Thanks to everybody who supported Homecoming 2009. Below we’ve got photos of the activities throughout the week, from Wear Red Get Fed and Paint the Town to the Homecoming parade and the halftime festivities at Saturday’s football game. And what a great way to end Homecoming, with NC State beating Maryland 38-31!
“Who doesn’t love a parade?” So asks Kellie Harper, the Wolfpack women’s basketball coach and grand marshal of the 2009 Homecoming Parade. It begins today at about 6 p.m. and will travel along Hillsborough Street. Come out and join Coach Harper and us for some fun! “It’s a time when everybody is excited about their university and what is going on,” Coach Harper says. “To rally around the football team – I love it.” The lineup will feature NC State coaches and athletic teams, cheerleaders, the university dance team, The Power Sound of the South and other local bands, student-sponsored floats, vintage cars and more.
NC State’s home page also has a lot of great coverage of Homecoming, including the above video of Cassius Williams ’69, former president of the Alumni Association Board of Directors who was instrumental in bringing back Homecoming to NC State.
In the early ’70s, the Homecoming celebrations that brought Cassius Williams ’69 back to campus were “great fun.” “Homecoming back then was a big deal,” Williams said. . . . Then it all stopped — and strangely, nobody seemed to know why. But ask how Homecoming returned, and you’ll likely hear “because of Cassius Williams.”
And don’t forget the Pack Howl Pep Rally and Concert tonight, which will feature the band Roman Candle and the CollegeHumor Live Tour. It begins at 7 p.m. on Harris Field.
After the jump, check out the photos that we’ve taken during Homecoming week so far.
Doc Hendley ’04, founder of Wine to Water, will speak tonight in the ballroom of Talley Student Center as part of this week’s Homecoming activities. His Boone-based nonprofit works to bring clean water to needy people around the world.
Hendley was recently named one of CNN’s top 10 heroes for 2009. You can view a video about his work and vote for him here.
We kicked off Homecoming Week last night with games and free food on Harris Field. There’s a complete listing of events (including tailgates) on our Homecoming events calendar. And don’t forget the Homecoming Parade on Hillsborough Street and the Pack Howl Pep Rally and Concert, which will feature the band Roman Candle and the CollegeHumor Live Tour.
And, finally, ncsu.edu is featuring Homecoming all week. Today, you can check out some great archival footage of campus, photo galleries and a history of NC State’s football facilities.
There’s some great archival footage in here of the Brickyard, the Bell Tower, Homecoming and the Court of North Carolina. If there are any alumni out there with this kind of film of NC State, drop me an e-mail at chris_richter@ncsu.edu. We’d love to see what you’ve got.
NC State will break ground on the new James B. Hunt Jr. Library today as it celebrates the 25th anniversary of Centennial Campus. The N&O has a front-page story on the history and evolution of Centennial Campus.
The campus is revered elsewhere in the world, but many locals aren’t aware of what it has become, said Tom Rabon, an executive vice president of Red Hat, the software company with headquarters on Centennial. About three years ago Rabon was invited to Toulouse, France, to talk about the place his company had picked for its headquarters.
“The French government paid me to come over and talk about nothing but Centennial Campus because they wanted to emulate exactly what we have,” he said. “People in Raleigh drive past every day and just have no idea what’s behind that line of trees on I-40, and no idea that Centennial Campus is the envy of the world.”
The 200,000-square-foot Hunt Library will include impressive features such an automated retrieval system. Check out a video of the system and see a virtual exhibit of the library. It’ll open in 2012 or 2013.
Got any 8mm film of a family picnic? Grainy footage from a parade? Dig out your reels and bring them over to the North Carolina State Archives on Jones Street in Raleigh this Saturday. The NC State Film Studies program and film archive A/V Geeks are hosting Home Movie Day from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
It’s an interesting and fun event that will leave you looking at these films in a new way. Movies will be shown, and you can learn how to preserve your own films. As the folks at A/V Geeks say, home movies take “us back to a time when Main Street was bustling and the beehive hair-do was all the rage, with images of people we may know or resemble. Home movies are the essential record of our past, and they are among the most authoritative documents of times gone by.”
Skip Elsheimer of A/V Geeks talked today about the event and home movies on WUNC’s The State of Things. You can hear it here.
If you know any high school students who are interested in NC State, encourage them to come out to NC State’s annual Open House on Saturday, Oct. 17. Information sessions and events go from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It’s a great opportunity for students to see campus and to learn about what the university has to offer.
There will be multiple admissions information sessions, walking and bus tours of campus, and information sessions for NC State colleges. Dozens of campus units will have information booths at Carmichael Gymnasium and Talley Student Center. And stick around to watch the NC State volleyball team take on Duke at Reynolds Coliseum at 6 p.m.
Visit the Open House Web site to check out the program, see photos of campus, get directions, register and learn more.
(Photograph courtesy of NC State News Services)
Come home to NC State for a week of events that will be capped off by some great football.
On Friday, size up the talent and school spirit on display in the Homecoming Parade, emceed this year by Lynda Loveland, co-host of “Bill & Lynda in the Morning” on MIX 101.5 WRAL-FM. Afterward, head to the Pack Howl Pep Rally at Lee Field and get warmed up for the game with Coach Tom O’Brien and the team captains, varsity cheerleaders, campus performers and Craziest Fan contestants.
The Young Alumni Society is having an oyster roast at Fosters American Grille Friday night and the Black Alumni Society has a series of events, starting with a 30th anniversary celebration Thursday night.
On Saturday, meet up with your friends at the Alumni Association pregame tailgate and cheer the Wolfpack to a win against the Maryland Terrapins.
We have your tickets! You can come as part of a participating reunion group or as a guest of the Alumni Association. We’ll have a family-friendly zone this year with a moon bounce, Tuffy Toss and face painting.
E-invitations for Homecoming have all gone out. The deadline to get your tailgate-ticket packages is 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23. You can register for these events at www.alumni.ncsu.edu/homecoming.
Shack-a-thon kicked off on the Brickyard yesterday. Technician has the story, and News 14 has a short video about the fundraiser, which benefits Habitat for Humanity. The Caldwell Fellows Programs, a scholarship and leadership initiative the Alumni Association sponsors, has a shack there, and Caldwell Fellow Jeffrey Huber, a junior majoring in industrial engineering and economics, checked in after the first night:
The Brickyard. This vast expanse normally reserved for passing library patrons cramming for tomorrow’s test is a veritable village. Those of us not pre-occupied with people-watching try to squeeze in some homework. Laptop screens light the faces of most thanks to wireless, but a few just shoot the breeze. I put on some good music, lean back in a white plastic chair and try to do a little of everything while enjoying the cool night air.
Shack-a-thon is always a fun part of the year. It is one of the foremost traditions of NC State. To me it is more than anything else, a time of community, seeing old friends and making new ones. Last year a very competitive game of four-square popped up. Not-so-competitive corn-hole seems like the favorite this year. (more…)
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