American Association of University Women Portland Branch Records

American Association of University Women Portland Branch Records, 1905-2007

Overview of the Collection

Creator: American Association of University Women. Portland Branch
Title: American Association of University Women Portland Branch Records
Dates: 1905-2007 (inclusive)
19052007
Quantity: 13.1 cubic feet, (11 record cartons, 6 document cases, and 1 flat box)
Collection Number: Mss 2964
Summary: Records and scrapbooks of the Portland branch of American Association of University Women (AAUW).
Repository: Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org
Access Restrictions: The collection is open to the public.
Additional Reference Guides
Languages: English
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) was founded nationally as the Association of Collegiate Alumnae in 1881; in 1905 Elizabeth Chapman Donald established the organization's Portland branch. Following the 1923 national convention, held in Portland, all AAUW branches, including the Portland one, added "study groups" to their agendas. The Portland branch was involved in raising funds for the Waverly Baby Home, and was involved in the home's management until 1942.

During the 1930s, the branch stepped up its political activities, fighting against budget cuts in higher education, and campaigning for women to have equal opportunity for unemployment relief. In 1942, the AAUW Portland Branch’s members volunteered to assist the Red Cross in running its baby lounge and nursery for mothers travelling with young children, one of only four such lounges in the United States.

Portland Branch members wrote and published a book about early Oregon History, “Land of the Multnomahs,” in 1973 as a means to raise funds for fellowships. The organization also helped start Oregon’s educational television channel. The AAUW Portland Branch continues to advocate for women’s education and equity.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The collection contains the records for the American Association of University Women (AAUW), Portland Branch. These records include the minutes of branch board meetings, reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, and the organization’s newsletter. There are also materials related to fellowships and special projects, the branch's centennial celebration in 2005, and datebooks from the Red Cross Baby Lounge that the branch managed during World War II.

Additional materials relate to the AAUW’s Oregon Division, and reports and other materials published by the national umbrella organization.

Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Alternative Forms Available

Restrictions on Use

The Oregon Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library prior to any use of reproductions. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use of reproductions may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright holders.

Preferred Citation

American Association of University Women Portland Branch Records, Mss 2964, Oregon Historical Society Library.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

This collection has been arranged in the following series:

Series A: Portland Branch Records
Series B: AAUW Oregon Division (State) Records
Series C: National AAUW Publications and Fellowship Information

Custodial History

Acquisition Information

Future Additions

Lib. Acc. 20793, 22691, 26576, and 27553.

Processing Note

Separated Materials

Video tapes and DVDs from Lib. Acc. 26576 separated to OHS Moving Images collection.

Cassette tapes from Lib. Acc. 27553 separated to OHS Sound Recording collection.

Photographs from Lib. Acc. 26576 separated to Org. Lot 1360.

