Indianapolis Alumni Association

The 114th Annual Dinner

The Night Before Thanksgiving Dinner, legend has it, was originally planned as a fellowship event to aid traveling undergraduates. As the story goes, Alumni brothers in the Indianapolis area would meet trains stopping in Indianapolis Union station to meet undergraduate brothers traveling home for Thanksgiving. The Alumni would then treat the Undergraduates to dinner and fellowship. One known record survives of a dinner held in Indianapolis at the Claypool Hotel, the premier hotel in Indianapolis at the time. The Claypool was also the site of the GAC in 1904. There were only three Indiana chapters at the time, Indiana Alpha, Indiana Beta and Indiana Delta. The state of Indiana had three Alumni Associations: The State Alumni Association, the Anderson Alumni Association and the Indianapolis Alumni three song, heard several poems, two solos by brothers and a song by the Indiana Alpha Quartette entitled We Meet Again on the Sea. Charles H Neff, IN. Alpha 83 delivered a speech titled The Eternal Problem and the Honorable W.D. Robinson of IN Beta 77 spoke of Twenty Years After.

The Claypool HotelSite of the original Thanksgiving Eve dinners.

Association. The Programme symposiarch was the Honorable C.N. Thompson, Indiana Alpha,77. The attendees participated in

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