It's also featured on clothing, accessories. banners, flags and pennants, course books, handbooks, yearbooks, college rings, graduation packets, stationery, pendants, pins, blazer buttons and cuff links; during sporting events, and is stamped into our diplomas with gold leaf.
It's nothing fancy, perhaps keeping with Quaker values of simplicity, but it's also very effective: a founding year, a motto and a few scholarly elements, such as the star and scroll. I still have a (well-worn) Guilford Alumni T-Shirt from the late 1990s featuring the seal, as well as my (every day wear) signet college ring with an ovalized seal.
It appears that the seal was used quite a bit
in the old days, for many purposes -
school approved and otherwise - such as the pewter mug and pottery jug from the early 1960s (at right).
(A sign of the times: mugs like these were ubiquitous on college campuses from the 1950s - 1970s. My dad has at least five pottery and pewter beer mugs from his days at UNC.)
The powers-that-be at Guilford probably dug the college seal affixed to the blue blazers of "Marshals," students with high GPAs, charged with seating alumni and guests during campus events.
These patches were also very popular with the "Ivy Style" preppy set, adorning the jackets of quite a few Guilfordians (male and female) from the early 1950s to mid 1960s. It was most often seen on athletes, student government and campus media leaders.
(I wish I could get one of these patches! It would look good on my favorite wool blue blazer -- J.Crew, circa 1989. Alas, modern manufacturers charge an insane amount to produce a single patch...)
It appears that the seal was used quite a bit
in the old days, for many purposes -
school approved and otherwise - such as the pewter mug and pottery jug from the early 1960s (at right).
(A sign of the times: mugs like these were ubiquitous on college campuses from the 1950s - 1970s. My dad has at least five pottery and pewter beer mugs from his days at UNC.)
The powers-that-be at Guilford probably dug the college seal affixed to the blue blazers of "Marshals," students with high GPAs, charged with seating alumni and guests during campus events.
These patches were also very popular with the "Ivy Style" preppy set, adorning the jackets of quite a few Guilfordians (male and female) from the early 1950s to mid 1960s. It was most often seen on athletes, student government and campus media leaders.
(I wish I could get one of these patches! It would look good on my favorite wool blue blazer -- J.Crew, circa 1989. Alas, modern manufacturers charge an insane amount to produce a single patch...)
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