37/5/801 Guide to the Building Publications Building Publications

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Guide to the Building Publications 1959/1967 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Building Publications 1959-67 37/5/801 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Assembly Hall 0.30 English University of Illinois Archives
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Historical Note:

The Assembly Hall was opened to the public in March 19631 and dedicated on May 3, 1963.2 President David D. Henry appointed Thomas P. Parkinson Director of Assembly Hall in Auxiliary Services and in the Physical Plant Department beginning August 1, 1961. The Assembly Hall is operated through the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs, who reports to the Chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign campus.3 No appropriated funds were used in its construction; revenue bonds were employed, with student fees and building income used to amortize them.4 The Assembly Hall is a multi-purpose building for recreational and cultural activities; basketball games, concerts, and ballets take place there. The building can accommodate sixteen to eighteen thousand persons.5 It houses the offices of the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics.6

1. Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, March 1, 1963.

2. Dedication program, RS 37/5

3. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Student/Staff Directory, 1990-91, p. 57.

4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 50th Report, June 23, 1959, pp. 467-99; Board of Trustees Transactions, 51st Report, February 21, 1962, pp.1304-05.

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Topical Term: Assembly Hall
Administrative Information Accruals:

9/63

Arrangement of Materials:

By type of material and chronological thereunder

Scope and Contents

Building Publications including Board of Trustees Resolutions on revenue bonds (1959, 1962) and brochures on the construction, facilities, and dedication of the building (1963).