The Homecoming Parade departs from the Fine Arts Building, College Place, at 12:00 noon on Saturday, Oct. 12 and winds its way to the Robert L. Shangraw Athletic Complex at David Person Field.

The football game will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday Oct. 12 at David Person Field. Prior to the game, Walt (’67), Peggy (Giauque) (’69) "Chip" Charles (’98), and Matt (’02) Edmonds will sing the national anthem. During the game, photos will be taken of the Reunion classes of ’62, ’67, ’72, ’77, ’82, ’87, ’92, ’97, and ’02. At halftime alumni award winners and athletic hall of fame inductees will be introduced.

Three Lycoming College aluni will be honored at a special brunch on Saturday at 11 a.m. on the Main Quad. The Angela R. Kyte Outstanding Alumnus Award this year goes to Dr. Otto L. Sonder, Jr., ’46 of Oneonta N. Y.. The Outstanding Achievement Award will be given to Mr. Eugene E. Landon, (’57) of Montoursville, Pa. The Dale V. Bower Service Award will be given to Mr. Thomas M. Aubrey, Jr. (’58) of Mohnton, Pa.

Homecoming events begin on Thursday with a bonfire pep rally, a traditional resurrected from the 1950s and 1960s. The bonfire will be built in the West Fourth Street parking lot with activities beginning at 8:30 p.m..

The Homecoming Classic Golf Tournament tees off at White Deer Golf Course at 11:00 a.m., Friday Oct. 11.

On Friday, Ronald Aungst '96, a Jersey Shore native and a doctoral candidate at Penn State, will be the guest speaker at the Chemistry/Biology Homecoming Colloquium at 4 p.m., on Friday October 11 in the Barclay Lecture Hall of the Heim Biology and Chemistry Building.

The Athletic Hall of Fame Induction dinner will take place at T.G.I.Friday’s Banquet Room, 1840 East Third Street on Friday, October 11 at 6:00 p.m. This year's inductees include Mary Beth Schwinderhammer (’97), of Allentown, Pa., Darin Keim (’96), of Herndon, Pa., CAPT Victor Olear (’91), of Hawley, Pa., J. Darrin Kenney (’92), R. Anthony Pollitt (’62), of Bethesda, M.D., and Stephen Eldredge (’94), of Downingtown, Pa. (Reservations are required for dinner.)

Alumni are invited to participate in building the Lycoming Habitat for Humanity House on Saturday morning from 8:00 a.m. to 12 noon. The house is at the corner of Eldred and Baldwin Streets.

An alumni choir rehearsal will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday in Clarke Chapel, and the induction of members into the Gamma Sigma Alpha honor society will take place at 11 a.m. in the East Hall Coffee House.

After the Saturday football game, alumni are invited to join students from 5 to 8 p.m. for a barbecue on the Quad with entertainment by "Voyage."

Homecoming will end on Sunday, Oct. 13, with a brunch for the Class of 1952 and the Heritage Club (alumni from Lycoming College and Dickinson Seminary who have graduated more than 50 years ago) hosted by President and Mrs. Douthat in the Jane Schultz Dining Room in the Wertz Student Center.

Homecoming is also reunion weekend for the Classes of 1952, 1957, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992 and 1997.

A good crowd is expected. Almost 20 percent of Lycoming’s alumni live in a 50-mile radius of Williamsport.

Registration for reunion years is from 9:00 a.m. to noon in Pennington Lounge, Academic Center. All other alumni can register at the main registration table. It is also possible to resister on the web at www.lycoming.edu, following the links to homecoming.

For more information, call the alumni office at 321-4347.

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