Women's Faculty Club Scrapbooks
Scope and Contents
The Women's Faculty Club Scrapbooks consist of three scrapbooks covering the activities of the Women's Faculty Club and the Newcomers and contain newspaper clippings (1954-1984), programs, photographs, and copies of the club's newsletter La Pluma (1968-1984), and a cookbook (1984). The first scrapbook contains a list of presidents and officers from 1918-1984.
Dates
- 1954-1984
Creator
- Women's Faculty Club (University of Nevada, Reno) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Administrative History
The Women's Faculty Club began about 1906 as the Faculty Wives Club, and was limited to faculty wives. When Euphemia Clark, wife of university president Walter E. Clark, became president of the club in 1918, she successfully proposed changing the requirements and opened the club to women faculty and to wives of men affiliated with the university in a professional capacity. A section of the club, the Newcomers, welcomed new faculty.
Extent
5.188 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Women's Faculty Club began about 1906 as the Faculty Wives Club, and was limited to faculty wives. When Euphemia Clark, wife of university president Walter E. Clark who became president in 1918, successfully proposed changing the requirements, the club opened to women faculty and to wives of men affiliated with the university in a professional capacity. The collection consist of three scrapbooks covering the activities of the Women's Faculty Club and the Newcomers and contain newspaper clippings (1954-1984), programs, photographs, and copies of the club's newsletter La Pluma (1968-1984), and a cookbook (1984). The first scrapbook contains a list of presidents and officers from 1918-1984.
Arrangement
Arranged by chronologically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Elizabeth Bonell in 1989.
Creator
- Women's Faculty Club (University of Nevada, Reno) (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Women's Faculty Club Scrapbooks
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Nevada, Reno. University Archives Repository
Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
1664 N. Virginia St.
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno NV 89557-0322 USA
775-682-5665
775-682-5724 (Fax)
specoll@unr.edu