Guide to the Records of the American Association of University Women of Mobile, 1936-2005

Descriptive Summary:
Creator: American Association of University Women of Mobile
Title: American Association of University Women of Mobile Records
Dates: 1936-2005
Quantity: 10 cubic feet
Abstract: Minutes, financial records, correspondence, and printed material from the Mobile chapter dealing with local, state, regional, and national issues.
Accession: 90-09-209

Biographical Note:
The Mobile chapter of the American Association of University Women organized in 1936 with twenty-six original members. The first president was Mrs. Truman Smith. The Mobile chapter engaged in various civil projects in the city and took an active interest in state and national issues like equal property taxation in Alabama, opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, politics, women’s issues, environmental issues, and a variety of other topics. The chapter also sponsored cultural events such as Christmas ballets, literary reviews, and programs for area elementary schools. In 1966, Mobile served as the host city for the Southeast Regional Conference. Several members of the local chapter have served on state and regional AAUW boards and committees. In addition, members of AAUW serve on several local historic preservation boards.

Scope and Content:
Contains operational files, financial statements, membership information, directories, annual reports, correspondence, minutes, subject files, publications, press releases, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings.

Arrangement:
Divided into three series: 1) Mobile Chapter Records (3.5 cubic feet); 2) Chapter Subject Files and Scrapbooks (5 cubic feet); and 3) State, Regional, and National Material (1.5 cubic feet).

Access Restrictions:
Open for research with the exception of the financial records in Series 1, which are restricted.

Preferred Citation:
American Association of University Women of Mobile Records, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama.

Series Description:

Series 1: Mobile Chapter Records
Arranged alphabetically by topic and contains the Mobile chapter’s operational files, and includes meeting minutes, correspondence, press releases, financial statements, membership information, and directories. The financial records are restricted.

Series 2: Mobile Chapter Subject Files and Scrapbooks
Consists of miscellaneous files, which are arranged alphabetically, on various AAUW activities and projects relating to the local chapter, and scrapbooks highlighting the chapter’s activities for certain years.

Series 3: State, Regional, and National Material
Contains material from various state, regional, and national AAUW events, including programs, convention material, and operational records of the state and regional chapters. Arranged alphabetically.

Guide last updated:  2011/10/26

1. Annual Reports – The Arts
2. Annual Reports – Bridge and Literary Arts
3. Annual Reports – Building Fund
4. Annual Reports – Fellowships
5. Annual Reports – Higher Education
6. Annual Reports – History
7. Annual Reports – International Relations
8. Annual Reports – Legislative Committee
9. Annual Reports – Mass Media
10. Annual Reports – Membership and Hospitality
11. Annual Reports – Miscellaneous
12. Annual Reports – President Reports
13. Annual Reports – Reporting and Corresponding Secretary
14. Annual Reports – Social and Economic Issues
15. Annual Reports – Status of Women
16. Annual Reports – Ways and Means
17. Annual Reports – Yearbook and Bulletin
18. Bylaws
19. Correspondence, 1955-1961
20. Correspondence, 1962-1979
21. Correspondence, 1980-1997
22. Correspondence, 1998-2003
23. Correspondence, 2004-2005
24. Correspondence, Undated
25. Minutes – Executive Board (Ledger), 1945-1955
26. Minutes – Executive Board (Ledger), 1955-1960
27. Minutes – Executive Board (Ledger), 1960-1962
28. Minutes – Executive Board, 1962-1969 (Scattered)
29. Minutes – Executive Board, 1969-1971, 1979-1980
30. Minutes – Executive Board, 1985-1994
31. Minutes – Executive Board, 2000-2003
32. Minutes – General Meetings (Ledger), 1936-1944
33. Minutes – General Meetings (Ledger), 1944-1949
34. Minutes – General Meetings (Ledger), 1949-1956
35. Minutes – General Meetings (Ledger), 1956-1963
36. Minutes – General Meetings (Ledger), 1962-1963
37. Minutes – General Meetings, 1966-1969
38. Minutes – General Meetings, 1970-1972
39. Minutes – General Meetings, 1975

