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Student Activities - College of Family Life: Party!
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Students from the College of Family Life knew how play host. The invitations below indicate their flare for hosting theme parties. Both invitations date from the 1940s. The first, shaped like a clog, invites the recipient to a “Dutchman’s Brawl.” The second invite requires the recipient to lift the skirt of the paper doll to learn they were invited to attend a “backwards party;” attendees were instructed to “wear anything but it must be on wrong.”
What greater party is there than a football rally?
In 1910 the Utah State University Newspaper referenced what must be one of the first “genuine” football rallies for the school.[1] The purpose of a football rally, it reads, is “to let the players feel that the students are supporting them and will fight with them to the last ditch.”[2]
Given the Home Economics Club’s desire to be of service to the school, it is no surprise it chose to be a willing and active participant in such rallies. On the left, a page from the 1917 yearbook shows club members at an “H.E.C. Foot-Ball Rally.”