Spring in Their Step

Spirited students leapfrog over one another during the 1991 Homecoming step show, a former annual tradition for the University of Maryland’s Black Greek-letter organizations. Recognize any of these talented Terps? Or were you part of the Cole Field House crowd mesmerized by their moves? Share your memories with us at terpfeedback@umd.edu, and check back in the next issue to find the responses and another fun snapshot of UMD history.

FROM THE LAST ISSUE ...

Many Terps wrote in about their gripping experiences in the 1986 hunger-fighting fundraising stunt Hands Across America, from landing on the front page of The Baltimore Sun to being mistaken for standing in a Grateful Dead ticket line. But we heard from only one alum in the campus photo shown in the Spring 2024 issue: Michael Heitt ’89 recognized his freshman year roommate, Bryan Gordon ’90 (about 20 people from the left in a dark shirt), and himself (the shorter man to his left). “I remember the day fondly because it was when I first spoke to my wife, Sandy Hawkins, who was in town for a campus tour,” Heitt wrote. Another part of the day he can’t forget? The event’s theme song performed by Toto, which he said Gordon played nonstop on the sixth floor of Cumberland Hall.