News Release
August 2000
Over 380 Moravian College freshman will walk the "Moravian
Mile" during the annual freshman class walk on Saturday, August
26, at 10:00 a.m. The walk starts at the 1742 oval located the corner
of Locust and Monocacy streets and follows the Moravian Mile down Main
Street to Moravian's Church Street Campus.
The walk is a recent tradition that began in 1996 as part
of Freshman Orientation. The walk symbolically links Moravian's Main
Street and Church Street campuses. A group of Moravian College vice
presidents will lead the walk.
At the conclusion of the walk, the group gathers in Foy
Concert Hall for the kick-off of the History Hunt, which is a "scavenger
hunt" of sorts. By residence hall floors, students are led by cryptic
clues to important College and community areas in the historic Moravian
area. At each site, someone tells them something about the area and
its importance, and as a group they perform some task (wrap a vespers
candle or sing the Alma Mater with kazoos, etc.) before they get their
next clue. The group that gets to the destination first gets the Class
banner, and has the rest of the weekend to get their classmates to sign
it. It is presented to the president the night of the Freshman Banquet,
and is then hung in the Pavilion. The activities conclude with a class
picnic.
