| Nifty neeto Crimsonness! |
 Nifty neeto Crimsonness!
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Mar. 7th, 2007 @ 01:45 pm 
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As some of you may know, i managed to score a 1964 Crimson on eBay some years ago. That is the senior year of our brother, Harrison Ford. When i got it, I opened it and discovered that the name of the original owner was written inside. No, not Harrison, but one of his brothers in Sigma Nu. So, the yearbook came home, sort of.
Recently I have managed to score TWO 1961 Crimsons... Harrison's Freshman year and Al Jarreau's junior year. Nothing too remarkable about one of them... the other I am waiting to receive... perhaps it will coincidentally have something interesting in it.
I also managed to get a 1936 and a 1935 Crimson recently. Both from the same auctioneer, who may be selling off items from an estate. There was nothing particularly remarkable about the '36 book... it's in excellent shape but nothing to suggest that it might have a connection with the House.
However, the 35 Crimson might, just might, have belonged to a brother. The book has no marking in it, itself. But, like the 36 Crimson it has pictures cut from other places and pasted into the inside covers and blank pages of the book. Additionally, it has a couple cuttings from relatively recent Ripon College Magazines (the same fonts used today, glossy colorful pictures, etc). One of the cuttings appears to be an image associated with an obituary for Robert Rashid, '36, a Tau who IS in both of these two Crimsons.
It could be that they both belonged to Emmeth Luebke, 36, who I know passed away last February.
It's compelling.
In an amusing aside, one of the "seniors" listed as being a member of Tau and spotlighted in the 1935 Crimson was in his eighth year at Ripon with that Crimson. It looks like Zeus was following in the footsteps of Taus that went before.
There's also some interesting historical stuff in the blurb about the house.
I also just scored a lot from 1946 - 1952.
These old books are fun!I'm feelin' :  contemplative What's that I hear?: Jimmy Buffet singing about the islands! |
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