Guide to the Women's Self-Government Association Records,
1915-1968.

Collection Number: 37-9-1208

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Kerry Gilfillan
Date completed:
August 2004
EAD encoding:
Kerry Gilfillan, August 2004

© 2004 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Women's Self-Government Association records, 1915-1968.
Collection Number:
37-9-1208
Creator:
Cornell University Women's Self-Government Association.
Quantity:
15 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, Manuscripts, Memorabilia, Printed Materials, Financial Records, Reports
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes history, constitution, and bylaws; reports, minutes, correspondence, and notebooks of the Association President; reports, memoranda, and pamphlets of the Second Vice President; budgets, financial statements, checkbooks, correspondence, procedures, and reports of the House of Representatives, including the Judicial Committee and the Residence Committee; Executive Committee and W.S.G.A. Council minutes and reports; and subject files concerning student activities, campus organizations, dormitories, program evaluations, faculty committees, and other subjects. Also, Account books for 1938-40.
Language:
Collection material in English


ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The Women's Self-Government Association was formed in 1917 and succeeded the Sage College Association in having disciplinary jurisdiction over undergraduate women students at Cornell University.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes history, constitution, and bylaws; reports, minutes, correspondence, and notebooks of the Association President; reports, memoranda, and pamphlets of the Second Vice President; budgets, financial statements, checkbooks, correspondence, procedures, and reports of the House of Representatives, including the Judicial Committee and the Residence Committee; Executive Committee and W.S.G.A. Council minutes and reports; and subject files concerning student activities, campus organizations, dormitories, program evaluations, faculty committees, and other subjects. Also, Account books for 1938-40.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University.
Cornell University--Administration.
Cornell University--Students.

Subjects:
Student participation in administration.
Women college students.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Women's Self-Government Association records, #37-9-1208. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
ca. 1915-1934
Budgets
Box 1 Folder 1
ca. 1915-1944
By-laws
Box 1 Folder 2
ca. 1916
Judiciary Committee
Box 1 Folder 3
ca. 1916-1917
Reports
Box 1 Folder 4
ca. 1917-1930
Gray Book History
Box 1 Folder 5
ca. 1917-1926
Judiciary Committee
Box 1 Folder 6
ca. 1917-1948
Rules
Box 1 Folder 7
ca. 1917-1957
Sun Editor
Box 1 Folder 8
ca. 1919-1943
Cornell Publications
Box 1 Folder 9
ca. 1919-1938
Point System
