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Make Convention Delegates Welcome to Ames
Tribune photo published April 25, 1949

More than 100 spectators and many employees of Collegiate Manufacturing company sang songs, waved banners and in general had a good time Sunday at about 5:30 p.m. as they welcomed passengers on a special train carrying student supply store managers to a Los Angeles convention.  The local manufacturing company set the stage for the welcome by providing a band, seeing to the distribution of Iowa State college blue cheese and decorating the area with pennants.  Above: Bill Beresford, unofficial convention photographer, is snapped himself as he poses with an Iowa State college beauty, one of six to distribute the blue cheese.  Bill, eastern representative for Collegiate Manufacturing, spent four years at Ames during the war.

Collegiate Manufacturing Company was headquartered in the present Octagon Center for the Arts building at 5th and Douglas.  The firm manufactured collegiate sportswear, banners, pennants, and stuffed toy animals for the trade.