Hood lining descriptions for Hebrew Union College did not appear in Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) lists from 1927 and 1948, but in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) and Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970) Kevin Sheard described the college’s hood lining as having a single color of old gold. An identical description appeared in an IBAC list from 1969, but a 1972 list from the Bureau said Hebrew Union’s hood lining was gold (not old gold) with a black chevron. “Black” appears to have been erroneously cited instead of “blue”. As of 2017, Hebrew Union was using a hood lined blue with a gold (not old gold) chevron.

All of these hood lining patterns are problematic: the Bureau had already assigned a single lining color of old gold to the University of Iowa in 1895 or 1896, gold with a blue chevron to the College of St. Elizabeth in 1905 or 1906, bronze (similar to old gold) with a blue chevron to the University of Central Oklahoma in the 1920s, blue with a gold chevron to Vincennes University by 1912, and blue with an old gold chevron to the University of Delaware in 1895 or 1896.

So that Hebrew Union College can use a hood lining that is unique and in its traditional blue and old gold colors, here a blue bar has been placed on the old gold lining of the college’s hood.