By Michael DeMuro ’27
Society Day is the most anticipated event at Wyoming Seminary. Throughout the school year, it builds up more and more until the day it arrives. As the year progresses, there are different competitions between all four societies, those being Alexandrian, Florentine, Oxonian, and Athenian, to gather points. Some of these competitions can be a food drive, SEM DM, or a pep rally. All these points accumulate over time, setting the stage for the final event: Society Day.
Out of every sports game, every school dance, and every ski trip, all pale in comparison to Society Day, not just in terms of the effort it takes to organize and set up, from both faculty and society leaders, but also in terms of how well it is received by the student body.
Society Day is the last day of school before finals begin. According to Brennan Twardowski ‘10, “Society Day has been around for decades; it went on hiatus from 1992-2005 and has continued every year since it was brought back by the Class of 2005.” While the other small society events set the stage for who wins, Society Day is the ultimate factor because of the sheer number of activities and points that can be won from those activities.
In terms of the process that goes into preparing for society day, the same activities are chosen every year, for example, dodgeball and the dance competition. For the society leaders, the real process is having to organize who does what activities when. In terms of preparation, Jagar Macdonald ‘25 said, “We’ll meet up at somebody’s house, order food, and put together some ideas so we don’t have to rush it.”
When Society Day ends, everyone meets at Nesbitt Stadium for the big reveal of who won. The crowd’s tension is at its highest until finally, the banner drops with wins. Last year, Oxonion won Society Day, and the energy when it was revealed was unprecedented. Every time a society wins, they receive a banner that is hung inside the blue gym. Until this year’s Society Day arrives, all we can do is wait and see who’s on top this year.