Spanning from the early years of the university to the later half of the twentieth century, the Campus Laboratory School records range from 1886 to its closure in 1983. The materials in this collection include information on administrative records, student publications, faculty and student material, including lists of class members, and other student creations.
Series 1: Administration
This series deals largely with administrative records that pertain to the Lab School’s budget, purpose and objectives, and reports on the restructure of the school in the 1970s, and its curriculum. The series also includes meeting minutes from faculty meeting minutess, informational booklets about the school itself, and status and annual reports regarding the school’s progress.
Series 2: Publications
This series contains publications written by the students of the Lab School. These publications include the newsletters Riverview Monthly, Booster, Currents, and Challenger. The publication's content was written by students and contains reports of current events, short stories, poems, school news, information about upcoming events, and drawings.
Series 3: Students and Faculty
This series covers the largest span of dates and contains information about the faculty and students. Material here includes lists of students and when they attended the Lab School, lists of faculty and when they taught, grade books, certification of students, and some curriculum material for physical education, art, and music programs. There are are also programs from Lab School events - music, art, and theatre.
Series 4: Oversize
This series is of one oversize box. The series contains drawings drawings of the Lab School buildings on stationary, a scrapbook and letters regarding the closing of the school, and about an exhibit from the school’s final year and day. The exhibit is displayed through a panoramic photo of a wall in which photos were hung depicting faculty and students doing activities throughout the last year of the Lab School in 1983.
