Collection is open for research.
Gift of April A. G. W. Avery, January 2024 (RL2024-011).
The Oregon Girls Conference, also known as the Oregon Older Girls' Conference or the Older Girls' Conference, was an annual interdenominational Christian gathering of high school and college-age women that was held from 1913 until the 1980s. The conference was sponsored by the United Church Women of Oregon.
Sources: Articles in the Oregonian and Oregon Journal, 1923-1986; information provided by April A. G. W. Avery in 2023 and 2024; collection materials.
Researcher access to negatives in the collection is limited for preservation purposes; contact library staff to inquire about viewing.
Oregon Girls Conference records, Coll 1050, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
A collection of Oregon Older Girls' Conference scrapbooks, Mss 2790, is also held at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
The collection consists of records and memorabilia of the Oregon Girls Conference, an annual interdenominational Christian gathering of high school and college-age women that was also known as the Oregon Older Girls' Conference or the Older Girls' Conference. The bulk of the collection consists of administrative records and conference programs. These include planning records and other materials for individual conferences in the 1970s and 1980s, president's records from the 1970s and 1980s, a record book with handwritten minutes and programs from 1913 to 1934, instructions about duties and ceremonies, a 1963 directory, and records and memorabilia gathered by conference member Pat Berger in the 1980s. Conference programs not in the record book span from the 1920s to the 1980s. Other materials in the collection include songbooks, 1970s issues of the newsletter "Tie-Line," a guestbook, work packets from the 1930s, clippings, and photographs. Photographs include prints and negatives taken by Ruth Else of the 1937 International Council of Religious Education youth conference held at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, which she and Betty Britton attended as Oregon Girls Conference delegates.
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