- May 13, 2011
- 12:01 am
- Steve Christensen
A new glimpse at Loyola’s past
Aerial view of the student fair and carnival, 1955
In October of last year, Loyola’s archives received an unexpected gift. Alumna Mary Ellen Smajo, PhD, DABR (BS ‘85), donated a collection of photographs taken by her father, Joe Smajo, who served as the photographer for the Loyola News and Cadence as a student during the 1950s.
“This collection really fills in a gap in our existing University photograph collection for images from the 1950s, particularly images of student events,” says Kathy Young, University archivist. The Smajo collection contains about 900 prints, negatives, and transparencies focusing on student activities, athletics, the Lake Shore Campus and buildings, and Loyola events. Here is a small sampling of the collection, offering a look at what life was like at Loyola during the mid-1950s.
Friendly competition: Freshman students pose with an effigy of a sophomore for the 1953 pushball battle.
A dashing Superman and his somewhat wary companion make a pictureperfect pair at a costume party.
Students setting up a tent for the second annual student fair, held in 1955
