Episcopal Church Women of Rhode Island

Series 1. Subject Files, 1875-1987
6 boxes
(3 linear feet)

This series contains records which document the administrative and program functions of the Episcopal Church Women. Topics include publications, committees, the activities of Episcopal Church Women in other dioceses, estates and wills, organizations, overseas missions supported by the Episcopal Church Women, and changes in the organization's name and focus.

Included are correspondence, organization publications, copies of wills in which the Episcopal Church Women is named as a beneficiary, organizational handbooks and manuals, copies of the organization's articles of incorporation, constitution and by-laws, photographs, lists of officers, and surveys and questionnaires.

Arrangement: The records in this series are arranged alphabetically by subject or type of record and chronologically within folders.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 1	Altar Guild Veil	undated
Box 1, Folder 2	Articles of Incorporation: Amendment to Change Organization Name	1927, 1956
Box 1, Folder 3	Audit Reports	1977-1978, 1981-1982
Box 1, Folder 4	Brochures and Flyers	1982-1991
Box 1, Folder 5	Brochures and Flyers	undated
Box 1, Folder 6	The Bulletin	1929-1930
Box 1, Folder 7	The Bulletin	1932-1933
Box 1, Folder 8	The Bulletin	1934-1935
Box 2, Folder 9	The Bulletin	1936-1945
Box 2, Folder 10	The Bulletin	1946-1950
Box 2, Folder 11	The Bulletin	1951-1955
Box 2, Folder 12	The Bulletin	1956-1958
Box 2, Folder 13	The Bulletin	1959-1964
Box 2, Folder 14	The Bulletin (merged with RI Churchman)	1965-1969 Feb
Box 2, Folder 15	Church Women United in Rhode Island	1971-1984
Box 3, Folder 16	Committee: Christian Social Relations, Committee Annual Report	undated
Box 3, Folder 17	Committee: Committee to Study the Proposal of the Dept. of Christian Social Relations	1955
Box 3, Folder 18	Committee: Nominating Committee Reports	1982, 1989-1991
Box 3, Folder 19	Constitution and By-Laws	1985, 1988, 1991, undated
Box 3, Folder 20	Correspondence	1940-1965
Box 3, Folder 21	Correspondence	1966-1986
Box 3, Folder 22	Correspondence	1987-1988 Mar
Box 3, Folder 23	Correspondence	1988 Apr-1989 Sep
Box 3, Folder 24	Correspondence	1989 Oct-1990 Sep
Box 4, Folder 25	Correspondence	1990 Oct -1993
Box 4, Folder 26	Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice	1935
Box 4, Folder 27	The Diocesan Directory	1984
Box 4, Folder 28	The Diocesan Record	1914
Box 4, Folder 29	Diocese of Arizona: Episcopal Churchwomen	1984
Box 4, Folder 30	Diocese of Connecticut: Episcopal Churchwomen	1962-1971
Box 4, Folder 31	Diocese of Maine: Episcopal Churchwomen	1965-1970
Box 4, Folder 32	Diocese of Massachusetts: Episcopal Churchwomen	1965-1971
Box 4, Folder 33	Diocese of New Hampshire: Episcopal Churchwomen	1966
Box 4, Folder 34	Diocese of New York: Episcopal Churchwomen	1967-1970
Box 5, Folder 35	Diocese of Vermont: Convention Journal and Annual Report of Women's Work	1965-1969
Box 5, Folder 36	Diocese of Vermont: Convention journal	1970
Box 5, Folder 37	ECW Communique	1970, 1986-1987
Box 5, Folder 38	ECW Communique	1988-1990
Box 5, Folder 39	Emery, Julia Chester: Biography of	1924
Box 5, Folder 40	Episcopal Church Women in the Life of the Church	undated
Box 5, Folder 41	Episcopal Diocese of RI: Study and Recommendations	1987
Box 5, Folder 42	Episcopal Church Women Day: A Proclamation	1978
Box 5, Folder 43	Estates and Wills: Leonora Bassett	1941
Box 5, Folder 44	Estates and Wills: Alice and Eunice Dexter	1966-1967
Box 6, Folder 45	Estates and Wills: Mary Mahon Hoppin	1968
Box 6, Folder 46	Estates and Wills: Hope Brown Russell	1929-1963
Box 6, Folder 47	Executive Council of the Episcopal Church: Committee for Women	1966-1970
Box 6, Folder 48	Her daughters shall rise up: The women's witnessing community at Lambeth, 1988	1990
Box 6, Folder 49	Indian Aid Society: Annual Reports	1875-1877
Box 6, Folder 50	Journal of women's ministries	1984-1990
Box 6, Folder 51	Mary M. Hoppin Scholarship Fund	1974-1977
Box 6, Folder 52	Mary M. Hoppin Scholarship Fund	1978-1987
Box 6, Folder 53	Mary M. Hoppin Scholarship Fund	1988-1991
Box 7, Folder 54	National Executive Board of the Women's Auxiliary	1943-1944, 1950-1953
Box 7, Folder 55	National Executive Board of the Women's Auxiliary	1954-1958
Box 7, Folder 56	National Institute for Lay Training	1983
Box 7, Folder 57	New England Council of Episcopal Church Women	1946, undated
Box 7, Folder 58	Nursing Home Proposal	undated
Box 7, Folder 59	Officers of the Episcopal Church Women: Lists of	1955-1971
Box 7, Folder 60	One Hundredth Anniversary Celebration Program	1978
Box 7, Folder 61	Peltz, Margaret	1978-1979
Box 7, Folder 62	Photographs: Unidentified	1989-1990, undated
Box 7, Folder 63	The President's Book	undated
Box 7, Folder 64	Printed and Published Materials	undated
Box 7, Folder 65	Printed and Published Materials: Missions	undated
Box 7, Folder 66	Protestant Service Organization of Rhode Island, Inc.: By-Laws	1960
Box 8, Folder 67	Province I Episcopal Churchwomen	1982-1988
Box 8, Folder 68	Province I Episcopal Churchwomen	1989-1991, undated
Box 8, Folder 69	Province I Episcopal Churchwomen: Council for Women's Ministries	1986
Box 8, Folder 70	Provincial Projects	1949-1959
Box 8, Folder 71	Race and Ethnic Relations in the Episcopal Church, an Overview	1991
Box 8, Folder 72	Reaching Towards Wholeness: the Participation of Women in the Episcopal Church	1988
Box 8, Folder 73	Resource Booklet	1985?
Box 8, Folder 74	Rhode Island Churchman See also: The Bulletin	1969-1970 Jun
Box 9, Folder 75	Rhode Island Churchman.	1970 Aug-1971 Mar
Box 9, Folder 76	St. Margaret's Episcopal Graduate School for Women: Catalogue	1961-1962
Box 9, Folder 77	St. Martha's (?) Home	undated
Box 9, Folder 78	St. Paul's, Pawtucket: History of	1949
Box 9, Folder 79	Seamen's Church Institute of Newport	undated
Box 9, Folder 80	Sermons	1955-1969
Box 9, Folder 81	Surveys and Questionnaires	1965, undated
Box 9, Folder 82	Surveys and Questionnaires	1979-1980
Box 9, Folder 83	Taiwan Episcopal Church	1966
Box 9, Folder 84	Triennial Meeting (36th)	1979
Box 9, Folder 85	Triennial Meeting (39th)	1988
Box 9, Folder 86	Triennial Meeting (39th) Audiocassettes of Workshops	1988
Box 10, Folder 87	Triennial Meeting (39th) Photo Album	1988
Box 10, Folder 88	Triennial Meeting (40th)	1991
Box 10, Folder 89	Two Hundredth Anniversary Celebration of the Diocese	1990
Box 10, Folder 90	United Church Women	undated
Box 10, Folder 91	Vestryman's Guide	1976
Box 10, Folder 92	What is Windham House?	1954
Box 10, Folder 93	The Woman's Auxiliary in the Life of the Church	1930
Box 10, Folder 94	The Woman's Auxiliary to the National Council: A Handbook	1923
Box 10, Folder 95	Women in the Life of the Church	1942, 1951-1956
Box 10, Folder 96	Youth Ministries Research Project: Findings and Recommendations	1991
Box 10, Folder 97	Miscellaneous	undated

