Unfortunately, that was not the case (mainly due to my not remembering what the password was for the computer).
Instead, I turned to the box of scrapbooks that I had yet to go through, and worked my way through those.
The remaining three scrapbooks in the box were all from a social fraternity called Phi Kappa Theta. The first scrapbook, from 1957, covers their merger with another national social fraternity to form Phi Kappa Theta - until that date, the organization was known as Phi Kappa. The group was founded on Spring Hill's campus in 1955, and played a major role in the foundation of the campus's Fr. William D. O'Leary Memorial Award, which they financed and designed.
I found Phi Kappa Theta's scrapbooks extremely interesting, in part because they covered such a wide swath of time (the first scrapbook started in 1957, and the last one ended in 1965), and also because they provided so much information about campus life and their brothers. Every single achievement of a brother received recognition in the scrapbook, and the little sisters and the sweethearts also had their major events noticed, too. Everyone's name was underlined diligently in blue ink, and their articles were carefully pasted into the scrapbook's pages. Whoever created these scrapbooks, I am extremely grateful - they are a researcher's dream. Sadly, the later scrapbooks are in somewhat bad condition, with pages sticking together and the covers almost falling off. I'm glad that I'm scanning these into the computer, so that they'll be preserved for the future, but I hope that I can find a way to save the actual book, too.
I also discovered two other fraternities in my readings today, Phi Omega and Omicron Sigma. Hopefully, their scrapbooks or mementos are somewhere in the Archives waiting for me to find them.
If you know anything about any of these fraternities and their time on the Hill, please feel free to comment below! I'd love to learn more.
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