University of Miami, Florida - 1960 Derby Day
 

The 1960 yearbook has lots of good pictures. Most of the sororities had a Derby Day picture on their page, so here they are.

ΑΕΦ
http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...yday/AEPHI.jpg

ΑΧΩ
http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...rbyday/AXO.jpg

ΔΔΔ
http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...rbyday/DDD.jpg


ΔΓ
http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...erbyday/DG.jpg


ΔΖ
http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...erbyday/DZ.jpg


ΚΚΓ
http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...rbyday/KKG.jpg


ΣΚ
http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...erbyday/SK.jpg


ΧΩ
http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...erbyday/XO.jpg


ΖΤΑ
http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...rbyday/ZTA.jpg

LOVE the cars!

University of Miami, Florida - 1960 Sorority Pledges on Parade
 

These are more pictures from the 1960 yearbook. I think that they are interesting because these were the last few years of an era. In 1963 we had the Berkley Free Speech Movement. In the mid 1960's we had the height of the Civil Rights Movement. And in the late 1960's we had the Viet Nam protests. During this same period, we also had the introduction of The Pill and the end of "In loco Parentis". The world of 1970 was not the world of 1960, the world into which these pictures give us a peek.

Rush in the Panhellenic Building.

http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...edges/rush.jpg

Pledges on Parade

http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...es/pledges.jpg

ΑΔΠ Pledges on Parade - Tropical Dancer's sisters

http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...edges_adpi.jpg


ΔΦΕPledges on Parade

http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...ledges_dpe.jpg

ΣΚPledges on Parade

http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...pledges_sk.jpg


Miss America 1960 was an Ole Miss ΧΩ

http://www.tke-miami.com/graphics/Gr...es/miss_xo.jpg

Aw! This picture is so sweet. I adore the dress, too. But I especially love how they are looking at each other.

Back on topic, I really enjoy looking at these retro pictures. Maybe it's the sentimental mood I'm in, but I get a strong sense of history and years tradition and sisterhood. I think it's really sweet seeing pictures of founders, and pictures of sorority women in front of their house that is over 100 years old. I think it would be amazing to be a part of something so steeped in tradition with thousands of sisters of sisters everywhere.

(back to my nosing around old threads....)

UofM-TKE, thanks so much for sharing these pictures! I love seeing stuff from back in the day.

UofM-TKE- I love all the Miami pictures you found, especially of the panhellenic building, and all the goregous ADPi pledges :)

Aww! Why can't we act like this nowadays?

http://thetaphialpha.org/uploads/ima...14_members.jpg

The lovely founding members of Theta Phi Alpha... Only 2 of them were actually collegians!

This thread is absolutely amazing.

I was on a committee last year to document Greek Life activities since our school was founded but I only took one picture. I'll have to go back through the yearbooks (when my school used to do them) and find some more!

But here's my chapter when my school was still Lawrence Institute of Technology in 1972 (or '73) a few months after affiliating (10/23/71)! (formerly Kappa Phi Sigma):
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...35988_6398.jpg

One of those guys is my Big (x18) Brother! I'm in one of the only original families :D

Alpha Phi Homecoming parade float, University of Minnesota, 1923:

http://www.homecoming.umn.edu/archiv...rade-float.jpg

pshsx1 and CougarGrad, I LOVE those two pics!!!

Thanks! :D

I also love CougarGrad's photo!

That's really cool - do you know which one?

Unfortunately I don't. I do know that one of them recently passed. :( Out of all of them, I've only met the black guy. He's in my family tree as well, though. It'd be his Big Brother so I'm sure he could tell me if I showed him the picture!

Still my favorite:)
http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/image...o_sorority.jpg
"Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority," 1961

This is good, I'm going to try and find some

ok this is so my new favorite thread :)

SO GLAD this thread has been bumped!

Picture of Kappa Delta in the 1920's at the University of Tennessee, sorry if it's hard to see.
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6113/getimageexe.jpg
http://http://img195.imageshack.us/i...etimageexe.jpg

Has this ever been posted before? I don't recall seeing it. Amazing photos of rush at the University of Colorado in 1945, including a shot of a pref ceremony and the Kappas voting on their new members! :eek: Times change, I guess.

http://www.google.com/books?id=4UgEA...rority&f=false
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There is something very attention grabbing about this picture. I don't know what it is.

That's awesome!

Loved the Life article! Our chapter is no longer there, so it was even more interesting to me. One of the signs of "Times, They Are A Changin'" was a picture of all the pins for that campus, saying that they each cost about $15!!

This is so cool! I just emailed it to our Education chair. I love a Kappa ending :D

Thanks for sharing, Low C Sharp!

Thanks so much for sharing the link to LIFE. I love historical pieces. That was a great article! :)

More than one of our alumnae have been clients of mine. This picture was given to me from one of the alumnae, when ADPi first returned to campus after WWII (the whole chapter closed to work on the war effort):


http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cach...0152.jp2.s.jpg

It's from 1946, and the woman who gave it to me is H. Davis, sitting almost at the middle.

FYI: Many of the sororities at Pitt had as few as six members prior to 1960. There may have been as many as 17-18 sororities, but even the largest sororities didn't have 30 members!

I'm friends with a SigEp alum on Facebook and here are some pictures he's posted.

Keep in mind with this first one that our newest members' membership cards say 280,000 on theirs.

http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs183...._2490423_n.jpg

http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs029...._5313973_n.jpg

Awesome 80s video!
 

Love the hair, the clothes, the glasses -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re-l190qQgo&feature=fvw

LOL @ the change of music and overall tone when discussing fraternity rush. The women are Southern Belles and then friends, and the men are kick ass rockstars.

...and the mustaches, and the music, and the novelty of being videotaped.

Feathered hair on the guys-gotta love it.

OMG... I didn't realize that Kappa Sig had been using that "wanted" banner for that long!

Found these off of facebook.

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...89365_6351.jpg

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...89369_7197.jpg

^^^ Great photos! I love the 1930s-ish one. So cute!

http://www.iotasigma.org/images/GPA%...pstudyedit.jpg

;)

http://www.jmu.edu/centennialcelebra.../February2.jpg
Sigma Sigma Sigma, formed at Madison [James Madison University] in 1939, had grown by 1941

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/63/16...a1e969.jpg?v=0
Mary with her [Sigma Sigma Sigma] sorority sisters on what is thought to be College Green at OU in 1916-1917

http://www.bgsu.edu/images/alumni/img21806.jpg
Bowling Green State University - Students are a little "twisted" during Sigma Chi Derby Days

Sigma Chi Bull Session, Northwestern University
Date taken: March 1949

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a6b...bf17db_landing

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http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/7aa...a00fad_landing

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/22d...f6a33a_landing

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/c51...c39ef3_landing

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/641...af82ee_landing

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