Penn Staters Come Home… to Mid-October Snow?
October 15, 2009 at 1:48 pm Ryan Jones 4 comments
It’s Homecoming Week in Happy Valley, which Mother Nature is none-too-thoughtfully marking with the earliest recorded snowfall in State College history. Here’s the view outside my window in University House, a little after noon on Thursday…
(That’s the seating area for the URTC production of Romeo & Juliet, by the way; tonight’s final performance has been cancelled, and the chairs and set are being taken down as I type this.)
The weather will complicate things, but of course, Homecoming will go on regardless. You can check the Homecoming Committee’s site and the Alumni Association’s Homecoming page for details of the weekend schedule. In addition, a couple of points of interest from where I sit:
-Among the alumni coming back to University Park this weekend are members of the 1947 football team that went unbeaten and helped break the color barrier in college football. We’ve got a terrific feature on that team set to run in our Nov/Dec issue, which Association members will receive in a couple of weeks.
-Since this weather is already making it feel like mid-winter, why not spend part of your weekend watching some basketball? Prior to Saturday’s homecoming football game against Minnesota, the Nittany Lion basketball team is holding a preseason “Hoop Fest” at the Bryce Jordan Center. Things tip off at 11:30 with a scrimmage, followed by a three-point shooting contest, a dunk contest, and an autograph session.
Committed tailgater that I am, I had planned on skipping the Hoop Fest until my man Brian Siegrist in Athletic Communications asked me to be one of the (ahem) “celebrity” judges for the dunk contest. So, if you’re at the Jordan Center at 12:20 on Saturday, you might get to see me hold up a piece of paper with a number on it.
P.S. My pick for the dunk contest? Freshman Tim Frazier. Here’s why (make sure you watch until the end):
Stay warm and enjoy the weekend.
Ryan Jones, senior editor
Entry filed under: Alumni Association, Campus events, Nittany Lion basketball, Penn State alumni, The Penn Stater magazine, University Park campus. Tags: Dunk Contest, Homecoming, Minnesota, Romeo & Juliet, Snow, Tim Frazier, University House.
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