"Hey - I think we're taking on water!"
Freshmen compete for the finish line and
to stay afloat in their cardboard sailboat.
Fall meant fun at Virginia Wesleyan as students, alumni, faculty members and staff gathered for various campus events. The year began in August with freshman orientation at the YMCA's Camp Silver Beach on the Eastern Shore, where students competed in a special "sailboat regatta," in which they fashioned sailboats out of cardboard. Anyone who remained afloat at the end of the race could count themselves winners!
Got mud? The September mud games have become a traditional fall activity, with students competing in teams against each other and against faculty and staff brave enough to take them on! So, is mud good for the skin after all? Participants aren't revealing their beauty secrets.
Student Harley Swan '06 and Chris Douglas '03
of Residence Life get into the mud game spirit.
Then in October, alumni returned to campus for Homecoming 2003, which featured fireworks for the first time. The weekend, open to all in the VWC community, included a reception; a lacrosse game; a pep rally; lectures; the dedication of the cellular and molecular biology lab in Blocker Hall for Dr. Betty Jefferson Harris, professor emeritus; and groundbreaking for a new student-built Habitat for Humanity house.