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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/generalinformation/departments/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
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