YWCA of the U.S.A. Records. Record Group 6. Program: Series V. Program Subjects
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA
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Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.
The YWCA of the U.S.A. donated a portion of its records to the Sophia Smith Collection in 1964 and the remainder in 2002 and 2003.
Scope and Content NOTE: For the most part, the Microfilmed Records and the Original Format Records do not duplicate each other and both should be consulted. This description covers materials in both formats. See the Contents List for a folder-level inventory of the Original Format Records. See the Microfilmed Records Reel Lists for a detailed inventory of the microfilm. Forms part of the YWCA of the U.S.A. Records--Record Group 6. Program. This Series is divided into five Subseries: A. CAMPING AND OUTDOOR RECREATION B. HEALTH AND RECREATION C. MUSIC D. PAGEANTRY AND DRAMA E. RELIGION SUBSERIES A. CAMPING AND OUTDOOR RECREATION Historical Note Dr. Anna Brown listens to heartbeat of patient, circa 1910 Many young women had their first exposure to the YWCA through Summer Camps run by Community Associations all over the United States. Though camps were primarily the province of Community Associations, the National Staff served as consultants on the educational philosophy of camping and outdoor recreation and produced publications and other program materials for use at camps and in recreational programs. Staff in the Business Department also consulted with locals on administrative and property management issues. At times during its history, the National Association owned some camp properties and major summer conferences and councils took place at various regional camps, such as Camp Maqua in Poland, Maine and Camp Okoboji in Milford, Iowa. The National Association hired specialist staff to consult on camping for two rather brief periods, from 1925 to 1932, and 1965 to 1969. The latter period coincided with general Association concern over declining membership among the young, a growing environmental movement, and increased interest in outdoor recreation and conservation. During this period the YWCA sponsored two national conferences on Outdoor Recreation and Conservation. An associated Y-Teen Pilot Work Camp in which campers built a trail in the Teton National Forest became the subject of a film and garnered quite a bit of press coverage. Administrative History1925-31Camps in Education and Research1932Director of Camps Maqua and Okoboji under Business Committee1959Consultant, Camping Program in Leadership Services1965Consultant, Camping in Community Division1966Consultant, Camping and Program with Children Under 12 in Community Division1967Consultant, Camping, Outdoor Recreation, and Conservation in Community Division1968Consultant, Camping and Outdoor Recreation in Community Division1969Consultant, Special Programs and Camping in Community Division Scope and Content The Camping and Outdoor Recreation records consist of general historical materials; brochures and general information about some of the camps used for national conferences and councils; minutes and reports of national and regional camp committees and commissions from the 1910s and 1920s; correspondence, Conference and Program files primarily from the 1960s; publications; reference materials; and miscellaneous scrapbooks and memorabilia. Publications cover topics such as administration and educational philosophy of camping, nature study, and outdoor activities. Microfilmed Records, 1906-70 only [see Microfilmed Records Reel List] Microfilmed records include minutes and reports of various Camp committees and commissions, 1912-27; general information files on the camps Altamont, Canadohta, Makonikey, Maqua, Nepahwhin, Okoboji, and others; and files on the two national recreation and conservation conferences and the film "Aim, Achieve, Action" made at the Y-Teen Pilot Work Camp in 1966. The records do not contain a copy of the film itself. They can be found on the Microfilm in: Minutes and Reports Camp DepartmentSubject Files Arts, Motion Pictures [information about Y-Teen Pilot Work Camp film]CampsConference Original Format Records, 1912-71, n.d., 3 linear feet [see Original Format Records folder list] In addition to the Minutes and Reports (which were not discarded after filming), the Original Format Records contain 1960s working files of the Camping and Outdoor Recreation Consultant that were transferred to the National Board Archives after microfilming was complete. They include a sample of her consulting work with individual camps and her files on the national conferences and Y-Teen Pilot Work Camp. The Miscellaneous materials include an assortment of scrapbooks, memorabilia, and records of individual camps run by Community Associations. The Original Format Records are arranged as follows: General and historyMinutes and ReportsCorrespondenceConferencesProgramsPublicationsReference materialsMiscellaneous Related Materials Elsewhere in this Series The YWCA often had specialist staff for indoor (vs. outdoor) recreation. Similar materials about the philosophy of recreation and play are in Subseries B. Health and Recreation. Elsewhere in this Record Group The AssociationMonthly/Womans Press/YWCA Magazine in SERIES VI. PUBLICATIONS is an excellent source for most topics. It tended to have a special Camp issue each summer. There are many camp-related records in Subseries D. Teenage and Younger Girls Program in SERIES IV. CONSTITUENT GROUPS See also files about Summer Conferences, in SERIES IV. CONSTITUENT GROUPS There are reports on and discussion of camps in Education and Research minutes in SERIES I. DEPARTMENT, STAFF, AND COMITTEES. In other Record Groups Data and Statistics regularly collected and compiled information on Community Association Camp programs. These are in SERIES IV of RECORD GROUP 3. NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE. Files on Camp properties owned by the National Association are in SERIES II of RECORD GROUP 3. NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE. Lillian Rifken Blumenfeld's memories of Camp Winola are in SERIES V. BIOGRAPHICAL FILES in RECORD GROUP 1. GENERAL AND HISTORY. RECORD GROUP 9. PHOTOGRAPHS includes a smattering of camp photographs and an especially rich set of files on the Y-Teen Pilot Work Camp. Personal Papers The Sophia Smith Collection holds personal papers of a few YWCA women who ran Camp programs, particularly overseas. They include: Frances Ticknor and Polly Feustal. SUBSERIES B. HEALTH AND RECREATION Historical Note The YWCA of the U.S.A. defined health, which it considered "the right of every individual" as physical, mental, and social well-being. Its program of "positive health" a term coined by its first Secretary for Health, Dr. Anna L. Brown encompassed not only activities related to physical health, such as health examinations, health education, and physical recreation opportunities; but also the opportunities Community YWCAs provided for creative expression, cultural enrichment, rest and relaxation, social interaction, and other forms of personal fulfillment and spiritual growth. Such a wide-ranging assortment of activities, though a core concern of the YWCA, were never the province of a single department. While the National Association had staff, usually medical doctors, for overseeing health education, responsibility for all of the other aspects included in the concept of "positive health," was spread over many staff members in various departments. The first Health Secretary, Anna Brown, had been General Secretary of the predecessor organization to the YWCA of the U.S.A. known as the International Board. Brown was "called" to national leadership for physical education and hygiene by the National Association's first President, Grace Dodge. An early student of psychology, Brown appreciated the importance of psychological as well as physical and spiritual health and established a program emphasizing normal growth for the whole individual, as a defense against physical, mental, and moral ills. Her program included hygiene, physical education, nutrition, sex education, and a campaign promoting "health shoes," a topic Brown approached with particular zeal. "Under [her] leadership…a program of health was evolved which radically differed from all others. For the first time health was seen as freedom, vital force, power, energy and not a lack of it. Health was a bank account for life's possibilities, not the commonly held idea which limits it to attacking handicaps and diseases." (typescript "History" author unknown, circa 1930) Dr. Brown pioneered the concept of "health examinations" or check ups, and incorporated them into YWCA program as part of physical education classes. In its report to Convention in 1913, the Commission on Social Morality from the Christian Standpoint recommended establishment of a program "in the social training of women and girls with particular reference to sex education." Four lecturers were carefully chosen for a pilot program to speak on the subject to young women college and university students. Lecturers stressed "knowledge of normal sex life" and addressed their audiences with unusual frankness. As was the case in many other areas of YWCA Program, World War I brought a huge expansion in the physical education and recreation work. Some of the core activities provided in Industrial Service Centers and Community Associations through the war years, were physical and recreational activities to relieve stress and keep workers fit. The YWCA organized a Bureau of 150 women physicians to give sex education lectures to young women in communities surrounding military camps and industrial plants. Because of its experience in this area, the U.S. Government asked the YWCA to assist its Social Hygiene Division in setting up a similar program. The Bureau of Social Education, established at the end of the war in 1919, continued the work through the reconstruction period through lectures, publications, charts, films, etc. As a result of this work, the YWCA organized the first International Conference of Women Physicians in 1919. Attendees came from 32 countries for six weeks to focus on women's health issues, including such topics as general problems of health, industrial health, children's health, moral codes and personality, adaptation of the individual to life, and conservation of the health of women in marriage. Women's health issues became one of the Convention emphases in 1920 with a resolution stating that poor physical health was one of the greatest barriers to social and economic progress for women. The YWCA pledged to change prevailing notions of women's physical incapacity. In response to the deepening economic Depression, the 1930 Convention passed a resolution giving renewed emphasis to a program of play and recreation as an antidote to despair. Yet, the staff cuts necessitated by the Depression resulted in a much-reduced health and recreation program. Though physical recreation remained a bread-and-butter activity at Community YWCAs, and perhaps the area most associated with the YWCA in the public mind, the major reduction in Program staff that began in the 1930s meant that the national effort languished. What had been a national staff of 23 in 1920 had been reduced to a single consultant by 1954. The Health, Physical Education and Recreation Consultant facilitated establishment of new programs in the 1950s, such as judo and family recreational activities, including canoe and boat handling and fly fishing. In the late 1980s the National Association received funding for Teen Sexuality Education and Pregnancy Prevention Programs [see Teenage and Younger Girls Program in SERIES IV. of this Record Group.] In the 1980s and 1990s, the National Association sought U.S. Government Grants and corporate sponsorship for women's health programs. One was the ENCORE (Encouragement, Normalcy, Counseling, Opportunity, Reaching out, Energies Revived) post-mastectomy and exercise program for women with breast cancer. Originally developed at the Princeton YWCA, the National Association obtained Rippel Foundation funding for a pilot program in thirty Community Associations in 1974. ENCORE was adopted as an official national program two years later. The National Association began a collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1992 to enhance the effectiveness of the CDC's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, known as "Project Awareness." Beginning in 1993, CDC and the YWCA developed a program to foster collaborative relationships between Community YWCAs and state health departments to provide education and screening to underserved women. In addition to creating educational materials, the collaboration included two demonstration projects: the Maryland Partnership and the Lesbian Demonstration Project to test methods and techniques for effective collaboration. Through this program, the YWCA expanded the traditional ENCORE post-mastectomy program to include breast and cervical cancer education, and screening and early detection services. The revised version is known as ENCOREplus. Oct 1993 Avon launched a three-year cause-related marketing initiative "Avon's Breast Cancer Awareness Crusade" designed to generate funds to support community-based activities that promote access to screening and early detection services especially for medically underserved women. ENCOREplus was one of two programs chosen to receive funds from the initiative. The National Association established an Office of Women's Health Initiatives in 1994 to oversee these various initiatives. Initially part of the Executive Office, the staff joined the Office of Health Promotion and Sports Advocacy in the Division of Advocacy and Research in 1995. In the mid-1990s with funds from Nike Products, Inc., the National Association developed the YWCA/Nike Sports and Fitness Project, to provide grants to Community YWCAs for basketball, volleyball, and "New Face of Fitness" fitness training programs. The team sports programs stressed the educational and social benefits of discipline and team work as well as physical benefits of participation in sports. Given the YWCA's longstanding advocacy on behalf of working women, some Community Associations objected when the National Association accepted funding from Nike, a corporation somewhat notorious for its unfair labor practices overseas. Their concerns prompted creation of a Corporate Partnership Policy in 1998. [see RECORD GROUP 3. NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE] Administrative History1907-10Anna Brown, Home Department1910-18Anna Brown, City Committee in Department of Method1918-19Bureau of Social Morality in War Work Council; and Recreation Work, Town and Country in Department of Method1919Social Education in War Work Staff, and Recreation Work in Department of Research and Method1920-22Social Education, Health, Recreation, Athletics, and Physical Education in Research and Method; Recreation in Department of Field Work; and Physical Education in Post-Continuation Committee1923Social Education in Education and Research1925-27Health Education in Education and Research1928-31Health Education in Field Division1932-35Health Education in National Services Division; Creative Arts in Laboratory Division1935-39Health Education in National Services Division1940-47Health Education in Community Division1948-49Bureau of Immigration and the Foreign-Bornfall 1935Nationality Community Interests in Program and Research under Laboratory Division1936International Interests (or Nationality Community Interests) in Program, and Research under Laboratory Division1939Refugees in Program and Research under Laboratory Division1940-43Nationality Community Interests in Community Division1944Health Education and Camping in Community Division and regional staff in Health Education1950-51Health Education in Training Services1952Membership Resources in Leadership Services 1959Consultant, Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, in Leadership Services1960 -71Consultant, Health, Physical Education, and Recreation in Community Division1971-76Health and Environment in Program Policy and Development1976-83Health, Physical Education and Recreation in Program Unit (sometimes includes ENCORE)1984-87Health, Physical Education and Recreation in Program Services Division1987-91Health, Physical Education and Recreation; and Teen Pregnancy Prevention in Program Services Division1992-94Health Promotion and Sports in Advocacy and Research1994Health Promotion and Sports in Advocacy and Research; and Office of Women's Health Initiatives in Executive Office1995-Health Promotion and Sports and Office of Women's Health Initiatives in Advocacy and Research Scope and Content The records in this series document national efforts related to health, health education, sports, exercise, and recreation. Included are minutes, mailings, reports, studies, correspondence, surveys, and publications. These tend to be somewhat scattered items brought together for the Central Subject File, rather than comprehensive records of health and recreation activities. Prior to establishment of the Office of Health Promotion and Sports Advocacy in 1992, national staff responsible for health and recreation were a part of other departments of the YWCA. See Related Materials below for locations of additional records. The post-1992 records give a somewhat more comprehensive picture of national staff activities related to health and recreation. Major topics include physical health, mental health, sex education, marriage and family life education (consisting of relationships education, sex education, and balancing work and family); menopause; "health" shoes; nutrition; exercise and sport; and various forms of indoor recreation, such as arts, crafts, dancing, and parties). Materials about outdoor recreation can be found in Subseries A. Camping and Outdoor Recreation. Among the records are the publications produced out of the groundbreaking International Conference of Women Physicians hosted by the YWCA in 1919. Programs and Projects files include a modest amount of materials from the early 1920s when the work was supported with World War I continuation funds and a substantial body of records of 1990s cancer-related and sports and fitness programs. The publications are especially extensive and diverse. They deal with such topics as the administration of health programs; feet and shoes; menopause; sex education; marriage and family life (including jobs and marriage); the development, needs and interests of young girls and adolescents; arts; crafts; parties; and games. Microfilmed Records, 1890-1970 [see Microfilmed Records Reel List] The Health and Recreation records on the microfilm include general historical information; conference and training materials; publications, including the Health Education Bulletin (1935-44); reference files; and records of the work of the Bureau of Social Education. Health and Recreation records can be found on the microfilm under: Minutes and Reports Health Education StudyHealth Education Committee Subject Files ArtsHealthHealth EducationWorld War I, Social Morality, International Conference of Women Physicians Original Format Records, 1890-2002, n.d., (bulk 1919-36, 1993-99), 15 linear feet [see Original Format Records Folder List] The Original Format Records contain substantial post-microfilm materials which are primarily women's health and recreation Programs and Projects files from the 1990s. the Minutes and Reports and roughly half of the records microfilmed under "Health" (reel 96, microdexes 2 through 6) were not discarded after filming and are available in original format. The Womans Press published an array of hardcover books on various health and recreation topics, many of which were not included in the microfilm. The Original Format Records are organized as follows: General and history includes historical essays; reports; general and policy statements; bibliographies; and radio scripts about the YWCA health program. Committees, Commissions, Offices contains minutes, reports, mailings, and some correspondence and memoranda produced by the major YWCA Committees and Commissions, and the staff and offices responsible for the health program. Conferences and Workshops, is divided into internal YWCA events and national and international "non-YWCA" events in which YWCA health staff participated. Included are reports and planning materials as well as a complete set of publications from the 1919 International Conference of Women Physicians (hosted by the YWCA). Programs and Projects files are primarily records of women's health programs, such as ENCORE and ENCOREplus, and recreation