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Lawn Residents Survey Project, Accession #RG-25/3/1.971, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was transferred to the library on 1997 January 28.
The Lawn Resident Survey Project was fostered during plans to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the Rotunda Fire in conjunction with the kick-off of the Capital Campaign.
Approximately 3,300 former lawn and range room residents were located and sent a brief survey with a cover letter from President John T. Casteen III regarding the compiling of a Lawn residents directory. There was a 70 percent return of the survey. One of the questions asked of the alumnus was "Would you be willing to provide an oral history for 100 Years of Life on the Lawn? " As response was overwhelming, with ca. 1,200 affirmative answers, the Rotunda Fire Anniversary Committee was compelled to opt for a second more complete survey in lieu of the oral histories.
Group I contains the brief, Lawn Resident Survey #1; folders of the residents responses are filed alphabetically within each decade folder.
Group II contains the second, lengthier Lawn Resident Survey #2; each resident's response is filed in its own folder and arranged alphabetically within each decade.
Group III contains a small amount of office files that accummulated during this project. The few photographs and memoirs that were received during the course of this project have been accessioned separately on Virgo.
Includes a file of the Lawn Chowder and Marching Society, 1996-1997, including a copy of the statement signed by all Lawn residents admitting to have had women in their rooms in violation of University regulations; a photograph of Martha Chanutin who lived with her parents in Pavilion V; a copy of "Memories of a happy life at the dear old U. Va. " by Eleanor Lile Tucker, 1968; additional information for 1896 law student David Cummins; and excerpts from the diary of student Preston Hampton Edwards, 1899-1900, which includes a description of the ceremonies unveiling the bust of Edgar Allan Poe.