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Old York Road Contemporary Club records
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The Old York Road Contemporary Club was organized in 1934 by a group of women who broke away from Woman’s Club of Jenkintown "because they wished to follow a format of current event study including World Affairs." The Club’s motto was "Getting together is a beginning, Keeping together is progress, Working together is success." Until the mid-1960’s, the club met twice a month, then once a month thereafter. As a member of the Federation of Women’s Clubs, its committee organization conformed "as far as is practical" to that of the State Federation. The club’s organization and By-Laws changed in 1980 when it quit the County Federation and joined the Philadelphia Federation of Women’s Clubs and Allied Organizations, in which it was not active. The club dissolved in May, 1992.
The records in this collection include:
Executive Committee and Member minutes, 1951-1958/59, 1963/64-1965/66, with committee reports on programs, speakers, fundraisers (for the Willow Grove Navy Base and Valley Forge Army Hospital), volunteer activities (making cancer dressings, at the Well Baby Clinic), membership, finances, and Montgomery County Federation of Women’s Clubs and other regional federation activities
Executive Committee and Member minutes, 1980/81-1991/92 with reports on plans for meetings, finances, fund raising bake sales and bridge parties, membership.
Presidents of the club for the periods covered by the minutes were: Mrs. Edgar Wambold, Mrs. Earl Killian, Mrs. J. Henry Bailey, Mrs. Harvey F. Mayers, Mrs. James F. Besecker, Mrs. Carl F. Clancy, Mrs. Edwin P. Steeble, Mrs. Frederick Roth, Mrs. William T. Gray, III, Mrs. William Hellyar, Mrs. Edward Shmidheiser, Mrs. Charles Oister, Mrs. Edna B. Roman.
Financial records, 1964-1980.
Yearbooks, 1939/1940-1941/42, 1952/53-1991/92, listing officers, committee chairs, meeting programs and hostesses, member list. Meetings included programs on current affairs, foreign affairs, travel, home decoration, flower arrangement, books, history, card parties and other special meetings.
Scrapbooks, 1955-1974: announcements and reports of club meetings, many written by Ruth MacKenney, other federation meetings, and articles and obituaries on club members.
Small album of snapshots, 1980’s, 1992.
Gift of Old York Road Contemporary Club, courtesy Ruth MacKenney.
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2011-2012 as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR), using data provided by the Old York Road Historical Society. The HCI-PSAR project was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was done in the HCI-PSAR project.
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- Old York Road Historical Society
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- Finding aid prepared by staff of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories using data provided by the Old York Road Historical Society.
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- This preliminary finding aid was created by staff of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) using data provided by the Old York Road Historical Society. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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