Betty Reid Gallik ’45 remembered that in her day, the girls wore a hat instead of the beanie although her husband, Bill Gallik ’47, had the more traditional headgear. Maria LaMotta Fay ’61 has a photo of herself, standing with her mother on her first day on campus, all dressed up in a suit — and topped with a beanie.

“It seems like not long ago that we were running around campus with our beanies and nametags
trying to figure out exactly where our classes were,” recalled Frank Brennan ’73.

Although beanie wearing persisted until the early 1970s, the cap morphed into a golf or “bucket” hat before, like many age-old college traditions, being relegated to the closet of memory.