■ MASONIC Continued from Page 1 t in* history ol Eugene and Lane County in .jII hern, .ml Ala i* Adams. wIuimj luishand is buried on the hill side I'liese .ire tin- people who did it Other notable-, who found their final resting plat e |iist blot ks from i ampus mi lude Eugene Skinner, the city founder; |ohn Whiteaker. Oregon's first governor, and Prince Lumen Campliell. whose University connection is immortalized for anyone who's sat through a lecture in Room 1 HO PLC Campbell and Ins wife are interred in the Hope Ablwv Mausoleum, whir h also i ontains a time r apsule to be opened in 29H The mausoleum was designed In the first dean of the t Jniversitv’s an hitei turn scIkkjI and was finished in 1*114 A national and i itv landmark, the mausoleum is the la-st example of Egy plum Revival ari Inter lure in (Iregon. with its i rirvori vulture ami sun over the doorway, mar hie walls and palm tree like stone urns lint this shads spot, where people used to pit.iur on Snndavs and where Eugene's first sr.htKilhouse may have been, is now on the dei line Vandals and the elements have destroyed headstones and monuments, and the winding paths are infested with English',ivy and blar k berry bushes In the 1 mills, tie- mausoleum was extensively vandal ized. and the ainlier glass windows were broken Today though the building is lo* kerf and the windows are hru kerl up, vandalism and graffiti .ire still a problem The vandalism is totally rampant said Ken (.u/uws ki of Eugene's city planning division Nearly 1 Ml stones or monuments are vandalized or stolen Among the stones' vandalized are the Kerns family mon ument, a ipi.liter ton marker, which was heaved into tlie road, and the pink granite obelisk marking the plot of the Mi Murry family, who donated the original land for the ( emeterv Other vandals have spray-painted graffiti on the man solemn, have left beer bottles and cans behind and haw set fires inside hollow cast-iron monuments Richard Kish, a member of Eugene's Masonic Lodge, said that although the Masons have a trust fund to pro vide (or the cemetery's mainteiiaiu e. ai tually doing repair work and upkeep is proving to he too expensive in terms of both time and money We have about $12.00(1 in the trust fund and spend between five and seven hundred yearly on mowing and hauling debris." Fish said "The mausoleum’s roof needs resurfm my, whit h costs about $18,000. and the lodge doesn’t have those fund-. When Fish 's efforts to organize v olunleer < leanup par lies from |» d M.tsonit lotlges failed, he turned in frus (ration to the ( Os for help in preserving and maintaining the grounds The i eineten s preservation is now being undertaken by a group of citizens w ho volunteer their time on i ran rnittees that will resears h the lives of the people buried there and raise mimes to i over restoration and mainte nance costs But w ith the publicity given the restoration efforts at the i eineterv, stopping vandalism mill lie harrier Thu more attention we give it the more people who visit and use it. Cluzowski said d ou also have the fear that the more attention we give it (he more weirdos will come out." Guzowski said stopping the vandalism might mean fem mg off the i.eineterv and adding a loi ked gate hiring a caretaker to live on tile grounds or installing lighting Because of the < emeterv s uniqueness, maintenam e is not as simple as pushing a mow er ov er the grassy turf and pulling weeds "We re trying to write grants to get the mimes to hire a consultant lo do historic preservation reports, Guzows ki said We do need experts to provide guidam e ( aimmittii- members are i irrviitlv tr\ ing to dec ide w hat look" the i.emeterv should have, w hether it should be ,i more matin ured. park-like appearam e. or whether it shmild appear as it might have tiefore HM4 and the advent of the lawnmo.wer. That s a little bit shaggy with vvildflowrrs. although we d trim some tree brain lies Cluzowski said Preserv ing the cemeterv flora is of more than histor ical important e. said Brut e New house president of the Oregon Native Plant Sis iet\ New house, w ho li ves near the t emeterv has found ti t native plant spot les grow mg there, making it a thriv ing native plunt community compared to the Pioneer Cemetery nevt to the University, which has onlv four native spec ie> Most wild flowers and oaks here have been here for hundreds of thousands of years lie said. 1 here s a field that’s awash of blue i amas iillies) m the spring When we restore tins cemeterv. we have a chant e to replace the non-native spei n-s like hl.n kherries w ith native spec les.'' tie said Newhouw said the native plants growing in the come ten could also !«•< onu; u source for seeds to replant else where in tin' area, like along the banks of Amazon Creek Several Umversin students are among those involved ‘The vandalism is totally rampant. Nearly 150 stones or monuments are vandalized or stolen Ken Guzowski Eugene city planning division m prvM*rvmg nut < tfimnurv "It's interesting to see how people want to be remem bered after they die." said Lynn fosse. s^ from post office) Cyfomor: Muslim Student Association A