I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought that! LOL!

I looked at the 1991 Illini Greek Week one and felt instantly at home with the look and feel of the group. :)

From the Corolla (Bama) online archives:

Charter members of Eta Chapter of ADPi (still known at the time as Alpha Delta Phi), 1907. "Pi Kappa Kappa" in the composite is the name of the local.

"W. Hibbler" = Wildie Churchill Hibbler, Katie Couric's paternal grandmother.

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It's late (or early) and I can't sleep, so I've decided to contribute to this awesome thread. The following images are from "Panther Tracks", the University of Pittsburgh yearbook from 1987. Enjoy!

Kappa Alpha Theta
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...Theta-87-1.jpg

Alpha Epsilon Phi
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...7/AEPhi-87.jpg

Sigma Sigma Sigma
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3.../TriSig-87.jpg

Chi Omega
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...Rose/XO-87.jpg

Delta Zeta
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...se/DZ-1987.jpg

Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ose/DST-87.jpg

Delta Phi Epsilon
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...eephers-87.jpg

Delta Delta Delta
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ose/DDD-87.jpg

Kappa Delta
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...Rose/KD-87.jpg

Hoped you liked these!
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^^^^^ Those look totally normal to me (graduated from college in '87). I do feel a need to point out that we called that hair cut a bi-level, not a mullet. And we never said anything about business in the front and party in the back. Bi-level. It definitely helped tame the perm and keep it away from the face while giving you lovely height in the bangs at the same time.

KR: the HAIR. the HAIR! I somehow have gone my entire life with no perm, ever. Yikes.

Also from Panther Prints, the 1981 issue:

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cach...0204.jp2.s.jpg

Back In The Day some chapters used the rainbow as an unofficial symbol, standing for unity. (I believe our Epsilon chapter still calls its polish week Rainbow Week.)

In 25 years I'm sure girls will be looking at my pledge class pics thinking "That hair! Why do they all have it straight and flat like that?!"

About the pictures from the 1987 Pitt yearbook: I really don't remember everyone's hair being that big! Isn't that weird? Maybe I was just so used to it at the time that it never registered with me that everyone's hair was not only a structural marval, but a fire hazard as well from all the Aquanet sprayed in it!

I was especially surprised when I looked at the picture of the TriDelts. In my mind, when I think back to the old days, I remember most of the TriDelts having short, brown bobs. Very preppy. I don't recognize the girls in that picture; maybe they were hired "big haired models" or something???

Do I recognize one of the KDs?

I recall thinking that a sister's hair was indeed TOO big if her hairstyle did not fit within the oval shaped opening on the mat of the big framed composite pic.

Some of these pictures from the Pitt yearbook look like they may have been cut in half. Which can be common with "on-line" copies.

However, I have seen yearbooks where the picture of a GLO (or a club) was "split" in two. They would put one half of the group on one page, and the other half on the facing page. I think this was done so that the “middle crease” would not go through the shot.

When I was at Kentucky, it wasn’t unusual to have only around half or two-thirds of a chapter (or other groups for that matter) in the group's yearbook picture. I recall a few times, chapters of 60 plus might only have something like 10 members total in their shot. :rolleyes:

That happened all of the time. I remember when there was a violently anti-greek editor of the yearbook, and he did his best to look like there were no more than 12-15 pictures in ANY sorority. He even left out a few, just for kicks.

Honeychile is right; the Pitt literary community really seemed as a whole to dislike the greeks. When I was a copy editor at the Pitt News, I rarely mentioned my affiliation because I got teased about it. Funny though, how my being greek wasn't a drawback when I was out at the bars with the rest of the editorial staff and they wanted introductions to my hot sisters :rolleyes:

Low C Sharp, if I recall, there was a large discrepancy between chapter sizes. Ceiling was 55 at the time and only three or four groups were that big (lol, I know that would be pretty pathetic even for a pledge class in the SEC!). Some groups had membership numbers in the teens. However, the number of women in the group photos doesn't reflect the numbers in the chapters.

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Members of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity [Omega Chapter - Kentucky] play with their mascot dog. Photo circa 1959.

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University of Kentucky Panhellenic circa 1974.

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Members of a band play at an unknown Kentucky sorority. Photo circa 1969.

