Sweet Homecoming

Every year Shepherd University hosts a homecoming celebration parade through downtown Shepherdstown before the big game. This years homecoming theme was Hollywood walk of fame.

Student groups chose different Hollywood stars to decorate their floats and banners for the homecoming festivities.  This year "Common Ground",  a student group that I am involved in, chose Dick Van Dyke as their star.  We decorated our float like the roof top scene from Mary Poppins.

        We painted boxes to look like chimneys and cut holes in them so that the smoke (cotton) could billow out of the tops. We also made a giant measuring tape that was put over the back of the float.

On the day of the parade, one of the ladies in our group dressed like Mary Poppins and one of the young men dressed to look like Bert (Dick Van Dyke). The rest of us threw some dirt on our faces and casted ourselves as extra chimney sweepers.

Compared to past I think that there were fewer people than usual but the experience was very fun nonetheless.