Hokie Day
Friday is a time to wear the colors ? the orange and maroon colors of Virginia Tech.
Here in Towson Athletics, we have several former Virginia Tech employees on our staff including head women’s basketball coach Joe Mathews and assistant men’s basketball coach Eric Skeeters. Former head volleyball coach Chris Riley is now the head coach at Virginia Tech. So we are closely tied to the Hokies and our hopes and wishes go out to their students and families.
Virginia Tech family members have united to declare Friday ?Orange and Maroon Effect? day to honor those killed Monday, and to show support for Virginia Tech students, faculty, administrators and friends.
Gov. Tim Kaine has also declared Friday to be a statewide day of mourning for the Virginia Tech victims and urged communities to participate in specific ceremonies honoring the fallen students.
Many local businesses and organizations in the Valley have already signed onto the ?Orange and Maroon? day and certainly more will.
This may be the first time in state history that alumni and supporters of other universities and colleges in the commonwealth will be wearing the orange and maroon of a competing university.
Of course, colors are mostly worn to sporting events in the spirit of friendly competition.
But this is a time of cooperation and reconciliation, sympathy and support. It is a time to show what unites all of us in the commonwealth is more important and stronger than any petty differences.
As noted by one Virginia Tech supporter, this Friday is a time to show we are one nation, under God, indivisible, and this week, we are all Hokies.
FROM DNR Online ? Daily News Record Harrisonburg, VA
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?In addition, Virginia Tech alumni and students are planning Friday as Hokie Hope Day. Those supporting the university are asked to wear orange, which is one of the school’s colors.?
(From Capital Online Annapolis, MD)
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