The Illinois Club, 1906-2003, 2009-10

Description: Records of the Illinois Club, founded in 1906 as the University Women's Club, a social club for faculty wives and female faculty members, including minutes (1906-62) and a list of officers (1942-61). The series contains records and scrapbook of the Newcomers Club (1928-62), founded as an auxiliary of the University Women's Tuesday Tea Club (as the group was renamed in 1923), including secretary's (1928-45) and board (1940-47) minutes, a history of the founding, brief accounts of each year's activities, constitutions, membership lists, clippings and photographs and information on the duties and activities of the interest groups and minutes (1936-56) and correspondence (1946-52) of the Twenty-Eight Club, the first group of Newcomers. The series includes papers of the reorganized (1962) University of Illinois Women's Club including minutes of meetings (1962-69); membership lists (1962-73) and programs (1962-73); correspondence (1962-73); publicity releases (pictures and newspaper clippings of social events (1963-73); financial records and budgets (1962-73); by-laws (original form and 1968 revision) papers of Chicago Circle Women's Club (1962-67); 75th anniversary program and tape recording. The group was again renamed the Women's Club at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in the late 1970s and is currently known as the Illinois Club.