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NTE2ua17.xml Guide to the ASWSU Activities Center Records 1935-1974 ASWSU Activities Center Records Finding aid prepared by Ross James Pegler Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2022 Finding aid encoded by Suzanne James-Bacon. 2022 Finding aid written in English. English. Finding aid based on DACS 2nd Edition ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Archives 17 Associated Students of Washington State University. Activities Center ASWSU Activities Center Records 1935-1974 9.5 Linear feet of shelf space 19 Boxes The records of the Associated Students of Washington State University (ASWSU) Activities Center include memoranda, reports, correspondence, and committee materials such as brochures, financial records, minutes, rosters and membership lists of the student committees. Collection materials are in English

The ASWSU (Associated Students of Washington State University) Activities Center serves Washington State University (formally the State College of Washington) by organizing, directing and generally over-seeing many campus-related student group activities. Administering of student organizations includes constant evaluation and advisement.

The Activities Center was established with approval of the Board of Regents in the Spring of 1947 in answer to student and faculty demands. It began operation during the fall semester of that year. The goal of the Activities Center was to enable a joint student-faculty coordination and participation in student and campus life. The student-faculty cooperative effort was to be augmented by a staff of professionals through whose help the Activities Center was "to bring efficiency and direction by coordinating and guiding existing student organizations, by assisting new groups in developing new programs, and by aiding individual students in planning a balanced program of activities." (As observed in a Review of Student Activities Center Program, April, 1948).

At the time the Activities Center was organized, most of the social activities and student involvement in campus life were coordinated by living groups. As students' living arrangements gradually became more diffuse, the Activities Center became a more important central focal point coordinating their activities. The Activities Center, therefore, became a place of general guidance, assistance and counseling for student committees and concerns. Furthermore, it became a central repository for committee records where evaluations of past activities could be used for recommendations of procedures for future efforts. In this regard, on an annual basis, evaluations of past activities could be used for recommendations of procedures for future efforts. In this regard, on an annual basis, evaluative reports are filed with the Activities Center so that evaluations of the programs can be made; these reports are filed by Committee Chairmen, as well as by faculty advisors to individual committees.

The Activities Center also played a supplemental role in reorganization of the student government. Prior to the formation of the Activities Center, and for some time after it began, the major student government organizational structure was the class governments. However, in time, and especially during the decade of the 1960s, the ASWSU (an organization of all students) superseded the class government system, and the class governments were discontinued in 1968. For the Activities Center this has meant that the role of the students, in directing and actually involving themselves in the workings of the Activities Center, has increased. What was once a joint student-faculty arrangement, in conjunction with professional administrators, has become more of a joint effort between students and professionals.

The records of the Associated Students of Washington State University (ASWSU) Activities Center include memoranda, reports, correspondence, and committee materials such as brochures, financial records, minutes, rosters and membership lists of the student committees. They cover the period since World War II and the establishment of the Activities Center, 1946-1973. The records are divided into two types: records of committees, project organizations, and project coordinators; and records relating to recognized campus organizations.

The committees' records are divided in to two separate series based on when the materials were accessioned. Series 1. Records of Activities Committees, Project Organizations, and Project Coordinators, 1946-1973, was originally received in 1975, Series 2. Records of Committees, Project Organizations and Project Coordinators, 1968-1974, consists of material similar to Series 1, but was received in 1976. Both contain correspondence, enclosures, advertising, questionnaires, and contracts regarding extra-curricular activities.

Series 3. Records Relating to Recognized Campus Organizations, 1935-1962, includes constitutions, by-laws and similar organizational documents of campus organizations, period reports of faculty advisors, and attached correspondence.

Organized into three series, and arranged alphabetically by subject or organization name within each series.

This collection is open and available for research use.

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ASWSU Activities Center Records, 1935-1974 (Archives 17)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

The records were transferred from ASWSU to the WSU Libraries in 1975 (WSU 205) and 1976.

This collection was processed in February 1976 to May 1976 by Ross James Pegler.

ASWSU Activities Center Records, 1948-1978 (Archives 62)

ASWSU Activities Center Records, 1947-1981 (Archives 118)

ASWSU Activities Center Records, 1966-1967 (Archives 166)

ASWSU Board of Control Records, 1922-1978 (Archives 113)

ASSCW Annual Budget Reports, 1912-1942 (Archives 114)

ASWSU President Records, 1953-1975 (Archives 164)

ASWSU Vice President Records, 1962-1967 (Archives 165)

Washington State University Publications, 1891-2018: Associated Students of Washington State University (WSU 2)

