Marietta College will celebrate Community Day's 25th anniversary with softball on March 29th and baseball on April 12th. The event is open to everyone in the Marietta community and surrounding areas. Rick Smith, the business and economics department chair, shares more details.
"Community Day will celebrate its 25th anniversary as what has become one of Marietta College's greatest traditions.
We put on this event for the entire community. There is no charge to attend, so anyone can come, whether you're 75, seven and a half, younger, older, or anywhere in between. The target market for this is certainly the community outside of the college-anyone who lives in and around Marietta, Williamstown, Vienna, Belpre, and all the surrounding areas."
This year's event for softball is scheduled earlier than in previous years due to the softball team's schedule. Rick provides more detail about the event's schedule.
"The events start at noon, and the first pitch is at one o'clock. So we ask everyone to get there sometime earlier than twelve o'clock, maybe around 11:30 or 11:45, because the line starts to form to get in, and that's when the t-shirts and the food and all of that are given away.
At the softball field, which is on the college campus, that's where we'll have community day for softball. For Baseball Community Day, it is an off campus stadium, although it is still owned by the college. And that's at Don and Sue's Schaly Park."
The event will feature many traditions from previous years, along with some new additions leading up to the event.
"One thing we're doing prior to Community Day, I guess there's a few things, but the real main thing for the community as a whole, any children that are in grades Four, Five, and Sixth grade can enter an art competition to create an artistic drawing of what they think Community Day means to them and to the community. Those flyers have been sent home in what I call the Backpack Express. We dropped off flyers at the local schools that house children four through six, and so they should have those flyers at home now, and it outlines the instructions and directions for the competition, and so that's a little something different."
