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Haverford College Alumni Association records

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Call Number:
001
Repository:
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Extent:
11.66 linear ft. (24 boxes, 10 volumes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Haverford College Alumni Association records (HCH.001) Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
Date:
1839-2016 (inclusive)
Creator:
Haverford College. Alumni Association, Ohl, Paul W., and Kaye, William
Form:
minutes (administrative records) and Correspondence
Abstract:
This collection contains records created by and about the Haverford College Alumni Association. A large portion of the collection consists of the meeting minutes and reports of the Alumni Association as well as its two core groups, the Alumni Association Executive Committee and the Alumni Council. The collection also contains materials pertaining to class reunions, alumni affinity groups, events, awards and prizes, publications, and guides.

The Haverford College Alumni Association was formed on November 22, 1856 by a group of alumni at the hall of the College of Pharmacy in Philadelphia. The association's first officers were Thomas F. Cock, Lloyd P. Smith, Charles L. Sharpless, William S. Hilles, Robert Bowne, Edmund A. Crenshaw, Philip C. Garrett, James J. Levick, Henry Hartshorne, Henry G. Sharpless, Richard Wood, and David Scull, Jr. The first regular meeting of the Alumni Association was held at Haverford College on July 28, 1857.

As of July 2023, The mission of the Haverford College Alumni Association is to create "a space in which Haverford's alumni can interact within a community of people who shared a unique undergraduate experience." The Association's primary focus is "to strengthen alumni relations between Haverford College and its alumni, while promoting and considering the best interests of the College. The Association provides support for all alumni events including Alumni Weekend and regional events, and works with the Center for Career and Professional Advising, Admission, Athletics, and other campus units on matters of importance to alumni." All graduates and honorary degree recipients are considered members of the Alumni Association.

Two primary groups work within the Alumni Association to design programs and provide leadership: the Alumni Council and the Alumni Association Executive Committee. The Alumni Council has existed since at least the 1950s. It is comprised of volunteers and provides a structural framework for programs and events facilitating alumni connections with College faculty, staff, and students. The Alumni Association Executive Committee (AAEC) acts as the executive arm of the Association providing leadership and direction regarding alumni affairs. The AAEC is responsible for recognizing outstanding achievement and volunteer contributions to Haverford through the Alumni Association's awards program, and for nominating alumni to the Board of Managers.

This collection contains records created by and about the Haverford College Alumni Association. A large portion of the collection consists of the meeting minutes and reports of the Alumni Association as well as its two core groups, the Alumni Association Executive Committee and the Alumni Council. The collection also contains materials pertaining to class reunions, alumni affinity groups, events, awards and prizes, publications, and guides.

The collection begins with the Haverford College Alumni Association's organizational documents, including its by-laws and constitutions. These are followed by a large group of the Alumni Association's minutes and abstracts. Some of these documents take the form of bound manuscripts while others are published reports. This group also includes published issues of the Alumni Quarterly, which provided editorial content to alumni in addition to organizational reports. Following this group of administrative materials from the larger organization are the minutes, agendas, and reports of the Alumni Association Executive Committee (AAEC), the executive arm of the Alumni Association. The earliest minutes of the AAEC are included in Volume 1, Alumni Association of Haverford College, 1856-1885.

The next group of records relate to membership in the Alumni Association and the organization's finances. Volumes 7 and 8 include membership lists from 1857-1862 and 1907-1920, respectively. Although Volume 8 is dated circa 1907-1908, it includes members elected up to 1920. Volume 9, the Haverford College Alumni Association financial ledger includes debits and credits related to the Alumni Fund, Capital Account, Haverford News, alumni officer salaries, alumni events and projects, Alumni Association Executive Committee, Alumni Council, office expenses, and travel, promotion, and publicity. Entries date from 1952 to 1973.

This group is followed by a substantial collection of minutes and other organizational materials from the Alumni Council dating from 1952 to 1973. There are also smaller groupings of materials related to Alumni Association committees.

The following group contains materials related to alumni events, including Alumni Day, Alumni Weekend, Homecoming, the annual meeting, and the Mid-Winter Dinner.

The next group consists of reports and correspondence pertaining to the Alumni Association. The majority of these materials are from the second half of the nineteenth century, although Bill Kaye's reports to the Class of 1954 form a substantial portion. The reports and correspondence and followed by smaller groupings on the restructuring of the association and various alumni affinity groups.

