Collections

This collection includes a variety of organizational records of Central Michigan University. Student Government Association (CMU.SGA), including meeting minutes of various committees, photographs, scrapbooks, posters, subject files, and miscellaneous, 1995-2014, and undated.

This collection includes a variety of organizational materials of CMU.SGA, including meeting minutes and agendas of various committees; photographs of various topics including President George E. Ross, and notably of the commemoration events for September 11, held in 2011; posters on multiculturalism, SGA elections, and anti-rape campaign; subject files, notably on multiculturalism, Registered Student Organizations on campus (RSOs) and the Student Budget Allocation Committee (SBAC); election materials; notes from past officers; brochures; proposals; resolutions; and scrapbooks. Most of the photographs were developed in 2014. CMU Homecoming events are also documented in photographs and posters.

Researchers may also be interested in the several other SGA collections in the Clarke Historical Library.

Various meeting minutes of the Central Michigan University Student Senate, 1924-1977, and undated, and related materials.

The collection consists mainly of the meeting minutes of the Student Council, 1924-1947, and the Student Senate, 1948-1974. There are also meeting minutes of the Student Assembly, 1974-1975, the Student Council and Senate constitutions, 1924-1959, and related materials.

Meeting minutes usually include agendas, minutes, correspondence, reports, and other attachments.

The collection includes Central Michigan University Theatre Department Scrapbooks, 1939, 1972.

This collection includes scrapbooks documenting the academic years of the Theatre Department, 1939/1940-1965/1966 and 1970/1971-1972. Materials include production programs, music, photographs, newspaper clippings, and some correspondence.

Materials were removed from rotting, plastic binders, duplicates were sorted out, and miscellaneous materials removed. Remaining materials were filed into acid-free folders. Due to the overall high acidic content of the materials, nothing was photocopied.

Researchers should also check CMU. Theatre Department photographs, which are part of the CMU. Photographs Collection.

Miscellaneous vertical file material for Central Michigan University Career Services.

The collection, 1939, 2003, and undated, includes photographs, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and plaques. The scrapbooks, 1939-1970, document campus activities and events and the student union when it was in Powers Hall/ Keeler Union. The scrapbooks consist of CMLife clippings on acidic pages. The rest of collection documents the staff, students, and events in the Bovee UC, including the period right after it was built. This information was generated by CMU staff and students. The 40th anniversary of the UC is documented in the Photograph Album, 2000-2003.

Overall the collection is in good physical condition, except for the scrapbooks, which are acidic and several of two of which, 1953-1959 and 1964-1970, have broken or loose covers.

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

The Collection, 1990-2014, and undated, includes signed black and white or color photographs or posters of nationally recognized actors, performers, musicians, musical groups, and speakers who spoke or entertained at CMU.

The collection includes Central Michigan University Women brochures, correspondence, historical materials, photographs, negatives, and reports.

Organizational records include: Bridge Club Materials, Spring 2003; Brochures and Membership Forms, 2000-; Correspondence, 1999-; Hiking Schedules and Members, 2000-2002; Historical Calendar and PowerPoint, 2020; Meeting Programs, 1999/2000-; Photographs and Negatives, 2000-; Reports, 2010/2011-; and 75th Anniversary Materials, spring 2003, including written memories of past presidents, a list of past presidents expected at the anniversary celebration, party mementos, compiled, selected minutes of historical importance from past meetings, and photographs of the event. The collection is ongoing.

The collection includes meeting minutes, agendas, and related materials, curricula materials, bylaws, assessments, budgets, statistics, newsletters, photographic materials, clippings (copies), correspondence, guest books, and other materials documenting the history of the program.

The collection documents the history and functions of the CMU Women’s Studies Program. Included in the collection are various meeting minutes, agendas, and related materials, course request change forms, syllabi, reports, bylaws, assessments, program reviews, budgets, statistics, newsletters, newspaper clippings (copies), photographs, negatives, slides, prints of e-photographs, fliers, emails, correspondence, advertisements, guest books, and other materials. Also included are meeting minutes, agendas, and related materials documenting related topical advisory boards that the director of women’s studies participated in. Materials are in alphabetical and chronological order.

Processing Note: Duplicate, out-of-scope materials, and temporary financial records (older than 7 years) totaling about 6 cubic feet were withdrawn from the collection during processing. Materials with social security numbers and other private information, about 1.5 cubic feet were shredded. Some materials were added from the CMU Vertical Files.

The organizational records include: an organizational history, account books, Christmas bird count reports, constitution and bylaws, meeting minutes with attachments (earlier years are in volumes), membership lists, miscellaneous, newsletters, newspaper and magazine clippings (copies), pamphlets, photographs, programs and property materials.

