Collections : [Central Michigan University Clarke Historical Library]

The collection documents the history of the MOWA, through meeting minutes, photographs, and scrapbooks.

The collection, 1044-2012, and undated, totals 5 cubic feet (in 6 boxes, 2 Oversized v., 1 Ov. folder), and documents the history of the MOWA, through meeting minutes, photographs, and scrapbooks. Central Michigan University is mentioned in connection with MOWA for helping celebrate the 20th anniversary (see Folder 1964). All the boxes in the collection are .5 cubic foot letter-size boxes. Loose materials in the backs of the scrapbooks were sorted, sleeved, and are in Box #6.

The collection is organized by size and then alphabetically and chronologically.

A history of the organization is separately cataloged.

ALLERGY ALERT: Researchers, please be aware that here is a strong mildew smell throughout the collection. If you suffer from allergies, please take precautions before using the collection.

Processing Note: Two cubic feet of materials were removed from the collection during processing including: duplicates, acidic materials (copies were retained), membership applications, generic correspondence.

The collection includes agreements, newsletters, board of directors meeting minutes, constitutions, faculty meeting minutes [general membership meetings] and other materials. The collection is ongoing.

The collection includes agreements, newsletters, board of directors meeting minutes, constitutions, faculty meeting minutes [general membership meetings] and other materials. The collection is ongoing.

Processing Note: Initially, the collection was created from the CMU Vertical Files. New items are added as acquired.

The collection documents the history, committees, and activities of the organization in meeting minutes, photographs, and other materials. The collection is ongoing.

The Organizational Records of MAEA document the entire history of the organization, 1949-present. The collection has been organized alphabetically by topic. Within each topic, materials are filed chronologically. Particularly well documented aspects of MAEA are its Awards, the Executive Council, Conferences, the President’s Correspondence, and the [Michigan] Youth Arts Festival.

There is a complete run of Conference Materials, 1949-2006 (approximately 1 cubic foot). The general Conference Materials folders may include: conference agendas, invitations, public relations materials, correspondence, hotel contracts, notes, suggestions, proposals, statistics, reports of committees and individuals, and the general conference report, budgets, and meeting minutes. For later years there are also Conference Bags, Photographs, Negatives, and a Guest Book for the 50th Anniversary Conference in 1999. Conference programs are cataloged separately.

MAEA’s Art Educator of the Year Award and Public Service Award, and other awards processes, nominees, and recipients are well documented with various materials, including photographs, newspaper clippings, dossiers, letters of recommendation, and announcements of award winners (12 folders).

Originally called the Executive Board, the current Executive Council is documented mostly by Meeting Minutes with Attachments, which may include agendas, proposed and accepted budgets, statistics, reports from committees, officers, and conferences, notes, and correspondence, 1949-2003, 2006-2007. There are also unpublished Executive Council Directories/Lists, 1990-1994, and Executive Council and Liaison Workshops/Retreats Materials. (approximately 1 cubic foot).

The President’s Correspondence, 1950-1960, 1962-1983, 1988-1995 (approximately .5 cubic feet) documents each President’s interactions with MAEA officers and members, legislators, and members of other organizations interested in the arts and/or education, issues of interest to MAEA, conference planning, and related arts and education events.

The [Michigan] Youth Arts Festival, Materials, 1963-1995 (Scattered) and undated, include papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, a constitution and bylaws, publicity materials, planning materials, and information about student artists. Slides in Box 5 also document the Youth Arts Festival. (Youth Arts Festival materials total approximately .75 cubic ft.) Youth Arts Festival publications are cataloged separately.

Also documented are various drafts of the MAEA Constitutions and Bylaws, materials of various committees and officers, including the Presidents, Membership Lists/Directories, 1949-1970 (Scattered), Organizational Histories, 1969-1989 (Scattered), Photographs, Policies, Publicity Materials, and various Reports, as well as more miscellaneous materials. The collection is ongoing.

Processing Notes: MAEA publications, including the newsletters, ARTeacher, convention programs, Youth Arts Festival and Art Exhibit materials, brochures, directories, and other publications, as well as publications of other Michigan organizations that were originally part of this collection are separately cataloged. The collection is ongoing.

Newspaper clippings and other extremely fragile, acidic materials were photocopied. The photocopies are in the collection and the originals were returned to MAEA.

All duplicate materials, fragile materials, non-MAEA or non-Michigan publications, miscellaneous notes, (canceled) checks and checkbooks, receipts, and other materials of peripheral value to the collection were removed from the collection.

