Muder is a tradition to welcome back former students and members and celebrate the existence of the organization. This is a tradition in many high schools, colleges, and churches in the United States and Canada.
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United States
Homecoming is an annual tradition in the United States. People, cities, high schools, and colleges get together, usually in late September or early October, to welcome back alumni and former residents. It is built around a central event, such as a banquet or dance and, most often, an American soccer game, or, occasionally, basketball, ice hockey, or football. When celebrated by the school, its activities vary widely. However, they usually consist of football games played on the home school football grounds, activities for students and alumni, a parade featuring school choirs, marching bands, and sports teams, and the coronation of the queen back home (and in many schools, a mudik king ). Dances usually follow the game or day after game. When attached to a football game, home ground traditionally occurs when the team returns from the longest trip of the season. The game itself, whether it's football or other sports, will usually feature a home team that plays a much weaker opponent. This game should be an "easy victory" and a weaker school will sometimes play a lower division school.
Origins
The homecoming tradition has its origins in alumni football games held in colleges and universities since the 19th century. Many schools including Baylor, Southwestern, Illinois, and Missouri have made claims that they held the first modern homecoming. NCAA, Trivial Pursuit , Jeopardy! , and references from the American TV drama NCIS entitled the University of Missouri soccer game of 1911 during which alumni were encouraged to attend. This is the first annual return centered on parades and football matches.
In 1891, Missouri Tigers first confronted the Kansas Jayhawks in the first installment of the Border War, which is also the oldest collegiate football match on the west of the Mississippi River until teams stop playing with each other in 2012. Fierce competition originally took place in a neutral site, usually in Kansas City, Missouri, until a new conference regulation is announced which requires an inter-college football game to be played on a college campus. To renew the excitement in the competition, ensure adequate attendance at the new location, and celebrate the first meeting of both teams on the Mizzou campus in Columbia, Missouri, Athletic Director Mizzou Chester Brewer invited all alumni to "come home" for the game in 1911. Along with football matches , the celebration included parade and spirit rally with bonfire. The event was a success, with nearly 10,000 alumni coming to the house to take part in the festivities and watch the Tigers and Jayhawks play with a 3-3 tie. Missouri's annual return, with its parade and spirit centered on major soccer matches is a model that has taken place in colleges and high schools across the United States.
At least two college homecoming festivities preceded the University of Missouri soccer homecoming event: Southwestern University, in Georgetown, TX and Baylor University, in Waco, TX. With some historical records, Southwestern held its first homecoming on record on Wednesday, April 21, 1909 at San Gabriel Park. Former students raise funds, provide homes, prepare and present barbecue dinners, and decorate city buildings. Senior class members wait for a table.
Northern Illinois University has one of the longest homecoming traditions in the country. An alumni football match was played on October 10, 1903, starting a tradition of NIU return.
The history of the homecoming of Baylor began in November 1909 and included a parade, reunion party and an afternoon soccer game (the last game of the 1909 season), a tradition that continues and celebrates the 100th anniversary of 2009. There was a gap between 1910 and 1915 when there was no mudik event , but there has been continuity since 1915. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign claims to have first held a homecoming event in 1910, celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010. The event is held every year except for the 1918 Season.
Tradition
Homecoming Court
The homecoming court is a group of student representatives who, in educational institutions, consist of a king and queen, and possibly princes and princess (es). In an institution of one sex, the homecoming court usually consists only of a king and a prince (for boys-only schools) or queens and daughters (for girls' schools), although some schools may choose to join. with single gender schools of the other sex to vote for the homecoming courts together.
Generally, kings and queens are students who complete their final year of study at their school (also called "senior"), while princes and daughters are siblings, often with princes/princesses for each class. Recently, some high schools have chosen to add categories, such as duke and duchess, to expand student representation to include categories where students with special needs are selected. In high school, students aged 17 or 18 years in their last year are represented by a king or queen; in college, students who complete their final year of study, usually between 21 and 23 years of age.
Local rules determine when kings and queens who go home are crowned. Sometimes, big announcements come at a rally, a school meeting, or a public ceremony one or several days before a soccer match. Other schools crown their royalties at football, dance, or other school events.
