LHS Homecoming activities include Friday afternoon parade, Saturday night dance
Lawrence High School’s Homecoming parade starts its annual roll down Massachusetts Street Friday afternoon, ushering in a weekend of recognition, celebration and activities.
All fielded around Friday night’s game, which kicks off at 7 p.m. against Shawnee Mission South High School.
The parade starts at 2:30 p.m. at South Park, heading south on Massachusetts and then west on 19th Street to the campus at 1901 La.
The parade route will include a stop in front of Babcock Place, where members of the band will play a song for residents and other observers.
The parade also will include members of the Homecoming Court. Members of the 2010 court:
• Grace Bova and Roland Burd
• Emily Davidson and Jamal Brown
• Hannah Hall and Austin Flory
• Ava Regan and Scottie Dunlap
• Nikki McGrew and Chris Gaston
• Marley Sutter and Anrai Richards
• Taylor Shuck and Quenton Todd
Weekend activities will include a Homecoming reception at 8 p.m. Friday for candidates and their families, in the school cafeteria. The Homecoming King and Queen are to be crowned at half-time of the game.
The official Homecoming dance begins at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, also at the school.
Lawrence Lions Alumni Association will induct four new members into the organization’s Hall of Honor at LHS, during a free, open-to-the-public ceremony at 2 p.m. Sunday in the rotunda at the school. The inductees:
• Sam Campbell, president of CritiTech, a Lawrence-based company that is among a number of his entrepreneurial endeavors.
• Dr. Larry Kwak, a physician, scientist and cancer vaccine pioneer named earlier this year by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.
• Steve Scheid, chairman of Janus Capital Group Inc., a company whose subsidiaries manage $147.2 billion.
• Wesley Walker, who graduated from LHS in 1954 and went on to become a boxer, play basketball and join the Army and — after a car accident in 1965 — compete as a world-class wheelchair athlete, winning gold medals in shot-put, discus and javelin in 1971 at the Pan American Games.