This collection, 1965-2018, and undated, includes bylaws, meeting minutes, annual reports, newsletters, program booklets, correspondence, thank you cards, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbook pages, and other materials related to the operations of the NED and the clubs in its jurisdiction.

This collection, 1965-2018, and undated, includes bylaws, meeting minutes, annual reports, newsletters, program booklets, correspondence, thank you cards, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbook pages, and other materials related to the operations of the NED and the clubs in its authority. Materials related to the operations of the NED include their bylaws, budgets, minutes of the NED’s executive board, workshops, several conventions, official calls to NED workshops and Great Lakes conferences, a guide for new officers, lists of officers, awards and certificates earned by the district, the NED’s presidents’ annual reports to the GFWC Michigan board of directors, NED newsletters, thank you cards written to NED officers, and GFWC brochures. There are pages of several binders that contain materials about the NED’s annual convention and officer meetings and the papers of the secretary. Also, there are photographs of various NED members at events such as the annual convention and Great Lakes conference, photographs in folder 39 include identification of persons, some photographs included in the scrapbook pages have an event and year labeled, others do not. This collection also includes photocopies of newspaper clippings along with awards that highlight the accomplishments of both the NED and its member clubs, including a key to the city of Clare presented to the Clare Study Club. Additionally, photocopies of three obituaries of three prominent NED officers are included. Materials pertaining to the defederated clubs from Gladwin County, Alma, and Pinconning that include correspondence between the clubs and the NED about defederation, Gladwin County Woman’s Club yearbooks, club histories, program booklets, and a photocopy of a newspaper article about the Pinconning Woman’s Club’s 75th anniversary. There are materials relating to the GFWC Michigan Education Foundation that include minutes from a 2017 meeting, correspondence from the Foundation to the NED, and an informational brochure. The general correspondence folder includes correspondence between club presidents, members of the NED Past Presidents Club, NED officers, GFWC Michigan officers, the GFWC International President Rose Ditto, and Bay Cliff Health Camp. The collection is organized by size, alphabetically and chronologically. Box 1 is a cubic foot box. The collection is in good physical condition.

The three main series in the collection include: Annual Meetings, Club materials, GFWC MI.

Annual Meetings: This series includes materials that relate to the NED’s annual convention/meeting hosted by one of the member clubs with assistance from NED’s executive board. Materials in this series include annual reports given by the clubs that describe challenges and accomplishments of their club over the last year, program booklets that provide information about the convention and the NED, and the minutes of the convention.

Club materials: This series contains materials that relate directly to member clubs of the district rather than the NED itself. Materials include program booklets, member lists, constitutions and bylaws, event flyers, and photocopies of newspaper clippings. Clubs represented in this series include the Clare Study Club, Farwell Women’s Club, Gaylord Study Club, Harrison’s Women’s Club, Ladies Literacy Club of East Tawas, and Rogers City Women’s Civic League. Researchers interested in the Mount Pleasant Woman’s Club can find their materials in the Mount Pleasant Woman’s Club Organizational Records collection at the Clarke.

GFWC Michigan (GFWC MI): This series contains materials that relate to GFWC Michigan operations. These include board of directors meeting minutes, the board of directors’ annual reports that describe their accomplishments, and materials related to the state convention including press releases, registration information, and program booklets.

Researchers interested in the GFWC may be interested in the Mount Pleasant Woman’s and Junior Woman’s clubs Organizational Records in the Clarke Historical Library. Both clubs were members of the GFWC within the NED.

Processing Note: Approximately a quarter of a foot of material was withdrawn during processing. Withdrawn materials included duplicate items, original newspaper clippings after being photocopied, miscellaneous and out of scope materials, blank forms, and unidentified photographs.

The collection consists of Pat's major project and backup files for digitizing, website, and exhibit work she did mostly for the Clarke Historical Library staff, 2004-2015.

These files, paper and digital, 2004-2015, and undated, constitute Pat’s major project files for work she did for mostly Clarke staff, and some patrons, in creating exhibits and related materials for display in the Clarke, traveling exhibits, and in on-line exhibits, exhibit booklets, numerous Clarke webpages and on-line bibliographies, and materials she and her many students digitized for CONDOR, CMU’s online digital repository. Some of the digital images are pdfs, others are tifs. Text, directions, and prints of various size of images may also be included.

A master copy of mostly printed materials she scanned for the Clarke or patrons is housed in another location in the Clarke stacks.

This is a nearly complete collection of oversized, matted color composite photographs of the sorority, 1983-2021.

