STORY OF TRACK
Parade to reflect century
Tomorrow morning, Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence will be lined with spectators for the annual KU Relays Parade.
By Cheryl Hentsch
At 9:30 a.m., the parade of 30 entries moves north through town from South Park to 7th Street led by Grand Marshal Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe. Behind him follow a KU ROTC color guard, the KU Marching Band and a colorful queue of floats, special entries and beautiful girls.
The parade theme, "A Century of KU Athletics," combines the tradition of the Relays with the celebration of KU's 100th anniversary. Six floats constructed by KU living groups depict the development of varsity athletics.
THE ALPHA CHI Omega-Lambda Chi Alpha float, "Victorious Century," features two large caricatures of past and present track stars. As they race around the track, the mobile figures pass a baton recording a century of KU athletic achievements. The runners' gigantic papier-mache heads balanced on small bodies remind the viewer of Walt Disney cartoon characters.
During approximately two weeks of preparation, the Alpha Chi Omega-Lambda Chi Alpha workers faced only one serious problem, said Valerie Aeschleman, Hoisington sophomore. They could not maneuver the large papier-mache heads through the security house door.
Access camps "The Run of the Century" float designed by Sigma Kapaa and Phi Kapaa Sigma crosses the history of KU sports as illustrated by the changing Jayhawk mascot. Each scene is made separately and then transferred to the flat-bed truck which carries the entire float.
THE CHI OMEGA-Sigma Alpha Epsilon entry is "A Whale of a Century." Chicken wire and crepe paper form a football scene. In the center of the field, a large whale leaps hurdles to emphasize KU's athletic prowess.
The Lewis Hall-Templin Hall float represents the large dormitories in the parade. A mantle clock with swinging pendulum and Jayhawk cuckoo announce "Through Time with KU Track."
An "elephant" appropriately pulls the KU Young Republicans' covered-wagon float titled "Victors Through the Years."
The Relays parade committee in the last ten years has chosen a variety of themes. They sponsored a parade theme contest for the 31st Relays parade in 1956. Five pizza pies went to the person submitting the winning theme.
THE 1957 PARADE went international with "Sports Around the World." Twenty-three floats depicted "Sports in a Scientific World" for 1958.
The team of Kreutzer and Kreutzer (Gayle Kreutzer, Leavenworth junior, and Bob Kreutzer, Garden City junior) direct the construction of the Delta Delta Delta-Joseph R. Pearson parade entry. Two large revolving disks, symbolizing the past and present, compare the three major KU sports through the years. KU students will ride the float titled "Victors Through the Ages."
The size of the parade expanded in 1957 in keeping with the overall trend of the Relays. For the first time, faculty and business men joined to make the KU Relays one of the largest events of its kind. Thirty high school bands marched in the parade with representatives from every
KU ROTC unit. The Relays selected two queens that year for the first time. One represented the Big Seven schools, the other KU.
The campus debate the week before the 1961 parade centered on whether to mark various parts of the floats "His" and "Hers." This was the first time in the history of the parade that men and women worked together on floats.
Since the 1961 parade, Lawrence businessmen have helped finance the construction of KU floats. This year each group receives $50 per float from local merchants.
AMONG THE KU entries are numerous floats sponsored by civic organizations and several drill teams from northeast Kansas. Lawrence Explorer and Mariner Scouts, presenting a "Fun Afloat Show" this weekend at the National Guard Armory, have entered a display of canoes and powered craft.
The Haskell Indian Institute ceremonial dancers, the Shawnee Mission North High School Indianettes and mounted horse and pony units from the Lawrence area add a western flavor to the parade.
Relays royalty, the Engineering Queen and the 1966 Miss
Lawrence contestants will ride in the parade.
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KU floats will be displayed in Parking Zone X near the stadium Saturday afternoon for public viewing. A trophy for first place and plaques for second and third places will be presented during afternoon ceremonies. Judges of the floats are Dick Winternote, alumni secretary, Mrs. Kala Stroup, assistant dean of women, and John Meyers, assistant dean of men.
Daily Kansan
Friday, April 22, 1966
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