The development of St. Patrick's Day, State Patty's celebrations in Penn State | Penn State, State College News

Penn Statters celebrates St. Patrick's Day this weekend before we make our way to the spring holiday.

The Tag Patty's Day effectively described the weekend before the break is an integral part of student life in the Penn State with celebrations at Downtown State College for all Nittany Lions – not just the Irish.

State Patty was celebrated for generations. Here is a look at the reporting on the collegic reporting on the green weekend.

1942

On March 17, Sigma Delta Chi organized his annual Gridiron banket in the Nittany Lion Inn to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

Members of the faculty and the Penn State employee were invited to a roast, in which St. Patrick was “dared to slap to sling in all faces”. According to the Collegian, those who are brave enough to take part in the event should “hurry up, cover up his past sins, but to be ready to face the worst”.

1950

On a headline on the front page in Collegian, “Frosh” or students in the first year, a St. Patrick's Ball was found in Rec Hall. The “Gal Bring Boy Affair” was from 21 to midnight.

Tickets sold for USD 1.20 per couple. Although the ball was organized from the first few years, all students were encouraged to take part.

1961

In 1961 the Collegier was reported for Phi Kappa Thetas St. Patrick's Day “Jam Session”. The fraternity, which is generally known as Phi today, organized appearances by Pat Montaine and the main liners.

According to the advertisement, the party ran from 2 p.m. to midnight. The fraternity had listed her topic at side limits: “Green?”

1979

Although St. Patrick's Day is technically honored by a Christian saint, the Irish Penn Stater Colleen Shannon told Collegian: “Everything the Irish is doing is a drinking holiday.”

Local bars and restaurants such as The Saloon, Alexander's Restaurant and DiscoTque and the Phyrst all said how they prepared for the popular holiday, including specialized food and cocktail menus.

Student Mike McIlwain told Collegian that he was ready to “celebrate all day”.

The article closed with a quote from Peanuts' Snoopy – “All Irish am St. Patrick's Day”.

1981

Local taverns and restaurants organized St. Patrick's Day Specials for students with special Irish menu items and Pints ​​of Guinness.

The Phyrst, an Irish pub on State College today, offered free drinks worth $ 400 based on First Comes-First-Serve-Base. In addition to the drinks, the pub organized local bands for entertainment all day.

Other restaurants and taverns offered traditional Irish dishes, music and pitchers from green beer.

The Collegian reported that Barbara Jacobs from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, “came here to St. Patrick's Day to experience the unique scene on State College.

1991

In 1991, Father Leopold Crowe commented on the Catholic Center in the Eisenhower Chapel how the students lost the original intention of St. Patrick Day.

He said that the vacation “took over a secular aspect”.

Other Irish Catholic students also said that they would celebrate their vacation in the context of their faith.

Nick Voron, a brother of fraternity, hoped to “find some friends to take part in a Catholic mass on Sunday”.

1996

In 1996 the Collegian spoke to Irish international student John Whelan, who revealed that the Americans celebrated the St. Patrick's Day more than the Irish.

“The day is just an excuse to get drunk in Ireland,” Whelan told Collegian.

However, this did not prevent Whelan and his friends from preparing for the weekend with a “24-hour marathon of Irish music”, and he said he had to go to bars that “draped in an Irish flag” become.

2002

When the readers were concerned about the effects of the artificially green beer at the weekend of St. Patrick's Day, the Collegian removed all worries in his reporting in 2002.

Then Straub, President of the Straub Brewery in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, said: “It's just food coloring.”

According to Straub, 24 milliliters of green dye are added in every beer barrel, but in the second year Lauren Shimkus assured the Collegian that “it tastes the same”.

2007

In 2007, the formal advance for St. Patrick's Day, which is to be celebrated on a weekend, showed, regardless of when the March 17th was actually – the introduction of the holiday of “State Patty's Day”.

Penn Statters under the leadership of the student Facebook group “The official group to move St. Patrick's Day 2007 2007”, Penn Stater asked everyone to celebrate on March 2, before they went into spring holidays.

The Collegian recognized the additional funds and workload for law enforcement authorities and companies and advised the students to celebrate responsibly.

2011

St. Patrick's Day fell on a Thursday in 2011. The bars were opened at 7 a.m. to serve traditional Irish breakfast and beer all day.

Tim Reifel, manager of the Phyrst, has clarified the difference between St. Patrick's Day and State Patty's.

“State Patty's is a day of the tailgate and there is a party atmosphere,” he said. “St. St. Patrick's day focuses more on an inheritance. “

Jay Murphy, the Irish Pub manager of Kildare, argued that the Irish heritage was intertwined with drinking culture.

“It is no coincidence that March 17th is the largest global party day of the year,” he told Collegian.

2024

According to a request from the University and State College, green beer and special drinks belonged to end hours and promotions for State Patty in the past.

However, this was not worrying for most bars. Kevin Cormani, Manager of Primanti Bros, told The Collegian that there was hardly a difference between the weekends of State Patty and Football.

“It used to be much more an exciting day, but in recent years it is really tamed and becomes a good event – no different from the crawling of Lineleap bar,” said Cormani.

Additional measures such as increased parking fees, a limited number of guests in dormitories, apartment buildings, which “discourage” the parties and who were asked to minimize social events with alcohol, also contributed to the reduced hype for the weekend.

Penn State and the district said bars to treat the “Weekend of State Patty like every other weekend”.

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