random memories

[scottobear]

mascots (I moved around a lot as a kid)

1st grade \
2nd grade > don't remember.
3rd grade/
4th grade - Trojans
5th grade - Hornets
6th grade congress middle panthers
7th grade unity - I don't even remember... Unitarian school... no real mascot.
8th grade congress middle panthers
9th-12th grade - Atlantic High Eagles
PBCC - Lancers (knight on a horse with a lance, not boil-pokers?)
FAU - Owls
UofM - Hurricanes

Comments

[applelard.livejournal.com]

Ah....now you've got me thinking!

K-1: Aberdeen Lions
2-3: Rawls Byrd Owls
4-6: Berkeley Bobcats
7: James Blair Spiders
8: Berkeley Bulldogs (yes, the same Berkeley as before...changed from elementary to middle school)
9-12: Lafayette High Rams
VA Tech: Hokies

keen!!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

What's a hokie?

Re: keen!!

[applelard.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear...I knew someone would as this. :) Here's what it says on the Tech website...I'm too lazy to type it all out. Ready for a big post??
(Now remember, you wanted to know this!)

What is a Hokie?

Contrary to what you may hear on CNN, ESPN, "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee," or the "Ricki Lake Show," a Hokie is not a castrated turkey. Nor is it a turkey resembling Rodney Dangerfield and gaining no respect. The fact is that the word Hokie has nothing to do with a turkey at all. The word was made up by O. M. Stull (class of 1896), who used it in a spirit yell he wrote for a competition.
In the late 1800s, the Virginia General Assembly officially changed the university’s name from Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, a name so long that citizens shortened it in popular usage to Virginia Tech or VPI. The original college cheer, which made reference to the original name of the institution, was no longer suitable. A contest was held to select the best spirit yell, and Stull won a $5 prize for his cheer, now known as
Old Hokie:

Hoki, Hoki, Hoki, Hy.
Techs, Techs, V.P.I.
Sola-Rex, Sola-Rah.
Polytechs - Vir-gin-ia.
Rae, Ri, V.P.I.

Later, the phrase "Team! Team! Team!" was added at the end, and an "e" was added to "Hoki."
Stull later said that he made up the word as an attention-grabber. Though he may not have known it, "Hokie" (in its various forms) has been around at least since 1842. According to Johann Norstedt, a Virginia Tech English professor, "[Hokie was] a word that people used to express feeling, approval, excitement, surprise. Hokie, then, is a word like 'hooray,' or 'yeah,' or 'rah.'"
But whatever its original meaning, the word stuck and has been a part of Virginia Tech tradition ever since.
Whatever its original meaning, the word in the popular cheer did, as Stull wanted, grab attention and has been a part of Virginia Tech tradition ever since.

Now, our actual mascot is known as the "Hokie Bird" which is a large, maroon and orange turkey (hence the reference to the turkey in the first paragraph).

Now, aren't you sorry you asked?? :)

Re: keen!!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Hokie-doke!

Re: The Reason Why I never Played High School Sports --

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

cool...

well.. that's pretty cool, though...

could you say dam a spart of your school cheer?