Traditions

Samford Band, 1924

Step Sing!

We all have great memories of Step Sing.  This is such a wonderful time each year.  Maybe you took home the Sweepstakes trophy, maybe you just took home sore feet and blisters.  Step Sing is for everyone!

 

My favorite Step Sing memory is from my sophomore year.  Chi Omega's show was "We've Got Annie," and we loved every second of it.  We had red wigs, buckets and scrub brushes, and a costume change from burlap into those shiny red dresses -- it may sound silly, but from the first notes of "It's a Hard Knock Life" through the traditional sorority block rendition of "Tomorrow," we were Annie.  The judges agreed, and Chi O won Sweepstakes.  I can still remember the balcony shaking with all of the girls jumping up and down and the race to the stage in slippery sock feet.  After so much hard work, it was wonderful to look around me and see it paying off in the exuberant smiles of my sorority sisters.  Even though we won Sweepstakes again my senior year, that first win stands out in my mind as one of the most perfect nights that I had at Samford. 

 

Kitty Rogers Brown, 03

 

"The first year that the BSU Choir (now Student Ministries Choir) participated in Step Sing our theme was Doctors.  We had a lot of fun because, having never participated before, no one knew what to expect from us.  And when we wheeled out Dean Martha Ann Cox on a surgical gurney and proceeded to mime cutting her open with a chain saw to Weird Al Yankovic's Like a Surgeon, the crowd went wild!"

 

Allan Burton, 1992

 

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