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Old 10-21-2012, 08:11 PM
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Also from Panther Prints, the 1981 issue:



Back In The Day some chapters used the rainbow as an unofficial symbol, standing for unity. (I believe our Epsilon chapter still calls its polish week Rainbow Week.)
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Old 10-21-2012, 08:41 PM
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KR: the HAIR. the HAIR! I somehow have gone my entire life with no perm, ever. Yikes.
In 25 years I'm sure girls will be looking at my pledge class pics thinking "That hair! Why do they all have it straight and flat like that?!"
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Old 10-22-2012, 02:00 PM
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About the pictures from the 1987 Pitt yearbook: I really don't remember everyone's hair being that big! Isn't that weird? Maybe I was just so used to it at the time that it never registered with me that everyone's hair was not only a structural marval, but a fire hazard as well from all the Aquanet sprayed in it!

I was especially surprised when I looked at the picture of the TriDelts. In my mind, when I think back to the old days, I remember most of the TriDelts having short, brown bobs. Very preppy. I don't recognize the girls in that picture; maybe they were hired "big haired models" or something???
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Old 10-22-2012, 03:25 PM
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I recall thinking that a sister's hair was indeed TOO big if her hairstyle did not fit within the oval shaped opening on the mat of the big framed composite pic.
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Old 10-22-2012, 04:52 PM
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Members of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity [Omega Chapter - Kentucky] play with their mascot dog. Photo circa 1959.
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Kentucky sorority members run from "Sorority Row" toward Rose Street to meet their new pledges. Photo circa 1972.
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I recall thinking that a sister's hair was indeed TOO big if her hairstyle did not fit within the oval shaped opening on the mat of the big framed composite pic.
One of our sisters (who was also a licensed beautician) literally had her head shrunk in my senior year composite because her hair was so big and it was the only way to get the whole thing in.

KR - did the photographer/you guys try out pink or green drapes, or was that not even a possibility? We had deep red ones.
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