Eastern New Mexico University

New Mexico

1927

official hood lining pattern
green
silver

Detailed historical information about the green and silver colors of Eastern New Mexico University is not available at this time, but the university’s green was traditionally a medium shade of “true” green.

The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) assigned Eastern New Mexico University a hood lining pattern in the 1960s. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970) and an IBAC list from 1972 both described the university’s hood lining as green with a silver chevron.

A cotton "dink" cap worn by a freshman in the 1950s or 1960s. Here Eastern New Mexico University's silver color has been rendered as white, which is heraldically correct.