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October 17, 1953
The Miami Times
Miami, Dade County, Florida
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Florida A&M University's first homecoming as a university features crowning of queen Mona Humphries, alumni events, pep rally, parade, and football game against Morris Brown in Tallahassee, attracting thousands of alumni amid new academic and facility developments.
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FAMU Homecoming This Week-end
TALLAHASSEE
The crowning of attractive Mona Humphries here Friday evening at 6:30 as university queen before an expected audience of some 1,700 persons in Lee Auditorium, will initiate the annual homecoming observance at Florida A and M University.
Other activities of the two-day celebration which is expected to attract several thousand former students and graduates back to the "hill" includes the alumni meeting scheduled for nine p.m. Friday -- the traditional pep rally - Rattlers Strike at 11 o'clock in Bragg stadium, home of the national championship Rattlers.
The Saturday morning alumni open house observance between 9 and 11 - the traditional homecoming parade at 10 o'clock the A and M-Morris Brown football game at 2:30 and the student and alumni dances at 8 p.m.
Homecoming this year will be the first such observance since the 66-year old institution attained university status. And the attainment of university status has resulted in the establishment of two colleges law and arts and sciences and six schools, agriculture and home economics, education. engineering and mechanic arts. nursing education and graduate studies.
There have also been many changes in the A and M physical plant. For example, the $400,000 law college wing is almost ready for occupancy, and construction is rapidly progressing on the agriculture-home economics, economics wing, the ROTC wing, the guest house, and the $1,000,000 science-pharmacy building.
Miss Humphries, a senior chemistry major from Apalachicola, will be crowned amid all the pomp and splendor the university can accord on such an occasion.
Her attendants are Julia Clark, junior, Orlando and Albertha Nelson, sophomore, Miami.
The complete coronation program follows: prelude "Improvisations," (Grand March from Aida-Verdi) senior class, Robert Gady, Daisy Alexander; junior class, Samuel Marshall. Margaret Bracy; sophomore class, Brodes Hartley, Mae I. Vesta; freshman class, Eugene. Cromartie, Constance Twiggs; Alpha Phi Omega, Joseph Jones, Montine Meeks: Scabbard and Blade, Carl Os-borne, Vergnousteen Crowe; Phi Beta Sigma, Robert L. Allen, Bettye Davis; Omega Psi Phi, Leroy Bell, Joyce Eubanks; Kappa Alpha Psi, Alvin White, Norma Solomon and Alpha Phi Alpha, Joseph Watts and Doris Anderson.
Miss Humphries will be crowned by C. Wendell Austin, president of the Student Government Association. Following the coronation she will make a statement and be presented with the homecoming football by co-captains John Arnold and Sam Marshall.
A selection Indian Love Call by Laura Bryant and Jesse Florence will preceed the singing of the alma mater, will mark the end of the coronation program.
Matthew W. Gilbert High School band of Jacksonville; stunts by the Lions pep squad; a parade through the main streets of the city in which many beautifully decorated floats of campus and local organizations will be seen; and the presentation of Miss Florida Normal at half time.
The Victory social will get under way at 8 p.m. in the college gymnatorium.
On Friday night prior to the game an old fashion barn fire will take place on the campus.
TALLAHASSEE
The crowning of attractive Mona Humphries here Friday evening at 6:30 as university queen before an expected audience of some 1,700 persons in Lee Auditorium, will initiate the annual homecoming observance at Florida A and M University.
Other activities of the two-day celebration which is expected to attract several thousand former students and graduates back to the "hill" includes the alumni meeting scheduled for nine p.m. Friday -- the traditional pep rally - Rattlers Strike at 11 o'clock in Bragg stadium, home of the national championship Rattlers.
The Saturday morning alumni open house observance between 9 and 11 - the traditional homecoming parade at 10 o'clock the A and M-Morris Brown football game at 2:30 and the student and alumni dances at 8 p.m.
Homecoming this year will be the first such observance since the 66-year old institution attained university status. And the attainment of university status has resulted in the establishment of two colleges law and arts and sciences and six schools, agriculture and home economics, education. engineering and mechanic arts. nursing education and graduate studies.
There have also been many changes in the A and M physical plant. For example, the $400,000 law college wing is almost ready for occupancy, and construction is rapidly progressing on the agriculture-home economics, economics wing, the ROTC wing, the guest house, and the $1,000,000 science-pharmacy building.
Miss Humphries, a senior chemistry major from Apalachicola, will be crowned amid all the pomp and splendor the university can accord on such an occasion.
Her attendants are Julia Clark, junior, Orlando and Albertha Nelson, sophomore, Miami.
The complete coronation program follows: prelude "Improvisations," (Grand March from Aida-Verdi) senior class, Robert Gady, Daisy Alexander; junior class, Samuel Marshall. Margaret Bracy; sophomore class, Brodes Hartley, Mae I. Vesta; freshman class, Eugene. Cromartie, Constance Twiggs; Alpha Phi Omega, Joseph Jones, Montine Meeks: Scabbard and Blade, Carl Os-borne, Vergnousteen Crowe; Phi Beta Sigma, Robert L. Allen, Bettye Davis; Omega Psi Phi, Leroy Bell, Joyce Eubanks; Kappa Alpha Psi, Alvin White, Norma Solomon and Alpha Phi Alpha, Joseph Watts and Doris Anderson.
Miss Humphries will be crowned by C. Wendell Austin, president of the Student Government Association. Following the coronation she will make a statement and be presented with the homecoming football by co-captains John Arnold and Sam Marshall.
A selection Indian Love Call by Laura Bryant and Jesse Florence will preceed the singing of the alma mater, will mark the end of the coronation program.
Matthew W. Gilbert High School band of Jacksonville; stunts by the Lions pep squad; a parade through the main streets of the city in which many beautifully decorated floats of campus and local organizations will be seen; and the presentation of Miss Florida Normal at half time.
The Victory social will get under way at 8 p.m. in the college gymnatorium.
On Friday night prior to the game an old fashion barn fire will take place on the campus.
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Famu Homecoming
University Queen
Coronation
Football Game
Parade
Alumni Reunion
University Status
What entities or persons were involved?
Mona Humphries
Julia Clark
Albertha Nelson
C. Wendell Austin
John Arnold
Sam Marshall
Where did it happen?
Tallahassee, Florida A And M University
Story Details
Key Persons
Mona Humphries
Julia Clark
Albertha Nelson
C. Wendell Austin
John Arnold
Sam Marshall
Location
Tallahassee, Florida A And M University
Event Date
This Weekend
Story Details
The annual homecoming at Florida A and M University begins with the crowning of Mona Humphries as university queen, followed by alumni meetings, pep rally, parade, football game against Morris Brown, and dances. This is the first homecoming since the institution became a university, with new colleges and construction projects.