This is a nearly complete collection of oversized, matted color composite photographs of the sorority, 1983-2021. The photographs are organized by size and chronologically. All the composites include the color portraits, names, and officer positions of the sorority members; the sorority name, Central Michigan University, the academic year, the coat of arms of the sorority with its moto, Les Souers Fideles, and the name of the photography company. The composites are in good condition, but most have sustained some edge damage and have tape around the periphery of the back side. Most of the composites are mounted on heavy board. Sizes of the composites vary in size from 24x30 to 42x53 inches. A few of the composites in the collection include photographs of sweethearts. A photograph of Emerson, a service dog, is included in 2020/21. The composites for 2015/16 and 2016/17 list a few names for women whose photographs are not included. A few composites have tape damage on the front. Years missing from the collection include: 1987/88; 1994/95; 2001/02; 2007/08; and 2013/14. Photographers are identified on every composite and include: 1983-1990/91 Fraternal Composite Service, Inc.; 1991/92-1993/94 Vantine Studios, Hamilton, NY; 1993/94-2004/05 Custom Composites, Inc.; and 2005/06-2020/21 Digital Pix and Composites, LLC. The collection is stored in oversized folders in map cabinet drawers.

This is collection of oral history interview cassettes of Richard C. “Chit” Train, transcriptions of the one and only oral history interview with Kha Nay Ung Train, a draft outline of book chapters all by Joan Shippers Memering, and a few related materials.

This is collection of mostly oral history interview cassettes of Richard C. “Chit” Train, transcriptions of the one and only oral history interview with Kha Nay Ung Train, and draft outline of book chapters all by Joan Shippers Memering. There are also a few related newspaper clippings (copies) of Cambodian refugees in mid-Michigan, including one by Memering, a cassette of This Shattered Land by Jim Laurie [and Pamela Hill, who is not listed in the credits], a documentary of the destruction of Cambodia, 1970-1979, by the Khmer Rouge Regime and the Cambodian Famine, 1979-1980. The slides are all topically related. About half the slides are from a slide presentation titled Kampuchea: it’s People, Land and Culture by Asia Resource Center, Ontario, 1980. Kampuchea was the Cambodian state, 1975-1979, under the Khmer Rouge, the Communist Party of Kampuchea. The collection is organized alphabetically, chronologically, and by format. he collection is in very good condition.

The oral history interview cassettes includes black and white cassettes. The black cassette tapes are written on in pen or marker, while white cassettes have typed labels, so the black cassettes were the initial recordings and the white cassettes appear to be a master copy as they are not edited. For most dates there are both black and white cassettes, but for some dates there are only cassettes of one color.

Besides the Trains, Joan interviewed other Cambodian refugees: Meng Leng [Phou], Heng Suy Keang, who was called Lim Son Seak, Tan Chen Fu, Ing May, and Din Leng, who are discussed in her draft book chapter. For more information about them, please see the Joan Shipers Memering Papers finding aid.

There is also one folder of correspondence and between the Trains and Joan and one folder of materials about Richard C. Train.

Processing Note: A folder of a few mailing envelopes and a duplicate transcription were returned to the donors as specified on the donor form.

Papers and a plethora of photographic materials of Dick Moehl, documenting his interest in, preservation, restoration and tourism projects and successes with Michigan lighthouses, lighthouse groups and related organizations, Boy Scouts of Troop 4, Ann Arbor, and the Mackinaw area. Some of these materials continue or expand the GLLKA organizational records collection, which is separately cataloged and housed at the Clarke.

The collection consists of papers and a plethora of photographic materials of Dick Moehl, 1902-2017, and undated, documenting his interest in, preservation, restoration and tourism projects and successes with Michigan lighthouses, lighthouse groups and related organizations, Boy Scouts of Troop 4, Ann Arbor, and the Mackinaw area. The collection is organized by size and format, then alphabetically by topic within series. Some of these materials continue or expand the GLLKA organizational records collection, which is separately cataloged and housed at the Clarke. The major series of the collection include: Dick Moehl materials (mostly in Box 1); Subject files; Slides of Michigan lighthouses; and Oversized materials.

The Subject Files include: extensive documentation of Dick’s activities, allied organizations, and interests, including: Troop 4 Boy Scouts, awards, honors, history and lighthouse work, Eagle Scout projects and programs, GLLKA organizational records, records of the many historic, preservation, and tourism organizations Dick was associated with, St. Helena and Round Island light station projects and history, lighthouses (Michigan, national) preservation, restoration, dedication or re-dedication or re-opening events, Mackinaw/c city, Island, and County history, tourism, and current events, and general Michigan history or tourism topics or events.

