Collection ID: UA071
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Summary

Creator:
McQueen, Barbara and IUPUI (Campus). IUPUI Women's Club
Abstract:
This collection contains the records of IUPUI Women's Club, a social club of IUPUI women employees. The club started as the Women's University Club of Indiana University, Indianapolis in 1968 and changed its name in 1970 when Indiana University merged its Indianapolis programs with Purdue University. Constitution and bylaws, materials related to membership, meeting minutes, finance committee's papers and materials related to programs are included.
Extent:
1 cubic feet (1 record carton)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

IUPUI Women's Club Record, 1968-1985, Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives, IUPUI University Library, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

IUPUI Women's Club was is a social club of IUPUI women employees started as the Women's University Club of Indiana University, Indianapolis in 1968. The group changed its name in 1970 when Indiana University merged its Indianapolis programs with Purdue university. The University Women's Club existed at Indiana University Bloomington but there was no relationship between them.

The Club's main purpose was to identify with Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis and to promote the social and intellectual interests of its members.

The members had monthly meetings. Although the events had been changed gradually every year, membership tea, annual bus trips to several places such as Churchill Downs at Louisville, and Chicago Illinois, flea markets for fundraising, tours of each department in IUPUI and the annual Bosses' Night dinner honoring university employers were included as their social activities.

The club contributed to local organizations including the Marion Country Children's Guardian Home and the Robert Long Hospital and various university organizations. Throughout hosting events such as symposiums, it met with various professional speakers such as Elizabeth D. Koontz and Mary C. Manning who were a director and a regional director of the Women's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, Dr. Charles Hunter a chairman of OB-GYN Department at the Medical Center and George I. Dickison IUPUI METROS Basketball coach, regarding developments and programs of the university and community.

Scope and Content:

This collection contains the records of the IUPUI Women's Club and its related entities from 1968 to 1985. The materials are arranged in chronological order. Records of Barbara McQueen, a longtime member and president four times, are organized separately. Constitution and bylaws, materials related to membership, meeting minutes, finance committee's papers records and materials related to programs are included.

Materials that are related to membership consist of membership rosters (yearbooks), membership lists, membership registration forms. The membership registration forms folder contains personal information such as home address and phone numbers and is therefore restricted.

Board meeting minutes are arranged chronologically in the Minutes folders and record decision-making.

In the finance committee folders, budget proposals, financial statements, spending review settlements, and correspondences about gifts, fidelity schedule bonds are held.

The program and Miscellaneous folders, including Barbara McQueen's General and Planning and Programs folders, hold materials related to their programs such as the Spring Lunch, the Christmas party or annual trip to Churchill Downs program. Flyers, pamphlets, receipts, correspondence for events, sheet music of 'Hail to old I.U.', 'Indiana, our Indiana' and news clippings are included.

Acquisition information:
Internal transfer, A86-11.
Rules or conventions:
DACS-Describing Archives: A Content Standard
General note:

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Access

RESTRICTIONS:

This collection is open to the public except for folder 4, which is available only to IUPUI staff.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

The copyright laws of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) govern the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material.

PREFERRED CITATION:

IUPUI Women's Club Record, 1968-1985, Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives, IUPUI University Library, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis.

CAMPUS:
IUPUI
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
University Library
755 West Michigan Street
Room 0133
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
CAMPUS:
IUPUI
CONTACT:
speccoll@iupui.edu