Nu Delta of Phi Mu Delta
M.I.T.
Photographs of our "good old days" grouped by year
posted by Robert L. Baber, 1958
2005 June 19
Those brothers of Nu Delta of Phi Mu Delta at M.I.T. who lived in
the
house at 460 Beacon St. between 1954 and 1958 may remember that I took
a number of
pictures of our various activities during those "good old days". I have
kept all my slides all these years and have, for the last several
years, wanted to convert them to digital files and post them on my home
web server for all to enjoy. I have finally finished this project for
my undergraduate and first graduate years. I may add pictures
from later years to this collection if and as I find relevant ones.
Looking at these pictures again after so many years brought back
many fond memories to me. I hope and believe that you, too, will enjoy
remembering our various experiences together. So look at these
pictures, have a few laughs and shed a few tears of emotion, too. Those
days are long since gone, but we can relive them in our memories. I
hope that these photographs will help you to do so.
Each group of photographs offered below contains pictures of
memorable
people and events at Nu Delta of Phi Mu Delta fraternity at M.I.T. and
other pictures of M.I.T. and vicinity taken during one academic year.
For each of my undergraduate years, two
series of pictures are offered: one containing only selected pictures
and the other
containing my complete collection. The complete collections for 1954 to
1958 contain
repetitions and some pictures of particularly bad quality, so I suggest
that you start with the selected pictures.
Click on the appropriate line below for selected pictures only of the year:
- M.I.T. and Nu Delta
of Phi Mu Delta, 1954-1955, selected
pictures only
- M.I.T. and Nu Delta
of Phi Mu Delta, 1955-1956, selected pictures only
- M.I.T. and Nu Delta
of Phi Mu Delta, 1956-1957, selected pictures only
- M.I.T. and Nu Delta
of Phi Mu Delta, 1957-1958, selected pictures only
- M.I.T. and Nu Delta
of Phi Mu Delta, 1958-1959, complete collection is short this year
Click on the appropriate line below for the complete collection of pictures of
the year:
- M.I.T. and Nu Delta
of Phi Mu Delta, 1954-1955, complete
collection
- M.I.T. and Nu Delta
of Phi Mu Delta, 1955-1956, complete collection
- M.I.T. and Nu Delta
of Phi Mu Delta, 1956-1957, complete collection
- M.I.T. and Nu Delta
of Phi Mu Delta, 1957-1958, complete collection
- M.I.T. and Nu Delta
of Phi Mu Delta, 1958-1959, complete collection
You will notice that the quality of the pictures varies considerably.
These pictures were taken on 35mm slide film about half a century ago
with an inexpensive camera (remember our student budgets?). Over the
years the slides were stored in various conditions of temperature,
humidity and dusty air and were transported a number of times within
the U.S.A. and to Germany, Canada and Ireland. Despite Kodak's warning
on the film
packages, the colors have not deteriorated as much as I was afraid they
would. Actually, we have probably deteriorated more than these pictures
have in the intervening years -- look at the pictures of yourselves in
this collection and decide for yourselves.
The slides were converted to digital images by the simplest, fastest
and cheapest way I could find: Each slide was projected onto a screen,
the image photographed with a modern digital camera, and the files then
transferred to a computer. The projector and the camera are of good but
not professional quality.