Faculty Women s Club fonds

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1 Faculty Women s Club fonds Compiled by Erwin Wodarczak (1994, revised 2002, 2006) Revised October, 2010 University of British Columbia Archives

2 Table of Contents Fonds Description o Title / Dates of Creation / Physical Description o Administrative History o Scope and Content o Notes Series Descriptions o Executive Series o Committees series o Newsletters series o Scrapbooks series File List Catalogue entry (UBC Library catalogue)

3 Faculty Women's Club fonds m of textual material. 2 photographs. 1 videotape. Administrative History Fonds Description The Women's Club of the University of British Columbia was founded in 1917, in response to a request from the Board of Governors "that the wives of faculty members be asked to supervise possible rooming houses for women students about to enter the university". In 1925 the name was changed to the Faculty Women's Club. Membership included both faculty wives and women members of faculty. Its official purposes were, and are, to promote social activities and other interests among its many members, and to provide financial support and other assistance to students as the resources of the Club may permit. Early Club meetings were held in members' homes; later meetings were in Brock Hall. Social activities included entertainment for club members and their spouses at dinners, dances, and teas, and lunches for the students. Club meetings regularly include speakers and musical programs. Student financial assistance is provided through scholarships and bursaries. The Anne Wesbrook Scholarship Fund, founded in 1919, awards $500 (formerly $100) to any student (preferably a woman) for post graduate work at any university. From 1934 to 1967 the Faculty Women's Club bursary was awarded yearly, until these funds were diverted to the Dean of Women's emergency fund for women students. The Jubilee Fund, established in 1970, provides financial aid to mature women students. From the beginning, the work of the Club has been largely carried out by committees. Membership expanded after World War II, and since then a large number of interest and hobby groups have been formed; they also play an important role, especially since membership jumped again during the 1960's. In 1967 the Club obtained permanent quarters in the basement of Cecil Green Park House, and in 1992 celebrated its 75th anniversary. Scope and Content Fonds consists of various revised constitutions, minutes, annual reports of the Club, its committees and interest groups, financial records (including bound ledgers), correspondence, membership lists, newsletters, programmes (including photographs used in their production), a videotape of the Club's 75th anniversary banquet, and scrapbooks. The growth and development of the University is paralleled by the growth of the Club, and its papers reflect many of the changes which have taken place through the years. They provide an insight into the concerns and activities of educated women

4 through two world wars and the depression, and record some of their contribution to university life. Notes Transferred in several accessions. Beginning in 1967 the Special Collections Division acquired some early records by donation, which were placed in a subject file box. In 1972 a group of papers dating from 1917 were officially deposited in the Archives. Since then, records have been deposited fairly regularly by outgoing Club executives, most recently in Because they were acquired in no definite order, they were arranged to reflect the Club's administrative structure. The two main series are Executive and Committees, with each containing several sub-series; two smaller series based on the physical form of the records, Newsletters and Scrapbooks, were also established. File List available.

5 Executive Series m of textual materials. Series Descriptions Series consists of correspondence, minutes of meetings, annual reports, and treasurer's reports created and received by the Executive Committee of the Faculty Women's Club. Five subseries are included: General, Meetings - Executive and General, Annual Reports, Correspondence - General, Correspondence - Subject Files, and Treasurer subseries. Committees series. 1942, cm of textual materials. 2 photographs. 1 videotape. Series consists of correspondence, membership lists, and programmes. The series contains six subseries: Clubrooms, Interest Groups, Membership, Programme, Social, and Student Affairs subseries. Newsletters series cm of textual materials. Series consists of issues of the Faculty Women's Club Newsletter. Scrapbooks series cm of textual materials. Series consists of 6 scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, minutes of meetings, newsletters, correspondence, photographs, and certificates pertaining to the Faculty Women's Club.

