Societies
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
American Association of University Women, Connecticut Division Records
Hugh Clark Papers
Hugh Clark received his bachelor's degree from Clark University in 1934 and a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan in 1941. He was employed by the University of Iowa from 1945 to 1947, when he joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut. Clark specialized in developmental biology and retired from the University in 1983. The collection contains correspondence, administrative, professional and personnel files relating to Clark's responsibilities and interests.
Connecticut Citizens Action Group Records
Connecticut Pomological Society Records
In February 1891, a group of sixteen peach growers under the leadership of the Secretary of Agriculture, Theodore S. Gold, met in the State Capitol to talk about the formation of a fruit society. In December of that same year, forty growers met and elected John Smith of New Britain as president. Since its founding, the Connecticut Pomological Society has been involved in development of pest management and disease control for Connecticut's orchards.
Cooperative Extension Service: New Haven County Records
The collection documents the activities Cooperative Extension Service in New Haven County, Connecticut.
Council of Connecticut Academic Library Directors Records
In June 1993, Dorothy Kijanka, Director of the Ryan Matura Library at Sacred Heart University, convened a group of library directors with the hope of forming a consortium, loosely modeled on WALDO, the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization. Like the Westchester group, the envisioned Connecticut consortium would explore avenues of interlibrary cooperation, jointly seek grant funding, and serve as a forum for the discussion of mutual concerns.
Eastern Nursing Research Society Records
The Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS) is comprised of RNs and others interested in nursing research. It was established in 1988 as the research arm of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Nursing Association (MARNA) and the New England Organization for Nursing (NEON). The ENRS region includes Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington, D.C.
Faculty Club Records
The Faculty Club of the Connecticut Agricultural College was founded in 1915. It was established as a social organization open to "all male members of the several college staffs whose names appear in the catalog."
Foxon Homemakers Club Records
The records of the Foxon Homemakers Club, an associate member of the New Haven County Extension Service.
Donald and Margaret Gaylord Papers
The collection contains calendars, correspondence and personal materials created or acquired during the Gaylord family's association with the University.
General Meetings, 1903-1904
The collection contains the working papers of the organization including minutes, reports, bulletins, yearbooks as well as photographs and newspaper clippings concerning the Club's activities. The yearbook (membership directory) of the organization is restricted for ten years from the date of publication.
General Meetings, 1933-1935
The collection contains the working papers of the organization including minutes, reports, bulletins, yearbooks as well as photographs and newspaper clippings concerning the Club's activities. The yearbook (membership directory) of the organization is restricted for ten years from the date of publication.
General Meetings, 1935-1940
The collection contains the working papers of the organization including minutes, reports, bulletins, yearbooks as well as photographs and newspaper clippings concerning the Club's activities. The yearbook (membership directory) of the organization is restricted for ten years from the date of publication.
General Meetings, 1940-1945
The collection contains the working papers of the organization including minutes, reports, bulletins, yearbooks as well as photographs and newspaper clippings concerning the Club's activities. The yearbook (membership directory) of the organization is restricted for ten years from the date of publication.
General Meetings, 1958-1965
The collection contains the working papers of the organization including minutes, reports, bulletins, yearbooks as well as photographs and newspaper clippings concerning the Club's activities. The yearbook (membership directory) of the organization is restricted for ten years from the date of publication.
T.S. Gold Family Papers
Theodore Sedgwick Gold was born in Madison, New York. T.S. Gold graduated from Yale College in 1838 and then spent four years studying and teaching at academies in Goshen and Waterbury. He moved to Cornwall in 1842 to pursue a career in farming. Mr. Gold was a trustee of the Storrs Agricultural School from 1881 to 1901 and took an active role in promoting the school's growth and development throughout his lifetime.
Hartford Journeymen Plumbers and Apprentices, Local 76 Records
This local was originally chartered on 1 March 1893 as Local 76 of the United Association of Journeymen Plumbers, Gas Fitters, Steamfitters and Steamfitters Helpers of the United States and Canada.
Haymarket People's Fund Records
The Haymarket People's Fund is an activist-controlled foundation committed to radical social change. It gives grants to grassroots groups throughout New England, which fight violence, poverty, and injustice, in an effort to empower oppressed communities.
Wilma Keyes Papers
Wilma Belknap Keyes was an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut School of Home Economics from 1938-1963. During her tenure she developed and taught over 20 new art courses and saw the beginning of the School of Fine Arts as a distinct department from the School of Home Economics.
New American Poetry Circuit Records
North East Map Organization (NEMO) Records
University of Connecticut, Phi Kappa Phi Records
Petition to receive a charter from the Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi was begun and the local chapter organized in 1951. The Society itself was organized in 1897 to recognize and encourage superior scholarship in all academic disciplines. Admission is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a local chapter
Preston L. Pope Papers
Materials related to Preston L. Pope's service, from 1978 to 1981, as Grand Master of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Connecticut.
Quinebaug Pomona Grange No. 2 Collection
In 1952 the Connecticut State Grange sponsored a year long lecture series in the Granges across the state of Connecticut. This collection contains mimeograph copies of the lectures presented by the subordinate Granges of Quinebaug Pomona No. 2.
Taxpayers' Alliance to Serve Connecticut Records
This collection was started in 1993 when the Taxpayers' Alliance to Serve Connecticut lobbied the state government and the public against the balanced budget amendment, in favor of the Connecticut Income tax. It includes Publications, Administrative Records and Fliers.
Eleanor Taft Tilton Papers
Eleanor Taft Tilton, daughter of Dr. Charles and Martha Jarvis Taft, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on 1 January 1901. She attended Vassar and Barnard Colleges, but did not earn a degree. She married Arthur vcan Riper Tilton; he was employed by the Hartford Fire Insurance Company for many years. Mrs. Tilton died on 26 March 1984.
George Safford Torrey Papers
George Safford Torrey was born 14 March 1891 in Boston, Massachusetts. Torrey was hired in 1915 as an instructor of Botany at the Connecticut Agricultural College and in 1928 received tenure and was appointed Head of the Botany Department. Torrey retired from the University in 1953 and died in 1977.
Harleigh B. Trecker Papers
University of Connecticut, University Club Records
Organized in February 1960, the University Club was created by the merger of two former Faculty Clubs with (dining) facilities in the new "Commons" building. It ceased to exist in the spring of 1968 when its functions were undertaken by the new Faculty-Alumni Center.
Walter I. Wardwell Papers
In 1949, Wardwell was appointed instructor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1952 and to Professor in 1966. He retired in 1984 after a 35 year teaching career at the University.