Class reunion records constitute ten boxes of material and date from 1878 to 2016. The majority of these records are yearbooks produced for class reunions.

The remainder of the collection consists of alumni directories, guides, and other publications; materials pertaining to the Alumni Oratory Prize and Alumni Award; annual giving and fundraising materials; materials related to the construction of Alumni Hall; and other ephemera. The final box of material was created and collected by Paul W. Ohl, Haverford College Class of 1927. For decades, Ohl was a very active member of the Alumni Association, and these materials show his involvement with the Alumni Council, Alumni Association Executive Committee, and annual giving in the 1970s and 1980s.

Arranged topically and chronologically.

Processed by Elizabeth Jones-Minsinger, completed August 2023.

Organization
Subject

Publisher
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
Elizabeth Jones-Minsinger
Finding Aid Date
August, 2023
Access Restrictions

The Haverford College Alumni Association records are closed for a period of 25 years from the date of the creation of the record.

Use Restrictions

Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17)

Collection Inventory

By-laws and constitutions, 1861-2002.
Box 1

Manuscript Alumni Association minutes, 1856-1876.
Box 1
Alumni Association of Haverford College Minutes, 1856-1885.
Volume 1
Scope and Contents

In addition to the minutes of the Alumni Association, this volume includes the minutes of the Alumni Association Executive Committee (AAEC).

Published Alumni Association minutes and addresses, 1857-1868.
Box 1
Published Alumni Association minutes and abstracts, 1870-1886.
Box 1
Alumni Association of Haverford College Minutes, 1886-1909.
Volume 2
Published Alumni Association abstracts, 1887-1890.
Box 1
Published Alumni Association abstracts, 1891-1895.
Box 1
Published Alumni Association abstracts, 1896-1898.
Box 2
Published Alumni Association abstracts, 1899-1902.
Box 2
Published Alumni Association minutes, 1903-1914.
Box 2
Alumni Association of Haverford College Minutes, 1910-1920.
Volume 3
Scope and Contents

The title on the spine of this volume erroneously states that the minutes run from 1910 to 1917.

Alumni Association of Haverford College minutes, 1922-1953.
Volume 4
Scope and Contents

Information on the spine of this volume incorrectly gives the dates of included minutes as 1922-1952.

Alumni Quarterly, 1914-1916.
Box 2
Alumni Quarterly, 1917-1920.
Box 2

Minutes of Executive Committee of the Haverford Alumni Association, 1859-1908.
Volume 5
Scope and Contents

The title on the volume's spine incorrectly gives the dates as 1859-1907.

Minutes of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association of Haverford College, 1908-1922.
Volume 6
Alumni Association Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1953-1965.
Box 3
Alumni Association Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1966-1972.
Box 3
Alumni Association Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1973-1979.
Box 3
Alumni Association Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1980-1983.
Box 3
Alumni Association Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1984-1992.
Box 3
Alumni Association Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1993-1995.
Box 3
Alumni Association Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1996-1998.
Box 4
Alumni Association Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1998-2001.
Box 4
Alumni Association Executive Committee meeting minutes, 2001-2004.
Box 4
Alumni Association Executive Committee meeting minutes, 2004-2006.
Box 4
Alumni Association Executive Committee meeting minutes, 2006-2009.
Box 4
Alumni Association Executive Committee meeting minutes, 2012-2013.
Box 5
Alumni Association Executive Committee reports, agendas, and membership, 1986-1995.
Box 5
Alumni Association Executive Committee reports, agendas, and membership, 1996-2000.
Box 5
Alumni Association Executive Committee reports to boards, 2007-2011.
Box 5

Alumni Association of Haverford College membership roster, 1857-1862.
Volume 7
Alumni Association of Haverford College membership ledger, ca. 1907-1920.
Volume 8
Haverford College Alumni Association financial ledger, 1952-1973.
Volume 9

Alumni Council meeting minutes, 1952-1954.
Box 6
Alumni Council meeting minutes, 1955-1957.
Box 6
Alumni Council meeting minutes, 1958-1969.
Box 6
Alumni Council, 1974-1980.
Box 6
Alumni Council, 1981-1984.
Box 6
Alumni Council, 1985-1987.
Box 6
Alumni Council, 1988-2003.
Box 7
Activities of Alumni Council, 1985-2002.
Box 7
Alumni Council membership, 1967-1984.
Box 7

