Sadie Hawkins race
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- Sadie Hawkins race
- Description
- 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.
- Date
- 1953
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- photographs
- Extent
- 17cm x 12cm
- Local Identifier
- UA55.01.4841
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- East Carolina College--Students
- College students--North Carolina--Greenville
- Running races--North Carolina--Greenville
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- Location of Original
- University Archives
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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.