The Students Activities Board (SAB) is hosting the year’s Spring Formal danc eat the Lakeside Party Center in Uniontown, Pennsylvania Friday, April 6.
“Students can go and enjoy themselves,” said Associate Dean of Students Pat Bristor. “They can go and hang out with their friends for the night and have a lot of fun.”
“It’s an event that people really look forward to year after year,” said Kyla Wolper, junior biblical ministry and communications dual major. “It is something that the current junior class, when we were freshman, really wanted to [bring back] and it has been going really well since then.”
The cost is $15 per person, and attendees can bring a guest that does not attend Waynesburg University as well. The doors will open at 7 p.m. and dinner will begin at 7:30 p.m. Students can either drive there, or they can take advantage of a university bus that will depart at 6 p.m.
“I know that a lot of people that go to this school come from private Christian schools that don’t have dances, or they were home schooled so they did not really have that Prom experience. So, this is kind of a new experience for them,” said Wolper.
At the previous year’s Spring Formal, the main attractions were only food and dancing. At this year’s dance, Bristor has decided make additions.
“This year at the Spring Formal, there will be a photo booth for students to take pictures in,” said Bristor. “There will also be a horse and buggy running from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m., but it will not run during dinner time.”
According to Bristor, last year’s Spring Formal went ‘really well’. Approximately 100 students attended, including junior nursing major Marybeth Cocchi.
“I am looking forward to seeing them all enjoy these kinds of different aspects to the Spring Formal,” said Wolper. “I know many people just romanticize the idea of a horse and buggy and I just think they are going to have a lot of fun to have such a cheap alternative to being able to do something like that with your college friends, which is really, really cool.”
This will be the third annual Spring Formal for students, and, in previous years, the dance was not consistently held yearly. In 2016, Bristor decided to bring back the Spring Formal, and it was also at the Lakeside Party Center in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
“It’s a very different study break,” said Wolper. “Living in a house with eight girls, we will take a whole afternoon, whenever we are done with classes, to take pictures. It is very girly, but it is something that you are not going to be able to do forever. It is pictures and memories that you will be able to keep forever.”