programs, such as YWCA/Nike basketball, volleyball, and New Face of Fitness programs in the 1990s. The Publications are arranged in two broad categories: Health (which includes General, Administration, Marriage and Family Life Education, Mental Health, and Sex Education) and Recreation (which includes General, Arts and Crafts, Dance, and Parties and Games). General serials are filed at the end of the section. Reference Materials consists primarily of general articles and pamphlets on marriage and family life, recreation, adolescent development and sex education. Training includes texts of "Social Morality" lectures from 1915 and 1917, a few health training materials from the 1990s, and some other miscellaneous items. Related Materials Elsewhere in this Series Subseries A. Camping and Outdoor Recreation had related records about recreational activities outdoors and the philosophy of play and recreation. Subseries D. Pageantry and Drama contains a number of scripts related to various health issues. Later records related to creative arts and crafts can be found in Subseries C. Music Program, as the creative arts aspect of "recreation" became the responsibility of Music Secretary in 1950s. Elsewhere in this Record Group Health secretaries were based in the Department of Method and Division of Education and Research up to 1928, their work is described in the Minutes and Reports in SERIES I. DEPARTMENT, STAFF, AND COMMITTEES. SERIES III. PUBLIC ADVOCACY has files on a variety of health-related topics including health care, health insurance; and domestic violence as a public health issue. YWCA programs paid particular attention to health education for teens and the psychology of adolescents. Records of these activities can be found in SERIES IV. CONSTITUENT GROUPS, Subseries D. Teenage and Younger Girls Program. There are also records of teen pregnancy prevention and other teen programs related to health, such as Peer Approach Counseling by Teens (PACT). SERIES VII. WAR WORK AND DEFENSE SERVICES contains records about recreational activities for servicemen, industrial war workers, and the general membership. The World War I Subseries includes records of the Bureau of Social Education and its sex and health education work. The World War II Subseries also has sex education items as well as publications written for women about the potential psychological problems of returning soldiers. In other Record Groups In addition to the minutes and reports noted above in SERIES I of RECORD GROUP 6. PROGRAM, Health secretaries reported to the City Department in early years, the Field Division, 1928-31; the National Services Division, 1932-39; and the Community Division in the 1940s. Their reports can be found in RECORD GROUP 8. COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS in the Minutes and Reports in SERIES I. SERVICES TO ASSOCIATIONS. There are also files related to pool audits, and legal files related to pool accidents in the Community Associations files in SERIES IV. Studies on YWCA gymnasiums and pool facilities can be found in RECORD GROUP 3. NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE in SERIES IV. DATA AND STATISTICS. RECORD GROUP 5. INTERNATIONAL WORK has many reports on health and recreation work in YWCAs in other countries. There are many photographs of the health and sports programs in the community associations in RECORD GROUP 9. PHOTOGRAPHS The YWCA made extensive use of Videotaped public service announcements and training materials for its ENCORE and Nike/YWCA Sports and Fitness Programs in the 1990s. These materials can be found in RECORD GROUP 10. AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS along with news coverage of these programs. SUBSERIES C. MUSIC Probably as a result of its religious origins, music, particularly participatory singing of hymns and folk songs from all over the world, was a part of Association meetings and events from very beginning. Music was seen as a contributing force to creative living and used as a means to foster international understanding and appreciation of other cultures. In its use of music, the Association highlighted participation rather than performance, and emphasized music as a valuable group participation opportunity that could provide fellowship, mood, content, and focus to events. National music staff encouraged the effective use of music in programs at Community YWCAs and events such as Conventions and conferences through training song leaders and compiling and publishing song and hymn collections. There was no formal music staff in the early years. Certain individual secretaries volunteered to lead the singing because of their interest and talent. These included Annie Kate Gilbert, Crystal Bird (later Fawcett), Sue Bailey (later Thurman), and Lucy Clark Street. As part of the effort to counteract rampant xenophobia during World War I, staff in the War Work Council's Department for Work with Foreign-Born Women researched and compiled information on folk customs, costumes, folk lore, festivals, and music. One product of this effort was the two-volume Folk Songs of Many Peoples compiled by Florence Botsford and published by the YWCA in 1920 and 1921. In 1925 Imogene Ireland, formerly an Industrial staff member, was "called" to direct music at Convention and conferences on a part-time basis under which she worked two-fifths time for the National Board and three-fifths for YWCA of the District of Columbia. Her position was directly subsidized by Katharine Blunt Parker, chair of YWCA's National Music Committee. Ireland edited The Song Book of the YWCA, published by the Womans Press in 1926. Mrs. Parker had an interest in what the "right kind of music in the right kind of way" might do for the YWCA. She had been involved in the music program at the YWCA of the City of New York and later in Washington, D.C. with Imogene Ireland. Her husband, Judge Edwin B. Parker, left a bequest of $100,000 to the National Board to establish the Katharine Parker Music Foundation to fund a national department of music with a capable and experienced secretary in charge. The bequest came with two stipulations: Mrs. Parker was to be advisor "while she lives," and special attention should be given to stimulating and developing a love of music in Girl Reserves. The first national Music secretary, Marion Peabody, started work September 1930 as part of the Education and Research Division. Through the 1930s Marion Peabody urged Community Associations to form music committees to promote use of music in program, as a means to develop leadership and an effective group activity. She developed a music library in the national office and prepared lists and song sheets with "suitable and desirable songs for group singing." Marie Oliver, music secretary in the 1940s, compiled the first edition of the YWCA's songbook, Sing Along the Way in 1943. The book "raised the level of songs" and included a wide variety of international folk songs, "better" camp songs, and songs of social significance, such as work and protest songs. Oliver put a great emphasis on finding and training staff and volunteers to lead music and created lots of training materials. From the first edition, the "songs of social significance" included in Sing Along drew criticism from conservatives who questioned the inclusion of certain songs also included in the Communist Party songbook and any labor songs at all. The book included a wide variety of songs to "meet the concerns of different groups" and make it truly useful to the YWCA. One song in particular, "Joe Hill," was criticized again and again for its "incendiary" lyrics. Marie Oliver responded that the song "belongs to a part of labor history that cannot be wiped out simply by eliminating the song." Though she did not include all of the verses, she continued to put "Joe Hill" in editions of Sing Along as long as it was still used by the Clubs. The book was updated regularly until 1965. As the National Association made more and more cuts to its program staff in the early 1950s, many of the associated "subject" committees, such as the National Music Committee, were also eliminated. Without energetic leadership from national, most local Committees were disbanded and the use of music as an educational tool in the Association quickly diminished. Devaluation of the dollar in late 1940s meant that Foundation income could no longer support a full-time music secretary. Always eager to try new techniques, in 1950, the Association added responsibility for potential uses of newly available audiovisual "aids" to the duties of the Music Secretary. After Marie Oliver resigned in 1952, the music position went unfilled for a number of years. When a part-time consultant was hired in 1959, she was put in charge of Music and Creative Arts. The program, which was much less ambitious, made much more use of recorded music. The Music and Creative Arts Consultant continued to produce program and training materials and put special emphasis on projects and training for Y-Teens and their leaders. Participatory singing remained an important feature of Convention. Beginning in 1957, a small group of interested YWCA members who served as music consultants took over responsibility for Convention music. They also undertook various publishing and recording projects. Anxious to find ways to increase teen participation in the YWCA and get them involved in creative experiences, the Association launched the Y-Teen Folksong Project at the Y-Teen Conference in 1965. The Project encouraged teenagers to express themselves in contemporary folksong style writing "songs about life as teenagers see it today." The best of the bunch were published in a special edition of the Y-Teen Bookshelf in the summer of 1966. The position of Music-Creative Arts Consultant was one of many eliminated in the staff reorganization of 1970-72. Administrative History1930-32Education and Research1932-40Laboratory Division1940-44Subject staff, Community Division1945-49Program Subject Department1950-52Music and Audio-Visual Aids, Training Services in Membership Services1955-59Consultant, Leadership Services1960-69Consultant, Creative Arts-Music in Research and Program Resources Scope and Content Music Program records include publications and related correspondence; reference files of general information and musical scores; historical research on music in the YWCA; general correspondence; minutes; planning materials and annotated programs from Conventions and Conferences; project files; and training materials. Music Committee minutes and the selection of songs reveal much about the educational philosophy of the YWCA and the creative ways the various departments and programs found to contribute to the Association's purpose. The Music Secretary's working files included in the Original Format Records provide an excellent sense of the aims of the work. They include annotated programs and preparation notes for Conventions, Conferences, and meetings with detailed information about what music was used when during the course of these events. The reference files and publications attest to the Music Program's contribution to the National Association's efforts to foster intercultural appreciation. Reference and Project files (such as the Y-Teen Folksong Project), and forays into work with recorded music and "audio-visual aids" demonstrate continuing efforts to develop effective educational techniques and keep the program relevant. Correspondence about the inclusion of "controversial" songs in Association songbooks in the Original Format Records provides insight into the challenges the Association faced during the Red Scare era. Microfilmed Records, 1906-70 only [see Microfilmed Records Reel List] The microfilmed records consist of just those materials submitted for inclusion in the Central File. There are Committee records, and the earlier correspondence about publication of YWCA song books. The inclusion of Music under "Arts" in the Subject Files reflects the addition of Creative Arts and audiovisual "aids" in the job description of the Music Secretary after World War II. Some of the Music Program publications are included on the microfilm, particularly those about the use of music in YWCA program. Song books and song sheets are less likely to have been microfilmed. The Original Format Records contain a much more comprehensive selection of music publications. Music Program records are located on the Microfilm under: Minutes and Report Music Subcommittee [additional minutes were filmed with records in the Subject Files]Subject Files Arts-Music Original Format Records, 1913-87, 5 linear feet [see Original Format Records Folder List] While the original format records include most of the material on the microfilm, they also contain a large file of YWCA music publications and a substantial portion of the music reference file maintained by the Music Secretary. Mary B. Wheeler, Music Secretary, 1955-65, donated her working file, which included records she inherited from Marie Oliver, to the National Board Archives. This includes additional correspondence related to music, including such topics as the "controversial" songs used in YWCA songbooks, publication of songbooks (later years than those on the microfilm); and copyright issues; planning materials for music at Conventions, Conferences, and other events; project files; and training materials. The Music Secretary's Reference files are arranged in two sections: General and Sheet Music/Scores. General is a wide-ranging subject file on topics such as various types and styles of music (from jazz, to Japanese, to rock and roll); music therapy; instrument making; recorded music; and music for children. The Reference files of Sheet Music/Scores are also wide-ranging and include Civil Rights Songs, Folk Songs (arranged by country), Girl Reserve songs, labor union songs, parodies, and sacred music. The Publications include multiple editions of the YWCA's classic songbook Sing Along and the Girl Reserve Songbook. There is also a collection of YWCA songs, such as musical settings of the YWCA Purpose, "Follow the Gleam" (for many years the unofficial YWCA song), centennial songs written by members, and other similar items. The Original Format Records are arranged in the following sections: General and HistoryCommittee and Staff Conferences, Conventions, and other eventsProjectsTrainingPublications Bibliographies Program and Training Materials Songbooks and Hymnals YWCA Songs and Songsheets Reference files General Sheet Music/Scores Related Materials In other Series in this Record Group SERIES 4. CONSTITUENT GROUPS contains related efforts to compile and distribute information on international folk music and customs in Subseries B. Immigration and Foreign Communities SERIES 6. PUBLICATIONS Minutes of the Publications Committee include discussions of music publications. Offerings related to music are listed in Publications catalogs. In other Record Groups RECORD GROUP 3. NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE contains additional material about copyright. SUBSERIES D. PAGEANTRY AND DRAMA Historical Note According to The Use of Plays in Club Work, published by the Womans Press in 1930, "the most effective interpretation of life and ideas is by the dramatic method." Plays, skits, and pageants could be used to limber up gawky girls, teach them team work, improve their English, introduce them to literature, and to take pleasure in the simple things of life. Formal responsibility for this aspect of YWCA Program began with the War Work Council's Bureau of Pageantry and Drama during World War I. The Bureau's secretary, Hazel MacKaye, traveled the country encouraging Community YWCAs, and particularly their Girl Reserve programs, to incorporate drama into their programs. Staff in the War Work Council's Department for Work with Foreign-Born Women collected information about folk festivals and pageants to add to the YWCA's growing catalog of scripts published and distributed by the Womans Press. After the war, the Publications Department included an editor of technical and dramatic publications until 1930. Many of the scripts published by the Womans Press originated in Community Associations and their publication allowed a nationwide distribution. As Womans Press activities declined with the financial troubles of the Great Depression and such things as World War II paper shortages, plays and skits were more-or-less eliminated from the catalog. Though publication was curtailed, skits continued as a regular feature of meetings, conferences, and Conventions. Particularly popular were those written by Barbara Abel, who was Managing Editor of the Woman's Press, 1925-31, and later worked in publicity for the Chicago YWCA. Scope and Content The Pageantry and Drama materials primarily consist of scripts for plays, playlets, pageants, ceremonials, skits, "meditations," pantomimes, operettas, musical comedies, tableaux, water pageants, and festivals. There is a small amount of general historical material, lists of plays and pageants recommended or published by the YWCA, and some general reference materials, 1912-68, n.d. The scripts' subjects are astounding in their variety. There are pieces on religious subjects, women's history, international and interracial relations, citizenship and democratic institutions, vocational guidance, blood plasma, child labor, consumer issues, industrial working conditions, health and safety, diet, unemployment, domestic service, American Indians, and many others. There are also skits and plays on administrative topics such as volunteer-staff relations, fund raising, and membership. Microfilmed Records, 1906-70 [see Microfilmed Records Reel list] Scripts are scattered under Conference, Convention, and Miscellaneous in various places on the microfilm. There is some easily accessible information on the microfilm in the Subject File under World War I, Pageantry and Drama, and there are a few later scripts (1951-70) under Arts, Drama. Original Format Records, 1911-84, n.d., 4.5 linear feet [see Original Format Records Folder List] The overwhelming bulk of the Original Format Records is scripts. There is a small amount of General and Historical Material filed at the beginning of the Subseries. This is followed by general Scripts, arranged alphabetically by title, and then Christmas Scripts, also arranged alphabetically. Related Materials Scripts are scattered in Conference, Meeting, and Convention files throughout the records. Elsewhere in this Record Group The YWCA's general serial, the Association Monthly/Womans Press/YWCA Magazine (in SERIES VI. PUBLICATIONS) features many articles about use of drama in program. In other Record Groups RECORD GROUP 8. COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS includes reports by Pageantry and Drama secretaries Hazel MacKaye, and Sue Ann Wilson to the City, Town, and Rural Communities Departments. In Personal Papers The Sophia Smith Collection contains personal papers of Barbara Abel who wrote many plays and skits for the YWCA. SUBSERIES E. YOUNG ADULTS Historical Note As a religious group that sought to bring women together across lines of denomination, class, and place, the YWCA was a pioneering Christian organization. It was founded with a strongly evangelical Protestant emphasis and worked to fill in a breach of religious possibilities available to women in the emergent urban culture of the late nineteenth century. In its early, local incarnations it did so by providing instruction and a Christian-oriented space for women gathering in the cities who no longer had access to the traditional bonds of family and community. Student YWCAs marshaled the energy for religious service and expression that suffused college life in the late nineteenth-century. These groups also coordinated the efforts of service-oriented church women who wanted to escape the limits of church work within their denominations, which was often constrained by the vision of male clergy. In more recent years of the organization, religious matters have loomed in the background, becoming a shadow identity that uneasily accompanied the shift from the YWCA as a mainstay of ecumenical Protestantism into its contemporary incarnation as a women's social services organization. From its inception in 1906, the national YWCA maintained the centrality of religious matters. It mediated and disseminated the spiritual emphasis that came out of the World YWCA, which delineated its basis as "Faith in God the Father as Creator and in Jesus Christ His only Son as Lord and Savior, and in the Holy Spirit as Revealer of truth and Source of power for life and service, according to the teaching of the Holy Scripture." (From YWCA of the USA Constitution, 1949). The national YWCA also