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Ozone Club records

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

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The Club was founded by Walter P. Stokes, Walter Smedley, and James G. Biddle as an afternoon of golf once a month with Quaker friends. The success of the group spawned additional social golfing clubs - the Divotee (1921) whose first president was D. Robert Yarnall, then the Niblick Club, first president Benjamin S. Thorp, and a woman's group, the Hit or Miss Club. The groups mingled Hicksite and Orthodox Friends, but membership was largely Hicksite. In the early years, there was a close relationship with the meeting for worship in Atlantic City and the hotels and golf courses located there. Until the 1970s, a requirement was membership in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, but gradually the requirement was loosened to include persons with "friendly connection."

A popular annual event was the match between the Ozone and Divotees Clubs formally began in 1955.

The Ozone Club records include minute books, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers. A small amount of records from the Niblick Club is also included with the collection, including annual meeting programs and photos.

The collection is divided into six series:

  1. History of Ozone Club
  2. Reports
  3. Secretary's Minute Books
  4. Miscellaneous
  5. Correspondence files
  6. The Niblick Club Records, 1949-1959

Many of the photographs and scores were reproduced in the book Down the Fairways.

Donor: Ozone Club, 1968, 1975.

Donor: Niblick Club material, gift of Anna Pettit Broomell.

Donor: Niblick Annual Meeting brochure, 1925, gift of Charles T. Jenkins, 1925.

Donor: Ozone Club photographs, correspondence and ephemera, gift of Ozone Club. Acc. 2003.003.

Donor: Niblick Club photographs, 1950-1958, gift of Margaret Lippincott, Acc. 2011.034.

Donor: Smedley family, 2018.055

When received from the Ozone Club in 1969, the records were arranged and placed in document boxes in RG/4. Two collection numbers were assigned, Ozone Club Records, RG 4/055, and Niblick Club Records, RG 4/052, but both were included in a one bibliographic description. The finding aids were united into a single collection in 1999 as RG4/055. In 2018, records stored at the Smedley family home were added to the collection. Three generations of Smedley had been active members of the Club.

The photographs, a small number of which were previously stored with the collection, were removed in 2019 to create a picture collection.

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
Susanna Morikawa
Finding Aid Date
1999
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. History.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Annual reports, 1901-1911, 1956, 1962.
Box 1
Physical Description

printed booklet

Archival Resource Key. Treasurer's report, 1/5/1917.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Golf match score records, 1911, 1916, 1916-1918, 1919, 1922, 1925-1927, 1932.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1901-1909.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1910-1915.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1916-1922.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1922-10/20/1926.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 11/1926-1930.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1932-1936.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1939-1942.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1943-1945.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1946-1948.
Box 2
Physical Description

2 vols.

Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1949-1951.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1952-1954.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1955-1955.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1958-1960.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1961-1963.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1964-1966.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's Minute Books, 1967-1969.
Box 3

Archival Resource Key. Copy of "Ozone Oracle", 1/22/1915.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Tribute to Samuel L. Allen (1841-1918), and note from his wife.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Tribute to J. Haines Lippincott.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Invitations, speech notes, poems, etc., probably for annual dinners.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Menus for Ozone Club dinners, 1924, 1927, 1928.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Handicaps, 1932.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Telegram, signed Leeds, n.d.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence and papers concerning Club history,, 2001-2003.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Club president Carl Berlinger's brief history of the Club, correspondence concerning proposed "memoirs" book, and emails to Golf Journal. The Journal ceased publication in 2003 before it could feature an article on the Club. Also, an issue of Philadelphia Golfer, Oct. 2001, with an article on Quaker golf clubs. Acc. 2003.031

Archival Resource Key. Notes of interest for history , 1927-1956.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Poems, obituaries, correspondence, memoirs compiled as reference for histories

Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc. , 1938.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc. , 1939.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc. , 1940.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's notebook, 1939-1945.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc. , 1940.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Members expressed concern that member Walter Buzby gave the Club complimentary accommodations at the Dennis for the annual meeting. Some felt it was an awkward arrangement and preferred to pay.

Archival Resource Key. 40th anniversary correspondence and celebration, 1939-1941.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

With comments by Morris Leeds. Correspondence mentions mix of Orthodox and Hicksites, having started with an largely Orthodox membership, the officers by mid-century were Hicksite.

Archival Resource Key. Donations to Atlantic City Meeting, 1940.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Walter Buzby of Atlantic City Meeting and president of the Dennis Hotel solicited donations from the Club to the Meeting which members attended during the Ozone annual meeting.

Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1941.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Donations to Atlantic City Meeting, 1941-1942.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Walter Buzby

Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1942.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1943-1945.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1945-1946.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's notebook, 1946-1950.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes the duties assigned to the Secretary. Compiled Club statistics, etc.

Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1947.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1948.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Treasurer's file, scores, correspondence and donations to Atlantic City Meeting

Archival Resource Key. Secretary's notebook, 1949-1951.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes the duties assigned to the Secretary. Compiled Club statistics, etc.

Archival Resource Key. Ozone correspondence, scores, schedules, 1950-1951.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Secretary's notebook, 1951-1955.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1952.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1953.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1954.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1955.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1956.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1957.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1958.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1959.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1960.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1961-1962.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1963-1964.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1965-1966.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1967-1969.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1970.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1971.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1972.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1973-1974.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1975.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1976.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1977-1981.
Box 8
Scope and Contents

At the Club meeting of December 1, 1981, it was noted that membership selections had been made by the officers and it was necessary to be a member of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. However, in the past ten years or so, many exceptions had been made for a "friendly connection," rather than only Quakers.

Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1982-1983.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1984.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1985.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1986-1987.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1988.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1989.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1990.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1991-1993.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1994.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1995.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1996.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1997.
Box 1997
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1998.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1999.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, members' trip to Scotland, 2000.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Ozone scores, schedules, etc., 1921-1996.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Ozone vs. Divotees, 1925-1993.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Membership lists, officers to 1995.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Historical notes compiled for Down the Fairway, 1926-2000.
Box 10

Archival Resource Key. Annual Meeting booklet, 1925.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Program of 27th Annual Meeting of The Niblick Club, 12/9/1949.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Remarks by the Secretary at the 33th Annual Meeting of the Club, 12/2/1955.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Letter from Secretary to members, 10/11/1956, 12/16/1956.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Match score sheet, 10/9/1956.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Niblick Club songs.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Letter from William K. Alsop, Jr. to "Anna" [Broomell], 1/8/1959.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Group photographs of Club members, 1950, 1951, 1958, n.d.
Box 3

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