Church Women United in the Schenectady Area records, 1935-2016.
Collection Number: 3430
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Church Women United in the Schenectady Area records, 1935-2016.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3430
Abstract:
Contains organizational records, including material related to affiliation and cooperation
with local, national, and international organizations and records of predecessor organizations.
Creator:
Church Women United in the Schenectady Area (N.Y.)
Quanitities:
2.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Includes constitutions, minutes of and agenda for meetings, correspondence and memoranda,
clippings and programs, and yearly schedules of events; rosters of officers, members,
and committee chairmen; attendance sheets; president's and secretary's annual reports,
reports of the nominating and executive committees and committees in charge of arranging
for such celebrations and observances as May Fellowship Day, World Community Day,
and World Day of Prayer; treasurer's reports, budget proposals, and other financial
records; and group photographs, programs, biographical data on speakers, newsletters,
and miscellaneous items having to do with the aims and activities of the organization.
Also, mimeographed and printed material with relevant correspondence and notes concerning
its affiliation or cooperation with local, national, and international organizations
devoted to the betterment of mankind, among them the American Host Program, Charlton
School (Saratoga County), Church Women United in New York State, Church World Service,
Committee of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Viet Nam, Cooperative Extension of
Schenectady County, Environmental Clearinghouse of Schenectady, Family Court (New
York State), League of Women Voters, Literacy Volunteers, Inc. (Syracuse), National
Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, National Council for Church Women (later CWU),
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., New York State Council of
Churches, Red Cross, Schenectady Area Peace Center, Schenectady Area Council of Churches,
Volunteer Bureau of the Community Welfare Council of Schenectady County, Women in
Community Service (Washington), and the United Nations. Also included are similar
records of predecessor organizations, the Women's Missionary Federation of Schenectady
(1935- ), and the Schenectady Council of Church Women (1948-1957), and incomplete
runs of the annual reports (1956/1957, 1971/1972) of Church Women United in New York
State and its quarterly, Together (1967-1972).
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Church Women United in the Schenectady Area records, #3430. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Schenectady County (N.Y.). Community Welfare Council. Volunteer Bureau
New York (State). Family Court
American Host Program
League of Women Voters (U.S.)
American Red Cross
United Nations
Cooperative Extension Association of Schenectady County (N.Y.)
Women\'s Missionary Federation of Schenectady (N.Y.)
Schenectady Council of Church Women (N.Y.)
Church Women United in New York State
Charlton School (N.Y.)
Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam (U.S.)
National Council of Church Women
Environmental Clearinghouse of Schenectady
Literacy Volunteers of Syracuse (N.Y.)
National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.)
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church
World Service
New York State Council of Churches
Schenectady Area Peace Center (N.Y.)
Schenectady Area Council of Churches (N.Y.)
Women in Community Service (U.S.)
Places:
Schenectady (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
Subjects:
Religious institutions -- New York (State) -- Schenectady.
Women -- Societies and clubs -- New York (State) -- Schenectady.
Women and religion -- New York (State) -- Schenectady.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Newsletters.
Reports.
Minutes (administrative records)
Constitutions.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
State CWU: President's reports and state information
|
1963-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Publicity and historiae
|
1969, 1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Programs: CWU
|
1968-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Human Rights
|
Ca. 1966-1968 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
CWU programs and publicity
|
1968-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Legislative information
|
1968-1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
National CWU Urban Program
|
1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Public relations planning packet
|
1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Public relations planning packet
|
1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
CWU programs and reports
|
1969-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Church World Service: CROP and Clothing Appeal
|
1966-1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
CWU members and miscellaneous
|
1959-1966 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Councilor articles newsletters
|
1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Environmental Clearinghouse News
|
1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Coffee hours
|
1968-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Regional meeting
|
1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Women in a Changing World
|
1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Old agendas and work sheets
|
1970, 1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Probation services
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Draft exiles
|
1971, 1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Annual meetings
|
1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
World Day of Prayer
|
1951-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
"Together" CWU publications
|
1966-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
National CWU--correspondence
|
1968-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
The Charleton School
|
1971, 1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Miscellaneous items
|
1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
American Host program
|
1966-1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Schenectady Area Council of Churches
|
1964-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
May Fellowship Day
|
1949-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Table Talks on world affairs
|
1970-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Peoples Rights
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Celebrations: World Community Day, etc.
|
1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Council of Churches Board Meetings
|
1968-1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Citizens Convention for the Schenectady Schools
|
1968-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Attendance sheets
|
1968-1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
WICS: Women in Community Service, Inc.
|
1971-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
CWU agenda and work sheets
|
1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Churches of Meetings of Councils
|
1968-1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Communications
|
1967-1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Cooperative Extension
|
1969-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
International Development
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
The Fellowship
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Literacy Volunteers, Inc.
|
1966-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Local agencies
|
1965-1966 |
| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Migrants: Migrant Ministry
|
1969, 1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Mission Study
|
1970-1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Other programs
|
1968 |
| Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Race relations
|
1964-1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 49 |
School Lunch Program
|
1969-1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Speakers Bureau
|
1967-1971 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
United Nations
|
1964-1965, 1970 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Viet Nam
|
1966-1967, 1971 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Women in Community Service, Ind.
|
1966-1971 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
World Community Day
|
1959-1972 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Nominating Committee: ideas adopted
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Legislation
|
1963, 1972-1973 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence to and from the President Blanche R. Kelly
|
1971-1973 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Church Women United Annual Reports
|
1948-1973 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Annual Meetings
|
1950-1960 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Publicity, etc: clippings discarded
|
1934-1950 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Executive Commitee
|
1961-1972 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Coffee Hours
|
1960-1972 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
CWU general information
|
1967-1971 |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Membership lists
|
1961, 1971-1972 |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Constitution
|
1968-1969 |
| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Treasurer's reports
|
1962-1971 |
| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
President's notebook
|
1969-1972 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Programs, meetings, agendas, and miscellaneous information
|
1961-1972 |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Programs, meetings, agendas, and miscellaneous information
|
1961-1972 |
| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
State Council Annual , NYS Council of Churches
|
1967 |
| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
New Dimensions in a Continuing Commitment
|
1967 |
| Box 2 |
Handbook for United Church Women
|
||
| Box 2 |
Annual Reports
|
1956-1972 | |
| Box 3 |
Clippings and programs
|
1980-1996 | |
| Box 3 |
Annual reports, newsletters, and publicity material
|
1984-1996 | |
| Box 4 | Folder 1-6 |
Annual reports, newsletters, programs and publicity material
|
1997-2011 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Materials relating to activities of the CWU in Schenectady, NY
|
2016 |