Dancing through the decades

The history of homecoming

Sarah Heiden, WLHSnow Editor|October 27, 2017

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King Dylan Tiffany and Queen Brady McDevitt smile at the roaring crowd. For decades, there was only a queen and princesses. The second annual homecoming queen was Queen Anita Nunn in 1954. Starting in 1958 there were male escorts. It wasn’t until 1986 that there was a King and Queen. “I didn’t think I was going to be queen, I looked right at Dylan before, and said it’s not going to be us,” Brady McDevitt said, “and then they opened the box, and I saw the balloons, and I looked down and I said ‘Oh, nobody else has balloons,’ so it was pretty cool.” Instead of crowns, balloons determine the winners. The first homecoming queens didn’t have crowns either. Crowns were not a part of homecoming until 1961 and these crowns were very small and almost tiara like, with a lot of sparkles.

 

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The 2017 porch competition award goes to the class of 2018. Each porch was decorated to fit a specific decade. Every class was assigned a decade starting with the freshman class with the 1950s going to the senior class with the 1980s. “Decorating porches has been a big deal,” Ms. Marlo Matin, former ASB adviser, said, “2003, maybe, was the first year we did the porch decorations.” Homecoming began in 1953, so this tradition is relatively new, and very successful.