Monday, February 9, 1948 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three
o Generations See Colorf -Hops
Revelries, Reveries, eveille
Highlight'Week-End of Year'
By H. C. L. JACKSON, JR glee fading later into lazy silences.
THE weekend of the year-un- Second Spin
forgettable in its music, mirth and Saturday saw a city of p.m.
merrment--melted into memories risers and slow starters but after-
with yesterday's twilight leaving noon gatherings followed by more
6,000 J-Hoppers weary but wistful, banquets soon had the second spin
reluctant to let it slip away. well underway. At 10 p.m. black
Beginning with a barrage of coats, flashing smiles, bare shoul-
dinner partea Friday evening, the ders, shining formals-all churned
initial cyclone of activity stopped in a sea of anticipation as the
spinning only after the last donut second contingent of 1,500 couples
had been dunked and devoured flooded the IM Building's Winter
and the 4 a.m. curfew had passed. Wonderland.
The Campus Cop sat grumpily on The J-Hop itself was staged
the sidelines as "car free" students beneath the sulky blue of an Al-
roam edthe city. their shouts of nine night Glistening white snow
Waterman Gym Transformed
Into Ballroom for_1919 Dance
tEDITOuis NOTE Wriig i the than the contrast between the
. c. l. Jiaon, a w-rliios spirit rife in the great Waterman
etroit columnist, gives picture of gymnasium at one-thirty yester-
the dance some of our parents en- day morning, and the atmosphere
ioyed. of the same building at one-thirty
By H. C. L. JACKSON yesterday afternoon.
The J-Ho has rocketed into Every arrangement for the great
the social heaven buist into a event was completed early yester-
{ ~thousand sparks - black, white, day, and the tremendous hal
and all the colois of the iainbowsto sie.Asnleft'p
shot lowing thiough the balmy within the building sent its echoes
night and-come to an end. up to the high ceiling to ring
Five crowded hours of happi- back again through the canopy of
ness a jumble of music, lights, bunting, to reverberate once again
colorss'miles and then,a a vweet- from the walls..
ly swinging waltz slowly dying Son S gse
away into a silence tinged with
sorrow. It seems as if the struggle be-
Chicago Dancer tween winter and spring going on
Weeks of planning and con- outside the gymnasium were re-
sistent work by the committee peated inside. And just as the
made possible last night's success. chill prosaic fingers of winter re-
The playing of the orchestras, leased their clutch and gave a
STYLES COME AND GO-- Wright's and Benson's, was in- warm evening for the Hop, so
Thirty years have wrought spiring. Miss Patsy Shelley, solo the tawdry touch of daylight
many changes in J-hoppers' at- dancer from Chicago, added a yielded within the gym to the
tire. professional touch to the event. glowing mystery of night-and
Color was the salient charac- the lilting fantasy of the dance.
revellers had thrown in the teristic of the event. The Hop Night arrived, the dancers en-
sponge. The silence that ensued was a living kaleidoscope of shift- tered the hall, and the musical
was broken only by squeaking ing shades; a rotating, swirling magic of the evening - awakened,
hinges as cautious townsfolk crept mass of laughing women and and banished for the nonce the
up out of stormcellers-hopeful smiling men; a blend of futurist cares of a work-a-day world.
that the wild winds of J-Hop had decorations and post-futurist The J-Hop of 1919 has flashed
given them back Ann Arbor for dresses . . into history. The best of it re-
another year Nothing could be more striking mains-MEMORY.
slid down the wa
U) the booths and bli
I ayoff ance under darting crii
Live pine trees ti
N Il e f I -TOt1 moons surrounde
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sey and Dunham
r T and over them.
Fran WineyGar To EArly Morning
Play for Event Friday Reveries before
quiet breakfasts
Coeds will have a chance to in the early mor
repay their J-Hop dates at Mor- the gap from dai
tarboard's annual "Payoff Dance" 4 a.m., sagging ho
to be held from 9 p.m. to midnight final surge of stre
Friday in the League Ballroom. porches free of lin
Fran Wine-Gar and his "Pipes exhaustion ovento
of Fran" will play for the tradi- The weekend
tional, informal affair. Nola will Sunday dinnersf
be the featured vocalist. The dee- noon movies for
orations will center around a Val- sundown even the
entine's Day theme.
Proceeds from the sale of tickets
to the dance will be .used for
the Ewo Mortarboard scholarships m
awarded at Installation. Night in
the string.
Jo Osgood is chairman of the 7
"Payoff Dance' committee. Other he
committee members are Penny
Klausner, assistant chairman; Ro-
as Radliff, patrons; Nancy Holt, C ass
decorations; Jerry Gaffney, pro-
grams; Eunice Mintz, publicity;
and Ruth Klausner, refreshments.
lls, drifted over
ushed repeatedly
mson spotlights.
ped with yellow
d the dancers
melodies by Dor-
floated through
friendly fires,
and wanderings
ning air bridged
nce to dawn. At
usemothers in a
ngth swept their
igering lads, and
ok the city.
stretched into
for some, after-
more, but by
e hardiest of the
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