Bibliography

Related Materials

Appraisal Notes

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Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series A : Portland Branch Records, 1905-2007 Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
	Subseries 1 : History and Board Minutes
Box/Folder
1/1	History - Early to 1920
1/2	Branch History
4/2	History of Branch
4/1	Portland Branch Constitution	1943-1944
2/16	By-Laws	1973
17/1	By-Laws	1999
1/3	AAUW Portland Branch	1940-1949
1/4	Branch Reports	1940-1949
1/6	Board Minutes	1916-1923
1/7	Board Minutes	1923-1928
1/8	Board Minutes	1928-1938
1/9	Board Minutes	1938-1948
1/10	Board Minutes	1948-1952
1/11	Board Minutes	1956-1962
1/12	Board Minutes	1956 September - 1959 June
1/13	Board Minutes	1959-1962
1/14	Board Minutes	1962-1963
1/15	Board Minutes	1964-1965
1/16	Board Minutes	1966-1967
1/17	Board Minutes	1968-1969
1/18	Board Minutes	1970-1972
1/19	Board Minutes	1973-1974
1/20	Board Minutes	1975-1976
1/21	Board Minutes	1976 September - 1976 December
1/22	Board Minutes	1977-1978
1/23	Board Minutes	1979-1980
1/24	Board Minutes	1981-1982
1/25	Board Minutes	1983-1984
1/26	Board Minutes	1985-1986
1/27	Board Minutes	1987-1988
1/28	Board Minutes	1989-1990
16/1	Board Minutes	1994-1995
16/2	Board Minutes	1997-1998
16/3	Board Minutes	1998-1999
16/4	Board Minutes	1999-2000
16/5	Board Minutes	2000-2001
16/6	Board Minutes	2001-2002
16/7	Board Minutes	2002-2003
16/8	Board Minutes	2003-2004
16/9	Board Minutes	2004-2005
16/10	Board Minutes	2005-2006
16/11	Board Minutes	2006-2007
	Subseries 2 : Reports
Box/Folder
1/5	Executive Secretary Reports	1940-1949
1/30	Presidential Reports	1948-1950
1/31	Presidential Reports	1961-1962
1/32	Presidential Reports	1965-1966
2/11	Financial Reports	1966-1976
3/1	Study Group Reports	1940-1949
3/2	Study Group Reports	1947-1949; 1949-1950
3/3	Study Group Reports	1950-1951; 1951-1952
3/4	Study Group Reports	1962-1953
3/5	Study Group Reports	1961-1963
3/6	Study Group Reports	1965-1966
3/7	Study Group Reports	1967-1968
3/8	Study Group Reports	1968-1970
3/9	Study Group Reports	1973-1977
3/10	Study Group Reports	1978-1980
3/11	Study Group Reports	1981-1986
3/12	Study Group Reports	1986-1987
3/13	Study Group Reports	1988-1989
3/14	Study Group Reports	1989-1990
3/16	Report of Scholarship Committee	1918
3/26	Americanization Committee Report	1924
3/28	Report Parent Education Groups	1938-1939
3/30	Radio Report on Adult Education from the "Survey Graphic"	1939 October; 1940 12 January
3/29	Miscellaneous Reports	1938-1942
3/43	Miscellaneous Reports
17/2	Reports	2000-2004
	Subseries 3 : Fellowships and Special Projects
Box/Folder
3/15	Fellowships - History, Purpose
3/17	Ardis Hitchcock Memorials
3/18	Fellowships	1940-1949
3/19	Phyllis Weiner Scholarship
3/20	Fellowship Reports and Events	1960-1990
3/21	Fellowships Correspondence	1968-1973
3/31	Radio	1940-1949
3/32	Radio Drama	1941
3/33	Education	1940-1949
3/34	Projects	1941-1949
3/35	Special Projects - Junior Museum	1948-1949
3/40	Tutoring Project with Reed Wives	1964-1965
3/41	History of AAUW Skit	1905-1966
4/4	Art Project - Theater, Dance, Film	1940
4/5	Art Project - Literature, Library, Poetry	ca. 1940
4/6	Art Project - Music	1940
4/7	Art Project - Intro - Sculpture and Painting	1940
4/8	Art Project - Architecture	1940
	Subseries 4 : Newsletters
Box/Folder
8/1	Newsletters	1925-1929
8/2	Newsletters	1930-1937
8/3	Newsletters	1937-1944
8/4	Newsletters	1945-1948
8/5	Newsletters	1949-1951
8/6	Newsletters	1950-1953
8/7	Newsletters	1951 October - 1952
8/8	Newsletters	1952 September - 1954 May
8/9	Newsletters	1954 October - 1955 May
8/10	Newsletters	1955 September - 1956 May
8/11	Newsletters	1956 October - 1958 May
8/12	Newsletters	1958 October - 1960 June
8/13	Newsletters	1960 October - 1963 May
8/14	Newsletters	1963 September - 1964 May
8/15	Newsletters	1964 October - 1967 May
8/16	Newsletters	1967 September - 1969 May
8/17	Newsletters	1970 September - 1972 May
8/18	Newsletters	1972 September - 1973 May
8/19	Newsletters	1973 September - 1975 May
8/20	Newsletters	1975 May - 1976 May
8/21	Newsletters	1976 September - 1978 May
8/22	Newsletters	1976 September - 1978 May
8/23	Newsletters	1977 September - 1979 May
8/24	Newsletters	1980-1981
8/25	Newsletters	1979 September - 1981 May
8/26	Newsletters	1981 September - 1983 May
8/27	Newsletters	1983 May - 1985 May
8/28	Newsletters	1985-1986
8/29	Newsletters	1986 September - 1988 May
8/30	Newsletters	1988 September 1991 May
8/31	Newsletters	1991 September - 1992 May
16/12	Newsletters	1996-1997
16/13	Newsletters	1998-1999
16/14	Newsletters	2000-2002 January
16/15	Newsletters	2002 February - 2004 January
16/16	Newsletters	2004 February - 2005 January
16/17	Newsletters	2005 April - 2006 October
	Subseries 5 : Scrapbooks
Box/Folder
4/12	Scrapbook	1953-1954
4/13	Scrapbook	1958-1959
6/11	Scrapbook # 1	1956-1957
6/12	Scrapbook # 2	1956-1957
6/13	Scrapbook	1957
6/14	Scrapbook	1958-1960
6/15	Scrapbook	1958-1960
7/4	Scrapbook	1951-1952
7/5	Scrapbook	1952-1953
7/6	Scrapbook	1953-1954
7/7	Scrapbook	1954-1955
7/8	Scrapbook	1955-1956
7/10	Scrapbook	1957-1958
7/11	Scrapbook	1957-1958
7/12	Scrapbook	1958-1959
7/15	Scrapbook	1960-1976
7/17	Scrapbook	1977-1987
7/18	Scrapbook	1988-1991
17/3	Scrapbook, 1996-1998, Folder 1
17/4	Scrapbook, 1996-1998, Folder 2
17/5	Scrapbook, 1998-2000, Folder 1
17/6	Scrapbook, 1998-2000, Folder 2
Box 15	Portland AAUW Scrapbook	1968-1976
Box/Folder
1/29	Agendas	1964-1966
2/19	Correspondence	1930-1939
2/20	Correspondence	1939-1941
2/21	Correspondence	1940-1949
2/22	Correspondence	1952-1953
2/23	Correspondence	1980-1982
17/7	Correspondence	1996-2002
2/10	Budgets	1940-1949
2/12	Budgets	1969-1973
17/8	Budgets and Financial Reports	1994-2006
3/22	Legislative Action Group	1945
3/23	Legislative Action Group	1946
3/24	Legislative Action Group	1947
3/25	Legislative Action Group	1948-1949
7/9	Publicity	1956-1957
7/13	Publicity	1961-1964
7/14	Publicity	1964-1967
7/16	Publicity	1976-1978
2/1	Records	1966-1975
16/18	Records, 1997-1998, Folder 1
16/19	Records, 1997-1998, Folder 2
2/2	President Buffo Records	1976-1978
2/3	Underwood - Presidential Records	1978
2/4	Underwood - Presidential Records	1979 January - 1979 June
2/5	Underwood - Presidential Records	1979 September - 1979 December
2/6	Underwood - Presidential Records	1980 January - 1980 June
2/8	Membership/Financial Records	1977
2/9	Membership Book	1978-1979
17/9	Membership Rosters	1992-2005
17/10	Membership Directory	1999-2000
17/11	Membership Directory	2006-2007
7/1	Guestbook
3/27	Free Time School	1933-1934
2/7	Directory	1940-1949
2/13	War Relief	1940-1945
6/7	Wartime - Union Station Longue; Clippings, Daybook, Traveler's Aid	1944; undated
6/8	Baby Lounge - World War II
6/9	Datebook - Baby Lounge	1944
6/10	Datebook - Baby Lounge	1945
3/46	Inheritance Bill	1945
3/36	High School International Relations Clubs	1949
3/37	Housing Issue	1950
7/2	Notables (from the Bulletin Board)	1950-1981
3/38	Christmas Teas	1951-1952
5/1	Pre-School Catalogs	1956-1982
3/39	Magazines for Friendship (to Pacific Area)	1961
2/18	Annual Branch Meetings	1963-1984
4/10	Publications: Poetic Selections; "Women of This World"	1963; 1979
2/17	Policy Committee	1965
2/14	Notepaper - Fundraiser	1969
3/44	Ruth Haefner/Gray Panthers	1970-1979
3/45	Membership Survey	1970
4/9	Copyright Registration, "Land of the Multnomahs"	1973
3/42	"Women and the Law" Booklet	1977
2/15	Book Sales	1985-1989
17/12	Program Schedule	1994-1995
17/13	Named Gift Honorees - Proposed Policy	circa 1995
17/14	Auctions	1997 December; 2001 December
17/15	Goals for 2001-2002
17/16	Statements Against Measure 9 and for Measure 6	2000
17/17	Website Proposal	circa 2002
17/18	Educational Foundation Brunch	2003 May
17/19	Centennial Luncheon	2005 October 15
15/1	Centennial Design	2005
15/2	Timeline	1905-2005
4/3	1923 National Convention in Portland - Clippings
7/3	Branch Clippings	1949-1950
6/1	Clippings	1916-1928
6/2	Clippings	1926-1933
6/3	Clippings	1933-1939
6/4	Press Clippings	1937-1941
6/5	Press Clippings	1940-1941
6/6	Press Clippings	1942-1944
4/11	Miscellaneous Material	1941-1965
3/47	Miscellaneous Material	1952-1970
3/48	Miscellaneous Material	1970-1979

