Veishea '95 Focuses On Alumna Carrie Chapman Catt by Anne Dolan Veishea '95, "Pathways to Progress," will honor several great ISU alums, continue long-standing Veishea traditions and revive a few others. The theme selected this year by the Veishea student committee alludes to words in alumna Carrie Chapman Catt's commencement address to the class of 1921. "Progress is calling you and me to make no pause," she told her audience. Catt, valedictorian of the class of 1880, was a leader in the women's suffrage movement and the effort to ratify the 19th Amendment, which gave the vote to women. Veishea co-chair G.W. Fuhr said students "are honored to celebrate her legacy." Veishea events begin Thursday afternoon, April 20, and conclude Sunday afternoon, April 23. For a list of campus events, see the calendar. Catt's great-great nephew Tim Lane and his daughter, Carrie Margrete Lane, Des Moines, are the grand marshals in this year's Veishea parade. About 85 units strong, the parade will begin at the WOI Communications Building and wind through campus to the Memorial Union. The parade starting time has been moved to noon. Iowa State alumna and former National Women's Political Caucus president Sharon Rodine, Iowa Women's Political Caucus founder Mary Louise Smith and men's basketball coach Tim Floyd will be parade co-marshals. SATURDAY CELEBRATION A special event celebrating Catt's accomplishments is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 22, on central campus. It will bring together Rodine, Smith and ISU theater professor and playwright Jane Cox. Rodine and Smith will speak and Cox will portray Catt in The Yellow Rose of Suffrage, a one-woman play she wrote about the suffragist's life. Rodine helped establish the ISU Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics and co-chairs the committee to raise funds to renovate Old Botany. Smith, the first and only woman to chair the national committee of the Republican Party (1974-1977), also is the first woman to organize and call to order the national convention of a major political party. Cox performed Yellow Rose at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in March. Another Veishea '95 guest is Peace Corps associate director Patti Garamendi, who will speak at the opening ceremony at noon Friday, south of the campanile. The ceremony also will include lighting of the Veishea torch, which arrives on campus after a 380-mile tour from Catt's birthplace in Ripon, Wis. Garamendi is a former Peace Corps volunteer named in 1993 to help lead the agency. She coordinates recruitment and volunteer services for the Peace Corps. In previous positions, she worked with California agencies to reduce teen pregnancy and prevent child abuse. She also started a program in 1990 that sends a mobile health van into inner-city neighborhoods. Additionally, she was the manager and controller of the Garamendi family cattle ranch for 23 years. Incoming head football coach Dan McCarney has brought back the spring intra-squad football game and included it in Veishea weekend. The game, which is free and open to all, begins at 2 p.m. at Cyclone Stadium/Jack Trice Field. 10,000 PIES Students in the department of hotel and restaurant management are gearing up for the return of the two-day cherry pie sale by baking 10,000 pies. For the past three years, the group sold pies only on Saturday. Pies will be sold in the MacKay Hall Tearoom Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. until the pies are gone. Veishea '95 will feature nearly 200 open houses sponsored by colleges, academic departments and student groups.More recent traditions, such as A Taste of Veishea on Welch Avenue throughout the weekend and the Rock the Rec party Friday night, also return this year. The Stars Over Veishea production is Peter Pan and will include a Sunday matinee performance (3 p.m.) in addition to the 7:30 p.m. performances Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $10 to $14 at the door, with discounts for advance purchases, children, Iowa State students, seniors and groups of 10 or more. Tickets are available through TicketMaster. _____ contact: Anne Dolan, Internal Communications, (515) 294-7065 updated: 4-21-95