Boo Hoo the Bear

Boo Hoo the Bear is the mascot of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Boo Hoo wears a vest and tam in the Royal Stewart tartan.

History

Originally, Boo Hoo was a real bear which was paraded around at football games and kept in the basement of Grant Hall. The first bear was a pet of Bill Hughes who brought him to Queens when he was hired as a boxing trainer.cite book
last = Daub
first = Mervin
title = Gael Force: A Century of Football at Queen's
origdate = 1996-08-07
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=i8nB_f-XqxwC&pg=PA275
accessdate = 2008-01-06
publisher = McGill-Queen's University Press
isbn = 0773515194
pages = pp. 45 ] The bear was popular enough to have a march composed for it by Oscar Telgmann in the 1920s.cite web|url=http://qnc.queensu.ca/Encyclopedia/|title=Queen's Encyclopedia|accessdate=2008-01-06] This was the first of a succession of 5 bears who lived at the stadium until the 1950s.

The mascot was revived in it present form in the 1980s by the Queen's Bands Cheerleaders and is currently in his seventh incarnation, giving him the full title of ""King Boo Hoo the Seventh"". He is seen often around the Queen's campus, at the Queen's Golden Gaels football games, frosh week and homecoming, and has been on the cover of several Golden Words issues.cite web|url=http://www.goldenwords.net/issues/issue.php?volume=42&issue=7|title=Golden Words Volume 42, Issue 7|accessdate=2008-02-07] cite web|url=http://www.goldenwords.net/issues/issue.php?volume=39&issue=20|title=Golden Words Volume 39, Issue 20|accessdate=2008-02-07]

References

External links

* [http://clubs.myams.org/bands Queen's Bands]