A Family Home: A History of the President’s Mansion at Auburn University

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This entertaining and very human record is an excellent addition to the story of growth of a quite small and somewhat isolated school to an internationally known and respected university whose alumni now put their educations to good use world-wide. Yet wherever they’re found, the Auburn family has a claim to consider the President’s Home as their home too. This is its story.

 

Of course, the story of the development, occupancy, and use of the Home may be the story of the growth and progress of a premier institution of higher education. The Home has been just that, a home that has seen children and grandchildren running up and down stairs and in and outdoor, and also a setting for both informal and formal entertaining and celebrating, a gathering place for the families of the individuals who have served the institution as President, and for the larger family that may be the Auburn community.

 

Richardson has searched the Auburn records, and set out to contact as many members of the families who have lived in the home as conceivable, from the Luther Duncan family that took up residence in 1939 to her own Richardsons, the 17th family to call the Home . . . home. From such reminiscences in addition to more formal records, a gracefully written history of Auburn University of the last seven decades also comes clearly into view. 

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