Identifier	Centennial_00292
Title	Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity members smashing a piano
Creator	Unknown
Date Created	1963
Subject (Topic)	Fraternities & sororities--California--Los Angeles; Greek letter societies--California--Los Angeles; Pianos
Subject (Name)	Loyola Marymount University; Foley Building; Alpha Delta Gamma. Lambda chapter
Subject (Place)	Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Type	Image
Form/Genre	Photographs
Physical Description	1 photograph: black and white; 20 x 25 cm.
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/collections/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Copyright Holder	Loyola Marymount University
Collection Identifier	Loyola Marymount University Archives
Item/Call Number	University Archives, Record Group 7: Student Affairs, Photographic prints box 7B/2
Description	Three students in Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity t-shirts using sledgehammers to smash a piano to pieces outdoors in front of the Foley Building. A fourth student in fraternity t-shirt holds pieces of the debris. Loyola Marymount's Lambda chapter of the Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity was chartered in 1952.
Historical Background	Piano smashing was a traditional fraternity activity especially popular in the 1960s and earlier, in which fraternity brothers took sledgehammers to one or more pianos, sometimes in a timed contest, until all of the pieces can be fit through a hole or ring of a given size.
Cited In	Starr, Kevin. Loyola Marymount University, 1911-2011: A Centennial History. Los Angeles: Loyola Marymount University, 2011.
Image Caption	"Destroying an old piano before an admiring public, the brothers of Alpha Delta Gamma pursued a ritual characteristic of fraternity life across the nation."--Starr, K. , Loyola Marymount University 1911-2011.
Additional Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu
Project note	Centennial