By Sol Ayala
Online News Editor
On Saturday Nov. 4, the homecoming parade will be making its comeback after last year’s parade getting cancelled last minute due to weather conditions. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Trevecca homecoming parade. The structure of the parade is striving for each float to represent a time during the 50 years since the parade started.
Madison Triplett, sophomore class president, along with the sophomore class council, oversee all preparations for the parade, and they picked the theme for this year’s parade. Usually there is not an overall theme to go along with the parade, but with this year being a special anniversary, she thought that this year needed a theme.
The theme for the 2023 homecoming parade will be walking us through “the Eras of Trevecca.”
“We’re like ‘how can we do a creative highlight for 50 years?’ and the Eras tour [Taylor Swift’s musical world tour] is very big right now,” said Triplett. “We are not trying to base the parade around Taylor Swift, but more the inspiration of her tour to incorporate in our parade”
How to purchase tickets
Tickets for Trevecca students with school ID are $5 dollars, general admission is $15 dollars, and for kids 10 and under are $12 dollars.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-year-with-frog-and-toad-tickets-709666239827
Or by calling 615-248-1370 during regular business hours.
Homecoming schedule
Nov. 2 through Nov. 4, there will be over 30 events for all attendees.
Events for alumni, students and visitors to be involved in will include the street fair and the 50th reunion from the class of 1973 as well as two at-home men and women’s basketball games.
Thursday, Nov. 2nd
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner and Celebration
This year’s homecoming will begin with the Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner and Celebration at the Annex, continuing to the next day. Friday, events will begin as soon as 10 a.m. with the Founder’s Day chapel. The same day the official ribbon cutting for the Commons resident hall, as well as a dedicated event for ‘just kids’ to enjoy, reads the homecoming agenda. To Finally close the day with the production of this year’s Trevecca’s fall theater musical ‘A Year with Frog and Toad’
The parade will be followed by the homecoming street fair and the class of 1973 50th reunion Lunch. Later in the afternoon the women’s basketball game against Fisk University and the men’s basketball game against Southeastern Illinois College both at the Moore Gymnasium.
To wrap up all homecoming celebrations at 7-9 p.m. both a night of worship at Boone Convocation Center and the last show of the ‘A Year with Frog and Toad’ will bring to a close Trevecca’s 2023 homecoming.