Often, the kings and queens of the previous year were invited back to crown their successors. If they are absent for any reason, other people - usually, previous kings or queens, a popular teacher, or someone else appointed - will do the tasks. Usually, the queen is crowned first, followed by the king. Coronation methods also vary by school.
Members of homecoming courts who are not crowned king or queen often called escort or royalty. They are often expected to participate in this week's activities as well. In some schools, prince/princess, duke/duchess, etc. (Often underclassmen nominated by their classmates) crowned with kings and queens; sometimes, junior and junior high school students may participate in high school activities.
Class friends traditionally nominate students who have done many things to contribute to their school, then the students choose the court members of the candidates. After the candidate of the general court was announced, all students chose the voice of the queen and king. Voting is often done by secret ballot, but other methods can also be used by certain schools.
Parade
Many festivals include parades. Students often choose grand marshal based on service history and support to schools and communities. The march included school marching bands and different school organization buoys created by classes and organizations and most sports got the chance to be in the parade. Each class prepares a float that matches the theme of the homecoming or related theme of the school spirit set by the school administrator. In addition, the homecoming courts took part in the parade, often riding together in one or more convertibles as part of the parade. Civil society organizations and businesses, local fire departments, and alumni groups often participate as well. The parade is often part of a series of activities scheduled for the day, which can also include pep parades, bonfires, snake dances, and other activities for students and alumni.
Tailgate
In most colleges and universities, football matches and previous tailgate parties are the most widely known and well-attended event of the week. Alumni gather from around the world to return to their alma mater, reconnect with each other, and take part in the celebration. Students, alumni, business, and community members set up tents in parking lots, fields, and roads near stadiums for cooking food, playing games, socializing, drinking parties, and even enjoying live music in many ways. This celebration often goes straight through the game for those who do not have tickets but still take part in socializing and excitement from mudik. Most tents even include television or radio broadcasts from games for those who do not have tickets.
Picnic
Sometimes during school week, picnics can happen. This picnic is very similar to a tailgate party, but it happens after school or during the school lunch period.
Day Dress Up
Throughout the week, many schools (especially high school) are involved in special dress days, sometimes called "Spirit Week", where students are allowed to wear appropriate clothing to the theme (eg, 80s days, toga days , roll out of day beds, cowboy days, nerdy days, pirate days, Rat Pack Day, Friday flannels, What-not-to-wear wednesday) leads to homecoming. Students traditionally wear clothing with the name of their school, or their school colors and makeup on Fridays.
Pep Rallies
Many schools held rallies during homecoming week, often one or more nights before the game. The occurrence varies, but may include plays, games, the introduction of homecoming courts (and the coronation of kings and queens if it is a school tradition), and comments from football players or coaches about upcoming matches.
In some schools, the homecoming rally ends with a bonfire (where old wooden structures, rival school memorabilia and other items are burned in controlled fire.) Many colleges and secondary schools no longer hold bonfires due to accidents that have occurred in the vicinity. events in the past. The most famous accident occurred in 1999, when 12 students were killed and 27 others injured in Texas A & amp; M University when the 40-foot (12 m) tall pile that had been assembled for a bonfire collapsed. However, this incident is not related to homecoming - A & amp; M is one of several schools that does not regulate mudik, although it has many unique traditions. Campfire is associated with an annual competition between A & amp; M and the University of Texas.
Alumni Band
The alumni band is made up of former college and university band members returning to mudik to perform with the current marching band (usually consisting of recent graduates for members who graduated the previous year or decade) either during part-time as a full band or a seeded section, trumpet or tuba and drumline squads, as well as performing with the current band during the post-concert game.
