Last Day :(

Today is my last day working in the Digital Production Lab and I was able to finish processing the 1966 Wallulah. I'm sorry we didn't get all the Wallulahs completed but hopefully I did make some significant progress and they'll be done soon.

I also re-scanned an image for the 1947 Wallulah and placed it in drobo > Temp > "1947 Wallulah-Page143 Rescan." I named the processed files "Page_145" because that seemed to be the missing file name in the original folder.

I'm so grateful for the opportunity to work here (especially even though I graduated) and I've really enjoyed my time a lot. Thank you so much for everything!

Wednesday

On Wednesday I finished 1964 and only have a couple more pages left to process in 1965.

Landscape Layout :(

Today I finished 1963 and made considerable progress on 1964. I have around 20 pages of 1964 left to complete tomorrow. It's taking a bit more time in these last pages since they designed all the athletic team pages in landscape rather than portrait. The software can't read the rotated text as well and it's even difficult for me to read on the computer screen, but hopefully this doesn't persist as a trend in the next couple yearbooks.

Multitasking Monday

Today I did a couple varied projects. I started the day by scanning poems from a former Willamette Russian professor which were compiled into one PDF file. I also scanned two more pictures for the Athletic Department Hall of Fame. Finally, I resumed work on the Wallulahs.

I finished 1962 and am over halfway finished with 1963. I noticed that they've been using the university motto as kind of a theme for the 1963 Wallulah, however it's worded differently than when we encounter it today. In the 1963 Wallulah it's phrased as "We Are Not Born Unto Ourselves Alone" whereas today the motto is commonly cited "Not Unto Ourselves Alone Are We Born." I wonder what prompted this change in phrasing and I'm curious if there's been multiple iterations of the motto throughout Willamette's history. The 1963 Wallulah is the first time I've really noticed extensive use of the motto though so any additional changes may only appear in later yearbooks from the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s.