Series B : AAUW Oregon Division (State) Records , 1924-2006 Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
9/1	Branch Organizational Information and Branch Histories, Folder 1
9/2	Branch Organizational Information and Branch Histories, Folder 2
9/3	Branch Organizational Information and Branch Histories, Folder 3
9/4	Lists of Presidents, Conventions	1991
9/5	Oregon AAUW History
9/6	History - First Quarter Century	1950
9/7	Fiftieth Anniversary Correspondence	1975
9/8	Sixtieth Anniversary Correspondence	1985
9/9	Division Minutes	1989 April - 1991 June
9/10	Division Minutes	1991 July - 1995 April
9/11	Division Minutes	1996 April - 1999 October
9/12	Division Minutes	2000 April - 2001 October
9/13	Division Minutes	2002 April - 2004 April
9/14	Division Minutes	3004 July - 2005 April
9/15	Division Minutes	2005 July - 2006 April
9/16	Division Minutes	2006 July - 2007 April
9/17	Conferences, Conventions	1940-1949
9/18	State Convention Held in Portland.	1955
9/19	National Convention, Folder 1 Held in Portland.	1965
9/20	National Convention, Folder 2	1965
10/1	Fellowships: June Philpott Endowment	1973; 1981
10/2	Records of Margaret C. Snell Fellowship	1933-1950
10/3	State Division Fellowship	1995
10/4	Oregon Only Fellowships: First Recipient	1926-1934
10/5	Special Projects on Women	1943-1989
10/6	Projects on Children and Education	1950-1989
10/7	Radio Program Committee	1940-1959
10/8	Newspaper Clippings	1950-1961
17/20	Report - "Visiting the Hostile Hallways of Oregon Schools"	2001
11/1	Title and Table of Contents Pages for All Bound Volumes Includes the AAU Division Directories for 1932-1969, 1969-1981, 1981-1991, the Pre "Oregon News" Newsletters fir 1937-1956, the Treasurer's Reports for 1925 1968, and "Oregon News" for 1979-1991.
Box 11	Bound Volumes
Box 12	Oregon Division Minutes	1924-1953
Box 12	Oregon Division Minutes	1928-1990
Box 12	Oregon Division Minutes	1953-1961
Box 12	Oregon Division Minutes	1961-1969
Box 12	Oregon Division Minutes	1981 July - 1989 April
Box 13	Oregon Division Bylaws and Policies	1928-1990
Box 13	Convention Workbooks and Programs	1925-1957
Box 13	Convention Workbooks and Programs	1958-1966
Box 13	Convention Workbooks and Programs	1967-1974
Box 13	Convention Workbooks and Programs	1975-1983
Box 13	Convention Workbooks and Programs	1984-1991

