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Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women records (MS.1ZW.R1)

Brown University Archives

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Organizational Records, 1895-1971
18.0 folders

Box 1-2, Folder 1-18
This series is comprised of meeting minute records and financial ledgers from 1895-1971.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Meeting minutes ledger
 1895-1899
Box 1, Folder 2 Meeting minutes ledger
 1899-1904
Box 1, Folder 3 Meeting minutes ledger
 1904-1910
Box 1, Folder 4 Meeting minutes ledger
 1938
Box 1, Folder 5 Meeting minutes - from a notebook marked 1944-1957
 1944-1948
Box 1, Folder 6 Meeting minutes - from a notebook marked 1944-1957
 1949-1953
Box 1, Folder 7 Meeting minutes - from a notebook marked 1944-1957
 1954
Box 1, Folder 8 Meeting minutes - from a notebook marked 1944-1957
 1955-1958
Box 1, Folder 8 Meeting minutes - from a notebook marked 1944-1957
 1955-1958
Box 1, Folder 9 Meeting minutes
 1957-1965
Box 1, Folder 10 Meeting minutes
 1965-1971
Box 2, Folder 11 Meeting minutes - Ledger Book # 21592
Contents Note: This is an oversized volume, which is shelved with the oversized Mss. volumes
 1896-1942
Box 2, Folder 12 Treasurer's Accounts - Ledger Book # 21591
Contents Note: This is an oversized volume, which is shelved with the oversized Mss. volumes
 1895-1922
Box 2, Folder 13 General Accounts - Ledger Book # 21614
Contents Note: This is an oversized volume, which is shelved with the oversized Mss. volumes
 1895-1922
Box 2, Folder 14 Tax Accounts
Contents Note: Volume marked "Women's College Fund"
 1895-1922
Box 2, Folder 15 Tax Accounts
Contents Note: Volume marked "Women's College Fund"
 1923-1951
Box 2, Folder 16 Treasurer's Accounts
 1952-1971
Box 2, Folder 17 Checking Account Ledger
 1949-1962
Box 2, Folder 18 Checking Account Ledger
 1965-1971

Series 2. Subject Files, 1896-1971
40.0 folders

Box 2-3, Folder 19-38
This series is comprised of committee reports, correspondence, organizational histories, and membership lists.

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 19 Articles of Incorporation
 1896
Box 2, Folder 20 Building Committee reports
Contents Note: These reports deal with fund-raising for and construction of Pembroke Hall. See also the final report of the committee to the Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women Corporation and the dedication program for Pembroke Hall, which includes a speech by Sarah E. Doyle.
 1896-1897
Box 2, Folder 21 Building Committee - Final report to the Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women Corporation
Contents Note: This report, written by Sarah S. Danielson, is a short history of the Committee, which built Pembroke Hall. See also the reports of the Committee from 1896-97.
 1897
Box 3, Folder 22 By-laws
Contents Note: See also the original by-laws in the minutes of the September 1896 meeting.
 1959-1960
Box 3, Folder 23 Correspondence
Contents Note: Arranged alphabetically. One of the more interesting items is the letter from Professor Carl Barus to Louise C. Hoppin about his wife, Annie Howes Barus and the work of alumnae in bettering women's education at Brown.
 1923-1973
Box 3, Folder 24 Evaluation Committee report
Contents Note: This committee evaluated the role of the Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women in light of the changing status of Pembroke College.
 1971
Box 3, Folder 25 History of RISCEW - Anonymous
Contents Note: This 1937 version is a short chronological list of events.
 1937
Box 3, Folder 26 History of RISCEW by Mary Louise Hinckley Record
Contents Note: Mary Louise Hinckley Record wrote "The Story of the Rhode Island Society of the Collegiate Education of Women and Its Relationship to Pembroke College" in 1957.
 1957
Box 3, Folder 27 History of RISCEW by Rosemary Peirrel Sorrentino
Contents Note: Pembroke College Dean Rosemary Peirrel Sorrentino wrote the "History of the Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women" for the final meeting of Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women in April 1971.
 1937
Box 3, Folder 28 History of RISCEW by Pierrel, annotated by Bessie H. Rudd
Contents Note: This is a copy of Pierrel's history annotated by Bessie H. Rudd, director of Pembroke's Physical Education Department for 32 years.
 1937
Box 3, Folder 29 Historical sketch - Anonymous
 undated
Box 3, Folder 30 Loan Committee, Fund Reports, history, notes
 1912-1962
Box 3, Folder 31 Luncheons file
Contents Note: RISCEW gave luncheons for Pembroke students.
Box 3, Folder 32 Luncheons
 1906
Box 3, Folder 33 Membership lists
 1938-1970
Box 3, Folder 34 Membership lists
 1938-1970
Box 3, Folder 35 Newsclippings, invitations and notes
 1941-1971
Box 3, Folder 36 Pembroke Deans
Contents Note: Included is a tribute to Dean Lisa Shaw King, the report of an interview of Margaret Shove Morriss by a Mrs. Wells, and correspondence with several Pembroke deans.
 1910-1971
Box 3, Folder 37 Published brochures
 1896-1925
Box 3, Folder 38 War Service Committee
 1918-1919

Series 3. Seventy-fifth Anniversary Committee
11.0 folders

Box 3-4, Folder 39-49
The committee planned the final luncheon of RISCEW, held September 14, 1971. This series contains the committee minutes, typescripts of speeches by Mrs. Dwight Owen (president), Bessie H. Rudd (committee chair), and W. Chesley Worthington (which was read by Rudd). Also available are photographs shown in a show after Rudd finished Worthington's speech. Slides of the final luncheon are available in the Archives slide files and photographs of the final meeting in April 1971 are in the Archives photograph files.

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 39 Final luncheon
 1971
Box 3, Folder 40 Minutes
 1971
Box 3, Folder 41 Speech by Mrs. Dwight Owen
 1971 September 14
Box 3, Folder 42 Speech by Bessie H. Rudd
 1971 September 14
Box 3, Folder 43 Speech by W. Chesley Worthington
Contents Note: This speech was read by Bessie H. Rudd at the final luncheon.
 1971 September 14
Box 3, Folder 44 Photographs 1-10 from the accompanying slide show
 1971 September 14
Box 3, Folder 45 Photographs 11-16 from the accompanying slide show
 1971 September 14
Box 3, Folder 46 Photographs 17-30 from the accompanying slide show
 1971 September 14
Box 4, Folder 47 Photographs 31-39 from the accompanying slide show
 1971 September 14
Box 4, Folder 48 List of photographs used in the accompanying slide show
 1971 September 14
Box 4, Folder 49 Misfiled photograph of three women in hats
 undated