{"id":62,"date":"2009-09-14T14:21:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T18:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/dear-old-wabash\/2009\/09\/14\/this-is-sooo-cool\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T18:34:21","slug":"this-is-sooo-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/2009\/09\/14\/this-is-sooo-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"This is sooo cool!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As we are moving things around, we are encountering any number of interesting items. These films of 1928 are excellent examples of a couple of such items. These 16mm films have been kept in the Archives and, while neat to look at as artifacts, it is their content that is of real interest. A casual chat with Adam Bowen in the Media Center about how neat it would be to be able to see these movies. Adam placed a campus classified ad asking for a 16mm projector and Jamie Ross in IT found one in a closet in Baxter Hall. Better yet, it was in perfect working order.<\/p>\n

Adam projected the movie on to a blank background for filming with a digital video camera. He called me over and for the first time ever I saw the old history move!! Right there on screen was President Hopkins, Dean George Kendall, Doc Howell and tons of others. I saw the freshman class practicing their spirit yells. I watched the football team play, including some pretty good kick-offs. All of these combined with that now rare, but easily remembered, sound a film projector makes as it plays, click, click, click\u2026IT WAS SO COOL!!!<\/p>\n

We will have the silent film running in the Lilly Library over Homecoming if you would like to see a little about life at Wabash in 1928. There are scenes of golf at the Country Club, football, tennis in the arboretum, Chapel, faculty members, fraternities of that era \u2013 including a very young Byron Trippet \u2013 the old FIJI house when it was new, same for the old Kappa Sigma house. This film is really just a wonderful little window on Wabash in the late 1920\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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Beth Swift<\/address>\n
Archivist<\/address>\n
Wabash College<\/address>\n

Update: You can find some of these clips on You Tube. Adam Bowen posted them. Search Wabash College+1928s and you will find them. Many thanks to Adam for his tech savvy!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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