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Show Full week of activities October 20 to 26 With ostrich races, turtle races, ra-ces, a karate special, the world's biggest cake, and a myriad of other unusual events, Brigham Young University's 1968 Homecoming Week Oct. 20-26 is well themed "A Season for Remembering." Monday, Oct. 21, students weighing 110 pounds or iess will try their hand at riding the fleet, long-necked astriches in the area to the south of the Eyring Science Center. For the brave, a spirited donkey, will be featured on the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young University-Community Con cert Association series during the coming season. sea-son. Clawson Cannon, assistant dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications, said BYU cooperates with the downtown organization i n bringing the top performers to Provo. BYU students are admitted ad-mitted on their activity cards and Community Concert members mem-bers on their membership who has thrown thousands of would-be-riders throughout the United States and Canada, will challenge all comers. Karate, the once secret Chinese Chi-nese art of defense will be put on display Monday night by Ed Parker. BYU alumnus and a karate expert. Board-breaking and a ten-man attack on Parker will highlight the dem onstration which begins at 7 p.m. in the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse. Opening event of the Homecoming Home-coming activities will be a fireside Sunday evening, Oct. 20, in the Smith Fieldhouse featuring a General Authority of the LDS Church. . Three BYU coed will be crowned the Homecoming roy alty of 1968 in a special Homecoming Home-coming Assembly to be held Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 10 a.m. in the Smith Fieldhouse. Over 100 "shelled" contestants are expected ex-pected to compete. Thursday's activities will include in-clude the finals of the Turtle Trot contest and the traditional Queen's banquet to be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Skyroom of the Wilkinson Center. " Construction of what could be the world's largest cake will begin Thursday in the Wilkinson Wilkin-son Center. Thousands of BYU coeds will contribute individual brickshaped cakes which will be assembled on the back of a flat-bed truck to make the enormous creation. Highlighting Friday, Oct. 25. will be the 10 a.m. convocation at which time an outstanding speaker will deliver the Founder's Foun-der's Day message and awards will be presented. Climaxing the week will be the Homecoming parade at 9:30 a.m. in downtown Provo and University of Texas at El Paso-BYU football game at 1:30 p.m. in the Cougar Stadium. Sta-dium. Class reunions and the Fieldhouse Frolics at 8:30 p.m. in the Fieldhouse will end the Homecoming activities. Leading artists of the world tickets must be picked up for each concert. All of the concerts next school year will be held in the de Jong Concert Hall of the Harris Finer Arts Center, with the exception of the last one, which will bring the Utah Symphony Orchestra with world famous pianist Van Cli-bum Cli-bum ,as soloist in the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse, on March 31. The following will also perform per-form during the season. October 31, Alicia de Lar-rocha, Lar-rocha, the greatest pianist to come from Spain in our generation, gen-eration, who has achieved an encrmous reputation as an unsurpassed un-surpassed performer of Spanish Span-ish music. November 25, Amin Feres, a superb Brazilian basso, who is an international Contest Prize Winner in Rio and Barcelonia. |