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Associated Students of Washington State University. Activities Center -- Records and correspondence Associated Students of the State College of Washington. Activities Center -- Records and correspondence Associated Students of the State College of Washington. Activities Center Associated Students of Washington State University Associated Students of the State College of Washington Student activities -- Washington (State) -- Archives College student government -- Washington (State) -- Archives Colleges and Universities Washington (State) Student Life Series 1. Records of Activities Committees, Project Organizations, and Project Coordinators, 1946-1973 1 Bands and Bookers: Correspondence, publicity and information from booking agents, notes and financial information 1968-1970 170 items 1 Blood Drives: Advisors and annual final reports, correspondence, committee notes and arrangements information 1952-1966 60 items 1 Carnivals: Carnival Committee annual reports 1955-1966 10 items 1 Committee on Political Education: Advisor's report and newspaper clippings 1963-1965 2 items 1 Cougar Code: Correspondence and memoranda, annual reports, code manuals 1953-1956 30 items 2 Cougar Code: Correspondence and memoranda, annual reports, code manuals 1956-1963 30 items 2 Cougarettes: Annual reports, cheers and other materials memoranda and correspondence 1961-1969 20 items 2 Cougar Coordinating Council: Annual reports, correspondence and memoranda 1967 Oregon State University football game arrangements, 1956-1964; 1965-1968. 20 items 2 Crimson Block: Annual reports, correspondence and committee materials 1961-1968 25 items 2 CUB Christmas: Annual reports, photographs and committee organizational information 1953-1966 65 items 2 CUB Crafts Committee: Annual reports 1956-1960 3 items 2 CUB Crafts Operation and Program Report: Annual report 1959-1960 1 item 3 CUB Dance: Annual reports, committee materials: band publicity, correspondence, financial records and contracts 1952-1967; 1968-1969 150 items 3 CUB Games Committee: Annual reports 1953-1963 3 items 3 CUB House Committee: Annual reports, general policy statement 1953-1965 8 items 3 CUB Music Committee: Annual reports 1953-1965 12 items 3 CUB Program Council: Annual reports, clippings of special events, correspondence, memoranda, also includes reports on regional conferences and 5th CUB Birthday Party 1954-1966 50 items 3 CUB Publicity Committee: Annual reports, guidelines 1957-1959 5 items 3 CUB Special Events: Annual reports 1954-1964 10 items 4 Dad's Association: Correspondence, membership roster, memoranda, Association's minutes, constitution, events calendar 1950-1967; 1968 100 items 4 Dad's Day Committee: Correspondence, annual reports, financial records (yearly), minutes, scrapbook mementos, photographs, guideline-notebooks 1946-1952; 1953-1957; 1958-1964 150 items 5 Dad's Day Committee: Correspondence, annual reports, financial records (yearly), minutes, scrapbook mementos, photographs, guideline-notebooks 1965-1969 50 items 5 Election Board: Reports, campaign practices and procedures, ballots and results 1964-1971 50 items 5 Evaluation Commission: Final reports on several WSU committees 1957-1960 35 items 5 Foreign Films: Annual reports, correspondence, selection procedures for films (and choices), financial records, bound volume-reports, movie reviews 1948-1950 5 items 6 Foreign Films: Annual reports, correspondence, selection procedures for films (and choices), financial records, bound volume-reports, movie reviews 1949-1951; 1962-1966; 1971-1972 20 items

3 folders

6 Foreign Students: Correspondence, memoranda, information guides 1951-1955 15 items 6 Freshmen-Faculty Weekend: Correspondence, annual reports, memoranda, clippings 1953-1968 8 items 6 Freshmen Precept Committee: Reports 1967-1968 2 items 7 Freshman/Sophomore Class Files: Class constitutions, memoranda, correspondence, reports 1950-1962 20 items 7 GSA Senate Minutes: Constitutions, minutes, rosters, Senate information and materials 1970-1973 60 items 7 Hostel Commission: Annual reports 1960-1965 15 items 7 International Relations: Committee reports, membership rosters, information sheets 1958-1968 5 items 7 Homecoming: Annual reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, memoranda and correspondence, programs, financial records 1949-1954; 1955-1956 140 items 8 Homecoming: Annual reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, memoranda and correspondence, programs, financial records 1957; 1958- 1959; 1960-1962; 1963-1964 280 items

4 folders

9 Homecoming: Annual reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, memoranda and correspondence, programs, financial records 1965; 1966; 1967-1970 220 items

