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Pacific 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
Pacific Yearly Meeting grew out of the Pacific Coast Association of Friends, begun in 1931, and the College Park Association, founded in San Jose in 1889 by Joel and Hannah Bean after a schism in Iowa Yearly Meeting. The first Yearly Meeting was held in 1947. Pacific Yearly Meeting affiliated with Friends General Conference in 2019 and includes several dozen monthly meetings and worship groups, primarily in California.
The bulk of material consist of the compiled minutes and reports of Pacific Yearly Meeting's summer Annual Session and spring Representative Committee meeting, produced for distribution to constituent meetings. The collection also includes an early minute book and member list for the College Park Association of Friends, and some material from the Orange Grove Monthly Meeting's 1956 outreach regarding school integration.
Deposit, San Jose Monthly Meeting (Tom M. King), 1999-2000
Gift, Pacific Yearly Meeting.
Organization
- College Park Association of Friends
- Pacific Coast Association of Friends
- Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Subject
- Publisher
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- Inventory prepared by: FHL Staff
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
- Access Restrictions
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Where available, access is through microfilm. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
- Use Restrictions
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Information on reproduction policies available in the library.
Collection Inventory
Printed proceedings of the Annual Sessons as well as minutes of the Representative Committee and Executive Committee, and relevant attachments, including epistles and officer lists. Many years include an index, and bound volumes include a mix of typescripts, carbon copies, and photocopies.
Physical Description8 volumes (housed in SG2 run in Reading Room)
3 folders
PacYM Secretariat produces printed booklets of the Annual Session Minutes and Reports and the Representative Committee Minutes & Report for distribution to constituent meetings. The packets for 2013-2017 were produced after the fact (in 2018). Box 1 includes records from 2002-2012, Box 2 2013-2021.
The 2021 packet only covers the Representative Committee minutes and reports from spring 2021, prior to Annual Session.
The PacYM Secretariat produces PDF booklets of the Annual Session Minutes and Reports and the Representative Committee Minutes & Report for publication online.
Physical Description3 PDF files
Original title: Friends Bulletin: Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Subtitle varies: 1974-1984, Pacific and North Pacific Yearly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends; 1984- Pacific, North Pacific and Intermountain Yearly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends Published 1934-Aug. 1947 by Pacific Coast Association of Friends; Nov. 1947-June 1958 by Pacific Yearly Meeting and Pacific Coast Association of Friends; July 1958-Sept. 1972 by Pacific Yearly Meeting; Oct. 1972-July 1984 by Pacific Yearly Meeting and North Pacific Yearly Meeting; Sept. 1984- by Pacific, North Pacific and Intermountain Yearly Meetings Numbering irregular: No. 1 (Jan. 1934)-v. 30 (Jul./Aug. 1946); Oct. 1946-Dec. 1955; v. 23, no.1 (Jan. 1956)-
Continues after 2008 in the re-named Western Friend.
Also available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-P227 (1934-1950)
FHL subscription is ongoing.
Learning in the Light was described as the "Newsletter of the Religious Education Committee." Swarthmore only holds vol. 1 No. 1 (Summer 1989) and is unsure of the duration of the serial.
For the history of the College Park Association see: King, Thomas M. San Jose Quakers, West Coast Friends, 2004-2005.
The record book includes a penciled note on inside front cover "This is not the first Record Book"
This volume includes a 1936 prefatory note from William C. James recording the book's prior deposit in the Philadelphia Quartz Company. Record book includes a circa 1918 printed copy of Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws, an 1889 manuscript copy of the same, an annotated member list in the beginning and end of the volume, and minutes of the association from 1889 through 1932.
Fragile, please consult FHL staff prior to use.
Physical Description1 volume
Index and abstract of members assembled by Tom M. King from register, 1999
Physical Description1 folder
This transcription was made by Tom M. King of San Jose Monthly Meeting from a small bound volume found in the archives of the meeting. Original volume is not held by Swarthmore College.
A quarterly summary of the meetings and concerns of the College Park group of Friends' meetings.
Also available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-P227 (1929-31)
1 volume
(1) digital file (PDF)
For the history of Orange Grove see: Morse, David H. Orange Grove Monthly Meeting, a Centennial Timeline, 2007.
In June 1956 the Peace and Social Action Committee sent a letter to Monthly Meetings across the southern United States asking about how the Meeting was working against segregation. (The letter is not present in the file) 17 responses were received from meetings in Tennessee, North Carolina, Missouri, Virginia, Florida, and Texas, mostly reporting a lack of consensus around integration.
Includes a summary of monthly meeting minutes to 1977, more complete version from 1978. Called Bulletin between 1979-1980.
Also available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No Film
1 box
The scholarship program, a joint effort of Redwood Forest Friends Meeting and Guatemala Friends Meeting, was founded in 1973. A non-profit organization was established in Guatemala in 2007, PROGRESA, to manage the program. This folder includes occasional news updates.
Physical Description1 folder