6 File List EXECUTIVE Box 1 General 1-1 Constitution " History, speeches Presidents' books Lists of Presidents Executive notebook Executive records - lists, duties notice, constitution Executive list " President's correspondence House rules, executive minutes, notices of meetings [Helen Akrigg's papers] Miscellaneous - lists, correspondence, financial statements Meetings - Executive and General 1-13 Minutes - Sept April 1923, May Oct [2 bound volumes] 1-14 " - general and executive, Nov Nov. 1943, Dec Sept [2 bound volumes] 1-15 Minutes - general and executive, Oct April 1951, April 1951 April 1954 [2 bound volumes] Box Minutes - general and executive, April June 1959 [2 bound volumes] 2-2 " - general and executive, Sept Nov [3 bound volumes] 2-3 " - general and annual meetings, " - Executive, Sept Mar " - Nov Oct [bound volume] 2-6 " - executive and general, March " - executive, general, and annual meeting minutes,

7 2-8 Minutes - executive and general meeting minutes, treasurer's reports, [bound volume] 2-9 Minutes - executive and general meeting minutes, treasurer's reports, [bound volume] Box Minutes " " " " - executive and general meetings (April March 1987) 3-6 " Annual Reports 3-7 Annual Reports " - Committees " " - Executive and Committee Committee Reports Annual Reports " Box 4 Correspondence - General 4-1 General Correspondence Correspondence - mainly from correspondence secretary Correspondence - misc General Correspondence " " " " "

8 Box General Correspondence " " " [includes letters of sympathy and replies] Correspondence " Correspondence received Correspondence answered Correspondence received Correspondence answered Correspondence received Correspondence answered Correspondence - Subject Files 5-13 Correspondence and reports Correspondence re: bursaries and scholarships Cecil Green Park Box Correspondence - Dean of Women " - " " - Scholarship and loan " - Scholarships "Thank You Letters" and "Get Wells" Treasurer 6-6 Treasurer's reports and bursary records [includes 4 bound ledgers] 6-7 Treasurer's records and reports [includes 1 bound ledger] 6-8 Treasurer's records " " " 1972

9 Box Treasurer's records " Treasurers correspondence Scholarships - history, statements [includes Treasurer's Report ] Income Tax Insurance , Finance (continued) COMMITTEES Clubrooms 7-8 Clubrooms - correspondence, estimates Clubrooms - correspondence, memos Copies of letters concerning clubroom space at CGPH [Cecil Green Park House] Nov.-Dec Interest Groups 7-11 Records of interest groups [4 bound volumes] 7-12 Interest groups , , Interest groups Interest groups Interest groups Notices - Interest groups Newcomers' [interest group] - information, letters, names Newcomers' group Newcomers' group Newcomer's Committee [sic] Box Membership - Newcomers

10 Membership 8-2 Annual Reports - Membership Active members lists Honorary members lists Membership lists Membership - Master lists Programme 8-7 Programs " , , Photograph - Totem poles, UBC Museum of Anthropology " - " 8-11 Program Preparation Box 9 Social 9-1 Learned Society - Reports and recommendations, letters, planning for women's activities, delegates kit, publicity Fifty Glorious Years - A review by the entertainers group th Anniversary Dinner and Social Oct.-Nov Faculty Women's Club 75th Anniversary - November 7, 1992 [VHS videotape] Student Affairs 9-5 Student Affairs " [includes International House Reports] " " 1974 (continued) NEWSLETTERS 9-9 Newsletter

11 9-10 " " Box Newsletter " Jan.-Oct (continued) SCRAPBOOKS 10-3 Scrapbook " " " Box " Clubroom scrapbook NEWSLETTERS (cont.) 11-3 Newsletter Newsletter EXECUTIVE (cont.) Box 12 General 12-1 Constitution and By-laws - Minutes and revisions a President's Correspondence , Policy Books

12 Meetings - Executive and General 12-3 Minutes [bound volume] 12-4 Minutes [bound volume] 12-5 Executive and General Meeting Minutes Executive and General Meeting Minutes Executive and General Meeting Minutes Executive and General Meeting Minutes Annual Reports 12-9 President's [and other] Annual Reports Treasurer Treasurer's Reports Box Auditor's Reports , Correspondence - Subject Files 13-2 Emily Carr Paintings Scholarship Correspondence COMMITTEES (cont.) Clubrooms 13-4 Use of Cecil Green Park by the Faculty Women's Club [2 folders - removed from binder] 13-5 FWC Corresp. - Clubrooms Renovations - Clubrooms , 1984, 1987 Interest Groups 13-7 Correspondence for Interest Groups

13 Membership 13-8 Honorary Life Members and Life Members FWC Members - Tributes Programme FWC Programmes Social FWC - History Book - Sixty Years [n.d.] History Booklet Draft - 60 Yrs. Friendship th Anniversary of FWC A Tour of the Campus Mrs. H.M. King April 1942