coordinated and provided resources for religious work in local associations. In order to fulfill these functions, it devised its own religious programming and materials for uses both within and beyond the various YWCA constituencies. Since religion was so central to the identity and programming of the YWCA, the subject is dispersed widely across the organization. The organization undertook religious work in concert with the variety of needs of its constituencies. It attended to the impact of spirituality on women workers, matters of race and nationality, and international fellowship as well as the spiritual life of students and of young women in cities and rural areas. In its early years, the national YWCA directly provided religious programming for these varied groups. It urged training in religious instruction on its employees, requiring religious and biblical studies at its National Training School and at conferences. Under the auspices of the Department of Method and its successors, secretaries and committees oversaw religious work taking place in community associations, and they developed a program of religious education through publications and workshops aimed at their diverse membership. Over time the groups connected to the National Board steered a transformation of the religious ethos of the YWCA from a Bible study-oriented, moralistic evangelism into an expansive, ecumenical space for discerning and living Christian ethics. After the reorganization of the National Board in the 1920s and the diminution of programming in general in the 1930s, religious work became less centrally documented. It remained in the province of committee work through the 1940s, although unfortunately there are significant gaps in the dates of the materials from this work that remains. In these years, the administration deliberated regularly on the place of Christianity in the organization and the type of spiritual direction that would be most useful for the organization and for society at large. They continued to direct religious services at conferences and conventions and coordinate local religious programming, particularly through publications. Over the course of the 1930s and 1940s, the YWCA worked to foster cross-faith discussion and understanding, while acknowledging and occasionally indulging in programming that came out of its Protestant heritage and membership. Conferences and meetings, as large as the national convention and as small as routine staff gatherings, featured religious readings, worship services, and group prayer. Although spirituality remained an object of much consideration at the administrative level, by the 1950s the YWCA grew less explicit in its expressions of Christianity. It continued with an ecumenical thrust, particularly welcoming Roman Catholics into its work, even as some priests and bishops forbade Catholic participation. Requests for religious programming diminished, and the organization's financial troubles forced it to curtail the publishing that had comprised a significant contribution of the organization to religion and spirituality. The National Board approached the uncertain place of religion in the work of the YWCA at the mid-twentieth century in the 1964-67 Commission to Study the YWCA as a Christian Movement. This effort on the part of staff and volunteer committee sought to assess the significance of Christianity to the contemporary issues and programming. The study concluded that a dynamic Christianity, responsive to the increasing social consciousness of the young, remained central to the programming of the YWCA. Still, religion and Christianity waned in visibility. A consultant on religious matters remained on the national staff well into the 1980s, but the efforts of such work were overshadowed by strides made on questions of racial justice and women's issues more broadly. In these years, the national YWCA maintained a quiet attention to progressive Christian ethics as underlying its commitment to secular social programming, but the emphasis remained in the background. Over the course of this history, various questions on matters of religion recurred for the national administration. The YWCA's relation to Protestant Christianity required clarification at numerous points. While the group drew from evangelical Protestantism and participated in the efforts of the Social Gospel, it responded enthusiastically to growing ecumenicalism and opened itself to a variety of spiritual outlooks. This caused an imbroglio at the 1930 National Convention, held in Detroit, when a faction successfully pushed for the end of the requirement of membership in an approved Protestant church as a condition of the full privileges of YWCA membership. Materials related to this controversy may be found among the convention material. Additionally, the YWCA occasionally found itself in trouble with Roman Catholic authorities over the participation of Catholic women in their programs, which increased significantly as the YWCA provided services to urban populations and industrial workers. Such flare-ups provided the occasion for revisiting and clarifying the nature of the YWCA's religiosity. These documents can be found in this series. The area in which the place of Christianity in the YWCA was most explicitly identified was in the so-called "Purpose" of the organization as laid out in the organization's Constitution. The Christian Purpose shifted significantly with the changes in the YWCA's programming emphases, membership, and historical context. National Convention action determined changes in Purpose. The membership first adopted a straightforward and adamantly Christian vision of the association's intentions in 1915. They prefaced their Constitution with: "Affirming the Christian faith in God, the Father; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord and Savior; and in the Holy Spirit, the Revealer of Truth and Source of Power for Life and Service; according to the teaching of Holy Scripture and the witness of the Church, we adopt the following Constitution." Outlining the function of the YWCA, the Constitution declared that the national YWCA it sought to unite and develop community associations as well as "to advance the physical, social, intellectual, moral, and spiritual interests of young women." Its "ultimate purpose" was "to seek to bring young women to such a knowledge of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord as shall mean for the individual young woman fullness of life and development of character, and shall make the organization as a whole an effective agency in the bringing in of the Kingdom of God among young women." (Constitution, 1915) The language of revivalism and of an individual experience of Christ indicated the YWCA's roots in turn-of-the-century evangelism. It held onto this language in the Constitution well after the years of disillusionment that followed the First World War made such sentiments suspect. It took the Second World War and the intention to promulgate a more focused, action-oriented vision of the work of the National Board to inspire a change, and they reached to Christianity as undergirding that focus. In 1949, the organization's purpose read that it was committed to building "a fellowship of women and girls devoted to the task of realizing in our common life those ideals of personal and social living to which we are committed by our faith as Christians. In this endeavor we seek to understand Jesus, to share his love for all people, and to grow in the knowledge and love of God." The more generalized Christianity evident in the 1949 Constitution depended on a liberal, ecumenical interpretation of the social ethics of Jesus and eschewed references to the millennialism that characterized the older Christian Purpose. This shift aligned with the YWCA's broadened commitment to political and social change and the increasing marginality of their religious programming the at mid-century. Another shift in the Purpose responded to the heated atmosphere of the mid-1960s that heightened the YWCA's commitment to social change. In the 1967 Constitution, the YWCA declared that it was "rooted in the Christian faith as known in Jesus and nourished by the resources of that faith" and called upon its membership to "respond to the barrier-breaking love of God in this day," a goad to activism as necessitated by Christian ethics. The Purpose went on to state that the "Association draws together into responsible membership women and girls of diverse experiences and faiths, that their lives may be open to new understanding and deeper relationships and that together they may join in the struggle for peace and justice, freedom and dignity for all people." The centrality of Christianity to this statement had likely been the result of the reinvigorated sense of Christian Purpose that came out of Commission to the Study the YWCA as a Christian Movement (1964-67), but it belied the ebb of the YWCA as an organization with identifiably Christian programming. Additionally, the YWCA's participation in the civil rights movement, emblematized in many respects by the work of Dorothy Height and her place in the church-based leadership of the movement of the 1950s and early 1960s, gave a certain cachet to a Christian purpose when it was oriented toward the liberal or even radical demand for social equality. The purpose laid out in the 1967 Constitution held until 1988 when the addition of the statement that the "Association will thrust its collective power toward the elimination of racism wherever it exists and by any means necessary" (Constitution, 1988) affirmed decisively the "One Imperative" as fundamental to the organization's mission. In 1992, a revised mission statement again affirmed its roots in Christianity while appealing across lines of faith: "The Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America is a women's membership movement nourished by its roots in the Christian faith and sustained by the richness of many beliefs and values. Strengthened by diversity, the Association draws together members who strive to create opportunities for women's growth, leadership and power in order to attain a common vision: Peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all people. The Association will thrust its collective power toward the elimination of racism wherever it exists and by any means necessary." (1992 Constitution). This most recent revision stands with its reference to Christianity as part of the living purpose of the YWCA. Administrative History1912-22Department of Method1923-31Education and Research1932-39Laboratory Division and National Services Division 1940-48Community Division, Program1951Membership Resources, Training Services1959-84Leadership Services, Bureau of Research, Studies, and Program Resources Scope and Content The Religion Subseries does not contain a comprehensive set of materials on religious matters but contains much of the work carried out under explicitly religious auspices. It best documents the religious publications produced by the national YWCA as it sought to serve the needs of its constituencies and also as it made innovative interpretations of matters of spirituality and religious pedagogy. Many of these publications were authored by YWCA staff. The Woman's Press frequently published works of bible study, prayer, and worship services as well as broader examinations of the place of spirituality and religion in the cultural landscape of twentieth-century America. The Subseries contains the records of religious committee work, which traces the National Board's efforts to provide programming and meet educational needs for religion in the 1930s and 1940s. Documentation of later committee work is scant but suggestive of the expansive ways in which the organization understood and wished to promulgate its spiritual foundation. In addition, there are a variety of reference materials including studies conducted on the YWCA's religious work as well as more general publications on religious matters that affected the YWCA. Researchers interested in the YWCA's religious work, particularly of the 1910s through the 1940s, are encouraged to augment the materials in this series with the reports of secretaries of religious matters, which are filed in the Departments of Method and Education and Research. These reports offer detail in the variety of local religious work undertaken, the design of the National Board's religious training of YWCA women, and the evolution of its religious stance. The records of the Foreign Division may convey the YWCA's religious ethos most plainly, as the YWCA was compelled to clarify and make plain its intentions in these missionary and cross-national settings. The shifting course of this religious outlook is also evident in convention proceedings, which scrutinized the place of religion in the organization. The microfilmed religion subject files contain several documents and reports not available in this series; of particular interest are reports from the 1920s studying the problems with Catholic participation in the YWCA. In later years, religious matters served as a subject of inquiry less frequently. An exception to this was the 1964-67 Commission to Study the YWCA as a Christian Movement. While this Subseries contains the reports that resulted from this Commission, a more comprehensive set of documents is found with Mission/Purpose materials in the General Administration series ( SERIES I in RECORD GROUP 3). A final word would be that religious subjects and work were diffused throughout the organization and, particularly in the early years, touched on nearly all of the YWCA's concerns. Researchers may wish to consult other areas of programming and administration to gain a full picture of the place of religion in the YWCA. Microfilmed Records, 1884-1970 only [see Microfilmed Records Reel list] Records relating to religion in the YWCA can be found on the microfilm under: Minutes and Reports New Society and Its Christian Basis CommitteeReligion Committee [committees with various names filed together] Subject Files National Board, Program Planning Study, ReligionO.O. [Outside Organizations]--ReligiousReligionYWCA-Commission to Study the YWCA as a Christian Movement Original Format Records, 1907-91, n.d., 5 linear feet [see Original Format Records Folder list] The bulk of the original format records consists of publications and resource materials, some of which were microfilmed, though many were not. The rest of the records in this subseries are quite scattered and most of what dates prior to 1970 is probably on the microfilm, including the Committee and Commission records which were not discarded after filming. The small amount of records that post-date the microfilm are primarily about the examinations of the YWCA's Christian Purpose. The original Format Records are organized as follows: General and Historical: the YWCA as a Christian organizationCommittees and CommissionsOrganizationsReference materialPublications and resource materials (arranged alphabetically) GeneralAbout the YWCA's religious workBiblical study and exigesisPrayers and hymnsWorship services Related Materials In other Series in this Record Group Reports of Religious Work secretaries are in the minutes and reports in SERIES I. DEPARTMENT, STAFF, AND COMMITTEES. Records of the National Training School in SERIES II. TRAINING AND PERSONNEL contain information about religious training. In other Record Groups RECORD GROUP 1. GENERAL AND HISTORY, SERIES I. GENERAL has copies of the YWCA Constitution and records related to amendments to it and to the Purpose reflecting the changing religious emphasis within the Association. SERIES III. MEMBERSHIP OF INDIVIDUALS has information about religious affiliation and membership requirements. See RECORD GROUP 4. NATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND CONFERENCES for Convention deliberations about the role of religion in membership issues and the Purpose of the Association. See RECORD GROUP 5. INTERNATIONAL WORK for information about the "interpretation" of Christianity in other countries and its reception there. Concern over college students' tendency to abandon religion led the National Association to pay particular attention to the content of and methods for engaging college students in deeper thinking about religion. This concern is reflected in the records of the Student Work in RECORD GROUP 7. The YWCA made videotapes of various presentations and panels related to the 1989-90 re-examination of the Purpose. These are in RECORD GROUP 10. AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS.
The records are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection without any additional restrictions. Access to audiovisual materials may first require production of research copies.
The YWCA of the USA retains copyright ownership of the records, but has authorized the Sophia Smith Collection to grant permission to publish reproductions or quotations from the records on its behalf. Copyright to materials authored by persons other than YWCA staff may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights for permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use."
Additional Formats A copy of the microfilmed records of the YWCA of the U.S.A. Records is available to borrow from the William Allan Neilson Library at Smith College via Interlibrary Loan. To request the microfilm from our library you will need to submit the following information to your library's Interlibrary Loan department: Author: Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National BoardTitle: Records, 1876-1970 [microform]WorldCat Accession Number: OCLC 57415795Notes: "Call # 689" and reel number(s) you want to borrow Full descriptions and reel lists of the microfilm are available online.
This Record group forms part of the YWCA of the U.S.A. Records
Processed by Maida Goodwin, Amy Hague, Kara McClurken, Amanda Izzo, 2008 FY 07-08
Camps Administration
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Camps for girls
Drama--United States--History--20th century
Health education of women--United States--History--Sources
Hygiene, Sexual--History--20th century--Sources
Marriage, Companionate--United States--History--20th century--Sources
Nature Study
Physical education for women--History--20th century--Sources
Physical fitness for women--History--20th century
Religion--Study and teaching--History--Sources
Sex instruction--United States--History--Sources
Spirituality--United States--History--20th century--Sources
Women and religion--History--Sources
Women--Health and hygiene--United States--20th century
Women in Christianity--United States--History--Sources
series
SERIES V. PROGRAM SUBJECTS
This is the Contents List for the Original Format Records only. The reel lists for the Microfilmed Records are in a separate file. See Scope and Content note for more description.
Subseries A. Camping and Outdoor Recreation
General and History
General, 1919-90, n.d.
"A Survey of the program of activities and related factors in seventy-one YWCA summer resident camps," by Tonia Seiberlich, Boston University School of Education masters thesis, 1961
"A Study of YWCA Camping Programs to Determine What Services the National Board, YWCA Should Offer Local Associations on a Continuing Basis," by Elizabeth Boyd, New York University School of Social Work masters thesis, circa 1965
Camping Workshop, Atlanta, Georgia, Oct 1968
Reference materials, 1948, 1964, n.d.
Minutes and Reports
Camp Department, Business Division, 1922-23
Camp Commission (technical and economic), 1924
Camp Commission (Commission to Study the Function of Camps Owned by the National Board), 1925-26
Regional
Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania/East Central Field (Nepawhin and Canadohta), 1912-19
North Central Field (Okoboji), 1920-21
Correspondence
American Camping Association, 1948, 1968-71
Central Region
General, 1961-71, n.d.
Camp Bide-A-Wee (Wichita YWCA), 1968-69
Eastern Region
General, 1955-69, n.d.
Buffalo YWCA, 1968-71
Camp Blazing Trail (Boston YWCA), 1967-69
Southern Region, 1966-70, n.d.
Western Region
General, 1966-68, n.d.
Camp Timbertall (San Francisco Bay Area YWCAs), 1965-69
Tahquitz Meadows (YWCA Camping Council of Southern California), 1960-68
Conferences
American Camping Association Convention: YWCA Kindred Group Meeting, 1964
National YWCA Conference on Outdoor Recreation and Conservation, 1964
Planning and correspondence, 1962-65, n.d.
Press releases and news clippings, 1964
Program, 1964
Reports, 1964-66
Second National YWCA Conference on Outdoor Recreation and Conservation, 1966
General
Speeches
Reference materials re National Parks and Grand Teton area
Programs
International Camper Exchange Program, 1966-69, n.d.