Box 1 Folder 10
ca. 1919-1920
President's Report
Box 1 Folder 11
ca. 1919-1953
President's Report - Sage
Box 1 Folder 12
ca. 1920-1921
Reports
Box 1 Folder 13
1921
Cornell Songs
Box 1 Folder 14
ca. 1921-1937
Old Committees
Box 1 Folder 15
ca. 1922 - 1942
Drives
Box 1 Folder 16
ca. 1922-1942
Reports
Box 1 Folder 17
ca. 1923-1944
Activities Committee Cards
Box 1 Folder 18
ca. 1923-1924
Council Minutes
Box 1 Folder 19
ca. 1923-1941
Chairman of Organized Groups
Box 1 Folder 20
ca. 1923-1943
CURW
Box 1 Folder 21
ca. 1924-1947
Chairman of Activities
Box 1 Folder 22
ca. 1924-1940
Dramatic Club
Box 1 Folder 23
ca. 1925-1926
Judiciary Committee
Box 1 Folder 24
ca. 1925-1926
News WSGA
Box 1 Folder 25
ca. 1927-1934
Debate Club
Box 1 Folder 26
ca. 1927
News WSGA
Box 1 Folder 27
ca. 1927-1929
President's Report
Box 1 Folder 28
ca. 1928-1944
Junior Advisory
Box 1 Folder 29
ca. 1928-1929
News WSGA
Box 1 Folder 30
ca. 1928-1935
Women's Glee Club Treasurer's Accounts
Box 1 Folder 31
ca. 1929-1953
Dormitory Reports - Balch I
Box 1 Folder 32
ca. 1929-1951
Dormitory Reports - Balch II
Box 1 Folder 33
ca. 1929-1931
Publicity Chairman
Box 1 Folder 34
ca. 1929-1940
Women's Glee Club
Box 1 Folder 35
ca. 1929-1930
WSGA Constitution
Box 1 Folder 36
ca. 1930-1931
News WSGA
Box 1 Folder 37
ca. 1933-1945
Pan-Hellenic
Box 1 Folder 38
ca. 1933-1940
President's Report
Box 1 Folder 39
ca. 1934-1942
Cornell Day for Women
Box 1 Folder 40
ca. 1934-1944
Cornellian
Box 1 Folder 41
ca. 1934
Mortar Board
Box 1 Folder 42
ca. 1935-1967
Balch III Accounts
Box 1 Folder 43
a. 1935-1940
Instrumental Club Accounts
Box 1 Folder 44
ca. 1935-1940
WSGA Accounts
Box 1 Folder 45
ca. 1935-1939
WSGA Budget
Box 1 Folder 46
ca. 1937-1954
Dorm Report - Balch IV
Box 1 Folder 47
ca. 1937-1938
Scrapbook
Box 6 Folder 1
ca. 1938-1944
WSGA Budget
Box 1 Folder 48
ca. 1938-1944
Budgets
Box 1 Folder 49
ca. 1938-1939
Executive Committee
Box 1 Folder 50
ca. 1938
Instrumental Club
Box 1 Folder 51
ca. 1938-1939
President's Report
Box 1 Folder 52
ca. 1938-1939
Scrapbook
Box 6 Folder 2
ca. 1939-1940
Executive Committee Minutes, President's Report
Box 1 Folder 53
ca. 1939-1943
Freshman Orientation Committee
Box 1 Folder 54
ca. 1939-1940
Scrapbook
Box 6 Folder 3
ca. 1940-1949
Comstock A
Box 1 Folder 55
ca. 1940-1953
Comstock B President's Report
Box 1 Folder 56
ca. 1940-1941
Budgets
Box 2 Folder 1
ca. 1940-1946
Cottage Reports (Folder 1 of 2)
Box 2 Folder 2
ca. 1940-1946
Cottage Reports (Folder 2 of 2)
Box 2 Folder 3
ca. 1940-1941
Executive Committee Minutes
Box 2 Folder 4
ca. 1940-1941
Scrapbook
Box 6 Folder 4
ca. 1941-1942
Budgets
Box 2 Folder 5
ca. 1941-1952
Dormitory Report - Balch III
Box 2 Folder 6
ca. 1941-1942
Executive Committee Minutes
Box 2 Folder 7
ca. 1942-1943
Budgets
Box 2 Folder 8
ca. 1942-1943
Executive Committee Minutes
Box 2 Folder 9
ca. 1942
Founder's Day and Fields of Work for Women
Box 2 Folder 10
ca. 1942
Freshman Specials Report
Box 2 Folder 11
ca. 1942-1943
