{"id":831,"date":"2018-04-18T22:04:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T22:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/?page_id=831"},"modified":"2024-04-25T20:38:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T20:38:30","slug":"may-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/student-traditions\/may-day\/","title":{"rendered":"May Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MayDay26-2-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MayDay26-2-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MayDay26-2-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MayDay26-2-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MayDay26-2-1260x853.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MayDay26-2.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>May Day 1928<\/p>\n<p>The tradition of May Day on campus is one with a long history, dating all the way back to 1917. It was widely used as a celebration of life being breathed into the sleeping world. In Newberg, May Day was seen as a\u00a0\u201csymbol of peaceful beauty and the reawakening of life in nature.\u201d Various activities took place during the May Day celebration. The last activity and perhaps the most important was the winding of the maypole. The winding of the maypole was often the pivotal activity and was most often associated with this tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this long-standing tradition met its end in the 1980s when George Fox shifted to a semester system, which caused the classes to end in April. As there would be increasingly few students on campus at this time, the celebration of May Day has halted on the George Fox University campus.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FUN FACTS ABOUT MAY DAY:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The May Day celebration originally had accompanied events such as an archery contest, tennis matches, a parade, a baseball game against a rival school, a dramatic play, the coronation of the Queen of May Day, and the winding of the maypole.<\/li>\n<li>Many different countries celebrated May Day. In the east, it was a \u201cshow of arms\u201d for the strength of communism on \u201cthe other side of the iron curtain.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Many photos from the May Day celebrations that took place on the George Fox campus can be found and viewed through the archives.<\/li>\n<li>Brougher museum, the museum of George Fox University, has one of the dresses that the May Day Queen wore during the celebration. The dress has been preserved since it\u2019s donation, unfortunately, before being donated to the museum it was not preserved properly causing some damage to the gown.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May Day 1928 The tradition of May Day on campus is one with a long history, dating all the way back to 1917. It was widely used as a celebration of life being breathed into the sleeping world. In Newberg, May Day was seen as a\u00a0\u201csymbol of peaceful beauty and the reawakening of life in&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/student-traditions\/may-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":44,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-831","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/831\/revisions\/2443"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}