Retro pictures
 

Alright, it's been brought up recently in the Bid Day pic thread. I'm thinking this is the best place. Got retro sorority pictures? Bid day, Greek Week, formals, etc! Ready, set, go!

Here is my mom's DG chapter (Eta - University of Akron). This was taken around 1970 (plus or minus 2 years).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...g?t=1224726626

My mom is circled on the 2nd to bottom row (towards the right).

Yay Akron! I hope the Akron DGs on the board see this!

that's my chapter! how cool! my boyfriend's mom was a DG at akron also but I'm not sure what years... I'll have to ask him and find out if she's in the picture!

This was a page out of the University of Cincinnati paper in 1962

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...alprojects.gif

And the 1960 Bid Lists for University of Cincinnati
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...60Sorority.gif
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...SorirityP2.gif
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...Fraternity.gif

I love the "Cupid's Corner"!!

Love it! It looks like the word "Logan" or "Legan" is written next to some of the womens' names. Was that a sorority?

Legacy? I'm looking for it...

It definitely says Logan. Perhaps it's a dorm where independent women lived?
________
HANDHELD VAPORIZER PIPE

wow a lot of ATOs pinned girls in that newspaper

Not knowing where you see Logan, my guess is that it's Logan, Ohio.
BTW....I can get the pdf link if you would like to read clearer versions. I think they are a crack up and can't stop reading them.

Please do post the link!!!

When I selected a year, I clicked on the early October issues
http://digitalprojects.libraries.uc.edu/newsrecord/

For example:
http://digitalprojects.libraries.uc....1960_10_13.pdf
http://digitalprojects.libraries.uc....1960_10_06.pdf

Article from Miami University Student Newspaper, 1938
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...g/Sept1938.gif

Delta Zeta, Miami University 1911
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...g/DZMU1911.jpg

Here are some photos of the DG Gamma Tau (Texas Christian University) Chapter's installation in 1956:

http://deltagamma-fw.com/images_pastgt56/GTinstal2.JPG

http://deltagamma-fw.com/images_pastgt56/GTinstal3.JPG

http://deltagamma-fw.com/images_pastgt56/scan0021_2.jpg

Some of those lovely young ladies have straight up Princess Leia hairdos! :D

Yes, the strapless and tea-length are in fashion, but I don't remember seeing lots of fluff and ruffles lately.

I am LOVING the DG picture of the day dresses, circa 1956! My favorite is the confident young lady sitting second from the left. I love her entire outfit, right down to her pumps and gloves and the pin on her bodice. (It won't surprise you to know that I am crazy about that show "Madmen" set in 1960. I love retro fashion.)

Me too! Even though I couldn't stand Kenley on this season of Project Runway, I thought her clothes were absolutely adorable!

Those pictures from the DG installation are adorable! Holy poofy dresses, Batman!

I think I'd enjoy it if we still wore dresses like these....

I love the TCU pics!!! The middle one looks like it was taken in the old ballroom- it was torn down earlier this summer.

Everything "retro" in this thread is just a delight to see. I particularly enjoy newspaper articles... some of those names haven't seen Greek life announcements in so many years.

aww this thread is adorable!! i love the Cupid corner and the DG dresses!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sometime in the late 1960s/early 1970s
 

AOII, Lambda Tau chapter, circa 1958 when the chapter was founded
http://www.aopiulm.org/index-4.jpg

AOII, Sigma Chapter at Cal Berkeley
http://www.calaopi.com/centennial/pic3.jpg

Pics from Nu Beta from my webshots account:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...ost=good-times
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...ost=good-times
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...ost=good-times
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...ost=good-times

If somebody will tell me how I can scan pics and post, I can put some early 80's pics from SMU. They are pretty fun.

Love love love this picture again! You look just like your mother!

http://www.lakeforest.edu/images/use...868/hist06.jpg
Lake Forest College - An early 1950s sorority initiation [sorority name not given] gathering at Hansen’s Ivy Inn.

http://www.phiredup.com/files/admin/rush-1950.jpg
Pi Beta Phi - 1950s? (college not given)

http://www.washington.edu/alumni/col.../alumnotes.jpg
University of Washington - Senior women and their mothers were honored at the Tri Delta sorority's annual Pansy Ring breakfast in this 1960's photo.

http://irishgothichorrorjournal.home...y_girl1957.jpg
Not sure, but I think Toots here might be a Sweetheart of Sigma Chi. :eek:

http://ualr.edu/arwomen/AHC_PS12_6.jpg
Pine Bluff Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1953

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/exhibits/wom...SigmaKappa.jpg
The first chapter of a national sorority, Sigma Kappa, was established
NC State Sorority Pledges
Sigma Kappa (Gamma Phi Chapter)
March 14, 1960
Photograph Collection
University Archives, NCSU Libraries

I love this thread!

It's Gamma Phi Beta - you can read it on their hats :)