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Intermountain Yearly Meeting records

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Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Intermountain Yearly Meeting of Friends (IMYM) began as a Fellowship when Arizona and New Mexico Quarterly Meetings met with Colorado and Utah Friends, at a gathering at Ghost Ranch New Mexico in June 1970. The groups officially combined to form Intermountain Yearly Meeting in 1975, and have met annually, usually at Ghost Ranch. Information from Intermountain Yearly Meeting's website, http://imym.org/about-imym/.

This collection includes materials about IMYM activities from the 1970s to 2007. Most of the records pertain to their annual business sessions, such as minutes, programs, and correspondence. There are also documents pertaining to committees within the yearly meeting, and external organizations that IMYM partnered with such as American Friends Service Committee, Friends Committee on National Legislation, and Friends World Committee for Consultation.

This collection is arranged into six series: Minutes, Membership and History, Annual Sessions Materials, Administrative Records, Committees, and External Organizations. The Minutes series is broken down further into the subseries: Minutes, Continuing Committee, Epistles, and Documents-in-Advance.

Deposited in 2004 and gifted in 2017.

Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
Madison Arnold-Scerbo
Finding Aid Date
February 2018
Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to the Repository. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

This series contains minutes, documents-in-advance, continuing committee minutes, and epistles of the Intermountain Yearly Meeting. These documents contain information about the business conducted by the meeting.

Scope and Contents

These are the official minutes of yearly business meetings of the Intermountain Yearly Meeting.

Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1975-1985.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1985-1989.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1990.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1991-1992.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder.

Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1993.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1994-1998.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1999-2000.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 2001-2002.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Minutes and Feedback, 1992-1993.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Contains minutes for: meeting for business, continuing committee, executive committee, and summary of evaluations, questionaire to monthly meetings, and summary of responses.

Archival Resource Key. Minutes and Historical Note, 1975-1983.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Minutes and Historical Note, 1984-1988.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Minutes and Historical Note, 1989-1990.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Scope and Contents

These are the minutes of the continuing committee, the body charged with coordinating the yearly meeting and conducting business in between yearly sessions.

Archival Resource Key. Continuing Committee Minutes, 1975-1981.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder. From their Faith & Practice 2009 - " It may appoint an Interim, Planning or Continuing Committee to help plan its sessions and to act for it between sessions, within agreed-upon limits." It meets between the yearly meetings to continue business.

Archival Resource Key. Continuing Committee Minutes, 1982-1984.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Continuing Committee Minutes, 1985-1987.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Continuing Committee Minutes, 1988-1990.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Continuing Committee Minutes, 1991-1992.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Continuing Committee Minutes, 1993-1995.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Continuing Committee Minutes, 1997-2001.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Continuing Committee Minutes, 2004.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

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These are the open letters written by Yearly Meetings of Friends. The Epistles in this series come from meetings throughtout the United States and abroad. There is also one handwritten Epistle by the Junior Young Friends.

Archival Resource Key. Epistles, 1980-1983.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Epistles, 1984-1987.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Epistles, 1988-1989, 1994-1995.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Epistles, 1992-1995.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Also includes a handwritten Junior Young Freinds Epistle from 1995

Archival Resource Key. Epistles for Watching Committee, 1994.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Epistles, 1996-1997.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Scope and Contents

These are documents prepared before business meetings. They contain information such as agendas for meetings, updates from monthly meetings, and announcements.

Archival Resource Key. Documents-in-Advance-for-Executive Committee, 2002.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Documents in Advance, 2000-2001.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Documents in Advance, 2002.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Documents in Advance, 2003.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

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This series includes lists of current and deceased members and monthly meetings in North America. It also contains information about the history and guidelines of the Intermountain Yearly Meeting.

Archival Resource Key. Requests to Join, 1972-1979.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Directories, 1970-1989.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Directories, 1981-1990.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Directories, 1991, 1993, 2002, 2004.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Contacts for IMYM Officers and Committees, 1998-1999.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Index of Monthly Meetings, 1991.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Includes meetings relating to IMYM

Archival Resource Key. Guidelines and Organization, 1974-1978.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Guidelines and Organization, 1979.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Guidelines and Organization, 1980-1988.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Guide for Operations of IMYM, 1990, 1998.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. IMYM Beginning History, 1949-1989.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Memorial Minutes, 1989-1991.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Scope and Contents

This series contains paperwork relating to the happenings of the yearly meetings of Intermountain Yearly Meeting. There are programs and schedules, correspondence with speakers, and reports and evaluations.

