Women's Self-Government Association records, 1915-1968.
Collection Number: 37-9-1208

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Women's Self-Government Association records, 1915-1968.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Collection Number:

37-9-1208

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.

Creator:

Cornell University. Women's Student Government Association

Quanitities:

7 cubic feet.

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

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

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

SUBJECTS

Names:

Cornell University -- : Administration.

Cornell University -- : Students.

Subjects:

Women college students.

Student participation in administration.

CONTAINER LIST

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

Contents

Women's Self-Government Association records, 1915-1968. Collection Number: 37-9-1208

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

Women's Self-Government Association records, 1915-1968.
Collection Number: 37-9-1208

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library