Color Day | Historic Pittsburgh

ca. 1960

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Title
Color Day
Date
ca. 1960
Identifier
PCC000098
Description
In this photograph, freshmen are pinned with their class colors. This tradition began in 1914 when the newly formed Student Government Association voted to institute a color system whereby each incoming freshmen class would be presented with the class colors of the previous year's senior class. Four sets of colors were selected to be placed on a permanent rotation: yellow (or gold) and white, rose and white, green and white, and red and white. Two color ceremonies were also introduced at this time, one in the spring in which the senior class gives their colors to the sophomore class for safekeeping, and one in the fall in which the new freshmen are presented with their class colors. This second ceremony was known as Color Day and celebrated the organization and formal recognition of the freshmen class and signaled the end of new student orientation. During the time this photograph was taken, the classes would compete in the annual Song Contest immediately following the Color Day ceremony, and freshmen were no longer required to wear their beanies (known as “dinks”).
Place of Publication
College Campus
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
Subject
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Shadyside (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Women college students--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Chatham College
Academic rites and ceremonies--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Geographic Subjects
College Campus
Source
Chatham University Chronological Photograph Files
Contributor
Chatham University
Collection
Chatham University Chronological Photograph Files
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