Travel Bug Dog Tag Hokie, Hokie, Hokie, Hi!

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Released:
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Origin:
Vermont, United States
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Current Goal

This bug wishes to travel to and be logged into a cache at or near the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.

This is a replacement for the original bug, which vanished in Michigan after winning a travel bug race.

About This Item

Replacement Hokie Bug

WHAT'S A HOKIE?

The answer leads all the way back to 1896 when Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College changed its name to Virginia Polytechnic Institute*. With the change came the necessity for writing a new cheer and a contest for such a purpose was held by the student body.

Senior O.M. Stull won first prize for his "Hokie" yell (see below) which is still used today. Later, when asked if "Hokie" had any special meaning, Stull explained the word was solely the product of his imagination and was used only as an attention-getter for his yell. It soon became a nickname for all Tech teams and for those people loyal to Tech athletics.

The official university school colors - Chicago Maroon and Burnt Orange - also were introduced in 1896. The colors were chosen by a committee because they made a 'unique combination' not worn elsewhere at the time.

The official definition of "hokie" is "a loyal Virginia Tech Fan".

"Old Hokie" Cheer

Hokie, Hokie, Hokie, Hi!
Tech, Tech, VPI
Sol-a-rex, Sol-a-rah
Poly Tech Vir-gin-ia
Ray rah VPI
Team! Team! Team!

* The official name of the university was changed from "Virginia Polytechnic Institute" to "Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University" in 1970 to reflect its ever-broadening mission.  VPI&SU, the largest university in the commonwealth of Virginia, is, however, nowadays colloquially known as "Virginia Tech".

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Tracking History (3935.4mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 7/28/2005 Team 4X4 retrieved it from Whatever cache Pennsylvania   Visit Log

Grabbed it to take somewhere a little more south.
Dropped Off 7/27/2005 Phin 'n' Dyn placed it in Whatever cache Pennsylvania - 2.28 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/16/2005 Phin 'n' Dyn retrieved it from XC 2 XTREME CACHE! Pennsylvania   Visit Log

Grabbed this one after repair to the cache log.
Dropped Off 7/12/2005 krazymtbr & QT placed it in XC 2 XTREME CACHE! Pennsylvania - 216.25 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/5/2005 krazymtbr & QT retrieved it from Louise Moore Tour Pennsylvania   Visit Log

Will move along soon.
Dropped Off 7/4/2005 tootsie-roll placed it in Louise Moore Tour Pennsylvania - 223.3 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/17/2005 tootsie-roll retrieved it from Viking Treasure Cave Virginia   Visit Log

Picked up at Vikings Treasure Cave in the Shenandoah National Park. Unfortunately, being a Yankee - didn't recognize the symbol and there was no information with TB on travel plans (we will include when placing in next cache). So we brought it back to Pennsylvania from our vacation and found out Hokie was trying to get BACK to Virginia. Sorry! We will have him visit Lehigh! Hopefully we can get him fast tracked back to Virginia.
Dropped Off 5/13/2005 plow4425 placed it in Viking Treasure Cave Virginia - 494.79 miles  Visit Log
Write note 5/8/2005 plow4425 posted a note for it   Visit Log

Sorry for having this one in our possession for so long, but we are heading to Va next week, and will drop it off there. Hopefully that will help him get to where he's going quicker.
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/20/2005 plow4425 retrieved it from The Blairstown Airport Cache New Jersey   Visit Log

Actually, had to drop it in the cache first and then retrieve it so it could get credit for its miles.
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