Asking Someone to Homecoming? Be Creative

The students at Arrowhead High School will attend Dancing Through The Decades Homecoming 2013 from 8:00- 11:30 on September 28th at Arrowhead High School in the gymnasium.  The upcoming event has had the senior girls waiting patiently and the senior boys thinking creatively for an ask to the dance.

Every year, guys girls in a creative way but, “they’ve come up with more and more creative ways of asking a girl,” senior, Maggie Dawes says.

Carolyn Schroeder, a senior, was asked to homecoming this year when her boyfriend, Peter Schumacher, left a note on her car.

Schroeder says, “He left a note on my car to meet him at Lapham Peak.  When I got there there were candles on each step going up and a sign on each landing.  One saying ‘Carolyn’ (another saying) ‘Will’ (another saying) ‘You Go’ (another saying) ‘to’ and he was waiting at the top with ‘Homecoming.’”

Molly Kocian, a senior, was asked to homecoming this year when Matt Mohr, a senior, asked her in class.

Kocian says, “he told me that someone with blonde hair was going to ask me to homecoming the night before. Then, the next day, he told me to meet him in the Advanced Composition classroom and he gave me flowers and hugged me and asked me to homecoming.”

Maggie Dawes was asked to homecoming this year by her boyfriend, Thomas McCormick, a senior, who asked her in her AP Macroeconomics class.

Dawes says, “there was a box on my desk tenth hour that had my name on it, and when I opened it, there was my favorite candy at the bottom and a mirror with a poem on it asking me to homecoming.”

Alisha Arndt, a senior, was asked to homecoming last year by her boyfriend, Jake Edwards, a senior, who asked her during all of her classes.

Arndt says, “I was called out in front of everyone in each class and the teacher gave me a note with a rose.  Each note had a letter on it and it had spelt out homecoming all together.  For each letter, he put something that he loved about me and at 10th hour he met me in my class.”

The creative idea doesn’t always come from the minds of the boys who ask the girls. It sometimes comes from friends’ and family member’s advice. Other times it comes from the Internet.

Thomas McCormick, a senior, asked his girlfriend, Maggie Dawes with a box full of candy and a poem.

McCormick says, “It took a week to plan and I got the idea from my friend.”

Brian Kohr, a senior, asked Courtney Huschka to homecoming by serenading her in the parking lot.

Kohr says, “I surprised her in the parking lot in the morning and gave her flowers.  I sang ‘I’ll do anything’ by Simple Plan.”

Kohr says, “She said that she wanted someone to sing to her and give her flowers, so that’s what I did.”

Sam Phillips, a senior, asked his girlfriend, sophomore Hannah Wulf, to homecoming by serenading her but at the Arrowhead Football Game.

Phillips says, “I sang her ‘Gone Gone Gone’ by Phillip Phillips at a football game.  Since she’s on the Hawkettes, when she was on the sidelines, her friends called her over and I just asked sang it to her and in the middle of the song I asked, still singing and then she said yes.”

Phillips says, “I planned it for a day and I just decided to sing that song because we like it.”

According to Kohr, the nerves of asking someone to homecoming seem to be higher when the couples are not in a relationship.

Kohr says, “[after] about a week, I figured I should ask her.” Kohr says he was both nervous about asking her and her response.

And like Dawes says, it’s not how they ask, but that they ask.