Date: 7/29/08
Contact: Kathy Beal
Anyone interested in a doorknob, mailbox or room-number plate from recently decommissioned Walker and Dunn-Barton residence halls may view the items online at mementos.
Proceeds from the mementos sale will benefit the University Housing Services Student Employee Scholarship fund. A portion, or all, of the purchase price is tax deductible depending on the item.
University Housing Services made the decision to recycle as many items as possible from the residence halls. "We want to keep things out of the landfill, and we do our best to look for agencies in need," said Maureen Blair, director of Housing Services. Toward those goals, University Housing Services donated 2,200 mattresses, 800 desk chairs, 200 dressers, 900 bunk-bed frames and 700 desks to non-profit agencies this summer.
The purchase of mementos is another way to keep things out of already crowded landfills as well as accommodate those who have asked to have a piece of the nearly 60-year-old residence halls before they are torn down to make way for the new Student Fitness and Kinesiology Recreation Center.
To reserve a memento, download and print the mementos order form on http://www.uhs.ilstu.edu/alumni/mementos.shtml
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