Mark your calendar to join us for 53rd Annual
DFRC Blue-Gold All*Star
Football Game
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Blue-Gold News: 2008 Blue-Gold Event Calendar now online!
2008 Blue-Gold events in the High Schools
Important Notices for 2008 Blue-Gold Participants
ALL BUDDIES AND ALL HIGH SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS -
YOUR NEXT BLUE-GOLD EVENT IS SUNDAY, MAY 18
The Blue-Gold Hand-In-Hand Picnic will be held in conjunction with the Down Syndrome Association of Delaware's Buddy Walk on the University of Delaware's South Campus in Newark. Click here for details.
2008 Blue-Gold High School Activities
Thomas McKean High School Blue Gold Week will be 5/12-5/15. The week will conclude with a Blue Gold Pep Rally and THE REMATCH!!!!!!!! Students vs Staff Basketball Game. Earlier in the year the students squeaked out a 3 point victory and the staff is looking to even the score!!!!
The game will be Thursday May 15th during 7th period.
Lake Forest High School in Felton will hold a Blue-Gold Assembly on Thursday, May 15th to promote Blue-Gold Awareness and Understanding.
Has your school scheduled or held a Blue-Gold event?
Let us know about it by clicking here to send us an email -
We love getting your pictures as well!
Schools hosting Blue-Gold Events earlier this year
Concord High School - Click this link for information.
Middletown High School - Click this link for information.
St. Elizabeth High School - Click this link for information.
Tower Hill School - . Click this link for information.
Saint Mark's - Click this link for information.
Padua Academy - Click this link for information.
Salesianum School - Click this link for information.
A.I. du Pont - Click here to read the full story from the Community Newspapers website.
What Is Blue-Gold
All About?
This annual football game is the event that launched DFRC more than fifty years ago. It showcases Delaware’s finest high school students who participate as football players, cheerleaders, band members and school ambassadors.
Each senior participant is given the opportunity to take part in DFRC’s Hand-In-Hand Program. Since its start in 1974, this unique program pairs the senior participants with a "Buddy," a person 4-18 years old with a intellectual disability. The buddies build friendships and learn valuable lessons about diversity and acceptance. The Hand-In-Hand Program is the heart of the Blue-Gold experience. Photo credit: E. John Williams for DFRC
Buddy Bowling brings Blue-Gold Buddies and Participants together for fun across the state
Photo credit: Mary Ann Evans for DFRC
The Buddy Bowling is the second statewide event in this year's Blue-Gold All*Star Game Hand-In-Hand program. A total of nine bowling centers across the state hosted the Buddies and Senior Participants in 2008.
The high school students, primarily seniors who will be graduating in June 2008, are participants in DFRC's Blue-Gold All*Star Football Game program as Blue-Gold Ambassadors, Band Members, Cheerleaders and Football Players and may elect to have a Buddy as a means to promote understanding, awareness and acceptance. Click here to see more 2008 Buddy Bowling pictures.
2008 Hand-In-Hand Buddy Party a smashing success!
Blue-Gold Buddies and High School participants numbering the hundreds gathered in Dover on Sunday, March 9th for the Annual DFRC Blue-Gold Hand-In-Hand Buddy Party.
DJ "Shubie" spun his musical magic for the Buddies and their new friends from high schools across the state. The only rivalries here were seeing who had the best moves on the dance floor and who would be next to get their picture with DFRC's mascot, Buddy Bear.
Click here to view more 2008 Hand-In-Hand Party pictures - a big thanks to photographers John Williams and Randy Seale - and to the parents and Blue-Gold volunteers who also shared their pictures. If you have Blue-Gold event pictures you would like to share - call the DFRC office at (302) 454-2730 or send them by email to info@dfrcfoundation.org
Click here to view 2008 DFRC Blue-Gold All*Star Football Program event pictures online.
2008 Game Chair: Bruce DiNardo
