Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

RS 7/4/4
Iowa State University.

Vice President for Student Affairs.

Department of Residence.
Union Drive Houses Records, 1952-[ongoing]


Descriptive summary

creator:

Iowa State University. Vice President for Student Affairs. Department of Residence

title:

Union Drive Houses Records

dates:

1952-[ongoing]

extent:

7.92 linear ft. (6 document boxes and 5 oversized boxes)

collection number:

RS 7/4/4

repository:

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

Iowa State University, Department of Residence, Union Drive Houses Records, RS 7/4/4, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Historical note

The Department of Housing was established in 1930. The name was changed to the Department of Residence in 1937. The Department of Residence is responsible for the administration, financing, and development of all university student housing facilities.

The first academic building on campus, Old Main, housed 77 men and 16 women in 1869. The President soon recognized a problem in the co-ed housing situation and appointed Mary Lovelace as Preceptress to look after the women students. A room bureau for the men was handled by the YMCA and supervised by the Committee on Student Accommodations. In 1925, the State Board of Education was authorized to borrow money for the construction of housing facilities with the University pledging the net income from the entire housing system toward repayment indebtedness incurred for additions to any part of it.

After World War II, a great influx of students, specifically male students, severely strained the entire residence hall system. To help manage the large number of students, each floor of the men's dormitories was organized into houses with a head resident in 1949. The head residents comprised the Men's Residence Association, which helped organize and promote activities for the men's residence hall members. It was not until 1965 that a similar system of houses and head residents was instituted in the women's dormitories.

In 1969 many of the residence halls became co-educational. The halls that had been traditionally men's dorms were now organized under the Union Drive Association (UDA) and the halls that were traditionally women's dorms were now called the Richardson Court Association (RCA). The Inter-Residence Hall Association (IRHA) was organized in 1982 to provide services and support for all the students living in the residence hall system.

 

Collection description

This collection (1952-[ongoing]) contains records from dormitory houses located in the Union Drive residence halls. Included in the collection are materials from O'Bryan, Kimball, Godfrey, Halsted, Henderson, and Lowe Houses in Friley and Helser Halls. Records include house constitutions, meeting minutes, policies, and scrapbooks. For more information on the early history of the Department of Residence see The First 100 Years of Residential Housing at Iowa State University by Julian C. Schilletter (call no. LD2544.6 S37x).

 

Organization

The collection is listed alphabetically by house.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

5

4-5

Godfrey House: Meeting Minutes

1952-1967

7

OVR

Halsted House: Scrapbook (35-3x3 B&W, 207-3.5x5 B&W, 4-8x10 B&W, 18-3x3 color, 6-3.5x5 color, and 1-5x7 color photographs)

1960-1978, n.d.

4

10

Henderson House: News Clippings

2006

5

3

Henderson House: Photograph (1-4x6 color photograph)

ca. 2000

4

7

Henderson House: Scrapbook (10-2x2 color, 72-3x3 color photographs)

1969-1971

4

8

Henderson House: Scrapbook (96-3x3 color, 14-3x4.5 B&W, 1-8x8 B&W, 1-8x10 B&W photographs)

1970-1973

4

9

Henderson House: Scrapbook (66-3x3 color, 26-3.5x4.5 color, 1-5x7 color photographs)

1974-1976

6

OVR

Henderson House: Scrapbook (78-3.5x4.5 color, 242-3.5x5 color photographs)

1984-1992

5

1

Henderson House: Scrapbook (88-3.5x5 color, 15-4x6 color photographs)

1984-1996

5

2

Henderson House: Scrapbook (61-3.5x5 color, 2-8x10 color photographs)

1991-1993

6

OVR

Henderson House: Scrapbook (6-3.5x5 color, 93-4x6 color, 6-4x7 color, 2-4x10 color photographs)

1996-1998

2

12

Kimball House: Constitutions

1993-1995

1

7

Kimball House: House Awards Listings

1978-1992

2

15

Kimball House: House Policies

1996-1997

2

4

Kimball House: House Policies – Alcohol

1988-1989, n.d.

