University of Utah Alumni Association records, 1875-1969

Overview of the Collection

Creator
University of Utah. Alumni Association.
Title
University of Utah Alumni Association records
Dates
1875-1969 (inclusive)
1925-1963 (bulk)
Quantity
5.5 linear ft.
Collection Number
Acc0437
Summary
The Alumni Association was organized in 1886. In 1925, a nationwide system of Alumni Clubs was initiated. This collection contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and reports concerning alumni activities such as banquets, Founders Day, Homecoming, and reunions; correspondence, meeting minutes, and reports relating to the administration of the Alumni Association and Alumni Clubs; and lists of alumni by class.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, University Archives and Records Management
University Archives and Records Management, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
666 Guardsman Way
Salt Lake City, UT
84112
Telephone: 8015818242
david.buhler@utah.edu
Access Restrictions

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.

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The University of Utah Alumni Association was organized in 1886 "to promote a general interest in the cause of education and to perpetuate the friendships formed between the graduates of the University." In 1925, a nationwide system of Alumni Clubs was organized. The immediate reason for the organization of these clubs was to aid in the fundraising campaign for the original Union Building, now Kingsbury Hall.

The Alumni Association has been involved in the following activities:

1. An annual alumni banquet;

2. Class reunions;

3. The Emeritus Club for all alumni of fifty or more years standing;

4. Participation in Founders Day celebrations;

5. Participation in Homecoming;

6. Maintaining the Alumni Club organization;

7. Publishing The Utah Alumnus.

During the period covered by the bulk of these records, Douglas O. Woodruff (1927-1957) and Paul R. Cracroft (1957-1967) served as Executive Secretary of the Alumni Association.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and reports concerning alumni activities such as banquets, Founders Day, Homecoming, and reunions; correspondence, meeting minutes, and reports relating to the administration of the Alumni Association and Alumni Clubs; and lists of alumni by class.

The collection is divided into three sections. The first contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and reports concerning activities for alumni organized by the Alumni Association. These include the Annual Banquet (1927-1951), the Annual Meeting (1927-1940), Emeritus Club banquets (1942-1969), Founders Day (1929-1969), Homecoming (1924-1964), and individual class reunions (1892-1951). A reunion folder for a particular year contains material related to each class which held a reunion in that year. Many reunion activities were centered around Founders Day celebrations; therefore, both reunion and Founders Day folders should be consulted.

The second section contains correspondence, reports, and meeting minutes of the Alumni Association Board of Control (1924-1965). These records are concerned with the organization and administration of the Alumni Association.

The third section contains lists of Alumni Association members and officers, lists of the members of various Alumni Clubs, and lists of the members of individual classes (1875-1954). Researchers should consult reunion/Emeritus Club and Founders Day folders as well as class lists to trace individual alumni. Some individual class folders also contain correspondence related to class activities, as well as biographical information about individual class members.

Many of the reunion folders also include copies of The Utah Alumnus featuring accounts of particular reunions and the election of Alumni Association officers.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: University of Utah Alumni Association records, Acc. 437, Box [ ]. University Archives and Records Management. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations:Acc. 437.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Organized in three series: 1. Activities; 2. Administration; 3. Lists of Students. Arranged alphabetically and chronologically thereunder.

Separated Materials

Approximately 10 cubic feet of publications were sent to Print Archives. Several hundred photographs, mostly of reunion activities, were also sent to Photo Archives.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

ActivitiesReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 1

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
1
Annual Banquets
1929-1946; 1951
2
Annual Banquets to Emeritus Club
Folder
1-2
Annual Banquets
1927-1928
3-9
Annual Meetings
1927-1930; 1936-1941
10
Athletics - Baseball
1892-1954
11
Athletics - Basketball
1909-1950
12
Athletics - Football
1902-1950
13
Athletics - Golf
1947-1954
14
Athletics - Polo
1926-1942
15
Athletics - Skiing
1948-1954
16
Athletics - Swimming
1922-1954
17
Athletics - Tennis
1913-1954
18
Athletics - Track
1985-1954
19
Athletics - Wrestling
1923-1954
20-28
Emeritus Club
1961-1969
3
Emeritus Club to Founders Day
Folder
1-14
Emeritus Club
1942; 1946-1948; 1951-1960
15-18
Emeritus Club Scrapbook
1943-1958
19-27
Founders Day
1961-1969
4
Founders Day
Folder
1-14
Founders Day
1937; 1940; 1942; 1948-1951; 1953-1954; 1956-1960
15-16
Founders Day oration and essay contest
1945; 1947
5
Founders Day to Reunions
Folder
1
Founders Day oration and essay contest
1944
2
Freshmen Activities
1929
3
Glee Club
1930
4
High School Day
1929-1933
5-18
Homecoming
1924; 1929-1930; 1933-1935; 1939-1940; 1956-1964
19
Maestro Artists concerts
1930-1933
20
Men's Club Centennial Banquet
1950
21
Mrs. Bumpstead Leigh - play
1936
22-27
Reunions
1946-1951
6
Reunions
1928-1942; 1945
7
Reunions to Song Contest
Folder
1-3
Reunions
1924-1926
4
Reunion programs
1892-1905
5
Song Contest
1934

AdministrationReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 2

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
8
Alumni Association: annual reports to committees
Folder
1-2
Alumni Association annual reports
1926-1934; 1961
3-4
Alumni Association Board of Control correspondence
1941-1947
5-20
Alumni Association Board of Control meeting minutes
1924-1942; 1945-1950; 1956-1965
21
Alumni Association Board of Control reports
1908-1911
22
Alumni Association budget
1961-1963
23
Alumni Association committee reports
1908-1936
24
Alumni Association committees
1936-1945
9
Alumni Association constitution to University/Agricultural College consolidation
Folder
1
Alumni Association constitution
1925-1945
2
Alumni Association Medical Section
1939
3
Alumni Association memorabelia
1927-1940
4
Alumni Association office procedures
1944
5
Alumni Association postal matters
1960-1963
6
Alumni Association Underwriting Fund
1945-1946
7
Alumni Club organization
1932-1936
8
Alumni Development proposal
1940-1942
9
Alumni-Regents
1945
10
Alumni-University Development Fund
1958-1965
11
Associated Students of the University of Utah (A. S. U. U.)
1935
12
Class Officer controversy
1960-1964
13
Committee of 100
1926-1936
14
Education funding study
1937
15
Endowment Fund proposal
1932
16
Honorary degrees
1892-1959
17
John R. Park Anniversary Committee meeting minutes
1918
18
Senior Supper Dance
1960-1964
19
Survey of alumni on new University President
undated
20
Survey of economic status of alumni
1936
21
Union Building reports
1932-1934
22
University-Agricultural College consolidation
1906-1907

Lists of StudentsReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 3

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
10
Folder
1
Alumni Association life memberships
1949-1959
2-3
Alumni Association membership
1975-1902; 1936-1945
4
Alumni Association presidents
1955
5
Alumni Association sustaining and life members
1939-1945
6
Alumni Club officers
1958-1959
7
Alumni Club-Utah-Iron County
1948-1949
8
Alumni Club-Utah-Summit County
1925-1940
9
Alumni Club-Utah-Tooele County
1925-1940
10
Alumni Club-Utah-Uintah County
1925-1940
11
Alumni Club-Utah-Utah County
1925-1940
12
Alumni Club-Utah-Wasatch County
1925-1940
13
Alumni Club-Utah-Washington County
1925-1940
14
Alumni Club-Utah-Wayne County
1925-1940
15
Alumni Club-Utah-Weber County
1925-1948
16
Alumni Club-Boise
1950
17
Alumni Club-Chicago
1950
18
Alumni Club-Colorado
1949-1950
19
Alumni Club-Los Angeles
1949-1954
20
Alumni Club-Portland
1948
21
Alumni Club-San Francisco
1946
22
Alumni Club-Virginia
1925-1939
23
Alumni Club-Washington, D. C.
1949-1951
24
Alumni Club-Washington State
1925-1940
25
Alumni Club-Wisconsin
1935-1940
26
Alumni Club-Wyoming
1925-1939
27
Alumni distribution
1935
28
Alumni killed, missing, or captured in World War II
1946
29
Beehive Club
1940-1945
11
Folder
1
List of Alumni of the University of Utah and the Constitution and By-Laws of the Alumni Association
1918
2
Class of 1954
3
Class of 1953
4
Class of 1952
5
Class of 1951
6
Class of 1950
7
Class of 1949
8
Class of 1948
9
Class of 1947
10
Class of 1946
11
Class of 1945
12
Class of 1943
13
Class of 1942
14
Class of 1941
15
Class of 1940
16
Class of 1939
17
Class of 1938
18
Class of 1937
19
Class of 1936
12
Folder
1
Class of 1935
2
Class of 1934
3
Class of 1933
4
Class of 1932
5
Class of 1931
6
Class of 1930
7
Class of 1929
8
Class of 1928
9
Class of 1927
12
Folder
10
Class of 1926
11
Class of 1925
12
Class of 1924
13
Class of 1923
14
Class of 1922
15
Class of 1921
16
Class of 1920
17
Class of 1919
18
Class of 1918
19
Class of 1917
20
Class of 1916
21
Class of 1915
13
Folder
1
Class of 1914
2
Class of 1913
3
Class of 1912
4
Class of 1911
5
Class of 1910
6
Class of 1909
7
Class of 1908
8
Class of 1907
9
Class of 1906
10
Class of 1905
11
Class of 1904
12
Class of 1903
13
Class of 1902
13
Folder
14
Class of 1901
15
Class of 1900
16
Class of 1899
17
Class of 1898
18
Class of 1897
19
Class of 1896
20
Class of 1895
21
Class of 1894
22
Class of 1893
14
Folder
1
Class of 1892
2
Class of 1891
3
Class of 1890
4
Class of 1889
5
Class of 1888
6
Class of 1887
7
Class of 1886
8
Class of 1884
9
Class of 1883
10
Class of 1882
11
Class of 1881
12
Class of 1880
13
Class of 1879
14
Class of 1878
15
Class of 1877
16
Class of 1876
17
Class of 1875
18
Class officers
1947-1959
19
U Men's Club membership
1940

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Universites and colleges--Utah--Salt Lake City--History--Sources

Personal Names

  • Cracroft, Paul R.
  • Woodruff, Douglas O.

Corporate Names

  • University of Utah--Alumni
  • University of Utah--Archives

Form or Genre Terms

  • Clippings
  • Correspondence
  • Lists
  • Minutes
  • Reports