Homecoming Queen and float winner announced!
October 25, 2015
Congratulations to all of this year’s Homecoming nominees. Ai??This year’s second runner up is Maci Kendrick, runner up is Tatiana Williams, and our 2015 Homecoming Queen is Alexa Vaghenas. Also a congratulations to the seniors, juniors, sophomores, and freshmen for the outstanding efforts on their perspective floats. Ai??The class of 2017’s outstanding float and skit won first place. Mountaineer photographer Jacob Angradi caught all the action on camera. Ai??Go to our photo gallery to view all of the nominees, the floats, and more.
![A Promax Super Jumbo boombox (2014.270.2.1a) used as a prop by the character Radio Raheem in the Spike Lee directed picture, Do the Right Thing. The boombox includes a dual audio casette tape deck, an equilizer section, radio dial, coloured light display, and a pair each of 8 subwoofers, midranges, and tweeters. There are sections of red, yellow, and green electical tape with black ink text on the sides and top of the player. There are also rectangular black, green, and yellow Public Enemy stickers adhered to both the PR and PL side of the player. On the lower back of the boombox is handwritten text in gold ink reading [BROOKLYN, NY / 3/17/90 / To Gene / RADIO RAHEEM LIVES / LOVE, Spike Lee / FIGHT THE POWER]. There is a metal handle attached to the top of the player, around which two braided bracelets (black-and-white 2014.270.2.1b, coloured 2014.270.2.1c) and multi-coloured printed cloth (2014.270.2.1d) have been tied. The rewind button on the PR tape deck has fallen off but is stored with the boombox (2014.270.2.1e). The boombox had an audio cassette in the PR deck that has been removed (2014.270.2.2), titled JAZZ CLUB / Vocal. The cassette is off-white with black text and is printed with track titles, manufacturing information, and serial number. Date: 1980s. Record ID: nmaahc_2014.270.2.](https://shsnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG-2612-1-475x309.jpg)
