• Game Day Timeline
• Pep Band at Hintz Alumni Center
• Parade
• Post-Parade Social
• How Do I Register?
• How Do I Volunteer?
• Registration Confirmation
• Late/Non-Registration
• Spouse & Friend Tickets

GAME DAY TIMELINE
Penn State will play Wisconsin for Homecoming this year. The game begins at noon. Registration, with coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and doughnuts, will begin at 6:30 am. Practice begins at 8:00 a.m. sharp. After practice, if you want to perform at Tailgreat, you need to be seated at the Bryce Jordan Center at 10:00 a.m. We’re hoping to get everyone in the stadium, ready for pre-game, by 11:20 am. < Back to top >

PEP BAND AT HINTZ ALUMNI CENTER
The Penn State Alumni Association has started to host an alumni reception at the Hintz Family Alumni Center on the Friday afternoon of Homecoming weekend and has asked if we could pull together a small pep band to play at the reception. Dr. Bundy will be supplying us with arrangements that can be used with assorted small groups that lack full instrumentation. If you are interested in playing, check off the box on the registration form. Because this is a new event, do not plan to attend unless we get back to you and tell you that the gig is on. < Back to top >

PARADE
If you want to march the Homecoming Parade, you need to assemble at the Food Services Building (corner of Bigler and the service road) at 5:00 pm on October 3. If you need to borrow an instrument, you need to get to the Shack by 4:30 pm; we will close up the Shack by 5:10 pm and will not be able to lend any more instruments after that time. Step off is 5:30, and we will again be near the head of the parade.

NEW FOR THE PARADE: For those of you who don’t have the music memorized, we will have folios this year! They will be available at the Food Services Building. You need to turn the folios in, either at the social or the next morning at registration. ALSO - we’ll introduce one more song into the parade rotation. < Back to top >

POST-PARADE SOCIAL
After the Homecoming Parade there will be an ABBA reception at the Nittany Lion Inn. This reception is free and open to all ABBA members and their family members, whether you marched in the parade or not.

We have held this reception for the past several years, and each year it gets better. Hot and cold hors d’oeuvres will be served and a cash bar is available. Plan to attend and share stories of the “good old days” with fellow alumni. < Back to top >

HOW DO I REGISTER?
Registration materials were sent out to all ABBA members in on July 29. If you are reading this after August 4 and have not yet received the registration materials, please call the ABBA hotline at (814) 865-2343 and ask for registration material to be sent to you.

To register for this year’s Homecoming activities, you must fill out the registration card that was sent to you and return it with the registration fee by September 2, 2003. The fee this year is $59, which includes the cost of a ticket to the game plus $15 to cover the expenses of running Homecoming. The funds from the purchase of the ticket go to the Blue Band as a donation from the Athletic Department.

On the registration card you’ll want to check off the activities in which you intend to participate, correct any incorrect preprinted information (or add any missing information), and cut on the dotted line. Return the card to the Blue Band office, at 101 Music Building II, University Park, PA 16802. Also make sure to enclose your $59 check, payable to “Penn State.”

You’ll also need to let us know on your registration card whether you need to borrow an instrument. < Back to top >

HOW DO I VOLUNTEER?
If you want to VOLUNTEER, either for a single job or as part of the Homecoming Committee, note that on your registration card. We will call you. Or you can email the Homecoming Chair, Bill Rubert. < Back to top >

REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION
You’ll get a postcard in early September informing you if you have made the block and giving you last-minute instructions

CAN YOU REGISTER LATE, OR CAN YOU JUST SHOW UP WITHOUT REGISTERING?
Well, yes, assuming that there is space in the stadium and in the block. If you send in your registration after September 2, you may not get a postcard, but we’ll try to email you. After September 25, though, don’t bother sending in the registration card. Just email Bill Rubert at psublue2003@hotmail.com to let him know you’d like to come, and he’ll let you know by return email if there’s space. If you’re not up on email, just come on Saturday morning October 4 and we’ll try to shoehorn you in.
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SPOUSE/FRIEND TICKETS
As usual, to get a ticket for your spouse or for a friend you’ll need to complete a ticket application. This application was sent along with the registration information sent to you. This application is for an additional ticket, other than the ticket you will get for your registration fee. This ticket is for a spouse or friend to sit in a different section (not the Alumni Band section) of the stadium.

This spouse/friend ticket application form must be sent to the address listed on the form, not to the Blue Band office. Note that you need to return the application by September 19, 2003. If possible, send it in earlier. < Back to top >