Homecoming Weekend (1934-present)

With the Fall sports season comes the Homecoming Weekend. The old grads return, a little grayer and little paunchier than the year before, but also prouder, with each succeeding year, of being an alumni of UB.

Homecoming 1960 featured the Buffalo-Colgate football game, the crowning of the Homecoming Queen and the Homecoming Ball. The beautiful Indian Summer day was darkened by a see-saw 28-20 loss to Colgate. During the halftime proceedings a helicopter delivered the Queen, Miss Suzanne Cofran, to the center of War Memorial Stadium, where the band formed a heart around her as she donned her crown and robe. That evening the alumni and undergraduates mingled at the annual Homecoming Ball at Kleinhans Music Hall, while fraternities held cocktail parties in honor of their returning alumni.

(from the 1961 Buffalonian)

Homecoming Queen, Diana Brunsvold and UB President, Martin Meyerson (with roses) during halftime, 1966

1959 Homecoming Queen, Linda Benson with Chancellor Furnas (far left)

Homecoming 2000 events centered around the football game between the UB Bulls and the Ball State Cardinals. Other featured events included half-time festivities featuring the crowning of the homecoming king and queen, and a rousing performance by the "Thunder of the East" marching band; a free pre-game party from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., with food, face-painting and prizes for alumni, students, parents, and faculty and staff members under the white tent at the corner of Augsperger and Coventry roads hosted by the UB Alumni Association; a performance of commedienne Janeane Garofalo; and a traditional carnival with games of chance, food and the lighting of the bonfire will be held from 6 p.m. to midnight on Oct. 20 on the shores of Lake LaSalle.

-- from Reporter article by Mary Beth Spina