand.
PROHIBITION CLAMPED ITS restrictions on the annual beer bash, and it was discontinued. In 1922, however, students decided to declare a campus-wide Hobo Day, to build up spirit for the Kansas-Missouri game. Students were required to wear their oldest clothing, and were considered
"improperly dressed" if they didn't appear in ragged or comical clothes.
In 1826, a large number of students formed a mob which went from classroom to classroom, trying to break up classes. When the professor protested, he was often pushed out of the way by the rowdy students. Later, the chancellor declared that all classes were dismissed for the day.
In 1926, a delivery truck was stopped and stripped of all its edible contents . . . when the mob went to the Law School, a professor resisted them, and pushed one of the hobos down the stairs. The professor was quickly covered with a volley of bread, butter, and eggs.
A SIMILAR INCIDENT happened in 1928, when two well-loaded vegetable trucks stopped on campus at an opportune time ... during Hobo Day. Students stormed the trucks, and an all-out vegetable war ensued. Carrots and cabbages sailed through the ordinarily placid Kansas air. It may appear that Hobo Day was nothing more than an opportunity for students to disrupt classes, destroy property, and dissolve friendships, but other activities really highlighted the Day. Doc Yak was one of the highlights.
Doc Yak, physician extraordinary, brought his medicine show, with fabulous cures, to the campus in the spring. The honorable
doctor, who was in reality a popular student, peddled "pink pep pills for pale people," to instil pep in the student body. His medicine wagon, complete with painted wheels, was the stage for a grand medicine show.
THE DOCTOR'S SHOW often included musicians, sometimes a torch singer, and dancing girls. A hobo queen was also chosen during the show, by the amount of applause that she received on stage.
Runners-up were also chosen from the applause they received as they walked across the stage. Later, tug-of-war contests were held across Potter's Lake, and other games took the rest of the day. Generally, a large dance closed the event.
In 1932, three weary, 100 per cent hobos on a cross-country jaunt, stopped at KU for what they thought was a brotherhood meeting. The three sadly left the
ONE YEAR, FOLLOWING a large number of violations, the Men's Student Council (the All-Student Council was then divided into men's and women's councils) passed a resolution concerning the destruction of school property by the hobos-vandals-students.
It read: "That the MSC go on record as desiring on its authority to push criminal prosecution in the State of Kansas against any individuals guilty of painting or committing any acts of vandalism on the James Green Statue or the Pioneer Statue." A reward of $50 was offered for information leading to the capture of any violators.
The climax of the day was the crowning of the Hobo King and Queen, who had been chosen for appearance, applause (in the
campus after they discovered that the hobo tent was not the real thing, but a student innovation.
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queen's case) and the originality of their clothing. They were awarded a trip to the Kansas-Missouri game as their prize.
Hobo Day has since faded into a series of spring activities races and other flings at spring. The days of Doc Yak are long since gone, the vegetable fights and threatened statues are now a thing of the past. But they linger on in the minds of former graduates of 25 years ago who still ask: "When is Hobo Day, and what happened to Doc Yak?"
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Thursday, April 28, 1966
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