Sharp, Cynthia Sadie Hawkins race Female students at East Carolina College participating in a Sadie Hawkins Day race. Students are running down Faculty Way past the Old Austin Building and Jarvis Dormitory. 55-01-4841 22861 1079 1953 eng still image photographs 17.8cm x 12.9cm United States North Carolina Pitt County (N.C.) Greenville (N.C.) College students North Carolina Greenville East Carolina College Students Running races North Carolina Greenville ECU History ecuhistory Athletics athletics Hegler, Sarah 11/16/2012 Special Collections Staff Pick Collection staffpick University Archives Sadie Hawkins race Female students at East Carolina College participating in a Sadie Hawkins Day race. Students are running down Faculty Way past the Old Austin Building and Jarvis Dormitory. 1953 StillImage photographs J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University eng 22861 United States--North Carolina--Pitt County (N.C.)--Greenville (N.C.) College students--North Carolina--Greenville East Carolina College--Students Running races--North Carolina--Greenville This photo from the University Archives shows East Carolina students participating in a 1953 Sadie Hawkins Day Race (UA55-01-4841). By tradition, on Sadie Hawkins Day girls ask boys to accompany them to a dance or on a date. The event originated in 1937 with the comic strip Li’l Abner when the town spinster, Sadie Hawkins, is sent in pursuit of the town’s eligible bachelors as they raced to avoid marriage to the “homeliest gal in the hills.” The gender-based role reversal proved popular among female college students as Sadie Hawkins Day events rose in popularity across the nation. By 1952, Sadie Hawkins Day events were held in over 40,000 locations. In this image, Fleming and Wilson Dormitories are on the right and the Old Cafeteria Complex is just visible on the left. The large building in the center rear is the original Austin classroom building. East Carolina University gender Sadie Hawkins local, filename 22861.0001 55479212 image/tiff 6.0 PRONOM PUID: fmt/10 little endian uncompressed MD5 9cf7ed277ac371056500eef57dda13a7 ecu:digital_collections 4668 3960 RGB 178 mm 129 mm 20121018 Khazanie, Rita Epson Expression 10000XL Silverfast Ai v6.6.1r6 object plane in. 575 1 575 1 8 integer 3 internal