Homecoming parade grand marshal Vernie McDonald rides in a car. Vernie was the wife of St. Cloud State president Brendan McDonald, who served from 1982 to 1992.
Female students from area parochial schools, cadets from St. Thomas Academy, and a crowd lines up to the steps of the church for the annual May Day Rosary Procession. Crowd extends up Hennepin Avenue. Current newspaper accounts noted some 30,000 people participated.
At center, Knights of Columbus line up down steps of the church, parochial school students to either side, for the annual May Day Rosary Procession. Crowds fill Hennepin Avenue some distance up the hill to the south. Current newspaper accounts noted some 30,000 people participated.
The Sophomore float named "Axe the Jacks" in the Homecoming parade shows riders, Denny Kirkendahl (left) and Stan Sharman (right) in a barber shop scene.
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Portrait of Myrtle Laura Egan as Shakopee's city festival queen. The image shows Egan riding in a Ford convertible as part of a parade in Jordan. A sign on the driver's side door reads, in part, "Courtesy of Schmitt Ford." Attached to the side of the car above the rear driver's side wheel is a sign that reads "Miss Shakopee/Myrtle Egan." Egan was sponsored by the First National Bank of Shakopee, where she was an employee, and she served as Miss. Shakopee for both 1957 and 1958.
Inside the courthouse, Dwight Eisenhower met with a smaller group. Eisenhower's visit was the first presidential candidate campaign visit to St. Cloud.
A band is shown on South Minnesota Avenue on a parade float sponsored by the South Side Shell service station in 1952 in St. Peter, Minnesota. The Nicollet County Courthouse is visible in the background.