Y-Teen Pilot Work Camp (Gros Ventre Slide, Teton National Forest, Wyoming),9-23 Jul 1966
Planning, 1964-66
Correspondence, 1965-69
Leadership, 1965-66
Newspaper clippings and press releases, 1966
Reports, 1966, n.d.
Scrapbook (disassembled), 1966
Film "Aim, Action, Achievement"
General, 1967-68
White House premiere, 1968
Follow-up, 1966-67
Publications
"A Selected Bibliography for YWCA Camp Leadership," 1967
Camping With Purpose by Marie Lafferty Cortell, 1950
Camps and Their Modern Administration by Hazel K. Allen, 1930
Community Action for Outdoor Recreation and Conservation, 1965
County Summer Camps of the YWCA, 1918
"Day Camp: Work Sheets for the Planning of Day Camp," 1944
Explorers: A Camp Project by Marion Dudley and Exploring the Pathways to God: Services of Worship for Use in a Summer Camp by Edith Cousins, 1926
The Girls' Camp by Abbie Graham, 1933
Magic Casements: The Chronicle of the Development of a New Kind of Camp Program by Ruth Perkins, 1927
Nature Study pamphlets: no. 1 "Nature in Camp: Flowers, Ferns, Trees, Stars, Birds, Insects," no. 2 "The Sky: Winter Nights," no. 3 "A Trip to the Moon," no. 4 "All Night With the Stars," no. 5 "The Sky: Spring and Summer Nights" by Louise Brown, 1920
"Outdoor Activities" by Blanche Bogert and Edith M. Gates, 1933, 1942
Working at Play in Summer Camps by Abbie Graham, 1941
Reference materials, 1930-56
Miscellaneous
Records of the camp at the Archie Allen Place, Port Byron, Illinois, used by the YWCA of Rock Island, Illinois, among other organizations, 1922-50, n.d.
Field and Camp Notebook, Comstock Publishing Co., circa 1928 used by Frances W. Kinkead (?) at Camp Maqua, Poland, Maine
Port Richey Camp, Pinellas County, Florida: scrapbook, 1925
Camp Rest-a-While, Cloudcroft, New Mexico: camp logs, 1939, 1941
Camp Scrap Book, Polly Lee, 1926-34: Camp Chelan, Sellersburg, IN, 1927-28; Camp Daniel Boone, Valley View, KY; International Older Boys' and Girls' Camp Conferences, Lake Geneva, WI 1929, 1934
Subseries B. Health and Recreation
General, 1890-1996, n.d.
"History of the Health Education Movement in the YWCA," 1930
"The YWCA Program of Recreation and Health, Studied with Reference to Problems Reflecting the War Situation" Wellesley College Department of Hygiene and Physical Education graduate seminar report by Maxine Shurtz, 1943
World YWCA Survey of Health, Physical Education, and Camping Activities, 1971
Administration of Health Education Programs in local YWCAs, n.d.
Bibliographies, 1962, n.d.
Dancing, 1921, 1932, n.d.
Health Education Secretaries: standards and qualifications, 1924-48
Marriage and Family Life, 1924, 1949-66
Medical Examinations
General, 1932-60, n.d.
Study by Health Education Subcommittee of Community Division Committee, 1946
Notes
Questionnaire responses (alphabetical by city), E-Z
Physical Fitness Tests, 1962-76
Policy on Competitive Sports, 1965-66, n.d.
Radio talks by Jane Bellows, 1924
Recreation, circa 1920-22, 1941
Reports
Miscellaneous, 1915-57
Commission on Experimentation in Administration of Health Education: interim report, 1938-40
Sex Education (Human Sexuality, Social Morality), 1919-86
Smoking, 1922, 1964-69
Swimming Pools
General, 1914, 1970-91
"Investigation about Swimming Pools," 1907
Swimming Pool Safety Audit and Program Survey, Aquatic Consulting Services, 1987
U.S. National Health Policy, 1938, 1949
Committees, Commissions, Offices
Social Morality Commission (aka Commission Number Three), 1913-19
Bureau of Social Education
Minutes and reports, Mar 1919-Jan 1922
Subcommittee on Health Education, Community Division, 1942-50
Health Education, Program Unit
Mailings, 1942-49
Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (HPER), Program Unit
Mailings, 1985
Program Approval/Training Approval packet, circa 1984
Health and Sports Advocacy
General, 1996-98, n.d.
Health Promotion and Sport directors lists, 1994-97
Partners in Development consulting trip to YWCA of Belize, 1998-99
Research Report on African-American Women and Exercise, Essence Magazine and YWCA of the USA, 1998-99
United States Olympic Committee, F.L.A.M.E. Program, 1997-99
Office of Women's Health Initiatives, Advocacy and Research Division
General, 1995-98
Funding proposal to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1998
Mailings to Women's Health Advocacy Network, 1999-2001 [incomplete]
Organizations
General, 1996-2001
Intercultural Cancer Council, 1995-98
Jacobs Institute on Women's Health, 1994-98
Task Force re expansion of office
General, 1998
Survey of member associations, 1998
Conferences and Workshops, YWCA
Social Education Conference, 1919
Health Education Conferences, 1919-20
Physical Directors' Conferences, 1922-23
Health Education Institutes (aka Camps or Conferences)
Physical Fitness for Women in Industry (USO), 1942
Big Cities Workshop and Counselors Meeting: Total Needs of People, Jan and Mar 1945
Health Education Conference, 1947
Regional HPER Work Groups, 1960
YWCA Dialogue with the Living Arts, Jun 1968
Conferences, non-YWCA
International Conference of Women Physicians (hosted by YWCA), Sep 1919
Planning
Attendance rosters
Program
Proceedings
I. General Problems of Health
II. Industrial Health
III. The Health of the Child
IV. Moral Codes and Personality
V. Adaptation of the Individual to Life
VI. Conservation of Health of Women in Marriage
New Jersey College for Women Vocational Information Conference, 1939 (Edith M. Gates, panelist)
Women's Health and Sport Session of the Citizen Ambassador Program U.S./China Joint Conference on Women's Issues, 1995
World Conference on Women and Sport, 1996
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Legislative Conference, 1997 (Alpha Alexander, speaker)
Programs and Projects
Health--National
Health Week, 1920-23
Skeleton Program, 1920
An Individual Health Program Adapted to Groups, 1920
ENCORE
General, 1975-91, n.d.
ENCORE News, 1978-82
ENCORE Newsletter, 1984-85
For Women Only-YWCA ENCORE Classic, 1992, n.d.
Program Manuals
"Program Manual for Community YWCAs"
"Taking the Lead with ENCORE," 1990
Training, 1977-84
National Breast Cancer Awareness Week Clinics and Workshops, 1985-86
ENCOREplus
General, 1995-99, n.d.
Program description, circa 1994
Program evaluation
Funding proposals, 1998
"Evaluation of ENCOREplus A Community-Based Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program" by Maria E. Fernandez et al, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1999; 16 (3S)
Evaluation kit, circa 1997
Advisory Board, 1995
Correspondence, 1994-99
Consultants
Cicatelli Associates, Training Center for Health Professionals, 1994-97
DeBor and Associates, 1995-96, n.d.
Macro International, 1994-97
Philliber Research Associates, 1994
Professional Key Punch, Inc., 1997
Stewart, Karen, 1996
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 1997-98
Wughalter, Emily, 1994
Financial
Reports, 1996-97
Corporate Partnerships
General, 1997
"The Partnership Proposal," 1997
Grants to Member Associations
Request for proposal forms and instructions, 1994-97
Grant proposal review, 1994-98
Standard contract, 1994-95
Agreements and correspondence with Associations, 1994-97
ENCOREplus Newsletter, 1996-98
Public Awareness Campaign
Press conference, Washington, DC, 27 Apr 1994
ENCOREplus Marketing and Public relations kit, 1996
Race for the Cure, 1996 [national]
Breast Cancer Awareness Postage Stamp
General, Dec 1995-1996
Brochure and cache design, 1996
Press kit, 1996
Local events, 1996
The March: Coming Together to Conquer Cancer, 25-26 September 1998 [national]
General, 1997-98
Press kit, 1998
Home Box Office documentary "Cancer: Evolution to Revolution," 2000
Peter Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation application, 1997
Planet Earth Foundation, 1996-97
Miscellaneous, 1995-97
Annual Reports
July 1996-98
Training
General, 1994-96, n.d.
Program Implementation Manual: correspondence with reviewers, 1994
ENCOREplus Trainer's Manual, 1994
First Annual Conference (aka technical assistance meeting), 16-18 September 1995
Program and handouts
Exhibitors
Registration forms with issues of concern
Evaluations
Feb 1998
National Breast Cancer Coalition: Project LEAD Training Courses, 1996
Yearbooks, 1995-96
American Association of Retired Persons, 1995-96
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 1995
American Cancer Society, 1994-2000
Avon Products, Inc.
Contracts, 1993-95
Budget, 1994-98
Reports, 1995-98
News clippings and press releases, 1993-97, n.d.
Quarterly, 1994-98
Program Report, Nov 1996
Revisions and replacements, Jan 1997
Breast Care Test Coalition (Pennsylvania YWCAs)
General, 1992-96, n.d.
Publication: "Breast Care: You Are Your Best Defense," 1996
Gifts in Kind America, 1994-97
National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations, 1994-98
Partnership for Cancer Control in Underserved Populations Regional Conferences
General, 1995-97
Great Lakes Conference, 1997
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
General, 1994-98
Komen/Hallmark, Cards for the Cure program, 2000-2001
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Miscellaneous departments, 1994-97
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP)
General, 1992-97, n.d.
CDC Orientation Meeting for National Organizations, Apr 1994
CDC National Organizations Program Directors' Meeting, Apr 1996
CDC and YWCA Collaborative Agreement, 1993, n.d.
Applications, proposals, and work plans, 1992-97
Award notices, 1994-97
Conferences, 1994-96
Consultants: Strategic Health Concepts, 1995-96
Correspondence, 1991-2000
Financial, 1994-98
Reports, 1995-97
State partnerships, 1993-94
Maryland Partnership (aka Maryland Demonstration Project)
General, 1992-95, n.d.
Proposals, 1993-94, n.d.
Budgets, 1993-95
Reports, 1994-95, n.d.
Subcontractor: AMC Cancer Research Center
Contract, 1993
Evaluation of program meetings, 1994
Reference materials
Case Study "Partnering for Success: State Health Departments Working With Member Associations of the YWCA of the USA"
Draft, 1995
Final (?), n.d.
Lesbian Demonstration Project (aka Lesbian Outreach Initiative)
General, 1994-97, n.d.
Proposal to CDC and award notifications, 1995
Consultants: Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer
General, 1995-98, n.d.
Contracts, 1995-96
News clippings and press releases, 1995
"Schedule Your Checkup Now," public service announcement, 1997
"Tools for Caring About Lesbian Health"
Brochure, 1997-98
Video, 1997-98
Report forms, 1995-97
Final Report, draft, Aug 1997
Sites
Request for Proposal forms, 1995-96
Quarterly Reports, 1995-97
Year 1 Progress Reports, 1996
YWCA of Bangor-Brewer, Maine, 1995
YWCA of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1995-96
YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas, Texas, 1995-97
YWCA of Seattle-King County, Washington, 1995-97
YWCA of Tucson, Arizona, 1995-96
National Action Plan on Breast Cancer
National Institutes of Health: The Secretary's Conference to Establish a National Action Plan on Breast Cancer, 14-15 Dec 1993
Contractor: R.O.W. Sciences, Inc., 1997
Valdez & Associates: Multimedia Breast Cancer Education Kiosks for Latinas, 1997
Just the Facts: What Every Woman Needs to Know about Vaginal Health (aka Bacterial Vaginosis Project)
General, 1998-99
Workshops
General, 2001
Evaluations, Apr 2001
"Moving Past Trauma" Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Community Outreach, 2001
Sexually transmitted disease programs and Community Associations, list, 1999
"Stay Strong! Test Your Bone Strength" bone density testing campaign with Strong Women Inside and Out
General, 2000-01
Testing Event Guide, 2000
Recreation
Miscellaneous, 1920, n.d.
Man and Girl Recreation Activities, circa 1920
Play Institute, Dallas, Texas, YWCA, 1927
Water pageants, 1933, 1937
Training Program for the Arts
General, 1977-79, n.d.
Progress Reports, 1978
Final Reports, 1979
Jo Sickbert Day Event Reports, 1978
Sports and Fitness
Merrill Lynch Olympic Spirit Program, 1998
National Girls and Women in Sports Day, 1990-99
National Girls Tennis Program, 1990-91
National YWCA Swimming Championships, 1970-73, 1989-90, 1999, n.d.
Peter Westbrook Fencing Program, YWCA and Peter Westbrook Foundation, 1994-99
Women's Basketball: A Developmental Program, American Basketball Council in Cooperation with YWCA: manual, circa 1988
YWCA of the USA/Nike Sports and Fitness Project
The YWCA P.L.A.Y.ground, 1998-99
Basketball Program grants
Train the Trainers Workshop, Dec 1997
Arizona: Maricopa County (Phoenix)
General, 1997-99
Player evaluation forms
California
Glendale, 1997-98
Central Orange County, 1995-97
Pasadena Foothill Valley, 1999
San Francisco, 1995-97
Santa Monica, 1993-99
Florida: Miami, 1995-98
Illinois
McLean County (Bloomington), 1996-99
Rockford, 1996-97
Indiana: Kokomo, 1995-97
Iowa
Black Hawk County (Waterloo), 1996-99
Greater Des Moines, 1996
Kansas: Salina, 1998-99
Louisiana: Shreveport, 1995-97
Maine
Bangor-Brewer, 1996
Portland, 1995-99
Maryland: Greater Baltimore, 1995-97
Massachusetts: Greater Lawrence, 1997-98
Michigan
Bay County, 1998-99
Greater Lansing, 1996-98
Minnesota: St. Paul, 1996
Missouri
Kansas City, 1995-98
St. Louis, 1998-99
New Jersey: Trenton, 1995-97
New Mexico: Albuquerque, 1995-97
New York
Adirondack Foothills, 1998-99
Brooklyn, 1996
Elmira, 1996-97
Lockport, 1995-97
Schenectady, 1995-96
Western New York (Buffalo), 1995-97
White Plains and Central Westchester, 1996-98
North Carolina
Asheville, 1995-97
Central Carolinas (Charlotte)
General, 1996-99
Player Evaluation Forms, 1998
Greensboro, 1998
Rocky Mount, 1997-98
Ohio
Cincinnati
Basketball Clinic, Mar 1997
Evaluations, n.d.
Cleveland, 1995-99
Columbus, 1995-97
Dayton, 1997-98
Lorain, 1995-97
Summit County (Akron), 1997-98
Youngstown, 1998-99
Oklahoma: Enid, 1995-96
Oregon: Portland, 1995-97
Pennsylvania
Gettysburg, 1995-98
Greater West Chester, 1995-96
York, 1998-99
South Carolina: Greenville, 1995-99
South Dakota: Sioux Falls, 1998
Tennessee: Knoxville, 1997-99
Texas
Abilene, 1996
Dallas, 1995-97
Lubbock, 1997-99
Paris and Lamar County, 1995-96
San Antonio, 1995-98
Utah: Salt Lake City, 1997-98
Virginia: Lynchburg, 1995-96
Washington
Seattle, 1996-97
Yakima, 1996
West Virginia: Wheeling, 1994-97
Wisconsin
Racine, 1996-98
Christoph Memorial (Waukesha), 1995-96
Volleyball Program grants
Arkansas: El Dorado, 1996-99
Central Orange County, 1996-97
San Francisco, 1996-97
Santa Monica, 1998-99
Florida: Miami, 1996
Georgia: Macon, 1995-98
Aurora, 1998-99
Freeport, 1996
McClean County (Bloomington), 1997-98
Indiana: Muncie, 1996
Iowa: Marshalltown, 1996
Kentucky: Lexington, 1996-98
Louisiana: Baton Rouge, 1996-97
Maine: Portland, 1998-99
Massachusetts: Greater Lawrence, 1998-99
Minnesota
Duluth, 1996
St. Paul, 1996
Binghampton and Broome County, 1996-98
Mohawk Valley, 1996
Schenectady, 1996
Western New York (Buffalo), 1996
Central Carolinas (Charlotte), 1996-99
High Point, 1996-99
Player Evaluation Forms, n.d.
