approximate 2500 items ( 5.5 linear feet) ( 11 containers)
Collection Number:
Archives 17
Summary:
Includes memoranda, reports, correspondence, and committee materials such as brochures, financial records, minutes, rosters and membership lists of the student committees.
Repository:
Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Historical Note
The ASWSU (Associated Students of Washington State University) Activities Center serves the university by organizing, directing and generally over-seeing many campus-related student group activities. Administering of student organizations includes constant evaluation and advisement.
The Activities Center was established with approval of the Board of Regents in the Spring of 1947 in answer to student and faculty demands. It began operation during the fall semester of that year. The goal of the Activities Center was to enable a joint student-faculty coordination and participation in student and campus life. The student-faculty cooperative effort was to be augmented by a staff of professionals through whose help the Activities Center was "to bring efficiency and direction by coordinating and guiding existing student organizations, by assisting new groups in developing new programs, an by aiding individual students in planning a balanced program of activities." (As observed in a Review of Student Activities Center Program, April, 1948).
At the time the Activities Center was organized, most of the social activities and student involvement in campus life were coordinated by living groups. As students' living arrangements gradually became more diffuse, the Activities Center became a more important central focal point coordinating their activities. The Activities Center, therefore, became a place of general guidance, assistance and counseling for student committees and concerns. Furthermore, it became a central repository for committee records where evaluations of past activities could be used for recommendations of procedures for future efforts. In this regard, on an annual basis, evaluations of past activities could be used for recommendations of procedures for future efforts. In this regard, on an annual basis, evaluative reports are filed with the Activities Center so that evaluations of the programs can be made; these reports are filed by Committee Chairmen, as well as by faculty advisors to individual committees.
The Activities Center also played a supplemental role in reorganization of the student government. Prior to the formation of the Activities Center, and for some time after it began, the major student government organizational structure was the class governments. However, in time, and especially during the decade of the 1960s, the ASWSU (an organization of all students) superseded the class government system, and the class governments were discontinued in 1968. For the Activities Center this has meant that the role of the students, in directing and actually involving themselves in the workings of the Activities Center, has increased. What was once a joint student-faculty arrangement, in conjunction with professional administrators, has become more of a joint effort between students and professionals.
Content Description
The records of the Activities Center include memoranda, reports, correspondence, and committee materials such as brochures, financial records, minutes, rosters and membership lists of the student committees. They cover the period since World War II and the establishment of the Activities Center, 1946-1973.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access :
The Collection is open for research use.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
The collection has been arranged by committee or organization in alphabetical order. Most are contained in a single folder, but several are larger and more extensive.
Acquisition Information :
The records of the A. S. W. S. U. Activities Center were deposited at the Washington State University Library in August, 1975.
Processing Note :
The records were processed from February 1976 to May 1976 by Ross James Pegler.
Detailed Description of the Collection
I: Records of Activities Committees, project organizations, and project coordinators , 1946-1973
(accession of 1975)
Container(s)
Description
Box
1
Bands and Bookers: Correspondence, publicity and information from booking agents, notes and financial information , 1968-1970
170 items
1
Blood Drives: Advisors and annual final reports, correspondence, committee notes and arrangements information , 1952-1966
Cougarettes: Annual reports, cheers and other materials memoranda and correspondence , 1961-1969
20 items
2
Cougar Coordinating Council: Annual reports, correspondence and memoranda 1967 Oregon State University football game arrangements, 1956-1964; 1965-1968.
20 items
2
Crimson Block: Annual reports, correspondence and committee materials , 1961-1968
25 items
2
CUB Christmas: Annual reports, photographs and committee organizational information , 1953-1966
65 items
2
CUB Crafts Committee: Annual reports , 1956-1960
3 items
2
CUB Crafts Operation and Program Report: Annual report , 1959-1960
1 item
3
CUB Dance: Annual reports, committee materials: band publicity, correspondence, financial records and contracts , 1952-1967; 1968-1969
150 items
3
CUB Games Committee: Annual reports , 1953-1963
3 items
3
CUB House Committee: Annual reports, general policy statement , 1953-1965
8 items
3
CUB Music Committee: Annual reports , 1953-1965
12 items
3
CUB Program Council: Annual reports, clippings of special events, correspondence, memoranda, also includes reports on regional conferences and 5th CUB Birthday Party , 1954-1966
II: Records of Committees, project organizations and project coordinators , 1968-1974
2 containers ( 1 linear feet)
Correspondence, enclosures, advertising, questionnaires, and contracts regarding extra-curricular activities. Material is similar to that of Series I, only arranged in a second alphabetical series encompassing this accession.
Container(s)
Description
Box
Folder
12
1
Adverting Survey. Questionnaire, tabulations, and related materials relative to survey measuring the effectiveness of various forms of publicity used by student activities , 1974
200 items
12
2-6
Art Committee. Correspondence, minutes, notes of Art Committee regarding CUB Arts Exhibits and insurance of art works , 1968-1972
300 items
12
7
Association of College Unions. Correspondence and convention materials , 1970-1973
150 items
13
8
Committee Publicity and Programming. Correspondence, clippings and advertising materials relative to publicity of extra-curricular activities , 1972-1973
100 items
13
9
Dad's Day. Correspondence and publicity materials , 1968-1971
150 items
13
10
General Information and Schedules. Correspondence, letters, and announcements relative to a variety of Activities Center services , 1971-1974
100 items
13
11
Grant Applications. Proposals and cover letters regarding extramural financing , 1970-1971
50 items
13
12
Winter Festival. Entry blanks, award certificates, correspondence and publicity , 1972-1973
III: Records relating to recognized campus organizations , 1935-1962
6 containers ( 3 linear feet)
Constitutions, by-laws and similar organizational documents of campus organizations, period reports of faculty advisors, and attached correspondence, organized in an alphabetical sequence of organization names. Records of most organizations date from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, with older records included in a few cases.
