MVNU Blue/Green Day

[Cindi Hammons]

NCN News article about MVNU Blue Green Day (http://www.ncnnews.com/nphweb/html/ncn/article.jsp?sid=10000023&id=10005965).

Has anyone else participated?

We always looked forward to a day off from classes. One year I helped plant flowers around the Administration Building, another I planted flowers by the the bookstore. However, my favorite year was my senior year. Has the statute of limitations run out from 1988? Well, I (and a couple of my friends) took an artificial tree from Galloway Hall and planted it in the yard facing the gym. That poor tree stayed planted for a long time before the grounds people figured out it was a fake. :laughing Didn't they know that figs don't grow well in Ohio? The funny part was doing our deed out in front of God and everybody...since everyone else was digging and planting. We would crack up every time we walked from chapel, up the long walk to classroom buildings. There that poor tree stood...looking at us! :laughing

(Sorry Mom, this is a true story. Your money was well invested.)

[Dennis M. Scott]

Well, yes, some of us did participate. The article in today's Nazarene News - presumeably from MVNU, is a little in error. The first Blue/Green day was in the Spring of 1969, and is another pioneer tradition. During that first MVNU winter, students expressed that they wanted to contribute to all the work going on across the campus. It seemed like a natural once the weather broke. The list of things needed was endless, and the event was embraced widely. That year there two such days, and was a popular concept the next year, as well. The second day the first year I had to miss, because I was in Nampa, attending NSLC.

Even that first year, it was affectionately already referred to as black and blue day.