News Release
August 2001
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)— Over 300 Moravian College
freshmen will walk the "Moravian Mile" during the annual freshman
class walk on Saturday, August 25, at 11:00 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 Priscilla Payne
Hurd Campus at Church Street.
The walk is a recent tradition that began in 1996 as part
of Freshman Orientation. The walk symbolically links Moravian's Main
Street Campus with the Priscilla Payne Hurd Campus. 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.