Cleveland, 1996-97
Columbus, 1997-98
Summit County, 1996
Oklahoma: Enid, 1998-99
Bethlehem, 1996-97
Gettysburg and Adams County, 1996-97
Rhode Island: Northern RI (Woonsocket), 1997-2000
South Carolina: Greenville, 1996-98
South Dakota: Sioux Falls, 1996-99
Tennessee: Knoxville, 1996-97
Texas: San Antonio, 1996
Washington: Spokane, 1997-98
Christoph Memorial (Waukesha), 1996-99
"New Face of Fitness" Fitness Training Program
Arkansas: El Dorado, 1996-97
Glendale, 1996-97
Santa Monica, 1995-96
Delaware: New Castle County, 1996-97
Georgia
Greater Atlanta, 1997
Augusta, 1996
Hawaii
Hawaii Island, 1996-97
Kauai County, 1995-97
O'ahu, 1996-97
McClean County (Bloomington), 1996-97
Lake and McHenry Counties (Waukegan), 1995-96
Indiana: Greater Lafayette, 1996
Des Moines, 1995-97
Washington, 1996
Kansas: Topeka, 1995-96
Maine: Portland, 1995-97
Maryland: Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, 1996-97
Massachusetts: Newburyport, 1995-96
Michigan: Kalamazoo, 1996
Minnesota: Minneapolis, 1995-96
Missouri: St. Louis, 1996-97
Nebraska: Lincoln, 1995-96
New Jersey
Bergen County, 1996-97
Princeton, 1996-97
Trenton, 1995-97
Niagara (Lockport), 1996-97
Western New York (Buffalo), 1995-96
North Carolina: Asheville, 1995-97
Cincinnati, 1995-96
Cleveland, 1995-97
Summit County (Akron), 1995-97
Oklahoma: Oklahoma City, 1996-97
Oregon
Portland, 1995-97
Salem, 1995-97
Carlisle, 1995-96
Germantown-Philadelphia, 1995-97
Gettysburg and Adams County, 1995-96
McKeesport, 1996
South Carolina: Greenville, 1995-97
South Dakota: Sioux Falls, 1995-96
El Paso del Norte Region, 1995-97
San Antonio, 1995-96
Seattle-King County, 1996
Tacoma and Pierce County, 1996-97
Walla Walla, 1996-97
West Virginia: Wheeling, 1995-96
Green Bay-De Pere, 1996
Christoph Memorial (Waukesha), 1995-97
Wausau, 1996-97
Health, general
Miscellaneous Pamphlets, n.d.
Beauty: miscellaneous pamphlets, 1936, 1946
Change of Life: A Modern Woman's Guide by F.S. Edsall, 1949
Every Girl's Health in Revue, Pantomime and Song, Volume I and II, compiled by Jane Bellows, 1924,25
Feet and Shoes by Jane Bellows, 1928
Health and Fitness brochures series, 1981
Health and the Woman Movement by Clelia Duel Mosher, 1918
Individual Exercises Illustrated by Jane Bellows, 1923
Lady Be Fit! Exercises for Energy, Efficiency and Lasting Health by Dorothy Nye, 1942
Nutrition: miscellaneous pamphlets, 1926-43
A Symposium on Health and Recreation by Ten YWCA Leaders, 1936
Woman's Physical Freedom by Clelia Duel Mosher, M.D., 1923
Women After Forty: The Meaning of the Last Half of Life by Grace Loucks Elliot (Henry Holt & Co), 1936
Administration
The Activities Ticket in a Health Education Program by Edith M. Gates, circa 1938
A Community Health Program for the YWCA by Edith M. Gates, 1940
The Department of Hygiene and Physical Education by Anna L. Brown, 1915
The Health and Recreation Program in Clubs by Clara W. Alcroft, circa 1941
The Health Education Committee by Edith M. Gates and Clara W. Alcroft, 1940, 1944
The Health Education Council: What Is It? by Edith M. Gates, 1938
Health Education Department Especially Adapted to City Associations, circa 1921
Health Education Handbook
1948, Section I-III
1948, Section IV-V and 1951 revision
The Health Program in Small Associations by Edith M. Gates, 1936
So You're Going to Do Publicity! A Publicity Primer in Terms of Health Education by Dorothy S. Cronan and Clara W. Alcroft, 1939, 1944
The YWCA Health Program: A Program Guide for Leaders by Gladys L. Brown, 1965
The YWCA Swimming Program: A Guide for Leaders, 1962
Marriage and Family Life Education
General, 1945, 1948, n.d.
Education for Marriage Series: 1. First Steps in Program Building, No Date Has Been Set for the Wedding, and Working Wives, 1936-37 and 2. Marriages are Not Made in Heaven, 1939, 1947 revision by Janet Fowler Nelson and Margaret Hiller
Family Activities With Other Families: Needs and Interests of Different Ages by Helen Southard, 1959
The Family-Covenant With Posterity by Grace Loucks Elliot, 1942
The Human Venture in Sex, Love, and Marriage by Peter A. Bertocci, 1949
Jobs and Marriage? Outlines for the Discussion of the Married Woman in Business by Grace L. Coyle, 1928
Planning for Marriage: Outlines for Discussion by Young Men and Women by William Henry Morgan and Mildred Inskeep Morgan, 1943
What Do You Think? Three Wartime Programs about ourselves, dates, wartime marriages, our fears today by Helen Southard, 1943
What Our Marriage Means to Us by One Married Couple, 1939
Mental Health
General, 1915, 1945, n.d.
Counseling in the YWCA by Tirzah Waite Anderson, 1946
Have You Met Yourself?: A Psychological Introduction by Helen F. Southard, 1942
Relaxation to the Rescue by Dorothy Nye and Josephine L. Rathbone, 1942
To Your Health and Emotions, Lady! by Margaret W. Metcalf, 1948
Sex Education
Miscellaneous pamphlets, 1943-70
The Christian Approach to Social Morality by Richard C. Cabot, 1913
Into the World by Victoria Emerson and James J. Thompson, 1950
Planning for Sex Education, with particular reference to YWCA work with junior and senior high school students by Helen Southard, 1943
The Sex Life of Youth by Grace Loucks Elliott and Harry Bone, ninth printing, 1947
"Sex Morality Teaching Kit" including Sex Education Program: A Guide for Leaders by Helen Southard, 1965
Health Through Leisure Time Recreation by Edith M. Gates, 1931
It Pays to Play by Mollie Heath Conn, 1940
Partners in Play: Recreation for Young Men and Women Together by Mary J. Breen, 1934
A Play Institute as given at Richmond, Virginia, Program Series no. XXIV, 1925
Popularizing the Pool by Lucy South Proudfoot, 1924
Arts and Crafts
The Arts: miscellaneous pamphlets, 1931?, 1945
A Crafts Bulletin: of Equipment, Materials and Processes by Mary Dana and Ruth Perkins, 1936
Crafts With Nature Materials by Lois Corke, circa 1942, 1946
Creative Arts Kit, 1962, 1964
Easy -to-Make Fashion Accessories by Janie W. Scott, 1953
Flower Arrangement: A Hobby for All by Matilda Rogers, 1948
Hand Book on the Use of Crafts by Ruth Perkins, 1934, 1936
Nature Crafts by Emily A. Veazie, 1930
Try It Yourself: An Introduction to the Arts (USO) by Florence C.E. Anderson, n.d.
Dance
Slavic Folk Dances compiled by Marjorie Crane Geary, 1924
"Swing Your Ladies: Experiences with Country Dance in Co-ed Recreation," (No. X of the series Program Papers for Today and Tomorrow), compiled by Edith M. Gates, 1941
Tap Dancing, 1930-1935
Parties and Games
Birthday Parties for Boys and Girls From One to Fourteen by Mary Grosvenor Ellsworth, 1951
The Fun Book: Stunts for Every Month in the Year by Edna Geister, 1923
Holiday Parties by Dorothy Gladys Spicer, 1939
Ice Breakers: Games and Stunts for Large and Small Groups by Edna Geister, 1918
Ice-Breakers and the Ice-Breaker Herself by Edna Geister, 1921
The Ice-Breaker Herself: Practical Suggestions for Recreation Leadership by Edna Geister, 1921
It is To Laugh: A Book of Games and Stunts by Edna Geister, 1922
Parties and Stunts Around the Year by Era Bentzer, 1924
Parties for Young Americans by Dorothy Gladys Spicer, 1940
Practical Parties by Ella Shannon Bowles, 1926
Primer for Hostesses by Dorothy Sara, 1950
Shower Parties for All Occasions by Helen Emily Webster, 1949
Six Recreational Parties and Ten Recreational Parties by Helen Durham, 1924, n.d.
Special Parties and Stunts and Suggestions for Special Parties compiled by Era Betzner, circa 1923, n.d.
Serials
Health Education Bulletin, 1935-44
HPER Newsletter, 1977-79
Health Promotion/Sports Bulletin, 1990-92
Playground: YWCA of the USA Health and Sports Update, 2000
Reference Materials
Marriage and Family Life, 1906-61, n.d.
Recreation, 1920, 1930
Sex education, 1929-89, n.d.
General, 1920-86, n.d.
Health
HIV Prevention Through PACT, Mar 1992
"Women as Preventors: An Adult-Teen Partnership" training package on alcohol abuse prevention, n.d.
Social Morality Institute, Feb-Mar 1915
Dr. Mabel Ulrich's lectures at National YWCA, Jul 1915(?)
Social Morality, Mabel Ulrich, Jul 1917
Subseries C. Music
"Historical Record of Music in the YWCA" (with documents) by Mary B. Wheeler, Jun 1966
Articles re music and creative arts in the YWCA, 1938-70, n.d.
Committee and Staff
Biographies of Music Committee members, 1940-51, n.d.
General, 1958-68
Katharine B. Parker re establishment of Music Department, 1926-28
Centennial music
General and local association songs, 1953-55
Hymn in memory of Katherine B. Parker "O God of Every People" by John and Janet Harbison, 1953-55
Controversial songs, 1955-58, n.d.
Cooperative Recreation Service re printing of YWCA music, 1960-65
Copyright, 1947-60, n.d.
General, 1947-60, n.d.
Song "Follow the Gleam," 1923-56
Song "When a Y-Teen Girl Walks Down the Street," 1963
Song "Witchcraft" by Margarett Snyder, 1949-65
"Dakota Hymn," 1987
National Federation of Music Clubs, National Music Week, 1955-68
Minutes and reports
National Music Committee/National Music Subcommittee of the Division of Community YWCAs/National Music Subject Committee of the Program Subject Department, 1930-50
Music Consultants' Meeting, 26 May 1966
Audiovisual Mini-Kit, circa 1969
Creative Arts
General reference, 1942-65, n.d.
In YWCA Program
Correspondence, 1961-62
Articles, 1945-63
Washington, DC, YWCA, 1950-61, n.d.
Creative Arts Kit, 1962
Creative Arts Kit: correspondence, 1962-63
Contemporary Programming Kit no. 3 "The Arts: How to Become Involved," 1968
Questionnaire for Music and the Arts in the YWCA, Bureau of Research and Program Resources, 1969
Conventions, Conferences, and other events
Conventions
YWCA of Canada National Convention, 1949-50
National Student Assembly, University of Illinois, Dec 1946-Jan 1947
Business, Professional, and Industrial Council, Northwest Region, Feb 1947
National Conference for Staff Working with Industrial Constituency, Mar 1947
Summer Conferences, 1947
YMCA-YWCA National Conference for High School Youth, Grinnell College, Jun 1947
Business and Professional Fall Conference, Northern New England, Nov 1948
Regional Conferences, 1948
Summer Conferences, 1948
Summer Conferences, 1949
Eastern Regional, 1951
Indiana Y-Teen Summer Conference, 1956
Young Adult, 1960
Southeastern Region, Jun 1960
National Conference for Program Staff, Nov-Dec 1960
Y-Teen Round Table, 1 Apr 1963
National Y-Teen Conference, Washington, DC, Aug 1965
Business and Professional Nationwide Observance Day, 1943
National Industrial Assembly, 1936
National Staff Assembly and other gatherings at "600," 1928-58, n.d.
National YWCA Cycle Meeting, Mar 1968
Summer Camp Program, 1957-65
Projects
"Back the Beginners" a world fellowship project for young adults, 1957-58
Y-Teen Creative Arts Project '69: correspondence and notes, 1968-69
Y-Teen Folk Song Project
Correspondence, minutes, notes, reports, 1964-66
Permissions correspondence, 1966
Music and lyrics, 1965-66
Cleveland YWCA "World Symphony" program, n.d.
Lancaster (PA) YWCA Vivaldi Orchestra program, 1966
New York City YWCA, Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 1964-65
Philadelphia YWCA "Singing City" and Seven Arts Series, 1962-66
San Francisco Song Festival, 1964
Topeka Y-Teen Clubs "Sing a Song of Friendship," Jan 1948
Bibliographies
General, 1929-43(?)
"A Music Bibliography for Association Leaders," Laboratory Division, 1936, 1938, 1939
"Music for a Student Christian Movement: Suggestions for 1935" and "Music for a Student Christian Movement," National Student Council of the YWCA, 1935-36, n.d.
"Music Resources for Worship Planning" by Marion Peabody, TWP, 1937
Music Suggestions for the Christmas Season Selected from Many Sources by Marion Peabody, The Womans Press, 1934
Program and training materials
The American Indians and Their Music by Frances Densmore, 1936
"Club Music" leaflet, 1930
Conference Leaders Handbook, Music section, 1958
"Criteria for Song Leaders," circa 1940s
Let's Have Music edited by Marie Oliver, The Womans Press, 1945; second edition, 1948
"The Music Committee-Its Place and Task in the Association," pamphlet produced by the Laboratory Division: correspondence and pamphlet, 1933-35
"Music in YWCA Conferences" by Martha Ramsey, circa 1938
Music in the YWCA: A Guide to Program Planning by Elizabeth Lawson, The Womans Press, 1934
Music, Let's Have More of It, pamphlet and correspondence, 1960
"Notes for the Conference Song Leader," leaflets, 1964-69
Program Packets, 1945-47
Songbooks and Hymnals
Miscellaneous, circa 1913-36
The American Songbag, 1930, n.d.
The Association Hymnal, TWP
Association Music, circa 1915, circa 1920, n.d.
Christmas and New Year Songs compiled by Florence H. Botsford, The Womans Press, 1922
Convention, 1932, 1934, 1940, 1970
Folk Songs of Many Peoples with English Versions by American Poets compiled and edited by Florence Hudson Botsford, TWP
Vol I, 1921
Vol. II, 1922
Folk Songs of Poland reprinted from Vol. I of Folk Songs of Many Peoples, TWP, 1922
Hymns edited by the Music Subcommittee of the National Board of the YWCAs, TWP, [1945?]
International Training Institute Songbook, 1969
Correspondence, 1969, n.d.
Manuscript and photocopies, 1969
A Little Carol Book: Carols From Ten Countries, TWP, n.d.
Our Student Movement Sings/Our Student Movements Sing, 1955, n.d.
Sing Along the Way/Sing Along
circa 1943-65
Accompaniments, Jul and Oct 1950 and Jan 1955
General and notes, 1950-70, n.d.
Re controversial songs, 1943-60, n.d.
