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The caller contented of Fresno State Magazine began hitting mailboxes connected July 1–reaching alumni and friends crossed the Central Valley, passim the United States and crossed the globe. The spring/summer 2024 contented is besides disposable online astatine magazine.fresnostate.edu.
This contented features a screen communicative connected the history and contented of Vintage Days, the yearly outpouring festival that precocious celebrated its 50th twelvemonth connected campus. Readers volition larn the past down the lawsuit and spot throwback photos of immoderate of the astir amusive and quirky traditions of yesteryear (think aerial guitar, tug-of-war, frog jumping and tricycle races).
So drawback the keys to your ’75 Mercury Cougar convertible, commencement the engine, popular successful that Doobie Brothers 8-track and get acceptable to cruise down Memory Lane portion taking a swig of nostalgia.
Also featured successful this contented is simply a photo effort connected field fashion implicit the decades–dating backmost to the 1970s erstwhile Vintage Days began.
Fresno State Magazine takes an in-depth look astatine the music country connected campus implicit the decades, from the big-name and section bands who person performed astatine Vintage Days oregon different field events to the mega stars who header the Save Mart Center. Plus, larn astir the galore types of nutrient vendors who service Vintage Days crowds, including Jay’s Specialty Ice Cream, a concern calved retired of a people task by alumna Janel Haas.
The Vintage Days taxable continues with the heartfelt idiosyncratic communicative of Shawna Blair, Fresno State’s coordinator of large events and unit development, who juggled wellness challenges portion continuing to program and execute Vintage Days successful caller years.
This contented besides shares immoderate of the past and voices down cultural activism connected campus, including photos and idiosyncratic anecdotes from alumni, module and staff.
In sports, Fresno State Magazine caught up with Pat Ogle, the longtime Bulldog Foundation fundraiser and erstwhile TV anchor who has had a front-row spot for the improvement of Fresno State athletics implicit the past 60 years. See what helium says makes Fresno State truthful peculiar to its instrumentality basal successful this reader-friendly Q&A.
Fresno State Magazine is published doubly per twelvemonth by University Marketing and Communications astatine Fresno State. The mag reaches implicit 100,000 alumni and friends via the people and physics editions.