Box 2

40. Minutes – General Meetings, 1979
41. Minutes – General Meetings, 1980-1982
42. Minutes – General meetings, 1984-1988
43. Minutes – General meetings, 1988-2000
44. Financial Records – Bank Statements, 1976-1980
45. Financial Records – Bank Statements, 1986-1987
46. Financial Records – Bank Statements, 1987-1988
47. Financial Records – Bank Statements, 1989-1991
48. Financial Records – Bank Statements, 1992-1994
49. Financial Records – Bank Statements, 1995-1997
50. Financial Records – Bank Statements, 1998-1999
51. Financial Records – Bank Statements, 07/00 – 06/01
52. Financial Records – Bank Statements, Union Planters, 3/25/00 – 6/25/01
53. Financial Records – Branch Contributions, 1995-1996, 2000
54. Financial Records – Budget Proposals, 1960-2003
55. Financial Records – Check Stubs
56. Financial Records – Documents Relating to the Purchase of Stock with Scholarship
Funds
57. Financial Records – Invoices Paid, 1985-1986
58. Financial Records – Invoices Paid, 1990-1991
59. Financial Records – Ledger, 1953-1962
60. Financial Records – Ledger, 9/14/53 – 6/1/72
61. Financial Records – Ledger, 1972-1989 (1 of 2)
62. Financial Records – Ledger, 1972-1989 (2 of 2)
63. Financial Records – Miscellaneous
64. Financial Records – Receipt Book, 11/25/84 – 6/30/93
65. Financial Records – Receipt Book, 7/1/94 – 7/17/99
66. Financial Records – Treasurer’s Reports, 1981-1993
67. Financial Records – Treasurer’s Reports, 1994-2002

Box 3

68. Branch Officers Forms, 1976-1983, 2001
69. Branch Officers Change Forms
70. Directories/Yearbooks, 1946-1981
71. Directories/Yearbooks, 1982-2005
72. Membership Lists, 1977-1980
73. Membership Lists, 1980-1981, 1984-1985
74. Membership Lists, 1985-1986
75. Membership Lists, 1986-1987
76. Membership Lists, 1987-1988
77. Membership Lists, 1988-1989
78. Membership Lists, 1989-1990
79. Membership Lists, 1990-1991
80. Membership Lists, 1991-1992
81. Membership Lists, 1992-1993
82. Membership Lists, 1993-1994
83. Membership Lists, 1995-2005
84. Membership Lists, Miscellaneous and Undated
85. Membership Survey
86. Membership Possibilities
87. Newsletter, 1950-1967 (Scattered Issues)
88. Newsletter, 1968-1977
89. Newsletter, 1978-1983
90. Newsletter, 1984-1999
91. Newsletter, 2000-2006

Series 2: Mobile Chapter Subject Files and Scrapbooks

1. Adelante!
2. Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame
3. Beta Sigma Phi
4. Branch Information
5. Branch Programs and Activities, 1993-1994
6. Camp Girls Can Too
7. Education Information
8. Educational Television
9. Eleanor Roosevelt Fund
10. Equal Rights Amendment Literature
11. Fellowship and Scholarship Study
12. Five-Star Branch Application
13. Gayfer’s Career Club
14. Global Perspective, 1995
15. Grant Writing
16. Historic Church Tours
17. Landmark Letter, 1998
18. Leadership
19. League of Women Voters of Mobile, 1996-2001
20. Mobile Historic Development Commission
21. Miscellaneous Printed Material
22. Newspaper Clippings
23. Officer Descriptions
24. Outstanding Young Women of America
25. Parentcraft Classes
26. Parliamentary Procedure
27. Press Releases
28. Program Possibilities
29. Programs
30. Public Policy
31. Public Policy, 2002-2003
32. Public Policy, 2004-2005
33. Public Support for Public Education
34. Russian Leadership Program
35. Scholarship Files
36. September Celebration
37. Sister-to-Sister/SHADES Programs
38. Social Studies
39. Writing Contest, 1988

