-Photo contributed by Jason Spencer
Christian Thompson
Reporter
November 4, 2005
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Milligan alumni and students participate in the
annual alumni versus student football game on Saturday. -Photo contributed by Jason Spencer |
The campus was packed with visitors from all over the nation as Milligan College hosted its annual Homecoming Weekend Oct. 28 - 30.
“We had about 500 people come out for the weekend,” said Teresa Garbe, director
of alumni relations. “We had a good crowd and good weather.”
According to Garbe, Homecoming Weekend is a huge event. “Planning starts early.
It takes about 10 months to plan Homecoming Weekend. We have the cooperation of
a lot of people on campus,” Garbe said.
One of the big events is the Saturday afternoon parade. Jess Carter, assistant
director of campus activities and director of intramurals, was in charge of
organizing this year’s parade.
“We added new incentives this year to get students more interested,” said
Carter. “We gave the club with the best float $100 and $50 for the second best
float. Also, the club representing best float was given an iPod shuffle.”
On Monday afternoon the float winners were announced: Phi Alpha Theta took the
$100 prize while Rotaract came in at second.
“I was very pleased with student participation in the parade,” said Garbe.
“Students put a lot of time into the floats, and we had a great turnout.”
Carter was also in charge of the annual alumni versus student football game. The
game was dominated by the alumni, winning 70-37.
Junior Ryan Reynolds completed a touchdown pass to senior Isaac Schade for the
first score of the game. After that, however, the alumni took over.
“We just couldn’t play any defense,” said junior Markus Spots.
A special event for former students was the 50th reunion of the class of 1955.
Jackie Harrison (Acker) led the event. The group honored deceased members of the
class, had time to talk with President Don Jeanes and time to catch up and talk
with other class members.
“I don’t get back that often,” said John Byrd, the class student council
president. “Today I saw some people I haven’t seen in 50 years, and that is a
really wonderful thing. It's been a great weekend and has been very well
planned."
Several other class reunions met over the weekend, including the first combined
thing. It’s been a great weekend and has been very well planned.”
“This is the first time something has been done for this age group. It was a
special time because the communication department video taped their
reminiscences of what campus was like in the 1940s,” said Garbe.