Retro pictures

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by chi-o_cat

Oh wow, the guys in that TKE composite look so old. The hairstyles, the mustaches. There's one blonde dude in the bottom row who stands out as looking so much younger than all the rest.

And most of them have the same hairstyle

[sigtau305]

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Sigma Tau Gamma, Beta Upsilon Chapter 1987

yes, i'm in the picture

[PKT4LIFE]

Originally Posted by sigtau305

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...ype=3&theater#

Sigma Tau Gamma, Beta Upsilon Chapter 1987

yes, i'm in the picture

Interesting. I graduated from CSU in 1987. I was a Phi Tau at CSU, in fact chapter president 1986-87. I do not recognize any of these Sig Taus. Must be getting old.

[LXA SE285]

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.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

Were the chapters that disparate in size at the time, or did some of them just choose to include more members in the yearbook photo?

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.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

Were the chapters that disparate in size at the time, or did some of them just choose to include more members in the yearbook photo?

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.

[KillarneyRose]

Originally Posted by honeychile

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

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.

[TSteven]

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

[TSteven]

University of Kentucky Panhellenic circa 1974.

[TSteven]

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