Box 5

Miscellaneous Oversized Resolutions and Certificates

Box 6

Duplicate Branch Directories and Yearbooks

Box 7

Scrapbooks: 1955-65, 1970-73

Box 8

Scrapbooks: 1974-75, 1977-78

Box 9

Scrapbooks: 1976-77, 1983-84, 1986-89

Box 10

Scrapbooks: 1947, 1990-1991

Box 10A

Photographs

Series 3: State, Regional and National Material

1. Action Alert, 1990-2001
2. Alabama Daybreak Directories, 1989-2000
3. Alabama Daybreak Newsletters, 1989-2003
4. Annual Report, 1998-1999
5. Board of Directors
6. Board of Directors Minutes
7. Branching Out
8. Budget, 1997-1998
9. Bulletins
10. Bylaws
11. Campaign for Choice (Abortion)
12. Century Recognition Program
13. Civil Rights Position Paper (1990)
14. Convention material, 1957-1962
15. Convention Minutes and Reports, 1997-1999
16. Convention Report, 1962
17. Convention Report Newsletter, 1999
18. Directories, 1941-1942, 1959, 1969-1982
19. Directories, 1999-2000
20. Directories, 2001-2002
21. Division Proposals (Budgets)
22. Educational Foundation
23. Educational Foundation Report, 1999
24. Executive Committee
25. Executive Committee Minutes, 1993-2000
26. Financial Records, 1993-2000
27. Freedom of Choice Act of 1989 – Fact Sheet
28. In Action, 1999-2002
29. International Federation of University Women
30. International Human Rights
31. Leader in Action
32. Legal Advocacy Fund
33. Legal Advocacy Fund Newsletter
34. Legislative Programs
35. Mardi Gras (Mobile)
36. Membership, 1988
37. Montgomery Branch
38. National Health Campaign
39. Printed Material
40. Printed Material, 1991-2001
41. Public Policy
42. Sisters’ In Action, 2001
43. State President Mailings
44. State President Meetings and Memoranda, 1997-2000
45. United Nations 4^th World Conference on Women
46. University of Alabama Chapter
47. University of Alabama at Birmingham Chapter
48. University of Alabama at Huntsville Chapter
49. University of Montevallo Chapter
50. Voter Education
51. Weinman, Janice, 1998
52. Workshops
53. Year-End Reports, 1995-1996
54. Book – A Half Century of AAUW in Alabama (1975)
55. Book – History of the American Association of University Women in Alabama, 1976-1991 (1991)

Box 12

1. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference Agenda, 1964 (Lexington, KY)
2. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference Agenda, 1966 (Mobile, AL)
3. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference Checking Account, 1966 (Mobile, AL)
4. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference Notes, 1966 (Mobile, AL)
5. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference Expenses, 1966 (Mobile, AL)
6. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference Finances, 1966 (Mobile, AL)
7. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference Invoices, 1966 (Mobile, AL)
8. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference Registration Cards, 1966 (Mobile, AL)
9. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference Registration Forms, 1966 (Mobile, AL)
10. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference Registration Notes, 1966 (Mobile, AL)
11. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Treasurer’s Report, 1966 (Mobile, AL)
12. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference, 1994 (Lexington, KY)
13. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference, 1998 (Baton Rouge, LA)
14. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference, 2000 (Lexington, KY)
15. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conferences, 2002-2004
16. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference 2005 (Memphis, Tennessee)
17. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Conference Rosters
18. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Rosters
19. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Correspondence, 1964-1967
20. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Minutes, 1965
21. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Newspaper Clippings
22. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Policies and Procedures
23. AAUW Southeast Central Region – Program Development
24. AAUW National Convention, 2003 (Providence, RI)
25. AAUW National Convention, 2005 (Washington, DC)
26. AAUW Journal
27. AAUW National – Miscellaneous Printed Material