The organizational records include: an organizational history, account books, Christmas bird count reports, constitution and bylaws, meeting minutes with attachments (earlier years are in volumes), membership lists, miscellaneous, newsletters, newspaper, and magazine clippings (copies), pamphlets, photographs, programs, and property materials. The collection is organized by alphabetically and chronologically. The collection is ongoing.

A copy of William Theunissen’s Chippewa Valley Audubon Club, 1951-1992 history of the Club is separately cataloged in the Clarke.

Processing Note: Duplicate materials and acidic materials, which were copied, were returned to the donor as per the donor agreement.

Papers include family genealogical materials, Tuma's biographical materials, awards and certificates, photographs, DVDs and a cassette tape of anniversary and reunion celebrations, large framed photographs, and other materials documenting the Embers Restaurants in Mount Pleasant and Traverse City, Michigan..

The Clarence Tuma Papers consist of the Tuma family genealogy, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, speeches, recipes, menus, bank statements and awards and certificates. The topically grouped material is arranged alphabetically. Newspaper clippings,1960 – 2007, include information on Tuma’s World War II Service, The Embers, and the Rashid Family. Photographs consist of Tuma’s service in World War II, family, The Embers, and Rashid Family Reunions. A special note is to be given to three photographs in the collection of a funeral of an unidentified individual. Also included are awards and certificates, 1964-2007, and plaques comprising of the Trustee Appreciation Award, the Salut Au Restaurateur Award, and the Alumni Recognition Award. Oversize Folder 1 contains oversized documents such as bank statements and certificates. Oversize Folder 2 contains family photos. Oversize Folder 3 contains a photograph of the Embers Restaurant in Traverse City, Michigan. Oversize Folder 4 contains photos of the Rashid Club of America.

Electronic sources include DVDs of Clarence Tuma’s 80th Birthday, the 75th Reunion of the Rashid Club of America and the Lion’s Club Farewell to the Embers. A cassette tape is also included, which is titled “Congratulations Clarence and Janet Tuma.” A later addition includes a thank you note from Rosalynn Carter, 2015.

Collection, 1881-1989, undated, includes textual materials, photographs, military publications and objects documenting Tip’s life in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, his World War I service in France, his family, and Central Michigan University.

Collection, 1881-1989, undated, includes textual materials, photographs, military publications and objects documenting Tip’s life in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, his World War I service in France, his family, and Central Michigan University. The first donation of materials includes two handwritten World War I letters, one a breakup letter to Tip from “Dutch”, 1918 (with matching enveloped attached to a scrapbook page; censor approved letter from Tip to his father, November 12, 1918 about the time directly before and after the Armistice, celebrating the Armistice; unidentified African Americans in an unspecified labor battalion whom he refers to several times in derogatory, racist terms, and his thoughts of friends and the future; two acidic, worn pages (Front and back) of an oversized scrapbook, with a published letter from Tip to his father, October 23, 1918, describing life in France, the artillery, and Boche lines; a French regulation artillery form, filled in in English, undated; published World War I song lyrics, October 11, 1919; and a page of miscellaneous including ration cards, a Paris postcard, and a newspaper article about the Armistice, undated (preservation copies of the scrapbook pages were added in color and black and white by the Archivist); four newspaper clippings include: an acidic image of Carnahan in his WWI uniform for his 90th birthday, 1984 (and preservation copies); and three long descriptive interviews with Carnahan by Burnie Bonnel, published in the Mount Pleasant (Mich.) Morning Sun, about his life at CMU, in Mount Pleasant, during and after WWI, and his opinions on various topics, January 23-24, 1986 and July 1, 1989. His obituary (1990, copy) is in the Hotel Chieftan scrapbook,1947-1971, which is also housed at the Clarke.

The 2020 addition includes photographs of Tip and his family; and Tip’s family history written and pasted onto a piece of cardboard. His service materials include: two service patches; his veteran’s bonuses and insurance materials; official war correspondence including his embarkation orders, his official papers of promotion, several associated manuals, discharge papers; personal notes and other materials that he used while discharging his duty. Published works include: a book on cavalry drill regulations for the US Army, 1916; a booklet on the by-laws of Union Prisoners of War Association, 1881; a French phrase book for American soldiers, 1918; and a book on the 329th Barrage which was the unit that Tip served with in France, 1919. One oversized folder includes a selection of mostly American piano sheet music, 1911-1945, and undated, which were retained in the collection due to the images on their covers and/or inscriptions from members of the Carnahan family. The collection is organized by format, size, and alphabetically. Overall, the collection is in good condition although two folders are fragile and one piece of cardboard with family history pasted and written on it is acidic.

Researchers may also be interested in the Hotel Chieftain scrapbook.