Student Life: Women's Organizations Records
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of files related to various women's organizations at Oberlin College. These include the Oberlin Association of Women Students, Mainstream, Oberlin College Feminist Majority, Oberlin Student Women's Group, Oberlin Women's Collective, Women's Athletic Association, and the Women's League.
Dates
- Creation: 1903-2002, undated
- Other: Date acquired: 01/25/1988
Creator
- Oberlin College Women's Organizations (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted.
Extent
1.40 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This general collection holds records of various Oberlin College women's organizations.
Arrangement
INVENTORY
Women’s Center, 1971-2002
Box 1-2
See separate finding guide for RG 19/3/5/1.
Oberlin Association of Women Students (OAWS), 1956-1973, undated
Box 1
Committees (3f)
Foreign Student Committee, 1960-65
Judicial Committee, 1959-61, 1966, undated
Nominations Committee, undated
Constitution and Bylaws, 1958-66, undated
Correspondence, 1961, 1971
Election material, 1965, undated
GLCA Women’s Studies Resource Handbook, 1973
House Council Manual, undated
House Officers, 1958-1962, undated
Housing Concerns, 1960-66, undated
International Association of Women Students (IAWS) (3f)
Convention, 1959, undated
Manual, 1965
State Day, 1961
Joint Board (1f)
Minutes, 1960-63, undated
Minutes, 1958-61
Miscellaneous, 1958-63, undated
Newspaper Articles, 1957-61, undated
Posted Notices, 1961-66, undated
Reports (2f)
Chairman’s Reports, undated
Treasurer’s Reports, 1957-63
Rule Book, 1961-62, 1966
Women’s Board (3f)
Correspondence, undated
Minutes, 1956-65
Minutes – handwritten, 1964-65
Miscellaneous
Box 1
Mainstream, 1979-80, undated - see 19/3/7, Curriculum-Based
Oberlin College Feminist Majority, 1996 - see 19/3/6, Activist/Political
Oberlin Student Women’s Group - “Proposal for a Women’s Collective,” undated
Oberlin Women’s Collective, 1975, undated
Ruby, 1996 - see 19/00/1, Student Publications
Women’s Athletic Association, 1903, 1913-14, 1920, 1928, 1936, ca. 1950, undated (See also RG 9/6 Physical Education Department.)
Women’s Information and Resource Center, 1990
Women’s League, 1913-38, undated
Women's Rugby Football Club, 1995-98 (3f) - see 19/3/8, Social
Women’s Self-Government League, 1944-1958, undated
Women’s Senate Treasurer’s Book, 1910-1914, 1919
Women’s Softball Club, 1990
Women’s Sports Committee, 1984
Young Ladies Missionary Society, 1879-94 - see 19/3/1, Religious
Method of Acquisition
The records were received in two accessions in 1988 from the Women's Center and from the Oberlin Student Women's Group.
Accruals and Additions
Accession Nos: 1988/7, 1988/49.
- Title
- Student Life: Women's Organizations Records
- Author
- Roland M. Baumann, Kenneth M. Grossi, Tara L. Ikenouye
- Date
- 01/01/1988
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 1998 April: Revised by Kenneth Grossi and Tara L. Ikenouye.
- 2000 February: Updated by Joshua Adler.
- 2002 July: Revised by Jonathan Thurn.
- 2013 December: Revised by Archives staff.
- 2025: Prepared for migration by Emily Rebman.
Repository Details
Part of the Oberlin College Archives Repository
420 Mudd Center
148 West College Street
Oberlin OH 44074-1532 US
440-775-8014
440-775-8016 (Fax)
archive@oberlin.edu