Timeline: WSSU Homecoming

May 22, 1937

1st Alumni Day

The 1st Alumni Day, which would later become Homecoming was celebrated.

1945

Miss WSTC at the Homecoming Football Game

Miss Winston-Salem Teachers College Hazel L. Davis and court at homecoming football game. Left to right: President Francis L. Atkins, Victoria Gwynne, Hazel Davis, Samuel Gerlads (freshman attendant), and Gloria Hagans, c. 1945.

1946

Homecoming Football Game

Winston-Salem Teachers College football team playing Johnson C. Smith University in homecoming game at Bowman Gray Stadium, c. 1946.

1955

Ethel Waters in the Parade

Winston-Salem Teachers College homecoming parade with singer Ethel Waters, standing in car and waving. Seated in the car are WSTC alumni officers, 1955.

1955

Ethel Waters arriving in Winston-Salem

Winston-Salem Teachers College Alumni Association homecoming guest, Ethel Waters, 1955, at Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Ethel Waters, singer and actress, performed at homecoming and was crowned Miss Alumni.

1957

Miss Alumni Hattie Daniels Chaplin riding in the parade

Winston-Salem Teachers College Homecoming Miss Winston-Salem Teachers College Homecoming Miss Alumni Hattie Daniels Chaplin, 1957, and her attendants on homecoming float. L to R: Hattie Daniels Chaplin, Ernestine Mason, Mary Agnes Scott, Gloria L. Scott.

1960

Miss Ram in the homecoming parade

Winston-Salem State University Miss RAM and attendants in convertible at homecoming, 1960.

1970

Miss Alumni and court riding in the homecoming parade

Winston-Salem State University homecoming parade float with Miss WSSU Alumni and court. Two women in red suits and one woman in white, c. 1970.

1975

Service for Humanity Float

Winston-Salem State University homecoming float, Service for Humanity, 1975, with seated women.

1976

1976 Homecoming Pep Rally

Winston-Salem State University students at Homecoming pep rally, c. 1976.

1978

1978 Tuba Section lining up

Winston-Salem State University Marching Band, tuba section, called the “Super Fiberglass Fools,” line up for the Red and White Parade, Homecoming 1978.