Re accompaniment book, 1950
"Notes for Song Leaders," Jun 1965
"On Playing the Autoharp Accompaniments in 'Sing Along'": correspondence, notes, and text, 1957-58
Phonograph recording "Sing Along": correspondence, 1960-63
Sing Around the World Songs, The Womans Press, 1923
The Song Book of the Y.W.C.A. compiled by Imogene B. Ireland, TWP, 1926
Songs for Freedom edited by the Music Subcommittee of the National Board, The Womans Press, circa 1946
Songs, Rounds and Carols, The Womans Press, 1940
Songs, Rounds and Graces, The Womans Press, 1935
Girl Reserve/Y-Teen
Girl Reserve Song-Book
1923-26 and supplement
Y-Teen Song Book, 1946
Youth Sings, YMCA-YWCA National Conference for High School Youth, 1947
YWCA Songs and Song Sheets
Miscellaneous, 1916, 1938, n.d.
"A Christmas Carol from Jamaica" composed by YWCA members,circa 1949
Centennial Hymn, "O God of Every People" by John and Janet Harbison, 1955
Centennial songs written by members of local associations, 1953-55
Descant for "Goodnight Beloved" by Lucy Shulte and Marie Oliver, n.d.
"Follow the Gleam" 1923, 1958-62
Girl Reserve and Y-Teen songs, 1935-58, n.d.
"Our Song" Y-Teen song, 1947-48
Silver Bay Conference songs, 1920-35
Songs by Lucy Shulte and Louise Schooler, 1944
'Tis Not by Might,' World YWCA Motto, music by Frederich Flemming
YWCA Purpose
Music by Wanda Canny, circa 1965
Music by Mary E. Swain, circa 1955
Y-Teen Hymn by Clara Ellen Shipman, n.d.
Reference files, General
General, 1929-50, n.d.
African music, dance, drama, 19950-62, n.d.
Amateur Chamber Music Players, 1956, n.d.
American Indian music, 1964-65
Arab music, 1958, 1960
British YWCA music, 1946
Children and families, 1934-64, n.d.
Chinese music, 1933, n.d.
Choral music for women's voices, 1945, 1966-67
Christmas music and program, 1931-79, n.d.
Church music, workshop at Union Theological Seminary, 1969
Civil Rights, music in movement, 1962-65, n.d.
Copyright law, 1942-64, n.d.
Finnish music and dance, 1941, n.d.
Folk music, 1933-65, n.d.
Hymns, 1924-66, n.d.
Indian music, 1936, n.d.
Instruments
Hand made, 1936-58
Recorders, 1942-47, n.d.
Rhythm band/toy symphony, 1930-60, n.d.
Shepherd's pipes, 1935-50, n.d.
International Music Congress meeting, Sep 1968
Japanese music, 1969
Jazz, 1956-66, n.d.
Jewish music, 1950, 1959
Labor union music, 1941-50, n.d.
Music therapy, 1925-44, n.d.
"Negro" spirituals, 1931-39, n.d.
Oratorio by Normand Lockwood "Brotherhood of Man," 1957
Orchestras, 1940-60, n.d.
Recorded music
Use of recorded music in worship, Hobart Mitchell, consultant, 1955-70, n.d.
Use in program, 1956-69
Resources
General lists, catalogues, 1948-65, n.d.
Library of Congress, 1935-60, n.d.
Rock and Roll, 1965
Song Leading, 1933-56
Songs, story behind, 1919-66, n.d.
Training, 1956-59, n.d.
United Nations songs, 1942-62
World War II, 1941-44, n.d.
World Fellowship program materials, 1935-67, n.d.
Worship services
Ecumenical, 1945-65, n.d.
With themes, 1921-60
Worship and the Arts
National Council of Churches publications, 1955-62, n.d.
Forum '68 On Media and Arts of Confrontation, Jun 1968
Reference files, Sheet Music/Scores
Miscellaneous, 1941-64, n.d.
Civil Rights songs, 1960-64
Folk Songs, n.d.
African
Austrian
Armenian
Belgian
British
Bohemian
Chinese
Cuban
Czecho-Slovakian
Danish
Dutch
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hungarian
Indian
Indian, American
Italian
Jamaican
Japanese
Jugoslavian
Korean
Lithuanian
Moravian
New Zealand
Norwegian
Philippine
Polish
Russian
South American
Spanish
Swedish
Swiss
Syrian
Turkish
Ukrainian
Uruguay
USA
Girl Reserve song sheets, n.d.
Informal singing, National Recreation Association songbooks, n.d.
Labor Union songs, 1940-51, n.d.
National anthems 1917, 1941, n.d.
Parodies, 1946-50, n.d.
Peace, 1910-40, n.d.
Rounds and Canons, n.d.
Sacred music
Christmas carols, 1934, 1947, n.d.
Graces, n.d.
Hymns
General, 1947-58, n.d.
Ecumenical, 1950-62
"Negro" spirituals, 1936-46, n.d.
Responses, 1932-55, n.d.
United Nations songs, 1942-55
General, 1951, 1963-64
Creative Arts Workshop, Jun 1957
Health Education Roundtable, Central Branch, YWCA of the City of New York, Oct 1958
Initial Training "C," summer 1965
Leadership Training Day, 1956
Music Leaders Kit, circa 1944
Music Workshops, Mar 8 & 9, 1947
Music Workshop, Nov 1957
Music Workshop Reference Material notebook contents, 1949-66
National YWCA Institute on Program for Executive Directors and Program Directors, Nov-Dec, 1963
Volunteer Training Institute, Ridgewood, NJ, 26 Nov 1952
Workshop for Program Staff, Southern Region, Mar 1962
Y-Teen Conference Leaders Institute, Eastern Region, Nov 1961
Y-Teen Conference Leaders Institute, Nov 1962
Subseries D. Pageantry and Drama
General and history, 1916-20
Notes and resources, 1921-39, 1950
Lists of plays and pageants
General, 1919-38
Womans Press list, 1945-46
Choral speech: clippings, resources, 1934-59, n.d.
General reference, 1961, n.d.
"The Use of Plays in Club Work," The Womans Press, 1930
Scripts
"Above All Else, Liberty" by Georgia Tenger, TWP, 1929
"An Adventure in Friendship" by Barbara Abel, TWP, 1923
"The Adventures of Ella Cinders: An Idea for an Annual Meeting as Worked Out and Presented by the Columbus, Ohio, Association," program series #44, TWP, circa 1927
"The Aftermath: A Playlet for the Week of Prayer," Oct 1914
"The Air Route to Buenos Aires: A Program on South America" by Helen L. Willcox, TWP, 1929
"Alice in Wonderland: A Dance Pantomime" by Mary E. Phipps and Marjorie Van Horn, TWP, 1927
"Alice in Y Land" an original skit written by the Business Girls' Department of the Boston YWCA, TWP n.d.
"Amos," TWP 1926
"And Who Can This Spirit Be?" by Emma Mauritz Larson, TWP 1920
"At the Sign of the Boar's Head" by Vida R. Sutton, TWP 1924
"At the Turn of Tide" by Georgia Stenger, TWP, 1921
"At the YW: A Play of World Fellowship" by Maxine Wood, TWP, 1948
"Ballad of the YWCA" for choric speaking, 1943
"Beau and Belle: A Lyrical Trifle" by Constance Smedley Armfield, TWP, 1922
"The Beloved Community and The Quest of the Understanding Heart" by Hazel Hardacre and Helen Hoskins, TWP Program Series no. 31, 1926
"Bible Plays Out of the East" by Anna R. Kennedy, TWP 1929
"Blood Doesn't Tell: A Play About Blood Plasma and Blood Donors" by Elsie Austin, TWP, 1945
"The Bonds of Liberty: A Masque" by Josephine Thorp, TWP, 1919
"The Bow of Promise: A Peace Festival" by Josephine Thorp, TWP, 1919
"Bread and Butter Plus: A Vocational Guidance Play" by Hazel M. Lewis, 1938
"The Brown Bull of Norway" by Margaret Lynch Conger, TWP, 1924
"Bubbles: a World Fellowship Play of India and America" by Leah Adkisson Kazmark, TWP, 1931
"The Budget Ghost" by Mary L. Carr, reprinted from The Womans Press, Oct 1923
"Builders of Dreams" by Polly Cady, n.d.
"The Burning Altar: A Thanksgiving Ceremony" by Ethel Gesner Rockwell, TWP, 1930
"Calling All Nations: A Pageant of Peace," TWP 1936
"A Camel Trip to Cairo: A Program on Egypt" by Helen L. Willcox, The Womans Press, 1920
"Canton Pearls: A Play in Three Acts with Suggestions for a Project 'The Women of China' for World Fellowship" by Jean Grigsby Paxton, TWP, 1922
"Carrot Skit," n.d.
"Cat Fear: A Fanciful Japanese Comedy Pantomime" by Marion Norris Gleason with music by Harold Gleason, TWP, 1916?
"A Ceremony of American Democracy" by Rosamond Kimball, 1918
"The Challenge: a 15-minute radio script for use in Centennial program," 1954
"The Child Labor Amendment: An Assembly Program" by Margaret Hiller, TWP, 1934
"A Circus" by Helen Durham, TWP, 1924
"Committee on Space: A World Fellowship Skit with a Sense of Humus" by Barbara Abel, 1959
"The Conspiracy of Spring" by Mary S. Edgar, TWP, 1920
"Consumer Beware! A Dramatization of the Congressional Hearings on Food, Drug and Cosmetic Legislation" by Charline Shelton, TWP, 1936
"The Counsel: A Ceremony for Today in Speech and Song" by Hazel MacKaye, TWP, 1919
"The Crowning of Spring" by Sara Kingsbury, TWP, 1924
"Cryptomeria Tree: A Japanese Play" by Mary S. Edgar, TWP, Program Series no. IX, 1924
"Darkness and Dawn: A Mystery Play for Easter Even" by Frederica Lefevre Bellamy, TWP, 5th printing 1944
"The Deuce of Reducing: A Disarming Skit" by Barbara Abel, TWP, 1930
District School on the Rapidan: or 'Studyin' War no More'" by Harriet C (Mrs. George B.) Ford, TWP, 1931 with "Voices
"The Drama of Esther" written and given by the class in religious pedagogy at the National Training School, Mar 1917, TWP, 1919
"The Dress That Came Back" a play for Y-Teen Roll Call Week by Mabel Alice Tuggle, 1950
"Dust and Thrust (A Puppet Panorama in Two Scenes)," Columbus, Ohio, YWCA, 1968
"Dutch Wind and King Grisly Beard: Two Pantomimes" by Madeline A. Chaffee, TWP, 1929
"Early American: A Playlet of the Gifts of the Old Days to the Modern Girl, Indian and White" by Dorothy Cate, TWP 1931
"The Enchanted Urn: A Fantasy in Pantomime" by Hazel MacKaye, TWP, 1924
English-Class Plays for New Americans by Emily M. Gibson, TWP, 1927
"Everygirl" by Mary S. Edgar, TWP, 1929
"Fashion Review: Down Petticoat Lane" by Helen Durham, TWP, 1921, 1926
"The Festival of Days" by Lucy South Proudfoot, TWP,1927
"The Festival of Proserpina" by Margaret Lynch Conger, TWP, 1924
"The Festival of the Harvest Moon, Particularly Appropriate for the Thanksgiving Season" by Sue Ann Wilson, TWP, 1925
"Finance Behind the Footlights: A Finance Campaign in Five Dramatic Flavors" by Barbara Abel, TWP, 1930
"Folk in Our Neighborhood" written originally for the Industrial Department of the Atlanta, Georgia, Association by Martha Jarrell, TWP program series, n.d.
