Special Collections celebrates Homecoming 2015 with NCSU alumni

The Special Collections Research Center joined several events hosted by the NCSU Alumni Association this past weekend, where we brought our materials out to help celebrate Homecoming 2015.

On Friday October 30, the Wake County Alumni Network hosted "A Last Look at Harrelson," inviting alumni to return to Harrelson Hall for a final farewell before its demolition over the coming year.  Floor plans , architectural drawings , promotional brochures, and photographs from various collections in the University Archives and records of the Holloway-Reeves architecture firm brought alumni back to the years when the building was first opened.  Libraries staff in the D. H. Hill Jr. Makerspace created laser-cut key chains and bookmarks using sketches and floor plans from the archives to give away to alumni, while the Wolf Tales oral history station recorded former students' memories of the building in short video interviews.

For the Alumni Homecoming Tailgate on Saturday October 31, Special Collections staff brought copies of football programs and Agromeck yearbooks dating back to 1960, displayed facsimiles of archival photographs showing homecoming celebrations over the years, and gave away buttons printed with images from the archives .  Alumni of all ages enjoyed finding pictures of themselves - and often of their parents and grandparents - in the Agromecks, sparking lots of memories and stories, and left decked out in buttons to cheer on the Wolfpack.