Alumni are welcomed back to The Citadel for Homecoming 2019

During the last weekend of October, The Citadel and The Citadel Alumni Association (CAA) will hold one of the college’s biggest events of the year on campus.

Beginning on Thursday, Oct. 24, The Citadel will host various Homecoming festivities, including a football game against Mercer.

This will be the 50th reunion for The Citadel Class of 1969. It will also be the 40th reunion for the Class of 1979, to which belongs Citadel president, Gen. Glenn Walters.

A schedule of events for this year’s Homecoming is below:

Thursday, Oct. 24

3 – 5:30 p.m.	Stray Dog Society, Big Red Flag Cruise	City Marina
6 – 9 p.m.	Junior Sword Drill, JSA Reunion	Holliday Alumni Center

Friday, Oct. 25

7:30 – 5 p.m.	29th Annual Homecoming Golf Tournament, hosted by The Citadel Brigadier Foundation	Patriots Point Links
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	CAA Annual Meeting and Awards	Holliday Alumni Center
3 – 5 p.m.	Citadel vs. Furman Soccer Game	WLI Field
3 – 5 p.m.	Swain Family School of Science & Mathematics Alumni Reception	Grimsley Hall
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.	Alumni Memorial Service	Summerall Chapel
5:10 p.m.	Memorial Parade	Summerall Field
5:45 – 7 p.m.	Citadel Young Alumni Reception	Holliday Alumni Center
7 – 11 p.m.	Stray Dog Society, Jamboree	Port Terminal Charleston

Saturday, Oct. 26

8 – 9 a.m.	CAA Past Presidents Breakfast (private)	Holliday Alumni Center
8 a.m. – 2 p.m.	The Citadel Archives and Museum holds open house	Daniel Library
8:30 – 10 a.m.	Open Barracks	Cadet Barracks
8:50 a.m.	Summerall Guards Performance	Summerall Field
11 a.m.	Homecoming Review Parade	Summerall Field
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.	School of Engineering Alumni BBQ	Grimsley Hall
12 – 2 p.m.	CAA Tailgate	Holliday Alumni Center
2 p.m.	Citadel vs. Mercer Football Game	Johnson Hagood Stadium

Sunday, Oct. 27

10 a.m.	Protestant Service	Mark Clark Hall, Buyer Auditorium
2 – 4 p.m.	Citadel vs. Wofford Soccer Game	Washington Light Infantry Field

As early as the Class of 1886, Citadel graduates have been holding reunions on campus to celebrate their achievements and catch up with their classmates. The first homecoming football game was on Oct. 25, 1924. According to newspaper reports at the time, The Citadel played Furman in Hampton Park and graduates had a barbeque picnic on Indian Hill.