Blast from the past (old Bama yearbooks)

LXA SE285 · #1 06-19-2007, 11:27 AM

For Bama grads or anyone who's interested, the UA library has put the 1968 and 1969 Corolla annuals online (click below; links are at the bottom):

http://content.lib.ua.edu/cdm4/browse.php

The Greek section is hilarious—more bouffant hairdos than you can shake a stick at, and the chapter synopses are a hoot.

FSUZeta · #2 06-19-2007, 12:53 PM

thanks for the link-they were fun to look at.

tinydancer · #3 06-19-2007, 01:29 PM

I love old yearbooks! I have several old volumes of The Cactus (Texas) besides mine and my parents'.

banditone · #4 06-19-2007, 02:14 PM

That is AWESOME. Thanks for posting. Do they have any others besides just those years???

Tiny, what years of the Cactus do you have?

tinydancer · #5 06-19-2007, 03:53 PM

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That is AWESOME. Thanks for posting. Do they have any others besides just those years???

Tiny, what years of the Cactus do you have?

Let' see : I have 1938, 1939, 1941-1944 (parents'), 1951, and 1971-1974 (mine.) I do see them from time to time in antique malls, as well as yearbooks from other universities in the area.

Tom Earp · #6 06-19-2007, 04:35 PM

Actually this is cool!

I got a U-Mas Ag UM-Amherst, year book! Wow, it is neat! Shows the LXA Chapter House back then and the Brothers!!!!!

Ah, history is Fantastic!

TinyDancer, Nice collection!

We do collect strange things at times!

dvs-dz · #7 06-19-2007, 05:11 PM

Wow - I remember looking at my Dad's Cactus from 1950 and 51 (?). There were so many more NPC sororities then!

AnchorAlumna · #8 06-19-2007, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by LXA SE285

For Bama grads or anyone who's interested, the UA library has put the 1968 and 1969 Corolla annuals online (click below; links are at the bottom):

http://content.lib.ua.edu/cdm4/browse.php

The Greek section is hilarious—more bouffant hairdos than you can shake a stick at, and the chapter synopses are a hoot.

Hey! You act like that was a long time ago...it was just day before yesterday!!

AUDeltaGam · #9 06-19-2007, 09:48 PM

My aunt was an AEPhi at 'Bama, and I can't remember what years she was there!

LXA SE285 · #10 06-20-2007, 11:13 AM

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Along with cost, it seems to be more important these days to have a showy chapter house.

I noticed that the Alpha Xi Delta section of the '69 yearbook included an architect's rendering of a new house. Kind of sad and ironic considering that they closed a few years later ...

AnchorAlumna, DG had a really cool house. Was it built specifically for your chapter? It looks old and historic.

kk_bama · #11 06-20-2007, 11:31 AM

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I noticed that the Alpha Xi Delta section of the '69 yearbook included an architect's rendering of a new house. Kind of sad and ironic considering that they closed a few years later ...

It looks like that artist's rendering is now the Gamma Phi house. It turned out a little different --there's no third story and no porches on the front -- but AXiD and I believe SK have been in our house before us.

Here's a photo of what it looks like now:

LXA SE285 · #12 06-20-2007, 11:36 AM

Re: the Chi O chapter—I've been reading Mockingbird, the new biography of Harper Lee, and apparently she had a reputation as the campus oddball (the author quotes a Phi Mu who remembers her as a "nerd"). It speaks well of the Nu Beta chapter, though, that they liked her anyway.

AnchorAlumna · #13 06-20-2007, 11:49 AM

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AnchorAlumna, DG had a really cool house. Was it built specifically for your chapter? It looks old and historic.

Thanks, sweetie! Yes, it was built for us, but it wasn't that old. I believe it was built in the late 1940s or very early 1950s. It had columns at one time (UA has a requirement that all buildings have columns), but they rotted and were removed long before I got there, and were never replaced. The building was torn down for stadium expansion.

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It looks like that artist's rendering is now the Gamma Phi house...but AXiD and I believe SK have been in our house before us.

You are correct, this is now the Gamma Phi house, with quite a bit of renovation. It was built for Alpha Xi Delta - in fact it was only about a year old when I was a freshman. Sigma Kappa was never in this house. They were in a big ugly brick house next to Delta Gamma (next to the stadium). That house was originally built for Alpha Phi. When I was in school, a fraternity moved into it (Phi Sigma Kappa? Phi Kappa Sigma? One of 'em). That building was also torn down for stadium expansion.

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Re: the Chi O chapter—I've been reading Mockingbird, the new biography of Harper Lee, and apparently she had a reputation as the campus oddball (the author quotes a Phi Mu who remembers her as a "nerd"). It speaks well of the Nu Beta chapter, though, that they liked her anyway.

I think sorority "images" were a LOT more fluid back then, expecially since it was a much smaller campus and everybody knew more people. And in the 1930s, it wasn't unusual for a chapter to have 20 or 30 members...or even fewer.

NutBrnHair · #14 06-20-2007, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by LXA SE285

Re: the Chi O chapter—I've been reading Mockingbird, the new biography of Harper Lee, and apparently she had a reputation as the campus oddball (the author quotes a Phi Mu who remembers her as a "nerd"). It speaks well of the Nu Beta chapter, though, that they liked her anyway.

I've read the book too. I'm so glad she's a Chi Omega. My favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee has been such a recluse for most of her life; however, she has in recent years left her small Alabama hometown for a few functions in L.A. (and I don't mean LOWER ALABAMA!!!)and NYC. She was invited to attend the 2004 Chi Omega National Convention as the recipient of our Woman of Achievement Award. She did not attend, but sent a lovely letter signed, "Nell Harper Lee, Nu Beta"