Photos of the Cornell Women's Pageant - May 1917 - pages 63-66

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   I'm very lucky to have several of my grandmother Evelyn Clara Call's (1895-1962) photo albums. And perhaps even luckier that she labeled many of the photos - so I know roughly when and where they were taken, and who was in the photos. 

My grandmother attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1915-1916, and then Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 1916-1919.

Most of the photos on pages 63-66 are from the Cornell Women's Pageant presented on May 18-19, 1917. 

In May 1917, the women of Cornell put on several performances of a pageant in the amphitheater at Cascadilla Gorge. 

A couple of sections of the article about the pageant from the May 19 issue of the Ithaca Journal explain the purpose and intent of the pageant. 


Sat, May 19, 1917 – Page 6 · The Ithaca Journal (Ithaca, New York) · Newspapers.com

 Sat, May 19, 1917 – Page 6 · The Ithaca Journal (Ithaca, New York) · Newspapers.com
These are the newspaper articles I found in The Ithaca Journal about the pagent. 
 Thu, May 17, 1917 – Page 5 · The Ithaca Journal (Ithaca, New York) · Newspapers.com
 Thu, May 17, 1917 – Page 6 · The Ithaca Journal (Ithaca, New York) · Newspapers.com
 Sat, May 19, 1917 – Page 6 · The Ithaca Journal (Ithaca, New York) · Newspapers.com
 Page 63 - The Nymphs 

The Nymphs (Pageant)
Back: Shaw, Cheedsey, Parsons
Front: McKinley, Wolfe, Ralph, De Vany, Balliet, Throp, Sticklemeyn

Page 64 - Our Pageant  May 18-19, 1917    Girls Playground by Cascadilla Creek



The Finale


Greek Scene

Page 65 - Cornell friends





Mrs Reynolds


Hilda Greenawalt
(ready for pageant)

Hilda Louise Greenawalt (1896-1996) daughter of William Eckert Greenawalt and Cora May Cornell. She married Walter Denslow Way. She earned a degree in Agriculture from Cornell in 1919. Based on her costume, Hilda may have participated in the "Peace Maiden" part of the pageant program. 


The "adorable grandmother"
(Frances Searles in "Leonarda")

Frances Searles - Frances Elizabeth Willard Searles (1895 - 1970, daughter of Leroy Searles and Carrie Elizabeth Lyon) attended Cornell University from 1915-1918. She earned a B.S. degree.

Based on the caption of the photo - and the description in the Memories of the Coes - I believe this dress originally belonged to Elizabeth Ann Sornberger - who gave it to her granddaughter Elizabeth Ann Coe - who allowed her daughter Evelyn Clara Call's friend Frances Searles to wear it as "a grandmother in a play at Cornell". More info about the dress is in my post at https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2020/07/memories-of-coes-9-gatherings-at-uncle.html


Muriel-Edith Delzell & Evelyn Clara Call

Myriel Edith Delzell (1893-1986) daughter of John T Delzell and Alice Royce. She married James H Vance. She earned a degree in Agriculture from Cornell in 1917

Entrance to Sage


Just to finish out a roll of film
Evelyn Clara Call


Page 67 - Pageant







Finale

Assyrian Scene







Location: Ithaca, NY, USA

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