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Whittier College Homecoming: A History

Published on Feb 16, 2017

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Whittier College Homecoming: A History

GABBY BROWN, MARILYN GUZMAN, Emily Montgomery, Tyler Putnam, jasmine Rangel
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Whittier College has been celebrating homecoming since the mid 1900's

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Homecoming festivities have been gendered for decades

Including the parade of floats
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This tradition took off in the early 1950's when the male and female societies started competing to see who could build the best float

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"Masculine" Floats

The male societies tended to have more
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Sports...

...Which included "manly" features such as
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...and violence.

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Meanwhile,

female societies also had stereotypical floats
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Which possessed all of the essential "Girl ingredients"

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including flowers...

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...and romance

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King & Queen

Court's History 
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& STARTED AS AN ALL FEMALE COURT

Coverage of the Homecoming court started in the 1950's
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the HOMECOMING COURT CONSISTED OF "HER HIGHNESS" AND PRINCESSES from the FRESHMAN, SOPHMORE, JUNIOR AND SENIOR classes

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most women considered homecoming queen to be the example of femininity

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When did it start?

  • homecoming court for females was frequently seen up until the 1950's men started crowning the queen
  • Crowned by the student body president
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DIFFERENCES IN

gender representation
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prior to 1950

"homecoming" was the "football banquet"
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main focus was on football

queen crowned to present trophies
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the 50s

women and men share the papers
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the 60s and 70s

women dominate the homecoming scene
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in the homecoming court

men were not typically very involved  
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Until the First King was crowned in 1981

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Why 1981?

  • The Vietnam War... 1969 Draft (ended until 1973)
  • Majority of women living on campus
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80s to present

fairly equal representation
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as years progressed,

lower standards for men's presentation in homecoming
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Whittier Weekend Activities in the year 1965

included the Coronation ball... 
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...the aLumni Dinner dance...

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...SOCIETY BRUNCHES AND DEPARTMENTAL OPEN HOUSES...

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...the Homecoming parade...

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...a bonfire...

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...and the football game to

to finish out the week. 
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The sunday after the game,

everyone went to a church service 
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which was fOLLOWED BY A GOLF TOURNAMENT.

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Homecoming poet festival

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Homecoming 2016

change in focus 
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football gAME

there is still the annual  
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Spirit Week

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we still have the homecoming court competition,

but it is no longer a big deal.
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we no longer have bonfires, banquets, coronation balls, or floats

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INSTEAD, WE HAVE THE PARADE OF POETS WHERE EACH SPORTS TEAM CARRIES THEIR SIGN AND MARCHES AROUND THE TRACK BEFORE THE GAME AS A SHOW OF SUPPORT FOR THE FOOTBALL TEAM

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this replacement shows just how the times have changed 

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rather than dividing the school in half by gender,

we now focus on unifying our community 
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respect and support

Whittier homecoming now focuses on  
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gender separation

and we have little to no 
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Emily Montgomery

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