Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections

Summary Information

Repository

Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections

Title

Associated Women Students of Washington State University Records

ID

Archives 303

Date [inclusive]

1954-1986

Extent

3 linear feet, 3 boxes

Language

Collection materials are in English.

Abstract

This collection contains photographs, scrapbooks, news clippings and organizational records of Associated Women Students of Washington State University.

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Biography/History

This organization was started at Washington State University in 1912 as the Women's League but changed its name to the Associated Women Students (AWS) in 1928. All undergraduate women automatically became members upon their enrollment at WSU. A member of the Intercollegiate Association of Women Students, the purpose of AWS is to promote interest in student activities and encourage participation in various aspects of campus life. One of the early goals of the AWS was to raise money for a Women's Building. Funds for this project were raised by sponsoring an annual drama production, The College Revue. Other major activities which AWS sponsored and organized were Women's Day and Mother's Weekend.

The structure of AWS was reorganized in 1958 to parallel that of the Associated Students of Washington State University (ASWSU). The Women's President's Council, composed of presidents of all women's living groups on campus, was incorporated into AWS as the House of Representatives at this time. The AWS governing body was made up of an Executive Board, the House of Representatives and a Senate which included elected women representative of each class. In 1981, AWSWSU merged with ASWSU.

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Scope and Content

The collection is arranged in two parts. The first part of this collection is a scrapbook which is titled “Associated Women Students. Washington State University, 1958 - 1959. It contains photographs, news clipping and scrapbooking objects from 1958 to 1967. The second part consists of documents related to the association, such as meeting minutes, elections, and programs. They are arranged in alphabetical order and by date within that.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections  © 2012

http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/

Terrell Library

P.O. Box 645610

Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA

509-335-6691

mascref@wsu.edu

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open and available for research use.

Restrictions on Use

Copyright restrictions may apply.

Acquisition Information

Records of the Associated Women Students of Washington State University were acquired on April 27, 1987 and retained as UA1987-21. An earlier set of records of the Associated of Women Students was transferred to Washington State University Libraries in September of 1980 and processed by Leslie J. Tevebaugh in January of 1985 as Archives 176. The two collections were jointly processed and combined in February, 2011 by Library and Information Science graduate student Katrina Burch. Processing and description of this collection was supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to member institutions of the Washington Women’s History Consortium, a program managed by the Washington State Historical Society.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Katrina Burch.

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Related Materials

Related Material

Additional materials of the AWS may be fournd in Archives 115.

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Names and Subjects

Corporate Name(s)

Subject(s) :

• Washington State University--Associated Women Students--Records and correspondence

Subject(s)

• Women college students--Washington (State)--Archives.
• Colleges and Universities
• Washington (State)

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Detailed Description of Collection

			box	folder
Scrapbook titled Associated Women Students Washington State University, 1958-1959. Includes news articles, programs, scrapbook items, publications, and photographs, 1958 - 1967.			1
About. Information, constitution, and by laws, 1958 - 1978			2	1
Associated Women Students resources				2
ASWSU. Services and Activities Fee: memos and guidelines, 1975 - 1976				3
Budget, 1975 – 1978				4
College Days, 1978. Letters, memos, schedules, and lists, 1978				5
Commission on the Status of Women, 1978				6
Committee. Activities Guidance, 1980				7
Committee. Apple Polishing, 1955				8
Committee. AWS Convocation and Transfer Students Tea, 1967-1970				9
Committee. AWS Point System, 1954 - 1956				10
Committee. AWS Scholarship, 1954 - 1956				11
Committee. Big-Little Sister, 1961 - 1963				12
Committee. Career Consciousness, 1975 - 1976				13
Committee. Hours, 1966 - 1968				14
Committee. Housing, 1966 - 1968				15
Committee. Mom’s Weekend, 1975 - 1976				16
Committee. Vocational Guidance, 1955				17
Career Awareness Information, 1976 - 1978				18
Elections, 1975 - 1976				19
Intercollegiate Association of Women Students. Meetings and memos, 1977 - 1978				20
Meeting agendas and minutes. Retreats, senate and executive, 1975 - 1976				21
Meetings. Agendas, 1982 - 1984				22
Meetings. Minutes, 1975 - 1976				23
Meetings. Minutes, 1979 - 1980				24
Meetings. Minutes, 1981 - 1982				25
Meetings. Minutes, 1982 - 1984			3	26
News Articles, 1986				27
Officers to the Senate, 1975 - 1976				28
Photographs, 1954, 1970(?)				29
Political Awareness and Social Change workshop. Information, 1978				30
Programs, 1977 - 1981				31
Programs. Mom’s Weekend, 1977 - 1978				32
Publications. The Co-Ed Extra and Toward Understanding Contemporary Women, 1964 - 1968				33
Speakers Handbook, 1982				34
Women’s Center, 1975				35
Workshop information, 1978				36
MASC Administrative Materials. Original Finding Aid for Archives 176, 2011				37