click image to zoomA dance card for the Mason Hall Spring Dance with a Dude Ranch theme, held on May 20, 1939. The dance featured Bob Siegrist and Band with Lynn Dawson, vocalist. The cover of the dance card shows a woman in an evening dress riding a bucking horse, while a man in a tuxedo sits on the ground after being knocked down. The dance card contains lists of committee members, patrons, and special guests.
According to a notice in the May 18, 1939 issue of the State News, the dance was held at Mason Hall.
The dance card was designed by Clare Gunn, while a landscape architecture student at MSU. Gunn then went on to become an MSU Extension Agent in tourism and resorts.
To view more pages of the dance card, click on the pdf link or download the text file.