FROM THE HOMECOMING ARCHIVES

Photographs by Ski

2014 HOMECOMING

According to the Eastern Illinois Alumni magazine, 2014 Homecoming is scheduled for October 24-26.

HOMECOMING NORTH CHICAGO

At one point in the evening while Ryan was texting an absent Reed, I suggested he ask for Reed's credit card number because it was HIS TURN TO BUY!

Apparently Reed thought no "old" people would show up to the event. Oh, of little alcoholic faith.

There was even a rare sighting of the Gregorius Pulitizerotto, which strays rarely from his DuPage habitat.

There were plenty of old timers present including Dann Gire, Theresa Norton Masek, Ted Gregory, Lola Burnham and Andy Robeznicks.

 Dann Gire and Theresa Norton Masek

Lola Burnham and Ted Gregory

Ted & Theresa's Excellent Reunion

Then, what's a reunion without a graphic?

MICRO-REUNION KENOSHA

It was Boxing Day in Kenosha, 2013. A semi-tradition of crossing state lines in order for former Newers to get together was renewed that evening. At our Algonquin Round Table were Theresa Norton, Andy Savoie, Tom Keefe and Ski. For those deprived of history, The Algonquin Round Table was a celebrated group of New York City writers, critics, actors and wits, whom initially gathered as part of a practical joke, met for lunch each day at the Algonquin Hotel from 1919 until roughly 1929. At these luncheons they engaged in wisecracks, wordplay and witticisms that, through the newspaper columns of Round Table members, were disseminated across the country.

It quickly turned into an ad hoc Ernest Hemingway contest (see photos below). It was also Hemingwayesque when Ski had to reel in Andy from telling the miniseries version of a story like the old master trying to land a 1,000 pound marlin with dental floss.

2014 EIU HOMECOMING NORTH

Under the header, EARLY WARNING, the EIU Journalism Department has given notice that the next Homecoming North will be on Saturday, February 8, 2014.  More details to follow.

Apparently, there has been a change. EIU North is now Saturday, February 22, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. at the Newport Bar & Grill, according to Ryan's facebook page.

MICRO-REUNION CHARLESTON

In the weekend before Homecoming 2013, former Editor in Chief Tom Keefe stopped by campus. Tom met up with former Eastern News staffers Brian Nielsen and Herb Meeker to watch EIU's very own, Tony Romo, play football for the Cowboys.

FYI, a new edition of -30- has been sent to alumni.  It contains more information on the Endowment Fund drive and plans for the Daily Eastern's News' 100th Anniversary. A birthday bash is tentatively set for November 7, 2015.

2013 HOMECOMING EVENTS

This year's Homecoming 2013 student publication events:

Friday, October 18, 2013:

Journalism Alumni Hall of Fame Luncheon
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
University Union - - - Seventh St. Underground (Rathskeller)

Welcome Reception
5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Buzzard Hall--- DEN Newsroom

Saturday, October 19, 2013:

Homecoming Parade
9:30 a.m. 6th/7th Streets

Homecoming Football Game
EIU vs. Jacksonville St.
1:30 p.m. O'Brien Field


Chili Bash
5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
University Union - - - Seventh St. Underground (Rathskeller)