Word: twirler
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...knives down. She wants to show off the thick sparkly ribbon she sewed in high school, as well as the sequined ballroom dance costume she just finished altering. “I love glitter,” she says. ALTER EGOLiles is Harvard’s only baton twirler. Her twisting, kicking, spinning routines have enlivened Harvard University Band’s halftime show every time the band has performed at a Crimson football game for the past two years.At this year’s Harvard-Yale game, Liles played “Little Crimson Riding Hood...
...surprise me that out of desperation, that campaign would make [an] accusation out of the blue,” said Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, who is responsible for filing Petersen-Sundquist campaign reports with the EC. While she herself was the subject of a complaint, baton-twirler Lindsay M. Liles ’10 seemed a bit less concerned with inter-campaign wrangling. “I was happy to twirl regardless,” she said. “I wanted to try to keep up my skills for next year...
...player, senior-class president and an above-average student. But he wasn't the star. That distinction belonged to Lynne Vincent, Cheney's girlfriend and future wife. A straight-A scholar, Lynne was elected Mustang Queen, the equivalent of most popular girl. She was also a state-champion baton twirler, a big deal in 1950s Wyoming. To begin her routine, Lynne would set both ends of a baton on fire and throw it in the air while her boyfriend stood inconspicuously off to the side holding a coffee can filled with water. When Lynne was finished with her pyrotechnic...
...Five years ago, when I began my college search, one of the most important criteria for me was a sense of school spirit and community. Coming from the South and having performed as the baton twirler with a high school band of 250 members, I was used to a lot of school spirit. On game days, athletes wore their team jerseys around campus. This is not to say that athletics reigned supreme at my high school; in fact, we were consistently below average in football and basketball. Yet there was tremendous school pride, and the games were packed with fans...