Homecoming Parade Float

People dressed in costumes on the Innis Homecoming Float (1964)
Homecoming Parade Float, October 24, 1964 • [L to R] Ann Barnett, Fred Strang, [also on board] Wendy Lord, Sherry Kelner, Marsha Ablack • “U of T’s annual Homecoming Weekend comes up a week this Friday and the Blue and White have big plans for it this year. The whole thing starts with the big Homecoming Show on Friday, October 23… Then following a hectic night of float-building (and float-building parties) Saturday morning features the float parade in which 29 faculties vie with each other with their creations for the parade prize.” ~Excerpt from The Varsity, Vol. 84., No. 9. Oct 14, 1964:

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