UUS_mss096.xml Guide to the Utah Boys State participant records 1939-1978 Utah Boys State participant records 1939-1978 Finding aid created by Special Collections and Archives. Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008 Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives ©2008
Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, Utah 84322-3000 Business Number: 435 797-8248 Fax Number: 435 797-2880 scweb@usu.edu https://archives.usu.edu/
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-01-22. Finding guide is in English in Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition). August 8, 2008. Template information was updated to reflect Utah Manuscript Association best practices. 2009 Template information was updated to reflect Archives West best practice guidelines. Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Utah Boys State participant records UUS_COLL MSS 96 18 boxes 9 linear feet 1939-1978 Mainly 3x5 file cards with the names of Boys State Participants and attendance records (1939-1978); also lists of members, officers, and staff, and four souvenir books produced at the conference. Collection materials are in English.

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Utah Boys State participant records, 1939-1978. (COLL MSS 96). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives department.

American Legion-sponsored Boys State camps were born of a desire to counter the Fascist inspired Young Pioneer camps of the 1930s, where boys of high school age were being taught that democracy had outworn its usefulness and should be replaced by a new form of government, namely Fascism. Boys State camp activities include classroom instruction on law, civil service, election procedures, etc.; election of a government with political officers and agencies, based on the structure of the state; and general assemblies for all attendees.

This collection is made up primarily of the names of participants of Boys State during the years from 1939 to 1978. Names are recorded on 3x5 cards filed in file drawers and identified individually by the year attended and in a general alphabetical order of all the years held. Each card contains the name of the participant, home address, and the year of attendance at Boys State. The yearly attendance file has the names from 1949 on while the alphabetical name listing has all the names since the beginning in 1939.

Folders containing the general officers elected also have the yearly membership of that session. The staff and councilors have a separate set of folders with the names and addresses of the men along with the name of the "city" they were assigned to. There are two schedules of a yearly session of Boys State along with four of the souvenir books that the conference produced.

Name listings alphabetical. Attendance records arranged chronological.

 Boys--Utah--Societies and clubs. Camps--Utah. Civic Activism Alphabetical Name Listings 1939-1978 A - B undated 1 C - E undated 2 F - Hi undated 3 Ho - Le undated 4 Li - N undated 5 0 - R undated 6 S - T undated 7 U - Z undated 8 Yearly Attendance Records 1949-1978 Attendance Records 1949 - 1956 9 Attendance Records 1957 - 1961 10 Attendance Records 1961 - 1964 11 Attendance Records 1965 - 1967 12 Attendance Records 1968 - 1970 13 Attendance Records 1971 - 1973 14 Attendance Records 1974 - 1976 15 Attendance Records 1977 - 1978 16 Membership and Officers undated Membership and Officers 1939 17 1 Membership and Officers 1940 17 2 Membership and Officers 1950 17 3 Membership and Officers 1952 17 4 Membership and Officers 1953 17 5 Membership and Officers 1955 17 6 Membership and Officers 1956 17 7 Membership and Officers 1957 17 8 Membership and Officers 1958 17 9 Membership and Officers 1958 17 10 Membership and Officers 1959 17 11 Membership and Officers 1960 17 12 Membership and Officers 1961 17 13 Membership and Officers 1962 17 14 Membership and Officers 1963 17 15 Membership and Officers 1964 17 16 Membership and Officers 1965 17 17 Membership and Officers 1967 17 18 Membership and Officers 1968 17 19 Membership and Officers 1969 17 20 Membership and Officers 1970 17 21 Membership and Officers 1971 17 22 Membership and Officers 1972 17 23 Membership and Officers 1973 17 24 Staff and Councilors undated Staff and Councilors 1966 18 1 Staff and Councilors 1967 18 2 Staff and Councilors 1970 18 3 Staff and Councilors 1974 18 4 Staff and Councilors 1975 18 5 Staff and Councilors 1977 18 6 Staff and Councilors 1978 18 7 Staff and Councilors undated 18 8 Schedules 1969-1973 18 9 Picture and autograph books 1964-1969 18 9