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HOMECOMING
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there’s no place like
H
undreds of Bluefield College alumni from as
far as Georgia and as near as Bluefield came
back to campus, October 21-23, to celebrate
Homecoming 2016, featuring special reunions, career
counseling for current students, a fireworks show,
theatre, a live auction, campus tours, tailgating,
football, dancing, alumni awards, the crowning of a
queen and king, and praise and worship.
Alumni Director Josh Grubb welcomed the BC
graduates back to campus. “We hope your time this
weekend is filled with joy and good memories of your
experiences here,” he told a group of 1966 grads who
helped kick off the festivities with a Golden Graduate
Society Dinner on day one. Three members from the
class of 1966 were inducted this year, including Tom
Childress of Pocahontas, Virginia, Vicki Tinsley Haymes
of Waynesboro, Virginia, and Richard B. Jones of
Bluefield, Virginia. Forty-three alumni and friends in all
returned to watch the golden graduates be inducted
into the prestigious group, created in 2009 to honor
and preserve the legacy of alumni from the Golden
Anniversary era.
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