The Avery History Group

also known as the History Committee

Mission

For many, many years, the history of Avery has gone by unrecorded. Generations have come into Avery, spent their four years here, and left, but no serious attempt has been made to write down a comprehensive history of this fine House from its beginning to its present. Thus, the state of Avery history in our times is akin to that of an archaeological excavation: There are pieces of evidence here and there - everywhere, in fact - but the evidence has not been studied; the history has not been written down in a nice, coherent, complete, and readable form.

The mission of the Avery History Group is to find and study all these bits of evidence and to piece them together to reconstruct the history of the House. Secondly, the Committee will write down this history that it has so carefully analyzed so that our future generations will not forget our past. Will this "written history" take the form of a book, a website, or something else? That is for this group to decide.

Members

Julianne Gould
Ryan Hamerly
David Lee
Yicheng Li
John Liu
Sarah Marzen
Akinynka Omigbodun

The Members of the History Research Group are charged with carrying out the mission of the group. However, anyone with any interest in the history of Avery is welcome to contribute. Furthermore, anyone wishing to join the group need only notify its members.

Minutes

April 6, 2008
April 20, 2008
May 9, 2008
May 23, 2008
June 21, 2008

Findings

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A Comprehensive Collection of Newspaper Articles (mainly Tech articles) relating to Avery House.
The Grand Compendium of Council Documents
The Constitutional History of Avery House
Past Officers of Avery House
The old Avery website
The old Council website. This contains lots of nice historical information. I put it here because you can't get to it from the old Avery homepage.

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