President's Report
Box 2 Folder 12
ca. 1942-1943
Scrapbook
Box 6 Folder 5
ca. 1943-1944
Budgets
Box 2 Folder 13
ca. 1943-1946
Activities Council Minutes
Box 2 Folder 14
ca. 1943
Cornell for Victory
Box 2 Folder 15
ca. 1943-1945
Faculty Committees
Box 2 Folder 16
ca. 1943-1947
WSGA Budget
Box 2 Folder 17
ca. 1943-1944
Executive Committee Minutes (Folder 1 of 2)
Box 2 Folder 18
ca. 1943-1944
Executive Committee Minutes (Folder 2 of 2)
Box 2 Folder 19
ca. 1943-1950
First Vice President' Report (Folder 1 of 3)
Box 2 Folder 20
ca. 1943-1950
First Vice President' Report (Folder 2 of 3)
Box 2 Folder 21
ca. 1943-1950
First Vice President' Report (Folder 3 of 3)
Box 2 Folder 22
ca. 1943-1944
Infirmary
Box 2 Folder 23
ca. 1943-1944
President's Report
Box 2 Folder 24
ca. 1943-1944
Scrapbook
Box 6 Folder 6
ca. 1943-1957
Secretary's Report
Box 2 Folder 25
ca. 1944
Activities Council
Box 2 Folder 26
ca. 1944-1945
Budgets
Box 2 Folder 27
ca. 1944-1966
Dorm Integration Evaluation
Box 2 Folder 28
ca. 1944-1945
Executive Committee Minutes
Box 2 Folder 29
ca. 1944
Food Reports
Box 2 Folder 30
ca. 1944-1945
House of Representatives Minutes
Box 2 Folder 31
ca. 1944-1945
President's Report
Box 2 Folder 32
ca. 1945-1946
Budgets
Box 2 Folder 33
ca. 1945-1946
Executive Committee Minutes
Box 2 Folder 34
ca. 1945-1946
Residence Council (Folder 1 of 2)
Box 2 Folder 35
ca. 1945-1946
Residence Council (Folder 2 of 2)
Box 2 Folder 36
ca. 1945-1946
Scrapbook
Box 6 Folder 7
ca. 1945-1951
Second Vice-President's Report
Box 2 Folder 37
ca. 1945-1961
WSGA/Mortar Board Finances
Box 2 Folder 38
ca. 1946-1947
Budgets
Box 2 Folder 39
ca. 1946-1950
Chaperon Bulletin
Box 2 Folder 40
ca. 1946-1967
Dickson V Treasurer's Ledger
Box 2 Folder 41
ca. 1946-1950
Dorm Reports - Dickson V
Box 2 Folder 42
ca. 1946-1947
Executive Committee Minutes
Box 2 Folder 43
ca. 1946-1947
Residence Council
Box 2 Folder 44
ca. 1947-1948
Budgets
Box 3 Folder 1
ca. 1947-1948
Minutes of Executive Committee and House of Representatives (Folder 1 of 2)
Box 3 Folder 2
ca. 1947-1948
Minutes of Executive Committee and House of Representatives (Folder 2 of 2)
Box 3 Folder 3
ca. 1948-1949
Budgets
Box 3 Folder 4
ca. 1948-1949
Executive Committee Minutes
Box 3 Folder 5
ca. 1948-1952
History and Rules
Box 3 Folder 6
ca. 1948-1949
House of Representatives Minutes
Box 3 Folder 7
ca. 1948-1950
President's Report
Box 3 Folder 8
ca. 1948-1949
Residence Council Minutes
Box 3 Folder 9
ca. 1948-1949
Scrapbook
Box 6 Folder 8
ca. 1948-1961
Treasury
Box 3 Folder 10
ca. 1949-1950
Bridge Tournament
Box 3 Folder 11
ca. 1949-1957
Budget
Box 3 Folder 12
ca. 1949-1950
Budgets
Box 3 Folder 13
ca. 1949-1952
Dickson VI President's Reports
Box 3 Folder 14
ca. 1949-1960
Dorms - WSGA Social Coordinator
Box 3 Folder 15
ca. 1949-1950
Executive Committee Minutes
Box 3 Folder 16
ca. 1949-1950
Executive Committee Reports
Box 3 Folder 17
ca. 1949
Film Service
Box 3 Folder 18
ca. 1949-1951
Food Permission
Box 3 Folder 19
