Lawrence University Archives

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records documenting the planning, construction, and dedication of the Buchanan Kiewit Recreation Center (renamed the Buchanan Kiewit Wellness Center in 2011), dating from 1983 to 2011. Records include articles, correspondence, meeting minutes, dedication materials, photographs, and records of the 2010-2011 renovations.

Scope and Contents This collection contains records documenting campus life for students at Lawrence dating from 1903 to 2004. This includes administrative records of the Office of Campus Life, also known as the Office of Residential Life, and various administrators responsible for campus life over time, as well as subject files related to residential life. Materials include correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, newspaper articles, and photographs.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials documenting the professional life of actress Colleen Dewhurst. Dewhurst attended Milwaukee-Downer College as a member of the class of 1946. The collection contains primarily newspaper articles and photographs, as well as playbills, letters, a poster, and a television script.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials documenting Lawrence Univerisity's participation in the General Electric College Bowl, a nationally televised quiz show, in the late 1960s. Materials include articles, correspondence, photographs, and programs.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records documenting public events at Lawrence created by the Committee on Public Occasions, a standing committee of the faculty, dating from 1960 to 1986. Correspondence, programs, articles on speakers, contracts and itineraries for campus visits are included. Some committee meeting minutes dating from 1960 to 1978 are also included.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of subject files documenting departments, ensembles, events, and general history of the Conservatory of Music at Lawrence University, dating from 1868 to the present. Materials primarily include newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, and brochures.

Scope and Contents The three scrapbooks in this collection contain programs from Conservatory concerts and recitals, bulletins listing enrollment and course information, and newspaper clippings. Materials are presented in chronological order and date from 1921 to 1935.

Scope and Contents This collection includes materials documenting the annual convocation series at Lawrence University dating from 1880 to the present. The bulk of the collection consists of convocation programs. Other materials include articles, photographs, and the text of matriculation convocation speeches.

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials documenting the houses on the Lawrence University campus, both those currently owned as well as those razed or no longer owned by Lawrence. Materials primarily include correspondence, newspaper articles, and photographs.

Scope and Contents This collection contains records pertaining to the curriculum at Lawrence University dating from 1912 to 1999. Records include administrative materials, budget documents, grant proposals, correspondence, reports, newspaper articles, and photographs. The majority of records document departments or programs that are now defunct, or were proposed but never established.