The Goon Squad has assisted first-year college students adjusting to school life on campus throughout Welcome Week and spreading faculty spirit for the reason that Forties. One of a number of beloved campus traditions, the coed volunteers serving to out on move-in day has change into a signature a part of the Orange expertise.
Below, discover photos of the Goon Squad and its memorabilia by way of the years, all from the Syracuse University Archives, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries.
The Goon Squad helps first 12 months college students transfer in on opening day, September 1974. (Photo from the Syracuse University Photograph Collection)A Goon Squad member with a rag doll within the Eighties (Photo from the Syracuse University Photograph Collection)Goon Squad members serving to first-year college students transfer into their dorms in 2013. (Photo by Stephen Sartori, from the Syracuse University Photo and Imaging Collection)A 1953 Goon Squad button (from the Syracuse University Memorabilia Collection)Goon Squad members in 1956A Goon Squad member strikes a full cart throughout move-in, circa Eighties. (From the Syracuse University Photograph Collection)A Goon Squad hat worn by Pamela B. Baumgartner Luchsinger ’67, circa 1964-1967. (From the John F. and Pamela B. Baumgartner Luchsinger Memorabilia Collection)A member of the Goon Squad holding a field of things on Opening Day in 1968. (From the Syracuse University Photograph Collection)A Goon Squad member in 1959The Goon Squad serving to first-year college students transfer into Shaw Hall in 1971. (From the Syracuse University Photograph Collection)The Goon Squad poses in entrance of the Goon Stop Information sales space on Opening Day in August 1972. (From the Syracuse University Photograph Collection)Goon Squad members help with move-in within the Eighties.Goon Squad members at work in 1970.A Goon Squad member helps out in 1979.Goon Squad journey in a Jeep with a “Goon Squad Trouble Shooters” sign up August 1972. (Photo by Jim Blick, from the Syracuse University Photograph Collection)The Goon Squad performing in 1979.