ca. 1949-1951
Head Resident's Handbook/Bulletin
Box 3 Folder 20
ca. 1949-1953
Ithaca Social
Box 3 Folder 21
ca. 1949-1950
Report of S.P.B. Chairman
Box 3 Folder 22
ca. 1949-1950
Residence Council
Box 3 Folder 23
ca. 1950
Activities Points
Box 3 Folder 24
ca. 1950-1951
Budgets
Box 3 Folder 25
ca. 1950-1958
By-Laws
Box 3 Folder 26
ca. 1950-1945
Dormitories: Freshman Information
Box 3 Folder 27
ca. 1950-1951
Dormitory Social Reports
Box 3 Folder 28
ca. 1950-1951
Executive Committee Minutes
Box 3 Folder 29
1950
Fall Meeting
Box 3 Folder 30
ca. 1950-1954
Refusal Letters for Social Committee
Box 3 Folder 31
ca. 1950-1951
Residence Council Minutes
Box 3 Folder 32
ca. 1950-1954
Residence Hall Meetings
Box 3 Folder 33
ca. 1950-1951
Social Coordinator's Report
Box 3 Folder 34
ca. 1950-1951
Special Permissions Board
Box 3 Folder 35
ca. 1950-1954
Training Program
Box 3 Folder 36
ca. 1951-1952
Applications
Box 3 Folder 37
ca. 1951-1954
Budgets
Box 3 Folder 38
ca. 1951-1952
Campus Organizations
Box 3 Folder 39
ca. 1951-1953
Class Councils
Box 3 Folder 40
ca. 1951-1952
Executive Committee Minutes (Folder 1 of 2)
Box 3 Folder 41
ca. 1951-1952
Executive Committee Minutes (Folder 2 of 2)
Box 3 Folder 42
ca. 1951-1952
Faculty Committees
Box 3 Folder 43
1951
Fall Mass Meeitng
Box 3 Folder 44
ca. 1951-1952
Freshman Orientation
Box 3 Folder 45
ca. 1951-1955
Freshman Vice Presidents
Box 3 Folder 46
ca. 1951
Frosh and Orientation
Box 3 Folder 47
ca. 1951-1952
House of Representatives
Box 3 Folder 48
ca. 1951-1952
House of Representatives Minutes
Box 3 Folder 49
ca. 1951-1954
House President's Report
Box 3 Folder 50
ca. 1951-1952
IAWS; Conference on Women in the Defence Decade
Box 3 Folder 51
ca. 1951
Installation Committee for Dr. Mallott
Box 3 Folder 52
ca. 1951-1952
Miscellaneous Matters; Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 53
ca. 1951-1952
Public Relations
Box 3 Folder 54
ca. 1951-1952
Scrapbook
Box 6 Folder 9
ca. 1951-1952
Second Vice-President's Report
Box 3 Folder 55
ca. 1951-1952
Special Events
Box 3 Folder 56
ca. 1951-1952
Special Permissions Board
Box 3 Folder 57
ca. 1951-1953
Training Program
Box 3 Folder 58
ca. 1951-1952
Transfers
Box 3 Folder 59
ca. 1951-1958
WSGA Publicity
Box 3 Folder 60
1951
WSGA Report
Box 3 Folder 61
n.d.
Beta Epsilon Phi
Box 4 Folder 1
n.d.
Cornell Countryman
Box 4 Folder 2
n.d.
Ithaca Girls
Box 4 Folder 3
n.d.
Social Event Reports etc.
Box 4 Folder 4
n.d.
Student Faculty Committee Signups
Box 4 Folder 5
ca. 1952-1953
Applications
Box 4 Folder 6
ca. 1952-1953
At Home - Guest list, Reports, etc.
Box 4 Folder 7
ca. 1952
Calendar
Box 4 Folder 8
ca. 1952-1953
Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 9
ca. 1952-1953
Dormitory Administration
Box 4 Folder 10
ca. 1952-1953
Executive Committee Minutes (Folder 1 of 2)
Box 4 Folder 11
ca. 1952-1953
Executive Committee Minutes (Folder 2 of 2)
Box 4 Folder 12
ca. 1952
Formal Dinner
Box 4 Folder 13
ca. 1952
General Reference