"The Forbidden City at Last: A Play of Modern China" by Jean Grigsby Paxton, TWP, 1931
"The Foreign Association Pageant," 1912
"Forward Through the Ages: A Processional of Women" pageant presented at the National Convention, 1926
"Friendly-Kingdom: A Pageant-Play for Girl Reserves" by Tracy Mygatt, 1921
"A Frieze for the Convention Façade" by Elizabeth Russell Hendee, 1932
"From Dollars to Doughnuts" a skit for the National Convention, 1961
"From Morn to Night or A Day at the Y" written and given by the Huntington, West Virginia, YWCA, TWP, 1937
"From Sea to Shining Sea: A Pageant of Brotherhood for Use in Conferences and Similar Gatherings" by Mary Elizabeth Clark, TWP, 1923
"The Gate of Montsalvat" by Mary McKittrick, TWP, 1928
"Girls of Yesterday and Today: Historical Pictures of Association Life," 1915
"A Girls' World: A Radio Script for Girl Reserve Clubs" by Pauline Gibson, TWP,1939
"A Gleam in the World's Eye: a One-Act Kit" by Barbara Abel, 1965
"The Glory of the Task: A Pageant of Woman's Growing Heritage" by Laura Scherer Copenhaver and Eleanor Copenhaver, TWP, 1927
"Go With Us: A one-act playlet" by Henriette Sharon Aument, 1966
"The Golden Leaves: An Operetta of Polish Folk Songs and Dances" by A. Lewis Colwell, TWP, 1927
"The Golden Trail: The Pageant of the 1923 Summer Conferences YWCA" by Jean Grigsby Paxton, TWP, Program Series no. V, 1923
"The Great Standards Mystery: A Play" by Barbara Abel, TWP, 1937
"The Growth of a Nation" by Florence M. Eldridge, TWP, 1926
"Gym and Jerry: A Health Skit" by Barbara Abel, TWP, 1924
"The Health City and Other Plays" by Marion Shepard, M.D.. TWP, 1928
"Here, There, and Everywhere" by Clarette L. Sehon, TWP program series 14, 1926
"Here We Are! A Play in Six Scenes and Three Prospects" by Barbara Abel, TWP, 1930
"Heritage Tea," 75th anniversary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, YWCA, 1969
"The Home Valley: A Pageant for the Little Towns in the Open Country" by Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas, 1921
"How He Won Her and Four Other Finance Features for Student Association Publicity," TWP program series no. XV, 1924
"How Not to Get Publicity and How to Alienate Editors," skit for training workshop by Elizabeth McCants Drinnon, 1967
"In 1864" by Vida R. Sutton, TWP, 1924
"In Safety: An Incident of the War of American Independence Dramatized in One Act for Pastoral or Indoor Performance" by Margaret Macnamara, TWP, 1924
"In the Forest of Domremy" by Vida R. Sutton, TWP, 1924
"An Indian Swimming Pageant" by Eunice Knox, TWP, 1933
"Intolerance or Bilbo's Tribe" by Mary Hanson, 1947
"Jack-I'-The-Green: An Outdoor Play for a May Festival" and "The Potentate of Weatherdom: a May Day Play" by Margaret C. Getchell, TWP, [1920]
"Il Jacobi," TWP 1923
"The Jongleur's Story: A History and Demonstration of Religious Drama" by Frederica LeF. Bellamy, TWP, 1926
"Kay's Idea" by Lillie Johnson Epps, TWP, 1937
"The King of Sherwood" by Ivy Bolton, TWP, 1924
"The Kingdom: A Presentation of the Easter Story" by Karin Sundelof-Asbrand, TWP, 1929
"The Kingdom of Isles: A Water Play for Out-of-Door Production" by Ruth Pursell and Margaret Strassler, TWP, 1931
Lad and Other Story Plays for Children to Read or to Act by Bertha Palmer Lane, TWP, 1926
"Ladies in Transit" a skit by Barbara Abel and Marion Robinson, 1951
"The Lady Joanna and Two Other Plays" by Anne Charlotte Darlington, TWP, 1928
"The Land of Right Side Out: A Children's Festival" by Josephine Thorp, TWP, 1919
"The Legend of the Laurel" by Evelyn B. Brownell, TWP, 1924
"The Legend of Old Manhattan: A Harvest Play for Young People" by Georgia Stenger, TWP, 1927
"The Light of the Women: A ceremonial for the use of colored groups" by Frances Gunner, TWP program series no. 43, 1921
"Lights Up: A Playlet" by Barbara Abel, TWP, War Service Program Series, 1942
"Lights Up For Total Defense," Leadership Division, 1942
"Little Girl, What Now?" a skit prepared by Marilyn Steinbrecher for the Business and Professional Girls' League, 1952
"The Little Patriot" and "Barbara Frietchie" by Margaret Getchell Parsons, TWP, 1927
Little Robin Stay-Behind and Other Plays in Verse for Children by Katherine Lee Bates, TWP, 1924
"The Magic Carpet: A Program on the Near East" by Helen L. Willcox, TWP, 1920
"The Magic of the Deed: a Pageant for the Girl Reserves" by Hazel MacKaye, 1920
"Maid in America" by Marguerite Creamer Pearson, reprint from The Womans Press Magazine, Jun 1937
"Maiden Over the Wall" by Bertram Bloch, TWP, 1919
"Marenka: An Operetta with Dances, in Three Acts" by Era Betzner, TWP, 1924 and "Music for Marenka," 1924
"A Masque of the Seventeenth Century" arranged and directed by Vida R. Sutton, TWP, 1927
"Me For You: A Musical Comedy with Fashion Review" by Helen Durham, revised 1930 by Ethel Gesner Rockwell, TWP, 1930
"Meeting at Four: A Skit for Y-Teen Clubs" by Barbara Abel, TWP, 1948
"A Midsummer Day's Frolic: An Outdoor Play for Girls" by Dorothy Powell, TWP, 1923
"The Ministering of the Gift: Pageant produced for the Fourth Biennial Convention" by Helen Thoburn, 1913
"The Minute Girls Face the Future" by Barbara Abel, National Board Dinner, May 1948, 1966
Miscellaneous meditations, etc., 1968-71
"Miss Unibrain, 1957" by Barbara Abel
"Moments of Courage: 1866-1966" banquet program by Mrs. Rex S. Clements for the National Conference in the Eastern Region, Apr 1966
"Mother Earth and her Children" by Barbara Abel, TWP, 1931
"Mother Nature's Carnival: An Operetta in One or Two Acts for May Day or Any Other Time" by Mildred Olive Honors, TWP, 1928
"Mrs. Tomkins Goes to Market and Other World Fellowship Material" by Katherine H. Barbour, TWP, Program Series, 1936
"The Mystic Flower: An Operetta in Three Acts" by Era Betzner, TWP, 1928
"Neighbors-Not-So-Far" two playlets, two pantomimes, and a story, TWP program series no. VII, 1923
"The New Creation: A Festival," Eleventh National Convention, 1930 and Twelfth National Convention, 1932
"Night and Morning: An Easter Miracle Play" by Margaret Lynch Conger, TWP, 1924
"Now Is the Time: A Choric Drama on the Responsibilities of Christian Women in a War-embittered World" by Lucy Schulte, TWP, Program Papers for Today and Tomorrow, 1941
"The Old Turkish Ring: Three Short Acts and a Prologue" by Cora Clary, TWP, 1931
"On the Line: A Play in Two Acts" by Muriel Ward, TWP, 1930
"One Common Faith" by Lucy Schulte, 1950
"One God" by Lucy Schulte, The Woman's Press, May 1945
One Night Stand. Five One-Act Plays for Young People by Margaret Parsons, TWP, 1942
"The Open Highway" by Ethel Reed Jasspon and Beatrice Becker, TWP, 1927
"Our Heritage" opening meditation for Officers' Training Seminar by Mrs. D.N. Boone, 1969
"Our YWCA International Garden," West Virginia state Y-Teen Conference, Nov 1966
"Out of the Dark: a Pageant of the Negro" by Dorothy C. Guinn, TWP, 1924
"A Pageant of Loyalty" by Dorothy Powell, TWP, 1923
"A Pageant of the Church" by Eleanor B. Forman and Mabel Eleanor Stone, 1917
"A Pageant of the Fifteenth Century" by Vida R. Sutton, Kate V. Thompson, and Adele L. Baldwin, TWP, 1924
"A Pageant of Women in the Sixteenth Century" by Vida R. Sutton, TWP, 1927
"The Palm Branch: An Easter Pantomime with Reading and Music" by Martha Race, TWP, 1932
"The Past is Prelude," 1962
"Pat's Society Circus" revised by Ethel G. Rockwell from the original "Circus" by Helen Durham, TWP, 1930
"The Payoff Cometh: A Postscript to the National Board Agenda" by Barbara Abel, Dec 1946
"Personal Experiences: a Two-Act Play" [re the difficulties and discouragements of stenographers who sought employment during the past five years] by Ada Louise Barrett, n.d. [Depression-era]
"The Peterkin Family" by Mary Frances Day, TWP program series no. X, 1923
"The Pledge of the Blue Triangle: A Dramatic Ceremony of Song," TWP, 1919
"Portrait of Lucinda: A One Act Skit" by Barbara Abel, n.d.
"Precious Flower and the Flies: A Dramatization of the Story in 'The Honorable Crimson Tree' by Anita B. Ferris" by Helen L. Willcox, TWP, 1920
"The Prodigal Son" and "The Beginning of the Church" by Ava Beatrice Knowles, TWP, 1924
"The Purple Iris: A Story from Old Japan" told by Antoinette Withington, TWP, 1929
"Pygmalion and Galatea: A dramatic sketch showing the appeal of the YWCA to every girl as given by the Class of 1914 of the National Training School," TWP program series no. I, n.d.
"The Rainbow Fountain: A Pool Pageant" and "The Harp of Apollo: A Greek Pastoral Fete" for Physical Education Activities by Delphine Harris Coy, TWP, 1930
"Rainy Day Plays" by Margaret C. Getchell, TWP, 1920
"Rameses Dreams: an Egyptian Pantomime" by Marion Norris Gleason with music by Harold Gleason, TWP, 1919
"The Receiving Line: A Skit on National Support" by Barbara Abel, given at regional conferences, 1951
Red Letter Day Plays by Margaret Getchell Parsons, TWP, 1924
"Rehearsal at 7:00" by Barbara Abel, TWP, 1935
"Relationships, Real and Reflected," St. Paul, Minnesota, YWCA Volunteer Leadership Committee, 1959
"The Rescue and Sea Sand: Two Water Pantomimes" by Lucy South Proudfoot, TWP, 1927
"The Resurrection of Our Lord: A Protestant Miracle Play of the XVI Century found in the Malone Society Papers, 1912" adapted by May Pashley Harris, TWP, 1923
"Right About Space!," 1953
"The Road to Tomorrow: A Pageant-Play" by Josephine Thorp, 1920
"Roped-In," honoring volunteers-1970 Annual Meeting, York, PA
"The Scarlet Knight: an Autumn Play" by Mary S. Edgar, TWP, 1920
"Scene in Buenos Aires Association Office," pageant, 1911(?)
"Scenes and Songs of Home: A Pantomime" by Marion Norris Gleason, TWP, 1919
"The Search: A Pageant-Drama" by Helen Louise Robinson, TWP, 1936
"Serving Women Who Fight for Freedom," radio script, [1943]
"The Shining Goddess: A Health Pageant" by Clara E. Sackett, TWP, 1920
"The Shoe on the Other Foot" by Barbara Abel, 1932
"The Shoestring Express" by Barbara Abel, 18th National Convention, 1949
"Signs of the Times: Presenting Various Phases of Association Activities" by Barbara Abel, TWP, 1937
"The Silent Voice: A pageant-play for spring and summer production out-of-doors, or for indoor use at any time of year" by Olive Jones, TWP, 1924
Skits Kit,1967
"The Sleeping Princess: a May Day Masque from Many Lands" by Dorothy Gladys Spicer, TWP, 1929
"The Snow Queen: A Fairy Play for Children in Two Acts" by Elizabeth B. Grimball, TWP, 1920
"Songs of the Living: A Community of Faith Through Song" by Lucy Schulte, TWP, 1944
"Space Skit" by Mrs. Ralph D. Booth for Gala Dinner, National Convention, Mar 1958
"The Spirit of Cooperation: A Playlet in 3 Acts" by Lydia Johnson and Louise K. Stoll, 1922
"The Spirit of Labor" by Mary E. Dreier, TWP, Program Series no. 30, ca. 1924
"The Spirit of Sisterhood" by Helen Santmyer, 1915
"Spring or The Queen of Youth: A Pageant" by Edith Roeder Jacobs, TWP, 1925
"Spirit of the Y," High Point, North Carolina, Annual Dinner, 1968
"Students in Crisis," 1960s?
"Subcommittee on Brass Tacks" a skit prepared for the opening of All-Convention Discussion Groups, 19th National Convention, May 1952 by Barbara Abel
"The Tapestry Weavers: Honor Court Play" given originally by the Girl Reserve Department, Detroit, MI, YWCA, TWP program series, 1930
"Ten Timely Dances" by Helen Durham and Janet Lane, TWP, 1924
"Ten Years of Hands" by Eva A. Moore, Oakland Branch YWCA, 1970
"That's Inevitable: A Play in Three Episodes" created by the Drama Interest Group, Southern Industrial Conference, 1929
"There Ain't No Jestice: A Play of a Cotton Mill Town in Carolina" by W.S. Fewell, TWP, 1930
"There is a Choice" by Lucy Schulte, School for Professional Workers, 1954
"There is a Lad Here" by Belle MacDiarmid Ritchey, TWP, 1925
"These Things Shall Be" by Brooks Spivy, TWP, 1939
"The Thirteen Colonies: A Patriotic Pageant" by Magdelene Craft Rodke, TWP, 1926
"This is Remembrance: An Easter Playlet" by Christine P'Simer, TWP [1942]
"Three Ceremonials" reprinted from The Bookshelf, Sep-Oct 1947
"Three Household Employment Playlets," TWP, 1941
"Three Pantomimes" by Era Bentzer, TWP third printing, 1937
"Through Other Eyes: A World Fellowship Project in Dramatic Form" by Helen D. Beavers, TWP, 1930
"Through the Blue Triangle: A Pageant" by Josephine Thorp, TWP, 1919
"Through the Centuries: A Pageant of American Women in Industry," 1920
"Thursday Off" by Barbara Abel, n.d.
"The Times Demand: a dramatic poem arranged for chorus and readers by Lucy Schulte, TWP, 1945
"To Sing With the Stars: A Song of the Peoples of the Earth" by Lucy Schulte, TWP program packet, fall 1949
"To Work as One" a report in dramatic form of the first World's YWCA Membership Conference, Aug 1950, by Lucy Schulte
"The Torch Bearers of the Western World" by Elizabeth B. Grimball, 1920
"The Tree of Life: An Easter Pageant" by Esther Willard Bates, TWP, 1922
"The Triumph of Spring: a Festival of Old World Songs and Ceremonial Customs" by Dorothy Gladys Spicer, TWP, 1923
"The Trouble That Is In It" adapted from Eleanor's Enterprise by G. A. Birmingham, TWP, 1919
"Two Indian Legends" dramatized for children by Frances Densmore, TWP, 1926
"Two Water Pageants for Swimming Classes in Association, Camp, or School" by Lucy South Proudfoot, TWP, 1924
"The Two-Way Street or Mr. Brass Tacks in Charge of Facts" by Mabel Alice Tuggle, 1961
"Two Weeks With Pay: A Midsummer Day-Dream" by Barbara Abel, TWP, 1924
"United We Stand: A Festival of the Nation" by Josephine Thorp, TWP, 1919
"Venus: A Dance Drama" by Edith Roeder Jacobs, TWP, 1926, 1942
"The Victory of Light: A Masque" by Helen L. Willcox, TWP, 1926
"The Vision of the Blue Crusaders: A Pageant" by Sue Ann Wilson, TWP, 1919
"Voices" by Harriet C. (Mrs. George B.) Ford, given at the Cause and Cure of War Conference, 1931, TWP, 1931, 1937
"Voices, Women's Voices…" by Emma Christie Smith Stephens for the 125th Birthday Celebration of the YWCA, 1984
"Void if Detached: A YWCA Membership Skit in One Act" by Barbara Abel, n.d.
"A Wage Controversy (A Mock Trial" written by the Denver Industrial Group, TWP, 1930
"The Wayside Piper" by Mary S. Edgar, TWP, 1923
"What a Relief! for finance workers, committees and all those who must appear before the public on behalf of the YWCA yearly budget" by Barbara Abel, TWP, 1935
"What the Moon Lady Sees: an International Harvest Festival" by Dorothy Gladys Spicer, TWP, 1929
"Where Do We Go From Here?" by Barbara Abel, The Woman's Press, Apr 1949
"Which Way Out? A Program for a China Evening" by Florence Wells, TWP, 1919
"Who Knows Mrs. Powers?" by Barbara Kay Davidson, an American Theatre Wing Community Play written and produced for the YWCA of the USA with specially written discussion leads, 1958
"Who'll Buy Democracy?" by Barbara Abel, The Womans Press, Jul-Aug 1939
"Why-Phyllis Wheatley? A Ceremonial Interpretation" by Dorothy C. Guinn, TWP program series no. XVIII, 1924
"Widening Our Reach: Student-Industrial Play" TWP program series XXII, 1924
"The Wise and the Foolish Virgins" a dramatization of the parable as found in the 25th chapter of Saint Matthew by Marjorie Lacey-Baker, TWP program series XIX, 1923
"Within the Four Seas: a presentation of the foreign program of the YWCA" and "A St. John's Eve Celebration" by Jean Grigsby Paxton, TWP Program Series no. 5, 1926
"The Wohpe Festival: being an all-day celebration, consisting of ceremonials, games, dances and songs, in honor of Wohpe, one of the four Superior Gods of the Dakota pagan religion, and Goddess of nature and Patroness of games, of adornment, and of little children" arranged especially for schools and summer camps by Ella Cara Deloria (Yahn-ka) of the Yankton Band of Dakota Sioux, TWP, 1932
"The Woman's Press Skit" by Margot Gayle, n.d.
