{"id":4162,"date":"2022-09-06T23:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T23:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2022-09-06T23:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T23:12:01","slug":"falcon-flames-will-return-to-bgsu-as-part-of-universitys-100th-homecoming-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/06\/falcon-flames-will-return-to-bgsu-as-part-of-universitys-100th-homecoming-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon Flames\u2019 will return to BGSU as part of University\u2019s 100th homecoming celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"BOWLING GREEN, Sept. 1, 2022: As part of its\u00a0100th homecoming celebration<\/a>, Bowling Green State University will welcome Falcon Flames\u2014married couples who both have degrees from the University\u2014of all ages back to campus on Saturday, Sept. 17, to renew their vows and love for their alma mater.<\/p>\n

BGSU alumni Brittney \u201810, \u201811 and Curtis Tarrant \u201908 are just one of the couples set to return to Bowling Green for the homecoming festivities and vow renewal.<\/p>\n

The couple, who now live outside Phoenix, Arizona, are returning to BGSU this year after reconnecting on campus during homecoming in Sept. 2012, which marked the official start of their journey to becoming Falcon Flames.<\/p>\n

\u201cHomecoming is a really big part of our story,\u201d Brittney Tarrant said. \u201cAfter homecoming, I remember standing in the parking lot of a hotel, and we both agreed we would give it a shot and see where things went. It\u2019s been 10 years since we\u2019ve been back. I literally have chills.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curtis Tarrant added, “Homecoming will always feel nostalgic. Homecoming, in particular, set the foundation for our relationship and I am grateful for that.”<\/p>\n

BGSU President Rodney K. Rogers will officiate the vow renewal ceremony, which will be held at 11 a.m. on Sept. 17 on the lawn outside\u00a0Prout Chapel<\/a>\u00a0on the Bowling Green campus. Preregistered Falcon Flames will receive a vow renewal certificate signed by Rogers, a commemorative button and a digital copy of a professional portrait taken inside Prout Chapel.<\/p>\n

In honor of the event, participating couples are encouraged to make a gift of $19.22 or more to the\u00a0National Center for Family & Marriage Research<\/a>. However, a donation is not required to attend.<\/p>\n

As of 2022, there are 11,421 Falcon Flames. The group, formally recognized through the\u00a0BGSU Alumni Association<\/a>, includes 372 couples born in the 1930s and 40s who are still married.<\/p>\n

Love of another generation<\/strong>
\nRandy ’75 and Dee Earl ’75 are among the many Falcon Flames born in the 1950s. The couple, education majors at the University, met the summer before their senior year in 1974 and have been married for 47 years.<\/p>\n

When they met, they lived at the St. Thomas More University Parish and Newman Center across the street from campus and shared an interest in Yahtzee and cribbage. In addition to playing games together for hours, they also spent the first few days after meeting reading a book called \u201cValues Clarification,\u201d which was required for education majors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe read questions back and forth from that book and truly got to know each other very quickly on where we stood on all sorts of issues,\u201d Dee Earl said.<\/p>\n

The couple was engaged 11 days later.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think the words, \u2018Will you marry me?\u2019 ever came out of his mouth, but the next thing I knew, we were going ring shopping,\u201d Dee Earl said.<\/p>\n

They were married July 26, 1975, in Archbold, Ohio, where Dee Earl grew up, and have shared a life that\u2019s included nine moves throughout Ohio, raising two sons and countless more beautiful memories.<\/p>\n

With their 50th wedding anniversary on the horizon, the Earls had begun discussing doing a vow renewal then. But when they saw the event at homecoming in honor of Falcon Flames, they knew they had to attend.<\/p>\n

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