Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Moving on to 1959 and Margaret Mead

I completed 1958 today and started on 1959.

I also re-scanned page 67 from the 1921 Wallulah (titled 1922) and placed it in drobo > Temp > "Wallulah 1921 (titled 1922). In the folder there should be tif and jpg scans of the page along with a "Processed" folder containing the output from ABBYY.

The page was titled "page074" in the original tif and jpg folders so I re-named the newly scanned images to match. For the processed files, the drobo name converted to "Page_075" in the number scheme and this number was missing from the original Processed folder.

I also found out that the famed anthropologist Margaret Mead spoke at Willamette's commencement ceremony in 1959. According to the yearbook, she was challenging Willamette to reject the status quo. I think most of her work is considered outdated now, but we did study some of her research in literary theory and it's cool to imagine her vising WU. It's also nice to start seeing tidbits of progressive thinking documented in the Wallulah, since it's such a distinctive part of Willamette's character in the present-day.

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