Homecoming Memories
Published 10:00 pm Tuesday, October 1, 2019
- For Homecoming 2012, soccer players body painted for the Homecoming game. From left are Tyler Shaw ('13), Tyler Vandenhuvel ('14’), Carter Dahl ('14), Tim Furland ('14), Hunter Tuveson ('14), and Preston Smith ('14). Provided
To celebrate Albert Lea’s Homecoming week, we asked readers to share their memories of Homecomings from the past:
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- For Homecoming 2012, soccer players body painted for the Homecoming game. From left are Tyler Shaw (’13), Tyler Vandenhuvel (’14’), Carter Dahl (’14), Tim Furland (’14), Hunter Tuveson (’14), and Preston Smith (’14). Provided
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- For Twin Day during 2013 Homecoming week, Zach Lind, left, and Carter Dahl dressed up as twins. Provided
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- Homecoming in approximately 1990. Members of the marching band flag and rifle squad head to the football field. Adele Rosnow (rifle) stands next to Heather Grorud Warmka’s car. Provided by Adele Helleksen
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- Members of the class of 2018 pose for a photo. Provided by Ellie Aldrich
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- French Club members won the first-place float prize for Homecoming in 1973. The students spent long hours with paper mache and chicken wire to build the giant mouth on the float. Submitted by Charlotte Holian Ophaug
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- Albert Lea High School students during the 2012 Homecoming game. Mascots were Sergio Salgado and Tucker James Akemann. Provided by Sergio Salgado
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- Gladys Lundberg Reese was Albert Lea’s first Homecoming queen in 1932. Reese died two years ago at the age of 104 Provided by Kristi (Reese) Nelson
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- The senior girls on the Homecoming court in 2011, from left, are Annabelle (Randall) Henry, Claire Buendorf, Kelly Nelson, Colleen (Thompson) Parsons, Samantha Stanley. Provided by Colleen Parsons
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- Chelsea Petersen, Colleen (Thompson) Parsons, Michelle (Hartmann) Rietgraf after the seniors Powderpuff victory in 2011. Provided by Colleen Parsons
