Initiation in Andernach, Germany Photograph, February 18, 1919

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Initiation in Andernach, Germany Photograph, February 18, 1919

SAE members in Andernach, Germany following World War I hold an initiation ceremony for Lloyd Brown, a pledge from the University of Wisconsin. The ceremony, the second ever initiation of a neophyte into an American college fraternity held on European soil, was held in the ruins of a castle of the Electors at Andernach-on-the-Rhine.