Collection is open for research.
Gift of Mary Arndt, November 2002 (Lib. Acc. 24788).
Beginning in 1962, the Greater Portland Women's Bowling Association of Portland, Oregon, lobbied for the Women's International Bowling Congress (WIBC) Championship Tournament to be held in Portland. The bid was successful, and the 48th WIBC Championship Tournament was held in Portland from April 8, 1965, to May 20, 1965, with more than 20,000 women bowlers participating.
Sources: Articles in the Oregonian and Oregon Journal, 1962 and 1965.
Greater Portland Women's Bowling Association scrapbook about the 1965 Women's International Bowling Congress Championship Tournament, Coll 979, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Prior to 2011, for preservation purposes, the scrapbook was disassembled, preservation photocopies were made, and tissue paper was placed between original scrapbook pages. In September 2023, the collection was foldered, and the back cover of the scrapbook was discarded.
The collection consists of pages from a scrapbook (both original pages and preservation photocopies) documenting the efforts of the Greater Portland Women's Bowling Association to have the Women's International Bowling Congress Championship Tournament held in Portland, Oregon. The scrapbook also documents the tournament itself. The scrapbook covers the period from 1962, when the Greater Portland Women's Bowling Association began its lobbying efforts, to October 1965, a few months after the 1965 tournament had concluded, and is made up of newspaper and magazine clippings, ephemera, photographs, and correspondence. The majority of clippings are from the Oregonian, the Oregon Journal, The Woman Bowler, and the Oregon Bowler, though other publications from Oregon and elsewhere in the United States are represented. Many of the scrapbook's photographs have captions glued onto or beside them. Correspondence in the collection includes letters from Women's International Bowling Congress officials, Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield, and multiple Oregon mayors. The collection also holds the scrapbook's original wooden front cover, which is decorated with the seal of the 1965 tournament.
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