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I couldn't believe I was able to get very close to these swallows hanging out on a hand rail at the wildlife refuge in Alviso. I was about 8 feet away from them. The secret is to close in very very slowly and not make any noise.
ODC and ODT~ April 7 ~ Gold
I don't wear jewelry...just a watch and ring. These are the only rings I have worn since 1969. My high school ring I wore until I joined a fraternity in college. I wore that ring until I graduated and got married. I've worn my wedding ring ever since and will until the day I die. That's my favorite piece of gold.
After World War II, my dad attended the University of Nebraska for his 1945/1946 Freshman year.
He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity.
My dad is third from the right in the front row.
I spotted these two at the Brooklyn Museum and asked them about the significance of their shirts--They "schooled" me (and I am a little embarrassed) that I did not know:
1908-the year Alpha Kappa Alpha --the 1st historically Black sorority originated/Howard Univ. --and 1906-the year Alpha Phi Alpha--Black Fraternity originated/Cornell Univ.
#teeshirttales
TORINO - Piazza Corpus Domini, ore piccole.
[edit: del 24 Agosto 2008, la macchina era nuova di pacca ancora col datario sfasato ;-)]
Creepo sexual assault man (aka Bart O'Kavanaugh aka Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Stooge nominee) was a member of the "tit and clit" club and, being a virgin of course, the fraternity he entered in college had the charming slogan "yes means no. No means anal."
Speaking of drinking, Brett Kavanaugh told Fox that sure, sometimes the boys in his high school would pop a brewsky, but it was ONLY the seniors, and ONLY once they were 18, which was the drinking age at the time. This is just true because on top of how they keep meticulous calendars, high school football players from prep schools who go on to join college groups called "Tit and Clit" are also well known for being sticklers about who's old enough yet and who isn't. "Gonna need to see your ID, bro!" That is what high school boys like that say to each other before they Not Rape everybody.
And dont forget the calendars: Bart O'Kavanaugh didn't have time for sex because he was far too busy staying at home updating his calendars, which showed every single drunken party he DID NOT ATTEND and DID NOT RAPE AT, because if there's one thing you can say for all private high school boys who are blackout drunks, it's that they're CALENDAR-KEEPING WHOREMONSTERS
From a German Student's album.
Students of different fraternities in Weimar. I can make out Bardia, Arion, Wittelsbach and Leopoldina. Ca. 1910, unidentified photographer.
View of a three-story fraternity house, with a front porch.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Publisher:
A. A. Kluttz, Chapel Hill, N.C.;
Date:
1914
Location:
Chapel Hill (N.C.); Orange County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available
online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
View of a three-story fraternity house.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Publisher:
Gray & Thompson Advertising, Chapel Hill, N.C.;
Location:
Chapel Hill (N.C.); Orange County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available
online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
Fuchsmajor mit Füchsen. Juni 1909
(A "Fuchsmajor" is responsible for the recruitment and care of the young students "Füchse" in a fraternity).
Some other photographs in this album were made in Weinheim which is close to Heidelberg. I suppose that these are students in Heidelberg.
View of a two-story fraternity house.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Publisher:
Holladay Studio, Durham, N.C.;
Date:
1912
Location:
Chapel Hill (N.C.); Orange County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available
online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
University of Maryland students put Charles Darwin's theory to the test as the express their frustration after losing to Duke in the semi-finals of the NCAA men's basketball tourney. The fraternity row bonfire was fueled by rage and anything that would burn.
Carte de visite by an anonymous photographer. A bearded gent poses in his fraternal apron sometime between 1864 and 1866, during the golden era of fraternal organizations.
Several sources note that the aprons were first used for practical purposes by tradesmen (think Masons) and later became symbolic of membership.
According to Aimee E. Newell, Ph.D., Director of Collections at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, “A Mason’s apron is one of the most recognizable symbols of Freemasonry. Aprons from the early 1800s were often works of art which reflected a tangible connection between a member and his experience as a Mason. These detailed and symbolically decorated aprons reflect the collaboration between a Mason and the craftsman or woman who created it.” For more information: nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/f...
To which fraternity this man belonged is not known, he wears his decorative apron with ease and evident pride.
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Let’s go back to 1861 or 1862, a time after the initial burst of patriotism—perhaps fueled by an enthusiastic town rally and a stirring speech that prompted one to enlist, then the donning of a new uniform and receipt of weapons and equipment, studying military manuals, and endless hours of drill and instruction. The quintessential citizen-soldier in an infantry regiment was left to ponder existential questions that haunt almost every soldier who makes it onto a battlefield for the first time: How will I perform in combat? Will I find the courage to stand and fire my musket at the human beings opposite me? Will I flee? What will I do in the moment?
Willie Rexford, pictured here, answered these questions during the Peninsula Campaign, during which senior officers of his regiment, the 44th New York Infantry, mentioned him in two official reports—also known to students of the Civil War as after-action reports.
