Dan Rawlins, junior architectural student at the University of Illinois, holds one of the many architectural drawings he is identifying and filing over the summer on Aug. 14, 1974, in the archives room in the basement of the Columbus Visitors Center.
From The Republic archives
2014
Several organizations represented by the Columbus Area Arts Council, including Columbus City Band, Columbus Scottish Festival, Columbus Symphony, Ivy Tech Community College, Columbus Pro Musica and Dancer’s Studio, received Indiana Arts Commission Regional Initiative Grant program awards totaling $92,160. The largest of the grants — $6,895 — went to Dancer’s Studio.
1999
Columbus resident Andy Saurer’s band, Too Hot To Handle, played to a full house at Donner Park’s free variety show. The band played mostly swing music in honor of Saurer’s mother, Nadine, who was Columbus High School’s 1934 May Day Festival Queen.
1974
Columbus native Dan Rawlins, a college student at University of Illinois, spent most of his summer vacation at the Columbus Visitors Center organizing the architectural archives. Rawlins also contacted all the architects who had designed Columbus’ famous Modernist buildings in an attempt to collect original drawings.
