{"id":3022,"date":"2016-11-03T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2016-11-03T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T11:33:00","slug":"homecoming-2k16-the-happiest-alumni-come-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/2016\/11\/03\/homecoming-2k16-the-happiest-alumni-come-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming 2K16"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY MICHELLE KIM \u2013 STAFF WRITER<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

College \u2014 you spend four years living, studying, crying, and partying with the same group of people. It is only standard for the most impeccable of friendships to evolve during these years,\u00a0especially when attending a school the size of Centre.<\/p>\n

Homecoming festivities began on Thursday night, with a Black Alumni Reception and Dinner at Beaumont Inn in Harrodsburg. On Friday, tours were given to alumni to show off the changes and improvements made around the campus.<\/p>\n

The Greek organizations on campus are huge participants in homecoming festivities. The Phi Delta Theta chapter held their annual homecoming date party at Terrapin Hill Farm, where they invited many alumni to eat barbecue, dress up in Halloween costumes, and rekindle old friendships.<\/p>\n

The Kappa Kappa Gamma and Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapters threw their first annual Casino Night, with casino games, professional dealers, food, and drinks.<\/p>\n

\"30546405856_4d0d359391_n\"<\/a>\u201cCasino night was an open house reception for any alums that were in town. It helps women within pledge classes reconnect, as well as link together women that may not have ever gone to Centre together,\u201d Kappa Kappa Delta alum Becky Agard \u201915 said, \u201cThere was music and a bunch of mingling \u2014 by far my favorite event of the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early Saturday morning of Homecoming Weekend, many alumni, students, and faculty participated in the annual Flame Run 5K.\u00a0The event ended with enough time for participants to tailgate for the big Homecoming\u00a0Football game against Sewanee.<\/p>\n

\u201cHomecoming was weird at first, but it ended up feeling like any old weekend back at Centre with my friends,\u201d recent graduate Natalie Tate \u201915 said, \u201cSince I moved to to D.C. for my job shortly after graduation, coming back to my old Kentucky home made me feel very homesick.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Homecoming football game tends to have one of the biggest audience turn-outs of the season.<\/p>\n

\"29951134424_23015776f2_h\"<\/a>\u201cAs a member of the Centre Dance Team for all four years, it was a fun experience to actually be in the audience of a football game for once instead of dancing on the sidelines,\u201d Tate said, \u201cThe game was great, but I didn’t watch a minute of it because I was too busy catching up with everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the main reasons for such a large turnout is that the Homecoming Court is announced during half-time. This year\u2019s Homecoming King and Queen were seniors Valentine Banor and Lola Fakunle.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me holding this title confirms in me something that few people seem to remember \u2013 [that] being kind always works,\u201d said Banor, \u201cEven if it\u2019s as small as a \u2018Hi\u2019 or going out of your way to do something, people appreciate it. Like many Centre students, I stay fairly busy but I always try my best to check in and smile at everyone I meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

With such an outstanding number of fans in the crowd, it is no wonder the football team lead a great victory against Sewanee, with a final score of 49-10.<\/p>\n

After graduation, there are countless directions in which Centre students may pursue the next steps in the lives, especially since a good chunk of Centre students are either from out-of-state or even out-of-country. Homecoming is one of the ways the Colonel family can experience comfort and community, no matter which direction they may have taken. It is events like these that leave our school with such high titles of recognition, such as having the \u201chappiest alumni\u201d across the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY MICHELLE KIM \u2013 STAFF WRITER College \u2014 you spend four years living, studying, crying, and partying with the same group of people. It is only standard for the most impeccable of friendships to evolve during these years,\u00a0especially when attending a school the size of Centre. Homecoming festivities began on Thursday night, with a Black […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}