Series C : National AAUW Publications and Fellowship Informtation , 1909-2003 Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
14/1	History 1881-1949 Booklet	1950
14/2	Educational Foundation Report: How Schools Shortchange Girls	1992
14/3	Report: Hostile Hallways	1993
14/4	Report: Growing Smart	1995
14/5	Report: Girls Can!
14/6	Report: Girls in the Middle
14/7	Report: Gender Gaps
14/8	Report: Separated by Sex
14/9	Report: Women's Transitions Through Work and College
14/10	Report: Voices of a Generation
14/11	Report: Tech Savvy
14/12	Report: A License for Bias
14/13	Report: Community Coalitions Manual
14/14	Report: The Third Shift
14/15	Report: Beyond the Gender Wars
14/16	Report: Women at Work
14/17	Report: Tenure Denied
14/18	Educational Foundation Donors: Names Honoroed	1971-1980
14/19	Educational Foundation Donors: Names Honoroed
14/20	Educational Foundation Donors: Names Honoroed	1988-2000
14/21	Report: Idealism at Work: Eighty Years of AAUW Fellowships and Programs	1967; 1981
14/22	Fellowships Program and Fellowships	1909-1958; 1958-1970
17/21	Public Policy Program, 2003-2005	2003

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Clubs - Oregon - Portland
Women - Education - Oregon - Portland
Women - Societies and clubs - Oregon - Portland

Corporate Names

American Association of University Women
American Association of University Women. Oregon Division
American Association of University Women. Portland Branch--Archives

Geographical Names

Portland (Or.) - Clubs

Form or Genre Terms

Administrative records
Correspondence
Scrapbooks

Archives West Finding Aid

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