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Two students pose outside with the Spartans' mascot
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1989 (Creation)
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photograph : colour ; 9x12.5cm
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Photograph of two unidentified male students posing outside with the Spartans' mascot, a giant bird.
[Peter Reek, TWUSA president (‘89) laughs as he recalls the creation of TWU’s first mascot. With a hint of embarrassment Reek says, “We didn’t want a Spartan because we thought it would be hard to translate that into an animated figure, and all the other mascots at the time were animals.” And that’s how a big, fuzzy blue bird came to roost at TWU.
According to Reek, in 1989 the Athletics program was beginning to heat up. Basketball was drawing an audience and TWUSA wanted to do something that would drive school spirit. Built by a TWU student, the fledgling was unveiled at a basketball game where it was wheeled in on a red cart to the 2001 A Space Odyssey theme.
Known simply as “The Bird,” the feathered mascot with the torch logo on its chest was a university staple for almost seven years. But in 1996, TWUSA felt that TWU needed a mascot that better represented who the Spartans were, and thus Sparty the Spartan was born.
What happened to the blue bird? The demise of TWU’s feathered friend occurred during one fateful basketball game. Eye witnesses recall seeing The Bird run the length of the gym, dive bomb across the floor, sail through the gym’s double doors and promptly rip its beak off.
Source: https://www8.twu.ca/sites/magazine/no-15/back-40/default.html]
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Scanned images burned to DVD01 in November 2005
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Jpgs for photographs 1998-01-4582 to 1998-01-5049 were originally saved from tiffs; resulting jpgs were too large, so were resized February 2006 and saved as jpgs with the following settings: 72 dpi and low quality (3) baseline standard compression
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Resized jpgs 1998-01-4582 to 4935 burned to CD 95 March 2006
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Scanned using a Epson Expression 1680 at 600 dpi in TIFF format using LZW compression and at 72 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 7
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7/23/01<br/>May 22, 2009<br/>01/01/2001 KP