For I'm to be queen of the May, mother, I'm to be queen of the May...

May 1 is many things to many people. At Slippery Rock State Teachers College in 1955, it signified a May Day celebration with a queen and court, a maypole dance, and various recitations on the lawn in front of North Hall. These photos are from the 1955 Saxigena, available in the Reference room.

May 1 is also...

• Law Day
• Lei Day
• Labour Day (in Canada and elsewhere)
• Loyalty Day
• Love Day (in the Czech Republic)

...and the title quote is from Tennyson's May Queene, which you could find in a collection of Tennyson's poems somewhere around PR 5550 F72, if it wasn't the last week of classes and you had a spare second to read for pleasure, never mind prancing around on the lawn in front of North Hall.