Alumni Advisory Committee meeting minutes, 1919-1929.
Box 7
Alumni Advisory Committee reports and correspondence, 1928.
Box 7
Alumni Advisory Committee, 1997.
Box 7
Endowment Fund Committee, 1920.
Box 7
Committee for the Centenary of the Alumni Association, 1955-1956.
Box 7
Past presidents of the Alumni Association, 1990.
Box 7

Alumni Day and Alumni Weekend, 1868-1957 and undated.
Box 8
Alumni Weekend, 1958-1989.
Box 8
Alumni Day and Alumni Weekend, 1990-1994.
Box 8
Alumni Weekend, 1995-1998.
Box 8
Alumni Weekend, 1999-2002.
Box 8
Alumni Weekend, 2003-2008.
Box 9
Alumni Weekend, 2009-2012.
Box 9
Alumni Weekend, 2011-2015.
Box 9
Homecoming, 1941-1998.
Box 9
Annual Meetings and Mid-Winter Dinners, 1864-1908.
Box 9
Annual Meetings and Mid-Winter Dinners, 1911-1935.
Box 9
Other events, 1917-2013.
Box 9

Reports and correspondence, 1864-1877.
Box 10
Reports and correspondence, 1878-1888.
Box 10
Reports and correspondence, 1899-2006.
Box 10
William G. Kaye's reports to the Class of 1954, 1980, 1984-1985.
Box 10
Restructuring, 1962-1987.
Box 10

Lambda Alumni Association, 1994-2000.
Box 10
Alumni Multicultural Committee and Alumni of Color, 1994-2004.
Box 10
Alumnae Association, 1994.
Box 10
Scarlet Sages, 2001-2006.
Box 10
Lawyers Network, 2012.
Box 10
Varsity Club, 1955-2003.
Box 10
The Varsity Letter, 1966-1968, 1976-1983.
Box 10
Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 1998.
Box 10
Beta Rho and Triangle Society, 2004.
Box 10
Fractured Forties, 1995-1996.
Box 10

List of members of the classes of 1833 and 1834 and oration from 1895 reunion, 1895.
Box 11
Class of 1870 reunions, 1878.
Box 11
Class of 1885 reunions, 1935.
Box 11
Class of 1888 reunions, 1938.
Box 11
Class of 1902 reunions, 1910, 1912.
Box 11
Class of 1904 reunions, 1912-1949.
Box 11
Class of 1913 reunions, 1938.
Box 11
Class of 1914 reunions, 1944-1959.
Box 11
Class of 1927 reunions, 1969-1979.
Box 11
Class of 1930 reunions, 1940, 1955.
Box 11
Class of 1932 reunions, 1969.
Box 11
Class of 1934 reunions, 1984.
Box 11
Class of 1935 reunions, 1985.
Box 12
Class of 1937 reunions, 1997.
Box 12
Class of 1938 reunions, 1988.
Box 12
Class of 1938 reunions, 1998.
Box 12
Class of 1939 reunions, 1984.
Box 12
Class of 1940 reunions, 1990.
Box 12
Class of 1941 reunions, 1961.
Box 12
Class of 1941 reunions, 1991.
Box 12
Class of 1941 reunions, 1996-2001.
Box 13
Class of 1942 reunions, 1992-1997.
Box 13
Class of 1943 reunions (1 of 4), 1993.
Box 13
Class of 1943 reunions (2 of 4), 1993.
Box 13
Class of 1943 reunions (3 of 4), 1993.
Box 13
Class of 1943 reunions (4 of 4), 1993.
Box 14
Class of 1944 reunions, 1989-1994.
Box 14
Class of 1944 reunions, 1994.
Box 14
Class of 1945 reunions, 1995.
Box 14
Class of 1946 reunions, 1996.
Box 15
Class of 1947 reunions, 1997-2002.
Box 15
Class of 1948 reunions, 1994.
Box 15
Class of 1949 reunions, 1989.
Box 15
Class of 1949 reunions (1 of 4), 1999.
Box 15
Class of 1949 reunions (2 of 4), 1999.
Box 15
Class of 1949 reunions (3 of 4), 1999.
Box 15
Class of 1949 reunions (4 of 4), 1999.
Box 16
Class of 1950 reunions, 1990.
Box 16
Class of 1950 reunions, 2000.
Box 16
Class of 1951 reunions, 2001, 2011.
Box 16
Class of 1952 reunions, 1992-1997.
Box 16
Class of 1953 reunions, 2013.
Box 16
Class of 1954 reunions, 1994.
Box 16
Class of 1954 reunions, 1999-2014.
Box 17
Class of 1955 reunions, 2015.
Box 17
Class of 1956 reunions, 1996.
Box 17
Class of 1957 reunions, 1997.
Box 17
Class of 1958 reunions, 2003.
Box 17
Class of 1959 reunions, 1984.
Box 17
Class of 1960 reunions, 1985, 2010.
Box 17
Class of 1961 reunions, 2011.
Box 17
Class of 1961 reunions, 2011-2016.
Box 17
Class of 1962 reunions, 2012.
Box 18
Class of 1963 memorial service, 2008.
Box 18
Class of 1963 reunions, 2003.
Box 18
Class of 1963 reunions, 2013.
Box 18
Class of 1964 reunions, 1989.
Box 18
Class of 1967 reunions, 1992.
Box 18
Class of 1969 reunions, 1994.
Box 18
Class of 1970 reunions, 2000.
Box 18
Class of 1975 reunions, 2000-2010.
Box 18
Class of 1975 reunions, 2010-2015.
Box 19
Class of 1976 reunions, 2001.
Box 19
Class of 1979 reunions, 1989.
Box 19
Class of 1980 reunions, 2000.
Box 19
Class of 1982 reunions, 1992-1997.
Box 19
Class of 1982 reunions, 2007.
Box 20
Class of 1983 reunions, 1998.
Box 20
Class of 1985 reunions, 1995-2000.
Box 20
Class of 1986 reunions, 2001.
Box 20
Class of 1987 reunions, 1997.
Box 20
Class of 1988 reunions, 1998.
Box 20
Class of 1992 reunions, 1997.
Box 20

