In 39 days, I'll be back on campus at my alma-mater at an extra special homecoming as Lebanon Valley College continues celebrating its 150th birthday. In honor of that countdown, here's memory #39: emceeing the annual Thanksgiving festival.
Well, *half* of the annual Thanksgiving festival, because what happened was that students were funneled into *either* the East OR the West Dining Halls (normally, students only ate in the East, and the West was dark except for special events), and they were literally separated by the kitchen and staff offices.
As such, the only way to seat all the students at the exact same time for the campus celebration was to invoke the special event rule and to run simultaneous dinners of turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, etc etc. with two different masters of ceremony.
What's most interesting to me is that the cover of that program (not seen in the picture) said the events started at 5pm ... which seems awfully early for those who were the direct opposite of senior citizens (who normally eat at that time). Regardless, as the hymn stated, "we gather[ed] together to ask the Lord's blessing" ... and we had a grand old thankful time.
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