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| Recreate this vintage Ship photo! |
Did you know that Ship is running a monthly photo recreation contest through SU's social media accounts? We will be releasing a vintage photo from the University Archives collection every month for the next year. This month's photo features the iconic fountain outside Old Main. To enter the contest, gather some friends and snap a photo recreating the scene above. Sign on Twitter to and tweet your photo @shippensburgu, or post it on Instagram @shippensburguniv with the hashtag #SUOld2New. At the end of each month, a panel of judges will choose a winner and those pictured will win a prize! For Homecoming 2016, all 12 winning photos will be showcased side-by-side with the original images in an exhibit in the library. Doesn't that sound fun? We thought so too. All members of the Ship family are welcome to participate, so gather some friends, have fun, and win prizes!
Because we're the Ship Archives, and Ship history is what we're all about, we thought we'd provide you with some background information on this month's photo. Our university's beautiful fountain was a gift from the class of 1896. In an acceptance speech of the gift, Hon. S. M. Wherry, president of the Board of Trustees, said that the fountain was: "a recognition not only of what has been done by us in the past to make this one of the first training schools in the State, but it is a perpetual testimony of your faith in what we and our successors shall do in the time to come." The fountain was repaired in the 1960s and rededicated in 2012. Over the years, the fountain has served many purposes for students, whether frolicking in the water, posing for graduation photos, or asking that special someone out on a date.
Whatever the fountain means to you, we challenge you to recreate the Ship scene above! Don't forget to tag your photo #SUOld2New
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