Series 2. Annual Reports, 1905-1986
2 boxes
(1 linear feet)

This series contains the printed Annual Reports to the Diocese of the Episcopal Church Women. The Annual Reports document the program and fiscal activities of the organization. In addition to the narrative annual report of the president, the volumes also include reports of the other officers and committees, a directory of officers and corresponding secretaries for each local parish, a calendar of events, and a copy of the constitution and by-laws of the organization.

Arrangement: The Annual Reports are arranged chronologically by year.

Container	Description	Date
11 , 1	Annual Reports	1905-1908
11 , 2	Annual Reports	1910, 1911, 1913
11 , 3	Annual Reports	1935-1943
11 , 4	Annual Reports	1943-1947
11 , 5	Annual Reports	1947-1951
11 , 6	Annual Reports	1951-1955
11 , 7	Annual Reports	1955-1957
11 , 8	Annual Reports	1957-1961
11 , 9	Annual Reports	1961-1964
12 , 10	Annual Reports	1964-1966
12 , 11	Annual Reports	1966-1968
12 , 12	Annual Reports	1968-1970
12 , 13	Annual Reports	1970-1974
12 , 14	Annual Reports	1974-1977
12 , 15	Annual Reports	1977-1979
12 , 16	Annual Reports	1979-1981
12 , 17	Annual Reports	1981-1983
12 , 18	Annual Reports	1983-1986

Series 3. Annual and Board Meetings, 1917-1986
3 boxes
(1.5 linear feet)

This series consists of the typed minutes of the annual and Board of Directors' meetings. Some enclosures such as agenda and copies of treasurer's reports are also included. The minutes of these meetings reveal the concerns, changing interests, and ever broadening role of the organization as it evolved over a seventy year period.

