Founder's Day

Students in costume including four in stereotypical Native American dress
Students in costume including four in stereotypical Native American dress
Students costumed as members of Queen Victoria's court
Students in costume at the faculty-student baseball game
Student wearing dark makeup and dressed as a pirate at the faculty-student baseball game
Students in costume for the Founder's Day parade
Students in costume at the faculty-student baseball game
Class of 1927 at the song contest
Students in costume
Students in costume at the faculty-student baseball game
The Class of 1920 leading the march away from song contest
Masque of the Seasons dance for Founder's Day
Song contest
Morris dancers performing at Founder's Day
Morris dancers performing at Founder's Day
Morris dancers performing at Founder's Day
Morris dancers performing at Founder's Day
Pageant in honor of the Walt Whitman centennial entitled "At the Call of the Bird". The event was part of an "American Day" themed Founder's Day and included scenes from the country's past, present, and future. This scene includes enslavers and enslaved people and the performers are wearing
Students at a Halloween party standing around a keg of apple cider, some holding doughnuts. One student is wearing a stereotypical Romani costume
Student at a Halloween party having her palm read by a another student is wearing a stereotypical Romani costume
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