By KATELYNN BALL, Staff Reporter
Northwestern Oklahoma State University has traditions that have been carried out into the community for years.
One of those traditions is Ranger homecoming. There are many activities that make homecoming possible.
Homecoming buttons have been sold since the first homecoming at Northwestern, and these buttons come with a list of benefits.
Karen Koehn, button sales chair, said, “the buttons are $10 each and will get you into both nights of Miss Cinderella, the homecoming football game, as well as, allow you participate in the merchants’ discounts the week or days of homecoming week and you have the possibility of winning $500 in Alva Chamber bucks if your button number is drawn at the football game.”
There is also a T-shirt sale for homecoming. The T-shirts are $12 each or two shirts for $20. Sizes XXL and up will be an additional $3. These shirts are for sale in the Northwestern Foundation and Alumni’s Office located in the student center.
Every year Northwestern’s homecoming committee chooses a theme for the coming year’s homecoming. This theme plays a part in all of Northwestern’s activities. For example all of the floats that year will be created off of the theme in the parade and take part in the design for the buttons and t-shirts. This year’s theme is “Rangers: League of heroes”.
Angelia Case, academic projects assistant/media specialist, designs the button.
Case said, “Koehn has 50 sales persons across Northwest Oklahoma and urges the community and all Rangers to buy a homecoming button to show Ranger pride.”
Homecoming buttons pay for different parts of homecoming. “The costs include everything from floats, to Miss Cinderella, to the banners that are strung across the streets at the downtown square,” Koehn said.
Each building on the Alva campus will have a button sales representative. To find out who the representative for the building is, contact Koehn at kkoehn@nwtech.edu or at (580) 327-0344.
Students, faculty and staff and community members in the Enid area can contact Tiffany George, Enid administrative assistant, whose contact number is (580) 213-3101 or Candace Reim, Enid student services coordinator, whose contact number is (580) 213-3147.
The Woodward Campus contact is Milissa Sturgill, Woodward campus coordinator, and can be contacted for buttons in Woodward at (580) 254-2503.
Individuals can also purchase buttons at the Alva Chamber of Commerce office located at 502 Oklahoma Blvd., (580) 327-1647; the Northwestern Foundation office in the Student Center, (580) 327-8593 or the Northwestern business office in Herod Hall, (580) 327-8536.
If individuals are not students of Northwestern and would like to purchase buttons at locations around Alva, they can stop by Rialto, Sights and Sounds/Radio Shack, Daisy Village, Holder Drug, Alva Vision, Hair on the Square and LaDEEda’s, which are all located on Alva’s downtown area.
For more information about Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s entire homecoming students can log on to www.nwosu.edu/homecoming.
“Help us, Alva and Northwestern have one of the best Homecomings ever,” Koehn said. “Ride, Rangers, Ride!”