33 Pumpkin Parade Designs That Should Go Down In History

Every year, Randolph College sophomores carve jack-o-lanterns for the seniors to carry across front campus in Pumpkin Parade. There is a lot of pressure to carve a design that will perfectly match the senior's personality and style and go down in the history books, too. Here are a few that made it.

1. Sink your teeth into this pumpkin

2. Mainly, some good pumpkins

Main Hall has been a recurring theme over the years.

3. For the senior with glass slippers.

4. Puffy Paint

A total rejection of the usual pumpkin carving criteria: Just carve a hole and paint whatever you want inside. We like it.

5. Live Long and Propser

6. Symbols of State

Antlers for Alaska, and the United Kingdom flag for anyone who has studied in our World in Britain program.

We love Italy, too.

7. This photo of Bill Quillian

Not only is the pumpkin neat, but the man holding it changed our college for the better, forever. William F. Quillian, Jr., served as president for more than 20 years and influenced many hundreds of students. He also started an important part of the Pumpkin Parade tradition with his singing of "Minnie the Moocher."

8. Several good ones here

RMWC, a sailboat passing a palm tree, a cactus against a desert night...And something else.

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Favorite animals make for favorite pumpkin designs.

10. How to Train Your Dragon

Here's a nice representation of Toothless, as well as an unnamed dragon.

11. How to make Strawberry Shortcake and pumpkin pie at the same time.

12. Witch is your favorite?

13. Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na BATEMAN!

Bradley W. Bateman is our 10th president, and you have to hand it to the clever carver who created his first Pumpkin Parade jack-o-lantern.

But this was not the first time the bat symbol made its way to a pumpkin.

It's another recurring theme...

14. Bansai!

15. Greetings from the Old Dom-minion State

16. A color palette....Or did Salvador Dali carve Pac Man?

17. Is this what girraffe-ter?

18. A favorite Beagle

19. The force is strong with this one.

Pumpkin Parade September 27 2014

20. And this one.

21. She's got the whole world in her hands

Liberal arts graduates know how to think globally.

22. Ballerina, you should have seen her

BTW, don't miss our dance concert performed every semester with choreography by students and visiting artists. The next one is November 7, 2014.

23. That's an uncommon core

Does an apple a day keep the doctor away if the apple is actually a pumpkin?

24. An interplanetary pumpkin

25. A musical pumpkin

26. Sunflower Power

27. A Pumpkin Portrait of John Klein

John E. Klein was the College's ninth president.

28. Sunrise over the ocean

29. This is how they carved pumpkins in the 80s

30. More 80s pumpkins

Something that hasn't changed since then: Senior hats.

31. Full moon

32. M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Who's the leader of the clubs? At Randolph, you are.

33. Whole Lotta Pumpkins

Too many in here to single out just one.