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Swarthmore College Board of Managers Records
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the 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.
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Under the 1864 Charter of Swarthmore College, the Board of Managers was elected at the annual meeting of the Stockholders of the College held each December in Philadelphia, Pa. The amendment of 1870 included a provision that sixteen of the thirty-two Managers were to be women, a formalization of the de-facto Board membership. In 1910 application was made to the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County to change the organizational structure of the Corporation and eliminate the stockholders provision of the Charter. This was approved on October 22, 1910. The Board of Managers took over the fiduciary responsibilities of the College and was authorized to elect its successors, appoint the College president and other officers, and adopt by-laws as may be necessary for the management of the College.
As a result of the Charter revision, the last meetings of the Friends Educational Association and the Stockholders of Swarthmore College were held on December 6, 1910, at which time the first Board of Managers of Swarthmore College was elected and the Stockholders Association dissolved. At that time, all shares of stock were surrendered to the Swarthmore College Corporation.
The collection consists of the official records of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College, its committees, personal papers of its members, and reference material concerning the Board.
Organized into seven series:
- Lists of Members of the Board of Managers and miscellaneous collected papers
- Minutes of the Board of Managers
- Standing Committees
- Ad Hoc Committees
- Miscellaneous reports, resolutions, etc.
- Background papers and other mailings to the Board
- Papers of individual members of the Board of Managers
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Minutes, 1862-1909: R-SW1
- Minutes, 1909-21: R-SW2
- Minutes, 1910-13 (pp.93-370): R-SW6
- Minutes, 1921-31: R-SW3
- Minutes, 1931-44: R-SW4
- Minutes, 1952-79: R-SW13
- Executive Committee Minutes, 1869-1918: R-SW
- Executive Committee Minutes, 1917-48: R-SW5
- Executive Committee Minutes, 1948-70 and 1976-77: R-SW13
- Instruction Committee Minutes, 1885-1927: R-SW11
- Instruction Committee Minutes, 1927-39: R-SW10
- Library Committee Minutes, 1922-29: R-SW10
- Recess Committee Minutes, 1892-1921: R-SW10
- Trusts Committee Minutes, 1875-1928: R-SW7
- Trusts Committee Minutes, 1928-33: R-SW9
- Household Committee Minutes and Correspondence, 1914-22/1911-17: R-SW8
- Trusts Committee Minutes, 1870-1926: R-SW6
- Investment Committee Minutes, 1965-75: R-SW14
- Building and Property Committee Minutes, 1942-65: R-SW14
- Property Committee Minutes, 1966-82: R-SW14
- Instruction and Library Committee Minutes, 1939-66: R-SW14
- Finance Committee Minutes, 1945-75: R-SW13
Deposit, 1972 and on-going
The bulk of the material was received circa 1972 and processed as part of Swarthmore College Archives, Series 2, Official Records of the College. As part of the reorganization of the College Archives that began in 1997, the records were reprocessed and a new finding aid produced. Corrections and re-classifying series were made on the inventory in 2014. Within each series, the boxes are mumbered sequentially in order to keep like material together rather than a continuous numbering of all boxes regardless of series or topic.
Organization
- Swarthmore College -- By-laws
- Swarthmore College -- History
- Friends Educational Association (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1862-1864)
- Swarthmore College. Board of Managers
- Swarthmore College -- Administration
Subject
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- FHL staff
- Finding Aid Date
- 2019
- Access Restrictions
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Permission to this material is restricted and requires the permission of the Office of the President of Swarthmore College. Contact the repository for details.
When available, access is through microfilm, with notations of microfilmed records included in finding aid.
- Use Restrictions
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Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf Friends Historical Library as the owner 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
Packets with Board member biographies and bylaws also known as "Board Manuals" or "Board Books"
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Includes obituaries, correspondence, clippings, speeches, etc.
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This series consists of the minutes of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College from 1862-2004.
Includes minutes of Board of Managers of Friends Educational Association
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Includes stockholders minutes 12/7/1901-6/6/1910.
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Photocopies, not bound. Stored after volumes.
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Copies of minutes, some correspondence, etc., apparently removed from bound volumes.
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After fiduciary responsibility and management authority was assigned to the Board of Managers in 1910, the Board created Standing Committees. The Committees were to report to the Executive Committee and the Board of Managers. The first standing committees were Executive, Finance, Trusts, Household, Property, Instruction, Libraries, Museums and Laboratories, Nominating, and Auditors. Additional briefly serving committees were: Committee to engross the Constitution for the proposed institution was established in 1865 and laid down in 1876; General Committee was formed in 1867 to appoint and attend conferences designed to create interest in stock subscriptions for Swarthmore College. A similar local committee of stockholders was appointed in 1864 to solicit subscriptions in Philadelphia. The Furnishing Committee was established in 1869 to oversee the procurement of furniture for the College buildings.
Note: Volume 6, 1970-1975 is lacking.
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Includes folder of loose papers laid in.
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Arranged chronologically.
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Thomas Seabrooke vs. Swarthmore College
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The records of Edward H. Ogden, Chairman of the Building Committee of Swarthmore College. Found in a metal box during the renovation of Parrish Hall in 2011. Metal box stored with Relics.
Original checks drawn on Consolidation National Bank and signed by Edward H. Ogden
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Bankbook for account with the Consolidation National Bank
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Includes correspondence, estimates, and some advertising material as well as George Watson (builder) weekly payroll lists.
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Includes correspondence, estimates, and some advertising material
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Includes correspondence, estimates, and some advertising material
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Includes correspondence, estimates, and some advertising material
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Includes correspondence, estimates, and some advertising material
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Book labeled: Reconstruction account/Swarthmore College/E.H. Ogden, Chairman Building Committee. Edward H. Ogden was Chair of the Rebuilding and Refurnishing Committees
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Chairman's ledger, accounts by vendor/account
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Includes Stock register
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Accounts of funds from 1870. Also includes folder of papers which were formerly laid in the volume.
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Notations to 1927.
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Also includes correspondence, 1911-1917
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The minutes of the Visiting Committee and of the Recess Committee, 1883-1893, may be found in the same volume.
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This subseries was deposited in 1997 and consists of mailings sent to Board members. Copies of minutes of the previous meeting were included.
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Records include correspondence, financial reports, and other materials related to Lax' role as Chairman.
Unprocessed. Stored offsite.
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