Archival Resource Key. Programs, 1970-1976.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Programs, 1977-1979.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Programs, 1980-1982.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Programs, 1983-1985.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Programs, 1986-1990.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Contains photographs

Archival Resource Key. Schedules, 1991-1992.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Speaker Correspondence, 1976-1988, 1993-1994.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Report on Outbreak of Gastrointestinal Illness at Ghost Ranch, 1981.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Pertaining to the Yearly Meeting in June 1981

Archival Resource Key. IMYM Stationery - Map Background, 1979.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder. originally housed in a folder that read "Tracy Rowland, IMYM - Original for Revised Letterhead, Nov '70 + Paste-on Letters" and Mr. White ORIGINAL"

Archival Resource Key. IMYM Materials, 2006-2007.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. IMYM Evalutations, 1994.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. IMYM Planning Materials, 1976-1977.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Compiled by Ted Church

Archival Resource Key. Documents on IMYM from website, 2007.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Pertaining to Continuing Committee Meeting 2007 and Yearly Meeting 2007

Archival Resource Key. Intermountain Friendly Review, 1990.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Published by Intermountain Quaker Writers Group

Archival Resource Key. Suggestions for Officers and Business of IMYM, 1980.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

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This series contains correspondence and other records relating to the administrative functions of the Intermountain Yearly Meeting. There are documents written by and to the clerk, recording clerk, and historian/archivist. Some relate to Young Friends and the Brinton Visitors Committee, a collabrative committee between Intermountain, Pacific, and North Pacific Yearly Meetings charged with coordinating traveling ministors to visit Quaker meetings.

Archival Resource Key. Clerk's Correspondence, 1972-1980.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Clerk's Correspondence, 1981-1986.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Clerk's Correspondence, 1992-1995.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Clerk's Book, 1983-1984.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Clerk's Book, 1985.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Clerk's Correspondence, 1987-2000.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Contains: Response to Continuing Committee questions, Monthly Meetings minutes about marriage/same sex marriage, Letter about continuing committee, Casa de los amigos in Mexico, letter, Correspondence with Clerk, Business meeting minutes IMYM 6/21/1997, Friends Bulletin IMYM, Transferring (Assuming) Responsibility for Intermountain Yearly Meeting, Worship Sharing 1990, Business Meeting Agenda IMYM 1992,

Archival Resource Key. Historian/Archivist Correspondence, 1976-1991.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1996-1997.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Most are either written to, by, or cc'ed the clerk

Archival Resource Key. Young Friends Correspondence, 1980-1987.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Brinton Visitors, 1984-1985, 1994-1995.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Clerk's Book, 1991-1993.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Clerk's Book, 1994-1996.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Clerk's Correspondence, 1992-1993.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Correspondence of Martin Cobin the Clerk

Scope and Contents

This series contains documentation about the workings of many of the committees within Intermountain Yearly Meeting. This series contains documents created by the following committees: Executive Committee, Committee to Advise the Clerks, Committee on Aging, Environmental Concerns Work Group and Friends in Unity with Nature Committee, Faith and Practice Committee Ministry and Counsel Committee, Environmental Concerns Work Group and Friends in Unity with Nature Committee, Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), and Committee on Hispanic Cultures.

Archival Resource Key. Executive Committee, 1976-1987, 1991-1992, 1992-1993,1993-1995, 2004.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Contains member lists, budgets, reports, agendas, 2004 contains a directory, information on website,

Archival Resource Key. Committee to Advise the Clerks, 1976.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 page in one folder

Archival Resource Key. Committee on Aging, 1984-1986.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Environmental Concerns Work Group and Friends in Unity with Nature Committee, 1986-1987.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Faith and Practice Committee Reports and Correspondence, 1986-1997.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Ministry and Counsel Committee, 1992-1994.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Hispanic Culture, 1982.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Scope and Contents

This series contains documentation about Intermountain Yearly Meeting's interactions with other external organizations. These organizations include: American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), Mexico Monthly Meeting, and Friends Bulletin Committee.

Archival Resource Key. IMYM and American Friends Service Committee Joint Service Project, 1991-1995.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Mexico Monthly Meeting correspondence, 1985-1987.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. American Friends Service Committee correspondence, 1978-1985.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. American Friends Service Committee correspondence, 1991-1995.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Draft Registration, 1979-1981.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Relating to AFSC, draft to war

Archival Resource Key. Friends Bulletin Committee Correspondence and Reports, 1993-1995.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Documents relating to the Friends Bulletin, the "Offical organ of communication for Friends of Pacific, North Pacific, and Intermountain Yearly Meetings"

Archival Resource Key. Friends Committee on National Legislation, 1978-1979, 1983-1984.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder Contains correspondence and reports

Archival Resource Key. Friends Committee on Unity with Nature, 1991-1992.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Friends World Committee for Consultation correspondence, 1975-1983.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Friends World Committee for Consultation correspondence, 1985-1994.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder. Skips 1987-1990

Archival Resource Key. Articles related to IMYM Concerns and Projects, 1986-1991.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Archival Resource Key. Friends World Committee for Consultation Triennial, 1994.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

3 folders

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