[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15632-15633]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  100TH ANNIVERSARY OF UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI'S HOMECOMING CELEBRATION

  (Mr. CARNAHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARNAHAN. This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of the 
University of Missouri's homecoming celebration.
  In 1911, University of Missouri Athletics Director Chester Brewer 
invited Missouri alumni to come home to campus for the football game 
against the University of Kansas. The game was capped by a parade and 
spirit rally to celebrate the ``coming home'' of so

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many alumni. Thus started the tradition of ``homecoming'' at the 
University of Missouri, an event that has served as a model for 
homecoming celebrations across the country.
  Each year, thousands of students and alumni come home to celebrate 
one of the university's greatest traditions. Homecoming at Mizzou has 
gone beyond school pride and football. Through this event, Mizzou has 
broken the world record for the largest peacetime blood drive on a 
college campus, and has organized other large community service events. 
Moreover, the University of Missouri's homecoming celebration was 
recently named the best homecoming in the Nation.
  My wife, Debra, and I and three generations of my family are 
fortunate to be alumni of the University of Missouri. As a proud alum, 
I would like to congratulate the University of Missouri and generations 
of alumni on this historic milestone of 100 years of coming home to 
Mizzou.

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