Thursday

On Thursday I finished the 1949 Wallulah and have now moved on to 1950. I think 1949 was a bit larger because it seemed to include more activity pages and more advertisements but thankfully it went pretty quickly through ABBYY. 1950 is a bit shorter and seems to be going at an equally fast pace so I'm hoping this is a trend that continues as the years progress.

I also managed to re-scan the two pages from the 1980 Wallulah so I'll return 1980 and 1948 (which I borrowed a while ago) to the Archives tomorrow.

Today I was able to finish the first box of the Student Handbooks.  They are all located in the Archives Folder.  I also began scanning the Ethiopian Prayer Book, which I was able to finish scanning but still need to edit it.  

Today I was able to finish editing the Student Handbooks.  I am currently re-numbering them, and adding them to the spreadsheet, as well as transferring them.  

1949: A Weighty Wallulah

I finished 1948! I've moved on to 1949 which is a whopping 330 pages so it'll be the longest year book yet. I've still yet to re-scan the pages from the 1980 Wallulah since they were too large to fit on the Plustek (a.k.a. Feynman), so I'll either wait for the Beast to be available or I'll try scanning them on Gregor tomorrow.

Today I continued to work on the Student Handbooks.  I was able to finish scanning the first box, I just need to go back and edit them.  

Monday

On Monday I finished up processing the first round of pages from the 1948 Wallulah and began to rescan the fourteen pages which had significant portions of cut-off text. I also re-processed images from the third 1971 Norma Paulus scrapbook though the ABBYY software this afternoon. Tomorrow, after editing the newly scanned images for 1948, I'll re-process them through ABBYY and then I should be able to move on to 1949.

Today I continued to work on the Student Handbooks.  I should be done with scanning the first box by the end of the week. 

1948

I'm making headway on 1948. I've got around 32 pages left to process in addition to 14 pages I need to re-scan since names were cut off in the image. I'm hoping to finish 1948 on Monday.

1946 Complete!

I was finally able to finish 1946 today since the Archives copy was in much better condition. I continued working on 1948 and found a missing page so I had to borrow an Archives copy of that yearbook as well. 1948 is a much longer yearbook since it's about 300 pages and I think I'm around halfway done. I'm hoping to make significant progress tomorrow when I come in to make up hours.

Today I continued to work on the Student Handbooks.  I believe I should be able to finish the box by sometime next week.

Finishing Up the Forties

Today I finished 1947 and moved on to 1948. I've noticed these next two yearbooks are a little larger so they might take me more time. Tomorrow I plan on going up to the Archives to check if their copy of 1946 is in any better condition. If so, I'll scan and re-process the two Index pages, which were damaged in the Periodicals copy, and then I'll be done with 1946 as well.

Today I continued to scan and edit the Student Handbooks.  I am about halfway done with Box 35.

Tuesday

The Archives was closed today so I couldn't retrieve a better copy of the 1946 Wallulah. Instead, I started work on 1947. I think it recognized the type better in this yearbook because I seemed to blaze through it. I only have 42 pages left to process in addition to some re-scans.

Today I continued working on the Student Handbooks.  I was able scan about 7 or so and I finished editing 4 of them.  I will continue to work on these tomorrow.  

1946

Today I nearly finished 1946, however I found that some of the index pages in the Periodicals copy appear to have been damaged or decayed. This obscured several names on a couple index pages so I'm going to re-scan them if the Archives has a copy that's in better shape. I think I only need to red- 2-3 pages though, so it shouldn't take too long and then I'll be moving on to 1947.

Today I was able to complete the blue binder of Chuck Williams.  I went back to working on the Student Handbooks and was able to finish scanning one more.  

June 17

I decided to keep working on the Wallulahs rather than go up to Archives. I'm waiting until I finish the 1940s since I didn't want to break the momentum I have going. I'm about halfway through 1946.

I also attempted to clean the platten on the Beast this morning. The cleaner seemed to work pretty well but it didn't touch the scratches so we've ordered some new scratch cleaner to try.

Today I was able to complete renumbering all of the Scenes.  

1945 Finished!

Today I finished the 1945 Wallulah. I've put 1946 through the Scanning Station, but I think I might go up to the Archives tomorrow for a change of pace. I still need to clean the platten on the Beast so I think I'll get that done first.

Today I almost completed renumbering all of the Scenes.  I have about 8 left to do so I should be able to finish them by tomorrow. 

