College Women's Club (Sandusky, Ohio) records

The College Women's Club collection is comprised of administrative documents, yearbooks, financial reports and scrapbook material. The administrative documents include the 2001, 2011, and 2016 constitutions and minutes which are complete from November 1915, when the Club first organized, through January 1994. The minutes include constitutional changes, business conducted at general meetings and executive board meetings, programs held, membership and dues records and financial statements. The yearbooks, complete for the years 1920 through 2017, except for 1922/23, 1923/24, 1925/26, and 1976/77, contain a listing of members' names and addresses, officers for the year and the monthly programs.

The financial records include a listing of receipts and expenditures, membership dues records, and bank account balances, and are complete from 1936 through 1984. Also included with the financial records are the statements and reports for the Student Loan Fund, which date from 1928 to the present. For earlier financial records, please refer to the minutes. The Sandusky/Erie County Community Foundation, College Women's Club Designated Fund is part of the permanent endowment funds managed by the Sandusky/Erie County Community Foundation. The principal of this fund is invested in the stock market. Each year, a percentage of the total fund value is available to be distributed as scholarships.

The scrapbook material includes constitutions, news clippings, correspondence, histories of the club, and a president's pin, dating from 1915 to 1976. The documents have been removed from the scrapbook for preservation purposes and filed in order of appearance in the scrapbook.

The subject files include the 75th and 100th anniversary celebration file, dating from 1990-1991 and 2015.

Altogether these records provide a comprehensive and detailed study of this twentieth-century women's educational and civic organization.

Includes minutes and proceedings of executive and general meetings, constitutions, constitutional changes, financial reports, programs and money-raising activities, reports and membership records.

Additional constitutions are located within the scrapbook material series.

FINANCIAL RECORDS; 1933-1984, 1993-1998; arranged by type of record and chronologically. Includes statements of receipts and expenditures, membership dues, bank account balances, and documentation of the designated fund agreement.

STUDENT LOAN FUND RECORDS; 1928-2002. arranged by type of records and chronologically Includes reports of loans awarded, expenditures and receipts, payment records and reports of the student loan fund committee.

Yearbooks, including listing of members, elected officers and programs planned for the year. Missing years 1922-23, 1923-24, 1925-26, 1976-77.

Documents removed from scrapbook and arranged as placed in the book- mostly in chronological order. Scrapbook materials contain news clippings, constitutions, club histories, correspondence, and programs.

Additional constitutions are located within the Administrative Document series.

Pin, inscribed on verso to Mrs. Mae Rosino, and decorative ceramic trivet, produced in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Sandusky Women's Club, 1916-1976.

This series contains materials of various formats which have been grouped together by subject. Subjects include the 75th and 100th anniversaries of the College Women’s Club, which is composed of invitations, photographs, press releases, and news clippings regarding club activities.