TCU: 50 Years: TCU’s First Black Homecoming Queen Honored with Portrait, Game Tribute

[TopFrog]

50 Years: TCU’s First Black Homecoming Queen Honored with Portrait, Game Tribute​

This year’s TCU Homecoming festivities will include a special tribute to beloved Fort Worth educator and community leader Jennifer Giddings Brooks ’71 (MS ’74) — TCU’s first Black Homecoming Queen.

On Friday, Oct. 22, a portrait of Brooks will be unveiled at the Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center. During the Homecoming game on Saturday, she will be recognized as the first Black Homecoming Queen and escorted onto the field with TCU’s 1995 and 1996 Coming Home Kings and Queens.

“I’m honored. It really is just a great feeling,” Brooks said. “I’m very seldom speechless, but when they called me, I really was speechless.”

Read more at https://www.tcu.edu/news/2021/50-ye...-queen-honored-with-portrait-game-tribute.php

 

[PurplFrawg]

I hope Maniac doesn't have to wait that long for his portrait.

 

[geezer]

I hope Maniac doesn't have to wait that long for his portrait.

From the archives:

• 1967 – TCU student Mason Dickson unsuccessfully runs for Homecoming Queen

 

[Rana1]

My wife and I are classmates of Jennifer, and I remember her as a beautiful, intelligent, and classy lady, that has always been a great representative of TCU.