Betty Hawley Donnelly. Papers,
1930-1970

Mrs. Donnelly was a vice-president of the New York State AFL-CIO and its predecessor for a total of fifty years. She was longtime chairman of its education committee. She retired after forty years with the New York City Board of Education, where her last position was executive secretary to its Advisory Board on Vocational Education. Mrs. Donnelly was also active on women’s issues and served on the president’s and governor’s committees for the physically handicapped.

Consist chiefly of correspondence and reports concerning vocational education and health. Include correspondence (1939-1943) with the following: Ernest L. Stebbin (commissioner of health, City of New York), Lester W. Herzog (administrator, Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration), Frank Powers (Powers X-Ray Corporation), George F. Pigott (associate superintendent of schools), John E. Wade (superintendent of schools), and Hiram Jones (State Department of Education) regarding the vocational school x-ray survey, tuberculosis, and health programs in the New York vocational high schools; also reports on health instruction, physical examinations, physical fitness, tuberculosis, and the vocational schools chest x-ray survey; letters (1943) from members of the Assembly, State of New York (Albany) regarding the Vocational Schools Health Bill, Assembly PR 1627, Int. 1448; letters (1959-1960) regarding retail marketing in New York City; letters (1965) on Donnelly’s retirement; condolence letters to Donnelly’s son, John R. Hawley, upon her death (1970); requests for criticisms of curricula for courses in woodworking, carpentry, optical mechanics and retail distribution; and reports of the Committee on Education of the New York State Federation of Labor (1939, 1941, 1956). Also include a report of the New York City Board of Education’s Advisory Board on Vocational Education to members of the Governor’s Committee on Discrimination (1942); occupational survey of the food trades of the City of New York (1958); reports on job opportunities for electrical workers and automotive engineers; curricula outlines (1962-1963) for courses in food trades, beauty culture, automotive mechanics, sheet metal working, plumbing, machine shop and plastics; financial statements (1958, 1959), and routine letters (1929-1963) of the Petroleum Education Foundation chartered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York; interim report to study vocational education (1940); clippings; photographs; and printed and miscellaneous materials.

This collection is unarranged.