Slides of Michigan lighthouses and Boy and Girl Scouts helping preserve and restore lighthouses, cruising, Michigan tourism, nature, Soo Locks, Mackinac Bridge, 1981, 2009, and undated.

There is also a slide box (Box 29) of thirteen Sony8 videocassettes, mostly of events at St. Helena Lighthouse, undated, 1989-1991, perhaps as late as 1993. These video cassettes can be viewed by connecting a Sony 8 or high 8 camera to a television screen.

Oversized Materials include: two lighthouse photograph albums, 1985 and 1986; and five Oversized folders of posters, notably a color photograph poster of the Boy Scouts at St. Helena Light with a pile of collected trash, 1993, drawings, including children’s art, a pennant, and architectural drawings of Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse Barn, by Northwest Design Group, Richard Newman, Architect, Preliminary Drawings A1.1-A1.3, S1.2, prepared for Mackinac State Historic Park, September 2004.

The 2018 addition to the Richard Moehl Collection, Acc# 76135, Boxes #30-34 and Oversized Folder #6, 1942, 2016, and undated includes: paper awards and certificates, notebooks and logs, correspondence concerning Moehl’s achievements and certifications, and photographs; five plaques awarded to Moehl; four trophies, The oversized folder includes a special tribute and a certificate.

Processing Note: During processing numerous duplicates and peripheral materials were removed from the collection (29.5 cubic feet). Over 3 cubic feet of personal materials and camera equipment were returned to Mrs. Moehl. Over 75 catalog entries were created for monographs and serials that were added to the Clarke’s collection. Also, some postcards and miscellaneous newsletters were added to the Michigan postcards collection and vertical files.

Collection of the history of the department and jail, and related clippings (copies), mainly compiled in 2001.

This collection consists of a typed history of the Isabella County Sheriff’s Department and Jail, gleaned from meeting minutes, records, and the remaining folders, which consists mainly of Mount Pleasant, Michigan, newspaper clippings (copies), 1960-2011, mainly compiled by Banta in 2001.

This collection, 1928-2020 (Scattered), and undated,contains biographical materials, awards, books, letters, plaques, photographs, newspaper clippings, sketches, medals, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, a U-Matic colored videocassette and a scrapbook.

This collection, 1928-2020 (Scattered), and undated, contains biographical materials, awards, books, letters, plaques, photographs, newspaper clippings, sketches, medals, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, a U-Matic colored videocassette and a scrapbook. The majority of the collections contains photographs of Rose Traines’ metal sculptures. There are also photographs of Rose throughout her life and of her husband Robert Traines. There are letters sent to Rose by Robert before they got married (see Robert Traines Letters folder). There are letters from Michigan Governor William Milliken and his wife, Helen Wallbank Milliken, sent to Rose Traines for consecutive years while he was in office. There are also letters from Michigan state and federal politicians (see Political Letters folder). A sample was retained from sketches of metal sculptures drawn by Rose Traines. There are two autographs in the collection from American Actress Carol Channing and Miss America Mary Ann Mobley (See Autographs folder). There two folders of programs that provide details about Rose, her metal sculptures and exhibits (see Programs folders). There is one folder with a paper titled ‘sentenced to life’ which is a personal account by Rose telling her life story and listing her major accomplishments. There isa also a copper raised outline of Rose’s hand attached to a piece of wood (see Metal Hand Print folder). There are two boxes of VHS tapes, CDs, and Cassette tapes that document Rose’s metal sculpture exhibits. The oversized Box contains a scrapbook of Rose’s time in Alpha Phi, a CMU alumni frame, self-portrait art works, oversized photographs, a large love letter, and a 90th birthday signed poster.

Objects in the collection include: her childhood dress and nightie, baby clothes, CMCH anniversary medal, her Ames Draft-Pak, a mobile drafting/drawing case, and her adult, large navy blue, cotton sweater with her name monogrammed on it, The childhood clothes are a white, silk handmade little girl’s slip with matching ribbons, a littles girl’s two-piece dress with a plaid skirt with the colors red, white, blue, green, purple and yellow with cream sleeveless top with six buttons. The baby clothes are a handmade knitted baby girl’s pink sweater with matching hat with pink ribbons and two sets of boots made of silk and leather, one pair with white laces and the other with pink laces, and a baby’s pink waterproof pants with laced trim.