"Wonderland of the Y's World" by Alison Harrison, TWP, 1939
"Wooings and Witches: A Shakespearean Medley" by Vida R. Sutton, TWP, 1925
"A Word to the Y's" a stunt for annual meetings, banquets and membership nights to present the work of the Association by Barbara Abel, TWP program series XI, 1924
"The World Circle" by Mary L. Carr and "Wide Open Windows" by Emma Knauss and Frances Perry, TWP program series no. XIII, 1924
"X.B.M. Revue (All Star Cast-offs)" by Mary Booth, 1958
Yelenka the Wise and Other Folk Tales in Dramatic Form by Anne Charlotte Darlington, TWP, 1926
"Y-olanthe: A Co-operative Opera" adapted from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" to meet the crying demands of YWCA-YMCA Cooperation. Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan, Words by Barbara Abel, 1929
"The YWCA Budget and Community Chest Hearing," skit used at Regional Conferences, 1948
"The YWCA Herstory," 1976
"The YWCA is on the March," Mid-Peninsula YWCA, 1967
"YWCA Staff Report to the Board," Allentown, PA, skit, 1970
"YWCA Treasure Chest," TWP program series no. 46, 1927
Christmas Scripts
"Big Sister's Christmas Dream: A Holiday Play for Girls" by Dorothy Powell, 1919
"The Brightness of His Rising: A Christmas Miracle Play" by Margaret Lynch Conger, TWP, 1924
"Bringers of Gifts" by Era Betzner, TWP Program Series no. XX, 1924
"Christ is Born in Bethlehem: A Play of the Nativity" by Vida R. Sutton, TWP, 1928, 1942
"A Christmas Book: A Christmas Playlet for Children" by May E. Phipps and Marjorie Van Horn, TWP, 1925
"Christmas Carols" by Margaret Parsons, TWP, 1929
"A Christmas Dilemma" Lancaster (PA) Association, TWP, 1920
"The Christmas Message" adapted by Lucy T. Bartlett from the play in "Red Letter Day Plays" by Margaret Getchell Parsons, TWP 1927
"A Christmas Miracle Play" by Doris Gundry, TWP, 1931
"The Christmas of the Little Pines: A Holiday Playlet with Songs" by Emma Mauritz Larson, music by Margaret Hicks, TWP, 1931
"Christmas Scenes in Other Lands: Pantomimes with Songs and Carols" by Julia Phillips Ruopp, TWP, 1937
"The Christmas Sheaf" by Emma Mauritz Larson, TWP, 1931
"The Christmas Story: a Group of Tableaux" by Jane Taylor Miller, 1915, TWP, 1926
"The Christmas Tree Bluebird" by Mary S. Edgar, TWP, 1920
"A Christmas Trilogy" by Ellen Dunwoody Nester, TWP, 1938
"Chug's Challenge" by Emma Mauritz Larson, TWP, 1931
"The First Nowell: A play for Christmas-tide, in three scenes, which are adapted from the Mediaeval Nativity plays, and with a prologue and epilogue" by Claudine E. Clement, TWP, 1928, 1942
"Guiding Light: A Nativity Play" by Ivy Bolton, TWP, 1927
"The Journey of the Three Wise Men" by Anna R. Kennedy, TWP, 1937
"The Least of These: A Christmas Play" by Ella M. Wilson and Anna W. Field, TWP, 1923, 1928, 1943
"The Little Princess Who Traveled Far to Worship the King" by Dorothy R. Schenk, 5th printing 1942
"The Man Who Gave Us Christmas" by Edith Newlin and others, TWP, 1941
"Marcus: A Story in Pantomime for Christmas" by Edith K. Olson, TWP, 1936
"The Miser's Mill" by Ednah Proctor Clarke with incidental music by Julia Proctor White, TWP, 1919
"The Nativity of the Manger: A Christmas Tableaux" by Helen Durham, TWP, 1928
"The News That Came to Nazareth: A Mystery Play" by Ivy Bolton, TWP 1936
"The Pearl Merchant: A Christmas Play" by Anna R. Kennedy, TWP, 1941
"St. Francis of Assisi: A Christmas masque in one act" by Margaret Lynch Conger, TWP, 1924
"The Spirit of Christmas" by Grace E. Craig, TWP, 1920
"Such Loving Kindness! A Christmas Story in Three Parts" by Annie B. Kerr, TWP, 1940
"Then Deck the Halls" by Miriam Rightmire Epps, TWP, 1938
"This Side of Heaven" by Martha French, n.d.
"Told in All Tongues: The American Christmas" by Lucy Schulte, TWP, 1941
"To Whom Christ Came: A Play of the Nativity in Three Scenes" by Mary B. Jones, TWP, 1931
"Three Christmas Wishes" by Caroline deF. Penniman, TWP 1926
"A Traditional Christmas: A One-Act Play for High School Girls" by Ruth S. Gibson, TWP, 1942
"The Transfiguration of the Gifts" by Frances Cavanah, TWP 1923
"The Waif: A Christmas Morality of the Twentieth Century" by Elizabeth B. Grimball, TWP, n.d.
"Yuletide in Other Lands: A Christmas Pageant" by Mary W. Hillyer and "The Hanging of the Greens: A Fantasy to Precede the Holiday Season" by Mrs. Arthur Withington, TWP, 1927
"Yuletide Wakes, Yuletide Breaks: A Holiday Revel of Many Lands" by Dorothy Gladys Spicer, TWP, 1927
Subseries E. Religion
General and History: the YWCA as a Christian organization
General, 1913-87
"The Relationship between the Theological Position of the Y.W.C.A. and Its Position on Social Issues between 1906 and 1949," Margaret Cuenod, paper, 1949
"The Social Gospel" by Frances James, paper, 1974
Catholic Church: reports, histories, printed material, press releases, 1947-68, n.d.
Discussion Guides, 1920s-43
Commission to Study the YWCA as a Christian Movement
Meeting reports, 1964-65
Guide, 1965-67
Reports, recommendations, and pamphlets, 1966-67
Study of the [Christian] "Purpose"
Meeting materials, 1972-75
Reference materials, 1958-75, n.d.
Practices Regarding Religion in 52 Community YWCAs in the Eastern Region, Data and Statistics department report, 1957
Committees
Joint Committee on Religious Program of the Department of Method, 1916
Council/Committee on Religion
General: bulletin, charter, speech, 1942-44
Minutes, 1929-44
Religious education: minutes, reports, and bibliography, 1915-20
Religious work committee: minutes, 1917-20
Protestant-Catholic Relations: minutes and reports, 1941-43
New Society and Its Christian Basis: minutes, reports, and conference materials, 1942-43
Religious Resources Group: clipping and report, 1962-68
Liberation task force
General: correspondence, minutes, 1971-76
Bicentennial Conference on Religious Liberty: minutes and correspondence, 1974
Committee to Study the Purpose
Meeting materials, 1989
Ballots and discussion guide, 1991
Leader/Facilitator instructions and guidelines for YWCA Purpose videotape, "The Purpose Study Session," 1990
Organizations [outside Y]: Committee on War and Religious Outlook, pamphlets, 1919-20
Reference material
Bibliographies and reviews, 1928, 1989
Printed material, 1919-80, n.d.
Publications and Resource Materials
The Bible and Human Rights by Kathleen W. MacArthur, 1948; revised edition, 1949
Christian Citizenship for Girls by Helen Thoburn, 1924
The Christian Faith and My Job report and study guide on the International Study Conference, 1957
Christian Faith and Social Action by Rose Terlin, 1940
Christian Fundamentals by Oolooah Burner, 1921
The Christmas Guest by Annie B. Kerr, 1944
The Democracy We Defend edited by Elizabeth B. Herring, 1942
Eternal Life Begins Now by Kathleen W. MacArthur, 1942
Faith for Reconstruction by Rose Terlin, 1941
The Faiths of Mankind by Edmund Davison Soper, 1918
Ferment of Freedom by Letty M. Russell, 1972
Girlhood and Character by Mary E. Moxcey, 1916
God by J.E. Boodin, 1930
The Good Life-A Discipline by Winnifred Wygal, 1941
Handbook for Ministers' Wives by Welthy Honsinger Fisher, 1950
How Christian Is the Church? by Dorothy Height and Winnifred Wygal, 1937
The Human Element in the Making of a Christian: Studies in Personal Evangelism by Bertha Conde, 1917
"I Believe in God..." by Anna V. Rice, 1934
Jesus' Way with People by Alexander C. Purdy, 1926
Jewish Holidays-Do You Know Them? by Elise F. Moller, 1946
Lady in the Pulpit by Laura Kerr, 1951
Life Is Commitment, 1955
Life that Is Life Indeed by Harold Cooke Phillips, 1928
The Meaning of the Evolutionary Process: The Divine Problem as Seen by a Christian Theist by Edmund B. Chaffee, 1927
New Frontiers for Faith by Charles W. Gilkey, 1927
On, to the City of God by Richard Roberts, 1921
Opportunity for Religion by Harry F. Ward, 1919
Our Religious Vocabulary by Winnifred Wygal1939
Pathways to God by Alexander Purdy, 1922
Patriotism and the Christian Life by Wilfrid A. Rowell, 1918
The Philosophy of Missions by Rev. G.A. Johnstron Ross, 1908
Potters and Pipers by Oolooah Burner, 1924
A Present Day Definition of Christianity by Laura H. Wild, 1920
Primer for Protestants by James Hastings Nichols, 1947
Questions and Answers about You by Tirzah Anderson and Winnifred Wygal, 1945
The Religious Way by Gregory Vlastos, 1934
Saints and Ladies by Clarissa Spencer, 1925
So Gracious Is the Time by Annie B. Kerr, 1938
Songs of Creation by Marion Cuthbert, 1949
Stop, Think, and Do! by Elizabeth Palmer, Janet Fowler Nelson, and Winnifred Wygal, 1941
Studies in the Life of Christ in Art by Marie Louise Slack, 1909
The Superb Adventure by Winnifred Wygal, 1934
Supply Lines for Morale by Kathleen MacArthur, 1942
Such Loving Kindness! by Annie B. Kerr, 1940
Things that Cannot Be Shaken by Charlotte H. Adams, 1918
Three Studies for Discussion and Reflection: The Nature of Religion by Winnifred Wygal, 1936
The Ultimate Quest: Discovering God in His World by Katherine Gerwick, 1920
What's Best Worth Saying, by Rev. Richard Roberts, 1922
Wings for the Commonplace, volumes I-IV, by Oolooah Burner, 1942
Youth Asks about Religion by Jack Finegan, 1949
Youth Searching by B.B.T., 1928
YWCA religious program
Miscellaneous pamphlets, 1907-17, 1947-62
The Association as a Religious Movement in the World Today by Anna V. Rice, 1930
Barrier-Breaking Love: A Plan for Member YWCAs to Study the Mission of the YWCA of the U.S.A., 1983
Biblical Insights on the YWCA Purpose: A Leader's Guide for Use with Study-Discussion Groups, 1964
Church and Association Cooperation by Augustus Nash, 1907
Decision Making by Grace Loucks Elliott, 1958 [2nd ed. 1964]
Faith for the Job by Kathleen W. MacArthur, 1946
From Deep Roots: The Story of the YWCA's Religious Dimensions by Frances Helen Mains and Grace Loucks Elliott, 1974
From Faith to Action in the YWCA by Kathleen W. MacArthur, 1946
Leadership Papers on Religion, 1957
Our Faith and Ourselves Today by Dr. Rollo May and Dr. John C. Bennett, 1955
Our Heritage as Christians by Grace Loucks Elliott, 1958
Principles of Religious Practice in the Community Association Program by Winnifred Wygal, 1938
The Religion of A Growing Person by Marie Russ, 1939
Security in Crisis: Business Girls Seek Creative Religion by Alison H. Currie, 1942
Testing a High School Girl's Belief , 1923
The Touchstone: Christian Faith and the YWCA by Kathleen W. MacArthur, 1946
"The YWCA: Our Faith," by Kathleen MacArthur, typescript, 1945
YWCA Purpose: Lodestar of the Movement by Edith M. Lerrigo, 1974
Biblical study and exegesis
Miscellaneous pamphlets, 1908-19
The Bible as a Community Book by Arthur E. Holt, 1920
Brief Studies for Personal Workers by Elizabeth A. Labaree, 1917
The Drama of Esther by the class in Religious Pedagogy at the National Training School, 1919
Early Portraits of Jesus by Katharine L. Richards Rockwell, 1937
Fundamentals for Daily Living by Robert Seneca Smith, 1921
The Golden Word: Some Adventures in the Bible by Katharine L. Richards, 1919
How to Study the Bible by F.C. Eiselen, 1912
How to Use the Bible by L. Wendell Fifield, 1920
Jesus among His Friends by Ethel Cutler, 1915
Jesus' Teachings about Life: An Outline Study by Sara S. Kirk
Jesus the Man of Galilee by Elvira J. Slack, 1916
Knowing Jesus as a Friend by Bertha Eckert, 1920
Lessons in the Gospel of John by Charlotte H. Adams, 1912
The Man who Gave Us Christmas by Winifred Kirkland, 1940
The Manhood of the Master by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1920
The Message of the Earlier Prophets to Israel by Margaret G. Brooke, 1908-1912 [hand dated]
The Mind of the Messiah by Charlotte H. Adams, 1914
Morning Times: Five Meditations on the Book of Ruth for Personal or Group Use, 1976
My Friendship with Jesus Christ by Maud S. Davis, 1920
On Openness by Grace Loucks Elliott and Jean Elliott Johnson, 1967
One People among Many by Ethel Cutler, 1942
One Prophet and Another by Ethel Cutler, 1941
Out-of-Doors in the Bible by Ethel Cutler, 1913
The Parables of Jesus by Elbert Russell, 1912
Paul the Conqueror by Mary Redington Ely, 1919
Resources for Bible Study and Prayer for Groups of Different Christian Backgrounds by Grace Loucks Elliott, 1961
The Servant of the Lord by Adelaide Teague Case, 1940
Short Meditations on Spiritual Resources by Charlotte H. Adams, 1933
The Shorter Bible: The New Testament by Charles Foster Kent, 1918
The Social Message of Jesus by Edward S. Parsons, 1912
The Social Message of the Book of Revelation by Raymond Calkins, 1920
Songs of Out of Doors: A Study Course by Adelaide P. Bostick, 1925
The Story of Jesus as Mark Told It by Sara S. Kirk, 1916
Studies in Knowing Jesus Christ by Helen Thoburn, 1919
Studies in the Way of Jesus by Helen Thoburn, 1919
The Supreme Gospel: A Study of the Epistle to the Hebrews by Hugh Thomson Kerr, 1918
Take Your Choice by Charles Stafford Brown, 1935
Ten Commandments in the Twentieth Century by Oolooah Burner, 1920
They Told about Jesus by Ethel Cutler, 1943
Towards a New Way of Life, 1920
The Untried Door by Richard Roberts, 1921
The Way of Christ by Alexander C. Purdy, 1918
The Way of Jesus by Almira F. Holmes: 1923, three volumes, The Way of Jesus with His Friends, The Way of Jesus with His Father, and The Way of Jesus with the People Women of Ancient Israel by Charlotte H. Adams, 1912
Women's Liberation in a Biblical Perspective by Letty Mandeville Russell, 1971
Prayers and hymns
Miscellaneous, 1914-67, n.d.
A Book of Prayers by Helen Wright Mahon, 1952, 1960
Fellowship Prayers by Sarah Truslow Dickinson, 1918 and 1921 editions; rev. ed., 1928
A Little Book of Weeks, 1919
Match Us to This Hour by Lilace Reid Barnes, 1964
The Meaning of Prayer by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1919
Prayers for a Busy Day by Mary Chapin White, 1938
Prayers of the Free Spirit edited by Stephen Hole Fritchman, 1945
Prayers…Timely and Timeless, 1944, 1953
Watch and Pray by the National Student Council, 1941
Worship Services
Miscellaneous programs, 1912-86, n.d.
A Book of Services for Group Worship, 1929
Certain Spiritual Practices by Anne Seesholtz, 1930
The Chalice and the Cup by Mary S. Edgar, 1920
Christmas Preparatory Services by Belle C. Morrill and Laura Huber, 1924
Come Let Us Worship by Kathleen W. MacArthur, n.d.
Explorers: A Camp Project by Marion Dudley, 1926
Four Services for Associations by Abbie Graham, 1927
How to Make Group Devotions Vital by Oolooah Burner, 1932
How to Plan Informal Worship by Winnifred Wygal, 1960
How to Prepare Services of Worship: For Use in Clubs by Helen McCandless, 1940
In Spirit and in Truth: A Convocation Service for the Young Women's Christian Association by Hazel MacKaye, 1920
No Man unto Himself: Services of Worship on Interdependence by Rose Terlin, 1942
One Father of All: A Vesper Service by Pearl Forsyth and Martha Race, 1921
Planning Services of Worship by Ruth Perkins, 1931
Reflections of the Spirit by Winnifred Wygal, 1948
A Service for Grace Dodge Day, 1925
A Service of Thanksgiving and Rededication, 1948
Services for Special Needs by Lucy T. Bartlett, 1941
Seven Psalms by Adelaide Teague Case, 1935
Suggestions for Worship for Use at Board Meetings by Mrs. Frank C. Atherton, 1938
These Things Shall Be, Brooks Spivy, 1939
Three Services for Industrial Groups, 1927
Three Vesper Services, 1924
Twelve Services for Use by the Young Women's Christian Association, 1924
Two World Fellowship Vesper Services, 1921
We Plan Our Own Worship Services by Winnifred Wygal, 1940
We Worship Together by Helen Wright Mahon, 1952
Yet in One Voice We Give Thee Thanks, 1955