Retro pictures

[UofM-TKE]

Hi,

I have lurked here for over a year, but never posted before because I was initiated in 1970 and don't really think that my experience is relevant now.

However, in a Retro picture thread such as this one, things are different. And since SWTXBelle, who has a really great sig, has bumped this and asked for more pictures while she fights with her scanner, I am posting some old yearbook pictures that I have from the University of Miami, Florida and my fraternity - Tau Kappa Epsilon.

These are from 1955 and I'll make several posts to separate them. First will be TKE and then one each for the sororities of the Little Sisters from my era. Yes, we had Little Sisters. Many of the houses did and most were sorority women.

TKE - 1955

[UofM-TKE]

Phi Sigma Sigma

[UofM-TKE]

Delta Delta Delta

[UofM-TKE]

Delta Zeta

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by UofM-TKE

Hi,

I have lurked here for over a year, but never posted before because I was initiated in 1970 and don't really think that my experience is relevant now.

However, in a Retro picture thread such as this one, things are different. And since SWTXBelle, who has a really great sig, has bumped this and asked for more pictures while she fights with her scanner, I am posting some old yearbook pictures that I have from the University of Miami, Florida and my fraternity - Tau Kappa Epsilon.

These are from 1955 and I'll make several posts to separate them. First will be TKE and then one each for the sororities of the Little Sisters from my era. Yes, we had Little Sisters. Many of the houses did and most were sorority women.

TKE - 1955

gosh, i just love a man in a white dinner jacket!

[Tropical_Dancer]

UofM-TKE- I go to Miami too and I'm so glad you are scanning all of these old pictures, its so great to see how the school has changed in all these years

[AGDee]

UofM-TKE, those are great pictures. I need to get my hands on some of my dad's pictures. He pledged TKE at Wayne State University in Detroit in 1954 or 55.

SWTX: My Initiation dress was a white Gunne Sax. I have searched and searched for my pictures from my initiation and haven't found them yet. Someday they will show up. I was initiated in 1984

[LucyKKG]

Yay! Lots of new pictures! Captions on old photos crack me up. Thanks U of M and Belle!

[SWTXBelle]

LOVE the cars!

[UofM-TKE]

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.



Pledges on Parade



ΑΔΠ Pledges on Parade - Tropical Dancer's sisters




ΔΦΕPledges on Parade



ΣΚPledges on Parade




Miss America 1960 was an Ole Miss ΧΩ

[CougarGrad]

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

[Tropical_Dancer]

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

[Penguin08]

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

[pshsx1]

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):


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

[Gusteau]

Originally Posted by pshsx1

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

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