From my individual web page...I've got considered portraits published from remaining nights festivities… Please percentage your stories and any photos of prior homecomings
Connie Nofziger
February eleven at five:20am
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After i turned into in kindergarten , I noticed my first homecoming at our highschool basketball recreation. Our faculty used to be so small however the homecoming presentation of the queen and her courtroom changed into the sport of the season and captivating. A section of the level changed into modified right into a throne facet. The attendants and their escorts made a grand front lower than the highlight in our blackened health club. The basketball crew captains had been the queen’s escorts, wearing their uniforms, full with the legislation brief-shorts of the 60’s and 70’s and intensely extraordinary hot-up jackets. The freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior women of the queen’s courtroom have been escorted in, at the arm of probably the most good-looking and dreamy “man” from her type, traditionally wearing appealing matching attire, designed to be part of the backdrop for one of the most truthful of them all…the homecoming queen, whose get dressed used to be sublime and installing of for the royalty of Pettisville Highschool. She used to be topped, introduced along with her bouquet, and kissed at the cheek with the aid of her escorts, to the oohs and aahhs of the gang. That yr, 3 of my kindergarten classmates have been the bearers of the crown and the fashionable dozen roses…Tammy and Tina Spengler have been the little females in candy little fairy princess clothes and anything I had on no account viewed before…ballet slippers! My Sunday Institution classmate Ronnie Burkholder carried the crown on a small pillow and wearing little boy finery. It's my reminiscence, in all probability a number of it most effective inside the intellect of a this fairy-story-loving woman. It usually is blended into the tales of the numerous PHS Homecomings that I've attended over time, however it felt magical again then. Even the afterparty changed into just for the royals and their families…food become served, yet I don’t comprehend what it become for the reason that I used to be in no way in attendance. There has been no dance for the alternative pupils returned then, that changed into ahead of the no-dancing ban changed into lifted at Pettisville. No dancing…that sounds so sad…no dancing! tight homecoming
After i become in highschool, I obtained to aid with redecorating the throne vicinity. Mrs. Golda Boyer, our highschool industry trainer and Booster Consultant, saved on prime of our making plans as we suggested to come back to her with the intention that all changed into are compatible for the queen and her court docket. The presentation of the queen and her court docket turned into highlighted by means of biographical sketches, that have been learn by means of a variety of pupils or group participants, selected for his or her high-quality vocal studying skills…most excellent amongst them was once Luana Wyse Esterline. Her voice sticks out as direct, transparent, distinct, and functional. Oh and may I fail to remember, our pep band used to be constantly exotic, relationship returned to after we had been allowed to play “Stripper” and vintage standbys like Wipeout, and our cherished faculty music in which all and sundry knew each observe and cheerleaders like Marilyn Rychener, Deanna First, Ann Rupp Hale and later Kandy Lantz Selgo, Ronna Riegsecker Rice, Mig Frey Riegsecker and a number of others clapped, sang, and led our fanatics to sing with enthusiasm and pleasure. Mrs. Nona Britsch (Liechty) Rupp did our mascot obligations proudly and was once a precursor to this year’s attractive poultry!
Our head train, Mr. Richard “Dick” Selgo ran a decent send and Mr. David Lersch our superintendent, made confident that everybody stood at cognizance whereas the Country wide Anthem used to be performed. Decorum, manners, and sportsmanship have been the secret. Neighborhood satisfaction and spirit had been alive and smartly. The years have flown by means of and which include it many a queen and courtroom, gamers and cheerleaders…although its various this year…the cheerleaders are enthusiasts within the stands. This yr an alternative queen, the more youthful sister of the queen from a decade in the past, become crowned…the lifestyle of magnificence keeps within the Randy and Pleasure Beck kin, Randy became indisputably a kind of good-looking “men” of the courtroom returned within the day and his spouse a attractiveness from a neighboring university district. Now-a-days there's dancing and each pupil has the chance to put on their finery to have a good time homecoming, friendship, and network. And that i nevertheless get to “decorate”, via imparting the vegetation for the evening…designed once a year to slot the tastes of the queen. The concentration is going to shine and the magic of the kiss continues to be.
Right now we're taking a destroy from the ebook of Acts to remind you that this week…Valentine’s Day is Ash Wednesday. I don’t do not forget the closing time that has happened… an afternoon for romance and the start of the season of Lent at the same time, a time for extravagant expressions of affection and the beginning of a time of purification, self-denial, and prayer. Lent is meant for repentance, fasting, and a chance to target our coming King. Within the time that Jesus lived in this Earth, many failed to honor him. They mocked Him as King of the Jews, they scourged him, and in the end crucified him. Once i suppose the distinction our college group supplies to their queen, it shames me to consider how we mistreat our King Jesus. How have we dishonored and in a different way disrespected his kingship in our lives?
As we input Lent, we're presented yet one more possibility to check our hearts. I'm hoping that this actual Lenten Season, will to find us motive on enabling God to root out our sins and aid us to search out ourselves in an area of proper Alleluia this Easter. (In all probability there'll also be dancing!). Considering that Easter falls on April Idiot's Day, probably we will be able to use it as an afternoon to mark the turning faraway from silly techniques.
I like the desire in today’s verse: “The Lord, Your God is to your midst, a potent Savior, who will have a good time over YOU with gladness, and renew you in His Love.” Zephaniah three:17
Connie
The bottom regularly matters…God seems past our sin to look the queen and king inside us…made in His royal snapshot.