On June 27, 1862, at Gaines’ Mill, Willie and the 44th held the extreme left of the Union line. Led by Colonel James C. Rice, the 44th helped destroy bridges to delay Confederate artillery, built earthworks and abatis, and deployed skirmishers who reported enemy movements and inflicted steady losses. For hours, the 44th repulsed attacks, even as neighboring regiments gave way. When Confederates finally broke through the Union right and rear, the 44th fought fiercely from both sides of their works before being ordered to retreat. Their withdrawal under devastating fire was costly: five killed, twenty-two wounded, and twenty-nine missing. Willie numbered among those who were “specially and favorably noticed for gallant and meritorious conduct.”
Willie received the second mention for outstanding conduct just days later at Malvern Hill. The 44th held reserve positions early in the engagement before filing into a critical gap on the Union left as Confederate attacks intensified. Under heavy shelling, the regiment maintained formation and later advanced, pushing past multiple Union lines. The 44th charged to within 100 yards of the enemy, helping to break Confederate lines and capturing a battle flag marked “Seven Pines.” They held off a fresh enemy brigade until reinforcements arrived. Of the 225 men and officers engaged, the regiment lost 11 killed, 84 wounded, and four missing.
Born William Mangum Rexford in Norwich, N.Y., Willie numbered among the vast majority of American boys with no formal military education prior to his enlistment. He did, however, earn a college degree, graduating with the Class of 1860 from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., where he also became a Theta Delta Chi fraternity brother. He then returned home and studied law in the office of his father, attorney Benjamin Franklin Rexford.
Then war came. Willie marked his 20th birthday on the same day pro-secession mobs pelted Union soldiers from the 6th Massachusetts Infantry with bricks and rocks as they marched through Baltimore. The riot turned deadly before the troops completed their trek through the city and on to Washington. Willie remained in his father’s office through the spring and early summer, watching as the nascent Confederate states established control over their territory and federal forces moved to stop the movement.
Willie could remain at home no longer after President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to put an end to the Southern rebellion. In early August, he enlisted as a sergeant in the “People’s Ellsworth Regiment,” organized after the death and martyrdom of Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth in May 1861, when Ellsworth hauled down a Confederate flag from the rooftop of a hotel in Alexandria, Va.
Willie is pictured here soon after his enlistment in his Zouave uniform, itself a tribute to Ellsworth, who had popularized the style before the war when he commanded the U.S. Zouave Cadets and led them on a popular drill tour through major U.S. cities. Willie appears ready for active campaigning with a cap box and Model 1840 noncommissioned officer’s sword attached to his waist belt, fastened with a Pattern 1851 eagle plate; a Model 1855 rifled-musket with bayonet; knapsack; and rolled blanket. His forage cap is marked with his company letter, D, and regimental number, 44.
This is how Willie looked when he distinguished himself in the battles of Gaines’ Mill and Malvern Hill. The praise he received in after-action reports marked him as a rising star in the regiment. In fact, his star did rise—but with other regiments.
In August 1862, about a month after Malvern Hill, Willie left the 44th to accept a captaincy in the new 114th New York Infantry, which had been raised in his hometown of Norwich and the surrounding Chenango and Madison counties. Before the end of the year, the regiment arrived in New Orleans, assigned to the Gulf Department commanded by Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks.
Willie experienced a brief tenure with the 114th. On the last day of 1862, he received a commission as major of the 131st New York Infantry, a regiment raised under the auspices of the New York City police and sent to Louisiana about the same time as the 114th. Now a senior commander, he spent the rest of the war in operations in Louisiana that included the Battle of Irish Bend and the Port Hudson Campaign, and in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley for the battles of Opequon Creek, Fisher’s Hill, and Cedar Creek.
At the September 19, 1864, engagement at Opequon Creek, also known as the Third Battle of Winchester, federal forces led by Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan defeated Lt. Gen. Jubal Early’s Confederates—the largest combat fought in the Shenandoah Valley during the war and the first in a series of defeats for Early’s army. The 131st, with Willie now lieutenant colonel, fought hard. Willie earned a brevet rank of colonel for his gallantry.
The 131st finished the waning months of the war in North Carolina and Georgia, where Willie served a stint as provost judge of the district of northern Georgia. The regiment mustered out of service at Savannah in July 1865.
A New York–based railroad contractor after the end of his service in 1865, Willie became involved in numerous organizations, including the American Geographical Society, the University Club, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Union College Alumni, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Engineers’ Club, and the Loyal Legion.
In 1897, more than three decades after the close of the war, veterans of the 131st held their first reunion at the Union League Club in New York City. Three of the regiment’s field officers attended—colonel and brevet brigadier general Nicholas W. Day, Maj. Augustus C. Tate, and Willie—as well as its brigade commander, colonel and brevet major general Edward L. Molineux. A newspaper report described the event: “In pleasant, informal addresses Gen. Molineux, Gen. Day, Col. Rexford and Major Tate recalled scenes of the ‘Louisiana lowlands, low,’ of Port Hudson, Bisland, of Winchester and Cedar Creek, and memories were stirred by the battle and camp pictures. It was late when the old veterans separated, determined that hereafter they must meet more frequently.”
