Two West Virginia University students who hail from southern West Virginia were named Homecoming king and queen Saturday (Oct. 19) during halftime of the WVU -Syracuse football game at Mountaineer Field.

Tim Valentine of Charleston and Angella Piccirillo of Madison were crowned by University President David C. Hardesty Jr. before a Homecoming game crowd of about 45,000. They were among five men and five women vying for the titles. WVU students voted for king and queen earlier in the week.

Valentine is a senior music education major and the son of Rosemary Valentine. He was sponsored by the Gamma Beta Phi Society and serves as the organizations state and local president. As president, he will be the host of the organizations regional conference this fall and is leading his members to raise money and toys for the St. Jude Childrens ResearchHospital in a project called”U-Haul for Life.”

Valentine is also a member of the University Honors Program, Golden Key International Honour Society and the Student Alumni Association. He is a rank leader in the WVU Mountaineer Marching Band, a member of the University choir and a vocalist in Same Difference, a vocal jazz ensemble. He also has worked for two years as a student assistant for New Student Orientation.

Piccirillo is a senior broadcast news major and the daughter of Charles and Melinda Piccirillo. She was sponsored by Alpha Xi Delta and is active in the sorority. She has served as philanthropy chair when the sorority received best philanthropy on campus and as new members chair. She has also served as the vice president of public relations for Panhellenic Council.

Piccirillo is a member of the Kappa Tau Alpha journalism honorary and has been involved in the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism Cancer Project. She has also participated in MonongaliaCounty community service projects at the Shack, the Kaleidoscope program and a Halloween project for CassElementary School.

Other members of the Homecoming court were Annelee Boyle, a biology and Spanish major from Morgantown; Christina Ann Grisso, an industrial engineering major from Bridgeport; Miki Marcia Kirelawich, an industrial engineering major from Morgantown; Stephanie Morris, a secondary education major from Morgantown; Paul H. Green Jr., a Spanish and economics major from Cumberland, Md.; Nick James, a political science major from Nichols, N.Y.; Jared W. H. Nichols, a history major from Staten Island, N.Y.; and Richard Tyre, a geology major from Elkins.