A Week in Review

So much has happened in the past week that I haven't been able to get to my computer and post exactly what has happened in the archives.... Here's a brief attempt at a summary.

Last Wednesday, nothing much different than usual happened: I spent all my time typing out student council members and members of Greek life up until the year 1941.

On Monday, I walked into the archives, and was confronted with the offer to go on what the Archivist termed as "an adventure:" we were going to photograph the school's old pool area, fondly called the "Pooleteria" by former students. While our current student center was being built, the school covered over the pool and used it as a cafeteria - thus the name "Pooleteria." Not only does the archives not have photographs of the pool area on file, but rumors have been swirling about changes possibly being made to the space - so we obviously needed to save it for posterity.

As soon as we got there, however, we discovered that the pool area was locked. It took us several minutes to discover that the only person on campus who had a key to unlock it was the Assistant Athletics Director, who kindly let us in. As we walked down and took photographs of the area, he talked to us about what the space might be used for in the future and asked us questions about Spring Hill's sports history. At one point, he and the Archivist disappeared into the boiler room next door (with many admonishments to me to "Keep the door open!") and returned with a 2004 Newsweek sent to a John Bender - how it arrived in the boiler room of the old pool I will never know.

As we left, the AD asked us to look into a specific person for him, a former AD named Billy Gardiner. When we returned to the archives, we immediately began searching, and found that William "Bill" Gardiner was probably the most influential basketball coach that Spring Hill ever had. His team beat not only LSU in their time, but also both Georgia and FSU to take the Gator Bowl. Needless to say, the AD was thrilled to find out more about him.

Today's activities were less exciting - I spent the day typing up records once again, but I did manage to find a third fraternity to add to my records. Sigma Alpha Kappa has now joined the ranks of Spring Hill College fraternities. I look forward to continuing with my work on Monday!

Sigma Alpha Kappa Crest

I spent my week listening to music by Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco.

Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! by Panic! at the Disco