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Weekend Of Festivities
Attracts University Alumni

University alumni from as far
away as California, Oklahoma,
Wisconsin, Florida and New York
will return to the University today
for the annual Alumni Day weekend.

A highlight of the weekend will
be the 16th annual varsity-alumni
spring football game beginning at 2
p.m. tomorrow in Scott Stadium.
Eighty members of past University
football teams will join fourth-year
men from the 1968-69 team in a
match against next year's varsity
team. Proceeds from the game will
go to the University athletic department.

The Thomas Jefferson Society
of Alumni, composed of alumni
whose classes left the University 50
years or more ago, will gather
tomorrow for a reception at 6 p.m.
in Alumni Hall and a banquet at 7
p.m. in Newcomb Hall. During the
banquet the society will present
special certificates of recognition to
members of the class of 1919.

At tomorrow's luncheon and
meeting of the Alumni Association,
Edgar F. Shannon Jr. will present
his annual report to alumni. In
addition, the Alumni Association
will announce the winners of the
Distinguished Professor and Distinguished
Student Awards.

The awards, established in 1966,
were presented last year to Dr.
Charles Julian Bishko, professor of
medieval history, and Arthur
Powell Gray IV, then a fourth-year
student in the College of Arts and
Sciences.

Today at 1:30 p.m. the University
will play Virginia Commonwealth
University in a golf match at
Keswick Club of Virginia and at 3
p.m. the track team will meet the
University of Richmond at Lambeth
Field.

Tomorrow there will be an
alumni-varsity tennis match at
10:30 a.m. at Lady Astor Courts
and an alumni-varsity lacrosse
match at 11 a.m. behind University

Hall.

Other activities include open
houses and individual class reunion
festivities, the Virginia Players'
production of Shakespeare's "Comedy
of Errors" tonight and tomorrow
night at 8:15 in Minor Hall.