This collection includes three binders of meeting minutes, invoices, and correspondence relating to the Amicans, as well as photographs, a news article, "installation" notes, three of the Amicans society's constitutions, an Amicans pincushion, and Lewis and Clark College homecoming pins.
The Amicans were a Junior Women's Honorary Society dedicated to performing acts of service at Lewis and Clark College. The society's name stood "for friendliness," originating in the French noun "amie," or friend, and the French verb "aimer," or to love. From the 1940s to the mid-1970s the Amicans undertook many service projects, including ushering at commencement, welcoming people at freshman orientation, ushering at chapel, organizing used book exchanges, giving campus tours, organizing high school senior preview days, and garnering new members. In 1976, The Amicans merged with several other service chapters on campus to create a larger, coed groups consisting of members from each of the four grade levels.
This collection was donated by Alice Hartness-Reichle in memory of Dr. Helen Hartness, Amican Advisor, (Lewis and Clark College 1949 - 1979).
Collection is open for research.
This collection was donated by Alice Hartness-Reichle in memory of Dr. Helen Hartness, Amican Advisor, (Lewis and Clark College 1949 - 1979).
This folder contains three series of graphic materials. The first contains pictures of four Amicans officers. The second contains pictures of college officials instituting a service chapter at Lewis and Clark College. The third contains negatives.