In this first year drafting project Pellino analyzed a gravesite at Woodlawn Cemetery, a place he enjoyed visiting. He selected a moderne-era monument: "The design of the site is very simple, but grand," Pellino writes. The groundskeepers provided him with a copy of the site plan, which Pellino used to model a vault in which he placed a miniature skeleton. For the class presentation, he adopted the persona of an undertaker. Pellino writes: "The design of funerary monuments has always fascinated me."