Welcome

The Big Event is this Saturday, March 27 2010

Registration will take place behind the Student Union from 8 am until 8:45 am, there are 350 Big Event t-shirts available for free to the first 350 students that register, so I encourage you to get there earlier rather than later. Please do not wear shirts that are affiliated with other organizations, Longwood University shirts are preferred.  

 Some recommended items to bring/wear to the Big Event include:

-          Long pants

-          Closed toe shoes

-          Long sleeve shirt

-          Sun screen

-          Water bottle

(WORK GLOVES will not be provided as an additional fundraiser we are selling them for 3 dollars each) many jobs are very hands on and recommend that you purchases or bring your own gloves.

Thank you,

2010 'The Big Event' committee

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On Saturday, March 28, 2009 Longwood University hosted a program called the Big Event to give back to the Farmville community. This program is hosted on over 70 other college campuses, including Virginia Tech, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Oklahoma. The Longwood Big Event is being hailed as a success by many, including Longwood President Patricia Cormier. Participants completed numerous jobs including working at Madeline's House, cleaning up Grove Street Park, and working in two residential homes. Big Event director Joshua Rolfe estimated that 80 to 90 people participated in this first annual event. Of those participants, he mentioned that they were approximately half Greek and half non-Greek. Organizations represented at the Big Event include Sigma Sigma Sigma, the Longwood Ambassadors and the Sociology Club among many others.

This year we hope to continue The Big Event at Longwood and expand. For a peak into the success of last years big day see the video below. One Big Help. One Big Day. One Big Event.

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