Finished with '44!

I've finally completed the 1944 Wallulah and have moved on now to 1945. It doesn't appear to have the same issue with content close to the binding so hopefully I don't have to re-scan and re-process as many pages this time around.

Today I continued to renumber the Scenes and I hope to be done with them by tomorrow.  

Behavioral Troubles with the Beast

I'm still finishing up 1944 and have around 6 images left to edit before I process the 25 re-scanned pages through ABBYY. I encountered some trouble with the Beast today, specifically the BookDrive software, which significantly slowed the procedure. SanJuana informed me it had been acting pretty slow when she used it earlier this week as well. The cameras kept stalling and weren't actually capturing any images so rather than restarting the computer and trying again I just used Feynman. I forgot that I need to clean the platten on the Beast so if I get to that this week I'll try running the software again as well in order to establish if the glitches I experienced today were just a one-time problem.

Today I continued to change the Page Numbers of the Scenes.  I got through a couple of them today so it should not take much longer to finish, about a day or two.  

Monday

Today I continued working on the 1944 Wallulah. I didn't quite as far as I'd hoped since I got pretty tripped up by all the text-heavy index pages. However, I only have one more index page to finish tomorrow in addition to the 25 "redo" pages with cut-off text and pictures.

Finally Friday

Oops, I just realized I wrote a draft of my blog post for Friday but forgot to hit "send." On Friday I continued processing the 1944 Wallulah. I only have around 35 pages left to process in the first run, but this portion includes all the index pages so it'll take a bit longer. Then I also have around 25 pages to rescan, edit, and re-process in order to capture all the text and/or photographs on the page.

This week has been so chaotic with all the housing confusion so I'm hoping to have somewhat of a fresh start on Monday and finish 1944 completely.

Cutting It Close

I finished the 1943 Wallulah and have moved on to 1944. The binding is really tight on this yearbook and many of the photos and text are cut-off or nearly lost in the center-fold. I've found around 20 pages so far that could be re-scanned to include more of the page though so it seems like this Wallulah may take a little extra time.

Today I completed the Chuck Williams Scrapbooks.  I began to scan the Student Handbooks and completed about 5 of them.  I also began to change the numbering on the Alumnus volumes which I corrected about 3 or 4 of them and will continue on Monday.  

Wednesday Wallulah Work

I've finished all of 1943 except for three pages which I need to re-process through the software, so I should have that complete early tomorrow. Then on to 1944!

Today I almost completed Scrapbook C of Chuck Williams.  I was able to finish scanning all of the pages I just need to finish editing them.  It will probably just take a couple of minutes or so to finish tomorrow.  

Today I was able to finish Scrapbook B of Chuck Williams.  I began to scan Scrapbook C and will probably need one more day or two to finish it.  

Today I almost completed with Scrapbook B of Chuck Williams.  I have a few pages left to scan and edit and should be done by tomorrow and start on Scrapbook C. 

Friday

This afternoon I continued working on the 1943 Wallulah. I think I'm well over halfway done since I've only got around 65 pages left. However, some of those pages are from the Index so I'm expecting those will take a little longer again, but I'm planning on having it finished early next week.

Today I was able to finish Scrapbook A of Chuck Williams and I began to scan and edit Scrapbook B.  

Willamette in Wartime

I finished 1942! I'm now working on the 1943 Wallulah. I didn't get as far as I'd like since I was dealing with housing issues throughout the day, but I'm hoping to make up for lost time tomorrow and stay the full day until 4:30PM.

I've noticed in this yearbook particularly how much Willamette changed during World War II. It seems the entire undergraduate curriculum was streamlined to enable men and women to serve in the military after graduation. I can't imagine that type of transformation occurring today and I'm starting to appreciate more how the Wallulahs document the growth and changes of Willamette's character.

Today I almost finished scanning and editing Scrapbook A of Chuck Williams.  I have a couple of pages left which I should be able to complete tomorrow and start on Scrapbook B.  

Almost Through with 1942

I'm nearly done processing the 1942 Wallulah. I wanted to finish today but I forgot how tedious the index pages can be. I only have around 10 pages left though (and half of them are blank) so there's no doubt I'll finish early tomorrow and hopefully complete a considerable portion of 1943 as well.

Today I continued to scan and edit Chuck William's scrapbook.  I was able to get through more than half of the scrapbook today so I could possibly finish with one tomorrow.