"Homecoming 2009" (box)

The house decorations are completed and on display starting Friday night of homecoming walkarounds. They are left up for the football game the next day for fans and alumni to see. As you can see, houses will often enhance their dec’s with special lighting to illuminate their work.


The OSU emblem in the middle of the recently renovated Eddie Sutton Court in Gallagher Iba Arena was in the spotlight at a Homecoming celebration on Friday night in Stillwater.


During the assembly on Eddie Sutton Court in Gallagher Iba Arena on Friday night of Homecoming Walkarounds, Mike Gundy and four football players spoke to the crowd about the football game on Saturday.


This year, OSU recognized the graduating class of 1949, as a part of their Homecoming festivities on Friday night. The graduates were seated together inside Gallagher Iba Arena, on Eddie Sutton Court.


Many houses will incorporate the team that the home football team will play against during the homecoming game. Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Kappa Kappa Gamma chose to include “Beat Missouri,” as a part of their theme for the University.


Two Greeks work on the welding of their steel house dec frame on thursday night before Friday Walkarounds. Each team holds an “All-Night Pomp,” in order to finish their outdoor house decoration by the official finish time on Friday.


Some of the welding involved in building a steel structure that will eventually be the shell to an elaborate, colorful house decoration. Some of the dec’s even involve parts that move by hydraulics.


“Old Central” is was the first building to ever be built on the Oklahoma A&M campus. Since homecoming attracts many OSU alumni, these Greek houses chose to incorporate the building as a part of their house decoration.

As Sigma Phi Epsilon and Kappa Alpha Theta work on putting their house decoration together for the Homecoming weekend, we see how they chose to incorporate the ever-popular “OSU” as a part of their house decoration.

Many people never see how the large decoration of beautiful color and design are actually made. Here we can see the detail of the chicken wire, and how the tissue paper is held in each square.


As a part of the annual celebration of Homecoming at Oklahoma State University, the Greek community spends months, and countless hours preparing a “house-dec” for the Friday night before the football game. This involves welding of a steel frame that in the end, holds sheets of chicken wire with tissue pomps inside.