This year the University of Detroit Mercy is going all out to celebrate a fall homecoming for students and alumni. There will be a campus-wide BBQ, 5K race, an old fashion tug-of-war that was an annual event with the St. Francis Club, and since many alumni met their future spouses when they were students at the university, a ceremony to renew their vows. There are a number of other events scheduled for the weekend-its just too bad that it looks...
GO TITANS! Past homecoming activities usually took place during football season, but now UDMercy celebrates homecoming during the basketball season. As part of the homecoming celebrations there were parades down Livernois Ave. with as many as thirty floats and the UD marching band, huge bonfires, and a homecoming queen elected. Homecoming still gets a lot of attention, it just changed with the times with different activities and as much enthusiasm as it generated more than fifty years ago....
Back in the days when the University of Detroit had a football team, Homecoming of 1953 had all the traditional activities: pep rally, parade floats, homecoming queen, bonfires, and a dance before and after the game. Homecoming festivities would start on Friday with a dance at the Memorial Building (now called Calihan Hall) when the homecoming queen would be crowned. In 1953 D’Anne Howell, a dental hygienist student, was chosen as queen and her five court attendants were Mary Carlson,...
