As we recap last Friday’s Centennial Athletic event at Anderson Arena let us start by thanking everyone that came out to the event to show their support and celebrate 100 years of athletics at BGSU. The members of this group that have been working for the past several weeks to prepare for the event and organize the athletic memorabilia are thrilled that so many people took time out of their busy Homecoming schedules to make time for this event. We hope that each of you enjoyed the event as much as we have enjoyed putting the event together. For those who were not able to attend we will recap the event for you and provide some pictures for you as well.
The event was attended by roughly 300 people who were lined up to enter as the doors to Anderson Arena opened at 5:00 p.m. Those who were able to attend enjoyed an evening filled with memories and a historical perspective of BGSU athletics. Those in attendance were able to enjoy the artifacts that we have spent the past several weeks working to assemble. In addition those in attendance viewed the Centennial poster’s that were put together for the Centennial Celebration last year. On a personal note, the members of this group find it very gratifying that these boards were used again. It is our hope that these boards can continue to be a source of historical context of BGSU athletics. On a special note the members of this group would like to thank Dr. Janet Parks for her help improving the poster boards for this year’s presentation.
As alumni made their way around the gym many of them stopped and took the time to thank our group for our work in putting together not only the event but the poster boards. For our group these words of gratitude are appreciated. However, each of us were honored to be a part of this event, to hear the stories that the alumni told, and to once again have the opportunity to share the rich athletic history of BGSU with the alumni and other guests in attendance.
The following pictures are all pictures of the various historical artifacts that were on display during the course of the event.
Artifacts aside, the night was a great success as BGSU alumni were able to come together and celebrate 100 amazing years of athletic history at BGSU. As one guest said “Tonight is amazing, it is truly a unique chance to come back and really look at the history and take stock of the history that happened while we were here.” Alumni were also treated a special way of saying goodbye to the House That Roars, Anderson Arena, in this its final season.
BGSU athletic archivist Mickey Cochran called the evening a “great success.” We believe that those that were present on Friday night would have a hard time arguing that point. We would once again like to take a moment to thank those who came by the event.
Please continue to check back with our blog as we move forward in our work and begin to catalog the contents of the BGSU athletic archives and prepare for the move to the new athletic archive space in the Stroh Center. Coming in the next week we will have a full list of all of the memorabilia that has been cataloged as well as pictures, and plenty of Mickey’s stories to go along.
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