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JUNE, 1938 •          •Nine
HORACE
MANN
OBSERVES 
MAY DAY


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Photographs by Casson
The May Queen, Janet Junkin, with two of her 
attendants, Carvel Breedy and Caroline Miller. 
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With a large number of mothers in attendance to enjoy their efforts, the boys and girl of Horace Mann School celebrated a joyous May Day, with the various classes presenting folk dances of the different nations and the crowning of the May Queen as the feature of the day. Unfortunately, May Day was more like a March Day, with the wind blowing at a great rate, but the young people went bravely on with their performance to the applause of their appreciative audience. 
    Miss Janet Junkin, daughter of Mrs. Hattie Myers Junkin, had been chosen Queen of the May and her lovely dark hair and eyes were a happy contrast to the white of her costume. 
    May, with its blooming gardens and bright sunshine is appropriately dedicated to the children of the nation and somehow the month seems to belong to them. Winter is over and they are glad to be able to play out of doors; the woods and the streams beckon them to enjoy the gifts of Mother Nature and before them are long summer days of happy fun. 
    To the teachers at Horace Mann we owe a word of thanks for their work in making May Day so successful. They gave many hours before and after school to planning the program, training the children and helping with costumes, most of which were made by the mothers of the young participants. 
    Each class had a part in the production, even the young kindergartners. With the May Pole as the center of activity, the boys and girls gave the native folk dances of the various countries they were dresses to represent. Many of the folk dances are of seasonable origin and those selected for presentation were dances signifying the coming of spring. 

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Gary Wilkinson, Harry Bates, Jr., and Ned Lewis stand guard outside their Dutch windmill. 
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The Maypole figured in several of the folk dance presented by the boys and girls. 
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