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Phi Kappa Tau members throw snowballs and play in the snow on UK's campus. Photo circa 1968.

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Kentucky sorority members run from "Sorority Row" toward Rose Street to meet their new pledges. Photo circa 1972.

University of Pittsburgh circa 1987 or 88. Yes, I'm in these. No, I'm not pointing myself out :)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ps5968372e.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ps2d8d9855.jpg

One of our sisters (who was also a licensed beautician) literally had her head shrunk in my senior year composite because her hair was so big and it was the only way to get the whole thing in.

KR - did the photographer/you guys try out pink or green drapes, or was that not even a possibility? We had deep red ones.

No, we always had the black ones. The Chi-Os had the deep red ones and they looked really nice.

On my campus, Chi Omega used royal blue drapes for many years. My senior year (after MUCH discussion and voting on drapes, sweaters, white shirts, etc.) we made the big switch to a cranberry color. When the photographer arrived, the drapes were the under-your-arms variety -- he said, to look like a strapless formal gown. Some of us looked like we were in towel wraps and some looked completely naked.

National Kappa Delta posted this photo on its FB and I wanted to share it here. It's fabulous and it has women from Pi Beta Phi and Delta Delta Delta in it. It's Derby Days at University of California Berkeley in 1925.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...93483770_n.png

Well, not exactly.

?????

Are those guys? :p:p:p:p:p

Totally missed it. Those ARE guys. Sigma Chis, to be specific. :p

Oh my gosh, they ARE men! I was admiring the bloomers on the one seated on the bottom left. Too funny!

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Sigma Chi Derby Day - George Washington University, circa 1956-1961

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Sigma Chi - Attendees to the 17th Grand Chapter on the porch in front of the Omega House at Northwestern University. The 17th Grand Chapter was held at the Union College of Law and Tremont House in Chicago, Illinois on August 29th, 30th & 31st, 1888.

One of the slogans sororities used during Derby Days was "If XY's were guys, they'd be Sigma Chis." But this is going a little far. LOL

TCU Kappa Alpha Theta Bid Days
 

I have been collecting retro pictures for my chapter, as I am working on a history project. Here are but a few other the hundreds that I have.

1957 Bid Day
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/o...1957BidDay.jpg


http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/o...BidDay1978.jpg


1956 Pledges
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/o...56BidDay_4.jpg
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/o...56BidDay_2.jpg


1992 Pledge Class
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/o...DayPledges.jpg


1972
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/o...DayCollage.jpg


2007
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/o...2007BidDay.jpg


1979
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/o...omoreclass.jpg


Pledges 1985
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/o...985BidDay2.jpg


1994 Whole Chapter
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/o...1994BidDay.jpg

...The 1972 plaid, patchwork pantsuit. Oh my. But the girl wearing it carries it off quite well.

so many hats in 1994!

My favorite is the black and yellow suit w/ matching scarf, from 1972. At least you can tell from her badge that she's an initiated member, because I'd hate to think a new member would have had that ensemble ready to go for Bid Day (although, I guess the girl next to her did).

It actually looks like they might be shorts…

I agree, though, that she pulls it off well. I don't think we'll see anyone in any of the pictures nowadays wearing one, though. :p

That is actually an interesting story. The pledge in the yellow dress was a legacy. Her older sister had worn the same dress on her Bid Day a few years before at Oklahoma State. While the legacy may have known that a bid was highly, highly likely, the older sister must have been pretty brave to wear the dress.

Alpha Phi University of Colorado Beta Gamma 1952
 

[FONT="Palatino Linotype" SIZE="5"] My mom's sorority, Beta Gamma Chapter of Alpha Phi at University of Colorado circa 1952. She met my dad there; he was their hasher!

http://media702.dropshots.com/photos...1/b_220205.jpg

House Party at Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha 1911
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...a18e816f1fca1a

And their house
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...307bd112fcf22f

I can't believe I haven't posted this one here! My APO chapter yearbook photo, 1995. (This wasn't even close to all of us - just the ones who showed up for the picture. :D This was probably about one-tenth of the chapter.)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pssvd7t6r9.png

Here's our ASA Penn State chapter's photo taken in 1980 that would have appeared in the 1981 yearbook.

Farrah still had undue influence on too many of us....
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