The Mother Lode
WHATs NEW
Years in the making, a growing archive (125+ albums) of all the fraternity life pictures in our possession spanning six decades is now accessible online. So, step back into the mother lode of memories.
[Update: as of 11.09.2022, by request of some alumni, the database is offline.]
WHO WE NEED to THANK
A special thanks to the successive ECs for investing in a scanner, allowing us to digitize our library of negatives, prints, and scrapbooks. Kudos to Greg Lloyd, who did the bulk of the scanning; Thad Chilton, who assisted with some preliminary digital retouching; and Chiles Cridlin who donated a good portion of his photo archives. Allow me to pat myself on the back for the Archival efforts in uploading assets to the cloud, assembling the albums in Google Photos, and the database to make sense of all the photographs.
PHOTOs ARE PRESENTED AS-IS
George Patton’s quote encapsulates why we’re presenting the photos in their current as-is condition. It would have taken a lifetime to retouch and restore the sheer volume of all of the images to their original glory.
“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week”
— George Patton
MORE TO COME
There’s still more to come! A 4-year repository of images from 1985-1988 from my personal archives has yet to be added. We’ve also been told Larry Magliozzi has a secret stash of even more pictures from the 70s.
HOW to CORRECT THE DATES, THE DETAILS, and the CONTEXT
Volunteers worked only with what clues were available, so there are bound to be some mislabelling, misfiling, and misdating photos. Please help us make the necessary corrections by commenting on individual photographs or entire albums.
ADD YOUR PHOTOs
You can add your own photos to the albums if you join the respective album in question. You can also send us your photos (with context descriptions) using the instructions at the bottom half of this page: Galleries.
WHY GOOGLE PHOTOS?
Google Photos™, as a platform, allows us to store a single photo but have it live in multiple albums. In addition, Google Photos affords us built-in editing features, automatic slideshow mode, and the ability to share, download, and even order photobooks of albums you create from photos you favorite. This last item requires your own free google account to access these photobook features. If you’re interested in just what you can do with Google Photos, I suggest you explore their YouTube page.
(The fact that we can access 15GB of free storage was also a factor.)