Box 4 Folder 14
ca. 1952-1953
House of Representatives Minutes (Folder 1 of 2)
Box 4 Folder 15
ca. 1952-1953
House of Representatives Minutes (Folder 2 of 2)
Box 4 Folder 16
ca. 1952-1953
Men's Social
Box 4 Folder 17
ca. 1952-1953
Miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 18
ca. 1952-1954
Miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 19
ca. 1952-1953
Publicity
Box 4 Folder 20
ca. 1952-1953
Residence Committee Letters
Box 4 Folder 21
ca. 1952-1953
Risley
Box 4 Folder 22
ca. 1952-1953
Second Vice-President's Report
Box 4 Folder 23
ca. 1952-1953
Social Conduct
Box 4 Folder 24
ca. 1952-1953
Social Coordinator's Suggestions (Jan Peet)
Box 4 Folder 25
ca. 1952-1956
Sorority Council Minutes
Box 4 Folder 26
ca. 1952
Spring Mass Meeting
Box 4 Folder 27
ca. 1952
Thanksgiving Weekend
Box 4 Folder 28
ca. 1952
Turnabout Dance
Box 4 Folder 29
ca. 1952-1953
WSGA Secretary's Report
Box 4 Folder 30
ca. 1953-1954
Apartment Party Committee
Box 4 Folder 31
ca. 1953-1954
Applications
Box 4 Folder 32
ca. 1953-1954
At Home Instructions
Box 4 Folder 33
ca. 1953-1954
Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 34
ca. 1953
Dorm Libraries
Box 4 Folder 35
ca. 1953
Fall and Spring Officers' Teas
Box 4 Folder 36
ca. 1953-1957
Head Resident's Manual
Box 4 Folder 37
ca. 1953-1954
Scrapbook
Box 6 Folder 10
ca. 1953
Social Chairman Recommendations
Box 4 Folder 38
ca. 1953-1954
Social Chairman's Report
Box 4 Folder 39
ca. 1953-1954
Social Committee
Box 4 Folder 40
ca. 1954-1955
Applications
Box 4 Folder 41
ca. 1954-1955
Carbon Letters
Box 4 Folder 42
ca. 1954-1955
Cooperative Housing
Box 4 Folder 43
ca. 1954
Dorm Reports - New Freshman System
Box 4 Folder 44
ca. 1954-1955
Fall Mass Meeting Skits
Box 4 Folder 45
ca. 1954-1955
Frush Experiment
Box 4 Folder 46
ca. 1954-1955
House Representative's Evaluations
Box 4 Folder 47
ca. 1954-1956
Miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 48
ca. 1954-1955
Residence Committee Minutes
Box 4 Folder 49
ca. 1954-1955
Social Chairman
Box 4 Folder 50
ca. 1954-1955
Social Coordinator's Report
Box 4 Folder 51
ca. 1954-1955
Social Coordinator's Reports
Box 4 Folder 52
ca. 1954-1955
Women's Dorm Evaluation Sheets
Box 4 Folder 53
ca. 1954-1955
WSGA By-laws
Box 4 Folder 54
ca. 1954-1955
WSGA Newspaper Clippings
Box 4 Folder 55
ca. 1954-1957
WSGA Policies
Box 4 Folder 56
ca. 1955-1957
Committee Minutes (Ex. Comm., House of Reps.)
Box 4 Folder 57
ca. 1955-1956
Coordination with Men's Dorms
Box 4 Folder 58
ca. 1955-1956
Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 59
ca. 1955-1956
Correspondence and Speeches
Box 4 Folder 60
ca. 1955-1956
Education
Box 4 Folder 61
ca. 1955-1956
Freshman Activities Plan
Box 4 Folder 62
ca. 1955
Intercollegiate Association for Women Students
Box 4 Folder 63
ca. 1955-1956
Invitations
Box 4 Folder 64
ca. 1955-1956
Schedules, Standard Operating Procedures
Box 4 Folder 65
ca. 1955-1956
Second Vice-President's Report
Box 4 Folder 66
n.d.