Five years later, on a July morning in 1902, Willie collapsed after returning to his residence from a long walk and never regained consciousness. He was 61 years old and unmarried.
One admirer left behind an observation that might serve as Willie’s finest tribute: “Colonel Rexford is a true type of an American soldier; brave, cool, and determined. His promotions were fairly earned, and his service reflects great credit on himself and friends.”
The following text is a very short resume intended in providing some context to what is happening in the photo. I will focus mainly on the duel. If you wish to know more about German student fraternities and their members, please visit the link I provide at the end.
German student fraternities have a long history that traces back to the middle ages. Like most student fraternities, much time was spent socialising, singing and, of course, drinking. Most people didn’t go to the University, and of those who did only about 25% could afford to belong to a fraternity. These were the upper crust of society, aristocrats and upper bourgeois, destined to fill the ranks of professionals throughout the German Empire.
The fraternities, which at one point are believed to have reached around 4,000 in number, were known as ‘Burschenschaft’ and they could be duelling or non-duelling.
Another activity the fraternity members dedicated themselves to was the ‘Mensur’. This was a duel of very particular characteristics.
The duel was always between members of two different fraternities and, unlike a common duel, the ‘Mensur’ objective was not to settle a grievance, but simply to fulfil the requirements the fraternities placed on duelling. What was most important was not to win, but how one behaved in combat. The contenders, known as ‘Der Herr Paukant’ couldn’t move, except for the duelling arm. Any movement of the body or head to avoid a hit was forbidden and considered cowardly, and could result in premature cessation of the ‘Mensur’.
Each Paukant wore protective clothing that included reinforced leather aprons, arm coverings, neck protection, and steel ‘goggles’ to protect the eyes, with only the head and face left unprotected. The sword was called a ‘Schlager’. The ‘Paukant’ stood close to each other, separated by only one sword length (about 85 cm).
In this photo, (possibly shot between 1920 and 30), which is a cropped version of the original, one can see the aftermath of a ‘Mensur’ with both ‘Paukant’ with a smile on their faces. Oddly, only their seconds are using protective clothing.
For a student and all of German Society, the badge of courage was the Schmiss (the duelling scar, or sometimes called the Renommierschmiss, or bragging scar), mostly on the left side of the face, where blows would fall from a right-handed duellist. This was borne by a generation of doctors, jurists, professors and officials, certifying the owner’s claim to manly stature. The duelling scar was certain to attract attention because it signified courage and breeding.
We can see one such scar on one of the men in the background, directly behind the bleeding ‘Paukant’. A famous bearer of several Schmiss was unrepented nazi Otto Skorzeny.
Student fraternities were forbidden during the nazi dictatorship reappearing in the early ’50s. Duelling fraternities are still around today although far less popular.
Text partially adapted from ‘Student Societies’ by Joe Robinson (2006), pickelhauben.net
Original property of S. Wouters collection
NOTE: Given that the fraternities involved in this particular event are unknown, as are the location and date, I had to take some liberties concerning the fraternities’ colours whose choice I based in available drawings and paintings, cross-referenced with the caps and bands’ grey tones. For this reason, the colours depicted are for demonstration purposes only.
One of the contenders has a band of a different colour pattern. According to Flickr member, xiphophilos, this is because he is still a ‘Fux’ (novice) and thus wears a Fuxband. I kept to the fraternity’s colours I chose before so I coloured it green as it is too light to be red.
Carte de visite of Elisha J. Morgan Jr. by the Washington Gallery of Vicksburg, Miss. Morgan (1843-1881), a founder of the Chi chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity (closed 1988), enlisted as a private in the 72nd Illinois Infantry in the summer of 1862. The regiment spent the majority of its three-year enlistment in Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. It was heavily engaged in numerous operations, including the May 22, 1863, assault against the defenses of Vicksburg and the 1864 Battle of Franklin. Morgan survived the war and mustered out as captain of Company K in August 1865.
Researching the life and military service of this sailor is currently in progress. If you have any information to share, including letters, journals, and other personal and public documents, please contact me.
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The Fraternity Hall is the biggest and most beautiful old building in Elkhorn, Montana ghost town. This building and one other are maintained as a tiny state park. I will post other photos later in this series.
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Dated 1923.
Two members of a Konstanz Fraternity pose for a picture wearing their traditional atilla-style uniform, altong with a cap and ribbon on club-colors. They certainly went to school at the Hochschule für Technik und Gestaltung in Konstanz. It is likely that they are from Alania, see comments. We can also clearly make out their zirkel on the back of the card.
The text mentions xxx, a 'rank' in the Praesidium, "Schriftwart", the scriptor. The text also mentions that the picture was taken 14 days after the 'Mensur', which involved fencing.