Homecoming Traditions
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running it for all of the 21 years it has been around. This was also the first year in all those years it was rescheduled due to weather.
Each year the elementary celebrates the 50th day of school with a 1950’s style sock hop ran by Mrs. Cluley, this event features dancing, food, and music all 50’s themed. I caught up with second-year kindergarten teacher Mrs.Gugtsell about her experiences at the sock hop. She says “The sock hop is a very special day where we celebrate the 50th day of school. Mrs.Cluely does an excellent job teaching the students about the culture and all things fifties.”
Mrs.Gugtsell says that the sock hop is what her students definitely look forward to the most each year. When asked what her favorite sock hop memory so far was, she said, “My favorite sock hop memory was when we took all the kids to Brahm’s ice cream shop to get milkshakes with their families, friends, and other members of the Notre Dame community.
tenth, where they rented a trolley and had a progressive dinner. They went from house to house, having a meal and catching up with old friends. Her memorable class motto was “Great and mighty we will be, senior class of ‘83.”
Mary Brady was a graduate of the Class of 2011. She is currently the 4k teacher and junior high girls volleyball and basketball coach here at Notre Dame. Just as Macha and Ledesma said, Brady said that one of her favorite traditions was dress up days. “One dress up day that I will never forget was Camouflage Day. One of my classmates came dressed up in all blue to blend in with the lockers (the lockers were blue before they were repainted). Blue and Gold Day was another one of my favorites because we would come in with knee high blue and gold socks, bright blue and gold t-shirts and shorts, and blue and gold Mardi Gras bead necklaces.” One of the most exciting homecoming traditions for the girls is parading around the football field in cars at halftime of the homecoming football game. “I loved dressing up and riding around the football field in the brand new cars and trucks with my classmates!”
These traditions have made Notre Dame what it is today. Every tradition, from pep rallies to dress up days, bonds classes and joins them together through Christ in the Notre Dame Family.
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