Betty Hawley Donnelly papers

A vice-president of the New York State AFL-CIO for fifty years and chairman of its committee on education. Donnelly also worked with the N.Y.C. Board of Education for forty years and was a member of 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.