2

5

Kimball House: House Policies – Quiet Hours

1988-1990, n.d.

2

6

Kimball House: House Policies – Smoking

1988-1990, n.d.

2

7

Kimball House: House Policies – Visitation

1988-1990, n.d.

2

16

Kimball House: Kimball Clock Circuit Diagrams

n.d.

2

8

Kimball House: Meeting Minutes

1988-1991

2

9

Kimball House: Meeting Minutes

1992-1993

2

11

Kimball House: Meeting Minutes

1993-1994

2

13

Kimball House: Meeting Minutes

1995-1996

2

14

Kimball House: Meeting Minutes

1996

1

1

Kimball House: Minutes Book

1963-1965

1

2

Kimball House: Minutes Book

1966-1968

1

3

Kimball House: Minutes Book

1971-1976

1

5

Kimball House: Minutes Book

1976-1980

1

6

Kimball House: Minutes Book

1978-1987

1

8

Kimball House: Minutes Book

1980-1982

2

1

Kimball House: Minutes Book

1982-1985

2

10

Kimball House: Minutes Book

1992-1995

2

3

Kimball House: Miscellaneous Correspondence, Flyers, and Forms (1-8x10 B&W and 1-3.5x5 color photographs)

1987-1996, n.d.

2

2

Kimball House: Rosters

1985-1991

1

4

Kimball House: Slides (12 color slides)

1975-1977, n.d.

8

OVR

Lowe House: Scrapbook (1-5x7 B&W, 4-8x10 B&W, 16-3x3 color, 8-4x4 color, and 7-4x5 color photographs)

1968-1970

8

OVR

Lowe House: Scrapbook (6-4x4 B&W, 1-5x7 B&W, 182- 4x5 color, and 3-8x10 color photographs)

1981-1985

9

OVR

Lowe House: Scrapbook (1-4x5 B&W, 3-5x7 B&W, 373-4x5 color, and 2-8x10 color photographs)

1985-1988

10

OVR

Lowe House: Scrapbook (316-4x5 color photographs)

1989-1991

5

6-7

Lowe House: Scrapbook (275-4x5 color photographs)

1992-1994

5

8

Lowe House: Scrapbook (1 of 2) (148-4x5 color, 82-4x6 color photographs)

1994-1996

11

1

Lowe House: Scrapbook (2 of 2)

1994-1996

8

OVR

Lowe House: Scrapbook (63-4x6 color photographs)

2001-2002

11

2-3

Lowe House: Scrapbook (95-4x6 color photographs)

2002-2003

11

4

Lowe House: Scrapbook (178-4x5 color photographs)

2006-2007

11

5-6

Lowe House: Scrapbook (377-4x6 color photographs)

2007-2008

11

7

Lowe House: Scrapbook (81-4x6 color photographs)

2008-2009

3

5

O'Bryan House: Annual Financial Reports

1977-1980

3

10

O'Bryan House: Constitutions

1981-1992

4

6

O'Bryan House: House Elections

n.d.

4

1

O'Bryan House: House Policies

1988-1990, n.d.

3

1

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1969-1976

3

3

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1976-1977

3

4

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1977-1978

3

6

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1978-1979

3

8

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1979-1980

3

11

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1982-1983

3

12

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1983-1984

3

13

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1985-1986

3

14

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1987-1988

3

15

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1988-1989

4

2

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1989-1990

4

3

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1990-1991

4

4

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1991-1992

4

5

O'Bryan House: Meeting Minutes

1992

3

2

O'Bryan House: Miscellaneous Correspondence

1973, n.d.

3

7

O'Bryan House: Miscellaneous Meeting Materials (2-3.5x5 color photographs)

1978-1992, n.d.

3

9

O'Bryan House: Treasurer's Materials

1980-1982, n.d.