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Ode to 1966
September 21, 2006
My favorite part about being in a sorority is the old stuff. Our house is packed with albums, pictures, clothes, yearbooks, etc., that are from the 60’s on up. When I was initiated, I was passed down an extremely old but usable jacket stitched with the name “Melinda.”
I love wearing it around campus. As I walk through the Union, I wonder if in the 60’s, Melinda was walking through the same place, in the same jacket. I wonder if she had curls and ribbons in her bouffant hair, and what plans she had that night. And was the dress she was wearing beneath it knee-length? Floral? What color tights did she wear with it?
And I wonder if Melinda knew that she’d pass her jacket down a line of sisters and it would still be worn in 2006; during a time when a girl would wear it with jeans and a pony-tail and would be planning on going to a mixer that very night with a fraternity that was also around during her time.
Sometimes I wish I was in a sorority during that time period - when they wore sweaters, had campus curfews, and were more concerned with marriage than mixers.
And sometimes I don’t.
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