Student dancers, fiftieth anniversary pageant

June 8 or 9, 1920

View this item

Student dancers, fiftieth anniversary pageant
  • Title
  • Student dancers, fiftieth anniversary pageant
  • Date
  • June 8 or 9, 1920
  • Identifier
  • PCW000270
  • Description
  • College students, who danced in the production, pose together. In place of the 1920 May Day pageant, students, faculty, alumni, and members of the community produced an elaborate production, "Victory Through Conflict," in celebration of the college's fiftieth anniversary. Presented twice over two days and running over three hours, the pageant was written by Mary Brownson, professor of history, and Vanda Kerst, head of the expression department. The music was composed by Walter Wild, director of the music department, and dances were directed by Marion Gifford, professor of physical education. The pageant was dedicated to former PCW president Cora Helen Coolidge and consisted of four parts depicting the history of the world beginning with the Israelites crossing the Red Sea and closing with the end of WWI. Pictured in the front row to the far left is Florence Solomon Ellis '22. Caroline Sumpter Sullivan '21 is in the front row third from left, Frances Frederick Thompson '21 is ninth from left, and Jean Bumgarner '23 is tenth from left. In the back row, Ella May Wilson (attended '18-'20) is pictured to the far left. Helen Gross Alderman '22 is second from left, Bonnalyn Connelly '22 is third from left, Helen Sapper Rider '23 is fifth from left, Mildred Clyde '23 is tenth from left, Ruth Keck Schell '22 is twelfth from left, Sarah Greves (attended '20-'21) is thirteenth from left, and Julia Hamm Chornyak '22 is sixteenth from left.
  • Place of Publication
  • College Campus
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Women college students--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
    Shadyside (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Pennsylvania College for Women
    Pennsylvania College for Women--Anniversaries
    May Day--United States
    Pageants--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
    Costume
    Portraits, Group--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
    Ellis, Florence Solomon
    Sullivan, Caroline Sumpter
    Thompson, Frances Frederick
    Bumgarner, Jean
    Wilson, Ella May
    Alderman, Helen Gross
    Connelly, Bonnalyn
    Rider, Helen Sapper
    Clyde, Mildred
    Schell, Ruth Keck
    Greves, Sarah
    Chornyak, Julia Hamm
  • Geographic Subjects
  • College Campus
  • Source
  • Chatham University May Day Collection
  • Contributor
  • Chatham University
  • Collection
  • Chatham University May Day Collection
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
    http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/