3 folders

9 Lecture Artist Series: Annual reports, correspondence, program outlines, contractual information, purchase orders/financial records 1961-1966 85 items 9 Men's Spirit Group (Butchmen): Constitution, correspondence, memoranda, organization reports 1963-1968 15 items 9 Model United Nations: Annual reports 1959-1964 5 items 10 Music Listening Room: Record inventory and procedures guidelines 1961 1 item 10 New Student Week: Reports, booklets, evaluation formats 1952-1970 20 items 10 Personnel Committee: Minutes, interview records, final reports, memoranda, questionnaire 1958-1973 60 items 10 Rally Committee: Annual reports, minutes, photographs, clippings, guidelines and duties 1953-1968 75 items 10 Retreats: Reports, evaluations and agendas, financial records 1954-1968 8 items 10 SR/JR Class File: Class reports, financial records, organizational lists and functions 1946-1959 20 items 10 Scholarship Committee: Letter 1963 1 item 10 Sports Federation: Constitution and applications n.d. 2 items 10 Social Coordinating Council: Social guide, annual reports, clippings, constitution, policy guidelines, correspondence, memoranda 1948-1965 20 items 11 Social Coordinating Council: Social guide, annual reports, clippings, constitution, policy guidelines, correspondence, memoranda 1967 15 items 11 Student-Community Relations: Committee reports, publicity and clippings 1957-1963 10 items 11 Three Forks Homecoming Festival: Committee records, clippings, drafts of letters 1969 35 items 11 Yell Squad: Yell King & Queen materials, annual reports, correspondence, memoranda, yells and cheers, constitution, and financial records 1949-1968 90 items Series 2. Records of Committees, Project Organizations and Project Coordinators, 1968-1974

Correspondence, enclosures, advertising, questionnaires, and contracts regarding extra-curricular activities. Material is similar to that of Series I, only arranged in a second alphabetical series encompassing this accession.

Accessioned, 1976

12 1 Adverting Survey. Questionnaire, tabulations, and related materials relative to survey measuring the effectiveness of various forms of publicity used by student activities 1974 200 items 12 2-6 Art Committee. Correspondence, minutes, notes of Art Committee regarding CUB Arts Exhibits and insurance of art works 1968-1972 300 items 12 7 Association of College Unions. Correspondence and convention materials 1970-1973 150 items 13 8 Committee Publicity and Programming. Correspondence, clippings and advertising materials relative to publicity of extra-curricular activities 1972-1973 100 items 13 9 Dad's Day. Correspondence and publicity materials 1968-1971 150 items 13 10 General Information and Schedules. Correspondence, letters, and announcements relative to a variety of Activities Center services 1971-1974 100 items 13 11 Grant Applications. Proposals and cover letters regarding extramural financing 1970-1971 50 items 13 12 Winter Festival. Entry blanks, award certificates, correspondence and publicity 1972-1973 100 items Series 3. Records Relating to Recognized Campus Organizations, 1935-1962 14 African Students Association 14 Agronomy Club 14 Alpha Chi Sigma 14 Alpha Epsilon Rho 14 Alpha Zeta 14 American Chemical Society Student Affiliates 14 American Society of Civil Engineers 14 American Society of Mechanical Engineers 14 American Veterinary Medical Association 14 Angel Flight 14 Arab Students Association 14 Arnold Air Society 14 Associated Students of the College of Agriculture 14 Associated Women Students 14 Association of the U. S. Army 14 Beta Gamma Sigma 14 Block and Bridle Club 15 Cougar Flying Club 15 Cougar Swim Club 15 Crimson Clover 15 Crimson W 15 Dairy Science Club 15 Engineering Coordinating Council 15 Entomology Society 15 Fish Fans 15 Food Science Club 15 Forestry Club 15 Graduate and Professional Students Association 15 Hawaiian Club 15 Home Economics Chapter 15 Horticulture Club 15 India Students Association 15 Intercollegiate Knights 15 Interfraternity Council 16 Intervarsity Christian Fellowship 16 Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity 16 Latter Day Saints Student Organizaion 16 Mortar Board 16 Men's Physical Education Association 16 Mu Phi Epsilon 16 National Collegiate Players 16 Omicron Nu 16 Omicron Delta Kappa 16 Orchesis 16 Outing Club 16 Parachute Club 17 Pharmacy Wives 17 Phi Alpha Theta 17 Phi Beta Kappa 17 Phi Epsilon Kappa 17 Phi Eta Sigma 17 Phi Kappa Phi 17 Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia 17 Pi Lambda Theta 17 Pi Sigma Alpha 17 Pi Tau Iota 17 Poultry Club 17 Psi Chi 17 Residence Hall Association 17 Rho Chi 17 Rho Epsilon 17 Rho Nu 18 Scabbard and Blade 18 Sigma Delta Chi 18 Sigma Gamma Epsilon 18 Sigma Iota 18 Sigma Tau 18 Soccer Club 18 Society of Automotive Engineers 18 Society of American Military Engineers 18 Spurs 18 Student American Pharmaceutical Association 18 Tau Beta Phi 19 WSU Army ROTC Rifle Club 19 WSU Folkdancers 19 Women's Recreational Association 19 Young Americans For Freedom 19 Young Democrats 19 Young Mens Christian Association 19 Young Republicans