Keith Bailey was on campus today to meet the new chancellor. Bailey was St. Pat in 1964. He was also featured in our recent publication Alumni of Influence.
Here is an excerpt from an old UMR story we link to pretty much every year:
"During the parade, the guards would roam into the crowd to bring male students to the manure spreader, which served as St. Pat's official vehicle, to kiss the Blarney Stone," Bailey says. (Note: It's not clear what kind of thinking was involved in making a manure spreader the official vehicle. Some traditions get started totally by accident.) The guards would also bring female students to the manure spreader to kiss St. Pat, a practice that Bailey says "tested friendships with the guards."
Hey! Today was the first Burrito Friday at The Grotto of the new year, as far as we know. So hopefully you don't get extra indigestion, due to the fact that it's Friday the 13th and whatnot.
Anyway, we figured this would be an excellent time to fire up the blog again. In order to do this, we felt it might be a good idea to come up with some kind of actual story or reason to work this afternoon.
So here it is: We're on a quest to find the oldest St. Pat's sweatshirt. Specifically, we want to know what year this particular tradition started.
Local businessmen Mike Greenway and Larry Stratman have a collection (housed at University Book and Supply on Pine Street). Their oldest sweatshirt is from 1967. We know they go back a little further. Rumor has it the first year was 1962.
Greenway and Stratman are searching for several sweatshirts currently missing from their collection, specifically ones from 1981, 1979, 1978, 1968 and anything before 1967. Let us know if you have any of these and if you want to sell. We'll pass the info along. Also, Greenway and Stratman have extras of some of the old sweatshirts, if you're in the market to buy.
Yesterday was Fat Tuesday, which is not to be confused with Burrito Friday. Anyway, today is Best Ever Wednesday. St. Pat will arrive at the band shell with his court at noon. See you there. Meanwhile, here are some links:
Queen candidates
Student Knights
Queen candidates
Student Knights
The 2011 Honorary Knights of St. Patrick are Harvest
Collier, Steve Graham, Irina Ivliyeva, Jim Murphy, Ted Ruth, Mary
Sheffield Wray, Lonna Sowers and Larry Thomas. Read more.
Caleb Marting, a junior in chemistry at Missouri University of Science and Technology, will portray St. Patrick during the 103rd celebration of St. Pat's in Rolla. Marting is from St. Louis.
St. Pat and his court will officially arrive in downtown Rolla at noon Wednesday, March 9. Following a procession through downtown in the traditional manure spreader, the court will preside over follies at the pavilion on 9th and Oak streets near the railroad tracks.
The court will also participate in formal coronation ceremonies at 9 p.m. Friday, March 11, in Leach Theatre of Missouri S&T's Castleman Hall. There, honorary knights and student knights will be dubbed and the St. Pat's Queen of Love and Beauty will be announced.
The 2011 celebration continues on Saturday, March 12, with the annual St. Pat's Parade through downtown Rolla. The parade begins at 11 a.m.
The following students have been elected members of St. Pat's court this year:
- Master guards: Kyle Anderson, a senior in ceramic engineering from Topeka, Kan.; John Petrovic, a junior in petroleum engineering from Barnhart, Mo.
- Guards: Alex Kaveler, a junior in petroleum engineering from Chesterfield, Mo.; Matt Mitchell, a senior in computer science and applied mathematics from Rogers, Ark.; David Potts, a junior in mechanical engineering from Barnhart, Mo.; Peter Hungiauko, a senior in interdisciplinary engineering from St. Paul, Minn.
- Herald: Andrew Hoffman, a junior in metallurgical engineering from Belleville, Ill.
- Pages: David Buttig, a senior in environmental engineering from St. Louis; John Carboneau, a junior in mechanical engineering from Lee's Summit, Mo..
- Trumpeter: Evon Frazier, a junior in mining engineering from Springfield, Mo.
Your 2011 St. Pat is Caleb Marting. And here are the member's of St. Pat's Court:
1st Master Guard - Kyle Anderson
2nd Master Guard - John Petrovic
1st Guard - Alex Kaveler
2nd Guard - Matt Mitchell
3rd Guard - David Potts
4th Guard - Peter Hungiauko
Herald - Andrew Hoffmann
1st Page - David Buttig
2nd Page - John Carboneau
Trumpeteer - Evon Frazier
More details to follow on Monday.
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Brian said : Great to see a full Court again. Congratulations, guys. Ha