Arrangement: The records in this series are arranged chronologically by the date of the meeting.

Container	Description	Date
Box 13, Folder 1	Minutes of Meetings	1917-1919
Box 13, Folder 2	Minutes of Meetings	1920-1925
Box 13, Folder 3	Minutes of Meetings	1926-1930
Box 13, Folder 4	Minutes of Meetings	1931-1933
Box 13, Folder 5	Minutes of Meetings	1934-1935
Box 13, Folder 6	Minutes of Meetings	1936-1939
Box 13, Folder 7	Minutes of Meetings	1940
Box 13, Folder 8	Minutes of Meetings	1940
Box 13, Folder 9	Minutes of Meetings	1942-1943
Box 14, Folder 10	Minutes of Meetings	1944-1946
Box 14, Folder 11	Minutes of Meetings	1947-1948
Box 14, Folder 12	Minutes of Meetings	1949-1950
Box 14, Folder 13	Minutes of Meetings	1951-1952
Box 14, Folder 14	Minutes of Meetings	1953-1954
Box 14, Folder 15	Minutes of Meetings	1955-1956
Box 14, Folder 16	Minutes of Meetings	1957-1959
Box 14, Folder 17	Minutes of Meetings	1960-1964
Box 14, Folder 18	Minutes of Meetings	1965-1968
Box 15, Folder 19	Minutes of Meetings	1969-1972
Box 15, Folder 20	Minutes of Meetings	1973-1977
Box 15, Folder 21	Minutes of Meetings	1978-1981
Box 15, Folder 22	Minutes of Meetings	1982
Box 15, Folder 23	Minutes of Meetings	1984-1986
Box 15, Folder 24	Minutes of Meetings	1987-1991

Series 4. Financial Records, 1930-1984
5 boxes
(2.5 linear feet)

The records contained in this series document the financial activities of the Episcopal Church Women for an approximately fifty year period in the mid to late twentieth century. Financial records for the first fifty years of the organization's existence were apparently lost or destroyed. Types of records represented include cash receipt and disbursement ledgers for specific programs, check registers, financial statements, investment reports, and records relating to the involvement of the Episcopal Church Women in the United Thank Offering.

Arrangement: The records in this series are arranged alphabetically by subject or type of record and chronologically within folders.

Container	Description	Date
Box 12, Folder 1	Check Register (removed from binding)	1949 Jun 17-1952 Dec 1
Box 12, Folder 2	Check Register	1964 May 8-1965 May 29
Box 12, Folder 3	Check Register	1965 Jun 11-1966 Apr 14
Box 12, Folder 4	Check Register	1966 Apr 15-1967 Apr 18
Box 12, Folder 5	Check Register	1967 Apr 24-1968 May 2
Box 12, Folder 6	Check Register	1968 May 2-1969 May 1
Box 12, Folder 7	Check Register	1969 May 1-1970 Apr 9
Box 12, Folder 8	Check Register	1970 Apr 9-1971 Apr 1
Box 13, Folder 9	Investment Trusts: Reports on	1930, 1931, 1964, 1980
Box 13, Folder 10	Investment Trusts: Reports on	1981-1982
Box 13, Folder 11	Ledgers: Bequests and Funds	1942-1968
Box 13, Folder 12	Ledgers: Bequests and Funds	1964-1970
Box 13, Folder 13	Ledgers: Bequests and Funds	1971
Box 14, Folder 14	Ledgers: Cash Receipts/ Disbursements	1948-1972 Jun
Box 14, Folder 15	Ledgers: General	1947-1959 Jul 1
Box 15 , Folder 16	Ledgers: General	1959 Nov-1978
Box 15, Folder 17	Ledgers: Missions, Penny-A-Week, Supply	1960-1977
Box 16, Folder 18	United Thank Offering: Correspondence	1960-1969
Box 16, Folder 19	United Thank Offering: Correspondence	1970-1982 Mar, scattered
Box 16, Folder 20	United Thank Offering: Correspondence	1982 Apr-1984
Box 16, Folder 21	United Thank Offering: Correspondence	undated
Box 16, Folder 22	United Thank Offering: Brochures and Pamphlets	undated
Box 16, Folder 23	United Thank Offering: Financial Statements	1947-1954
Box 16, Folder 24	United Thank Offering: Financial Statements	1955-1963
Box 16, Folder 25	United Thank Offering: Financial Statements	1963-1968
Box 16, Folder 26	United Thank Offering: Ledger Sheets	1947-1960

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