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Students revive tradition
By Harold Reutter
harold.reutter@theindependent.com
Published: Monday, May 2, 2011 11:38 PM CDT
At least 50 years of tradition continued at Howard Elementary Monday afternoon, with the school’s 400-plus students performing May Day dances for a large audience of parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents and siblings.
Howard Principal Julie Schnitzler discovered a program for “Dance on The Green and May Day Tea” that was dated Tuesday, May 23, 1961.
Schnitzler said the program documented that a May Day Dance — or at least a May Dance — has been happening at Howard Elementary for at least 50 years. The tradition in Grand Island dates back further than that.
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