Painting the IDOL

Views of Union College's Idol, through thick and thin (paint).  For decades, students at Union have shown their affiliations, their loyalties, and their emotions, on the Idol

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Idol Painting as a graphic for Class Participation in the Annual Fund.
Click here for all classes.


Click here for page 2 of idol images (2003-2005)                Click here for page 3 of idol images (2005-2006)


 
 

5/6/2008

5/2/2008

4/28/2008

4/25/2008 (arm band)

|4/22/2008

4/17/2008

4/9/2008

2/15/2008

1/15/2008

11/18/2007

11/05/2007

11/2/2007

10/31/2007

10/16/2007

10/8/2007

10/4/2007

9/24/2007

9/19/2007

9/4/2007

8/27/2007

8/15/2007

8/9/2007

8/8/2007

7/17/2007

7/9/2007

6/25/2007

6/19/2007

6/17/2007

6/15/2007

6/14/2007

6/13/2007

6/12/2007

Customer

Bird seed and peanut butter -- Yuck or Yum?

6/10/2007

6/2/2007

5/29/2007

5/29/2007 - Two faced

5/29/2007

5/28/2007 - Hat

5/27/2007

5/25/2007

5/23/2007

5/16/2007

5/15/2007

5/14/2007

5/5/2007

4/23/2007

4/10/2007 - nice light

4/9/2007

3/18/2007

3/10/2007

11/28/2006

11/21/2006
Reaction

11/17/2006


11/10/2006
The Bag Series -- Detail

11/10/2006

11/7/2006

Moving the Idol, c. 1997, to make way for the Olin Building.  
     Thanks to Jim Meyer for these photos.

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The Idol Fight

"And in 1911 the classes added the Idol fight, where they competed to leave the Idol their color (the sophomores used green paint, the freshmen red)."  from "Tradition of Traditions", Union College Magazine, Winter 2003: Volume 95, Number 2.


The ridiculous and the sublime

"This year [2000] the College notes the 125th anniversary of the Idol at Union and the 75th birthday of Memorial Chapel. Wayne Somers '62 provides the following background."  Union College Magazine, Fall 2000: Volume 93, Number 2.

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Original Idol

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Fallen Idol

ONE PAGE IS NOT ENOUGH
This page was getting too big, so now images pre-2005 have moved to a second page.
images from 2005-2006 have been moved to a third page

© 2001-2008 J. Douglass Klein, except the checkerboard image and the B&W images, which are © Union College; and the "Moving the Idol" images, which are © James Meyer.  Last modified 05/07/08
Other Idol images welcome.  If anyone wants to claim a paint job, I will credit you.

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