Shingles
Box 4 Folder 67
ca. 1955
Speeches
Box 4 Folder 68
ca. 1955
Vice-President's Dorm Report
Box 4 Folder 69
ca. 1955
Wait and Circle
Box 4 Folder 70
ca. 1955-1957
WSGA Procedures
Box 4 Folder 71
ca. 1956-1963
Accounts Ledger
Box 5 Folder 1
ca. 1956-1957
Social Chairman
Box 5 Folder 2
ca. 1956
Vice-President's Dorm Report
Box 5 Folder 3
ca. 1957-1960
Sorority Council Minutes
Box 5 Folder 4
ca. 1958-1959
Committees
Box 5 Folder 5
ca. 1958
Correspondence from other Schools
Box 5 Folder 6
ca. 1958-1959
Executive Committee Minutes
Box 5 Folder 7
ca. 1958-1959
Field Counseling Office Notes
Box 5 Folder 8
a. 1958-1961
Panhellenic
Box 5 Folder 9
ca. 1958-1962
Reports, Residence Committee Minutes
Box 5 Folder 10
ca. 1959-1960
Dorm Questionnaires
Box 5 Folder 11
ca. 1959-1962
Executive Committee
Box 5 Folder 12
ca. 1959-1960
Judicial Reports
Box 5 Folder 13
ca. 1959-1960
Judiciary
Box 5 Folder 14
ca. 1959-1963
Student Code
Box 5 Folder 15
ca. 1959
Suggestions for Panhellenic Night
Box 5 Folder 16
ca. 1960-1961
Agendas and Minutes
Box 5 Folder 17
ca. 1960
Dormitories
Box 5 Folder 18
ca. 1960-1961
Education Chairmen
Box 5 Folder 19
ca. 1960-1961
Executive Committee
Box 5 Folder 20
ca. 1960-1961
IAWS
Box 5 Folder 21
ca. 1960-1961
Judiciary
Box 5 Folder 22
ca. 1960-1961
Panhellenic Constitution
Box 5 Folder 23
ca. 1960-1961
Publicity, News Clippings
Box 5 Folder 24
ca. 1960-1961
Residential Committee
Box 5 Folder 25
ca. 1960-1961
Selection/Election Forms
Box 5 Folder 26
ca. 1960-1961
WSGA of 1960-1961
Box 5 Folder 27
ca. 1960-1961
WSGA Social Coordinator
Box 5 Folder 28
ca. 1960-1962
News Clippings
Box 5 Folder 29
ca. 1961
Program Coordinator
Box 5 Folder 30
ca. 1962-1963
Administration
Box 5 Folder 31
ca. 1962-1963
Assembly
Box 5 Folder 32
ca. 1962-1964
Dining Room Dress
Box 5 Folder 33
ca. 1962
Executive Committee Minutes
Box 5 Folder 34
ca. 1962-1963
Judiciary
Box 5 Folder 35
ca. 1962-1965
News Clippings
Box 5 Folder 36
ca. 1962
Sorority Committee Minutes
Box 5 Folder 37
ca. 1962-1963
Sorority Council Members
Box 5 Folder 38
ca. 1962-1963
Sorority Key Reports
Box 5 Folder 39
ca. 1963-1964
Box Lunches
Box 5 Folder 40
ca. 1963-1965
Correspondence, Residence Council Minutes
Box 5 Folder 41
ca. 1963-1965
Dorm Integration
Box 5 Folder 42
ca. 1963-1965
Judicial System
Box 5 Folder 43
ca. 1963-1965
News Clippings
Box 5 Folder 44
ca. 1963-1965
News Clippings - Elections
Box 5 Folder 45
ca. 1963-1964
Review and Recommendations Report
Box 5 Folder 46
ca. 1963
WSGA Constitution
Box 5 Folder 47
ca. 1964
Election Procedures
Box 5 Folder 48
ca. 1964-1965
Financial Procedures and Budget
Box 5 Folder 49
ca. 1964-1965
Judiciary Procedures
Box 5 Folder 50
ca. 1964-1965
Legislative Representatives Election
Box 5 Folder 51
ca. 1964-1965
News Clippings
Box 5 Folder 52
ca. 1964-1965
News Clippings - Judicial
Box 5 Folder 53
ca. 1964-1966
President's Evaluations
Box 5 Folder 54
ca. 1964-1965
Residential Council Report
Box 5 Folder 55
ca. 1965
Dormitory Integration Committee
Box 5 Folder 56
ca. 1965-1966
Minutes
Box 5 Folder 57
ca. 1965-1966
Residence Council
Box 5 Folder 58
ca. 1965
Residence Council Correspondence
Box 5 Folder 59
ca. 1965
V.P. Selection Committee
Box 5 Folder 60
ca. 1966-1967
Penalties
Box 5 Folder 61
ca. 1967-1968
Penalities
Box 5 Folder 62
ca. 1966-1967
Residence Staff Bulletin
Box 5 Folder 63
1977
Senate Study of the Report of the Comission on Self-Governance
Box 5 Folder 64