Mums and Garters
Middle schools in the southern United States, especially in Texas, often have the tradition of girls wearing "moms" and boys who wear "garter" to Homecoming football games. Mothers usually consist of artificial chrysanthemum flowers (original chrysanthemums originally used) surrounded by long-decorated floor ribbons and little trinkets. The tradition is that boys make mothers personalized in their school colors, making white and silver for seniors only, for their date. Girls make garter for their date which is similar to mother but shorter and worn on the boy's arm. The size of mothers and children tends to grow in proportion to the intended value of the recipient. In the 1980s, mothers usually had a maximum of three chrysanthemums and some ribbons and were only used by those in the homecoming castle (ie, princes or princesses), but, as years passed, the size and expectation of mothers had increased, and has become more complicated, imposed by almost all students. Depending on the school, mothers can be very competitive, expensive, and drastically larger than they originally wanted. Different items are also placed on mothers than ever before, such as LEDs, bubble containers, cow bells, feather boas, stuffed animals of all sizes, etc. They now sometimes act like clippings made of ribbons and even contain parts and photographs of mum/garter receivers and their dates. Details, sizes, and prices usually vary depending on school, city, and spouse. The tradition is to make the mother and the garter after the couple is asked to go home, and exchange it on the night of the homecoming game and wear it all over the tailgating and games. Couples often take photos with their mother and garter on night or night before homecoming games to show them off. In cases where students go to separate schools, the students present their dates with the mum/garter representing the school attending their date. It is common to incorporate their date home school in a particular way, for example a ribbon with other school symbols and date initials.
Homecoming Dance
Mudik dance - usually this week's peak event (for high school) - is a formal or informal event, whether at school or off campus. The place is decorated, and either disc jockeys or bands are hired to play music. In many ways, it's the fall prom. Mudik dance can also be informal like a standard school dance. In high school, homecoming is sometimes held in high school or outside gymnasiums in a large field. Clothes homecoming less formal than prom. Women generally wear knee length dresses with their hair down, and men generally wear flashing shirts with pants. At the prom, women generally wore a more formal dress that fell to the ground with hair up, and men wore suits and tuxedos.
Since most colleges are too large to facilitate campus dance, the event is usually handled by student organizations such as fraternities, student associations, and residential colleges. Since soccer and alumni events are the focal point of college homecoming, dance often takes place during different weeks when the schedule is more likely, or not at all.
Competition
At the secondary school level, students generally compete on the basis of grade levels in events such as day-to-day spirits, floating parades, and powder football puffs. Competitions at the college level are mainly between Greek letter organizations and, to a lesser extent, dormitories. In most larger schools, fraternities and associations compete in floating parades, home decorations, plays, talent competitions, and even service events such as blood movers or food movers. Sometimes on coronation nights, some schools have games they play between classes. Such events include pyramids, 3-foot races, pop bursts, and push-pulls.
smaller home school
While most schools are scheduling their homecoming activities around football, small schools that do not have a football team can plan annual events at other times of the year. In this case, basketball, ice hockey or football serves as a "big game" for students and alumni. Often in smaller towns with smaller populations, parades are eliminated.
In schools without athletic programs, the main event is usually a banquet, where alumni are recognized. This format is also used for high school alumni events that have been closed or consolidated with other secondary schools; middle school classes continue to meet and celebrate their years at their now dead alma mater. In other cases, closed school alumni will participate with a school homecoming consolidation, where special recognition is often given to alumni from a once separate school.
Courtwarming
In some parts of the country, high school basketball has earned its own homecoming festivities. Often referred to as winter homecoming , hoopcoming , crowning , Maps Homecoming
Canada
Canadian weekend homecoming often centered on soccer matches.
In Newfoundland and Labrador, people have a "Year of Years" where people who move from their city back from Canada. In 2000, there was a provincial "Come Home Year", where many people returned to their various communities.
The withdrawals were mostly only in secondary schools in eastern Canada, and rarely at that time. Newmarket High School, the London South Collegiate Institute, Banting Memorial High School and Earl Haig Secondary School are examples of famous schools in Ontario to organize repatriation. Upper Canada College also has an old homecoming tradition, although the event is referred to as "A-Day" (Day of Association).
Church Repatriation
The term "homecoming" can also refer to the special services performed by some religious sessions, especially by many smaller American Protestant churches, to celebrate the church's heritage and welcome back former members or pastors. They are often held every year, but sometimes held as a one-off event, to celebrate the event.
See also
- Formal Winter
References
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