The Womens’ Recreation Association (WRA) was set up to fulfill recreational needs and desires of women students on campus. It had three parts: recreational clubs, intramurals, and co-rec. Intramurals gave the women opportunity to compete based on living groups. There was an intramural board which consisted of the vice president of the WRA and two appointed WRA members. The board selected a manager for each activity. The activities included badminton, volleyball, co-ed volleyball, swimming, basketball, bowling, skiing, gymnastics, track and field, archery, synchronized swimming, co-ed golf, tennis, and softball. The Crimson W program also fell under the WRA. The Crimson W, an honorary athletic organization for women, encourages good sportsmanship and sponsors athletic enterprise on the campus. To earn a Crimson W, the women had to participate in a variety of activities within the sports department and earn 900 points.
The collection was maintained in its original order, with the scrapbooks moved to the end. Box 1 consists of the two notebooks and folders with photos and papers relating to meetings, and “Crimson W”. The second box consists of three scrapbook albums which include news clippings and photographs. The third box contains the two scrapbooks added in 2010, removed from their bindings and foldered.
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[Item Description] Womens’ Recreation Association Papers, 1938-1968 (UA 302)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This collection was acquired on December 15, 1992 from Barbara Hagedorn of WSU’s Physical Education, and retained as UA1992-40. It was processed in February 2011 by Library and Information Science graduate student Katrina Burch. During that processing two scrapbooks received in 2009 from Joanne Washburn of WSU’s Women’s Athletics as part of accession UA2009-10 were incorporated into this collection. Processing and description of this collection was funded in part through a National Endowment for the Humanities “We the People” grant for Washington Women’s History to the Washington Women’s History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society.
This collection was processed by Katrina Burch.
Related records relating to dance and the Physical Education Majors (PEM) club can be found in Archives 19.
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