The Alumni Reunion Song Book, published in 1913, was a Virginia song book assembled for the first modern class reunion, the 1913 reunion of the class of 1908.[1] The reunion was organized by Lewis D. Crenshaw in his capacity as first secretary of the General Alumni Association. Given Crenshaw's authorship of "Hike, Virginia" and his involvement in other songbook projects, it is likely that he was responsible for assembling this songbook as well.
Bruce's History of the University of Virginia states that the alumni processed singing University songs from the Charlottesville train station toward Grounds:
…the … visitors took up the march towards the University. As they tramped along, they broke into the old familiar songs and repeated the ear-splitting college yell, while the excited and gaping crowds on the sidewalks greeted them with shouts of admiration and approval. Arriving at the north front of the Rotunda, they mounted the steps, rank after rank, and deploying by way of the colonnade terrace, halted on the south front of the building. Rallying around their banner and uncovering their heads, they sang the Good Old Song, to the tune of Auld Lang Syne...[2]
It is likely that the Alumni Reunion Song Book was used to support this and other public singing during the reunion.
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- ↑ University of Virginia Alumni Association (1913). Alumni reunion song book. https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3918294.
- ↑ Bruce, Philip Alexander (1922). History of the University of Virginia. V. p. 344. https://archive.org/stream/historyofunivers05brucuoft#page/344/mode/2up. Retrieved 2015-08-21.