Departments
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Week of 22 October 1999 |
Vol. III, No. 11 |
Feature Article
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Leading the parade, the BU Marching Band plays the BU Fight Song. Photo by Vernon Doucette |
Homecoming 1999
The final Homecoming and Parents Weekend
of the millennium featured the October 16 rededication of
Marsh Plaza and the sculpture honoring Martin Luther King,
Jr. (GRS'55). The plaza, built as the spiritual and physical
center of the Charles River Campus, was the object of a
five-month-long $1.5 million reconstruction effort. "The
materials may be new, but the spirit and sense of community
have brought us together to complete this magnificent
restoration project with a true understanding of pride and
ownership," said Sharon Ryan (SAR'70), a vice president of
the BU Alumni.
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"Elijah loved the carousel," says Kenn Elmore, associate director of the Office of Residence Life. Dad and his two-year-old "must have ridden on it 60 times that day." Photo by Kalman Zabarsky |
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A member of BU's Caribbean Club marches in the Homecoming Parade. Photo by Jenny Ahlen |
In preparation for the October 16 Marsh Plaza rededication ceremony, workers put the finishing touches on the BU coat of arms, which was restored and reset during the reconstruction project. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky |
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Nancy Marsh Hartman (left), daughter of former BU President Daniel Marsh, and Sharon Ryan, cochair of the campaign to restore Marsh Plaza. Photo by Fred Sway |
Rhett, apparently not afraid of heights, rides solo on the ferris wheel at the CAS parking lot |