Haverford College alumni directory, 1928.
Box 21
Haverford College alumni directory, 1949.
Box 21
Haverford College alumni directory, 1965.
Box 21
Haverford College alumni directory, 1971.
Box 21
Haverford College alumni directory, 1976.
Box 21
Haverford College alumni directory, 1982.
Box 21
Haverford College alumni directory, 1989.
Box 22

Haverford Trends, 1946-1956.
Box 22
Haverford Trends (bound copies), 1946-1956.
Box 22
Correspondence regarding Haverford Trends, 1953-1954.
Box 22

Haverford class chair handbooks, 1986-1995.
Box 22
Facts and Figures, 1980-1990.
Box 22
Alumni guides to Haverford admissions, undated.
Box 22
Handbook for alumni representatives, 1989-1990.
Box 22
Annual giving, 1969-1994.
Box 23
Membership and fundraising, 1863-1967.
Box 23

Alumni Prize Orations scrapbook, 1901-1907.
Volume 10
Alumni Oratory Prize contest, 1881-1907.
Box 23
Alumni Award Program, 1977-2011.
Box 23

Alumni Hall building proposal, 1858-1875.
Box 23
Alumni Hall financial papers, 1839-1878 and undated.
Box 23
Alumni Hall dispute correspondence, 1864-1867.
Box 23

Haverford Centenary alumni questionnaire and published report, 1931.
Box 23
Alumni survey, 1947.
Box 23
Reunion planning, 1977-2001.
Box 23
Admissions, 1977-1984.
Box 23
Publications, 1878-1953.
Box 23
Alumni secondary school representatives, 1971.
Box 23
Volunteers, 1991 and undated.
Box 23
Songs and poems, 1895-1983 and undated.
Box 23
Letters to the Classes of 1936 to 1945, 1945-1946.
Box 23
Alumni in Foreign Service, 1950.
Box 23
Gilbert White address, 1951 October 12.
Box 23

Annual giving, 1971 July 1 - 1972 June 30.
Box 24
Alumni Council and annual giving, 1972 July 1 - 1973 June 30.
Box 24
Alumni Council, 1973 July 1 - 1974 June 30.
Box 24
Alumni Council, 1974 July 1 - 1975 June 30.
Box 24
Alumni Council and annual giving, 1976 July 1 - 1977 June 30.
Box 24
Alumni Council and annual giving, 1977 July 1 - 1978 June 30.
Box 24
Alumni Council and annual giving, 1978 July 1 - 1979 June 30.
Box 24
Annual giving, 1981-1984.
Box 24
Class of 1927 55th reunion, 1982.
Box 24
Alumni Council and annual giving, 1984 July 1 - 1985 June 30.
Box 24
Alumni Council and annual giving, 1985 July 1 - 1986 June 30.
Box 24
Annual giving, 1987-1988.
Box 24

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