#when my undergrad sorority brought me my yellow bid rose I was running audio for a punk concert

[hellenhighwater]

I'm just gonna answer this separately because it's easier to explain with pictures.

A "composite photo" is either one of two things--a single image made by merging multiple photos together, often in cool artsy ways to make it look like something impossible is happening, or, in professional and academic contexts, a collection of portraits of a class or group of people.

This is a composite of the Wayne State Department of Mortuary Science, class of 1958. I got it at a thrift store.

Sorority composites are those, typically including all the members in a given year, or all the graduating seniors. I have a bunch, because I was in an undergraduate sorority and then two graduate fraternities. And I also have composites from my graduating classes in both undergrad and grad school.

They're weird things to have, honestly, because I've never met anyone who displayed them at home or in their office outside academia. I just sort of have them forever, sandwiched between pieces of cardboard and napped on by Malice.